You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 685

"Los Angeles, every time I come here, I can always think of the past."

Wei Xia saw the plane landing through the window and knew they had arrived.

The regular season rematch between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Lakers is scheduled for December 12. If there is no gimmick of Kobe's comeback, then tonight is probably a show for the favorites to beat the weak teams in the West.

Kobe's comeback has made the topic of this battle soaring.

As soon as the 76ers players got off the plane and out of the airport, the reporters from LA surrounded them and asked questions, making up their minds to take out something.

"Have you contacted Kobe?"

"We're in touch every day."

"Oh, what are you talking about?"

"Privacy is involved, I can't say it." Wei Xia has a way of pretending to be stupid, "But it's not that I can't reveal a little secret to you, so I'll tell you about it."

The reporters' eyes were bright and their faces were ruddy. They didn't expect Wei Xia to be so easy to talk to since they hadn't seen each other for a few months.

If he was so easy to deal with when he was in LA, why would the reporter friends catch him black?
"I'm just telling you guys." Wei Xia whispered a well-known secret, "Kobe told me that he's coming back tonight."

After finishing the scene seriously, Wei Xia walked out of the airport with a smile on his face, got on the team bus, and left.

Every reporter knows that he has been tricked, but he can only suffer.

The 76ers left the airport and went to the bar to settle in. Then, it was time to rest and supplement nutrition. Everything was just for tonight's game.

Before the game, Wei Xia did not contact Kobe.

The league has been promoting his comeback for many days, advertising everywhere in the Los Angeles area, so that fans must watch the game.

Fans expect Bryant to be able to return to the level of Wilkins.

But in fact, this is impractical.The usual Achilles tendon recovery takes six to nine months. During the period from 1998 to 2011, among the 18 players who ruptured the Achilles tendon, only 8 continued to play in the NBA for more than a year after their comeback.

Some of the top players, like Dominic Wilkins and Elton Brand, have been in convalescence for more than ten months.The most important thing is that in the past 15 years, none of the 18 NBA players who ruptured their Achilles tendon was as old as Kobe when they were injured.

Three and a half months after the injury, Bryant was already triumphant, showing the fruits of his labor: he was able to walk and practice strength.Encouraged by this, he yelled: to participate in the pre-season training camp, to come back from the beginning of the regular season!

He had the guts, but the Lakers didn't swallow the bear's heart. After the inspection, all the indicators were found to be bad. The management grabbed the inspection report and waved to Kobe: Take a good rest, you!
Since he has worked with Kobe for four years (strictly speaking, three years), Wei Xia has a good understanding of this person. He loves to be a hero by nature, and he has to create opponents if he has no opponents.The advantages and disadvantages of his playing are all here.

During the 2010 playoffs, against the Suns and the Celtics, he survived while pumping water in his right knee. He had surgery on his right knee just one month after finishing the Finals.His shooting percentage and offensive efficiency were poor in those two series, but he still helped the team reach the Finals.

As for various minor injuries before 2010, such as broken bone at the tip of the right index finger, inflammation of the middle joint of the ring finger, spasm of the left ankle, right knee, back spasm and groin, there is no need to go into details.Like many stars of the older generation, he has the iron blood of the 60s/70s/80s/90s that can't get out of the front line with minor injuries-but one thing to say, is this not a minor injury?

He ruptured his Achilles tendon against the Thunder last season. If he hadn't worked so hard, maybe the result would have been different.

In view of the fact that he has been playing in a negative environment, Wei Xia boldly predicts that the Achilles tendon injury will affect his athletic ability, and mentally, it will have some positive effects.

When Wesha ran into the Staples Center.Many fans applauded and cheered him, and a few ignorant young people booed him.

He no longer wears No. 6, but today, dozens of fans wearing No. 6 jerseys appeared at the scene.

They wore Wechat's No. 6 to support the Sixers' No. 76.

Wei Xia met Kobe and recovered from that devastating injury.

"Will we see you in the finals this year?"

Wei Xia asked with a smile.

Kobe shook his head with a rare sight, "No, I have to take it easy this year, you can go to the finals for me, and last year's share will also be counted."

Wei Xia gently bumped into Kobe's shoulder, "I'll definitely go and see."

The Lakers are in an embarrassing period, and they still have the capital to enter the playoffs, as long as they keep the Gasol brothers.If Kobe recovers well, he can be quite competitive.

But they are the Lakers, and not winning the championship is equal to the failed Lakers.

The fans who supported them all the way in 2008 never wanted to see them struggle in the first round of the playoffs. They had to stand out in the playoffs in order to be worthy of Zijin's true qualities.

Bryant's injury disrupted all plans.

