23vs24 sequel!

People have always been happy with nostalgia these days.

Suddenly, unconsciously and suddenly, what is shocking is that this may be the last time the two will meet in the finals as the leading stars.

Due to Kobe's unfortunate consecutive injuries in this time and space, he still played at the level of the league's top three scoring guards after returning from Achilles tendon rupture, and it can be said that the scoring guards who played better than him were Harden and Thompson, so people still don't think Kobe Bryant is old as always.

But after such publicity by the league, people suddenly realized that Kobe Bryant was 38 years old!

And when I suddenly noticed it, I found out that by the end of this year, James was also 32 years old!

James's side doesn't matter that much, and according to his current regular season paddling style, at the age of thirty-five or sixteen, he can still maintain efficiency and even compete for the number one man in the position, which Kobe Bryant has proven before his Achilles tendon rupture.

On Kobe's side, there have been some obvious downward trends at the beginning of the regular season this year, but fortunately, he changed his style of play in time and became a role player in order to continue to be efficient.

But next season, the Lakers' idea of trading for Thompson has been "leaked" by the Warriors, and the Warriors have been silent and have not come out to refute the rumors, it is likely that Bryant's role in the team will change suddenly next season, so even if James continues to maintain a reign of terror in the East in the next few years, and the Lakers continue to dominate the West, it is not a real 23vs24.

So the league's promotional slogan is "The Last 23vs24".

For this year's playoffs, the league is happy, except for the Lakers' side of the three consecutive sweeps, which made the broadcast fee a lot less, but the other series are fierce enough, most of the series have played at least 6 games, and this year's skyrocketing broadcast fees have doubled the revenue of these games compared to the broadcast income of last year's playoffs!

This is not counting the next Finals, even if the next Finals will only play four games, with the ratings attracted by the gimmick of the final showdown between Kobe Bryant and James, it is estimated that the league will be able to break the last kick in the salary cap next season, that is, break 100 million!

The league officials and those team owners never worry about the salary cap being too high, but rather worrying about it being too low, because the higher the salary cap, the higher the team's income!

In addition to the 23vs24, there is also a huge attraction that has also attracted the attention of a large number of fans.

That is, can the Lakers end the playoffs undefeated?

This goal that makes the Lakers now like a hungry wolf, and at the same time makes the Cavaliers feel humiliated, is the goal of more fans who are indifferent to 23vs24!

In fact, compared to the Lakers' upcoming two consecutive championships, as well as breaking the all-time playoff win rate, etc., most fans do not find it unacceptable.

On the contrary, James has reached the Finals in the East for six consecutive years, which is really terrifying!

In other words, James has not missed the finals since he was 26 years old until now! And according to the situation that there are fewer and fewer stars in the East, James may be able to maintain this dominance until he is 35 years old!

James broke Baylor's and Russell's record of reaching the Finals for eight consecutive years?

It's quite possible!

Kobe Bryant once said that as many people loved him, there were as many people hated him.

This is the same for James, how many people are proud of him for reaching the Finals for six consecutive years, and how many people hate him for dominating the East for six consecutive years.

So, to the surprise of the Lakers, they thought they would become the target of public criticism, but they actually received widespread support!

Just like Curry asked Liu Ren to sweep the Cavaliers, sweeping the Cavaliers has become the common aspiration of fans of all teams in the league except James fans!

Especially the fans of the other 14 teams in the East, since they can't stop James from turning the East into purgatory, let him stop the Finals forever!

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Los Angeles is a great place to be, and almost all NBA players come to Los Angeles to relax for a while during the offseason.

There are the best fragrant car beauties and the most extravagant nightclubs......

James also comes to Los Angeles every summer, and even has a villa on Manhattan Beach that becomes a favorite summer home.

So in the past two offseasons, James and Liu Ren have a good relationship, and they will have dinner at least once or twice a summer.

In the past, every time James came to Los Angeles to play away, if Liu Ren was also in Los Angeles, he would come to play together.

But this time is different, the huge pressure of public opinion, and the huge sense of oppression brought by the Lakers' consecutive sweeps of the Spurs and Warriors, two teams that the Cavaliers can't compete with, make James unable to play as easily as the regular season or even last season's Finals.

James is great enough, the current Lakers are great enough, and Liu Ren is also on the path to greatness.

When two people are great enough, and in the same profession they are great enough, they will inevitably embark on the path of becoming enemies.

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"For the goal of the finals? It's simple, four-four-four-four! Nothing else, even if it's just one loss, we can't accept it, we won't accept things like that in 2001, we're going to give it our all from the beginning!" Liu Ren did not shy away from saying directly in an interview that the team's goal was to continue to sweep.

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"Can we win the Lakers? Of course, we'll win the championship in five games! "James is fearless, the best team in history? He also wanted to see it.

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Liu Ren and James both have full confidence in their teams, and they must have confidence at this time, even James, who is obviously at a disadvantage in public opinion, must maintain full confidence when interviewed, and cannot be timid, if the team's boss is cowardly in an interview, the Cavaliers are already under pressure, and maybe their mentality will be unbalanced.

Liu Ren naturally has to directly say his goal, and this is the goal of the Lakers, and he can't accept even a loss!

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The schedule for the Finals is set for the first game of the Finals at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on May 31, the Lakers' second home court at the Staples Center on June 2, and then the third and fourth games in Cleveland on June 5 and June 7.

If there is a later schedule, there will be possible next games on June 10th, June 13th, and June 16th, which are supposed to be in Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Los Angeles.

Once the schedule was confirmed, rooms in Los Angeles and Cleveland were booked out starting May 30 and continuing until June 16.

Why is a popular mega event so popular in a local city? That's because of this.

Not only are hotels in Los Angeles and Cleveland booked out, bars, nightclubs and even the few Internet cafes in the United States where you can stay overnight are booked out, not to mention those catering industries, scalpers have been making money since they started selling tickets, and the Lakers vs Cavaliers Finals will at least bring hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to Los Angeles and Cleveland!

This is also the reason why the sports industry will have a large federal tax deduction in taxes, especially the four major leagues, their federal taxes in the law can not exceed 25%, even if investors can take advantage of this to avoid taxes, it is also within the legal scope, because the benefits and benefits brought by sports to these cities, the cohesion of the city, are very huge.

This only needs to look at the picture of thousands of empty alleys in the city that wins the championship of the four major leagues every year when the championship parades, in today's era when people are more and more homely, and communication is more and more dependent on electronic communication tools, sports competition can also arouse people's blood and cohesion.

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The closer to May 31, the more heated the public opinion about the Finals became, but the Lakers and Cavaliers, who were in the storm of public opinion, quieted down and huddled in the training hall and rented training hall in Los Angeles to prepare for the Finals.

Especially on the Lakers' side, D'Antoni is about to start the finals, the more he can't be careless, he is actively mobilizing the emotions and cohesion of the players every day, as well as isolating the interference of the outside world, don't let them relax because of the absolute advantage of the fans, the Lakers in 2001 were also so invincible, but they lost in the first game of the finals against the 76ers, just because of carelessness.

With the lessons of the past, the Lakers players do not need to be mobilized by D'Antoni and work hard to prepare for the game every day!