Volume 2 The champion sign that you can't want to

The year the Lakers won the championship, there was another person who had to be mentioned, he was Gail Goodrich, Goodrich was only 185 cm tall, but weighed more than 200 pounds, he belonged to the kind of player who knew the style of play just by looking at his size, he only had one effective way to score in the game, that is, with his strong weight to force a breakthrough to the inside, crushing the opponent, Goodrich played for the Lakers in the first three seasons of the NBA, but was selected by the Suns in the Suns' expansion draft, In the 1970-1971 season, he was traded back to the Lakers by the Suns, and at this time, Goodrich was already an efficient and all-round scorer who could score 20 points per game, and his arrival just made up for Baylor's aging vacancy and became Jerry West's most reliable helper. West was also aging in that era, and two seasons later, West announced his retirement, leaving the Lakers with 25,192 second-highest scorers in franchise history, 5,366 all-time seventh-highest rebounds and six,238 third-highest assists all-time.

A Goodrich obviously can't support the team, the Lakers fell into a slump, but the Lakers didn't let fans like him wait long, in 1975, a person with a name and a specialty transferred to the Lakers, he was the top pick in 1969, he averaged 29 points and 15 rebounds per game in his rookie season, the second season was the regular season MVP, the championship, the Finals MVP in one, the third season was the regular season MVP and scoring champion, the fourth season, He lifted the regular season MVP trophy for the third time, and in his fifth season, he came to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he was Ferdinand Lewis Ascindor and later renamed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Abdul-Jabbar was the core of the Bucks, and won the NBA championship with the "big O" Oscar Robertson in the Bucks in just three years, in the 1974-1975 season, Robertson announced his retirement, and the Bucks immediately went into decline, Abdul-Jabbar applied for a transfer, and the Bucks owner Wayne Ebrey knew that there was no hope of keeping people, so he reluctantly made a deal with the Lakers and sent Abdul-Jabbar to Los Angeles, Abdul-Jabbar averaged 27.7 points, 16.9 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 4.1 blocks per game in his first year with the Lakers, shooting 52.9% from the field. Another core of the team, Gail Goodrich, averaged 19.5 points and 5.6 assists per game, after the end of the season, Goodrich became a free agent, and the Jazz owner signed Goodrich, which was originally a normal deal, but the Jazz owner was too good, or his head was too broken, he couldn't help it, and decided to give the Lakers a 1979 first-round pick for nothing, who would have thought that two years later, the Jazz had a poor record, and unexpectedly got the top pick, which allowed the Lakers to select Elvin Johnson in the draft two years later.

Abdul-Jabbar's first season with the Lakers did not make the playoffs, and then the next year, Jerry West became the team's general manager, Abdul-Jabbar averaged 26.2 points, 13.3 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 3.2 blocks per game, shooting 57.9% from the field! But there was only one protagonist in the entire league that year, he was Bill Walton of the Trail Blazers, it is not an exaggeration to describe Wharton's surprise that year, Wharton, who had only been in the league for two years, suddenly broke out in the playoffs this year - you must know that he had been suffering from various injuries before, and he couldn't play 100% of his strength on the court, and as a result, in this year's playoffs, a healthy Wharton returned, With an average of 18.2 points, 15.2 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 3.4 blocks per game, he won the respect of the league and successfully won the NBA trophy.

In the 1977-1978 season, Abdul-Jabbar contributed an average of 25+13+4+3 data per game, but this season the Lakers had two major events that completely disturbed the Lakers' mind, one of which was a game between the Lakers and the Bucks, Bucks rookie Kent Benson deliberately elbowed Abdul-Jabbar, who was so angry that he punched Benson directly in the face, but Benson was fine, but Abdul-Jabbar broke his finger and missed a full 20 games, second, Semi-basketball professional player professional bodyguard Kormit Washington punched the Rockets' Tomjanovic **, the league banned Washington for the remaining 57 games, after Washington was the team's starting forward, averaging 11.5 points and 11.2 rebounds per game, Washington was suspended, and the Lakers also lost an effective defender of the restricted area, this year's Lakers pair in the playoffs, accompanied the prince to study.

In the 1978-1979 season, Abdul-Jabbar ushered in strong reinforcements, he was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in 2012 Jamal Wilkes, Wilkes is 195 cm tall, a guard, soft hand, accurate shooting with the nickname "silk", in the 1975 finals, Wilkes helped the Warriors win the NBA championship, and he can be regarded as a person who has seen the world. The latter averaged 18.6 points and 7.4 rebounds per game for the Lakers, and in the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers met that year's champion Seattle SuperSonics, who led by Gaith Williams, Dennis Johnson and Jack Sigma all the way to the Finals and won the NBA championship that year, and the Lakers were just a stepping stone for their promotion.