This summer, they chose to renew the contract with Kobe in advance, using a 2-year 4000 million to extend the veteran's career to three years later.

The Lakers won the jumper, and if Wesha read correctly, Lakers head coach Mike D'Antoni played Bryant at the [-].

No. [-] Kobe?

If Kobe was standing opposite him in 2006, Wei Xia felt that he would be sorry for D'Antoni's trust if he didn't shoot 15 shots in a quarter.

Now Kobe chooses to advance with the ball and give the ball to Gasol.

Wei Xia went over to interfere a little bit, and Gasol returned the ball to Kobe.Under Weixia's slight interference, Kobe stepped on the line and hit the iron with two points from a long distance.

Little Gasol competed for the offensive rebound, and together with a soft hook, Thaddeus Young couldn't touch it, so he could only watch him score the ball.

"It seems that the recovery is normal." Wei Xia turned around and said sourly to Kobe.The tone is friendly and the content is peculiar.

Kobe thought that this person would restrain himself after his status in the world, but he didn't expect it to be exactly the same as before.

"Give you some hope of winning, don't be ignorant." Kobe said arrogantly.

To express his gratitude, Wei Xia took the ball from Holiday and opened up the formation. It only took a change of direction and an emergency stop to face Kobe, and Kobe, whose offensive and defensive intensity had dropped by several levels compared with last season, shook away and hit a three-pointer.

3 is better than 2
"Kobe, one more!"

The fans yelled.

Kobe wanted to pay back one, and his teammates also wanted him to pay back one. Even Wei Xia didn't use his full strength when defending. Subconsciously, he wanted Kobe to pay back one.

Subjectively, he wanted to guard Kobe, but when the Gasol brothers' high double block fell, he didn't pursue it with all his strength like he did against other opponents.

He was thrown off a position by Kobe's dribble, allowing the opponent to easily enter the penalty area, and the basket was so close to him.

In the 90s, Kobe would make dunks with his hands;

Kobe in the 00s would easily score layups;

Last season's Bryant might have done a two-handed slam dunk to show he's not old yet.

Now Kobe was about to give up on a layup, but as a result, his feet were useless, and the goal that should have been scored did not go up.

After Wei Xia followed, he grabbed the rebound, looked back at his teammates, gave the ball, and a round of counterattack was launched.

What is the saddest moment for Tracy McGrady's fans?Was it because he was reduced to playing on the worst team in the CBA last year and led the team to lose more than a dozen games in a row?No, the most sad moment for McGrady fans should be when he dunked on the neck of the basket during the Rockets period.

At that moment, you will realize that the man you love is old.

In the eyes of Wei Xia, the ball that Kobe missed just now is the ironclad proof that "he can't go back to the past".

"You look old and smoking, Kobe," Wecha said.

Kobe didn't answer, the 76ers completed the counterattack, Gordon Hayward's layup was very powerful, that was the advantage of young people, some old men can only find that kind of self in their memories.

Kobe didn't doubt himself, just missed two goals. When he was a rookie, he missed four key shots in a row and didn't even touch the basket.

Wei Xia's words not only didn't hit him, but made him have infinite fighting spirit in his heart.

Suddenly, Wei Xia found Kobe with his back, and he started to ask for a position one meter away from the paint area on the right.

His posture is as fierce as if this is the last turn of his life.

A teammate passed the ball, Kobe got the ball, pushed it hard behind his back, "Do you remember who taught you the back kick?"

"you."

"I don't mind teaching you a few more tricks!"

When Kobe announced that he was going to give Wei Xia a lesson, Wei Xia immediately used absolute strength to prevent Kobe, who was unable to exert strength in his lower limbs, from taking a step inward.

Realizing that there was a huge gap in the strength of the two, Kobe decisively turned around and stepped back to make a jumper.

He didn't leave Wei Xia at all, and his footwork can't be said to be very clean, but they are in an era when stars can walk freely, so it doesn't matter.With so many flaws, Kobe still needs to increase the shooting arc to avoid Weixia's block. He felt from the bottom of his heart how strong the defensive ability of the active super giant in front of him who he watched and grew up at a glance.

Wei Xia looked back at Kobe's unreasonable shots.

"Shh!"

"This is Kobe baby!" Michael Thompson licked first tonight, "How can you doubt that he can't come back at 100%?"

Kobe stepped back and sprayed trash talk: "Have you learned it, kid?"

Wei Xia is learning and selling now, and when he comes to Kobe, he resorts to face-to-face confrontation with different steps but equal difficulty.

Bang, miss, the ball went out of bounds.

Looking at it positively, at least it avoided being counterattacked by the Lakers.

Just as Kobe was about to mock him, Wei Xia shook his head and laughed at himself: "It's useless! It's useless!"

(End of this chapter)