On June 26, 2017, after Li Liang and the King won the championship, a special award ceremony was held in Manhattan, New York.

This is one of Adam Silva's reforms to the NBA, which focuses on the awards that were originally selected and awarded during the season to a festival-like awards ceremony at the end of the season.

This is a step towards entertainment in the NBA, but it is also quite a frustration step.

Once the season is over and the championship is decided, expectations for the awards are greatly reduced.

After all, the NBA is a championship-only league, and the biggest suspense has been revealed, and the attention of the small honors in front of it has naturally decreased greatly.

Aside from some die-hard fans, some passers-by don't pay much attention to the awards after the season.

At most, they just know one result and don't go to the award ceremony.

At the awards ceremony at the end of June, Li Liang, as the biggest winner of the season, simply did not go to the scene, because he knew that this year's regular season MVP would not be given to him.

Sure enough, the most weighty regular season MVP award went to LeBron James.

After all, in the regular season, the Golden State Warriors won 68 wins, and they are proud of the league, which is difficult for other teams to match.

And in terms of personal data, there is no player who has played an earth-shattering performance.

At the same time, the league doesn't want to give the MVP to Bruce Lee anymore, and this year's MVP to James can be regarded as a little compensation for the loss of the 2013 season.

Although James was smiling when he received the award, the overall mood was not very high.

The season is over, everyone is thinking about next season, the shadow of another defeat in the Western Conference has been hanging over James, and a regular season MVP is just a little consolation.

The Warriors' lineup next season is still very strong, and there is still a chance to challenge Li Liang's dominance.

But let's be honest, this year's loss to the Kings hit not only the Kings, but the entire league.

If a lineup like the Warriors can't beat Li Liang, then other teams don't even think about it.

Even more frightening news came in July, when the Kings made a signing on free agency that left everyone, especially the Warriors, desperate.

After Rudy Gay's contract expired, the Kings chose not to renew Gay's contract and made him a free agent.

The king also cleared a batch of expired contracts, freeing up more than 20 million at once.

Instead, the king dug into the corner of the Warriors - Iguodala, whose contract expired, and poached Iguodala with a three-year contract of 64 million!

After this signing is completed, all the coaches and managers in the entire West are all fried.

It is said that when Popovich learned the news, he scolded and directly said that he didn't want to do it anymore and wanted to go with Duncan.

The warriors were originally the best hope to resist Li Liang, but as a result, the big generals in the formation were poached.

The Warriors can only give Iguoda a three-year, 48 million contract, while the Kings want 16 million more, which is not a small amount.

More importantly, Li Liang's personal lobbying made Iguoda pull his heart and decide to switch to the king.

The attraction of champions, rings is enormous.

Iguodala may be 33 years old, but he is still in great form and has a lot of experience.

Even if the level is not as good as the peak, it is better to get him to the king than to stay in the warriors and cause trouble for Li Liang.

This signing can be said to have extinguished the Warriors' thoughts of rebellion in the new season.

Sure enough, in the 2017-2018 season, the regular season was uneventful, although there were still wonderful performances, such as lore, super data, the rise of newcomers, and wonderful offense and defense, but for senior NBA fans, the biggest suspense of the season was not enough.

The Kings, who have completed the run-in, rushed to a 65-17 record in the new season, creating the best result in the history of the Kings.

Li Liang's performance on and off the court has become more and more impeccable.

There are no injuries, full attendance does not take turns off, and he contributes 30 points steadily per game, leading the team to win and clock out of work.

And he got married this year, and after having his own family, he has become more mature and stable, and it also makes people feel more and more invincible.

Challengers are emerging, in the West in 18, the Warriors are still the strongest challenger, the Spurs are growing extremely fast, in the East, the Celtics are beginning to dominate, they use the Nets' draft picks to make waves, and the 76ers are growing rapidly.

But no matter how they grow, all teams feel like they're getting farther away from the Kings and Bruce Lee.

Because people were surprised to find that Li Liang was also growing!

This guy is still improving, and at a very fast pace.

In '18, he suddenly had a strong ability to play in the low post, which, combined with his accurate jumpers, was unstoppable.

He's scoring more and more freely, to the point of completely ignoring defense, kind of like an NBA player going to play in the CBA.

As expected, in the playoffs, the Kings made it all the way to the Finals.

In the Western Duel, the king sent the warriors home with a crisp 4:2.

