After changing careers, I became No.1 in basketball

Chapter 400 399: I want to retire Shay!
Kobe finally came out of the vicious East.

Although the record is not as exaggerated as the Lakers' 12 wins and 0 losses, the Knicks played six games against the Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals, and even played a tiebreaker with the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

But no one takes them lightly.

After all, the competition in the east is indeed much worse than in the west.

And in the playoffs, teams that have experienced trials and tribulations can often burst out with stronger strength.

23VS24 finally took shape, but not the 23VS24 Stern imagined.

But this round of confrontation is also good. When the collision of the two major markets, New York and Los Angeles, is not as fierce as dry wood meeting fire?
The media in New York and Los Angeles also began to frantically build momentum for the game.

Among them, the headline on the "New York Athletic" is particularly eye-catching:
"Kobe, Shay Killer!"

The accompanying picture is a picture of Kobe doing "shh" to Chinese fans in Wukesong Stadium a year ago.

The response from the Los Angeles media did not show weakness. The headline of the "Los Angeles Post" did not mention Kobe at all, but Kobe was everywhere:
"The hoops at Staples Center will have the most stringent quality inspection ever!"

There is no doubt that this is mocking Kobe's previous record of hitting 32 irons and smashing the basket in the regular season.

It is not difficult to see from the passionate exchange of media on both sides, how much the two sides hate each other.

Knicks fans have hated Shai for more than a decade.

"Fakshay" is generally the first phrase that New York-born children of both sexes learn.

I would like to use this to express their love for the New York room chief.

From the beginning of the 90s to the present, Madison Square Garden has countless disgraceful records, but Shay accounts for at least half of them!
Knicks players want to beat Shai, especially Kobe.

In the Olympics, he led the team to regain the Olympic championship after 12 years, making Ugly a great country again.

But that's not enough.

He must also defeat Shay to win the championship in the NBA in order to leave his name on the list of gods.

Therefore, it was originally only a war of words between the media.

Because of Kobe's ruthless words, the smell of gunpowder was further escalated:
"Shai is going to retire soon because he's going to find it doesn't make sense for him to stay any longer.

He is indeed still very strong now, won the MVP, won the DPOY, entered the best team and defensive team.

Shay and Jordan's grades are completely different. When Jordan comes back for the second time, if he can get these honors, he will definitely cry with excitement.

But for Shay, not winning is failure.

And unfortunately, I will let him fail again.

So cherish it, this is the last time you guys will see Shay perform.

If he can't win the championship again this time, Shay will never return.

Because he knew that there was nothing he could do.

Simply put. I'll beat Shay until he retires! "

Jordan, who was reading the newspaper at home, was speechless, Kobe, why don't you play group attacks here?

If you say Shay, just say Shay, you have to bring me!

As we all know, the Wizards account is not operated by me!
It can only be said that Jordan in this history is really too pitiful.

The GOAT in the original history, because of the existence of Shay, has become a bitter egg that anyone dares to ridicule.

However, Kobe's words did make sense.

The 38-year-old Shai is much better than the 38-year-old Jordan.

But no matter how strong he is, he is 38 years old after all.

If he can't win the championship again this year, Shay may indeed choose to retire again.

After all, the 38-year-old Shay doesn't have 75 teammates around him, so he can't hang up and win.

Last season, Shai was able to say he wasn't at his best.

But if he has won the MVP this season and loses again, it will really prove that his strength is not good.

Since he can't win the championship, Shay has no reason to stay and serve as a stepping stone for young people.

If Kobe wins, it is really possible to beat Shay to retirement!
And this time, it's a permanent retirement.

Shay, who will be 39 years old in a month, will never return for the second time.

If Kobe really wins, it will make Shay disappear from the basketball world forever!

When everyone else is vying to become a Hua, Kobe wants to turn Shay into a Hua!

The sentence "I will beat Shay until he retires" directly fills up the smell of gunpowder.

Kobe, never concealed his determination to win.

In the original history, he dared to confront Jordan in his rookie season.

Now, as a super giant in the league, he will naturally not be submissive in front of Shay.

New York diehard Spike Lee also crazily echoed on his blog: "Kobe became a god, just this year! Just this year!"

Seeing this situation, Kobe immediately called his old friend Spike Lee and asked him to start filming with the team from the first game of the finals to accumulate material for the documentary.

Kobe must make this god-slaying crown into a documentary for the world to watch.

It's not enough to play by yourself, and you have to record it. It can only be said that the rich really play well.

