Chapter 204: The Clipper's Plan

On June 16, as the Bulls officially defeated the SuperSonics and Jordan regained the championship, some media finally began to give the legendary star the title of "God of Basketball". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

ESPN reports: Since the Chicago Bulls went from a miracle of 71 wins to break the Lakers' record of 69 wins in the 1971-1972 season, humanity has been unable to stop Jordan and the Bulls.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Bulls swept the Heat 3-0 and ushered in the old rival Knicks, Jordan scored 44 points in the first game and 46 points in the third game, leading the team to a 4-1 victory. The Bulls' opponent in the Eastern Conference Finals was the Magic, and in the 1994-1995 playoffs, it was the Magic led by Shark O'Neal Jr. and Penny Hardaway that made Jordan's comeback season less than perfect. In other words, Jordan led the team to four championships from 1991 to 1996, and the only playoff loss was due to this upstart in the East.

As the so-called enemies are very red-eyed when they see each other, Jordan scored 45 points in the fourth game, and the Bulls shaved the Magic team 4-0.

The Bulls went 11-1 in the playoffs throughout the Eastern Conference, losing by just three points in their only loss, and the Bulls unleashed a strong red whirlwind in the East to return to the Finals with a near-perfect performance against the SuperSonics, who also defeated the upstarts.

Payton and Kemp were equally in high spirits, and their progress to the tournament was not as smooth as the Bulls', especially in the divisional semifinals against the Jazz, who almost allowed their opponents to move back to a 3-1 aggregate score. Even in the division finals, the Lakers can still make their hearts speed up for a while in every game.

This difficult road is even more commendable, this is the second time in the history of the supersonic to reach the finals, they gathered all their strength to puncture the red terror, but Jordan and the Bulls have entered a state of insolvency, after the exchange of fire, they helplessly find that the two teams do not seem to be in the same order of magnitude.

Zhang Qi previously felt that the two teams were half a level behind, and they were already changing direction to give themselves face, if the supersonic speed was one level behind the Bulls, then wouldn't the Lakers be one and a half grades behind the Bulls?

But a 3-0, the Bulls easily got the championship point, which let Zhang Yu know that if it was the Lakers who entered the finals, he might be more tragic than O'Neal.

"No wonder the free throws are so bad, and they can still maintain 95 ability points, it turns out that it's not that the shark is not mighty, but that the gang leader is too awesome!"

Zhang Qi saw that the Bulls won the first and third games by 19 and 23 points respectively, and the advantage can be seen, and then think about the powerlessness when he played against the supersonics, it seems that winning the next Bulls in the regular season is really enough to blow for a year.

Payton, who is at his peak, does not believe in evil, even if the SuperSonics fall into a desperate situation of 0-3, he will not be soft-mouthed, "We can beat this team, our goal is the championship, all we need is confidence and stability." "Don't say it, the supersonic are not good at dicks this season, and the Magic almost gave up struggling at 0:2, but this guy with a blue nose and swollen face who was beaten by Jordan is still not convinced!

Perhaps, as he said, "faith" is really important. The Bulls, who only lost one game in the playoffs, experienced sleepless nights in Seattle in a row, and were chased three games in a row after five games, only leading 3-2, and the war was back in Chicago.

At this time, some conspiracy theorists pointed out that under the 2-3-2 finals format, the Bulls, who led 3-0, were free to retract and have the ability to control the trend of the game in their own hands, so they deliberately released water in order to ascend the throne at home.

This kind of conspiracy theory exists in all eras, and Zhang Zhu commented on this kind of remarks in his diary: "Whether you believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway." Then he took the opportunity to make a fan of himself, "Of course, no matter what, this season we have to pay tribute to Payton, Kemp and the Supersonics. I think I had the most say and it wasn't easy to go from 0-3 to 2-3, but they did it. ”

On June 16th, the 6th battle of the finals, it was a battle of 3 6 themes.

The two teams returned to Chicago, Jordan's performance made these conspiracy theories louder, he cut 6 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists in the first quarter, and the Bulls took the lead by 6 points, which is really 6!

The Bulls had the upper hand for the next three quarters, putting the championship in their pocket from the start, and it seems that the first two games were really suspicious, although the Bulls wouldn't do that as long as they weren't stupid.

In the end, when the Bulls returned to the top 4-2, Jordan burst into tears in public!

