Chapter 9: A New Dynasty on the Rise

In the first year of the "OK" combination, the Lakers finished with a 56-26 record and reached the playoffs as the fourth in the West, against the Portland Trail Blazers led by sophomore Rasheed Wallace, and finally O'Neal brought the Lakers to the second round under the siege of Wallace and Sabonis, O'Neal was able to average 33 points and 9.3 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game. Wallace and Sabonis combined for 31.8 points, 12.8 rebounds and 1.3 blocks, almost out-of-two, and Kobe Bryant was able to cut down less than 10 minutes per game in the first round of the series of his career

7.5 points, don't underestimate this 7.5 points, which was already the fifth highest score in the team at that time. The Lakers' second-round opponent is the Jazz with Karl Malone Stockton and Hornacek, facing the strong and strong Malone, O'Neal did not take any advantage, averaging 22 points and 11.6 rebounds per game compared to Malone's 28.6 points and 12.6 rebounds can be said to be comprehensively suppressed, and finally the Lakers lost this round of the series 1:4.

If Kobe Bryant was just an important role player in the first season, then Kobe Bryant in the second season was already the team's indispensable sixth man, playing 79 games in the season, averaging 26 minutes per game and scoring 15.4 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.5 assists, O'Neal is still an irreversible existence inside, averaging 28.3 points, 11.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 2.4 blocks per game, and the shooting rate is as high as 58.4%!

Newly signed free agent Rick Fox became a steady firepower after the "OK" combination, He averaged 12.0 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, in January 1997, the Lakers sent Ceballos to the Suns, got power forward Robert Hawley, who became the team's starting four averaging 7.4 points and 7.4 rebounds per game, Fan Maniac still averaged 13.8 points per game and 6.9 assists, and Derrick Fisher, who was in the same class as Kobe, also began to increase his role, he played 82 games, started 36 games, averaged 5.8 points per game, and they reached the playoffs again, and lost to the Jazz, but there was more cannon fodder Seattle SuperSonics in the middle.

In the first round, the Lakers eliminated the Portland Trail Blazers 3:1 under the leadership of O'Neal who averaged 29.0 points and 11.8 rebounds per game, and in the second round, O'Neal averaged 30.6 points and 9.6 rebounds per game and led the team to defeat the Seattle SuperSonics with Gary Payton and Vin Baker 4:2.

In 4 games, O'Neal averaged 31.8 points and 9.3 rebounds per game compared to Malone's 30.0 points and 10.3 rebounds, but the performance of the rest of the Lakers dragged O'Neal back, Eddie Jones averaged only 15 points per game, Kobe Bryant shot only 36.7% and averaged only 10 points per game, and Van Exel averaged only 9 points per game.

In Kobe's third season, he has become an indispensable starter for the Lakers, he averaged 37.9 minutes per game and scored 19.9 points, this year Phil Jackson became a member of the team's management in charge of the team's personnel, Jackson immediately established an "OK" as the core of the team model, so almost non-stop trade away former Lakers boss Van Exel to get the Nuggets first-round rookie Tyronn Lue, and Tony Barty, the former only played 15 games for the Lakers, The latter was sold to the Celtics, O'Neal averaged 26.3 points and 10.7 rebounds per game, and Eddie Jones played 20 games and was traded to the Hornets in exchange for the sharpshooter, last year's All-Star MVP, Glenn Rice, who chews gum all the time, who averaged 17 points per game. Then on February 23, 1999, the Lakers signed Dennis Rodman for a super low price of $600,000 a year, and Hua Daworm is still a master of rebounding in the Lakers, averaging 11.2 rebounds in 28 minutes per game.

A lot of unpleasant things happened in the team's locker room this season, Van Exel, dissatisfied with Kobe Bryant's increasingly important position in the team, constantly contradicted it, and finally the two finally made a move in a training session, Jerry West immediately traded Van Exel with the purpose of "stressing civilization and building a new style", and the other Eddie Jones was traded because of two aspects, one is that Jones is called an optimist, and what is not good is that he is not enterprising enough, and he never puts the outcome of the game on his face, The team is grinning when it wins, and it is grinning when it loses, which causes O'Neal to be dissatisfied, and in the team, O'Neal is still dissatisfied with Kobe, Kobe and Jones are completely opposites, Kobe is too self-disciplined - O'Neal: Hey, Kobe, have you eaten? Kobe: I'm practicing. O'Neill: Two glasses in the evening. Kobe: I'm going to practice. O'Neal: Bryant, go out at night to save the souls of the prostitutes. Kobe: I went to practice at night. At four o'clock in the morning, O'Neal's mobile phone rang and connected-Kobe: Fatty, get up and practice......

