From sparring to superstar

Chapter 188 186. The No. 3 who lay down again

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Li Ao came to the Staples Center to participate in the fan appreciation activity held by the team.

Help draw prizes, give gifts, and take photos.

The enthusiasm of the fans far exceeded Li Ao's imagination.

When he learned that this was the first time the team held a fan appreciation event after moving to Los Angeles, his mood was so complicated that he didn't know what to say.

Sterling is really picky!
Jerseys, T-shirts, basketballs, etc., are reluctant to give away a few.

If it doesn't work, it's okay to prepare a few tickets for the fans.

No wonder being hammered by a big shark...

Fortunately, the current boss is willing to spend money, earn more, and is willing to spend more. The tickets he gets are all family tickets, or a package with a good location. Li Ao sends gifts to the fans Sometimes I feel that I have face.

When he returned home in the afternoon, he worked as a hanger. When he first learned that he was going to attend Kobe's wedding, Vivienne began to make custom-made dresses for him.

Li Ao wanted to wear a suit, but Vivienne said that he couldn't - when people come to your house for New Year's Eve, they all come out in dresses, and when they get married, you can just wear a suit?
But in order to be grand and not steal the limelight from the bride and groom, Vivienne spent a lot of time choosing styles, and finally chose...a dozen sets.

Li Ao worked as a clothes hanger all afternoon, and he was almost paralyzed from standing.

But every time he changed a set of clothes, he could see the starry eyes of the hospital assistant's auntie, and he also enjoyed it.

Originally, Li Ao planned to take his parents to the Staples Center to watch the Lakers game at night, but in the morning he met the shark next door, and the big shark said that he and the afro took turns to rest tonight.

With 58 wins, the first place is secured. It doesn't matter whether we play the last game or not, and we can't get 60 wins.

If the OK combination doesn't play, then the Lakers' game will be nothing to watch.

Li Ao chose to watch the live broadcast of the Mavericks and Timberwolves at home.

Then I saw Nowitzki, Finley, and Nash taking turns, and Juwan Howard and Bradley led the team to face the Timberwolves... Hey!

Before last night's game, he had been worried that if the loss, the Mavericks may be in rotation.

Now it seems to be nothing to worry about.

The Mavericks will definitely rest!

Fortunately, they played hard to defend and won the game last night.

Already locked in the second place in the Western Conference, winning or losing the last game doesn't matter. Old Nelson, the three-time best coach, doesn't care about 54 wins or 55 wins.

He thought of the rotation of the Spurs in the original time and space, and now it seems that he learned from the old Nelson. Popovich worked as an assistant to the old Nelson, who was the vice president and head coach of the Warriors in the early 90s, for two and a half years.

小牛队场均得分前4有3个人不打，助攻前2也在这3人里，小牛队被全力争取拿到50胜的森林狼队按着打。

The commentator of this game really couldn't find anything to analyze, scoring, rebounding, assists, steals, and even blocks, Garnett covered all the players on the opposite side.

They simply chatted about today's hottest topic-Spider-Man's curtain call and won a triple-double of blocked shots.

With 10 blocks in a single game, Li Ao tied the team history record held by Benoit Benjamin, who had 10 blocks in a single game twice in the second and third grades.

Relying on these 10 blocked shots, Li Ao overtook Ratliff in the final buzzer, and won the block leader with an average of 3.8 blocks per game.

Originally, because he only got 1 block against the Warriors, Li Ao's average blocks per game dropped to 3.71, falling to No.2.

But at that time, not many people thought that Li Ao would lose the block leader. He has always blocked a lot of shots against the Suns because the Suns have many veterans.

Averaged 3.8 blocks per game, which also set a record in the history of the Clippers, and Benoit Benjamin showed his face again.

In the 87-88 season, as a junior, he ranked second in the league with 3.4 blocks per game, second only to Mark Eaton, who averaged 3.7 blocks per game.

When it came to breaking the record of the Clippers team, the commentator opened up the topic and talked about whether Li Ao is considered the Clippers' scoring king in a single season after moving to Los Angeles.

After the Clippers moved to Los Angeles, before Li Ao, only Dominique Wilkins averaged 25+ per game. After the All-Star Weekend in the 93-94 season, he averaged 29.3 points per game after he transferred to the Clippers.

The commentator's point of contention is that Wilkins played only 25 games with the Clippers that year and 49 games with the Hawks.

