Chapter 961: The Last Emperor

After Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, Li Liang and his teammates wore black Western Conference championship caps together.

Li Liang's team reached the NBA Finals for the fifth consecutive year, becoming the second player to achieve this feat in addition to the Celtics in the 60s.

The Celtics are a group of people who enter the finals together on one team, while Li Liang enters the finals alone with five different teams.

At the post-match press conference, Li Liang wore a hat, sat behind a desk, and did not speak for a long time in the face of an interview with reporters.

I can't help it, I want to laugh so much that I don't know what to say.

There's nothing better in the world than winning, and if there's one, it's winning all the time.

The reporter below really wants to remind Li Liang, don't laugh, answer the questions well.

In the end, Li Liang held back a smile and said, "This is the most important victory of my career, and it is also my best performance. I didn't look at how many points I was getting, I just kept shooting, shooting, shooting, and I felt great, really good. ”

Li Liang's 72 points undoubtedly shook the entire league and the entire American sports world.

This battle undoubtedly made Li Liang completely canonized and became the second monument after Michael Jordan.

Moreover, Li Liang's career continues, he is only 27 years old.

At Jordan's age, he is still a year away from winning the championship.

Moreover, after Li Liang entered the league, he did not experience major injuries, and he was a full-time attendee almost every year.

I played an Olympics in the summer of '16, and I still didn't lose a game in '17 seasons, and I was a player and a coach.

It is foreseeable that in the next 5 years, Li Liang will have a strong dominance over the alliance.

Moreover, Li Liang knows in his heart that his strength still has room to rise.

When he reaches 99 in all his stats, he will rise to a whole new realm, a realm that no mortal can touch.

The current Li Liang is just a demigod, and when he completes his cultivation, he will be the real god of basketball, the kind that doesn't lose when he plays.

It's exciting to think about.

Winning the Warriors and leaving Oakland with the silver trophy of the Western Conference Championship, Li Liangzhi was full of pride.

Because he knows that the hardest bone has been gnawed, and the rest of the finals are just going through the motions.

What awaits him in the finals is the Boston Celtics team, which has no tigers in the mountains and monkeys are kings.

Fortunately, James Harden was traded to the Green Army this year, otherwise the Eastern Conference champions' lineup would be even more ugly.

Whether it's the Cavaliers, the Raptors, or the original Celtics, it's not enough to see in front of the King.

The Celtics have a 55-27 regular season record, which is not as good as the Kings, who are third in the West, as the first in the East.

So the first game of the finals will be played in Sacramento.

It was the first time the Kings had a Finals since they relocated to Sacramento in 1985.

For Sacramentos, it's nothing short of a basketball festival.

Because everyone knows that beating the Warriors, the championship is already in the king's pocket.

Including the Boston sports media, they themselves don't believe that the Celtics have a chance to win the championship.

Being able to reach the Finals has been a very successful season for the Celtics.

The James Harden trade has been a success.

is the so-called cowardice before fighting, including the Green Army players themselves do not believe that they can do the supergod Bruce Lee and the Kings who have experienced the test of blood and fire.

Li Liang is even happier, all seven games are at home, can you not be happy?

Of course, thinking so in his heart, he couldn't be complacent, Li Liang still asked the whole team to prepare for the game seriously.

Among the Kings' players, the most complicated mood is, of course, Langdo.

As a former member of the Celtics' Big Three, he wore the jersey of the Green Army and experienced many classic battles.

There have been glories, there have been losses, there have been honors, and there have been stains.

Of course, with Rondo's character, it would be great to win a championship in Boston.

As for someone like Cousins, the playoffs are all the first time to participate, and being taken into the finals by the bigwigs is really the feeling of Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden.

At the time of the Western Conference Finals, Cousins spent most of his time on the bench.

Because his flaws on the defensive end are too big, and he doesn't have the ability to crush on the offensive end.

