"The Lakers are the team with the biggest harvest in the free market this summer, they not only traded for Gary Payton, one of the best playmaking guards in the league at a very small price, but also signed Karl Malone with an annual salary of only 1.5 million, for the Lakers this season, everything except the championship is a failure, and the dominance they showed in the preseason also proved all this, 8 preseason games, they averaged 26 points per game." On October 29, 2002, the opening game of the NBA2002-2003 season officially kicked off at the Bankers Life Arena, the home of the Pacers.

"Larry also did a great job this summer, although they didn't sign the Lakers like a blockbuster, but while ensuring the integrity of the championship squad, they also signed Mutombo and Hamilton, these two very strong players, compared to last season, the Pacers have become stronger, and compared to the Lakers, their roster depth is better, so I don't think the Lakers can easily take the Pacers today." While Michaels continues to praise the strength of the Lakers, Magic Johnson seems to be more sensible, or a little biased towards the Pacers.

Magic Johnson can be said to be a bad year this summer, originally at the end of the season, the former Lakers godfather Jerry West found Johnson, hoping that Johnson can enter the management of the Lakers, or after Phil Jackson gets out of class, take over the Lakers and serve as the head coach of the Lakers, although Magic Johnson does not want to interfere in the infighting between Jerry West and the Buss siblings, but he dreams of coaching a team to compete with Larry Bird Magic Johnson, after hearing Jerry West's conditions, agreed without much thought, because Jerry West did not make any unnecessary demands on the Magic, nor did he ask him to support himself in the high-level infighting, but hoped that after Magic Johnson took over the Lakers, he would be able to lead the Lakers back to glory, just like Pat Riley who was appointed in danger, but what he didn't expect was that after the Lakers lost in the Finals, it was not Phil Jackson who got out of class, but Jerry West. The first thing the Bass brothers and sisters did after taking power was to renew their contract with Phil Jackson, so the Magic had to break off the idea of coaching the Lakers, some unrelenting Magicians contacted several teams after the Lakers, but either the team's strength was too poor to meet the requirements of the Magic, or people couldn't trust a rookie like Magic, being a player Niu B, being a coach is not necessarily good, not everyone is Larry Bird, after touching his nose with a gray face, the Magic had to renew his contract with ABC for another year, Continue his career as a commentator.

"Erwin, so you're bullish on the Pacers today?" Looking at Magic Johnson's serious appearance, Michaels couldn't help laughing, as the greatest star in the history of the Lakers, and a famous Meng Chui, after becoming a signed commentator of ABC, every time he encountered a game between the Lakers and the Pacers, in order to show his impartiality and impartiality, the Magic had to show a fake look, and Michaels couldn't control himself when he saw him looking like he was going to hold back his internal injuries.

"Al, in this league, team and defense are always king, although the Lakers seem to be strong, but how to coordinate the distribution of the ball between several of them, how to ensure that each of them can play the maximum energy, this is undoubtedly a difficult problem to solve." O'Neal, Kobe, Malone, Payton, the Lakers composed of four superstars, look very strong on the surface, but their problem is also very obvious, that is, there is only one basketball, how to coordinate the four people? Who's going to be the main attacker? Who will make the sacrifice? O'Neal and Kobe Bryant can't be separated, and now two more have been added, and I don't know if the scene of last season's Finals will reappear. Maybe when encountering a weak team, the Lakers don't need any tactics at all, four people in one quarter, taking turns to play alone, can abuse them, but once the Lakers meet the Spurs, Pacers, Kings, this kind of team with superstars and teams, it is definitely not possible to rely on this kind of single tactics alone.

While Michaels was still discussing with Magic Johnson, the lights of the Bankers' Living Arena suddenly dimmed, and countless floodlights flickered back and forth before finally freezing to the center of the court, where NBA league president David Stern and Pacers owner Simon Brothers were already preparing for the championship ring award ceremony.

The first to come out to receive the ring was Reggie Miller, who has played for the Pacers for 16 seasons and dreamed of bringing a championship to Indiana, and now the dream has come true, when Reggie Miller and David Stern hugged each other and received the custom championship ring from owner Herbert Simon, tears once again fell from the corners of Reggie Miller's eyes.

Watching Reggie Miller hold up the championship ring and show it to the fans in the stadium, Karl Malone, sitting on the sidelines, clutched the jersey tightly with both hands, at this moment, seeing Reggie Miller who finally got his wish, Malone was both envious and jealous.

Just after all the Pacers players who accompanied the team received their rings, Meng Xu, as the boss of the team, was the last to play, and received his own championship ring from the hands of the team owner Malvin Simon, because it was the first NBA championship in the history of the team, so in the creation of the championship ring, the Simon brothers are also extremely luxurious, and the general use of 14K platinum rings are different, the Pacers' championship ring body is made of PT999 platinum, weighing more than two ounces, A total of 35 natural diamonds are set on it to symbolize the 35th anniversary of the Pacers, while the front of the ring is a pattern of championship trophies and the name of the Pacers, and the materials used to create the ring alone are worth more than $20,000.

.....When Meng Xu lifted the ring, the cheers of the MVP immediately resounded throughout the banker's life hall, and after holding the ring high for nearly ten seconds, he turned around in place and showed his championship ring to all the audience, Meng Xu put down his hands and walked towards the bench.

"Boy, I'm going to beat you in this game and kill your team." After the championship ring award ceremony, when the starters on both sides walked onto the court, O'Neal, who had already stood near the center circle in advance, stared at Meng Xu who stopped more than a meter away from the center circle with an unkind face, for O'Neal, sitting on the sidelines with his own eyes, watching the Pacers' players receive the championship rings one by one, O'Neal was not only unhappy, there is no doubt that O'Neal was extremely angry, therefore, in this game, O'Neal was also ready to fire on his full power and take out the attitude of playing the finals, To play this game, for O'Neal, only by winning the Pacers and abusing them can he vent the evil anger in his heart.

Looking at this extremely funny big fat man with an angry expression, Meng Xu couldn't help but laugh, not only didn't pay attention to him, but pursed his lips, pretended not to care, moved a few steps to the right side of the court, and set his eyes on Kobe.

"Kobe, a summer has passed, not only did I not see you getting stronger, but I felt that your fighting spirit was weakened, do you want to go on like this?" Looking at each other, Meng Xu looked at Kobe Bryant and shook his head, "Kobe, you really disappointed me so much, I have always regarded you as my biggest opponent, but now it seems that I obviously overestimated you." ”

"This guy!" Ma Long, who was not far away, looked at what Meng Xu had done, and frowned, it was obvious that Meng Xu deliberately ignored O'Neal, and then provoked Kobe, this is a very obvious sowing discord, if it were himself and Stockton, he would definitely not be fooled and deceived by this little trick, and O'Neal and Kobe Bryant are different, the two of them have obviously obviously had a gap, Jerry West used his resignation to barely let them end the infighting, and did not turn against each other, so Meng Xu's little trick was in front of them, It is undoubtedly very effective, just look at O'Neal's angry expression of wanting to knock out Meng Xu, and Kobe Bryant's eyes full of anger.