The NBA started with helping Iverson win the championship

Chapter 371 Sweeping the Big Four of the Cavaliers

After knowing that he might be traded this offseason, Booker's heart was relieved.

Because Pickle's contract is still one year away, he is expected to stay with the Knicks next season, so Booker is likely to be a substitute next season.

Although Booker's offense is not much worse than that of Pickled Pepper now, the defense is not at the same level after all.

So it is impossible for the Knicks to leave the pickled peppers with better offense and defense, and give Booker a starter.

That being the case, leaving the Knicks is not a bad thing for Booker.

Anyway, he got what he wanted by Li Xun's side.

He already has the championship, fame, and status in the league. Next, he will go to the giants of the Lakers. As long as his performance is strong enough, he may even become the star of the league.

Being in the Lakers is not a joke. Although the Knicks have a bigger market, the number of Lakers fans is definitely far more than that of the Knicks.

The background of the two teams is not at the same level at all.

That is to say, now that Li Xun leads the Knicks to win the championship, and the Lakers have started rebuilding, there are no decent stars in the team, which makes the Knicks overwhelm the Lakers.

Now that Booker can go to the Lakers, for him, it is the perfect destination.

After the first two rounds of the playoffs, it finally came to the much-anticipated Eastern Conference Finals.

Not surprisingly, the opponents in the Eastern Conference finals were the Knicks against the Cavaliers.

This year, the Big Four of the Cavaliers also played a very impressive record. They have a strong record of 69 wins, and they are only one game away from reaching the [-]-win mark.

It's a pity that it's not so easy to get [-] wins. Even Li Xun has played more than [-] wins in only four or five seasons in so many years.

Before the game started, the Cavaliers were surprisingly quiet.

There is no such awe-inspiring momentum at all, and it may be that the Knicks have put a lot of pressure on them by winning the season.

At the beginning of the season, Durant and James both dared to chatter.

But during this regular season, they played four games against the Knicks, but they didn't win any of the four games.

The game with the closest point difference also had 9 points.

The game with the most points difference even reached 22 points.

This is undoubtedly a considerable power gap.

Durant probably regrets it now. He cut his salary so much and signed a contract with the Cavaliers for two years. He thought that even if he couldn't win two championships in two years, it should be no problem to win one, right?
As a result, as soon as he arrived in the Cavaliers, he received news that Pickle and Paul had joined the Knicks.

Pickle will still stay with the Knicks next season.

For Paul, the contract expires this offseason. I don’t know if he will stay with the Knicks. If he stays with the Knicks, the Knicks will have the same lineup next season, and the Big Four of the Cavaliers will still be unable to fight.

In this way, Durant is tantamount to a salary cut in vain.

Fortunately, the second year of Durant's contract is a player option, and he can choose to implement the player option to leave the Cavaliers.

With Durant's strength, there must be countless teams in the current league that want to give him a maximum salary.

But if he ran away again now, he would really be a tramp.

The Knicks' pregame press conference.

"Li, do you have the confidence to sweep the Cavaliers in this series?"

"If you can sweep, you have a good chance of accomplishing a truly undefeated feat this season."

"It's definitely the greatest miracle in NBA history."

A reporter stood up and asked.

Li Xun nodded with a smile, "Of course I am confident. In fact, I don't think any team in today's league can win even one of our games."

"Even in the entire NBA history, I don't think any team will be our opponent."

If other players say this, I think it will become a joke.

But from Li Xun's mouth, the situation is completely different, just because Li Xun is fully qualified to say such wild words.

Two days later, the high-profile Eastern Conference Finals officially kicked off.

The home game of the first game is the Knicks.

Madison Gardens is packed with people.

Li Xun led the Knicks to win the championship last season, and this season they are rushing towards their second championship.

As long as this second championship is won, the Knicks dynasty will be close at hand.

Before the game started, Li Xun did not greet the Cavaliers.

On the contrary, Paul chatted with James for a few words. The friendship between the two is very good. Although they are fighting each other now, it will not affect the friendship.

Durant had a bitter expression on his face, and he already had a psychological shadow when he hit the Knicks.

In the four games of the regular season, he and James were two, and Li Xun only caught one person in each game.

