Chapter 141: Playing against the Trailblazers
Lamar tossed the ball high to prevent it from being broken, but he believed that Bryant would be able to receive it, and Bryant was not one of those mediocre players he knew. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This is also out of his understanding of Kobe Bryant in his previous life!
With a big foot in the penalty area, Kobe Bryant let out a roar again, and the muscles on his body tensed. When he jumped, Rashid and Pippen jumped in the same footsteps, one after the other, and Kobe Bryant was caught in the middle like a ham in a hot dog.
Seeing Kobe Bryant caught in the middle, the fans let out a lament together, and Reggie Miller also looked at O'Neal Jr. with a smug look.
But then they were surprised, when Rashid and Pippen started to fall, Kobe was still rising, his body was rising so high, all the players who didn't take off looked at Kobe with looking up, they had to look up, because Kobe jumped so high, so high......
Reach out, catch the ball, and smash it!
"Bang!"
The fans didn't even dare to blink, they knew there was going to be something that shocked the league when Kobe Bryant jumped.
They guessed right! Kobe Bryant unbelievably caught the ball that was thrown high and smashed it into the hoop!
"Ah!!" Bryant yelled as he threw his head up.
With a beeping timer and a red-hot rebound above his head, the game was over and he dunked the ball into the hoop!
As soon as the game was over, all the referees ran to the computer together and began to analyze whether the dunk was valid or not, and completed a dunk in 1.2 seconds, which was really amazing.
Kobe Bryant jumped from the floor, stretched out his arm from the middle of Rashid and Pippen, the big hand did not touch the ball directly, but still maintained the posture and rose, and the basketball began to fall, just about four or five centimeters on the hoop, at this time Kobe's head was even at the level of the basketball, and this scene was replayed from the big screen.
When they saw this scene, everyone was stunned, they knew what Kobe Bryant was doing. He's calculating distances, and he only shoots when the basketball is closest to the hoop!
That's it, when the basketball was about to collide with the hoop, Bryant grabbed the ball with his right hand and dunked it into the hoop quickly and ferociously! The 20,000 fans at the scene yelled and jumped together, Kobe's No. 8 jersey flew all over the sky, Shaq fell to his knees on the floor, slammed his fists on the floor, the finals, he is finally going to participate in the finals again!
The referee eventually walked onto the pitch and he took a deep breath. Make a move under the watchful eyes of the 20,000 fans in the stadium to score effectively!
The Lakers eliminated the Trail Blazers and finally got a chance to enter the Finals!
The Trail Blazers players looked at the ecstatic Lakers players together.
Lamar jumped up to Chauncy and Murray beside him, and Shaw and Phil hugged each other together, and the two of them hugged each other tightly like a pair of lovers in love.
With tears in his eyes and his body moving as Shaq writhed, Horry made it to the finals again after five years.
That year, when he was in the Rockets, he reached the Finals with Olajuwon, and that year, he was still a rookie!
Entering the finals again, the high-spirited Horry no longer exists, and now some are the young Horry, and some are glass men with brittle knees like glass.
Rashid hugged Pippen and Smith beside him, all three of them had sad faces, they had done their best, they did their best!
Taking a few deep breaths, Sabonis did not leave the field with his teammates, he slowly walked to Shaq, who was kneeling on the floor, and stretched out his hand, Sabonis picked Shakat up, and the two hugged each other, the pair of opponents who had been fighting for many years.
"Congratulations, Shaq, you're going to be there for great things. Sabonis whispered, patting Shaq on the back and sending his blessing. He's old and missed the best chance of winning the championship this year, and he probably won't have it again! But this opponent is still young, and he should win a lot of championships, right?
Shaq's face was filled with tears, how long had he been waiting for this day? From the moment he stepped on this battlefield, he had been expecting to win the finals on behalf of the team, but eight years later, he had gone from an ignorant and immature teenager to a big killer who was now approaching his prime. Finally, finally, he finally got his tickets to that place again.
"Shaq, go win the championship! I hope I'll see you with a ring on your hand when we meet during the holidays. Sabonis said, patting Shaq on the back again as he turned away, the season had reached the end of their journey, and the rest of the season was not theirs.