In the general competition, 4:2, in Li Liang's spiritual hometown of Boston, Li Liang was crowned king for the sixth time.

At the same time, ratings for the NBA Finals have slipped further, as have ratings for the regular season and All-Star Game.

In the All-Star Game, Xiao Hua launched the captain selection model, but Li Liang, who was appointed as the captain, refused the appointment.

This is not the first time Li Liang has publicly confronted NBA officials.

This annoyed the Union office, but there was nothing to be done.

This thing said that he was going to participate in the slam dunk contest, but it didn't.

said that he would participate in the three-point contest again to break the all-time record, but he still didn't ......

Xiao Hua has tried his best to increase the ratings, hoping to impress fans with his feelings.

But it didn't work, and new fans are getting less and less to buy it.

Li Liang has also become an opinion leader on Twitter, and he is against the NBA everywhere.

The first person in an alliance is always in opposition to this alliance, and things are not easy to do.

The alliance wanted to suppress Li Liang, but the problem was that this person's strength was too strong, and ordinary whistles couldn't blow him at all.

Moreover, the referee still has a good relationship with Li Liang, which makes the league office feel like pins and needles.

The 18th season was a dismal year for the NBA as a whole.

Li Liang and Wang are the biggest winners, and everyone else is the loser.

The NBA is beginning to face the same crisis as it was in the '80s before Stern took office, and the Boston Celtics are infiltrating and dominating the league.

Now that the NBA championship is being monopolized by a Chinese, local fans increasingly don't want to see this strange league dominated by blacks and eventually by a Chinese.

In the summer of '18, an opportunity arose, and of course, the seeds were planted in 2017, and that was the opening of the BIG3 League.

This is a three-on-three league jointly initiated by Iverson and Ace Cooper, bringing together retired NBA players.

After 17 years of tepid conduct, in 18 years, suddenly there was a strong injection of capital from the United Kingdom, which expanded the size of the league and began to poach people from NCAA colleges and universities, and even directly poached high school students.

The NCAA has a staggering amount of revenue in the United States, but student players don't get any money, they work for nothing, and they fight purely for honor.

In order to enter the NBA, most talented players use the NCAA as a springboard for a year, and they are drafted into the NBA after playing a year.

The level of the NCAA has naturally declined, as can be seen from the MOP winners over the years.

Now there is a BIG3 to dig into the wall, no one cares, because there are more basketball leagues in the United States, and there is no so-called real "official league", the NBA also fought its way out of the encirclement of many basketball leagues and stood out as the strongest league, and was challenged by the ABA in the middle, and finally swallowed up the ABA.

Today, the NBA is a supergiant, and no basketball league can shake it.

The scale of BIG3 has gradually expanded, and the BIG League has adopted the mode of centralized stadium and online broadcasting, all the games are played in New York and Los Angeles, and the venues are played in venues of different styles, sizes and themes, with spectators on the spot, and at the same time using the Internet to broadcast live to the world.

The game format has gradually expanded from the beginning of 3v3 to 5v5 games, the number of each team is limited to 12 points, the number of teams is increasing, and the style of play is open, fast, with four-point shots, complex and diverse tactics, and full of gimmicks.

The number of viewers watching Big3 matches on the Internet is increasing.

And the NBA in 19 is another year with record low ratings, because there is still no suspense about the championship this year.

The Kings team suddenly became as solid as Li Liang, and there were no injury problems in the regular season.

They have a 60-22 record, which is the same as the Bucks in the East...... The East became a battleground for the Bucks and Celtics.

In the West, the Warriors have suffered a wave of injuries, the Spurs have struggled to go further, and Gasol and Ade have both become older.

As for the Thunder, Clippers, and Lakers, they seem to have tasted the championship as if they were enchanted by Li Liang, and then they can't find that feeling, and they don't want to find it.

In the regular season, he still played lively, but in the playoffs, he was beaten by Li Liang, who was even stronger than in the past.

His strength is simply expanding, and in the 19th season, he practiced his dribbling superbly, with a breakthrough step that was not commensurate with his size, and he wore a butterfly like a flower.

No one can stop him anymore, not even Michael Jordan.

In the finals, the King beat the Milwaukee Bucks 4:0, and Antetokounmpo, who was clamoring to overthrow the king's rule before the game, was beaten to the ground by Li Liang, scoring only 20 points in two games, and was completely shot through by Li Liang's three-point shot.

Li Liang finally completed the great cause of three consecutive hegemony in one team and became a well-deserved basketball emperor.

