"Bet?" Smith was a little surprised by Barkley's proposal, "What bet?" ”

"Do you remember the bet the two of us made because of Yao Ming?" Barkley's smile became more and more sinister, "I lost, and then I kissed the donkey's ass in front of the whole country." ”

"That's it!" Smith suddenly realized, and a smile appeared on his face, this was a long time ago.

At that time, Yao Ming had just entered the league, and Barkley thought that Yao Ming's thin body was simply not enough to support him in the NBA, so he made a bet with Smith to kiss Smith's ass if Yao Ming could score more than 19 points in any NBA game.

As a result, Yao Ming scored 20 points in the game between the Rockets and the Lakers, and Barkley lost decisively.

Barkley is also single, if you lose, you lose, I am willing to bet on losing, Smith, you take off your pants, I kiss your ass.

Barkley admits it, but Smith disagrees, why should my chrysanthemum be dedicated to Buckley, a dead fat man? So after various negotiations, Smith brought a donkey and asked Barkley to kiss the donkey's buttocks instead of kissing himself.

This matter has passed like this, Barkley has also lost it, Yao Ming has also been domineering in front of the national audience, and the NBA's ratings have also increased a lot, but Barkley is unhappy, why should I lose the bet? Why am I unlucky?

So this opportunity, Barkley also wants to get back the people he left behind in '02.

"I said old fellow!" Smith shook his head with a wry smile and said, "It's been ten years, I didn't expect you to still think about it." But I'm going to disappoint you, I won't agree, haha! As he spoke, Smith smirked.

"Rub!" Barkley was dumbfounded, he didn't expect this old guy to be so cunning and not play with himself at all. Smith doesn't play, and Barkley can't help it, so you can't force someone to bet with you.

"Hey, hey." Just when Barkley was extremely depressed, suddenly a voice came from beside him, "He doesn't bet with you, how about I?" ”

"Huh?" Barkley was stunned and turned his head, only to see O'Neill leaning in front of him with a smirk.

"You!" Barkley suddenly remembered that when Yao Ming scored 20 points, he played with the Lakers, O'Neal was still in the Lakers at that time, and he was still in his playing year, but the damn thing happened like this, and in the game with the Rockets, O'Neal happened to be injured, and Yao Ming scored 20 points when the Lakers lacked an inside line, which also caused Barkley to kiss the donkey's ass very early.

Barkley knows very well that if O'Neal is not injured, it will be difficult for the fledgling Yao Ming to score 20 points when facing the almost invincible O'Neal, even if Yao Ming does have the strength and then get 20 points, but at least it is not at that time, maybe when Yao Ming gets 20 points, many people have forgotten about it.

It can be said that O'Neill is also one of the important culprits in the occurrence of this incident!

"Since you want to play, then I'll play with you." Barkley said with great interest: "I'll bet that Wang Meng will definitely be able to beat Kobe Bryant in this game, what about you?" ”

"Since you have suppressed Wang Meng, then I will suppress Kobe." For his old teammates, O'Neal is very aware of Kobe's strength, although he doesn't like Kobe, but O'Neal has never underestimated Kobe. "But what are we going to bet on?"

"I haven't thought about it yet, but I'm definitely not betting on taking off my pants!" Barkley said without thinking.

"I'll go!" O'Neill rolled his eyes, "You remember." ”

In fact, Barkley and O'Neal bet is not a once, at the beginning of 12, the two of them had bet on Griffin and Love who is the best power forward in the league, but due to Love's last-minute three-point kill, O'Neal lost to Barkley, which is also the same as Barkley, willing to lose the bet, directly broke the jar and took off his pants under the national live broadcast, wearing only a flower pants.

"You two! I suddenly had a great idea. At this time, Smith, who had made up his mind to watch the excitement, suddenly opened his mouth. Why don't you do this, if any of you loses, then"

Barkley and O'Neal approached Smith and listened secretly to the guy's idea, and then, the two of them invariably showed a sly smile on their faces.

Ignore the three obscene old guys in the live broadcast room for a while, and return to the field.

Kobe Bryant was a little surprised to see Wang Meng choose to defend himself, but this did not affect Kobe's mentality too much, Kobe Bryant continued to run without the ball, exactly the same as when he was entangled with Tony Allen before.