In fact, training maniacs are nothing, but this spirit has been greatly appreciated by the Bass family, including Jerry West, who treats Kobe Bryant like a baby, think about why O'Neal left Orlando and went to Los Angeles, not because of Hardaway? Therefore, O'Neal prevented Kobe Bryant from growing into a character who could compete with himself one day, in an intra-team training match, at the beginning, Kobe Bryant singled Jones three times in a row, O'Neal yelled at Jones, he is the future Jordan, you have to show some real skills! - O'Neal is really bad for a while, this sentence is actually a set for Jones - Jones was already very faceless by Kobe, so in the fourth duel between Kobe and him, Jones elbowed Kobe Bryant, Kobe pushed Jones to fight back, Kobe pushed it is not heavy, after all, the relationship between Jones and Kobe Bryant in private is not bad, but O'Neal quit, he went up in front of all the players on the team, went up and gave Kobe a big mouth, scolded, I flatter you two sentences, you really think of yourself as Jordan! In fact, O'Neal was in Shuwei, and this matter was also remembered by Kobe Bryant, who was bound to repay him, so when Kobe Bryant was full-fledged, he ruthlessly drove O'Neal away.

Because labor negotiations only played 50 games, the Lakers 31-19 and fourth in the West entered the playoffs again, this time, they were swept by the San Antonio Spurs in the second round after easily crossing the Timberwolves, two of the greatest interior players in NBA history, Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan met in the playoffs for the first time in their careers, O'Neal averaged 23.8 points, 13.0 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game, shooting 49.3% from the field, Duncan averaged 29.0 points, 10.8 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 2.0 blocks per game, shooting a whopping 51.3% from the field.

In the 1999-2000 season, the Lakers successfully retained Kobe Bryant with a six-year, $70.9 million contract, and then Phil Jackson took off his uniform and began the Lakers' coaching career, his triangle offense alone in the league made the Lakers an invincible team, O'Neal averaged 29.7 points and 13.6 rebounds per game, Kobe averaged 22.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game, and the two became more and more tacit and became the strongest duo in the league, that is, at this time, " OK" was just called

In addition to the OK combination, Glenn Rice averaged 15.9 points per game and the team's third firepower, and the strange thing is that after the regular season that year, the whole team averaged double points per game for these three people...... Oh, by the way, this season, the backbone member of the Lakers' "SHOWTIME" period, AC Green, returned to the Lakers after wandering the Suns and Mavericks, and played 82 games as a starter this season, averaging 5.0 points and 5.9 rebounds per game, AC Green is a well-deserved "iron man" in the NBA, with a career of sixteen years, fifteen years of full attendance, playing in 1278 games, only missing 3 games, and the attendance rate is as high as 99.8%, (but there was a period of time when it was brushed out, Green was injured, The head coach gave Green a symbolic few minutes to keep that record).

This season, the Lakers have won 67 games, the highest value in recent seasons, but the playoffs have been very hard, the first round of the matchup can be called a classic Lakers opponent is the gorgeous Saramento King, the Kings' five starters can pass the ball, so that the opponent is invincible, but in the first game of the two sides, O'Neal used 33 shots 21, 46 points, 17 rebounds and 5 blocks of super data to tell the king that the playoffs are still the world of insiders, the Lakers defeated the king 117:107, The Kings Chris Webber still had the strength to fight back, scoring 28 points and 5 rebounds on 11-of-16 shooting, but his other partner, Lakers veteran Verratti Divac, was directly defended by O'Neal, scoring 10 points, 8 assists and 4 rebounds on 2-of-14 shooting.

In the second game, the "OK" combination attacked again, Kobe Bryant scored 32 points on 12-of-20 shooting, O'Neal scored 23 points, 19 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 blocks, Glenn Rice also contributed 18 points, and the Lakers won another game 113:89, this time Webb played abnormally, hitting only 8 times of 28 shots, getting 22 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists, but the last scummy Divac had a good performance, scoring 14 points, 7 rebounds and 4 blocks on 7-of-13 shooting.