In 1979, Lakers owner Cook sold his entire sports empire, including the Atlantic Forum Arena, to real estate developer Jerry Buss for $67.5 million, thus the Lakers began nearly 40 years of Bass Group rule, and in the same year's draft, the Lakers drafted a 206 cm tall player, but reported on the declaration position table as a "PG", he is called Elvin Hayes, nicknamed "Magic", Johnson's greatness is undoubted, in the NBA, he finally had a chance to play against his good friend off the court, the "sworn enemy" Larry Bird on the court, Larry Bird was selected by the Celtics with the seventh pick in the first round in 1978, but Bird insisted on playing in the college league for another year, Bird led Indiana University to the NCAA Finals with a wave of 33 consecutive wins, but lost to the University of Michigan led by Ervin Johnson, in 1979, Johnson and Bird entered the NBA at the same time, and entered the two major teams of the NBA at the same time, This started a decade-long black-and-white war!

During Johnson's regular season with the Lakers, he played every position from the No. 1 to the No. 4 position, and he did quite well, this year, he averaged 18 points, 7.7 rebounds and 7.3 assists per game. At that time, the Lakers played all the way to the Finals, the opponent was the Philadelphia 76ers, the fifth game of the battle of King Mountain, relying on Abdul-Jabbar's 24 points and 10 rebounds, the Lakers won with difficulty, but before the start of the fifth game, Abdul-Jabbar had to take a break because of a serious ankle injury, Johnson was ordered to be in danger, he was pushed to the No. 5 position for the first time, facing a group of muscles taller than him and stronger than him, and finally, in the crucial sixth game, Johnson scored 42 points and 15 rebounds in the final moments of the game, Johnson reproduced Abdul-Jabbar's trademark hook to put the ball in the basket to kill the game! The Lakers won the 1980 NBA championship in one fell swoop, and Johnson was named the Most Valuable Player of the Finals! Johnson led the Lakers to the NBA championship in his rookie season, which is very rare in the entire history of the league, and the next season, in an innocuous regular season, Hawks center Tom Brickson crushed Johnson's knee while grabbing a rebound, resulting in Johnson playing only 37 games in the whole season, and the Lakers, who had no backbone, only played a soy sauce in the playoffs and were eliminated in the first round.

In the 1981-1982 season, Pat Riley became the new head coach of the Lakers, as soon as he took office, he established the purpose of building the team with Johnson as the core, and the 34-year-old Abdul-Jabbar's athletic form began to decline, he averaged "only" 24 points and 8 rebounds per game, but Wilkes and Johnson supported the team, the former was able to score 21 points per game and the latter averaged 18 points, 9 assists and 7 rebounds per game, the Lakers went all the way to the Finals, this year's Lakers showed great dominance, no, it is the Lakers of this lineup who have maintained the peak for at least ten years! The Lakers' super ability stands out in the West, winning 9 finals and 5 championships, and the Celtics led by Bird can fight against the whole league!

This year, the Lakers swept the Suns and Spurs in the first and second rounds, respectively, and defeated the Philadelphia 76ers with Julius Irving in six games on the stage of the finals to win the championship that year! Johnson won the 1982 Finals MVP with a quasi-triple-double of 16.2 points, 10.8 rebounds and 8.0 assists per game, in fact, in addition to Johnson, other players also played the brightest performance of their careers, and in the entire series of 14 games, six of the seven main players who played more than 20 minutes had an average shooting rate of more than 50% per game! Notch Nickerson, the guard selected by the Lakers with the 22nd pick in the first round in 1977, averaged a team-high 20.4 points and a team-high 8.1 assists per game in this series! Michael Cooper is not only capable of providing quality defense, but also can shoot from beyond the three-point line, averaging 11.9 points, 4.4 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 1.7 steals per game.

It is worth mentioning that the Lakers at the end of the season also traded Mitch Kupchak from the Washington Bullets, who was abandoned in the playoffs but averaged 14.3 points and 8.1 rebounds per game in 26 games played in the regular season, and then or until now, Kupchak is the general manager of the Lakers.

At that time, the Lakers were already strong enough, who would have thought that God simply didn't want other teams to play, last season the Lakers made an innocuous little trade with the Cavaliers, the Cavaliers wanted to trade Chad Kinkey for the Lakers' two players, Don Ford and Butch Lee, the Lakers said the trade was okay, but the two of us wanted to trade the draft picks and I agreed, and the Cavaliers nodded and agreed without hesitation, here to explain, Don Ford, This season, he averaged 11.2 minutes of playing time per game, averaging 3.0 points per game, and Butch Lee, who averaged only 2.8 minutes per game and 1.3 points per game, just for these two players, the Cavaliers paid their 1982 NBA draft picks, and as a result, after the Cavaliers' record was sparse, the Lakers were careless, and the draft pick that was traded over became the champion again! I have to say that the Lakers' luck is that they can't sign this champion or not......