But Spike Lee, the most loyal New York fan and the famous director who crazily supported Kobe on the Internet, declined Kobe's invitation.

Kobe is also surprised that such a good opportunity to negotiate money, there are still people who refuse?
A second later, Kobe heard Shay's voice on the phone:
"I will give you the greatest authority for this shooting. You can enter and leave the locker room at any time. But before the end of the season, no one second of footage can be leaked."

Kobe:? ? ?
"Spike, where are you!?"

"Then what, I... I'm doing morning exercises!"

"Stop fucking farting, what are you doing behind my back!?"

"Um, I'm in Los Angeles. Shea invited me to do a Finals documentary for him, so."

Kobe felt like he had become the Incredible Hulk, green from head to toe!

At that moment, he felt like the boyfriend in "Call Boyfriend While Working.avi"!

Well, you Spike Lee, you say you support me, but you actually went to the Lakers to make a documentary!

This shows that even Spike Lee, a New York loyalist, thinks that Shay can win the championship!
Pooh!You are nothing!
I can't remember that time in 99, when Spike Lee made great fanfare and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to help the Knicks make a championship documentary.

The results of it?Those investments were all in vain!
Not to mention winning the championship, the Knicks didn't even win a game!
So this time, although he supported Kobe and the Knicks with his mouth, Spike Lee was very honest physically.

The director also has to rely on knife music to make a living.

Spike Lee worked hard to shoot a lot of material, but in the end he couldn't edit it into a documentary to sell money, so what is he doing for it?
For art?

For art, he had gone to the San Fernando Valley long ago!

Kobe was so angry that Spike Lee, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, actually betrayed the organization.

But. This just strengthened Kobe's determination to retire Shay!

You all think I'm joking?OK, then I'll show you!

Who wouldn't if it was just blowing liu beep?Paul also said he was going to give Shay a hard time.

The difference between Kobe and others is that others are just bragging, but he really dares to do it!

No, in G1 of the finals, the Knicks immediately broke the Lakers' undefeated gold medal in the playoffs!

102 to 89, the Knicks easily won the first game of the finals.

Kobe had 30 points and 6 rebounds, Gasol had 23 points and 14 rebounds.

The Knicks beat the Lakers 42 to 31 in rebounds.

In this battle, Kobe did not continue to strike iron frantically under Shay's defense.On the contrary, he feels very good, and he hits all kinds of mid-range top shots efficiently.

Pau Gasol and Bynum are also in very good shape, fighting hard on the offensive rebounds.

Shay scored 32 points today and beat Artest badly.

But Roy was locked up by Kobe, and Gerald Wallace also felt bad, only 11 of 2.

Randolph also fell into a hard fight under the joint siege of the Twin Towers, 11 of 4.

Although Birdman took the opportunity to score 13 points inside the Knicks, but he doesn't have a strong ability to attack independently, he can't support the production of goals, and the mere 13 points are of no avail.

In this battle, Xie Yi is completely alone!
The Lakers, who had never lost in the Western Conference before, suffered a huge loss in the first game of the finals.

This is enough to show how powerful the Knicks are. After all, they are the Eastern Conference champions who fought from the Celtics and the Bulls.

They are very balanced, both external and internal defenses, and there is no problem of insufficient firepower on the offensive end.

Moreover, unlike the Thunder's hip defense on the inside, the Spurs' outside defense and the Hornets' star pulling their hips.

The scariest thing about this Knicks team is that they have no obvious flaws.

A team without shortcomings is the deadliest!
After this game, the New York media even clamored for Shay to retire within five games!
But fortunately, the Lakers kept a home court in the second game.Randolph showed off in G2 that his wife was completely tainted by the black fat.

Randolph, who was 11 of 4 yesterday, scored 23 points in the low post today with a turnaround jumper.

No way, this is the power forward of the iron-blooded big jumper type, and it is normal to play a game of ghosts.

And in the critical last 48 seconds, it was Randolph who hit the offensive rebounds consecutively, and finally grabbed the rebounds, giving Shay a second chance to attack.

At that time, the Lakers were 1 point behind the Knicks.And Shay relied on this second attack opportunity to hit a three-pointer, opening the point difference to 2 points.

In the end, the Knicks lost exactly 2 points.

This shows how critical this rebound is.

Shay scored 36 points, Randolph scored 20+10, and the Lakers pulled back a victory, 1-1.

After the game, Zen Master was very angry.

Because of the last rebound, Randolph grabbed it fiercely.

