Back in the 1988 NBA Finals, the two sides were the Los Angeles Lakers and the Detroit Pistons, the Lakers were in the great "Showtime" period, the style of play was elegant, and the Pistons were the bad boys when the league was raging, the style of play was fierce, the matchup between these two teams was definitely one of the most different styles of play in NBA history!

Although Isaiah Thomas, the leader of the Bad Boy Army, released cruel words, but in fact, Thomas and Elvin Johnson are very good friends in private, and they will inevitably hug and kiss the cheeks before each game, but going to the court is like going to the battlefield, the two of them are fighting for me without giving in, in the league at that time, there was no such thing as hugging the thigh, there was just a firm belief that "Lao Tzu is better than you, and I will blow you up once I see you".

In the first game, the Pistons gave the Lakers a dismissal, and Dantley played a god battle, hitting 14 of 16 shots and scoring a full 34 points! Although Johnson scored a quasi-triple-double of 28 points, 10 assists and 8 rebounds for the Lakers, the Lakers still lost 93-105.

In the second game, the Lakers pulled back a city 108:96, although the Pistons scored six double-doubles, but the Lakers led the team to win the game on the basis of Worthy, Scott and Johnson 20+.

In the third game, the Lakers won another game 99:86, James Worthy scored a team-high 24 points, AC Green scored 21 points and 8 rebounds on 9-of-11 shooting, and became the absolute hero of the team's victory, Magic scored 18 points, 14 assists, 6 rebounds and 3 steals, and the Pistons Isaiah Thomas scored a game-high 28 points, but no one else could stand up, plus Dantley scored 14 points and Ranbir 10 points, the only three players on the team to score double-doubles.

I have to explain here that the initiator of the Pistons' bad boy army is actually the head coach of the Pistons, Chuck Daley, who was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in 1994, plays a coaching style that is wilder than George Karl, it can be said that he will do everything to win, in order to deal with Jordan, Daley created the famous "Jordan Rule", once against the Bulls, his sentence to Rick Mahon "The next second, you will go up to the court to defend Jordan, I want him to see blood", let Daley Qianfu point, But it is undeniable that Daley injected a very tough and stubborn temperament into this team of players who were excavated on the basis of the bottom of the United States, Daley wanted to win not only the game, but also completely destroy the opponent's will and spirit, and the Finals fell behind 1:2, and the Pistons slaughtered the Lakers 111:86 after returning to their home court! Fight to equalize!

Dantley scored 27 points, Thomas scored 10 points and handed out 12 assists, Winnie Johnson and James Edwards on the bench combined to score 30 points, and the Lakers only had Magic, Scott and Abdul-Jabbar scored double-doubles, and it was not terrible to lose a game, what is really worrying is that when the Lakers went through the Jazz and Mavericks two tie-breakers, and then fought with the Pistons who advocate muscle confrontation, the Lakers' fatigue was exhausted, and the game was already powerless!

The Lakers lost again in the key battle of Kings Mountain, Dantley scored 25 points on 7-of-10 shooting, Joe Dumas also scored 19 points, and substitute Winnie Johnson contributed another 16 points! Although Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 26 points on 16-of-21 shooting, Johnson dished out 17 assists, but on the offensive end, he scored 15 points on 4-of-15 shooting, and Scott was no better, scoring only 15 points on 6-of-16 shooting.

After five games, the Pistons took a 3-2 lead, and they only needed to win one more game to get to the top! And the state of the two teams at this time is not at the same level at all, the Pistons are full of fighting spirit, vowing to solve the battle in the sixth game, while the Lakers are exhausted, mentally and physically tortured, before the sixth game of the two sides, although it is the home court of the Lakers, but the Pistons have transported the championship trophy to the team's locker room, and began to celebrate in advance, the owner of the Pistons Davidson has been in a suit and leather shoes, and the small leather shoes are shiny, and the acceptance speech is ready!

Since ancient times, comrades, you have all remembered that there is no good end to losing character! In the sixth game, Isaiah Thomas played tough against an ankle sprain, and played with perfect statistics of 43 points, 8 assists and 6 steals! scored 25 points in a single quarter in the third quarter, setting a new record for scoring in a single quarter of the finals, but! Attention everyone, I'm going to say but! But - the victory belongs to the Lakers!

8 seconds before the end, the Pistons trailed by one point, Joe Dumas missed a shot to overtake the score, "rebounding maniac" Rodman touched the basketball with his fingertips, but he didn't take the rebound off, Lakers Byron Scott tried his best to grab this precious rebound, and the Lakers defeated the Pistons 103:102! James Worthy! Or Worthy! He scored 28 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists on 10-of-22 shooting in this crucial game! Johnson's 22 points and 19 assists led the team to this extremely difficult victory!

It's another tie-break! This is already the third tie-break that the Lakers have experienced this season! The fitness of the Lakers players is on the verge of collapse! Facing the Pistons, who advocate muscle confrontation, can they withstand the pressure and win the last game?

In the first half of the game, Isaiah Thomas's ankle injury worsened, but he still scored 10 points and led the Pistons to a 52-47 lead! But unfortunately, in the second half, Thomas really couldn't hold on any longer, and all his energy was fought out in the sixth game! Thomas only played 28 minutes and only scored these 10 points, Joe Dumas scored 25 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists on 9-of-18 shooting, and the Pistons had seven players score double-doubles!