Paul had been keeping an eye on Kobe's movements, and when Kobe ran outside the three-point line, Paul immediately passed the basketball to Kobe.

Kobe Bryant received the basketball, without a pause, and directly turned over and jumped up.

"Again?" Wang Meng was furious in his heart, he didn't want Kobe to score another point now, Kobe didn't get one more point, and Wang Meng had to have more pressure to complete the task.

Wang Meng immediately chased after him, and jumped high after Kobe's pace, because Wang Meng did not open the instant explosion this time, so the height of the jump was not as high as last time, but this time Wang Meng was prepared, and his hand was already in front of Kobe's eyes.

Wang Meng knows that he doesn't have Kobe's perverted ability to stay in the air, so he can only do the defense with his eyes closed, Kobe's shooting is indeed very powerful, but Kobe Bryant's iron is also not simple, Wang Meng doesn't believe that he is so unlucky in this game, Kobe has always felt so good, and he can also throw the basketball into it without looking at the basket!

Kobe Bryant, as before, did not pause at all, as if Wang Meng did not block his vision.

"Huh!" There was a hollow sound of basketball behind him, and Wang Meng's heart was cold. "Hit again?"

Throwing this three-pointer, Kobe Bryant's score rose to 12 points, and Wang Meng wanted to complete the task, which meant scoring 32 points. What's even more troublesome is that since Kobe Bryant can shoot three-pointers twice in a row when his vision is blocked, this proves that Kobe Bryant's hand in this game is very good, and there are still more than three quarters in the game, how can Wang Meng stop him?

Calmly connected to serve, Wang Meng kept thinking in his heart, "How to prevent Kobe Bryant, who feels very good?" I'm afraid that no one in the league can prevent Kobe Bryant in this situation, after all, this thing is the second record for the highest score in a single game, and the super god who scored 81 points in a single game, Kobe Bryant played smoothly, and no one could prevent it.

If you want to make the current Kobe Bryant not score a single point in the next place, Wang Meng thought about it, and it seemed that there was only one way, that is, to take the opportunity to abolish Kobe Bryant in the game, but not to mention the question of whether Wang Meng could do this ruthlessly, just because he was sent out for a malicious foul, it was decided that even if Wang Meng abolished Kobe, he would not be able to successfully complete the task.

"Trouble!" Wang Meng slowly controlled the ball over the half court, looking at Kobe Bryant, who was also guarding himself, "No matter how much!" Let's rush first! ”

Since the last attack opened the instant burst, in order to save physical strength, Wang Meng did not choose to use the instant burst breakthrough this time. said so, with butterflies to break through, Kobe Bryant can't prevent it, the speed of the 34-year-old Kobe is too much worse than Wang Meng, in fact, it should be said that the speed of the 34-year-old Kobe and Iverson at his peak is too much worse.

This time Howard wanted to make up for the defense but hesitated, because Gasol, who was defending him, was still floating on the outside, because of Wang Meng's pass just now, Howard didn't know if Wang Meng would pass the ball again this time, so he could only put the task of defending Wang Meng on Kobe Bryant.

Although Kobe Bryant was passed by Wang Meng, it does not mean that Kobe Bryant was completely thrown off, in fact, Kobe Bryant has been following behind Wang Meng, constantly harassing Wang Meng with both hands, trying to make Wang Meng make a mistake, and at the same time he also exerted enough strength, waiting for Wang Meng to jump up when he made a layup or dunk and gave him a big hot pot to try.

Of course Wang Meng knew what Kobe Bryant was thinking, of course he wouldn't let Kobe wish, when he was about to get to the basket, Wang Meng jumped up and got to the basket, Kobe was waiting for this moment, when Wang Meng sent the basketball over his head, Kobe jumped up violently, and slapped the basketball in Wang Meng's hand with his big hand.

"Get me down!" Bryant shouted.

Wang Meng took back the basketball above his head at the same time as Kobe jumped, dodging Kobe's block, and at the same time he handed the basketball to his left hand, and scored with a left-handed layup after changing hands.

"Changing hands in the air and making a layup?" Bryant pounced and didn't get anything.

"Two points in hand." Wang slammed to the ground with a slight smile on his face.

"It seems that these two people are now competing against each other, and no one will let them." Looking at the fierce confrontation between Wang Meng and Kobe Bryant on the field, Smith couldn't help but say.