But the key to losing rebounds is that Bynum's IQ suddenly dropped again!
When Randolph pressed his sister-in-law under him and operated crazily, as the man behind the sister-in-law and as the center of the Knicks, Bynum stood there and watched Randolph frantically order the board, without doing anything, without moving a muscle!
God knows what Bynum was thinking at that time, the Zen master had long suspected that this guy was the product of a pig brain transplant operation.

No, maybe a cow brain transplant.

Looking at one's own people being rubbed by others and being indifferent, isn't this what a tauren is?
There's no way, Anzhu's brain circuit is beyond the grasp of ordinary people.After all, he is one of the few weirdos who sees his teammates being dunked miserably but laughs.Griffin dunks Gasol, he's even happier than Griffin.

Seeing Gasol being abused in a fancy way is probably one of the few pleasures in his life.

Zen Master also euphemistically expressed his dissatisfaction with Bynum at the press conference: "We should have done a better job of protecting rebounds at the last moment! This is the finals, not a play!"

But it is precisely because of Bynum that many New York media believe that the Lakers' victory is pure luck:

"The Lakers have won against the Knicks twice this season, and once Kobe Bryant felt a little bad.

Once, Bynum's IQ suddenly went offline.

If they play normally, the Knicks have not yet lost!

So, we must be champions! "

The New York media redefines "slightly bad feeling".

Even if the hand feels a little bad, I hit the iron 32 times and smashed the basket crookedly. If the hand feel is very bad, can't I just smash the backboard?
In this way, with a total score of 1 to 1, the battlefield moved to New York.

According to the expectations of the New York media, Kobe will be able to wear his fourth championship ring as soon as he wins three home games in this wave.

In G3 of the series, Kobe, who returned to the home court, did break out again.

In this battle, Artest became an undercover agent, shooting 11 of 2 in the game.

But Kobe felt overwhelmed, scored 27 points in halftime, and made 9 of 7 three-pointers!

This directly broke Jordan's record of 6 three-pointers in the first half of the battle!
Fortunately, Shay has not slackened his defense. Kobe's touch became cold in the second half, and the Lakers also took the opportunity to start chasing back.

In the second half alone, the two sides tied 11 times, and the score has been unable to draw.

Intense hand-to-hand combat and fierce scrambling filled the entire game.

When the two heroes meet on a narrow road, there is only one way to die!

In the last 3 minutes, the Lakers were still 4 points behind, but there was still hope of an equalizer.

Moreover, Shay's defense against Kobe in the second half was very successful and did not allow him to continue the touch of the first half.

In fact, in the last 3 minutes, Shay once defended against Kobe without scoring a point!
But. The Lakers still lost this first away game.

Because this Knicks is not only Kobe, but also a group of outstanding role players.

The one who bears the brunt is the old fish Fisher. When Kobe was restricted, the old and cunning Fisher made four consecutive shots without the ball around the screen and made 4 of 4 shots!
Still the same sentence, Fisher's performance at critical moments is the biggest reason why he can stay in the Knicks.

He is like John Paxson, the little point guard in the Bulls back then. At first glance, he is useless, but once he is used, he will kill the game.

This bald head who seems to be unable to do anything will always wake up at critical moments.

Lao Yu was born with a big heart, so nonsense, a man with a bad mental quality would not dare to touch other people's wives.

Fisher's precise shooting kept the Lakers still trailing by 33 points in the last 3 seconds.

Shay also wanted to score this crucial goal himself without the ball.

But Artest, who had been sleepwalking throughout the game, was like a godsend this round. He actively fought and cut off Roy's pass to Shay!
After the steal, Artest immediately made a long pass to find the old fish who had already run forward.

Lao Yu easily made a counter-attack layup and scored 10 points in a single quarter, helping the Knicks secure the victory!

That's the New York Knicks, and that's how they got out of the hellish East.

They not only have Kobe, they are all soldiers!
In the end, the 5-point difference was maintained until the end of the game.

Bryant had 27 points in the first half and seven in the second half.

But Lao Yu's 10 points in a single quarter and Artest's key steals allowed the Knicks to still win the victory steadily!

The total score was 2 to 1. The Lakers, who had never been defeated before, had already lost twice to the Knicks!
After the game, Artest, Lao Yu and Kobe all accepted the follow-up interview.

Artest smiled all over his face: "Key steals are nothing. The crown belongs to my teammates. After all, they made the shots. And me, I just make it easier for them to play."

Lao Yu also grinned from ear to ear: "I didn't think too much in the fourth quarter, all I know is that we have to defend the home court."