In this game, Durant was pinched, Durant was completely locked, and James was pinched in the next game.

As long as they are targeted by Li Xun, they are destined to be unable to perform well in this game, and it is very likely that they will not be able to score in double figures.

Seeing Li Xun looking towards him, Durant quickly shifted his gaze.

He was afraid that he would be targeted by Li Xun.

On a stage like the Eastern Conference Finals, if you score less than [-] points in a single game, you will definitely be sprayed to death.

"God bless, Li Xun should go to defend James tonight."

Durant prayed silently in his heart, the dead friends will not die poor.

"Dudududu!"

The referee's whistle sounded.

The two sides began to jump the ball.

Paul has already entangled Irving.

Since he came to the Knicks, as long as he faced Irving in every game, Paul's mouth really didn't stop like a small steel cannon.

The key is to have an effect every time, allowing Owen to break through the defense and make a few random shots.

Now the person Owen hates the most, apart from Magellan who proved the circle of the earth, is Paul.

The Knicks jumped to win the ball and began to organize the offense.

Li Xun received a pass from Paul from outside the three-point line, and Durant and James felt their scalps go numb.

They are actually very clear.

In this first offensive round, whoever defends Li Xun will probably face Li Xun directly in the next game.

Judging from past game experience, this is indeed the case.

Whoever picks up Li Xun will become Li Xun's target.

Neither of them wanted to be the sufferer.

If you lose the game, you lose. Anyway, no one on this earth seems to expect them to win the Knicks.

But your own data can't be too embarrassing.

If he really scored single digits on a big occasion like the Eastern Conference Finals, it would definitely become a stain on his career.

Li Xun was speechless, did he have an empty seat?
In the Eastern Conference finals, I was standing outside the three-point line with the ball, and no one came to defend me?

Then just vote.

Li Xun made a three-pointer with a knife and a three-pointer, just like the usual three-point training, he hit it directly and easily.

When he was in the Pistons, with Curry as a teammate, Li Xun could borrow Curry's three-point attributes.

In the Mavericks, Thompson's three-point attributes can be borrowed.

After arriving in the Knicks now, there is no such historical level of three-pointers around, but Li Xun's own three-pointers are not bad.

In addition, he has shot a lot less three-pointers this season.

When it was the Cavaliers' offensive round, Li Xun went directly to Durant.

Durant sighed slightly, it seemed that he was the unlucky guy tonight.

Seeing Durant being marked by Li Xun, Irving didn't even consider passing the ball to Durant.

After a pick-and-roll in the frontcourt, he failed to score a three-pointer, and the rebound was collected by Jokic.

When it came to the Knicks' offensive round, Durant could only bite the bullet and come up to match Li Xun.

He wanted to talk trash to Li Xun, but after thinking about it, it seemed that he couldn't think of anything to talk about Li Xun.

Spray Li Xun's record, personal honor, team honor?
Wouldn't that be tantamount to spraying yourself.

Compared with Li Xun's honor, his little honor is not even worth the dead skin on Li Xun's heels.

After playing for a few minutes, the Cavaliers have already shown their defeat.

Durant can't exert his power at this point.

This point of Irving stimulated Paul a little nervously.

As far as Love is concerned, Ah Lian has been marking, mainly to guard against his outside shots. As for him trying to get under the basket, it is actually not that easy.

Leaving aside Jokic, who is able to make up defense in time at the basket, even the United Arab Emirates, Love may not be able to stand up to him now.

After losing weight, Love lost a lot of things, the most deadly thing is his offensive ability at the basket.

He can't even stand Clay, and Ah Lian is also the top muscular man among Asian players.

As for James, he is now guarded by pickled peppers.

It is true that Pickled Pepper is not very easy to defend against James, but Pickled Pepper is also a frequent visitor to the best defensive team, and the defensive skills under his hands are not vegetarian.

Under normal circumstances, there have been cases where James defended 10 of 2 in a single game in the playoffs and only scored 7 points.

Of course, most of the time, James has an absolute advantage against pickled peppers.

Time passed by second by second. It's not that the knight didn't want to organize a counterattack, but every counterattack was immediately stopped by Li Xun's offense and defense.