In the past few years, after recovering from the murder of his father - discouraged about basketball - playing baseball to heal - returning to the season and stopping in the Eastern Conference semifinals - he faced the embarrassing situation of the newcomer beating the old, the All-Star ticket king was snatched, and even the All-Star MVP was robbed of half......

Jordan has been suppressed for too long in the past few years, and now he has opened the floodgates of emotions, and these emotions have been released.

Rodman was also rare after the game, seeing him holding his forgiving head with a sassy bag, hugging his teammates after the game and not laughing and crying, at this moment recalling his pre-game sentence "I only care about rebounding, the team wins or loses is my business", maybe as the media commented, this is really too complicated guy.

"A lot of people are slamming me for being schizophrenic, and here I am, I'm going to prove everyone wrong." This is Rodman's original words after the game, the biggest hero of the Bulls' 6th game is actually Rodman who contributed 9 points, 19 rebounds and 5 assists, and in the second quarter alone, he fought 9 frontcourt rebounds (11 of the 19 rebounds were frontcourt rebounds), which made the supersonic interior want to cry without tears and self-embarrassment.

Supersonic head coach George? Carl was also convinced by this forgiveness, and bluntly said that Rodman was the key to the Bulls' championship.

Eventually, amid the boos of the Union Center breaking through the roof, Kemp picked up six fouls on Rodman and walked off the court. Thinking about how Rodman was reckless on O'Neal's head in the Eastern Conference Finals, and how he used countless rebounds to make the Magic embarrassed, the role of this big bug is obviously underestimated.

In short, the general trend is indisputable, the season is over, and all teams except the Bulls are losers.

"The Bulls in the 1996 Finals set a new benchmark in the NBA, and other teams were just aiming to close the gap with the Bulls."

Phil? Jackson's final speech perfectly summed up the season.

But his remark is too sassy, of course, many teams secretly spur and motivate themselves, such as the Lakers are ready to continue to advance for a new dynasty, and their next stop is the "draft conference".

Of course, this is just the next stop for the Lakers, Zhang Yi still needs to plan well, and his schedule will be very busy this summer.

In the third game of the finals, his little girlfriend came to the United States with the "girlfriend and mother" who was extremely powerful in his eyes. In the last game, he watched it with 16-year-old Xiao Baizhi. Although this little girlfriend's appearance is a little higher than when he left, her arrival is not a particularly celebratory thing for Zhang Mao, because it is inconvenient for him to go to the mess anymore!

"I hope the lily card will have an effect", Zhang Fu can only hope that the card will have a strong enough effect now, otherwise it will be much more difficult to fool around with a sticky girlfriend.

This year's "draft conference" is on June 26, Zhang Fu will go on a month-long trip to Asia after the conference, which is the itinerary that his agent has planned for him a long time ago, and Zhang Zhu must find time to take a trip.

"Not to mention, I can't remember how many companies I've endorsed?"

Zhang Mao's trip to Asia is mainly to promote his endorsements, and these manufacturers are counting on the summer to make their investment pay off.

The endorsement of Koala Baby has always been much bigger than other sports stars, and even Hollywood stars, because he only shoots limited advertisements every year and attends fewer events, but the asking price is so high that it is, and small companies really can't afford to serve an uncle like him, so Zhang Fu's endorsements are basically Fortune 500 companies.

However, not all companies have to serve him, all the activities of the Dragonborn Company only give him a dime, and he must be on call, basically using him as a grandson, and he does not dare to be dissatisfied in the slightest, let alone say the word "no".

On June 15th, the day before the Grand Finals, the Dragonborn added a new feature to their ICQ - the ICQ gaming platform.

Now the functions on ICQ have been dazzling, this game platform contains more than a dozen mainstream board games around the world, and one or two new games will be added every week, the ultimate goal is to contain hundreds of board games around the world, as well as hundreds of mini-games.

Up to now, ICQ has been released for 9 months, with more than 20 million registered users (including more than one person), and the latest version has made other similar companies unable to even see their backs.

Now as long as you open the ICQ software, it is easy to see a series of practical and novel functions above: membership function, space function, membership level, dragon forum, dragon browser, ICQ mailbox, ICQ group function, ICQ avatar function, ICQ expression function, ICQ member album, ICQ member stealth, ICQ group, ICQ pet, ICQ drifting bottle, ICQ game platform......

