224. This is the City of Angels
"Thank you for your help, Bruce. Lee, please go back and watch the game." The old man looked up and said.
These two people are naturally Li Dalong and Genghis Khan, loyal fans of the Pistons, and it is Huaben and a gang of villains who gamble in the back seat.
Rashid put away the king of spades and threw off the ace of hearts, and Billups sighed and scolded: "Rashid, when your mother gave birth to you, were you sure she threw away the embryo and raised the placenta?" The king of spades can block me, will the ace of hearts be better? Oh shit, Ben, why are we in such trouble to pretend to be me? They are just a dog we have in Asia. β
Prince nodded, "It's just that we have our own buses, and they're stronger, and the Angelenos can't smash the car." β
Hua Ben glanced at them and said disdainfully: "Silly bird, although we can't smash our car, will the people of Los Angeles wait outside the airport so stupidly?" You can think about it, if they wait until the end and find out that we've been secretly in the dark, ha, it must be fun. Moreover, we also smeared myself, killing two birds with one stone! β
"What do you mean by secretly crossing Chen Cang?" Hamilton asked, stunned.
"What do you mean by killing two birds with one stone?" Mirisic asked, stunned.
"Grass, two stupid birds with no knowledge." Hua Ben saw that his focus was ignored by this group of people, and he was furious in his heart, and Suo no longer ignored them.
Pattin's mind is a little brighterβanyone who isn't a fool knows the meaning of the latter word: "Killing two birds with one stone is killing two birds with one stone, that's it." β
"Oh." Mirisic nodded in sudden realization, and continued to ask curiously, "What does it mean to kill two birds with one stone?" β
"Grass, come on, come on, hurry up and play cards." Patin ignored the curse, leaving Mirisic so aggrieved: "My English is not good, you still speak black slang." β
Not long ago, in Detroit, the Pistons relied on the big margin gained in the first two quarters to win the game, although they only won by seven points thanks to OK's efforts: the score was 95-102 at the end of Game 2.
With two consecutive losses on the road, the Lakers were forced to the edge of the cliff, and the Lakers fans were also forced to the edge of the cliff. If the Lakers can win a championship, they will make history.
For the Pistons, Wajburn had 32 points, 18 rebounds and five blocks, Mirisic and Billups had 16 points, Rashid had 12 points, Hamilton had 11 points, and Oku and Prince both had eight points. Of those, Billups had 14 assists and Prince had six steals.
For the Lakers, Kobe Bryant scored a team-high 27 points, but he shot 11 of 28, and the shooting percentage was really miserable. O'Neal had 22 points and 14 rebounds, 16 of those 22 points in the second half.
It should be said that the Lakers regained the feeling of three consecutive championships in the second half, and the OK combination shined again, but unfortunately, they woke up late, and the 17 points behind in the first half were really a lot, especially the Pistons were tough defensively and difficult to chase points.
Of course, for Lakers fans, the Finals have just begun, and their beloved team has finally found its rhythm and finally become that invincible and domineering team, which can comfort their hearts: there are still five games to come, and as long as the OK combination awakens, it is not impossible to win four games.
At the press conference, O'Neal's speech gave fans hope: "We played these two games like shit, and we are sorry for the fans who have been supporting the Purple and Gold Dynasty." But this is not the end, this is the beginning, yes, guys, the war is about to start, before it is just a warm-up! I promise you, I'm going to show the Detroiters how good the OK duo is and how terrible F4's anger can be! Pray to God, we won't let you die comfortably! β
Kobe Bryant also supported O'Neal's statement, "In the battle with Philadelphia in 2001, we lost the first game, and then a lot of people said we were finished, because in history, whoever won the first win won the championship. The result? We then won four in a row! It's the same time, it's not a big deal to win four games in a row, we do it a lot, we did it in Philadelphia, but this time it's just Detroit, and you know, even though we changed the opponent, the opponent's head coach didn't change. β
According to the report sent by Irene, the Lakers players are not just talking about it, after returning to the Staples Arena, they started training games with unprecedented enthusiasm, before only Kobe Bryant would stay after the game to practice, and now, everyone on the team has stayed, including O'Neal, who likes to use various reasons to escape training in recent years.
Before the Pistons players boarded the plane, representatives of the Detroit fan group expressed their concerns: "Take care, brothers, we will pray to God that the next time you go back to Detroit, you will have the O'Brien Cup with you, and of course, it's okay if you don't bring it, we still have two home courts." β
To explain, the NBA Finals and the playoffs are not the same, although it is still a best-of-seven system, but the schedule has been changed to 2-3-2, that is, the two teams, the one with the better record has only four home courts, that is, the home court of the first two games and the last two games, and the team with a slightly worse record has the home court of the middle three games, in other words, the Pistons will play three games in Los Angeles.
This is the gap between the rich and the grassroots! If the Pistons lose two in a row, then the rest of the ball doesn't have to be played, the outside tone must be one-sided, and they are dead. It's now the Lakers, who have ten championships in history, have lost two in a row, and the fans are just a little depressed, but not desperate, as the shark said, the war, has just begun.
The 2001 Finals is always the answer to the pain in the heart, but this year's Lakers players always like to talk about things, so as soon as Huaben entered the hotel arranged by the team, AI called:
"Ben, don't fucking be polite, help me teach the damn Angelenites, these hateful aristocratic dogs! You've got the match point, and I'm going to call on my fans to cheer you on and get my revenge! By the way, Ben, I heard that your contract hasn't been negotiated yet? What about us in Philadelphia? Status, fame and big contracts, we're willing to give it to you! β
The Pistons reached the championship, and the AI finally had a red eye, and as long as he could win the championship, he was willing to give up his position as the boss of Philadelphia.
