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Chapter five hundred and eighteen the only loser

“Wish!”

Kobe caught up with Wei Xia.

Wei Xia turned her head to look at him, not knowing what he wanted to do.

"I don't know what to say." Kobe gently patted Wei Xia's chest, "I support you."

Wei Xia said expressionlessly: "But you still shot that broken advertisement."

"If you follow the follow-up, you know that I'm just simply helping the Sudanese raise funds." Kobe said with a good feeling, "I'm not the kind of idiot you say that you're going to resist the whole world when your brain is hot."

At this time, we still have to come up with the arguments from the US House of Representatives.

I think you're an idiot, but I have no proof.

Wei Xia and Kobe returned to the locker room together. When he heard about his feat in the visiting room, most of his teammates expressed Risbye to Wei Xia.

Wei Xia confronted the media and became the front page of major newspapers the next day.

Although the reporters are well versed in the way of cutting and selectively intercepting Wei Xia's speeches, there are videos left on the press conference.

In order to save Wei Xia's little image, the Lakers sent Wei Xia's 30-minute interview in the visiting room to the emerging video website youtube that night.

Wei Xia's remarks brought about extensive discussions and formed a social phenomenon.

Not many people agree with him, and his image plummeted. Advertising and sponsors except Adidas are considering termination.

He lost a lot, but at least, he showed his attitude. Moreover, the league is secretly preventing players from continuing to participate in the Sudan incident.

This storm has affected too many people, and it should be over.

Regardless of whether Wei Xia is willing or not, he is the only one who will suffer in the end. The NBA players who shoot advertisements to boycott the Olympics will not be affected; the Hollywood stars who slander China during the interview will also be able to escape unscathed; the league has repaired its relationship with China in a timely manner, and the NBA live broadcast, which was once banned, has returned to China again.

Wei Xia was the only person who was injured.

The only person who has been placed in a correct position and has not been influenced by public opinion.

The only one who told the truth instead of following the crowd.

But this is the person who has become the only loser in this storm.

He lost his popularity, media favorability, and uncountable economic losses, and became the unique "villain" in contemporary America.

Perhaps these effects will be washed away by time, but this is by no means something that can be done in one or two years. It is a huge blow to those who regard him as the Lord of Angel City after Kobe.

To become the master of Angel City, you never rely solely on your strength.

From logos, to Magicians, Sharks and Kobe today, only Tiangou from the 1970s does not match the Lakers' appearance.

This is true in history. In the 1970s, the Lakers' image declined and their record was unbearable in a few years. The boss eventually sold the team to Jerry Bass. Since then, the Lakers ushered in a thirty-year heyday.

No one does not recognize Wei Xia's strength and potential, but now his public image is in a mess. NBA is no longer the minor league on the verge of bankruptcy in the 1970s and 1980s, but a world-class sports league. As the most brilliant pearl in the league (Lakeman), the person wearing it should be Kobe, the shark of the past, the magician at his peak, and Jerry West, who became the nbalogo, and can be used as a representative of the image displayed by the United States to the outside world.

Wei Xia doesn't look like a product of the contemporary sports world, but he is a living existence and is preparing to sweep the West with his team to enter the finals.

The day after the Western Conference Finals Game 3 ended, the Lakers held a belated MVP award-winning press conference for Kobe.

Kobe brought his MVP trophy to the scene and spoke happily.

"It's like in Hollywood, like the plot in the movie. I can't win this award by my own strength alone. I don't know how to thank my teammates. They are my guys and my brothers. Let's prepare for tomorrow together... I don't know that this award will be awarded to me at the end, I'm surprised that I've played well in the past few seasons, but our team hasn't been so good. It just happened naturally."

This is a belated speech because he has long been MVP and the trophy has been left at his house for several days.

It was not until he led the Spurs 3-0 that he announced a press conference, which was simply overly conservative.

Listen to his speech, is this the boy who was exposed to quarrel with his teammates and coaches in the locker room in the summer of 2004? Is it the boy who quarrels with Malone and quarrels with sharks?

Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw said: "Now Kobe has become a better teammate than in the past three consecutive championships. He has become more mature. He was really not a good teammate in the past, but no one has put in more effort than him, so today he did it. In the past, he didn't play with his teammates, but now as far as I know, he always has dinner with his teammates."

Kobe has no technical shortcomings.

But basketball is such a profound science.

Being the best person on the court does not mean you can succeed.

Once upon a time, his competitiveness, paranoia and arrogance brought him to the trough of 2004, but it was his competitiveness and paranoia that made him survive all the blows.

Whether it is team record, personal ability, or data performance, when he put his efforts to compete for personal honors in the competition for victory, his paranoia made him a good leader. He himself changed from an angel to a black mamba, and then returned to his peak image in the summer of 2008. Finally, he reached the peak of the basketball world, with his own strength. But this time, he no longer fought against the world - he made peace with the world.

Kobe's image began to improve, and the Lakers have five wins to achieve success.

They set their sights on the east at the right time.

