On June 15, Game 6 of the Finals series, the venue of the game was the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the home of the Lakers.

This is directly related to the battle of life and death for the Lakers, and the attention it has received is unprecedented.

Before the game started, the Staples Center director began to habitually look for celebrities from all walks of life on the sidelines to watch the game.

The center of entertainment in the United States has never disappointed either. Swift, JAY-Z and other top singers in the United States were all present, and there were also showbiz singers such as Will . Smith, Governor Arnold, Little Plum Leonardo and other stars.

There are too many celebrities who come to the scene, and many of them are unknown to many Chinese fans in front of the TV.

However, sitting on the sidelines, dressed up in a showy manner, the degree of beauty can even surpass that of a Hollywood star. Kerr and Candace. Swanepoel's two top Victoria's Secret supermodels, Chinese fans are no strangers, these two Victoria's Secret angels with Wang Chao have the most scandals, both in appearance and figure are at the top level, and the time came to 2010, both of their careers ushered in a period of rapid rise, and even because of Wang Chao, they developed faster than in the original history, and the coffee position has not lost to a number of Hollywood stars.

Most of the stars present are supporters of the Lakers, but the team supported by these two Victoria's Secret Angels is not a secret, just based on the inexplicable relationship between the two and Wang Chao, there is nothing wrong with their support for the Orlando Magic.

Interestingly, the two women sat on opposite sides of each other as they did in the finals last season, as if they were competing for beauty, comparing them to other Hollywood female stars around them.

In fact, with the rise of their careers, the work of both women began to become busy, and all kinds of announcements needed to fly around the country and even the world, and it was really rare to be able to appear in Los Angeles at the same time to watch the same game.

On the other side, near the Lakers' bench, Khler. Kardashian brushed the hair around her ears, and the carefully dressed Kardashian makeup is exquisite, which is not far behind compared with many Hollywood actresses, perhaps with the Asian aesthetics of Chinese people, I think Kardashian is not beautiful, but in Europe and the United States, such a plump and bold style is still very popular.

But watching the camera constantly focus on the intertwined Miranda and Candace, Kohler. The smile on Kardashian's face was still a little unnatural.

Her eyes couldn't help but glance at Wang Chao, who was warming up at half of the Magic team in the distance, and then looked at her husband Odom here.

One is Wang Chao, a rising star who has just won the MVP of the regular season, and the other is Odom, who is waiting to die in the Lakers, is unmotivated, and can only serve as a substitute player......

What is really most afraid of is contrast, and an unbalanced psychology is constantly brewing and fermenting in Kohler's heart.

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The game started under the watchful eye, and in the first few rounds, Wang Chao was keenly aware that there was a problem with the referee blowing penalties in this game.

Kobe Bryant broke through twice with the ball to the whistle, and in less than 1 minute, Howard and Channing. Frye picked up a foul on each of them.

"Hehe, it's an old routine."

Wang Chao understood in an instant that it was President Stern who began to exert force behind his back.

In the previous game, the two teams fought to 3:2, which seemed to be evenly matched, but the Magic team played more stable than the Lakers, and the probability of winning the game was significantly higher, especially in this sixth game, there is a great possibility to directly defeat the Lakers and win the championship with a total score of 4:2.

In the past two years, the finals between the Magic and the Lakers have received quite high ratings, especially the seven battles last year, which brought extremely high benefits to the league, so according to businessman thinking, if this finals can continue to fight to the seventh game, it will also get more benefits.

The league will have a new collective bargaining in the coming year, and before that, Stern hopes to maximize the benefits possible to help the coalition navigate the collective bargaining more smoothly.

In fact, last year, he hoped that the Lakers could win the championship, so that Kobe Bryant would win the fifth championship of his career, one step closer to Jordan, and would also take advantage of the trend to drive the attention of this year's Finals.

Can Kobe Bryant win two triple crowns like Jordan? This suspense makes people look forward to it just thinking about it.