A few days later, ICQ will add an additional feature – the Internet Movie Database, also known as IMDb.

Dragonborn has signed acquisition contracts with several of IMDb's main founders on the 14th to acquire IMDb for $1 million.

The details of the acquisition are that IMDb will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Dragonborn, providing the existing employees with the funds they should have received and will continue to provide their information free of charge.

Founded in 1989 by a handful of enthusiasts, IMDb has been operated for free, with databases placed on university computer servers. But in 1995, IMDb grew beyond expectations, and it was no longer possible to rely solely on donations, university servers, and their free time to keep it running. So in 1996, IMDb registered in the UK as an Internet Movie Database Company, with several founders and volunteers who joined later as shareholders, and they began to rely on advertising, licensing and cooperation for profit.

But the problem is that the cost of purchasing server equipment and bandwidth is too high, and the revenue is too low, even if all the profits are spent on equipment and bandwidth, it is still not enough to maintain normal operations.

These shareholders also found it difficult to accept the fact that they quit their jobs and worked hard without getting an income, and they began to want to sell the company at the beginning of the year.

IMDb is not profitable, but it is still famous, and some large companies have made bids to buy the database, but these shareholders have refused to sell it to companies that cannot guarantee that they will continue to provide their information for free.

The Dragonborn Company came out in a timely manner, and they were willing to let IMDb continue to provide information to the Internet for free, and the integrated IMDb would become an independent division of the ICQ, just like the Dragonborn Forum. In the future, IMDb will become a new feature on ICQ, and the original shareholders of IMDb will also be absorbed into the Dragonborn Company as its regular employees. In addition, Dragonborn will buy all of their shares for a lump sum of $1 million.

Now that Dragonborn is the hottest emerging IT company in the world, it is not so easy to join. These people were of course a hundred satisfied when they heard that they had a large sum of money to take, that the database was still free, and that they could become regular employees of the Dragonborn Company again.

In this way, the world's largest "Internet Movie Database" in the future was incorporated into the Dragonborn Company and became a separate expansion project under ICQ.

Zhang Mao's "Asia Travel Plan" finally decided to start from June 28, starting from New York.

He chose to depart from New York because he was going to participate in the draft with the team on the 26th, and then flew directly from New York to Sydney, Australia on the 28th.

But after landing, he had to come up with a good excuse to explain why he didn't participate in the Olympics and went to Asia, of course, he couldn't say "I just don't want to play for Australia and the United States".

Of course, the real reason is: Zhang Zhu has been using the [Foreign Moon] Buff, which he believes is the reason why he can't quickly attack Miss Nicole, but it makes Penelope's chance of popping unknowingly rising to 50%.

Sydney will be the first stop on this Asian trip, and then he will go to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Mumbai, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing.

Trim originally wanted him to take a trip to Dubai, but Zhang Mao really didn't want to delay his summer training, and he didn't want to really go around Asia, let alone let go of the young ladies at home, so Central Asia should talk about it next year.

Zhang Qi originally wanted to take Zhang Baizhi to Asia with him, but he really couldn't think of an excuse not to take his little girlfriend with him.

But what he never expected was that his little girlfriend didn't want to follow him around in such a big circle, Zhang Baizhi chose to stay in Los Angeles to prepare for her new semester, her high school studies have not yet been completed, and there is still the last year to end her high school career.

"And that kind of thing?"

Zhang Qi didn't expect that she was rejected by Zhang Baizhi for a double-row invitation, if it weren't for the system showing that her favorability and loyalty exceeded 90, Zhang Qi would definitely feel that she had become a minotaur.

There is no way around this, since his little girlfriend is unwilling to go, he can only take Xiaolin's sister to travel together.

Speaking of Sister Xiaolin, when Zhang Qi suddenly saw her favor skyrocket by 20 points one day, he knew that the dark grid behind the oil painting must have been discovered, and the smart Sister Xiaolin guessed the password by herself, and the effect of the fake diary was very obvious.

Of course, Sister Kobayashi is willing to go to Asia with him, this is her job, how can a personal assistant not follow the boss.

On June 23, Zhang Yi went to New York with his sister Kobayashi, whose favorability exceeded 80, this time in addition to participating in the draft, he also had to shoot a new advertisement for Nike in New York, and the copywriting was written by himself.

Zhang Wei didn't know that as soon as he left on his front foot, a trial player came to the Lakers' training hall that made Baylor crazy.

