Playing magic, Shaquille O'Neal specifically finds Qiao Hai and asks for unlimited firing rights.

O'Neal left the Magic that year, O'Neal himself was not at fault, it was the Magic management who made the mistake, and when O'Neal's contract was about to expire, the Magic actually made it difficult in every possible way, unwilling to give O'Neal a contract with a maximum salary, and all kinds of price reductions.

As a result, the Lakers and Jerry West shot directly and took O'Neal away.

O'Neill also resented the Magic because of this, and once he faced Anfernee Hardaway, he would explode into an extremely fierce battle spirit.

Usually O'Neal is lazy if he can, as long as he has an important game, he will exert his strength, but against the Magic, O'Neal will immediately become hard-working, and the training before the game is different, and he seems to work very hard.

The Lakers have lost two in a row, and Qiao Hai also needs a win.

So without thinking about it, Qiao Hai agreed to O'Neill's request.

Kobe Bryant also came to talk to Qiao Hai, the main team is in Orlando, there is no rental arena, and there is no training with the ball, so the players are idle and have nothing to do, Kobe Bryant has been in bad form in the last two games, and he feels that he needs to talk to Qiao Hai.

Kobe Bryant also wants to get a certain amount of ball possession in the game against the Magic, O'Neal wants unlimited firing rights, and Kobe Bryant also wants to get some balls, but after thinking about it, Qiao Hai still agreed, and he decided to let O'Neal and Kobe get enough ball possession through substitutions.

On the eve of the game, Bryant continued to practice harder, hoping to get back into shape.

The Magic have had an excellent season and are currently third in the East with an 18-7 record, and veteran coach Chuck Daley has announced in advance that this season will be his last season in charge, and he will retire at the end of the season.

The star of the Magic is Anfernee Hardaway who forced O'Neal, nicknamed Penny, Hardaway was considered the savior of the league in the two years when Michael Jordan retired halfway, but after O'Neal left, Hardaway became a glass man, and successive injuries directly ruined this former genius.

It can be said that much of the sharp decline in Anfernee Hardaway's career was caused by his own doing.

The game kicked off at the Amway Center, with the Lakers continuing to play regular starters, while the Magic started with point guard Anfernee Hardaway, shooting guard Nick Anderson, small forward Matt Hamplein, power forward Hollis Grant and center Isaac Austin.

In the first quarter of the game, the Lakers tactically leaned more inside, and Kobe Bryant was responsible for defending Anfernee Hardaway.

As a result, halfway through the first quarter, O'Neal, who was fully in the state, scored 13 points directly in the boos of the Amway Center, and Kobe Bryant killed Anfernee Hardaway, and the Lakers took a lead of about 10 points in half a quarter.

In the second half of the quarter, O'Neal went to rest, and Qiao Hai directly gave Kobe Bryant unlimited firing rights.

In the first two games, Kobe Bryant was in bad shape, and in this game he assured Qiao Hai that he would find his form, and soon, Kobe Bryant proved it with practical actions, in the face of Nick Anderson's defense, Kobe Bryant hit the basket in a row, a dunk and a layup, and scored 4 points in a row.

Then he hit a series of mid-range step-back jumpers.

After the first quarter, Kobe Bryant and O'Neal both scored 10+ points, and the Lakers led the Magic by 14 points.

Penny Anfernee Hardaway was restrained by Kobe Bryant and Bruce Bowen, who played in the second half of the quarter, playing more than eight minutes in the first quarter, scoring only four points and three assists on 1-of-5 shooting.

Then, in the second quarter, Qiao Hai continued to use O'Neal's unlimited firing rights in the first half and Kobe Bryant's unlimited firing rights in the second half to continue to expand the lead.

The Lakers led by 27 points at halftime.

In the end, in the face of the Magic, who were third in the East, the Lakers surprisingly defeated the Magic with 128:97 and 31 points!

After two consecutive defeats, the Lakers directly announced that the 14-game winning streak was back with a wild victory.

The final game of the Lakers' road trip, away to the Dallas Mavericks.

This season, the Lakers and the Mavericks had a matchup, but the head coach of the Lakers at that time was still Del Harris, and the Mavericks head coach Don Nelson, who had invited Qiao Hai to the Mavericks as an assistant coach, also invited Qiao Hai again after the game, but Qiao Hai refused again.

After more than a month, Don Nelson saw Qiao Hai again, and he had to sigh that things were wrong.

In just one month, Qiao Hai has completed the transformation from an ordinary assistant coach to an NBA head coach, and the Lakers' 17-10 record is also ranked fifth in the West, which is much better than the 9-17 and 11th Mavericks in the West.

Don Nelson also had to sigh: the afterlife is terrifying.

Although the Mavericks' dismal record is because the team lineup is average, and the Lakers have a luxurious lineup, it is also deserved to achieve such a record, but as the best coach in the NBA, Don Nelson still knows a truth very well -

- Although the Lakers' lineup is luxurious, it is difficult to give full play to his combat effectiveness if there is no good coach, and Qiao Hai is just such a good coach.

From the perspective of Qiao Hai's latecomers, the Mavericks' lineup is still good, with Jason Kidd in exchange for Michael Finley, Dirk Nowitzki, who was just drafted this year, and Steve Nash who is in the growth period.

But apart from Michael Finley, Dirk Nowitzki is not yet the king of the Norwegians, and Steve Nash is not yet a child of the wind, and Michael Finley, a quasi-first-class shooting guard in the league, obviously cannot pose a threat to the Lakers.

Especially when Kobe Bryant has fully regained his form......

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Lakers and the Mavericks played a little tangled, and the point difference has been hovering around 5 points, but the result of the game is not suspenseful, although O'Neal is deeply troubled by shark slashing tactics, the Lakers still relied on Kobe Bryant's mid-range shot and a three-point shot in the last quarter, 98:93, to win the game.

The Lakers ended their road trip with two straight wins on the road.

In their next game, they will return to their home court to take on the Phoenix Suns.

However, before the home game, a big piece of news detonated the North American ......

On the day the Lakers returned to Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times made its latest announcement.

Los Angeles Times President Em Raymor announced the formal dismissal of Brad Turner, the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times Sports section, and the appointment of Kevin Ding as the new editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times Sports section.

On the same day, the sports page of the Los Angeles Times not only reported the news that the Lakers beat the Mavericks and ushered in two consecutive wins, but also published a letter of apology on the front page, signed by the Los Angeles Times, the object of the apology - the Los Angeles Lakers.

Apparently, the Los Angeles Times relented!

They fired Brad Turner, apologized to the Lakers, and wanted the Lakers to lift the ban on the Los Angeles Times.

As a local media in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times finally couldn't stand the Lakers' all-round ban on it, so it had to choose to surrender......

In response to the Los Angeles Times' sincere apology, the Lakers said in their newly established official tabloid: they accept the Los Angeles Times' apology, and from now on, the Lakers will lift the ban on the Los Angeles Times, and the Los Angeles Times reporters will regain the Lakers' interview rights......

As a result, only ESPN remains......