In such a fierce confrontation, the first quarter of the game was quickly over.

Wang Meng sat on the bench sweating profusely, while defending Kobe, he also needed to ensure his offense, which was really a very big burden for Wang Meng, but Wang Meng's fatigue was not without a little effect, after Wang Meng began to mark Kobe, although Kobe also scored, but the efficiency was undoubtedly much worse than before.

In fact, since Kobe Bryant leaned back to speculate on those two three-pointers in a row, in the time behind, Bryant went directly to the ball twice and hit one.

In Wang Meng's marking at the expense of physical strength, even Kobe Bryant is difficult to adapt.

At the end of the first quarter of the game, Wang Meng couldn't wait to look at the statistics.

Kobe Bryant, 14 points, 1 assist, 2 rebounds and 1 steal.

Wang Meng's heart tightened, and the situation was not as smooth sailing as he imagined.

Although Kobe's other statistics are very average, Kobe Bryant scored 14 points in the first quarter, and in the next three quarters, Kobe Bryant thought that it was not particularly difficult to score 20 points, 30 or even 40 points.

Wang Meng must surpass Kobe Bryant by 20 points in scoring, and now, Wang Meng needs to score 34 points if he wants to complete the task.

"Whew." Wang Meng exhaled deeply, looked back at the Lakers bench, Kobe Bryant was not much better than himself.

In the first quarter, Wang Meng's physical consumption was very large, in order to limit Kobe, Wang Meng even defended Kobe Bryant closely many times, not allowing Kobe to receive the ball smoothly, such a defense consumes physical strength, but physical consumption has always been two-way, Wang Meng consumed a lot of physical strength when defending Kobe, Kobe Bryant, it is not easy to defend Wang Meng, more importantly, Kobe is now 34 years old, and Kobe Bryant has long lost the physical strength he used to have, under such a high-intensity confrontation, Kobe Bryant is already a little struggling, and it is precisely for this reason that Kobe's play in the latter part of the first quarter can only be described as average.

After reading Kobe's statistics, Wang Meng glanced at his own.

13 points, 6 assists, 3 rebounds, 1 steal and 1 block. Wang Meng's score is one point less than Kobe's, but this is to complete the goal of assists, Wang Meng has not forgotten that in order to complete the task, his number of assists must also exceed Kobe Bryant's 10. Under Wang Meng's heart, he brushed up 6 assists in the first quarter.

This is Wang Meng's prediction, at the beginning, try to achieve the goal of assists, because as the game gradually deepens, both sides will play more and more seriously, and the defense will become tighter and tighter.

"Well done! Wang Meng! "Monty patted Wang Meng, Wang Meng played very hard in this game, and Monty saw it in his eyes." At the beginning of the second quarter, let Roy take the team to play first, and you can take a break. ”

Wang Meng did not refuse, he knew that in order to better ensure his offensive efficiency, rest is essential, Wang Meng must have a good rest, otherwise he will not be able to play in the middle of the game because of his loss of strength, and the task is the same.

The Lakers obviously had the same idea, because Kobe Bryant was too expensive, Phil Jackson was not allowed to play Kobe Bryant for the first time.

Seeing Kobe Bryant resting off the court, Wang Meng breathed a sigh of relief, whether this mission can be successful or not, but it's all up to Kobe, the better Kobe plays, the slimmer Wang Meng's hope of completing the task. Wang Meng now hopes that Kobe Bryant can suddenly get sick and can't play, it would be perfect, but unfortunately every player will undergo an official NBA security check before the game, and then confirm that there is no problem before playing, so unless injured in the game, few people leave the game because of other illnesses.

Without Wang Meng, the Hornets' tactical focus is on Brandon Roy, and Roy certainly won't disappoint, as the only scoring guard in the post-era who has a chance to match Kobe, Roy's strength is very strong.

Not only that, Roy's basketball IQ is also very high, and his understanding of tactics is very good, Wang Meng is not on the court, but Roy and Gasol's blocking and dismantling cooperation is also very effective, Roy does not have Wang Meng's strong explosiveness, but Roy's excellent IQ and vision make Roy's insights in blocking and dismantling not weaker than Wang Meng, plus Gasol is also a high-IQ player, and the blocking and dismantling cooperation of the two high-IQ players on the court instantly burst out with very surprising combat effectiveness.

(To be continued)