As I've said before, there's always one player on the Lakers team who won't let you down! He's James Worthy! In the crucial seventh bloody battle, Worthy scored a triple-double of 36 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists on 15-of-22 shooting! Led the team to a tough 108-105 victory over the Pistons! Won the championship in 1988! Worthy also got this year's Finals MVP!

In fact, Worthy has only had such a triple-double once in his entire career, and it was this once, the most important one! That's enough! James Worthy, worthy of the word great!

In the 1989-1990 season, the Lakers were basically still the original people, but they signed Orlando Ulrich with a two-year $1.31 million contract, this guy has excellent physical fitness, can fly and dunk, according to rumors, he is the first player in the NBA to complete the crotch change dunk action, time goes back two years, Ulrich is also a good scorer who averages 20+ per game, but unfortunately, he was infected with drugs at the most brilliant time of his career, and the urine test failed, so he was abandoned by the team, But being included in Pat Riley's account, Ulrich became an important chess piece for the team, and Ulrich turned back, and since then An An's sharing of points has also been a good story in the NBA.

At the beginning of the season, Abdul-Jabbar made it clear that this season would be his last, and his statistics in the final year of his career were 10.1 points and 4.5 rebounds per game, and Magic Johnson won the regular season MVP trophy for the second time in his career with 22.5 points, 7.9 rebounds and 12.8 assists per game, and the team also entered the playoffs with a 57-25 record of first place in the West.

Surprisingly, the Lakers, who have aged a little in terms of age structure, played extremely easy in the first three rounds of this year's playoffs, with a 3-0 sweep in the first round against Clyde Drexler's Trail Blazers, a 4-0 sweep in the second round against Darle Ellis and Xavier McDaniels, and a 4-0 sweep in the Western Conference Finals against the Suns with the trident - Tom Chambers, Kevin Johnson and Jeff Hornacek, and finally, the Lakers successfully reached the Finals while their opponents, it's still the same Detroit Pistons team from last year!

At that time, the Pistons were even more hungry for the championship, they not only won 63 games in the regular season, but also swept the Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks in the playoffs, and then sent Jordan home in six games in the Eastern Conference finals, standing tall in front of the Lakers.

During the period from the Western Conference Finals to the Finals, something happened that directly changed the direction of this round of games, because the Lakers were too loose all the way, head coach Riley was afraid that the players would not have a rhythm of the game, so he asked the players to practice crazy to increase the adaptability of the game, but unfortunately, in an inconsequential team training game, Scott was injured, and this round of the series could not be played, you must know that in the first three rounds of the playoffs, Scott averaged 20 points per game, which is the team's second point of attack, which is not the main thing, In the second game, Magic Johnson sprained his ankle, and only played 4 minutes in the third game, but he still couldn't bear it, and he went off the court, and finally the Lakers, who lacked two big generals, were swept out of the game by the Pistons with a 4:0 clean sweep, although Johnson sprained his ankle in the game, but his injury was generally believed to be caused by Riley's sudden increase in training intensity, which also directly led to Riley being swept away by the management a year later, Riley's approach of draining the player's potential physical strength made James extremely disgusted after him.

The fourth game of the finals is more memorable, because it was the last game of Abdul-Jabbar's 20-year career, he scored 7 points and 3 rebounds, and in the final moments of the game, when Abdul-Jabbar was substituted, even though it was an away game, all the fans still stood up, applauded and cheered for Abdul-Jabbar for three minutes, the game had to be suspended, and everyone sent their best wishes to Abdul-Jabbar.

Abdul-Jabbar is the first player in NBA history to play 20 seasons, playing a career-high 57,446 minutes, he scored 38,387 points and is also the first in history, while also contributing 17,440 rebounds and 3,189 blocks, both of which are the third in history. 19-time All-Star, 2-time scoring champion, 1-time rebounding champion, 4-time block king, 17 consecutive seasons with an average of more than 20 points per game, 12 consecutive seasons rebounding double, what is even more commendable is that in a 20-year career, only the last year of shooting was below 50%!

Abdul-Jabbar is not only a Lakers star, but also the greatest player in the NBA, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1995.

After Abdul-Jabbar retired, 35-year-old veteran center Michael Thompson took the starting center position, and the Lakers also selected a big man from Serbia, Verratti Divac, in the 1989 NBA draft. The big man with a good passing hand averaged 8.5 points and 6.2 rebounds per game in his rookie season, Magic Elvin Johnson averaged 22.3 points, 11.5 assists and 6.6 rebounds per game to win the regular season MVP, and the Lakers won a league-high 63 wins this season and still entered the playoffs with the first record in the West!

In the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers easily defeated Olajuwon's Rockets 3:1, and in the second round played the Suns, who were swept by the Lakers last year, the Lakers played extremely hard, the first two games won one each, and in the third game, the Suns Trident combined to score 85 points to take away the victory, and after the game, Riley was furious and smashed the glass of the locker room with a punch! In the fifth game, the Magic hit a critical hit, and Johnson, who has always thought that his teammates were mainly delivering shells, scored a rare 43 points in this game, but the Lakers still lost the game, and the Sun Trident scored 80 points again! The sixth game was the same as the fifth, Johnson tried his best to score 43 points again, but the Suns Kevin Johnson also scored 37 points with a high shooting rate, Jeff Hornacek also scored 22 points, and Dan Malley, who came off the bench, became a surprise soldier, scoring 16 points on 6-of-10 shooting, and the Lakers lost to the Suns 103-106, and also ended the season's journey.