However, ranking Wilkins ahead of Li Ao in points per game, Li Ao also broke the Clippers' personal single-season scoring record after moving to Los Angeles.

As for why the commentator emphasized "after moving to Los Angeles", because when the Clippers first established their team in San Diego, Wald-B-Free, who was selected from the 76ers, averaged 28.8 points per game and 30.2 points per game. Performance, ranked second in the scoring list for two consecutive years, second only to Ice Man Gervin.

If the commentator includes Freeh in the discussion, the content of the discussion will become "the third in team history". It looks awesome.

随着湖人队91比108输给掘金队、小牛队104比120输给森林狼队，NBA2000-2001赛季常规赛正式落下帷幕。

Li Ao patiently watched the game between the Mavericks and Timberwolves.

Although the three cores did not play, you can look at the performance of the Mavericks' substitutes.

I definitely don't want to hear the commentator brag about him.

After the game, the TV station posted the playoff team list, matchup table, and the game time of the first four games of each series.

东部前八：56胜26负的魔术队第一、55胜27负的76人队第二、50胜32负的雄鹿队第三、49胜33负的热火队第四、44胜38负的猛龙队第五、42胜40负的步行者队第六、40胜42负的黄蜂队第七、36胜46负的凯尔特人队第八。

西部前八：58胜24负的湖人队第一、54胜28负的小牛队第二、56胜26负的国王队第三、55胜27负的开拓者队第四、53胜29负的太阳队第五、52胜30负的爵士队第六、51胜31负的快船队第七、50胜32负的森林狼队第八。

Li Ao felt that the Suns fought so hard last night and felt lonely. The Suns lost and were not overtaken by the Jazz. Tonight the Jazz lost to the Spurs 83 to 91 away. The final fifth place is the Suns, the Jazz Play the Kings in the first round.

The playoffs started on the 21st, and the Magic and Celtics, the Heat and the Raptors, the Mavericks and the Clippers, and the Kings and Jazz took the lead in the four-group series.

Immediately after the 76ers and Hornets, Bucks and Pacers, Trail Blazers and Suns, Lakers and Timberwolves, the four-group series started on the 22nd.

...

The end of the regular season, the media began to summarize the regular season, award predictions and so on.

Fans are also very concerned about this.

艾弗森场均31.1分拿下得分王、穆托姆博场均13.5板拿下篮板王、基德场均9.8助攻拿下助攻王、艾弗森场均2.5次抢断拿下抢断王、李敖场均3.8次封盖拿下盖帽王。

Li Ao won the block king and became the youngest data king in NBA history.

This record, the media said, is unlikely to be broken.

Several data kings, there was no suspense early on, and the fans paid more attention to the 'second'.

Ben Wallace is the most surprising No.2. As one of the bargaining chips sent by the Magic in exchange for Hill, he just renewed his contract for 4 years and 1930 million US dollars last season. It's bad, but no one expected him to play so well in the new season!

从场均4分8板1.6盖帽，飙升至6.4分13.2板2.3盖帽。

The No.2 with the lowest evaluation also appeared in the Pistons, and Stackhouse, who scored second on the scoring list.

People have ridiculed that with the help of Stackhouse, Ben Wallace may go further next season and go straight to the rebounding champion.

There are more people talking about award predictions.

There are two awards this year that are completely without suspense, one of which is the best rookie.

I have to talk about the suspense of the best rookie-whether Li Ao will become the fifth unanimous best rookie in NBA history.

Elgin Baylor of the Lakers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Bucks, Ralph Sampson of the Rockets, and David Robinson of the Spurs are rare unanimous best rookies in NBA history.

Another no suspense award is the best manager, the only candidate-Magic general manager Gabriel.

Best defensive player, Mutombo, Garnett, Duncan, Doug Christie, O'Neal are considered popular candidates.

Coach of the Year, widely expected to go to Gentry.

The hottest award prediction is MVP.

The media gave a list of popular candidates-Iverson, Duncan, O'Neal, Webber, Kidd, Li Ao, Garnett.

The lists given by various media are basically these people, and the rankings are in order. Duncan, O'Neal, Webber, Kidd, and Li Ao are ranked differently, but Iverson is first and Garnett is at the bottom. All media are consistent. .

This list is very convincing, because most of the MVP votes are in the hands of these media.

Li Ao, a rookie, actually ranks among the "MVP favorites", and he has once again caused controversy.

