Chapter 230: Parting

With a "beep", when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, the score was fixed at 93:92, and the Shanghai team won another victory away from home, leading the Beijing team with a score of 3:0 in the finals.

However, the Shanghai team that won this crucial game did not cheer, and at the moment of the whistle, all the Shanghai players rushed back to the team's locker room.

Gao Dazhuang's last-minute block ensured the victory of the game, but it also cost him a lot, and the scene of Gao Dazhuang being helped off the field by the team doctor hung over the whole team like a huge shadow.

At the press conference after the game, all the media focused on Gao Dazhuang's injury, and Shanghai team coach Panagio said in response to reporters' questions: "Da Zhuang, I don't know his current situation yet, I think he will be fine, but we can only know the specific situation tomorrow"

After answering the question, Coach Panagio also left the venue in a hurry.

After the Shanghai team left, only Min Lulei, the head coach of the Beijing team, was left alone in the entire venue to bear the fierce "fire" from the media.

The next day, in addition to the Beijing media criticizing the Beijing team, the rest of the national media unanimously paid close attention to Gao Dazhuang's injury.

Because as long as the injury of the tall and strong is not hindered, the championship will be within reach for the Shanghai team with 4 match points.

But the calm before the fourth game made everyone feel that something was happening, and a large number of fans gathered outside the Shanghai Sharks Training Center every day, but the "bug" they were expecting, Gao Dazhuang, did not appear once.

Two hours before the start of the fourth game, the Shanghai Sharks Club announced that the media held a pre-match press conference at the Pudong Yuanshen Sports Center.

When a tall man in a suit and leather shoes appeared in a wheelchair at the press conference, everyone at the scene had a sense of foreboding.

Sure enough, Zhang Mingji, general manager of Shanghai Sharks Basketball Club, took the lead in speaking: "Today I am very sorry to tell you a piece of news, that is, Gao Dazhuang will miss all the remaining games in the finals."

As soon as the news came out, the entire venue was in an uproar.

"Tall and strong season reimbursement?"

All the reporters kept whispering to each other, and immediately used computers and mobile phones to release this shocking information to the outside world - news that affected the entire finals pattern.

Zhang Mingji went on to say, "After the last game, after the MRI examination in the hospital, the confirmed injury is a torn ligament, the position is the left leg ankle, this injury will have a long recuperation time, for the purpose of protecting the player, the club has to very regretfully announce that Gao Dazhuang will be reimbursed this season."

Without waiting for reporters to ask questions, the coach of the Shanghai team Panagio continued with a grim face: "It has been a fantastic season, he has played great basketball, he has had a great impact on our season, he is our absolute core, but he is injured, he is injured at this critical moment, we need to adjust, we need to adapt, me and my players must concentrate on playing the rest of the game"

'We don't want to see a big man injured, but it's so cruel and the timing is very bad, his absence will affect the whole team, we have lost a key player, so we need to be more united, we have been in this situation before, hopefully we can get through this,' continued with a sigh as Coach Panagio.

Then the tall man in the wheelchair took over the microphone: "I am very reluctant to leave my teammates, but this injury needs to recuperate, the doctor told me that it takes about 4 weeks to walk normally, 6 weeks for light exercise, and at least 3 months for intense exercise, he advised me to rest well, so as to help the ligament recovery, so I had to leave the court temporarily"

"This season is the first season of my career, I am very grateful for the support of the team and all the fans, I have had a fantastic season with my teammates, we are going to win the championship, but now I have to leave the stadium for a while, but my heart is still with my teammates, I am sure they will be able to win the final victory......"

The press conference did not reserve time for reporters to ask questions, and soon Gao Dazhuang left the venue under the escort of security personnel.

"Da Zhuang, will this injury affect your NBA prospects?"

"Da Zhuang, are you still in time for the London Olympics?"

"Da Zhuang, do you think the Shanghai team can win the championship today?"

……

The press conference caused an uproar in the outside world in just a few minutes.

Hearing this bad news, the entire Shanghai team fans were stunned, and even many fans at the scene cried bitterly, while the other players of the Shanghai team were also silent.

"Hey, what's that look like? I'm just suffering a minor injury," said the tall man who appeared in the team's locker room, looking at a room of silent teammates, and deliberately laughed and teased.

"But Da Zhuang, we need you" Zhai Yi said the words in everyone's hearts bluntly.

"Brother, although I am off the field, my heart is with you" Gao Dazhuang stretched out a fist and touched Zhai Yi's fist, "Our team can have today's results, relying on the efforts of all of us, and the joint efforts of each of us, come on, guys, win the championship"

"Yes, for Da Zhuang, I fought tonight" Yang Kai, a tall and strong classmate, suddenly shouted.

"Okay, for the sake of being strong, I fought hard"

In fact, after accepting the fact that the tall and strong season was reimbursed, the reason why the club chose to hold a press conference before the game was to use this sad news to stimulate the players, so as to beat Beijing at home and win the championship.

In the cheers of the home fans, "tall and strong", "tall and strong", "tall and strong"...., the Shanghai team launched a fierce offensive against the Beijing team at the beginning.

Harris decisively took the tall and strong gun, scoring 16 points in a single quarter in the first quarter, allowing the Shanghai team to suppress the Beijing team at the beginning of the game.

In the first three quarters, the Shanghai team played extremely fiercely, whether it was Landry and Harris, the two foreign aids, or Liu Wei, Wang Yong and other old Jiang, or Zhai Yi, Yang Kai and other "rookies", everyone was tightly tied to the team.

"Unity" is unity, which allowed the Shanghai team to lead the Beijing team by ten points at the end of the third quarter of the game, which made the tall and strong man in a wheelchair on the sidelines also excited.

But as a competitive sport of basketball, the role of "superstar" is immeasurable, a team that relies on the whole may be able to become a strong team with good cooperation, rigorous skills and tactics, but to become a "champion" team, "superstar" will be indispensable.

In the crucial second half, Marbury, the "superstar" of the Beijing team, stepped up, and he first used two consecutive three-pointers to tell everyone in the audience that the game was not over and Beijing did not give up.

Then he hit the inside line of the Shanghai team again and again, and under the almost crazy impact of the former NBA's highest-paid players, neither Liu Wei, the captain of the Shanghai team, nor Harris, Yang Kai, Wang Yong and others could stop Marbury's progress.

With a "beep", with a breakthrough layup by Marbury, he played "2+1" to overtake the score and at the same time let Zhang Zhaoxu, the starting center of the Shanghai team, commit six crimes.

With 3 minutes left before the end of the game, the Beijing team overtook the score for the first time.

In the following time, although Liu Wei and Harris made a Jedi counterattack, they were suppressed by Marbury in time each time.

94:90

In the end, the Beijing team defeated the "lost" tall and strong Shanghai team by four points, won the first victory of the finals, and also avoided the fate of being swept away.

"Big, I'm sorry to miss the rest of the game, I'm enjoying the feeling of playing against him, he's a player with a lot of potential, his future is going to be bright, but now, the Finals will be ours," Marbury, who scored a game-high 45 points, told the media after the game.