NBA: One S-level skill per game

Chapter 140 Kobe’s love affair
Just when Li Chen was depressed, Elgin Baylor's phone rang. He took out the phone and looked at the caller, then connected the phone and said, "Hi! Mr. Sterling, um! Li Chen, the injury is not serious. OK, I'll take your word with you."

After a while, Elgin Baylor hung up the phone and said with a smile: "Chen, congratulations. For your outstanding performance this season, Mr. Donald Sterling will give you a bonus of [-] US dollars in his own name."

Li Chen was slightly stunned, and murmured in his heart, the bonus is too little, isn't it?

Elgin Baylor knew Li Chen's thoughts from the way he looked, so he joked: "Chen, don't be dissatisfied, you are the first person to give a bonus to Donald Sterling, you should feel honored. "

Li Chen "..."

Li Chen, who was ridiculed, was not to be outdone and joked: "Mr. Baylor, you will be fired if you talk about your boss behind his back like this."

The old man Elgin Baylor shrugged his shoulders, as if he didn't care, he didn't stay here, but he had his own place to stay.

Seeing this scene, Li Chen was also drunk.

At this time, his cell phone rang. When Li Chen saw it was Avril, he apologized: "I'll answer the phone."

……

Spurs press conference.

"Coach Popovich, did you benefit from Bowen's malicious foul in this game?" The reporter asked sharply.

Regarding such a question, Popovich remained calm as usual and denied: "Mr. reporter, please pay attention to your words. I hereby declare that everything is Bowen's personal behavior and has nothing to do with the Spurs. As for Li Chen, I am deeply sorry for what happened to him, but Bowen has also been punished."

The reporter was not disappointed. He just mentioned this question casually. Even if it was really Popovich's instigation, he would not admit it as long as he was not an old fool.

He knew Popovich was an old fox, so he attacked Duncan.

"Mr. Duncan, what do you think of your performance today?"

"I'm very dissatisfied." Duncan said seriously.

Yes, he is really dissatisfied with his performance tonight. If he can perform a little better tonight, even if he makes one more goal, the victory tonight will belong to their Spurs.

"Then what do you think of Li Chen's performance tonight?"

When he talked about Li Chen, his expression was a little complicated. After all, he was a man that their horse detachment could not defeat by all means. Yes, he even admired Li Chen a little.

Who doesn't want to be a hero?He single-handedly saved the team from the fire, but he couldn't do it, but Li Chen did it.So he is somewhat admired.

"He played really well, one of the best players I know."

In the Starbucks coffee shop.

"Chen, you performed so well today, you made me, who doesn't like basketball, fall in love with basketball." Avril said.

"That's really an honor!" Then Li Chen asked curiously: "What sports do you like?"

Avril excitedly said: "Ice hockey! So she talked to Li Chen about the rules of ice hockey and other issues."

Li Chen didn't reply during the period, he listened carefully to Avril's eloquent explanation.

A few minutes later, Li Chen laughed unconsciously.

Avril stopped at this scene and asked dissatisfiedly: "Is what I said funny?"

Li Chen suppressed his smile and explained: "No, don't get me wrong, I just thought of something interesting."

"What?" Avril came and asked curiously.

Li Chen was a little embarrassed.

"Tell me, I want to hear it." Avril urged.

Li Chen glanced at Avril, and muttered in his heart that this is what you said.

So he said, "When I see you, I think of giant pandas."

Avril was slightly stunned, he had seen giant pandas, both in the United States and Canada, but she didn't understand why Li Chen would compare herself with that fat and silly cute animal, is she fat?
Seeing Avril's bewildered expression, Li Chen held back a smile, pointed to Avril's eyes and said, "Especially your eyes are exactly the same as giant pandas."

Avril "..."

She said harshly: "Asshole, you don't understand art."

When the clock struck midnight, a Land Rover shuttled through the silent city.

Cars speed along the road, and the night sky is filled with stars, shining with mysterious light.

The high-rise buildings in Los Angeles stand tall in the night, emitting a faint but warm light.It seems that the whole city is showing a different charm.

It was Li Chen and Avril Lavigne on the Land Rover off-road vehicle.

"Avril, I didn't expect you to like driving off-road vehicles." Li Chen, who was sitting in the co-pilot, said with emotion.

