Yao Ming's leg injury has begun to make it a little difficult for him to persevere, so Yao Ming decided to retire after this season, if the Warriors can still win the championship this season, it will be the achievement of the Warriors dynasty, Yao Ming can be regarded as a successful retirement, this is his idea.

Shaking his head with a smile, Yao Ming said freely: "No, Xiao Du, seeing that you are so strong now, my last worries have also been put down." Originally, I was worried that after I retired, the Warriors' interior line would become weak, but now that I see you, I'm sure you can solve this problem yourself. I'll retire after I succeed, and I can be regarded as leaving a good story. ”

Li Du sighed and said, "Brother Yao, in fact, this is also the pinnacle that I can reach in this life, and it is almost impossible to go further. ”

"Hahahaha, you kid, so dissatisfied!" Yao Ming laughed and patted Li Du and said, "Think about it, in the 100-year history of basketball, who else can be stronger than you in the same position?" As long as you can continue to lead the Warriors to championship wins and despair their contemporaries like Michael Jordan and Bill Russell, you're going to go down in history! ”

"Yes." Li Du smiled slightly, with his current ability and the overall strength of the Warriors, the only teams that can stand in the way of his dynasty are the Spurs and the Heat, and they can only block it, and when it comes to beating the Warriors, they may not have this strength.

The current Warriors just need a few young players to grow up, and once they grow up, Li Du is even confident that he will compete with the 72-win Bulls team that year!

While the Warriors were actively preparing for the game, in late October, the players' union and the league finally reached an agreement after months of negotiations. In the new collective bargaining agreement, the interests of the players are fully protected, and the salary level is much higher than before, especially for top players in the league like Li Du.

So Pelinka helped Li Du win a sky-high contract, 230 million for 5 years! In other words, Li Du's annual salary is as high as $46 million, which is more than the salary of all his previous years combined! When this sky-high contract was placed in front of Li Du, he himself couldn't believe it.

Six years ago, Li Du was just an ordinary Chinese student who had just entered college, and was still struggling with his brother's treatment fee of more than $10 million, but in just six years, he has grown into an internationally influential superstar with an annual salary of $46 million! The changes in life are really unpredictable.

I don't know if it was stimulated by the Warriors and Li Du, and the large-scale trade that took place in the Lakers before the start of the game made the Lakers' roster strength grow to a terrifying level. The Lakers traded away Bynum and some bench players, but in exchange for Nash and "Warcraft" Howard to join, forming a new Big Four.

The outside world is turbulent, all the media and fans, and even the head coaches of various teams have speculated that this season the Lakers will compete with the Warriors for the Western Conference championship, and this time the Western Conference championship is likely to be the championship! When old Nelson told Li Du the news, Li Du just smiled lightly, "Kobe Bryant's winning spirit is still so strong, but his memory is a little not good." ”

Li Du said this because the Lakers seem to be under a kind of curse, every time they let the stars pile up, and want to overpower everything with the absolute strength of the stars, there will always be some inexplicable problems for the team or players.

For example, in 2003, when Malone and Payton took a pay cut to join, the Lakers formed a terrible "F4" combination. But it was also in that year that the conflict between Kobe Bryant and O'Neal broke out, causing serious divisions within the Lakers, and they eventually lost to the Pistons with the "Five Tigers" in the Finals.

Later, the Lakers were in a slump for many years, and it was not until Li Du joined that they got better, and it was after Gasol joined to regain the championship.

Now the Lakers have gathered four superstars again, among which Kobe and Nash are still superstars, but what will the result be this time? To be honest, Li Du is not optimistic about them. And even if they can really merge, the current Warriors are not weaker than them in the slightest.

Sure enough, the Lakers did not go well from the beginning of the season this time, and after Howard arrived with the Lakers, he lost the demeanor of "Warcraft" and became an ordinary center with good physical fitness. Nash is similar, "Son of the Wind" is old, and he has lost the Suns' system of playing whirlwinds, and he has become a pure playmaking guard, and he is also a defensive black hole. The Lakers can still only rely on Kobe Bryant and Gasol to fight!

The unfavorable situation of the Lakers makes it difficult for many people to understand, and they don't know what is wrong internally, so there are endless rumors about the Lakers, but Li Du understands that in fact, the biggest problem of the Lakers now is not the players, but the coaches!

After the end of last season, Zen Master announced his retirement from coaching and no longer served as the head coach of the Lakers. So the Lakers chose James' coach during his time with the Cavaliers, Brown. Li Du didn't have any influence on this Brown coach, except to remember that he seemed to have a good relationship with James.

Brown's coaching level is not comparable to that of the Zen master at all, and he can't control the Lakers, so the Lakers' tactics are extremely chaotic, making it difficult for Nash, let alone the simple-minded Howard, to adapt.

So at the beginning of the season, the Lakers did not compete with the Warriors, who ranked first in the league, as people imagined, but saw who lost and ranked third from the bottom in the West! You know, last season, the Lakers were the fourth strong team in the West, and now they have fallen to the bottom three, which is really unacceptable.

As if as punishment for the Lakers' insistence on letting the stars get together, the Lakers' nightmare is not over yet!

In December 2011, the Lakers and the Clippers had a local derby, this season the Clippers have got Chris Paul and a new generation of violent dunks Griffin, Jordan Jr., the current Clippers team is no longer weak, the Lakers need to deal with it with all their might. It was in this game that Bryant tore the deltoid ligament in his right wrist and needed to be out for three months.

Next, Nash suffered a recurrence of a back injury during intra-team training and needed to be out for at least four months. The Lakers, who had a strong lineup before the season, became a weak team that everyone can bully almost overnight!

For these, Li Du could only sigh and shake his head, Kobe's competitiveness has been so strong that it is almost distorted, Li Du persuaded him several times, hoping that Kobe Bryant would change his style of play, like Jordan, to minimize breakthroughs and reduce physical contact, but Kobe Bryant couldn't listen.

The current injury, in Li Du's view, is caused by excessive conquest and training. The human body has a limit, and when you exceed this limit, it will cause incalculable damage to the body.

The Lakers are over this season, and the Spurs are struggling to support this shrinking season, after all, their core players are relatively old and can't keep up physically.

Now it seems that the only thing standing in front of the Warriors is the Heat, and it seems that the Warriors winning the championship has become a sure thing.

(End of chapter)