Super Basketball Manager

Chapter 112 Kobe's Story—Where Did the Time Go?
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"You should be better integrated into the team, you should help your teammates get involved in the game, you should be friends with everyone..."

"Yeah, okay!" Bryant, 22, said.

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At 3 minutes and 11 seconds of the fourth quarter, just as the Houstonians were still complacent about their unbeatable self just now, a black mamba-style lightning suddenly spit out its poisonous snake apricot and rushed towards him...

Whether you are still a rocket flying from space city to outer space, or a stinky cockroach that can't be killed in Texas, etc., he is always like a supreme god taking a nap, the question is when will he wake up...

With one step, Ariza was thrown cleanly into outer space, and then facing the giant palms of Scola and Hayes, he jumped without hesitation...

First, the right hand puts the ball in a posture that is about to be dunked, and then waits until the two have landed from the air, and then switches to the left hand to pull the bar from the other side of the basket...

The problem was in the air. He deliberately found Hayes, who made 5 fouls, and when everyone's open mouths almost fell to the corns, the whistle sounded and the ball scored...

All the people who had fantasies about victory just now, all the experts who were about to hang themselves just now, and their faces were bleeding, suddenly woke up...

They sighed: "Oh, so there is Kobe..."

Turns out there was Kobe...yep.

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One day in 2000, the Lakers got on the bus.

Kobe sat in the last row, put on his headphones, and looked out the window indifferently. Outside the window was a sunny field in Indianapolis. He smiled at the sultry scenery.

The big fat man was always surrounded by people, talking, laughing, and chattering. They were discussing what happened to singing K and dancing on weekends, discussing the measurements of Jenny Buss and other Hollywood actresses, and discussing hunting in the forests of Minnesota after the finals...

Kobe still looked out the window silently, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.

He didn't understand why he couldn't just go his own way after the game and go his separate ways, instead of admiring their silly jokes and cheap pranks?

These people are just his colleagues, because the basketball game must have 5 people on the court, so they get together to play...

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111:108.

All the hopes of Aerospace City are placed on the boy named OJ-Mayo who wears the fake No. 23 half-white jersey. This may also be the bloody soap opera of 23VS24 that many people want to see.

It's just that the "23" who was so noisy just now suddenly seemed to be a different person. Whether it was shooting or breaking through, they all seemed submissive and trembling...

That is the trembling and fear that a person instinctively sends out when facing a ferocious beast. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is creepy...

Kobe, with his piercing eyes, is always waiting for any challenger to come...

If there is anything impeccable in the world, it is the problem Mayo is facing right now...

"Be careful behind!" Ariza reminded loudly, just as Mayo turned his head, the ball in his hand was taken away by Kobe in an instant...

If, against the Los Angeles Lakers, your defender is Kobe...

Then congratulations, it may indirectly reflect your value in this team.

If, against the Los Angeles Lakers, your defender is Kobe...

Well, it's a pity that you will be hit by hell all the time in this game...

It’s like eating 20 acceleration buffs in a row, no one knows how fast Kobe is, but in the blink of an eye, like a bolt from the blue, he heard the crack of the basket, and then his roar after punching...

42 points... He underestimated and scored 40+ without knowing it, which is already commonplace for him...

At 118:110, Ron's palms were already sweating deeply. Maybe the game would be over just at 106:98.He knows that encountering the wrath of the gods too early will definitely give everyone a reason not to play for a long time...

This is what you forced me to do.Kobe muttered silently.

Even so, he still returned to the defense without any expression, as if everything that happened just now was taken for granted...

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In the summer of 2004, when Fatty left, the Lakers really became Kobe's team.

You can imagine the awkward atmosphere in the Lakers locker room: Everyone kept Kobe at arm's length, submissive on the surface, and cursed behind their backs.

Does the sparrow know the ambition of the swan?
There is no way that even Smart Parker, who is nicknamed "Reaper", and Kwame Brown, the famous parallel importer in the league, can start the Los Angeles Waste Team. He is the only one who resists his long guns and cannons every day, forcing everyone to join him against no matter how strong the opponent is.

Kobe made a clumsy pre-game speech, applauded hard, trying to inspire the fighting spirit of the team, but what Odom thought in their hearts was "God bless, if he passes me later, I must make a shot."

Because no one wants to be scolded by him after the game, no one wants to look at his gloomy paranoid face, and fight you for a small mistake...

please!We just want to get a good salary and support our family, so there is no need to work hard for your lofty ambitions!
Sometimes, Kobe also felt disgusted by this kind of indifference and distance, so he tried to follow the advice of the coaches, pretended to be good friends with everyone, patted shoulders and backs, winked, entertained guests and gave gifts everywhere.

"Hmm... so if this is the case, I will teach you to win the championship next season..."

The problem is, if a person who has always been arrogant and ruthless suddenly does this, apart from making himself and the people around him feel extremely awkward, it will have no other effect.

