Chapter 6: The End of the Dynasty
In the 1990-1991 season, the Lakers broke out in a "big earthquake", Pat Riley left the Los Angeles Lakers who had played for nine years, and what is even more strange is that when the team indirectly asked for the dismissal of Riley, there was no player in the whole team to support Riley, it is obvious that although Riley brought 4 championship rings to the Lakers, but the long-term continuous high-intensity training made the players complain, and even overdrafted the player's sports career in advance. Mike Dunleavy took over the whip.
The biggest change in the Lakers this season is still in the center position, the 36-year-old Michael Thompson really can't play, retreat to the second line, Divac is the starting position, and the data is naturally rising, in addition, the team also signed the Mavericks free agent Sam Perkins, this brother is 206 cm tall and plays as a power forward, but he has a very good three-point shot, especially at the end of his career, he can be called a three-point maniac, He averaged 13.5 points and 7.4 rebounds per game in his first season with the Lakers. Magic Johnson averaged 19.4 points and 12.5 assists per game, and this season Johnson managed to surpass Robertson as the player with the most assists in NBA history.
This season, the Lakers have a 58-24 record under new coach Mike Dunleavy and are second in the West - the first in the West is the Portland Trail Blazers, who have the same record as the Lakers last year, 63-19.
In the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers swept the Houston Rockets, and in the second round, they faced the Golden State Warriors with Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin, and they also easily advanced 4:1.
To paraphrase a fashionable phrase now, this group of matchups, on the one hand, is a small fresh meat with long hair, high appearance and white skin, and on the other hand, it is the old ginger with bacon that has been polished, and after six games, it is the old ginger who has the last laugh, Johnson averages 20.7 points, 12.7 assists and 8.0 rebounds per game, and deserves to be the first contributor to the team's victory and promotion. Sam Perkins and Byron Scott were also indispensable, with the two of them combined to score 35 points while shooting nearly 60 percent from the field!
The Lakers reached the Finals again after a year, and this time, standing in front of them was the incomparably powerful Chicago Bulls.
At that time, the Bulls finally defeated the Pistons bad boy army that had suppressed them for a long time, they stood out in the Eastern Division, swept the Knicks and Pistons respectively, and also let the 76ers win only one game, the team's star Michael Jordan followed the man to block the killing, the Buddha blocked **, the playoffs handed over an average of 30 points per game of terrifying combat power, this season is also the last afterglow of the Lakers' glorious halo, but also the beginning of a new dynasty in the NBA!
In the first game between the two sides, Johnson contributed a triple-double, 19 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, and the Bulls only had two teams score in double figures, Scott Pippen scored 19 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, Michael Jordan shot 14-of-24 and scored 36 points, 8 rebounds and 12 assists for a quasi-triple-double. The Lakers trailed by two points, and Sam Perkins looked for an opportunity from the outside and hit a decisive three-point shot! The Lakers won the first game in a thrilling three-point shot that made Jordan so angry that he didn't speak to Perkins for a whole week.
Jordan was thinking in his heart, you are awesome, you wait, see how I clean you up when I go back! In the second game, Jordan showed extremely powerful offensive power, and he made 15 of his 18 shots! He had 33 points, 13 assists and 7 rebounds in the game, Pippen and Hores Grant also scored 20 points, and the Lakers' best player was Divac, who scored 16 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals on 7-of-11 shooting, and the Lakers lost to the Bulls 86-107, and it was after this game that Jordan began to notice Divac.
In the third game, Jordan returned to the world, scoring 29 points, 9 assists, 9 rebounds and 4 steals on 11-of-28 shooting, Hores Grant scored 22 points and 11 rebounds, Pippen also had 19 points and 13 rebounds, and the Lakers lost another game 96:104, in fact, the Lakers played well in this game, Perkins scored 25 points, 9 rebounds and 5 blocks on 10-of-17 shooting, Magic scored 22 points, 10 assists and 6 rebounds, James Worthy scored 19 points on 9-of-16 shooting, and Divac once again became the team's most consistent player, 24 points and 7 rebounds on 11-of-15 shooting, since the players are playing so well, then why lost? The reason lies with Scott, who completely hacked the Lakers, playing 43 minutes in the game, swallowing duck eggs and delivering three assists and two turnovers on 0-of-8 shooting......
In the fourth game, the Lakers lost another game 82:97, Jordan scored 28 points and 13 assists between 20 shots and 11 of them, 28 points is not too exaggerated for Jordan, who often scores 30+, but the Lakers still lost, why?