In addition, Irving was extremely unstable at this point. He played fairly well in the first half, but in the second half, he was almost insane.

It went straight to 5 of 1 in a single quarter, and it was only a two-pointer.

At the end of the third quarter, the Cavaliers have almost collapsed.

Even though Love broke out a little in the fourth quarter, it failed to save the situation.

In the end, the Cavaliers lost the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals with a score of 98:112.

Although Durant looked sad, he was actually quite happy in his heart.

Because he actually played really well tonight.

Under Li Xun's strict defense, he even scored 23 points, and even had a good offensive efficiency.

Li Xun can't help it. It's really not that easy to defend against players like Durant.

If it is a small forward who defends the cannonball type, then Li Xun is really one-on-one. It is easy for him to score single digits in a single game.

But Durant has a high jumper after all, and it is impossible for Li Xun to block it every time.

Although Durant had a good offensive efficiency and scored more than 20 points, Li Xun cut off his receiving route very well.

That's actually enough.

Durant couldn't get the ball and scored about [-] points. In front of a team like the Knicks, that's of no use.

As for James, he didn't feel good tonight. Maybe Pickle's defense also played a role. He took 19 shots and scored 23 points.

Love scored 21 points, while Irving scored only 13 points.

It can be seen that almost all the points scored by the Cavaliers are concentrated in the hands of the Big Four.

The Knicks are relatively average.

Both Booker and Brogdon on the bench scored more than 10 points.

After a game is over, the outcome of this round of the series is actually doomed.

What made Cavaliers fans unable to take over was that when the second game of the Eastern Conference Finals, Love had just played for less than 5 minutes and was directly injured and left the game.

This is definitely considered unlucky enough to clog your teeth after drinking cold water.

It happened to be a critical moment, and Love was injured as a result.

The Cavaliers themselves are at a disadvantage inside, and now without Love, the Cavaliers' inside is completely exploded.

The Knicks won Game [-] of the Eastern Conference Finals.

The next two games came to the Cavaliers' home court. They also failed to escape the fate of being eliminated, and simply lost two games in a row.

The Knicks once again won the Eastern Conference Finals with an undefeated record.

I am afraid that at the beginning of the season, no one thought that the Cavaliers would be so vulnerable in front of Li Xun.

They can't even get a win.

Although there are influencing factors of Love's injury, even if Love is not injured, fans don't think the Cavaliers can win the next game.

There is a gap in the starting lineups of the two sides, but the gap is not big.

The real gap is on the bench. The players on the Knicks' bench make the Cavaliers desperate.

Even Siakam, in Game 16 of the Eastern Conference Finals, only played 10 minutes and made 8 of 2 shots, plus 20 free throws, and scored a full [-] points.

Magic Johnson on the Lakers side is now smiling crookedly.

Originally, he thought that in the deal with the Knicks, among the three of Booker, Zhou Qi and Siakam, Siakam might be the player with the lowest value.

As a result, he looks stronger and stronger now, as if he has greater potential than the other two.

The Lakers definitely made a lot of money from this deal.

In fact, the magician was right, they really made a bloody profit on this deal.

What the Lakers are looking forward to most now is to win the Knicks championship as soon as possible, and then open the trading market, so that they can trade with the Knicks as soon as possible.

Won the Eastern Conference finals, the finals are coming.

This year's opponent is still the Dallas Mavericks.

This is the fifth consecutive year that the Mavericks have reached the Finals. If there are no major changes in the West, they will still be a favorable contender for tickets to the Finals next year.

From this, we can see why those teams are so eager for Li Xun.

Li Xun's joining is actually not just about winning the championship dynasty. Even if Li Xun leaves, as long as the team management doesn't do anything wrong, they can change Li Xun's lineup privately.

In fact, this team can continue its strong period for at least two or three years and reach the finals.

Sometimes even if you can't win the championship, once you reach the finals, it can bring unimaginable huge benefits to the team.

For example, the Knicks can net tens of millions of dollars in every game in the Eastern Conference Finals.

In the finals, earn more.

After Li Xun leaves next season, there is a high probability that they will continue to reach the finals and continue to make a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)