basketball kingdom

Chapter 84
Xu Tian and Kobe were very satisfied with Wade's hospitality. They departed from his mansion when the lights were on, and took a taxi back to the hotel where the team stayed.

Xu Tian asked the team's physiotherapist to do simple ice packs and routine physical therapy. After watching the game video carefully, he entered a state of rest very early.

There are as many as 82 games in the NBA regular season. The dense schedule is easy to cause players to accumulate fatigue. If they cannot recover well, it may cause unexpected injuries.So even though Xu Tian is young, he has already embarked on the road of health preservation in advance.

In the routine training the next morning, the players in the team showed extraordinary fighting spirit, which made Scott full of surprises.

Scott did not participate in the player meeting, and had no way to ask the specific meeting content from the players. He could only accept the huge change in the team's appearance with a little surprise.

Kobe had a short non-confrontation shooting training. When he stopped training, he saw Xu Tian sitting on the sidelines to rest. He walked over and sat next to him, and asked, "Xu, how do you think we should cooperate?"

Xu Tian was confident about this matter, and said calmly: "After you come back, everything will have its own answer."

Kobe shook his head noncommittally.

He is very aware of the ability of "Coach Xu", and he is not worried about the team's tactics.

Xu Tian didn't rest for long, and soon returned to the training ground to continue honing his basic skills.

The team that the Lakers are going to challenge tonight is the Miami Heat. This team was formed in 1988 and its home court is the American Airlines Center Arena. This venue can accommodate 19600 people and is located in downtown Miami.

The Heat are a young team with not many stars in team history. The original representative star is the tough guy Alonzo Mourning.

Alonzo Mourning and O'Neal were drafted in the same year. O'Neal deservedly became the No. [-] pick, and he was selected by the Hornets as the No. [-] pick.

In his rookie season, Mourning averaged 21 points, 10.3 rebounds and 3.47 blocks per game. Such data still couldn't help him beat O'Neal. At the end of the season, he ranked second in the best rookie selection.

On November 1995, 11, Mourning refused to extend his rookie contract due to conflicts with the head coach, and was sent to the Heat by the Hornets.

During his time with the Heat, Mourning won the most important honor of his career-the Defensive Player of the Year award.But the good times didn't last long. In 2000, the 30-year-old tough guy was diagnosed with severe kidney disease and had to miss most of the subsequent years.

From 2000 to 03, Mourning underwent two kidney transplants, retired twice, and returned three times.Because of this tough spirit, he was called the "kidney fighter" by domestic fans.

As the so-called good fortune makes people, Mourning returned to the Heat in 05 and served as the backup for O'Neal, the No. [-] pick in the same year.

In the 05-06 season, he followed the team to win the first championship in team history. At that time, Dwyane Wade, the greatest star in team history, was only a third-year player.

Although Wade is not as good as James and O'Neal in the historical rankings, when it comes to the history of the Heat, there is no doubt that Wade has a higher status.

Wade is a player of the Platinum generation in 03, but he was already 21 years old when he participated in the draft, and he is an older rookie.

In 03, Wade was much less famous than James and Anthony who ran for the same year, so that Pat Kelly, then the president of the Heat, couldn't tell who was better, Chris Kaman or Wade. Don't call Jordan's trainer Tim Gulliver.

Riley listened to Gulliver's advice, and finally won Wade with the fifth overall pick.

Wade's arrival officially opened the prelude to the Heat's glory.

In 04, the Lakers F4 disintegrated, and the conflict between O'Neal and Kobe broke out. The old Bass made a decision to keep Kobe and trade O'Neal to the Heat.At the press conference held by the Heat, O'Neal boasted that he would bring the team a championship.

O'Neal's words were not empty talk. That season, the Heat reached the Eastern Conference Finals under Wade and his leadership. In the Eastern Conference Finals, Wade was accidentally injured.

In the 05-06 season, the Heat assembled a group of veterans who wanted to fight for the championship, including "White Chocolate" Jason Williams, "Glove" Gary Payton, and "Fat Toutuo" Anthony Walker, And of course the tough Alonzo Mourning.These people united as one, and reached the finals of the season again.

Something unexpected happened in the 06 finals.The Dallas Mavericks started with a 2-0 lead, but then Wade got the favor of the referee. He averaged 19 free throws in the next four games and led the team to win the championship in four consecutive games.

In the years that followed, Tim Donaghy, the referee of the 06 Finals, was imprisoned for gambling and confessed that he had manipulated the game.But the NBA will not change the penalty, the championship in 06 is still the Heat's first championship.

The Heat fell into a quagmire in the few seasons after winning the championship. Although they had the strength of the playoffs, they were still unable to become a championship contender again. This situation lasted until 10 years.

In the summer of 10, a far-reaching event occurred in the NBA, which was James' "decision".Big-name free agents LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined the Heat and gathered in Miami with Dwyane Wade, the top three stars in the league at the time, creating a precedent for teaming up at the peak.

The impact of this matter will not be elaborated.

The Big Three of the Heat reached the Finals in their first season, when their opponent was the Dallas Mavericks who were reversed by the Heat in 06.But this time, luck was on Nowitzki's side. The Mavericks successfully won the Heat led by the Big Three and won the first championship in team history.

After the failure of the Finals, Wade took the initiative to find James in the second season, giving up his position as the boss and helping him.

Wade's sacrifice was not in vain, James was able to give full play to his personal strength and successfully brought the Heat two consecutive championships.

During the Heat period, James was at the peak of his career. At that time, he had no technical shortcomings, and his body was also in peak condition. He was basically worthy of CCTV's evaluation of him-a person on earth, who can stop James.

In the 13-14 season, the Heat's lineup became more and more aging. The team owner laid off the meritorious veteran Mike Miller to save money. In addition, the Heat who played against the Spurs in the finals of the season had no power to fight back, which paved the way for James' departure.

During his four-year career with the Heat, James has reached the finals in all of them and won the championship twice.No matter from which point of view, such a career is brilliant enough.

The slogan of the playoffs during the Big Three of the Heat was "WHITE HOT", which translates to white heat, which means that when an object is heated to a certain temperature, the emitted visible light has more wavelengths besides red and yellow light with longer wavelengths. Shorter green and blue light, showing dazzling white light.

The Heat's English name is BEAT, which means heat. Isn't the strongest heat just white heat?
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