The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 154
"Is this true? Doctor Strack, are you sure you didn't make a mistake?"

"Are you questioning my professionalism?"

"No, I didn't mean that, mainly..."

"Okay, Kevin, don't get excited!" Harden got up and pulled Durant aside to calm his excitement.

"How could this be? How could a strong man like Jeff get a tumor?"

"It's an aortic aneurysm!" Doctor Strack corrected.

Li Pu sat on the seat beside him, lowered his head and fell into deep self-blame.

Li Pu didn't know much about Jeff Green in his previous life. He only remembered that he had an operation when he was with the Celtics, but he forgot which year it was.

Now I finally know, it turned out to be this year, but it was too late!

In the original time and space, after Green was traded to the Celtics last year, this year was finally a contract year, but he was diagnosed with an aortic aneurysm at the end of December.

The so-called aortic aneurysm is not a tumor to be precise, but is caused by atherosclerosis, cystic necrosis of the vascular media, syphilis infection, bacterial infection, rheumatic aortitis and trauma. The pathological expansion of the aorta is generally Can exceed 50% of normal vessel diameter.

Of course, although this disease is not a tumor, it is as dangerous as a tumor. It will not only bring great pain to the patient, but also cause dyspnea, hemoptysis, and even the descending aortic aneurysm can invade the vertebral body, compressing the spinal cord and causing paraplegia. .

As a result, Green needs to undergo open chest surgery, and this season has basically been reimbursed.

This is a major blow to the Thunder.

Although Green has now fallen out of the starting lineup, he is a jack-of-all-trades player who can help the team a lot in terms of scoring, rebounding, and defense.

With him and Harden around, the Thunder's bench can rest easy.

But now, with Green's serious illness, the Thunder's road to the championship has also cast a shadow.

The Thunder players have no chance to be sad, because the next day, they will challenge the Timberwolves away.

This season's Timberwolves finally ushered in their European genius golden boy, Ricky Rubio.

At the same time, they also signed JJ Barea, who became famous in the finals of last season, and selected Derek Williams with the second pick on draft night.

Coupled with the resignation of head coach McHale and the arrival of a new coach Adelman, the entire Timberwolves have a new look, which has brought people infinite reverie.

At the beginning of the season, many media predicted that the Timberwolves would enter the playoffs again after a lapse of seven years.

However, tonight, when facing the same young Thunder, he was taught a good lesson.

The new wolf king, Kevin Love, completely lost himself in the Thunder Twin Towers composed of Li Pu and Ibaka. He made 14 of 4 shots and only scored 12 points and 11 rebounds.

As for the much-anticipated golden boy Rubio, he only played 18 minutes in his debut, and only scored 3 points and 1 assists on 2 of 4 shots. He is completely sorry for people's expectations of him.

You know, the Timberwolves gave up Curry for him!
It seems that the rise of the Timberwolves still has a long way to go!
The score was 112:80, and the Thunder won another big victory.

Just after the start of the game, what the Thunder have to face is a wave of 5 games in 4 days, and the intensity is directly full.

Just took a day off on the 27th, and then came to Memphis on the 28th to challenge the old enemy Grizzlies away.

The Grizzlies with both black and white heroes have always been a difficult bone in the West, not to mention the shocking "Black Eight Miracle" just created last season. No matter which team comes to the FedEx Arena in Memphis, it must peeling skin.

In fact, the recent Grizzlies are not in good shape. Before the start of the season, Darrell Arthur, the team's inside gate, ruptured his Achilles tendon and was directly reimbursed for the season. If he recovers well, he may be able to catch up with the playoffs. Sai is definitely hopeless.

The team's state is not very good, the start record is 0 wins and 2 losses, without a win.

However, tonight's game against the Thunder gave the Thunder a headache.

The Grizzlies starting five: Michael Conley, Tony Allen, Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol, everyone has a good single-defense ability, and the team lineup is relatively balanced , They don't play with the Thunder in a big way, they just grind one ball at a time.

In addition, the Thunder team was a little tired from the away game, and the outside line was inaccurate tonight, which caused the penalty area to become the main battlefield of the two teams, and the two sides continued to fight inside.

Under such circumstances, Westbrook performed extremely disastrously tonight. He made 13 of 0 shots and only scored 4 points and 6 assists, which was not even as good as Lu Yizhong in the previous game.

Thanks to the Thunder who stretched their hips alone and others made up for it, especially Durant and Harden, they performed extremely well, scoring 52 points together.

The two sides fought like this to the last moment.

With 27 seconds left before the end of the game, the Thunder were still one point behind.

At the critical moment, Li Pu, who also performed poorly in this game, received an assist from Harden, hit a hook against Gasol, and successfully helped the team overtake the score.

Then Conley missed a mid-range shot, Li Pu protected the rebound, and then the Grizzlies fouled, and Li Pu made two free throws, which sealed the victory.

The final score was 98:95, and the Thunder narrowly beat the Grizzlies by three points.

Li Pu made 14 of 5 shots and scored 12 points and 14 rebounds. Thanks to his 4 points in a row at the last moment, he pulled himself out of the conference room. Otherwise, he would have to be held together with Westbrook.

In this way, the Thunder escaped without any risk in the away game. While winning three consecutive victories, they also gave the Grizzlies a three-game losing streak.

Then the Thunder returned home overnight to face the Mavericks.

The fourth game in five days, especially yesterday's final match against the Grizzlies, left the Thunder exhausted.

On the other hand, the Mavericks, this is only the third game, which can be regarded as one more day off than the Thunder.

So after the opening, the Mavericks turned away and once established a 10-point lead.

However, in the second half, with the recovery of the Thunder team, they overtook the score in one fell swoop in the third quarter.

Westbrook's shooting rate is still impressive tonight, 12 of 2 shots, a little improvement from the previous game, but it is enough to cause headaches for his teammates.

Fortunately, Ibaka became a surprise player in today's game. At the critical moment of the fourth quarter of the second half, he made 4 of 4 mid-range shots and withstood the Mavericks' offensive momentum.

The final score was fixed at 104:102. The Thunder narrowly beat the Mavericks by 2 points and won the opening four consecutive victories.

No one expected that at the very beginning of the season, the Thunder team ushered in a monster schedule of five days and four games, including the Lakers, Mavericks, and Grizzlies. the devil.

(End of this chapter)