Li Liang didn't expect Bird to ask like this, the question was too direct, so that Li Liang couldn't react.

"James."

Li Liang thought for a second and replied.

Bird was silent for three seconds and said, "If you want to work with him, you shouldn't come to the Pacers." “

Li Liang shrugged, "It's just that I shouldn't go to the Cavaliers, but James can come to the Pacers." ”

Bird had nothing to say.

"OK, there were some difficulties for the team, but we won the game, I think I can lead the movement, the team is still in good shape. Don't think about trading with a little problem, didn't you make a bad deal last year? Casually dismantling the lineup, it's not a good habit, you play 2K, wait for a while. ”

Li Liang was unceremoniously critical of Bird.

Bird was not angry, he said: "I just want to communicate with you and understand your opinion, we should communicate more, right?" ”

Li Liangdao: "You should communicate with every player, and if you had done that, you wouldn't have made that stupid deal last year. Granger is a good player and I know you want a better forward to help me. I'm telling you, Granger is good enough, if only he can come back to the Pacers. ”

What Li Liang said was an oath, and Bird, who had always had a lot of ideas, was moved by Li Liang's words.

Danny Granger was taken by the Clippers last season and to be honest, he didn't play a particularly big role.

But he won a championship with the Clippers, which can be said to be a complete merit, and it is the biggest mockery of Larry Bird who traded him.

If you want to get him back now, no matter how you look at it, it's a bit of a way to make up for it.

However, Granger's state is really worrying.

He didn't re-sign with the Clippers in the summer, and he's mostly on the injury list throughout the playoffs.

The Heat, who lost James in the summer, signed Granger, and judging from his performance in the previous games, Granger will never be able to return to the same person who supported the Pacers back then.

Li Liang saw Bird's hesitation and said, "Larry, there are some things that don't need to be hesitated, do you know what it is?" ”

"What?"

"What Bruce Lee told you to do."

Bird is speechless, you little boy pretending to be a fuck twice!

I TM......

However, Li Liang really has a way, as long as Bird can get Granger back.

As he left the office, Li Liang reminded Bird again, "The current Pacers need a Granger, even if he is just sitting on the bench." ”

This sentence touched Bird.

If the Pacers are ready to rebuild this year, Bird won't trade Granger back.

Anyway, the face has been torn, and there is no point in replacing him back, it will only make the situation worse.

But this year the Pacers want to keep competing for the title, and they've replaced the core of the team.

Li Liang happened to be teammates with Granger, and he also won a championship with Granger last season, wouldn't it be a good thing to let Granger come back?

So, without much thought, Bird immediately picked up the phone on his desk and dialed Pat Riley's number.

Pat Riley, I wonder what kind of chips he would want?

[Interesting]......

The Pacers beat the Wizards hard.

On the same day, there was one team that continued to go wild in the league, and that was the Golden State Warriors.

On the day of the Pacers' game, a key battle in the Pacific fell to defend the title.

Defending champion Los Angeles Clippers take on the Golden State Warriors on the road.

Last season's game between the Warriors and the Clippers was like Mars hitting the Earth, which was very beautiful.

And this season, the Warriors' strength has steadily improved, but the Clippers have been drained of their souls.

Without Li Liang, people know how important he is.

The Warriors beat the Clippers 121-102, 19 points at home.

Their offense is exactly the same as last season's Clippers.

Powerful three-pointers, powerful firepower, and the Clippers were penetrated in three quarters.

As the saying goes, the NBA is such a cruel place.

After giving Bird's advice, Li Liang was again absent from the team's training on November 7 and continued to practice in his system.

The fourth task.

After spending time with the 76ers, McGinnis was traded to the Denver Nuggets.

He was partnered with none other than Dan Iseer, who had beaten him in the ABA Finals.

It can only be said that this world is very wonderful, and the world of basketball is indeed not big.

It's all too common to team up with the people who beat you and turn enemies into friends.

However, McGinnis didn't play long with the Nuggets.

Although he is not very old, he has already begun to show a downward trend.

The Nuggets had just had a perfect season in 1978 as they led David Thompson to the Division Finals, losing to the Seattle SuperSonics.

The Nuggets traded for McGuinness in the offseason and want to take it a step further.

Who knew that after McGinnis came, the Nuggets' results plummeted, and the season began to lose all the way.

Head coach Larry Brown resigned, and it took the Nuggets to stop their decline and make the playoffs.

McGinnis's excessive weight, unreliable shooting, and a large number of turnovers (the first person in the NBN to have 400+ turnovers in a single season) made his career with the Denver Nuggets not very successful.

The effect of the cooperation with old rival Dan Isher was also average, and the Nuggets did not achieve good results.

Li Liang's fourth task is to help the Nuggets make a breakthrough in the 1979 playoffs and defeat the opponent Lakers!

That year, the Lakers had yet to get Magic Johnson.

Even if there is a magician, Li Liang is not afraid, and you are afraid of the Lakers without a magician?

Therefore, in the third life-or-death game of the first round, Li Liang appeared on the court and helped the Denver Nuggets defeat the Lakers led by Abdul-Jabbar and reach the Western Conference semifinals, challenging the Seattle SuperSonics, the Western Conference supremacy at the time.

This can be regarded as a relatively complete result for McGuinness's Nuggets career.

Later, McGinnis was traded back to the Pacers.

The Nuggets got Inglish and have since had their core combination in the 80s, starting the Nuggets' first golden period in the NBA.

As for McGinnis's story, that's what Li Liang has to complete in the next mission.

After defeating the Lakers, Li Liang got the [Left Foot of the Iron Body], and there was one right foot left before the last item.

Li Liang didn't want to wait any longer, anyway, the task was not very difficult, so he directly opened the last book and entered the last task.

McGinnis didn't make it home after returning to the Pacers.

Times have changed, and the NBA has entered the 80s, and it is no longer the world of their group of rebellious people.

The NBA has entered a golden age, entered the yellow-green hegemony, and opened up real glory.

The bad stuff of the '70s, the drugs, the violence, the scandals, the low ratings, along with McGinnis's lame shots, are going to be swept into the dust of history.

In the 1980-1981 season, the Pacers made the playoffs and were swept out of the first round.

And it was none other than Dr. J. Irving's Philadelphia 76ers who beat McGinnis and his Pacers.

It seems that everything is going to end at this point.

In fact, McGinnis was only 30 years old in 1981, which was the best time for a player.

But McGuinness obviously did not manage his body well enough, and his excessive weight and unrestrained lifestyle made him no longer a "little bull" at the age of 30, but an "old scalper", an old cow who could no longer farm in the cornfield.

Li Liang replaced McGinnis in the game, and used a 40-point performance on the Pacers' home court to help the Pacers beat the Philadelphia 76ers and tie the series by the overall score.

It was a wonderful performance for McGinnis's last dance in Indiana.

After completing the task perfectly, Li Liang finally got a full set of props for [McGinnis's Iron Body].

At the moment when the props were on the body, Li Liang felt like he had become Iron Man!

I just don't know, what kind of changes can this set of things bring to me?

It's okay, we'll see right away.

On November 8th, the Pacers are coming to Boston!