"Why? What's so unexpected about this?" Avril asked, looking ahead without looking at Li Chen.

"Nothing, I thought you girls all liked those kind of sports cars?"

"What? What kind of car do you like?"

"No, I don't, I like dirt bikes too."

Avril was slightly stunned, and then complained: "It's not easy! We finally have a common hobby."

"Hey, hey, hey! He just said that he still likes basketball."

"You said that! After I told you about ice hockey, I thought... I was too impulsive at the time, so I still like ice hockey."

Li Chen "..."

After the two fell into a brief silence, Avril asked: "Chen, are you really alright with your injuries?"

The corner of Li Chen's mouth twitched, and he complained: "Really, how many times have you asked me, I'm really, really fine."

"Hey, hey! I'm a little queen! Can you show me some respect?"

Li Chen blinked, "I am still the next basketball god."

"Tch..." Suddenly the two of them said in unison with disdain.

Then, I laughed again.

after an hour.

Li Chen opened the door and got out of the car, and then said: "Drive carefully."

"Understood." After blowing a kiss to Li Chen, he walked away.

The next day, on the cover of the sports magazine was Li Chen with a grim expression, shooting a three-pointer.

Then there is a huge title below. After the Clippers captain was stepped on, the king returned. In two minutes and 45 seconds, he scored 29 points and counterattacked the Spurs to advance to the finals.

At the same time, Skechers also launched Li Chen's sneakers, the second generation of Miracle, following Li Chen's fire.

Later, the Clippers announced that Li Chen would not participate in the finals.

This makes the Clippers fans a little regretful.

After five bloody games, the Clippers finally lost to the Nets 4-1.

But this championship did not make the New Jersey Nets feel any glory, but shame.

Because their game was rated as the most gold-worthy champion in NBA history.

After all, in the absence of the Clippers as the scoring core and the defensive core, the Nets did not sweep. In the eyes of the media, the Clippers without Li Chen is a weak team that cannot make it to the playoffs , This made the media feel that the New Jersey Nets are weak.

However, the actual situation is not like this. The Clippers are no longer the original Clippers.

But the media always belittles one side and insults the other in order to gain attention.

And the fans also agreed with this view from the bottom of their hearts. After all, Li Chen's performance was too strong, and he almost defeated the Spurs in the last 45 minutes and [-] seconds.

A few days later, the 2003 draft, which came to be known as the Platinum Generation, also had its grand opening at Madison Park Square in New York.

Li Chen was also brought to the draft scene by Elgin Baylor.

The top ten results of the draft are as follows:

1. LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers

2. Darko Milicic, Detroit Pistons

3. Carmelo Anthony, Denver Nuggets

4. Chris Bosh, Toronto Raptors

5. Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat
6. Chris Kaman, Grizzlies
7. Kirk Hinrich, Chicago Bulls

8. T Ford, Milwaukee Bucks
9. Michael Sweetney, New York Knicks

10. Jarvis Hayes, Washington Wizards

The Clippers are very different from their record in history, so they didn't get a good pick and only held the No. 30 pick in the first round.

The draft scene continues.

Elgin Baylor asked: "Chen, can you look at what kind of players our team needs to select and help you."

The reason why Elgin Baylor asked this was that Donald Sterling had no intention of strengthening before the trade deadline, which made Elgin Baylor feel sorry for Li Chen.

Li Chen thought about it, the 30th pick of the Clippers is really not very good. If it was the 18th pick, they could still choose David West, the future All-Star player, but the 30th pick really has nothing to choose .

Wait, suddenly he thought of something, and then said: "Mr. Baylor, our team needs a shooter, as long as he can shoot three-pointers."

Li Chen didn't say Korver's name, which seemed a little weird.

Elgin Baylor thought for a moment and nodded. He also discovered that the Clippers were short of substitute scorers.

So Elgin Baylor began looking for suitable candidates among the remaining draft boards.

Li Chen is not worried that Elgin Baylor will miss Korver.

Because Korver's three-pointer is so eye-catching at this time.

About five or six minutes later, Elgin Baylor pointed to a name on the list and said, "Chen, let's see if this kid named Kyle Korver can do it. His three-point shooting percentage in his senior year reached In his four-year college career, he made a total of 6 three-pointers, which is the team history record of Creighton University and also ranks sixth in the history of the NCAA."