In the modern era of basketball, only two players are considered MVP favorites in their rookie seasons, Bird and Fo.

Some fans said that although Spider-Man is very talented and powerful, in his opinion, Spider-Man is not worthy of becoming the MVP favorite.

In the face of the "I think" speech, the Clippers fans dumped the data.

From 15 wins to 51 wins, after Spiderman joined the Clippers, he led the team to improve by 36 wins.

Li Ao's personal performance this season, total data: 1898 points, 451 rebounds, 380 assists, 118 steals, 285 blocks.

场均25.3分6.01板5.06助攻1.57抢断3.8盖帽。

A certain No. 3 player, who did not want to be named, saw this while checking the news. He hoped that the discussion in this aspect would stop here. He felt that Spider-Man deserved to be the MVP favorite, and asked the fans to stop discussing it.

However, the prayers in his heart were ineffective.

The shooting percentage was 42.1%, and the three-point shooting percentage was 30.8%.

Fans who feel that Li Ao is not worthy of being the MVP favorite threw out this statistic.

Then, Clippers fans dumped the MVP No. [-] favorite for a shot...

...

On April 4th, the second day after the end of the regular season, when the media and fans were discussing and even arguing about awards, Li Ao and Vivienne came to St. Sarah's wedding.

He was thankful that the hospital assistant aunt had custom-made a dress for him. The people who attended the wedding were all dressed formally, and it seemed that they all had enjoyed Kobe's "grand treatment".

It's just that there were very few people, so few that Li Ao felt that he felt that the two of them were not suitable for this occasion.

Li Ao saw that there were no Lakers players, so he remembered it. It seemed that Kobe was not invited to marry a teammate. His teammates only knew that the second head of the team got married after seeing the news.

Li Ao felt that this was really... so interesting.

I don't know what the big shark next door will think when he sees Spider-Man attending the wedding of the Black Mamba?
There are not many relatives of Kobe, and none of his parents and sisters came.

But Vanessa's face was filled with happiness, because this man, despite the opposition of his parents and women in the black community, chose to marry her.

The mentality of the two of them is very secondary - even if the whole world opposes it, we still want to be together.

The scene was not awkward because of the small number of people, but Kobe and Vanessa could chat with every guest thoughtfully.

The wedding was not extravagant, and the time was very short. The wedding at noon did not delay Kobe's participation in the Lakers' team training at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Li Ao made sure that the couple chose a free day, called relatives and friends who would definitely bless them, and bought a wedding dress and ring to get married, so as not to have long nights and dreams.

It's too late to stop a parent.

Li Ao also caught up with the Clippers' team training at 02:30 in the afternoon and put himself into a state of preparation.

...

2001年4月21号，NBA2000-2001赛季季后赛第一个比赛日到了。

On the 19th, the alliance organized a vote for two awards, and the results of the vote were announced today.

Magic general manager John Gabriel won the best manager award for the second consecutive year.

In the summer of 99, Gabriel cleaned up the messy lineup made by the former general manager, solved the bloated salary problem, created a huge salary space for the summer of 00, and also got 99 wins and 00 losses in the 41-41 season The record ranked ninth in the Eastern Conference and won the best manager.

Last summer, they won Duncan, Hill, and McGrady in one go. Although Hill was reimbursed as soon as he came, it was still an impeccable operation and won the award again.

Clippers head coach Alvin Gentry, relying on improving the team from 15 wins and 67 losses to 51 wins and 31 losses, defeated Larry Brown and Phil Jackson to win the best coach award.

The Clippers arrived in Dallas yesterday evening.

The head coach won the award, and the Clippers players were very excited, and they were very active in preparing for the training.

However, some people are still very nervous, mainly young players. They are also very excited and actively preparing for the game, but this does not prevent them from being nervous.

When warming up in the evening, Big Q asked Li Ao: "Boss, I haven't played in the playoffs, and I'm worried that I'll screw things up tonight."

Big Q boldly expressed his uneasiness, and his teammates who were also nervous turned their attention to the boss.

They expect Spider-Man to cheer them up.

But the boss' answer...

"Didn't you read the scouting report?"

Big Q was stunned for a moment, and said: "I saw it! I am very serious about preparing for the battle!"

"Then why are you nervous? There are not as many people who have played in the playoffs in the training ground opposite us. They should be nervous."

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