Kobe Bryant is not the first high school student to announce his participation in the draft, there have been many high school students who have become stars before him, the most representative of which is Zhang Yu himself, and now he is a representative of the NBA high school draft, which has also caused people's distrust of high school players to drop a lot, and even led to a lot more high school students participating in the draft this year.

However, Bryant was the first high school guard, and unlike Garnett who did not have enough SAT scores to play in the NCAA, Bryant's high school SAT score was as high as 1080, and Duke University has agreed to give him a full scholarship, and if Kobe Bryant wants, he can even go to Harvard.

Scouts from various teams have only seen him at McDonald's All-American High School All-Star Game before, but surrounded by Jermaine O'Neal, Tim Thomas and Mike Miller, Bryant didn't appear to be better than the others.

Therefore, although Zhang Fu's demonic performance has greatly changed people's impression of high school rookies, when the major media simulated the draft, the vast majority of media still ranked him at the bottom of the first round, referring to Michael Finley's market last year, Kobe Bryant may be slightly inferior.

Speaking of which, Kobe Bryant and Zhang Zhu still have some origins, because they are both the same agent.

Zhang Qi has long known Kobe Bryant, but he doesn't care very much, because he thinks that this kind of talented black boy should have as many cars in the United States.

In fact, as early as January of this year, Zhang Qiu approached Jerry West at Triem's request, hoping that he could give Kobe a tryout.

Jerry West, of course, would not refuse Zhang's request and readily agreed to Kobe's tryout.

That tryout was held at the Forum Arena, when all the Lakers players were on the floor, Kobe's opponent was Michael Finley, and the result was completely different from the heads-up process and result with Cooper in another time and space, Finley, who has been practicing Zhang Mao, is by no means a high school student can beat in terms of single defense ability, although the 17-year-old Kobe is not like a high school student technically, but it is impossible to defeat Finley, who is far more mature than him.

The result of this heads-up made many people feel very disappointed, Kobe Bryant was completely blown up by Finley, and the two were not on the same level at all.

Jerry West felt that he shouldn't have let Finley fight him, so the tryout was quickly replaced by Malik.

However, this opponent made Kobe even more tragic!

Malik is a flexible guard, and Kobe Bryant could still use his skills and agility to maneuver with Finley, but after replacing Malik, Kobe Bryant didn't even have a chance.

Zhang Zhu saw Kobe Bryant defeated by Malik by a big score, and felt very shameless, after all, this was the person he recommended, and it turned out to be an ordinary high school student.

Jerry West gave Zhang Fu enough face, and finally gave Kobe Bryant another chance, this time letting George Lynch and Kobe Bryant go head-to-head.

George Lynch said, "Lao Tzu is not a vegetable", but this is not nonsense, this guy's defense is really good, if Zhang Zhu and Finley are not in the Lakers this year, he should be able to play, his defensive awareness in NBA Live has been above 80 for a long time, and the 17-year-old Kobe Bryant will naturally not be easily defeated.

If Bryant's first opponent in the tryout that day was George Lynch, maybe he could be on par with George Lynch, and even judging from the confidence he showed at the beginning, he might really be able to beat George Lynch.

But after being defeated by the two in a row, Kobe Jr.'s self-confidence was seriously frustrated, and when it came to facing George Lynch, who had excellent defensive awareness, he was a little unable to cope.

In the end, it was tragic, and Kobe, who was killed three times, was embarrassed to stay at the scene anymore.

Zhang Yu also quickly crossed out this name from his mind at that time, because he felt that this little guy had no potential, and he could beat Malik and Finley as soon as he entered the team, but this guy was completely abused by the two, if he was really a genius, how could he be so vegetable!

But he didn't know that Kobe Bryant came to the trial three months earlier than the original time and space, and the objects of the heads-up became Finley and Malik who were trained by him, and the difficulty was not a little bit more difficult.

However, even if a person like Kobe Bryant was beaten at that time, he would only train more hard to improve himself after he went back, and he would not really lose his self-confidence.

Therefore, when Trim arranged for him to go to the Clippers for a tryout half a year later, Kobe Bryant at this time was much stronger than himself at the same time in another time and space after nearly half a year of hard training.

But because he tried out with the Lakers half a year ago and left a bad impression, when he came to the Lakers for a tryout again, the Lakers showed little interest in him this time.