The Celtics, who are invincible in the regular season, have not had the playoffs in the Eastern Conference as they do in the regular season.

In the first round of the Atlanta Hawks, who could not even enter the playoffs in the West, they even fought to the seventh game.

Before the Hawks fell, it is hard for fans not to remember the Nuggets Black Eight Supersonics in 1984, the Warriors Black Eight Mavericks last year, and the 68-win Celtics in 1973 were eliminated by the Knicks in the semi-finals - but if there were no such suspense in the playoffs, it wouldn't be so eye-catching.

The Hawks' tenacious battle reminds people of the seventh match between Bird and Wilkins, and the 50 points in a single game in Petit's finals half a century ago, which prevented the Celtics from reaching a ten-game championship that could have been possible.

Before the fourth game of the division finals arrived, when Wei Xia was fine, he would watch the playoff video of the Celtics.

The Eagles' team building strategy is very simple, namely the 6-foot-8-inch tactic.

The 6-foot-8-inch tactic is theoretically a utopian existence.

Pat Riley once predicted ten years ago: "In the future, five people will be around 206 cm."

When they said this, Anthony Walker and Kevin Garnett tried their first cry.

The Hawks believed Riley's words and firmly followed this strategy to build a team.

So we can explain why they don’t want Wei Xia, and want Marvin Williams, who was beaten by Wei Xia in the finals but had a higher ceiling.

They did form a bird lineup with amazing athletic abilities.

Wei Xia looked at the Celtics' tactics again, and there was no difference between them and the regular season. The multiple covers and roll cuts at the top of the arc, Garnett was the high-level support behind the axle, and quickly split into the wings to seek singles or open shots.

Simply put, arc top transfer and high-level multiple cover roll cuts are the main themes. However, in the first few minutes of the game, after the multi-arc top cover roll cuts, the Eagles' neat average of 6-foot-8 gives them an amazing rotation speed and can closely follow any pass.

Ray Allen, Pierce often cut around the screen and received the pass but failed to get rid of his opponent.

The Celtics, who won with experience and cooperation, met a team that was most suitable for them in terms of physical structure.

The reason why a strong team is a strong team is not just because they can play a round of offense, but they know very well what to do when tactics are not working. Boston rushed to the offensive rebound in the seventh game and greeted Atlanta's penalty area with a tsunami.

The real game is only half a quarter. The masters fight with one sword and decide. Similarly, the young soldier faces the veteran. The former will feel dizzy when he sees himself bleeding. The Celtics' offense is not a complete opportunity. They take action in a narrow area that cannot be released, score in the frontcourt rebounds, and piece together inside and outside. Atlanta leads with a big score at the end of the first quarter. Atlanta is in chaos, and the overall situation has been decided.

Who is the best player in the seventh game of the Celtics in the first round?

Weisha's choice was Rajon Rondo. Only he and Garnett knew the target of defeating the Eagles. They were like sharks. They could not stop if they smelled blood and didn't eat a skeleton left. The bigger the score difference, the more desperate the Eagles were.

So, even though the score difference reached 30 points, Rondo still added pressure to Mike Bibby from the first half, and quickly attacked immediately. After completing a top pass and cutting to the bottom line, he turned over and received the hand-passing ball to the bottom line. He was like a diligent kitchen handyman and handed the meat and meat plates everywhere. This hardworking bee kept the Celtics moving forward until they completely crushed Atlanta.

For the eagles, it was a cruel night. It was like the already captured Samarhan who was massacred by Genghis Khan.

In the third quarter, Pachulia had already stopped when she watched a ball rolling towards the sideline, but Percy walked around from behind, grabbed the ball, quickly attacked the frontcourt, dunked... This is the evil wisdom of the finals players.

They know how to continue to give you a knife, and then give you another knife, and cut it inch by inch.

For the Celtics, this is not a good series.

They exposed some weaknesses: they have no position advantage against teams with little defensive shortcomings; their opponents are hard to open the line if they are fast in defense; their No. 2 position was fixed by Joe Johnson; there are no offensive weapons at the low post; their coach is extremely 213.

However, in the seventh game, Mount Tai collapsed temporarily and did not change color; it was excellent in non-technical links; it was strong in details; it was determined to win; and the bloodline of the Celtics who once relied on to win 16 championships: in the seventh game, the opponents were ashamed, but they were full of energy.

Looking at this seventh game alone, the Celtics looked quite revived. Wei Xia never expected that they would be involved in the bloody battle of tiebreak in the semi-finals.

Last time it was the Hawks, and the semi-finals were the Cavaliers led by LeBron James.

Wei Xia didn't have enough time, so he couldn't take advantage of the break from the end of the Western Conference Finals Game 3 to finish the Celtics' game.

He heard that the Celtics and the Pistons could also drag on the seventh game. If they can win the Spurs in Game 4, they will get a few more days of rest, and then there will be plenty of time to watch the video.

Thinking of this, it seems more urgent to solve the Spurs.
Chapter completed!
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