Today, there is simply no place to park near Staples. The www.biquge.info of Pen Fun Pavilion has been occupied by tens of thousands of fans because of the parking lot outside the stadium.

They are all die-hard Lakers fans who don't have tickets but don't want to watch TV at home. And outside the gymnasium, it has become a gathering place for this group of guys to party. They can watch the situation inside the stadium from the big screen outside the stadium. Maybe a few lucky guys can sneak into the scene.

They came here for one purpose, to see the Lakers win this difficult series and advance to the Western Conference Finals! They are so confident, because now almost all basketball fans around the world know about Anjie's situation.

According to reliable sources, An Jie's body temperature is still above 38 degrees 5, and now it is only an hour before the start of the game, and An Jie's body temperature should not drop too much. Therefore, An Jie is the biggest variable in this game! Whether he can play or not is still unknown. Even if he can play, Anjie's performance is unpredictable. Yu Jia and Zhang Weiping anxiously looked for An Jie's figure on the live screen, and now everyone is warming up on the field, but An Jie is not there.

"Ahn will definitely play today, he's not the kind of guy who will give up on the game. Even if he has a high temperature of 40 degrees, Ann will definitely be on it. The problem is that this is the most critical tiebreaker, and the Los Angeles Lakers are no slouch. Even if Ann can play, how much help can he bring to the Thunder team?" not only on CCTV in China, but also on the T.NT studio, Kenny Smith also talked about this topic.

With many questions and concerns, An Jie finally warmed up 30 minutes before the start of the game. Judging from the warm-up, An Jie is fine except for a little blurry eyes. Now, all Thunder fans are breathing a sigh of relief.

Half an hour later, when both teams stepped into Staples, the world looked up to the Lakers, but rightfully so. The league's No. 1 scoring guard, an orderly locker room, an entire lineup with Kobe, and a wise championship coach are all advantages of the Lakers.

And what about the Thunder, a main center who doesn't know what kind of form he is in, a point guard who is too young and reckless, and a leading forward who lacks blood. The current Thunder is to the Lakers like a graduate who has just stepped out of school against an industry elite in a straight suit.

However, in the first quarter, under the noses of all Los Angeles people, the "graduate" of the Thunder repaired the Lakers!

The Lakers found that Anjie didn't have any problems at all. Defensively, Anjie was a solid shield behind Sephorosa, interfering with Bryant's cuts and jumpers. On the offensive end, Bynum found himself still taking advantage of the half-point. Under An Jie's tough entanglement, he couldn't help defend the penalty area in time. There is only one thing that is particularly strange, that is, An Jie's number of independent attacks today is unexpectedly small! Most of the time, An Jie is helping his teammates respond or block and dismantle. Occasionally played a few balls, and the efficiency can only be said to be not too bad.

"Look at this guy, do you believe he still has a high fever!? I can't see it at all, I can't imagine how to play in such a situation, but Ann just did it, and he did it well!" After the first quarter, the Thunder completely scorched Staples. On both ends of the pitch, the defending champions were led by the nose. An Jie shot 2-of-4 in the single quarter, made two free throws, and scored 6 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists.

"That guy definitely has a physical problem! I can feel it, he was trying his best to fight me in the first quarter, and the further the game goes, the bigger Ann's hole will definitely be!"

"Well, in the second quarter, we broke through a lot and continued to put pressure on the Thunder's inside!" The Zen master admired An Jie's perseverance, but in order to win, even if he didn't win, he would not give up!

As a result, Bynum and Gasol began to go around the front to defend Anjie, and the Lakers began to push the pace up and continue to be more aggressive. In order to achieve this goal, the Zen master did not hesitate to replace Fischer and let Shannon Brin "Spring Man" strengthen the Lakers' breakthrough.

Bryant used his experience and skills to create damage on the interior and show his might in the mid-range. An Jie's traverse speed and jump height are obviously not as good as in the first quarter, and those balls that can be blocked in the past have become blocking fouls in this game. The offenses that used to be able to be covered cleanly have become thugs today.

The Zen master's policy is not wrong, and now everyone can see that the Lakers are taking the initiative to find An Jie's point to play!

In the past, An Jie was the point that others wanted to avoid the most, but today, he has become the focus of others' attacks.

Van Gundy naturally didn't let it go, and he immediately replaced Anjie with Ibaka, putting Morris in the center forward position. But even so, the Lakers gradually approached the score and completed the comeback before halftime.

At Staples, everyone was boiling over the field, both on and off the field. This was originally a game in which the Lakers were more dominant, and now that An Jie has collapsed, the Thunder has no chance!

At halftime, many reporters asked Van Gundy about Anjie's news. Van Gundy simply replied that everything was normal and that the second half would still go as planned.

That's true, but Van Gundy's anxious expression doesn't lie.

At the beginning of the third quarter, An Jie sat on the bench with a towel draped. He was exchanging ideas with Van Gundy from time to time, but he seemed to be in good spirits.

Just a minute into the game, a quick whistle lit Staples again. Artest elbowed Durant in one of his attacks, whether intentionally or unintentionally, but it is an indisputable fact that the corners of Durant's mouth are bleeding.

Durant covered his mouth in pain, and Morris covered Artest's mouth. After being judged to have fouled, Artest was quite unconvinced, and kept satirizing Durant for acting. As a result, Morris directly covered Artest's mouth and pushed the other party.

The conflict was ignited, who was Artest, the protagonist of the most notorious courtyard violence of the century, the Auburn Hills Palace Brawl? In the playoffs, this guy even dared to play Kobe, let alone a first-year rookie.