Byron Scott played 34 minutes and scored 4 points, 2 turnovers and 5 fouls on 2-of-4 shooting, without a single assist, Sam Perkins was even more exaggerated, scoring 3 points, 10 rebounds and 5 fouls on only 1 of 15 shots in the whole game, Divac, who played the best in the game after the game, looked at his technical statistics after 20 shots and 12 of 27 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocks, and then vomited a mouthful of old blood and fainted to death at the post-game press conference - not that the enemy is too strong, but that our side is too incompetent!
The fifth game became the last battle between the two sides, the Lakers lost four games in a row 101:108 and lost the championship, Magic after the first triple-double, this game hit another triple-double data, 16 points, 11 rebounds and 20 assists, but to no avail, Pippen and Jordan unprecedented double-doubles hit 30+10 to take away the victory of the game.
Just after the end of last season, Magic Johnson, the core player of the Lakers, held a press conference and announced a major news that he had been infected with AIDS and announced his retirement! Buss, the owner of the Lakers who has always regarded Johnson as his son, burst into tears when he heard this, and the whole world was shocked! The reason for Johnson's illness is also likely to be related to his unruly private life.
Elvin Johnson suddenly retired at the age of 31 and in the prime of his career, making fans all over the world sigh, he is unprecedented, and may not be the next, the tallest player in the No. 1 position, even today, 20 years later, his gorgeous assists that only exist in the memory of fans and TV tapes still make our blood boil, especially the kneeling pass that penetrates the N-man defense in the fast break, which is amazing, Johnson once returned to the Lakers four years later, but only played 32 games, averaging only 14.6 points and 6.9 assists per game, and a generation of genius fell, but, even so, the Magic career is also great, 13 years spent all in the Lakers, 906 games per game can give an average of 19.5 points, 11.2 assists and 7.2 rebounds, shooting 52.0%, bringing the Lakers 5 championship trophies, and he is a three-time Finals MVP, There are also three regular season MVPs, four-time assist kings, two-time steal kings, eleven All-Stars, a total of 17,707 career points ranked fourth in team history, 6,559 rebounds ranked third in team history, 1,724 steals ranked first in team history (later these statistics were all suppressed by a player named Kobe Bryant), 10,141 assists ranked first in NBA history when he retired, (later Stockton, Kidd, Nash, Mark Jackson broke through one after another, and is currently ranked fifth), In 2002, Ervin Johnson was inducted into the Smith Hall of Fame.
There is also a touching story about Johnson's All-Star journey, Johnson did not play in the 1991-1992 season due to illness, but during the All-Star vote, many fans filled in the name of Elvin Johnson on the ballot, and the Magic was moved by the enthusiasm of the fans, and finally played in the 1992 Orlando All-Star Game, and finally that All-Star Johnson played 29 minutes, scored 25 points, 5 rebounds, 9 assists and 2 steals on 9-of-12 shooting, At the same time, because of the long-term absence of the team, he easily won 7 turnovers, and finally he was elected All-Star MVP, it is worth mentioning that Johnson's injury was not well at that time, and the whole league learned that Johnson was going to participate in the All-Star Game with different attitudes, such as Jazz star Carl Malone, who made it clear that he refused to compete with Johnson, and the others will not go into details, here are three people, Byron Scott, AC Green and Pistons star Isaiah Thomas.
Byron Scott joined the Lakers in 1983-1984, before that, he played side by side with Johnson for eight years, AC Green came to the Lakers for a short time but also five years, these two former teammates directly and indirectly said that Johnson should not appear on the field of intense confrontation, their remarks were very normal in that era when AIDS was not familiar, but compared to Isaiah Thomas's attitude, you will feel that these two former teammates speak somewhat coldly, Isaiah Thomas once fought Johnson on the stage of the finals for two years, and each won evenly, and the "Bad Boy Army" used those indiscriminate tricks against Johnson in the game will not be mentioned in detail here, but this time in the All-Star Game, in the last moments of the game, Johnson and Thomas had two heads-ups, Johnson all three-point shots, after the whistle at the end of the game, Thomas and Johnson embraced, and did not forget to celebrate the Magician's great career while inspiring the Magic to get out of the disease, Finally, the two men kissed each other on the cheek and saluted, drawing a perfect end to the magician's career.
Johnson's retirement directly led to the collapse of the glorious Lakers dynasty, and in the years since, the Lakers have quickly fallen from a hegemon to a bullied western fish.
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