It's a pity that Wang Chao and the Magic team ruined Stern's fantasy, of course, this is also due to Stern's face, even if he intends to let the referee operate, it will not be as blatant as the future Xiao Hua Business League to the extent of almost shamelessness, so under Wang Chao's strong outburst and whistle killing, the Magic team used seven games to defeat the Lakers, and also shattered Kobe's dream of three consecutive championships.

It's a little less than perfect, but it's a pretty good script right now, at least Stern paid attention to the ratings report after the game started, and the ratings for this game are infinitely close to last year's Finals tie-breaker.

"Sure enough, if the Lakers can win this game and have another tie-breaker, maybe the ratings can reach more than 30!"

Looking at the history of the league, there have only been six games with a single game rating of more than 30, five of which came from the Jordan era, and one was the tiebreaker between the Lakers and the Pistons in the '88 Finals.

In the next 16 years, the ratings of the Riding Finals will reach 31.02, ranking third in history, but now, there has not been an NBA Finals in the past ten years that can close to the 30 number.

And now that there is finally such an opportunity, how can it not make Stern happy.

"The Lakers must win this game! Save the championship suspense for Orlando two days later! ”

With Stern's will and the referee's covert assistance, the Lakers played smoothly in the first quarter, leading the Magic by 6 points at 30:24.

Bryant scored 16 points on 4-of-6 shooting and 8-of-8 free throws in the first quarter, and he alone scored half of the team's first-quarter games and scored one more point.

On the Magic team's side, Howard was plagued by a foul in G2 of the Finals, and received a second foul after about 6 minutes of the first quarter of the game, so he had to leave the court early to avoid the edge.

Van Gundy had already jumped up from the bench and kept roaring at the referee to put pressure, but the referee ignored him.

Wang Chao has long been mentally prepared, and their opponents in this game may be in addition to the Lakers, as well as several referees on the court.

He believes that if this game is lost according to Stern's intentions, and the two sides return to the home court of the Orlando Magic, there should be no more overly biased whistles, after all, Kobe Bryant's second three-in-a-row championship is hopeless, and there is nothing wrong with the league who wins the championship between the two teams.

Kobe Bryant won the championship to complete the return of the revenge king is a good script, Wang Chao Howard defeated the Lakers for the second year in a row and the new king ascended the throne, after all, the Magic team has the second-best 70-12 record in the regular season this season.

But Wang Chao has always disliked ink, and he can win 6 games, why should he make a difference?

Just like the seventh game of last year's finals, even with the assistance of the referee, it does not mean that you can win the game, after all, the current league referees have not yet reached the level of selective blindness and indistinguishable between right and wrong.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Magic changed their lineup.

Lakers head coach Phil. Jackson looked at the lineup of the Magic team, and his expression suddenly became solemn.

"It's ......"

All the commentators who were commenting on the finals also exclaimed.

"In the second quarter of the game, the Magic team sent a special lineup, power forward Channing. Frye stepped into the center position, Wang Chao served as the team's power forward, and the scoring guard and small forward were Jamal who came off the bench. Crawford & Revott. Ariza! ”

"The Magic team actually let Howard, who only played 6 minutes in the first quarter of the game, continue to sit on the bench, it seems that the 6 points behind in the first quarter of the game did not make them impetuous, but this lineup is too weak in the face of the Lakers' twin tower combination? Can Wang Chao and Frye withstand the Lakers' Gasol and Bynum's offense? ”

"The Lakers replaced Odom and still played the small forward position of the team, so the average height of the Lakers is much higher than that of the Magic, and basketball games are often a competition of height, and it is not wise for the Magic to give up Howard and send such a small lineup."

Those who commented on the Magic lineup could not have imagined that in the future, small-ball tactics would become the big wave of the times, forcing most teams in the league to make changes and making the role of traditional centers weaker and weaker.

The lineup that the Magic team is sending now is a classic small-ball tactical lineup, with three-point shooting ability from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position, and a full sense of space.

As for the so-called Lakers interior twin towers...... Wang Chao didn't put it in his eyes at all, if the small-ball tactics were successful, just rely on Gasol and Bynum, open their arms and let them throw, how many points can they throw in?

