dream ten

Chapter 242 Lakers and Celtics

The Lakers have formed a lineup of young people with Paul as the core. They represent vigor and vitality. As young people, their performance is extremely unstable. Turning into the weakest team in the league at night, the Lakers are only one superstar away from transforming into a strong team.

In this game, the Lakers narrowly beat the Grizzlies 117:116 at home. It is worth mentioning that Paul beat the Grizzlies at the buzzer at the last second before the whistle, and Paul also won his career. In the whole game, Paul swept away the haze of the previous game. He scored 32 points and 15 rebounds, completely dominated the inside line, and blasted the All-Star player Gasol Jr., while Han Ziqi even scored a double-double with 12 points and 13 assists. Nine of his thirteen assists came from assisting Paul.For the Grizzlies, Conley scored 25 points and 11 assists, Gasol Jr. had 17 points and 8 rebounds, and was completely blown by rookie Paul Paul.

Back then, Gasol was still the best defensive player in the league. Now, maybe because of his age or the team lineup, Gasol can't even limit a rookie player. It's really fascinating. Sigh.

On November 11, the Lakers visited the North Shore Garden Arena in Boston to challenge the Celtics led by Irving at home. When it comes to the grievances between the Lakers and the Celtics, there is something to say.

In the history of the NBA for more than 33 years, the Lakers and Celtics have won almost half of the championships. The Lakers and Celtics jointly won 17 championships (16 for the Celtics). , Lakers 72). Over the past 287 years, the Lakers and Celtics have played a total of 158 times in the regular season. The Celtics have won 129 times and the Lakers have won 12 times.In the finals, the two teams met 8 times, the Celtics had the last laugh 4 times, and the Lakers only won [-] times.It can be said that in the history of the NBA, the Celtics can be described as crushing the Lakers.For this reason, the late owner of the Lakers, Old Buss, bought the Lakers. Old Buss said: The purpose of my buying the Lakers is to defeat the Celtics.And the Celtics also released harsh words, Lord of the Rings Bill Russell said: There are many possibilities in this world, but it is impossible for the Lakers to beat the Celtics!It can be seen that the grievances between the two teams are deep.

In 1959, the Lakers led by Elgin Baylor lost 0:4 to the Celtics in the finals, and the Celtics also started their legendary career of eight consecutive championships. It can be said that it is the greatest team in history, not one of them.

In the 80s, Magic Johnson joined the Lakers as the No. 18 pick, and the star of the Celtics is also the powerful "Big Bird" Larry Bird.The two entered the NBA in the same year. In their rookie season, Magic averaged 7.7 points, 7.3 assists and 21.3 rebounds per game, while Bird scored 10.4 points, 4.5 rebounds and 32 assists per game.The two numbers were comparable, but Bird helped the Celtics win 42 more games than the previous season, and was eventually elected as the Rookie of the Year.This result was made public before the sixth game of the finals that year, which directly stimulated the magician.He turned into a center in the subsequent game, scoring 15 points and [-] rebounds, leading the Lakers to the championship, and he himself won the FMVP.Even so, he still held a grudge against Bird, and he didn't want Bird to be mentioned to his face, just as Bird didn't want to hear the magician's name.

The first "showdown" between the two in the true sense took place in the 1984 Finals.Prior to this, the Celtics won the championship in 1981, while the Lakers won the championship twice in 1980 and 1982; Bird was 27 years old and Magician was 24 years old. The two are at the peak of their golden ages.That year, the Celtics finally went through a tiebreaker and narrowly beat the Lakers 4:3 to win the championship that year.

But the Magician's Lakers won the Celtics led by Bird twice in 1985 and 1987, and that period of black and white history has passed.

After that, the Lakers and Celtics were quiet for a while, and the Lakers were the first to revive. In 1999, the Lakers, which had the "OK combination", invited Phil Jackson, the "Zen Master" who had been idle for a year, to come out. The Celtics kicked off their three-peat championship dynasty, but the Celtics were still the underdogs of the league, unable to recover.

Until 2008, the Celtics made a lot of money to form a Big Three lineup of Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen, and the Lakers also regained the first place in the Western Conference due to the trade to Paul Gasol. The two teams reunited in the Finals, but for the Lakers and Kobe, it was definitely a painful night that they did not want to recall. In the sixth time in the 2008 Finals, the Celtics beat the Lakers by 39 points at home, breaking the record. Breaking the historical record of the Finals points difference, and won the championship with a total score of 4:2, the Celtics once again defeated the Lakers in a head-to-head dialogue.

Two years later, in 2010, the Lakers and Celtics met again in the finals. The age structure of the two teams was relatively large. The Celtics' main lineup included Garnett, Pierce and Rondo. , Ray Allen, Jr., Rasheed Wallace, and others are all in their 30s and are about to retire, while the Lakers' Kobe, Gasol, Artest, Odom, etc. He has just passed the age of 30, and these two teams are playing their last afterglow to fight for this championship.

The final ending is what every Kobe and Lakers fan loves to talk about. That year, the Lakers avenged the Celtics 4:3, Kobe won the FMVP, and the Lakers also played in the tie-breaker Defeated the Celtics in [-], the last time the two teams met in the Finals that year.

Today's Celtics are a strong team with the strength of the Eastern Conference Finals, while the Lakers are just a promising young team.The Celtics star Kyrie Irving has just joined the team and is living a "honeymoon period" with the team. The Celtics scored 8 wins and 2 losses in the team's first ten games. And Irving has also led young people such as Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Smart to continue to improve. The Celtics are already very strong, and it is even more terrifying that their young reserves do not lose to the Lakers. .Originally, the Celtics were expected to compete for the championship this season, but the All-Star player Hayward who just joined the team was seriously injured in the first game of the season and was reimbursed for the season. It's a big blow, but Tatum's maturity seems to have completely replaced Hayward's absent role, and today's Celtics are still a force that cannot be ignored.

(End of this chapter)