It's just that the league's ratings have reached rock bottom, and Adam Silva can't wait to sign an agreement with the bookmaker to bring in the bookmaker's investment, otherwise, the NBA's revenue will have a big hole.

On the contrary, the vibrant Big3 league is in full swing, and unlike the NBA's superstar route, BIG3 focuses on the overall packaging of team style, and each team style is very distinctive.

At the same time, the competition format is more interesting and exciting, which attracts the attention of young people and Internet users.

And in the summer of 19, Li Liang's father went to a large-scale variety show again.

This time, Li Liang took the initiative to request a trade from the Kings, and he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers - a single person in exchange for Leonard and a bunch of draft picks.

Leonard has been with the Lakers for three years, and his personal strength has continued to grow, but unfortunately he can't win the championship.

The combination with Lefu and Wade is always almost meaningless.

After all, he was not recognized by Lakers fans.

And what Lakers fans have been thinking about, the real King, is finally back.

It's not just the Kings who came, the Lakers also vacated a huge space and ate LeBron James in one bite!

Finally, the big and small kings have teamed up, and the NBA finale!

James is fed up with the results of losing to Li Liang every year - 7 years, a full 7 years!

Having not won a single series and being stepped on the throne every time, James has been able to hold out for seven years is already remarkable.

The two finally joined forces in the Lakers, and Li Liang wanted to win his eighth championship here, and he had to complete the tasks in the [City of Angels Book].

Everything went smoothly after the start of the season, but in 2020, a disaster struck the world.

NBA Shutdown!

And, at the beginning of 2020, David Stern died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

It was supposed to be a heart-wrenching affair, but the day after Stern's death, a mysterious video went viral all over the Internet - this is a deathbed interview with Stern, in the form of a question and answer, all of which are extremely poignant, pointing to the core secret of the NBA.

These include draft scandals, betting, black whistles, game rigging and a host of issues that can shake the foundation of the NBA.

All of the answers were not in favor of the NBA, and many of the long-speculated rumors were confirmed.

NBA officials responded on the same day, saying that the video was fake and was made with post-production technology.

However, many video experts have repeatedly verified that the video is faked and is genuine.

No one knows when, by whom, or why Stern made the video.

The other person is dead, and there is no proof of death, and the content of the video is convincing.

The NBA is facing a huge crisis of confidence, and with the suspension of the game, the entire league is starting to be in jeopardy.

At the same time, BIG3 is in full swing, attracting more and more young people's attention.

In addition, due to the special competition system and broadcast method, it was basically not affected by the disaster and was carried out normally.

At this moment, Li Liang tweeted, "Next season, I will bring talent to BIG3. ”

And Li Liang's move indicates that the golden age of the NBA has come to an end.

It will go to death.

……

In 1986, in the small and aggrieved away locker room at the Boston Garden Arena, Li Liang sat in his seat and put laces on his sneakers.

There was still half an hour before the start of the game, and the soundproofing of the locker room was not very good, and Li Liang could hear the earth-shattering shouts on the court.

That's the voice of a Boston fan.

It was hot in the locker room, there was no air conditioning, and the Portland Trail Blazers players were huddled together, silently preparing for the game.

It was the final game of the 1986 Finals, and the Portland Trail Blazers and Celtics fought it out to a tiebreaker.

So, it was also the last game of the 1986 NBA season.

Li Liang completed the tasks in the system all the way, and in reality he kept holding the feeling, but the system was ravaged.

But he improved quickly, reaching the Finals in his second year in the league and meeting the great Celtics.

In the first game, he won the away game, the second game was defeated, and the third and fourth games were lost in a row, thinking that he was coming to an end, but in the fifth game, he fought back and won the game to drag the series back to Boston.

The Celtics thought that this was a good opportunity for them to win the championship at home, but who knew that in the sixth game, Li Liang scored three points to beat the Celtics again, leaving the suspense of the finals to the last game.

"No one has beaten Celtic in a tie-break."

Li Liang thought of what Bird said before the game, smiled, and gave this response, "There are no absolutes in everything, and what has not happened is not to tell you that it cannot happen, but to inspire you to create it." ”

When the time came, Li Liang put on his sneakers, a pair of "Skyscraper-Skyscraper", put on the black jersey of No. 11, left the locker room with his teammates, and ran to the ancient Garden Arena.

The real showdown is about to begin.

(End of book.) ）