Lamar stood proudly under the basket, with the cheering players and fans behind him, and the red rebounds above his head, and he just stood under the basket, standing under the basket with his head held high, and he didn't want to bow his head, because tears would flow out of his eyes when he lowered his head. It's been a year since I was reborn, and my efforts have not been in vain, and I finally appeared in the finals again, and this time I will no longer be a substitute!
It's only when you're in the NBA that you know what that ring represents, and every year from November to April, they play a lot of battles all over the world, what are the players after? Isn't that the championship? They don't have time to rest, they don't have time to spend with their families on vacation!
"The finals, we're finally here. Lamar said leisurely.
The final score between the Lakers and the Trail Blazers was 101:100, Lamar scored 19 points, 12 rebounds and 7 assists in a single game, and in the series with the Trail Blazers, Lamar averaged 18.2 points, 8.9 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game, which was almost the same as his regular season record.
Since Rashid came to the Trail Blazers, Lamar is the first rookie to be able to score such stats against them!
The Trail Blazers' defense, especially in the playoffs, was strict and almost ruthless, and almost no one could score points on their heads.
Shaq averaged 28.3 points, 15.7 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game, Kobe Bryant averaged 23.7 points, 5.3 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.7 steals per game, Rashid averaged 19.3 points and 7.7 rebounds per game, Pippen averaged 15.7 points, 5.7 assists and 2.3 steals per game, and Stoudemire averaged 17.3 points and 6.7 assists per game.
When interviewed by reporters after the game, Stoudemire smiled wryly and said, "If you ask me what I think of Lamar? I just want to say 'terrible'! He's the scariest rookie I've seen since I came to the NBA, yes, the scariest! If you want to know how scary he is, I think you can ask Horry, he's on the same team as that guy!"
Rashid also told reporters: "Lamar can't be prevented, only when he doesn't want to score, there is no time when you can stop him from scoring. The Indiana had better be careful, they're not dealing with one person, they're not going to be an inside killer, a defensive maniac, a rookie who isn't a rookie. ”
Lamar's photo of Lamar standing under the basket and looking up at the sky became the front-page photo of the Washington Post's issue. It's rare, and the Washington Post runs sports news on a regular basis, but it barely does a front-page photo with sports figures, which doesn't put sports news on the front page, but this time they did.
"He's the future of the Lakers, who can doubt it?" was the headline of the front-page article in The Washington Post.
It's not just the Washington Post that headline, it's a lot of sports articles that headline with this sentence, because Dunleavy said it at the post-game press conference.
The Observer lavished praise on Bryant.
"He's been so good! Even the most discerning reporters can't find fault with him, and he killed his opponent in last night's battle of life and death, and if you watch the game closely, you should know that he almost single-handedly blocked Pippen! How many points did he score in the final quarter? It was 13 points! What else can you say about a player like this? And he's still so cool, I think Kobe Bryant's heroic appearance at the end of the game must have conquered countless women across the United States. That's amazing, like a king patrolling his people, that's great!"
It was night, Los Angeles was lit up, and the fans couldn't sleep all night. Many bars were open until dawn, and on this night, the Los Angeles sky was lit up with bright fireworks, and the streets were filled with drunken fans in extreme excitement with only one word on their lips.
"Champion, here we come!"
After more than two decades, the Lakers will once again set foot in the Finals, and the last time they participated in the Finals, the team had not moved into the Staples Center, and there were no 29 teams in the NBA at that time. More than 20 years have passed in the blink of an eye, and finally, finally, the team they love has entered that great place again.
Many long-time fans remember the Lakers' championship in the 80s, when the core of the team was the famous Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Magic and Abdul-Jabbar led the team to that precious trophy five times! After that, the trophy has nothing to do with Los Angeles, and this unrelated thing is 22 years, and now, finally their team is in the Finals again.
"Admit defeat?" said to Little O'Neill with a wry smile to Reggie Miller, he didn't have the excitement in his heart because he won the bet, and he couldn't figure out what kind of mood he was in at this time. He hoped that Kobe Bryant could beat the Trail Blazers but didn't want him to shoot that kill shot, and now when Kobe finally dunked that kill shot, he felt a little bitter in his heart.
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