And Kobe, the leader of the Knicks team who broke the record for three-pointers in the halftime of the finals, did not smile after a winning streak. He just wiped his sweat in front of the camera, and said nothing about his record:
"The most important thing is that we won this key victory. Each of us works together to be the strongest Knicks!"

Kobe is really different from ten years ago.

Ten years ago he was just a sidekick behind Shaq's ass, but now, Shay is willing to call him a leader.

In the end, Kobe concluded: "After Shay retires, I will touch him with the trophy. After all, this is also his memory."

2 to 1, the Knicks won soul-stirring.

And both of those games were solid wins.

The only game the Lakers won was when Bynum's IQ suddenly went offline.

This undoubtedly injected tons of confidence into Knicks fans.

Spike Lee is convinced, this shit
I'm going to do nothing for nothing this year?

Why do I shoot whoever is finished!Nima is more poisonous than Jordan!
At this time, countless New York fans flooded the streets and poured into the subway.

In their hands, they all hold various signs:
"The countdown to Shay's retirement begins!"

"Kobe, the destroyer of Chinese players!"

"Once the best players are dispatched, the honor is nothing to the Chinese players."

New York has already fallen into a carnival. After all, if the Knicks win the next battle, the total score of 3 to 1 basically declares that the game is over.

And so far, the Lakers Knicks have not had a good solution.

So for New Yorkers, Kobe has touched the throne of becoming a god with one hand.

For the Lakers, the next battle is a battle of life and death!
After Game 3, Spike Lee set up the camera and stayed in the Lakers locker room.

He kept looking at the control panel of the air conditioner, because he felt that the locker room was terribly cold now!
Also eerily quiet!
Spike Lee didn't even dare to breathe loudly. If, if there was still a ten thousandth chance that the Lakers would win the championship, Spike Lee's documentary could be produced.

Then he will definitely match his true feelings with this paragraph: "I seem to have fallen into a silent and cold abyss!"

Shay sat in front of the locker, staring straight at the floor without speaking.

He doesn't feel right.

It's not the first time Shay has played in the playoffs, so he won't shut himself up after being beaten 2-1.

But this time behind, Shay felt aggrieved.

Because of all three games, the Lakers were suppressed miserably.

To put it bluntly, there is no perfect way to contain the Knicks.

Strategically suppressed.

On the Knicks side, Kobe and Artest took turns taking care of Shay, and Shay had to face the Twin Towers after breaking through.

When playing against the Knicks in the regular season, Shay's shooting percentage was not high, but because Kobe's 32 irons were so explosive that people ignored Shay's shooting percentage in the early 40s in that game.

On the Lakers side, the Knicks are hard to guard against.

Although Kobe didn't score a point in the last 3 minutes today, when Kobe couldn't make a shot, he could still defend, rebound, and assist.

This is the biggest difference between him and cancer players.

The Knicks' triangular offense, which is all soldiers, the Lakers did not contain it in a single game.

By the way, Artest is still 11 of 2 today, otherwise the Lakers probably won't last until the last moment.

If the fight continues like this, even if G4 really relies on personal ability to win back a city, it will not change the overall situation.

The Lakers are indeed very likely to lose the finals!
Spike Lee couldn't bear the oppressive atmosphere, he was going to turn off the camera and go out to get some air.

In this state, he feels that the Lakers are exhausted!

But just as he was about to turn off the camera, Shay suddenly looked up with a smile on his face:

"Don't go back tonight Rick, we'll go through all the footage."

Then, he looked at the others:

"You guys go back and take a good rest and start from the next game.
I will not let you lose again! "

Spike Lee was a little surprised, Shay still has the confidence to say such a thing now?

If this film can be produced, then this sentence...maybe the beginning of a plot twist!
Anyone who knows Shay knows that Shay never promises what he can't do.

He said that he would not let his teammates lose again because he had just thought of a feasible strategy!

Next, it was time to study the footage and discuss the details with Carlisle.

At this moment, it's not just the Lakers who believe in Shai.

Even the Knicks diehard Spike Lee somehow believed in Shay.

Shay's tone, that confidence, that aura make you choose to believe him.

Spike Lee suddenly felt that the story of this year's finals would be quite exciting.Shay, it won't be retiring so soon!
In the early morning, when Carlisle and Shai finished studying the Knicks game tape.

When Shay told Carlisle what he thought in his heart.

Carlisle nodded approvingly: "We do have a chance maybe seven games?"

Shay waved his hand confidently: "Six games! This is the last game the Knicks won in the Finals!"

(End of this chapter)