In the future, there will always be people who say that if the league is still in the era of center forwards, the small-ball tactics will not have any way to survive at all.

But we must respect the objective facts, for outside players, when the advent of rules such as handcheck, three-point foul and free throws, and the gradual improvement of blocking and pick-and-roll tactics, the living environment is completely different from that of the 80s and 90s.

Similarly, the emergence of rules such as three seconds for defense and five seconds for the back, and the cylinder principle has also made the center's lethality under the basket continue to decrease sharply.

The performance and performance of players are directly related to the rules of the game and the development of basketball, and it is not reasonable to use this way to praise the past and disparage the present.

And even in the 90s, when the big four centers parachuted into this league, could they really end the small-ball era without changing the rules of the basketball game?

Peak O'Neal is so awesome, especially after the other four centers have retired one after another, the offensive end is known as unmatched, and I haven't seen him average 30+ seasons per game in the regular season, and the highest score in his career in the playoffs is 46 points, and he may not be able to win three consecutive championships without Kobe's assistance.

Of course, this kind of conjecture of Guan Gong and Qin Qiong can't convince anyone.

Some people think that O'Neal is extremely fast-paced in the small-ball era, with a surge in the number of rounds per game, and he can still drag his 160-kilogram body at his peak for 48 minutes in games that require constant round-trip running, and can chase defense outside the three-point line every game, scoring an average of 50+ or even 60+ points per game, and the default shark slashing tactic does not exist, so what can you do? It can only be said that the peak shark is indeed invincible.

Wang Chao feels that the rules of the league have now applied to the play of small-ball tactics, but there has not yet been a splash brother outside partner like Curry Thompson to break the existing situation.

Wang Chao himself can definitely act as Curry, and although there is no Thompson in the Magic team, a group of shooters with a three-point shooting rate of more than 40% are still useful.

The most important thing is that the Lakers' "little sharks" and "big sharks" may be seventeen or eighteen Howard distances, so there is nothing to fear.

Wang Chao bet right, when the Magic team sent this set of small-ball tactical prototype lineup, the Lakers were a little stunned at first, but quickly reacted, and immediately chose to hoist the ball to the inside twin towers to attack without thinking.

Since the Magic team is so generous, how can we be polite?

The first to receive the ball was Gasol, holding the ball with his back against Wang Chao, Gasol tentatively turned his back to exert force, and then found that he did not move.

Wang's 86 is not dominant compared to most interior players, but this definitely does not include Gasol.

Gasol, who found that his strength was not superior, observed Wang Chao's position again, and then was surprised to find that Wang Chao's defensive footsteps on the inside were very solid, and it was not at all like the outside world said that the defense was mediocre.

This is natural, most of the season's training, so that Wang Chao's defensive ability value has been greatly improved, such as the interior defensive ability value has increased from the initial 65 to 70, although it is not particularly high, but the temporary topping, pretending to be quite deterrent.

Gasol did not risk using his inside steps to attack Wang Chao, his current position is not good, once he can't pass Wang Chao, rash attack will only miss a great offensive opportunity, after all, he is not alone in the Lakers' interior advantage at this time.

With a flick of his hand, Gasol passed the ball to Bynum on the other side.

Bynum faced Channing. Frye, with a small shark weighing 2 meters and 13,129 kilograms, eats Channing alone. Frye was basically fine.

In fact, Bynum dribbled twice with his back, squeezed under the basket with his strong lower body strength, and then raised his hand and shot a skillful small hook hand.

After learning from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for a few years, Bynum's hook moves have been pretty good, and the movements seem to be very standard, and at this distance under the basket, Channing. When Frye was scrambled and didn't jump up in time to defend, the hit was simply ......

"Bang ——!"

The basketball hits the back frame and bounces off the rim.

Gasol: "......"

Bryant: "......"

Lakers head coach Phil Brown sitting on the sidelines. Jackson couldn't help but turn his head to look aside, in the Lakers assistant coaching group, the legendary "Sky Hook" Abdul-Jabbar lowered his head, and kept silently thinking in his heart.

"I don't know this product, I don't know this product, I haven't called him, what are you doing with me?"

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