You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 565 The Hill in the Dream

Wei Xia is no stranger to his situation.

His consciousness is attracted by a force, which is different from the feeling of traveling through the old time before.

The rhythm of entering the old time is soothing, and he sometimes controls his consciousness to sing, but this time, he can't sing at all, he just feels that the time and space around him are torn apart, and his consciousness is pulled away, and then taken to another time and space.

Although Wei Xia doesn't know where the unknown force will take him, he can be sure that this is the first time he has been summoned by a superstar after five years in 2004.

The last time he crossed into a superstar to play an important game was in 1979, when he crossed over to "Skywalker" David Thompson and participated in the game with the highest score in a single game of his career.He changed the outcome of that game, he changed the way Skywalker played.

He didn't know if he was doing the right thing or not, and as a result, he got Skywalker's athleticism.

Who is this time?
Wei Xia's confusion didn't last long.

A flash of light closed his eyes, and then he heard a deafening cheer, and then the heat, the dull, the fetid environment.

He opened his eyes hard!

He recognized it at once—it was old Boston Garden!

Who did he cross over to?

I have been possessed twice before, once in a hotel bed and once in a locker room.

And this time, it was a warm-up before the game.

Before Wei Xia could use his body's brain to recall the philosophical question "Who am I?", a dozen meters in front of them, a tall black man was warming up with the most famous shot in NBA history.

The man was about 2 meters tall, Mediterranean bald, but not shaved, wearing goggles and long thick yellow socks, well, even if Wei Xia didn't recognize him, he recognized his moves.

That is the unique "skyhook"!
Then, Wei Xia saw other people, Cobra James Worthy who had not yet won the title of "Mr. Key", future bad team controller Byron Scott, Wannian virgin/iron man AC Green, Michael "Clay is my son" Thompson, Michael "Magic is my father" Cooper.

And "Magic" Elvin Johnson.

Next to Wei Xia, on the left is the legendary Kevin McHale with a wingspan of more than 240 cm;
Behind him is Robert Parrish, who is more serious than any class teacher;

The Gary Payton before Gary Payton-Dennis Johnson, but his achievements and feats of winning the championship on behalf of the Sonics in 1979 and becoming the FMVP are incomparable to Payton, who can only hug Shark and Wade's thighs in his later years, praise their stinky feet, and blow their rainbow farts;

It doesn't look like Danny Ainge who came to play;

Also, Bill Walton, who was sitting off the court and couldn't play because of an injury.

Therefore, Wei Xia didn't even need to use the head of the person he possessed to recall, to know who he had transmigrated into.

He received a pass from Angie, and shot according to muscle memory from a position one meter beyond the three-point line at the top of the arc.

The moment Wei Xia raised the ball and shot it, the soft feeling was something that Wei Xia had never experienced in reality.

"Shh!"

"Strike, 'Legend'."

Wei Xia smiled, that's right, the person he traveled through today was his father's lifelong idol - "Legend of Larry" Byrd.

After a little brainstorming, he learned that it was 1987, and the game he was going to play was this year's finals, Game4.

The legendary Game4 made his father hard to let go of his life. The only thing he knew about this game was to match Jordan's shot of the century and Xiao Tian, ​​who scored the two most famous goals in the NBA in the 20th century.

So, what was the situation of the Celtics in 1987?
Miserable in one word.

The death of Bird's successor Len Bias last year was the beginning of the Celtics' turn from prosperity to decline.

After winning three MVPs, Bird had one of the greatest stretches of his career in the spring of 1987, single-handedly dragging an aging team through three tough, drawn-out series even though McHale broke his foot (heroically continued), Bill Walton and Scott Wedman (SG/SF) were injured (both out), and Parish and Ainge sprained their ankles (playing through the injury).

Well, it seems, just hurt 7 of the best 5 guys on the team.

When the Celtics were about to be wiped out in the closing seconds of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals, Bird saved the season with his famous tackle on the Smiling Assassin, the closest Boston Garden has come since the "Havlicek steal," as everyone jumped up and down in ecstasy.That's the greatest thing in sports.

That's "Bird's Thief".

Two games later, he hit a series of magic shots, killing Detroit.

Wei Xia thought to himself, what would he get if he successfully finished the game?
Bird's shooting touch?
Bird's basketball IQ?
Or something else Wei Xia couldn't tell?
Wei Xia thinks he knows the NBA in the 60s very well, so what about the 80s?After so many years, he finally played a game in the old days after he was born. .

The cinematic confrontation between Bird and Magic rekindled interest in the NBA and a historic rivalry between the Celtics and Lakers that had been dormant since 1969, elevating it to the greatest championship rivalry in American professional sports history.

This rivalry has met 12 times in the Finals, with Boston currently holding a 9-3 advantage.

The Lakers-Celtics rivalry is a bit like MLB's New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers

Los Angeles sports teams always seem to be the one sided by the dynasty.

In the confrontation between the Yankees and the Dodgers, the former also suppressed the latter with an absolute advantage of 8-3.

This is the most prolific World Series opponent in baseball history, and the history of the two teams has many similarities.

Interestingly, both teams' title races have shown that the East Coast team has nearly the same upside against the runner-up westward to Los Angeles.

The Lakers lost to the Celtics in their first 8 meetings.

Since basketball has become more popular, fan interest in baseball has waned slightly from the heydays of the Dodgers and Yankees, and the enmity between the Lakers and Celtics has morphed into a larger, more modern, more direct rivalry.

Boston vs. Los Angeles also has more of the iconic characters and personal feuds that characterize the sport and are amplified by a culture defined by increasing individualism.

You must know that "saving" the NBA has never been so easy in the literal sense. The right time, place and people--heroes (Magic Bird, Stern) who came into being at the right time, the timely arrival of live cable television ([-]), and the emptiness after the heyday of the racist wave just happened to be filled by Hu Kai.

The three matchups between the Lakers and the Celtics in the 80s symbolized the highest level of confrontation in NBA history.

Because of the era, there are few teams, no salary cap, unsound rules, and a few stupid managers and owners who are not named here. They made the Lakers and Celtics, as well as the 80ers in the early 76s. As long as they confront and collide, you can usually see 7-8 future Hall of Famers and 9 All-Stars on the court.

You can say that this extreme of extreme strength and weakness affects the balance of the game, but you also need to know that before this, the NBA was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Just like the Warriors of the future, it was the result of the collision of all small probability events, but it happened that in the 80s, three teams touched the pulse of the times at the same time, and seized the opportunity to create an amazing team.

Wearing Bird's jersey, No. 33, Versia is still trying to come to grips with his brief new identity.

I'm Larry Bird?Greatest small forward of all time?The slow and hurtful white guy who saved the league with Magic?

is this real?
Don't let him think too much, the pre-match warm-up session is over.

Players from both sides are on the field, ready to start the game.

CBS host Brent Musburger tactfully said at the start of the telecast: "Everybody wants the series to be tied tonight, they should play seven games like it's 1984!"

At the same time, he likened the two teams to Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, who hate each other and have very different styles.

"Larry!" KC Jones yelled, tugging Wesha by the arm, "show those bastards what you're capable of!"

If it was Byrd, what should be said?
Wei Xia remembered all the legends about Bird, and then he sneered confidently like Bird himself: "Prepare a cigar and put it in your pocket, it will be needed at the end of the game."

⑴An All-Star player lost in history.

(1960) The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles in 1958, and the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in [-].

([-]) Stern scoffed at the saying that the Magic Birds saved the NBA. He believed that it was not the Magic Birds that saved the NBA, but the cable television broadcast.

(End of this chapter)