When it comes to the Finals, it's different, the Celtics' interior defense ability and outside rotation ability are much worse than the Warriors.

Li Liang told Cousins directly, "How about the finals let you play with FMVP?" ”

Cousins giggled like a fool, he thought he really had that chance.

In June, the finals began.

As one might expect, the Celtics, who rushed out of the East, were no match for the Kings at all.

In the first game of the finals at the Golden One Center, James Harden was locked by Li Liang, Gordon, and Rondo.

The Celtics team, without Harden's individual singles, is basically scrapped on the offensive end.

The Kings' first game was 111-90, and the big score was an easy victory.

In the second game, Stevens changed the starting lineup and promoted Thomas Jr. to the starting position to partner with Harden to enhance the firepower in the backcourt.

Stevens knew that if the offense didn't work, everything would be in vain.

As a result, the offense is good, and the defense is not good.

Thomas Jr. and Harden, one short and the other slow, the Celtics have no intensity in their backcourt defense.

How can a playoff without defense be called a playoffs.

In the first three quarters, the Celtics relied on offense to fight against the Kings, and in the fourth quarter, as soon as the Kings' defensive intensity came up, the Celtics were finished.

The Celtics suddenly went silent on the offensive end, and were hit by the Kings with a wave of 14:0 climax, and the score was suddenly pulled away.

The game was played as if it was a regular season, with the front slowly attacking each other, and the fourth quarter was over as soon as the intensity was up.

Although the king is one notch behind the warriors in terms of overall strength, Li Liang made up for it with his super god play.

The overall strength of the Celtics is still one and a half gears worse than that of the Kings, and Harden's ability to ride the savior alone is far worse than Li Liang.

The Kings won another game at the Golden One, leading 2-0.

The situation was very good for the king.

The next two games will be played at North Shore Gardens, known as the home of the Devils.

But for Li Liang......

Before leaving for Boston with the team, Li Liang tweeted: "Boston fans, I'm here. ”

This news seemed provocative, but unexpectedly, it was forwarded and liked by local media in Boston, sports people, and a large number of fans.

In this meeting, there was a feeling of "welcoming the imperial army to inspect the city".

Li Liang's popularity in Boston has always been unbelievably high.

Moreover, Li Liang, who has always been shy about the media in the past, has appeared on a local TV station to do a talk show in Boston, which is incredible.

At the same time, the reputation of the poisonous tongue is not inferior to that of the Boston media in New York, and there are also honey like Li Liang.

Even if he used to be a Laker, even if he never said he was going to play in Boston.

Maybe Li Liang is more like Bird in style.

In short, this friendly atmosphere and relationship led to no topic at all in the finals.

Maybe the Celtics feel that they can't beat it anyway, so it's better to enjoy the game.

In the third game, Li Liang did let Celtics fans enjoy basketball.

He scored 33 points, handed out 12 assists, grabbed 11 rebounds in a single game, and with a triple-double, he took out the Celtics on the road without blood, and took an absolute lead of 3:0.

The suspense of the finals has been lost, and it depends on where Li Liang and the king want to be crowned and enthroned.

Obviously, Li Liang wants to win a championship in Boston.

In this old sports city, 17 championship flags fly over the North Shore Gardens.

Although I can't add one more here, in Li Liang's heart, this is Boston's 18th championship flag.

So, on June 11, the fourth battle between the two sides, a battle without much suspense.

The Kings easily beat the Celtics 97-90 at North Shore Gardens and won the trophy at North Shore Gardens.

This reminds people of the NBA at the beginning of the 21st century, when the Western champion entered the Finals, and the Eastern champion was a sweep and a gentleman's sweep, and there was almost no suspense.

In five years, Li Liang lifted the O'Brien Cup for the fifth time, under 17 championship flags.

He truly ushered in an era of his own and became the NBA's undisputed emperor of basketball.

His reign continued, but no one expected that he would be the last emperor of the NBA.

And this last generation was brought about by himself.