Elgin Baylor looked at Li Chen after introducing Korver's resume.

Li Chen nodded, "It's just him."

Elgin Baylor nodded.

What Elgin Baylor never expected was that this draft allowed him to win the throne of the best manager again.

After the draft is over, each team also begins to strengthen for next season.

The first is the Lakers, known as the F4 super luxury lineup, which has now reached the final stage.

It is worth mentioning that Kobe threatened that the Lakers would not have O'Neal without him, and even forced the palace to trade, but was finally persuaded by the Zen master Phil Jackson.

Phil Jackson knows that the OK combination is over, and when O'Neal's contract expires next year, it will be the time for the Lakers to make a decision.

On the other hand, Malone hesitated to join the Lakers.

After a series of ideological struggles, he finally made a decision.

When Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak called to ask what Malone was thinking, he was dumbfounded that Malone turned him down.His F4 Galaxy battleship was ruined.

But this is not the most unacceptable thing for him. The most unacceptable thing for him is that after Karl Malone rejected him, he changed hands and chose to join the Clippers.How could he bear this?
It doesn't matter if Malone doesn't come, it doesn't matter if the Big Three win the championship.

But what made Mitch Kupchak crazy was that Payton said that if Malone didn't go to the Lakers, he would not go. Fortunately, he finally persuaded Payton to come to the Lakers.

At this moment Mitch Kupchak felt that he was too difficult.

On the afternoon of June 6th, Li Chen did not practice, but chose to go to Kobe's house to fool Kobe.

after an hour.

Kobe's expression turned cold when he saw Li Chen's arrival.

"Li Chen, that's enough for you, is it fun to show off in front of me every day?"

Li Chen touched his nose, thinking, this guy really got mad at him.

"So he said: "Kobe, why do you say that?I will be very sad, I was sharing the joy with my good friends, how can you say that? "

Hearing Li Chen's righteous nonsense, Kobe wanted to smash the basketball in Li Chen's face.

He had never seen such a shameless bastard. He felt that his eyes were hole-holes. How could he become friends with this scum?
At this moment, Kobe suddenly saw Li Chen's serious expression.

Kobe was a little confused, wondering what this unreliable guy was up to?

Kobe was about to speak, but Li Chen raised his hand to stop him, signaling him not to speak.

Then he muttered.

Seeing Li Chen's serious expression, he didn't dare to disturb him.

Because Li Chen is now equated with the magic stick in Kobe's eyes.

After 5 minutes, Li Chen felt that the time was almost up, and then started to play tricks, "Little Kobe! You want something big!"

Looking at Li Chen's worried look, Kobe was a little depressed. He felt that he was really in a lot of trouble. It was said more than a month ago that he had a bloody disaster. Why did this go wrong again?
So he asked, "Then what should I do?" Kobe asked a little nervously.

Seeing Kobe's uneasy look, Li Chen couldn't stop laughing.

So he said alarmingly: "Just now I saw that you were in trouble..."

Before Li Chen could continue talking, Kobe, a curious child, interrupted: "Chen, Tao, do you mean the fruit?"

Li Chen was slightly stunned, and then said dissatisfied: "Don't interrupt."

After reprimanding Kobe, he explained: "The peach blossom in our oriental divination is the fate of women, and those who commit peach blossoms will often have some opposite sexes throwing themselves into their arms."

Kobe blinked. At this time, Kobe was still full of energy, and Vanessa was pregnant again. He had been holding back for several months. When he heard this, he suddenly became excited to try.

Seeing Kobe like this, Li Chen smirked in his heart, little Kobe, I'll scare you into incontinence later.

While his thoughts were wandering, Li Chen sneered and said, "Kobe, don't be too happy, the love you committed is not a good luck, but a bad luck."

Kobe frowned, and then asked in confusion: "What's the difference between the two? Aren't they both peach blossoms?"

"Hmph! The difference is huge. A lucky love can make you enjoy the blessings of others, but a bad love can destroy your family."

Hearing the phrase "family ruined", Kobe stumbled back subconsciously, and it took him a long time to react.

"Asshole, Chen, don't make such a joke with me, otherwise, our friends really have nothing to do." Kobe roared angrily.

Kobe was really angry this time.

(End of this chapter)