Morris and Artest scuffled together, but after only a few seconds, they were separated by the referee and the players from both sides.

In such a crucial game, the referee is also under great pressure. In the end, he gave Morris and Artest a first-degree foul and didn't send anyone off the court. Although Stern has a zero-tolerance policy, he also promotes a penalty orientation to make the game more exciting.

Durant was able to continue fighting, but under NBA rules, he had to go off the court briefly to deal with bleeding wounds. The Thunder, who lacked Durant and Anjie, was beaten by the Lakers, and although others worked hard, didn't the Lakers work hard?

Minutes later, Durant and Anjie both returned, giving Thunder fans endless hope.

Anjie's defense is back strong, and Durant's off-ball runs and long-range shooting send chills down the shoulders of Staples fans. With Durant's containment, Westbrook's scalpel-like breakthrough also slice the Lakers' chest.

In the first half of the third quarter, the Thunder equalized the score again, but unfortunately after a timeout, Kobe Bryant was on fire. The two teams were playing anxiously like this, An Jie almost disappeared on the offensive end, because of the high fever, he could only take care of one side, either defending or attacking, An Jie chose the former, because the dizziness and swelling really affected the feel.

Until the end of the third quarter with more than a minute left, Kobe Bryant's breakthrough hit An Jie hard. Yao Ming "chuckled" in his heart when he saw this scene, this was the situation last year, which led to a series of injuries to him.

An Jie fell to the ground, and Kobe Bryant "knocked down" a big Chinese man again. But An Jie was not injured, but he had a continuous high fever and huge physical exertion, and it was difficult for him to stand up on his own.

Anjie was helped off the field for less than thirty seconds before reappearing after the next dead ball. In the seventh game of the 1970 finals, Wesley Reed limped out of the players' tunnel and walked in front of Chamberlain. Today, in the same crucial seventh game, Anjie walked slowly in front of Gasol and set up a defensive posture. Even the arrogant Los Angeles people gave An Jie a round of applause.

In the end, both sides ended the third quarter with the same score. If the series between the Lakers and Thunder was the best series in the entire divisional semifinals, then this tie-break was the best game of the entire series.

In the fourth quarter, the Thunder were not yet dragged down. Nick Collison fell to save the ball, Sephorosa hit back-to-back three-pointers, and Angel stumbled and hit multiple free throws. The Thunder were embarrassed and miserable, but they kept their fingers on the score.

The Thunder played a game that stunned Staples, and they used every means to hold the Lakers' legs and make the Lakers roll in the mud after them. At this moment, An Jie's head hurts to the extreme, but he is not willing to give up. Even though it pained him every time he received Bynum's onslaught, he still held on.

Anjie and the Thunder team made a choice that the outside world could not understand, they knew better than anyone how much the gap between themselves and the defending champions was, but they still fought without hesitation. What are these young people for? Fighting for contracts? Not necessarily. Fighting for the championship? But this is the kind of Thunder, and it is with this almost rogue style of play that the Lakers are forced to play with all their might.

They used a perimeter defense against Anjie, a sustained press on Durant, and a wrap-and-clamp against Westbrook. The Purple and Gold no longer relaxed, they began to grind their positions patiently with the Thunder, and Kobe Bryant began to attack the Thunder basket desperately. The Lakers seemed to be saying, "You don't want to let you fail easily just now, and now force us to launch our forces, and you can't get anything." ”

The Thunder Sanshao played a full quarter in the fourth quarter, and even An Jie, who had a fever, persevered to the end.

The embarrassing and important 12 minutes were fought down by the Thunder Sanshao. With just over two minutes to go, they're just three points behind the Lakers!

Resoluteness comes from trust, and trust comes from the team. Barkley is right, the Thunder are a bunch of small powerhouses who can't be trampled on. In fact, the Thunder almost died, and if they were given a little more time, they would be dead. An Jie naturally doesn't need to say much, his whole body is weak at this moment, and it is already very difficult to stand still. And Durant and Westbrook have long been physically exhausted under the "careful care" of the Lakers. The three young men gasped as they waited for the final two minutes of judgment. What if, what if they seize the opportunity to turn the tables?

So the game came to the last two minutes, and the Thunder were really dead. Bryant hit a couple of heart-wrenching jumpers over the heads of the overstretched Thunder players.

Van Gundy's hole cards are out, but playing away, Anjie is not in good shape, Kobe Bryant is playing steadily, and the bald referee Joey Crawford ...... All the factors that are not good for the Thunder are all in place. And these factors finally killed the thunder of stubborn resistance.

The Thunder were still chasing, and it wasn't until Kobe Bryant hit a three-pointer in the last five seconds to turn the difference into 7 that they finally accepted the fact that they were powerless.

104-111, the Thunder forced the Lakers to make 16 turnovers with a stalker-like defense, but none of this could change what might have been their end.

In everyone's opinion, the script seems to have been written a long time ago, and the defending champion and legendary Kobe Bryant will definitely not be planted on the youth army. But the Thunder team used their own hard work to postpone their death again and again. From the initial prediction of 4-0 to the final minute of the tiebreaker, the Thunder did their best.

When the game ended, the whole of Staples shook. Most of them cheered for the Lakers' victory, but some cheered for the Thunder's spirit.

An Jie looked up at the score, and suddenly felt that the last bit of strength in his body was hollowed out. Suddenly, he went limp, and he fell to the floor......