I thought the Lakers would win easily, but I knew that the Kings suddenly broke out collectively in the next two games, winning two games in a row, the third Webber 29 points, 14 rebounds and 8 assists led the team to a 99-91 narrow victory over the Lakers, and the fourth game the Kings were all soldiers, and the whole team scored double-doubles, Webber once again scored 23 points, 13 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 steals and 7 blocks of comprehensive data, and the Kings' big substitute Joan Barry became his 24 minutes on the court and scored 17 points for the Kings.

Standing in front of the Lakers in the second round is the Phoenix Suns, this Suns team is mainly led by two people, one is the three-double old demon Jason Kidd (of course, Kidd, who was only 25 years old at the time, can only be regarded as a little demon), and the other is O'Neal's good friend, the former Magic teammate Anfernee Hardaway, when he was in the Magic team, O'Neal's performance was as good as Hardaway, but the Magic team regarded Hardaway as the cornerstone of the team, causing O'Neal to leave Los Angeles, Hardaway suffered a ruthless injury after a short peak in the Magic, and the talent gradually fell, and was signed by the Magic last year and then traded to the Suns, Hardaway played a good performance in the Suns this season, but his injured left knee has not been good, which seriously affected Hardaway's state, and at this moment Hardaway faced the Lakers in the playoffs, and played with an injury.

NBA players are very good and strong players, O'Neal wants to prove in front of the world that he is not inferior to Hardaway, the big shark who plays with all his strength is terrible, in the first game, Hardaway scored 25 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists in 9 of 18 shots, and his performance was very good, but O'Neal led the Lakers to slaughter the Suns 105:77 with a violent performance of 37 points, 14 rebounds and 4 blocks on 15 of 28 shots! Throughout the series, the Suns were beaten by the Lakers to no end, to be precise, they were beaten by O'Neal without any power, 4:1 The Lakers easily defeated the Suns, O'Neal averaged 30 points, 16.5 rebounds per game, 2.6 blocks, and a shooting rate of 56.0%! Explains what dominance is! In five games, the Suns only relied on Clifford Robinson's god-level play in four games to win one game to regain some face, but who knew that in the fifth game, the Suns suffered another 65-87 defeat, yes, you read that right, the Suns only scored 65 points as a team! Only substitute Todd Daye scored in double figures, and he also scored just 10 points.

In the second round, the Lakers faced the Trail Blazers, the Portlanders led Rasheed Wallace, the spiritual leader was Scott Pippen, who had reached the twilight of his career, O'Neal was still a completely unguardable inside monster, but the good tiger couldn't stand the wolf, and in seven games, the Portlanders broke out in circles, pressed this and floated that, in the first game, with O'Neal's 41 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists, the Lakers won the game, and in the second game, Rasheed Wallace contributed 29 points and Pippen scored 21 points, Guard Steve Smith contributed 24 points, the three 20+ left the victory in the second game in Portland, the OK combination combined to score 51 points in the third game to help the Lakers win by 2 points, and in the fourth game, although Rasheed Wallace scored 34 points, the Lakers still took away the victory with O'Neal's 25 points, Kobe Bryant's 18 points, Rice's 21 points and Ron Hubble's 18 points, and O'Neal scored 31 points and 21 rebounds in the fifth game. But Portland Wallace and Pippen combined to contribute 44 points, Smith and Sabonis also scored 13 and 12 points respectively, Portland struggled to win a victory, the score was 3:2, and in the sixth game between the two sides, Kobe Bryant scored 33 points and 6 assists, but the Trail Blazers had no choice but to play under Wallace and Smith's stable play, Bonzi Wells broke out, he only played 19 minutes, and scored 20 points on 8-of-13 shooting! Struggled to equalize the big score.

The two sides entered the tiebreaker.

In the seventh game, the Portlanders played fiercely, leading by 7 points at 23:16 in the first quarter, Wallace scored 30 points all over the court, and O'Neal only had 18 points and 9 rebounds in the whole game, Kobe Bryant made a force, he scored 25 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists and 4 blocks of all-round data, at the last moment of the game, Kobe Bryant sent an aerial relay to O'Neal, O'Neal caught the ball in the air and killed the game with both hands, and the excited O'Neal ran and cheered with both fingers after the fall! This scene also became a classic picture of that year.

The Lakers made it to the Finals with a tough run against the Indiana Pacers with Reggie Miller.

