Legendary star

Chapter 414 Lucky and Unlucky

Just when the Pacers defeated the Lakers and won the first NBA championship in team history, the entire NBA was hit by a series of heavy news, and the source of these news, everyone Some of it comes from last season's NBA champion Lakers.

First of all, on the second day after the finals defeat, gossip broke out. The two leading players of the Lakers, O'Neal and Kobe blamed each other in the locker room, thinking that it was the other party's cause that caused the team to lose the finals.In the regular season, the Lakers have already had discordant factors. Team boss battles are very common in the NBA. As long as a team has two superstars, and the strength between the two is very close Sometimes, this kind of situation is easy to happen. If one side does not have absolute strength to suppress the other side, then the two sides will have differences in the distribution of ball rights, which will gradually evolve into internal strife, not to mention the Lakers. The team is huge. With the rapid development of Kobe's personal ability, when O'Neal's strength is no longer enough to suppress Kobe, Kobe will naturally have the ambition to replace him.

The Lakers' team tactical changes this season have further fueled Kobe's dissatisfaction. Kobe is at the core, but in the playoffs, O'Neal, who has rested for a season, will naturally come out to take over the team. At this time, Kobe's mentality may not be able to change. The head coach, Phil Jackson, firmly supports O'Neal. O'Neal is only 30 years old this year and is still at the peak of his career. As long as there are no accidents, O'Neal can still maintain his peak period for at least 3 years. Therefore, let alone O'Neal, Not even Phil Jackson would stand by and watch O'Neal give up his position as the boss and the core of the team.

But for Kobe, when the group of people of his own age have gradually become the bosses of their respective teams, especially when their strength is obviously not as good as his own, Kobe can't wait to get up and have a ball like them. team, but O'Neal, who is at his peak, will not give up the boss position easily, and Kobe is unwilling to choose to leave the Lakers to start a new one like Meng Xu, so the battle between the two sides is inevitable, and this year's The finals are undoubtedly a very good stage and examination room. O'Neal wants to use this to prove his dominance so that he can continue to suppress Kobe, so that he can be his younger brother for a few years at ease, and Kobe also wants to prove that he is more powerful than O'Neal. Great tactical value, but the final result is that the Lakers lost the finals. In this chess game with their own ghosts, both O'Neal and Kobe became losers.

With the rumors of O'Neal and Kobe accusing each other, many teams interested in O'Neal and Kobe began to act. For a while, general managers from all walks of life gathered in Los Angeles. Now no one cares about the Pacers who just won the championship. There is only one thing they care about now, that is, once the Lakers disintegrate, whether their team can get a share of this feast and lie on the Lakers' corpse to complete the team's revival.

But just two days later, a more important news was born. The godfather Jerry West, who has been in charge of the Lakers for 20 years, held a press conference in Los Angeles and announced that he would resign as the vice president of basketball affairs of the Lakers due to physical reasons. And the position of general manager, the entire Lakers fell into a precarious situation for a while.

Just when everyone thought that the Lakers were about to end, Lakers owner Jerry Buss stepped forward. Jerry Buss first published a long article, coefficient Jerry West's achievements in the past 20 years in charge of the Lakers, and thanked Jerry West's contribution to the Lakers club, and then the old Bass announced that his son Jim Bass will take over as the vice president of basketball affairs for the Lakers. At the same time, Jerry West's assistant, Mitch Kupchak will Served as the team's general manager, and Jerry Buss's daughter, Jenny Buss, also successfully entered the Lakers' management as an assistant to the president. Jerry West's resignation also marked the end of the struggle for power among the Lakers' management.

After this series of appointments ended, the Lakers officially announced the renewal of the contract with head coach Phil Jackson. The new three-year contract of 3 million also allowed Phil Jackson to surpass Pat Riley in one fell swoop and become the head coach with the highest salary in the entire league.As for Kobe and O'Neal, I don't know what Jerry West talked to them before leaving. After the Lakers announced the renewal of Phil Jackson, Kobe and O'Neal publicly expressed their support for Phil Jackson. There is no problem between the two, the goal of the Lakers in the new season will still be the championship, and the Lakers, who were precarious in just a few days, completed a smooth transition.

Where there is luck, there is also misfortune. A few days after the finals, Patrick Ewing announced his retirement. Due to repeated injuries, the 40-year-old Ewing really had no way to continue. Perhaps It's because of recalling his youthful years, maybe because of the regret of not having a championship, or maybe because he didn't want to leave his beloved basketball court. "King Kong" big guy, like a child, burst into tears at the press conference.

Just after Ewing announced his retirement, another of the "Four Major Centers", the big dream Olajuwon also announced his retirement. Compared with Ewing, Olajuwon's career is more complete. The 39-year-old Olajuwon Ended his 18-year professional career without any regrets. At the end of the press conference, Olajuwon expressed his last wish, that is, to be able to serve as a Rockets player in Compaq, where he has fought for 16 years. Center decommissioned.The retirement of Olajuwon and Ewing also means that the "four major centers" who have dominated the league for more than a dozen seasons have officially come to an end.

Although they traded Olajuwon and Ewing at the end of their careers, the Rockets and the Knicks were very shameless, but when the two announced their retirement, both the Rockets and the Knicks' bosses stood up to express their views , At the beginning of the new season, a retirement ceremony will be held for them, for the flag of the team in the past 10 years, and their jerseys will be retired.

On June 2002, 6, the NBA draft lottery ceremony. Olajuwon, who has entered the management of the Rockets, attended the draft lottery ceremony with head coach Rudy Tomjanovich. Rudy 20 years ago - Bill Fitch, Tomjanovich's mentor, was lucky enough to get the No. 18 pick in the draft, and used this No. 18 pick to select the big dream Olajuwon. Today, [-] years later, in Olaju Under the witness of Wang, Rudy Tomjanovich once again won the No. [-] lottery for the Rockets with a very low probability.

18 years of reincarnation, 18 years ago, the high-spirited young man who beat Jordan, now has gray temples, maybe wait until the next 18 years, today's youth in full bloom will be the same as Olajuwon now.

Time never stops, and inheritance will never stop.

　Suddenly, it has been 15 years since Yao Ming entered the NBA, and it will be another 18 years. Maybe in 2020, the Rockets should invite Olajuwon to be the head coach and Yao Ming to be the assistant coach, and then the Rockets can draw another No. [-] pick .

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