Warburn came to Los Angeles to sneak a sneak peek at Bale and Alba, but as a result, a large number of reporters and fans were ambushed outside the hotel 24 hours a day, Mirisic went hungry in the middle of the night to buy a hamburger, and was besieged, and it is said that he almost died on the way back, and a fan came with a gun!
This time, the hotel arranged by the Pistons is still a Hilton chain hotel, and with Pattin's relationship, Paris is ruthless, and specially discussed with the board of directors to give the Pistons a whole layer of rest! In addition to the players, there are also some die-hard fans of the Pistons, these people are all provided by the team as uncles, and they are role models, and the members are basically people who have been their fans since the establishment of the Pistons.
It's hard to imagine the enthusiasm and obsession of the fans outside the United States, where Lakers fans constantly come up pretending to be waiters or cleaners to disturb the Pistons players. The hotel's security guards are on standby 24 hours a day, and people are checked when they enter and leave, as if they were negotiating on the Middle East issue.
Every year in the playoffs, there will always be problems such as food poisoning among the away players, which are usually suppressed, and basically some die-hard fans in the hotel kitchen are the ghosts. The Pistons eat meals on an impromptu basis and will not be eaten at the Hilton unless necessary.
After two days, on June 14, 2004, the third game of the finals officially began.
Los Angeles, a city occupied by celebrities and media. In this city, you can always see characters who will only appear on the big screen wandering the streets, Brad. Pitt often roared through the streets in his beloved Count Lamborghini sports car, and Stallone occasionally took his son to the PD Center (a children's playground) to have fun. Hathaway likes to take her Chihua dog for a walk in the park, and when you come here, you'll find that superstars don't just live on screen.
There's nothing like the Lakers' annual Finals, when all the stars of Los Angeles come together and pretend to be interested in basketball. When the Pistons players entered, a few big-name faces took hold of some rookies: Denzel. Washington, Rionardo. DiCaprio, Ashton. Coetzee, Demy. Moore, and Cameron. Diaz and Justin, the men poured into the Staples Center from all directions and sat in the golden seats closest to the stadium.
"Look, guys, there are so many stars. Wow, what a lot of beauties! God, Ben, oh, look, it's amazing! Mirisic shouted with joy, unimpressed by the fans' boos.
Padding shrank a little, and he said with some concern: "It turns out that so many movie stars like the Lakers? Damn, that's not great, it's like we're the enemies of the world! β
As the old man of the team, Campbell did the ideological work for them: he had been with the Lakers for two years, and there was no one on the Pistons who knew the place better than he did.
Campbell shook his finger and explained to his teammates, including Warburn, "Don't worry, it's not as bad as you think, except for old Nicholson, everyone else is a liar!" Well, I have to say, Washington is really admirable as an actor, especially since he is still black, which is not easy. However, his claim that he is a Lakers fan is extremely false and even disgusting. You see, what's that thing on his head? β
Huaben followed Campbell's instructions and saw that the handsome old Washington guy was actually wearing a New York Yankee baseball cap and playing silly!
"Trust me, these so-called Lakers movie star fans, they hate real Lakers fans; And the real Lakers fans, they hate them even more! These idiots don't know anything about basketball, and the real fans hate them. Campbell further explained.
"If it were me, I would hate them too, and these people are stupid and there are far more than that." A beautiful female voice rang out from behind her seat, and Bale's beautiful face appeared in Huaben's field of vision, but she ignored the surprise Huaben and introduced, "At the beginning of this season, once in a certain game, Karl. Malone had just two points and five rebounds while he played 32 minutes. As a result, there was a star who talked in a TV interview about how old and bad Malone was, and that he should be removed from the Lakers. But in the next game, in the same position, the same idiot, he became the number one supporter of Malone, because in that game Malone, he scored 25 points and 14 rebounds! I still remember his stupid words, 'Look, I told you Malone is still a good guy, and I knew the Lakers were right to pick him, yes, I'm a fan of his.'" β
"Who is this fool?" Patin asked with a smile and walked out of his nervousness.
Bell lazily pointed to the opposite side of the court, only to see a man wearing a wide-brimmed Dutch straw hat and a pair of "Gucci" sunglasses talking about basketball to the lady next to him, making the girl tremble. Coetzee!
That's right, because the Lakers reached the Finals, and it seems that all the Angelenos have become fans of the Purple and Gold Aristocracy overnight, and it can be said that those stars have to pay a lot of responsibility for this, and it is they who have taken the lead in bringing the bad head, and everyone else is just following the same example.
In Los Angeles, the Lakers are just an expensive jacket for dignitaries and celebrities who wear it only once a year when they need it. For an entire season, no one in Hollywood ever talked about the Lakers, and even Kobe Bryant's big-fledged assault case, these people didn't show a hint of peeping fun. And when the Finals began, all the actors, singers and models immediately scrambled to label themselves as "Lakers fans" overnight.
What infuriates hardcore Lakers fans is that if you go to the scene, you will find that not a single Hollywood star is paying attention to the game! As for the broadcast of NBA games in bars, it is true that many starlets will be there, and there are big screens everywhere to broadcast the games, but the funny thing is that the TV sound is usually turned off so that the DJ can play music.
In the Lakers' fan bar, the stars only glance at the game while waiting for their free vodka. For such pseudo-fans, real Lakers fans are extremely disgusted and call them "fakes". True fans will feel bad when the team loses, but the Lakers' loss will never have an impact in Los Angeles, and those people will never be overwhelmed by the Lakers' record with a big smile on their faces.
Thankfully, the Pistons have the most real fans in the league, and the Detroit workers have little money but are supporting the team, and this time the Pistons traveled to Los Angeles to play on the road, and many devout Christians prayed for them before leaving Detroit.
(To be continued)