The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 335
In the Western Conference Finals of the 15-16 season, it was clearly the last moment of the fourth quarter, but the audience didn't seem to pay attention to the situation on the field, and instead looked frequently at the sidelines.

Li Pu was sitting on the sidelines at this time, taking the son from An Jiali's hands, teasing with his fingers, and laughing out loud at his son's appearance.

Such a relaxed posture doesn't look like he's playing a game at all!
Now Li Pu's son is one year old, and he has perfectly inherited the genes of his parents, making him a handsome guy from an early age.

The little guy's name is Li Hai, and the English name is Lehi. This is an elegant English name that first appeared in Hebrew and means "maxillofacial".

However, domestic netizens generally like to call him "Brother Powerful".

Whether it is domestic or foreign, no one doesn't like this little guy. He is simply the son of Saskatchewan and the son of a certain player. He has more traffic than many stars.

Now it has become the smallest mascot of the Kings. As long as he appears on the sidelines, he will gain the attention of all fans.

It has been a full year since Li Pu led the Kings to win the championship, and the new season is coming to an end.

Compared with making history in the regular season last season, the Kings this season are a bit troubled.

Since the beginning of the regular season, several main players in the team, including Bledsoe, Butler, Middleton, Giannis, and Thomas Jr., have suffered serious injuries. Even Li Pu, who has always been known as the Iron Man, Also missed 18 games.

However, even so, the team still achieved 58 wins, ranking third in the Western Conference.

This is mainly due to the growth of young players in the team.

The Kings did not keep the draft picks for 15 years, but packaged and traded them all.

In addition, in the offseason before the start of this season, the Kings traded champions Thornton and Jason Thompson, plus draft picks, in a package deal.But the team's bench depth has not been affected.

Seth Curry, Dinwiddie, Covington, Grant, Jokic and other young players have grown rapidly.

Even if there are no rookies in the team, the young players selected before are enough for the Kings to train.

Of course, the most eye-catching team in the league this year is not the Kings, but the Warriors.

After experiencing a blockbuster last year, the Warriors this season have gone a step further, actually stepping into the field where the Kings had stood up last season.

In the regular season of this season, they finally achieved a historical record of 73 wins.

Although it failed to surpass the Kings, such a record is already the first in history, tied for the first place with the Kings, it is not ashamed at all!
For two consecutive years, some teams have achieved the first record in history, which directly detonated the entire basketball world, and the ratings reached the peak in recent years.

In the final record of the Western Conference, the Warriors ranked first with 73 wins, the Spurs ranked second in the West with 67 wins, the Kings ranked third with 58 wins, and the Thunder ranked fourth with 55 wins, followed by the Clippers, Trail Blazers, Mavericks and Rockets.

After the Rockets experienced a coaching change this season, their performance has plummeted. They have completely lost the style of the previous two seasons, and will catch up with the last train in the Western Conference playoffs.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Rockets faced the Warriors who were in the limelight, but naturally they did not fare well. They were easily swept by the Warriors 1:4.

Another great battle, this time the Spurs also did not give the Mavericks a chance, 4:1, the Spurs easily defeated the aging Mavericks.

As for the other two games in the first round of the Western Conference, the fully-returned Kings easily swept the Trail Blazers 4-0, while the Thunder, which also returned from injury, defeated the Clippers 4-2 with difficulty.

This season's Thunder team, although the players in the team returned from injury one after another, they found that the entire league has long been changed.

They are no longer the champions they used to be. In the West alone, there are three teams eyeing them. It seems that none of them are easy to play!

Of course, there is no doubt about the strength of the Thunder's two juniors. As long as they are there, this team is a championship team, no matter what the other lineups of the team are.

In the end, facing the 73-win Warriors, they once led the series to 3:1, but were chased by the Warriors for 3 games in a row, completing a major reversal, and unfortunately they were out!

Compared with the shocking match between the Warriors and the Thunder, the score between the Kings and the Spurs is much more tepid.

Although the two teams did not decide the winner until the sixth game, the Kings eliminated the Spurs 4:2, but this result is not surprising. How could the series between the Warriors and the Thunder have ups and downs?
In this way, the Kings and Warriors met again in the Western Conference Finals!
Now this game has been in the sixth game. At this time, there is less than 1 minute before the end of the game. The score on the field is 115:101, and the Kings lead by 14 points.

The general trend is set, and the Kings once again defeated the Warriors with a big score of 4:2 in the series.

But unlike last year, this time, the Kings are the dogs.

They made another history, that is, sending home the team with the first record in history.

In the remaining tens of seconds, neither side scored again, and the final score remained unchanged.

When the whistle sounded for the end of the game, Li Pu handed Li Hai to An Jiali, got up and came to the field to hug and shake hands with the Warriors players one by one.

"Sorry, I won again!"

"Next season, we will win!"

"You said the same thing last season!"

Looking at the stubborn Curry in front of him, Li Pu smiled even happier.

Li Pu is not happy that he defeated the 73-win Warriors, but that he is one step closer to his fourth championship.

Long before the start of this round of the series, both the media and the fans had unanimously speculated that the winner of this round of the series would be this year's championship.

Being able to say this is obviously not taking this year's Eastern Conference finals champion Cavaliers seriously.

That's right, it is still James' Cavaliers who rushed out of the Eastern Conference this year!
Although the Cavaliers' record this year is the first in the East, they only have 57 wins, which is not as good as the Kings who are third in the West.

And the team lineup has not changed much, just changed the head coach from Blatter to Tyronn Lue, and replaced a rookie coach with another rookie coach, it seems that there is no difference!
The opponent is James, who has entered the finals for the seventh time. The media and fans do not believe that James, who lacks championship attributes, can lead the team to defeat this king!

Li Pu thinks so too!
Although in the original time and space, the championship of this season was the Cavaliers, but it was different then and now!

James, who has never won a championship, has no self-confidence at all now, and naturally he does not have the self-confidence of the original time and space. Don't underestimate the mentality, often this is the real winner of the game.

(End of this chapter)