Moreover, the head coach and general manager of the Lakers, plus the core of the team, happened to go to New York together, and the assistant coach who presided over the trial did not even arrange a separate testing session for Kobe, but just let him follow a group of rookies to the side.

This is embarrassing again, although Kobe's physical fitness is first-class, it is a little worse than the top level, and he can't use his body side data to arouse the interest of the Lakers, there are too many black rookies with this kind of physical fitness.

Back then, Zhang Fu was also not taken seriously when he participated in the trial, but as soon as his body data came out, the faces of all the teams immediately changed, and he quickly asked him to do other tests.

Kobe Bryant couldn't use his physical data to attract attention, and he was far from this year's favorite Iverson.

Zhang Zhu went to see Iverson's game in Crazy March, that is, the days when the league truce for the NCAA, and the guy who made him evaluate as a "1.5 flying squirrel" is much better than the current Kobe.

Trim wanted Kobe to play for the Lakers, but the cautious Kobe felt the Lakers' contempt for him in the second tryout, and when he thought of the attention he received on the Clippers a few days ago, and Elgin Baylor's appreciation of him, and in stark contrast to the cold reception at this time, he really didn't have a good impression of the Lakers.

"I'm never going to play for the Lakers, I'm going to the Clippers, and I'm going to make them regret the contempt they once gave me!"

This is what Kobe Bryant Jr. said to Trim, if he wants the Lakers to regret ignoring him, then the best way to prove it is, of course, to play for the Lakers' sworn rivals, the Los Angeles Clippers.

At the same time, after Elgin Baylor saw Kobe Bryant for the first time, he had a new plan in mind to snatch O'Neal.

Of course, the Clippers want to get O'Neal, but their salary space is not enough to match O'Neal's offer, and they will have to do a certain amount of weight loss.

At the time, he didn't think the name Kobe Bryant would have much to do with the Clippers, after all, the team already had Eddie Jones, who was only 24 years old.

But in the East, Jordan's agent, and the NBA's biggest agent, David Fox, is inflating the value of one player to another.

In the end, Miami has agreed to renew Mourning's contract for 15 million, and his contract is rumored to be 105 million for seven years.

This incident became the fuse for the collective rise in the value of NBA stars, because it meant one thing for O'Neal, his new contract was less than 105 million, and he didn't sign a single one.

Ten years later, the Class of '96 is known as the "Golden Generation", with Allen Iverson, Marcus Camby, Ray Allen, Stephen Marbury, Anthony Walker and Sharif Abdul Rahim locking up the top six.

Speaking of Baylor's new plan, the Clippers' draft pick this year is the 17th pick, and they were also traded to the Lakers, which is unpleasant when you think about it.

But thanks to their slamming bosses, most of the contracts in the team are small contracts of about one or two million, and the term is not long, many players' contracts have expired this year, and the Clippers have also dealt with a lot of contracts through several big trades last season, and now as long as they can trade the most tricky Divac, exchange him for a draft pick, and then find someone to take over the overpaid Rodgers, the Clippers will be enough to clear 10 million space and be eligible to join the O'Neal race.

O'Neal + Lloy Ott, Lord Baylor just thinks about the power of this inside combination, and he wants to shout excitedly in front of Jerry West: "Am I awesome?!" ”

Continuing the topic just now, the top six rookies this year are basically booked by those talents, the Nets are the seventh pick team, and it just so happens that Kobe Bryant has also been here for a tryout, and they are also very interested in Kobe.

But after Kobe Bryant tried out with the Clippers and Lakers, he wanted to play in Los Angeles and prove to the Lakers that he was not a small character.

So, Kobe Bryant, who was already extremely paranoid at the moment, disregarded his own position, and asked Trim to call the general manager of the Nets and tell him that he didn't want to go to their team because New Jersey was too "close" to home.

Trim didn't want Kobe to play for the Nets, so he threatened that the rookie could only sign a three-year contract anyway, and if the Nets chose Kobe, he would stay up from the first day there to the end of the third year.

There are really not many examples of such a threat to the team, and the Nets feel that this is too risky, so for the sake of stability, they can only give up on choosing Kobe Bryant before the draft. As a result, there are not many teams that know Kobe's quality, and those who know are not short of outside lines, and the Clippers can pick him even if they only trade to the end of the first round.

At this time, several representatives of the Lakers also came to New York to prepare for the draft on the 26th.