那一年，湖人34胜48负，季末14连败，11年来第一次被挡在季后赛大门外。场均27。6分、5。9个篮板、6次助攻的科比，在MVP投票中被剃光头，惜败给18胜64负、场均10。8分的P。J。布朗——后者得到了1票。

The problem is, apart from appearing in Lukai for a while at the end of his career, who still remembers what he does?Ask for popular science.

No one can imagine how Kobe survived those years.

In those days, he had almost disappeared from the league's mainstream vision. There were no promotional videos, no endorsements, no advertisements, and no whistles. Instead, he was replaced by the overwhelming news of "the impolite Kobe Bryant almost beat David Copperfield so angry".

In ESPN's "who you don't want to be teammates with" votes, Bryant always comes out on top.

By the way, there is also the famous Eagle County...

A girl who is ugly and not very attractive, claims that Kobe XXOOed her, and then she is suddenly reported to have a mental breakdown, and after a while, she is revealed to be depressed, and so what after a while...

And so on.

We all know the end result...

Disappeared after 500 million...

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Everyone was surprised to see that the familiar No. 24 turned on the god-killing mode. Kobe cut in fiercely, made jump shots crazily, defended desperately, passed the ball hard, and released all the energy accumulated throughout the game in the last few minutes.

Mayo was stunned, and then Jordan Hill, who replaced Hayes, also recited 5 times...

"Thank you, Houston. I need to feel this pain." Kobe Bryant said as he returned to defense.

At 1 minute and 58 seconds in the fourth quarter, 116 to 108.

Barkley: "This game can be divided into two parts. In the first part, Kobe fell asleep. In the second part, Kobe woke up."

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At 4 a.m., when the sleepless nights of Los Angeles, the city of angels, are coming to an end, a man is getting out of bed, working towards his fourth championship...

Whenever someone asks: "Kobe, why can you maintain such a good touch? Why can you get a fixed salary of 1 million a year?"

"Have you ever seen Los Angeles at 4 in the morning?" Bryant asked rhetorically.

Before Game 2009 of the 5 Finals, all the reporters asked this question: Why doesn't Kobe smile?
In Jerry West's view, this question is extremely stupid.

"Why in the hell are you laughing?" the Lakers godfather asked. "I'll tell you, I never saw Michael Jordan laugh in the Finals."

"In 1972, at the age of 34, I finally won the only championship ring in my career, and this was the worst time he played in the 9 finals. I played well in the past, but I didn't win anything. Now I did a mess, but the championship came. Fate is really unfair to me." West, the godfather of the Lakers, continued to say sadly.

What about Kobe?Among the league's top superstars, he has always been the one with the worst performance in the finals.Fortunately, his best ever, is this one.

场均32。4分、5。6个篮板、7。4助攻、1。4抢断、1。4次盖帽、命中率43%，个人总决赛史上最高的40分，一个永载史册的拉杆，美丽的瓦妮莎，可爱的纳塔利亚和吉安娜。

These are the stories of the paranoid Kobe Bryant.

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Dragic broke out of the frame with a desperate blow, and the Argentine behind him pushed Bynum away unbelievingly, and with the last bit of strength in his body, he made up for the ball...

118 to 112.The Argentine's effort put the suspense on hold...

1 minutes and 46 seconds...

"Are you still coming? Houston?" Kobe murmured.

Step one step, Cross-over, followed by Kobe's signature black mamba snake breakthrough, Ariza instinctively slipped backwards...

The time is fixed at 1 minute and 40 seconds...

Accompanied by that god-like man, he stepped back 3 points and easily entered the frame...

9 years, where has the time gone?
It is enough to turn the proud son of heaven who doesn't know how to feel sad into a restrained person who is trapped in the world, and turn the passionate boy who skipped class to watch the football into an ordinary office worker who is obedient...

On June 2000, 6, the moment the final whistle sounded, the 20-year-old Kobe Bryant, like a child who had just scored 22 points in an exam, jumped towards Shaquille O'Neal with cheers and accepted the tight hug of this huge brother.

Then, Kobe won the championship trophy, Shaq won the finals MVP trophy, returned to the locker room, and washed it with champagne.

At the same time, on Figueroa Avenue in Los Angeles, countless young people in yellow or purple clothes were screaming, singing, dancing and kissing crazily, setting fire to more than 70 police cars by the way, and the night sky around Staples was as bright as day.

Nine years later, at the Amway Arena in Orlando, the 9-year-old Kobe Bryant, like a big brother and an elder, held Derek Fisher tightly in his arms, rubbing his forehead affectionately-even though the old fish was 31 years and 4 days older than him.

Then, he picked up the championship trophy—and the Finals MVP trophy from Bill Russell, and returned to the locker room, washing it with champagne.

Meanwhile, Figueroa Avenue in Los Angeles was brightly lit, countless young people in Lakers jerseys celebrated all night, and many unlucky police cars were burning.

Time is so wonderful.Sometimes you feel like nothing has changed, and sometimes you feel like everything has.In fact, most of the time, this kind of change is only a little bit...

(End of this chapter)