At that time, the Pacers had a circle of excellent outside players on the outside. In addition to Miller, who averaged 18.9 points per game, there is Jalen Rose, who averaged 20 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists per game this season, and Mark Jackson, who averaged 8 points and 8 assists per game, and shot more than 40% from three-point range, but they are the biggest weakness only in the center position, the starting interior is Dale Davis, and Rick Schmitz, the former is a coolie center who averaged 8 points and 8 rebounds per game in his career, and the latter is a good offense, but on the defensive end is the team's big colander, as an interior player rebounding average of only 6 per game, the backup center is Sam Perkins, who is already in the last year of his career, and the first game of the finals fully revealed the characteristics of both teams.

Mark Jackson had 18 points and 7 assists, and forward Klohill scored 16 points and 6 rebounds on 6-of-7 shooting, these two are already the two best performers on the team, Miller played the most disgusting game of his career, scoring only 7 points on 1-of-16 shooting, on the other hand, the Lakers, O'Neal turned the river and the sea on the inside, and scored 43 points and 19 rebounds in the whole game, completely blasting the Pacers' weak interior into scum.

In the second game, Jalen Rose, the Pacers' No. 1 breakup, made a force, he scored 30 points Miller shot 21 points, and Klohill contributed 24 points again, but they still didn't take a win, the reason was on the inside, O'Neal won back-to-back double-doubles, 40 points and 24 rebounds, Hubble and Rice both contributed 21 points, Kobe Bryant only played 9 minutes and sprained his ankle, and only scored 2 points in the game, and the Lakers narrowly won 111-104.

In the third game, Kobe Bryant did not play due to injury, O'Neal became a trapped beast again, with 33 points and 13 rebounds in the game, but his teammates did not give him strong support, and the best player was Robert Hawley who scored 10 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists on 5-of-8 shooting, and the Pacers began to exert their strength, Miller shot 33 points, Rose scored 21 points, and finally the Pacers took away this hard-won victory 1010:91, and the facts have proven. If there is no OK combination, no one will be able to turn around.

In the fourth game, Kobe Bryant came back quickly, he barely shot in the first half Kobe Bryant attacked frantically in the second half, and in the end, he scored 22 of his 28 points in the second half, and at a critical moment in the fourth quarter, he shot a key shot, O'Neal 36 points and 21 rebounds, Hawley had a good play, 17 points and 6 rebounds on 6-of-10 shooting, the Pacers scored double-doubles, Miller 35 points, Schmitz 24 points, but they still lost, and the big score was 1:3 behind.

In the fifth game, the Pacers broke out with a strong fighting force, although O'Neal scored 35 points and 11 rebounds again, but Kobe Bryant was extremely inefficient, scoring only 8 points on 4-of-20 shooting, and he became the biggest sinner in the Lakers' loss, Pacers Rose scored 32 points, Miller scored 25 points, and Mark Jackson scored 10 points, 7 assists and 6 rebounds.

In the sixth game of the finals, the Pacers fell behind 2:3, they gave it a go, but the effect was very good, they were completely crazy on the court, Rose 29 points, Miller 25 points, Mark Jackson 10 points, 11 assists and 8 rebounds, Kloshi 16 points, and even Dale Davis, who averaged only 6 points per game, shot down 20 points and 14 rebounds, but they still lost in the end, losing to O'Neal, who scored 41 points and 12 rebounds in the game, Kobe Bryant 26 points and 10 rebounds, and the Lakers won the championship, O'Neal, who averaged 38 points and 16.7 rebounds per game in the Finals, won the Most Valuable Player of the Finals, and the Lakers' championship this time has been a full decade since the last time! The Lakers have completed a gorgeous transformation from the trough to the top!

With the powerful "OK combination", a new dynasty is rising, but no one has discovered that the discordant factor in this ten thousand peaces, and then there is a fierce collision between a man who has stood on the top of the world and another man who wants to stand on the top of the world.

In addition, after this season, the team's general manager Jerry West stepped back, and Mitch Kupchak, who has been regarded as a spare tire, officially took up his post, Kupchak had been mixed with the Washington Bullets and the Los Angeles Lakers for 9 years, and his career was only a role player, but since he served as the general manager of the Lakers, his wide open and closed approach to the army has satisfied the Bass family, and the Lakers have also entered a new glory under the leadership of Kupchak!

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