champion heart

Chapter 129 128. Heat
"This is a very difficult decision. In the fall, I decided to bring my talents to the South Coast and join the Heat."

Since LeBron James uttered this sentence on "The Decision" program in 2010, the future of the Heat has been doomed.

So starting from the 10-11 season, the Heat reached the finals for four consecutive years and won two championship trophies.

In the Heat's "Big Three" era, this team set a series of records, such as 27 consecutive victories.

If you want to say what is the most regrettable thing for the Heat in the "Big Three" era, it is undoubtedly that they failed to win the three consecutive championships and failed to create a Heat dynasty.

In the first year of the "Big Three" era, the Heat met the old Dallas Mavericks in the finals. Before the start of this round of the series, everyone was almost one-sidedly optimistic about the Heat winning the championship.

However, the "old driver" taught the young people of the Heat a hard lesson!
At that time, the Heat's bench could be said to have been completely blown by the Mavericks' Terry and Barea. After the entire series, the Heat's bench lineup has been in an invisible state. Later, the Heat introduced Ray Allen, Battier, Bird Anderson, to further strengthen the weak bench depth.

In that series, under the leadership of Kidd, the Mavericks had a very high shooting percentage, especially Nowitzki, who was almost in a super unsolvable state no matter in singles or shooting.As for the Big Three of the Heat, since they did not establish who is the first core in the first year, they were all invisible in that series.

It can be said that after the entire series, apart from Wade's data passing, Bosh and James did not perform very well, especially James averaged only 17.8 points per game!
After this failed season, Wade gave in, and after the Heat established James as the first core, in the next two seasons, they won two championships in succession.

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Thinking about being able to face such a powerful team in the Christmas game, Tang De felt excited.

At that time, he will definitely play head-to-head with LeBron James, but during this period, James plays the position of power forward in most cases in the Heat. It is really hard to say whether he can face-to-face...

On the day before the Christmas game, after the Lakers finished their morning training session, Kobe announced a decision that surprised everyone in the arena.

That means he has already decided to come back tomorrow night, which is the time of the Christmas battle!
Regarding this news, Tang De and D'Antoni were not too surprised after hearing it, because they knew about it a month ago, and Kobe had already discussed it with them.

But the expressions of the other Lakers players are a bit exciting, even a little overwhelmed.

Seeing such a scene, Kobe said, "What? Don't you guys want me to come back?"

Nick Young: "No, no, it's just that I'm going to pass the ball to you when you come back, boss? You know I never pass the ball to others!"

Kobe: "How the hell do you know, you play more alone than me, I haven't seen you pass the ball since you came to the Lakers!"

Nick Young: "Haha~haha~"

Kobe is telling the truth, who is Nick Young? "Singles King" okay, you expect him to pass the ball?That is obviously impossible.

In the original history, Nick Young seems to have only passed the ball to Kobe once during his years playing with the Lakers. This is also a stalk that fans have been talking about since then.

Nick Young has even done such things as stealing teammates to complete lore, what else can he not do?
However, with the rise of Tang De, Nick Young has improved a lot in terms of passing, and he will still pass the ball when necessary.

Kobe: "But it doesn't matter, as long as you play well, I will pass the ball to you. I have already discussed with coach D'Antoni. I will try to play point guard when I come back, right Comrade Old De?"

After speaking, Kobe smiled and looked at D'Antoni.

D'Antoni: "Yes, although Kobe has been unable to play for so long, everyone has trained with him for so long. I believe he can play the role of point guard. It depends on Kobe's state!"

Tang De: "Hey boss, you are trying to steal my job. I have always been a point guard, haha~haha!"

Kobe: "I'm back, you're still playing a bad point guard, go play your striker, remember your agreement with me before, if you can't average 25+ points per game, I will kill you! "

D'Antoni: "Anyway, let's make this decision first. Kobe plays point guard. Don, you adjust it and try to play the position of the offensive end point as much as possible. But everything is a timeout. The specific situation depends on the situation. Between you and Kobe There are a lot of variables in the style of play!"

Although Kobe has a paranoid personality, it is logically impossible for him to be willing to hand over the ball, but now from his words, it can be felt that he is ready to give up the power.

Because of his own physical condition, he knows best in his heart. The reason why Kobe in the original history clearly realized that his state was not as good as before, but still insisted on not giving up the ball was not only because of Kobe's personality, but also because of At that time, the Lakers did not have a star who could output stably.

But now it's different. Now that the Lakers have Tang De, Kobe sees the hope of the team.

To put it a bit exaggerated, Tang De is the most fundamental reason for Kobe to make a big change.

In the afternoon, the Lakers officially released the news that Kobe will make a comeback in the Christmas game, and the whole world was excited about it.

After all, Kobe has not appeared in the professional arena for nearly [-] days, and they will be able to see Kobe playing tomorrow night, how could they not be excited.

As soon as the news came out, the NBA immediately made a promotional video for Kobe, with the title "The Return of the King!"
In addition, the major NBA stars have expressed their blessings to Kobe on their personal social media.

James: "Mamba's comeback makes me look forward to the game against the Lakers tomorrow night, come on!"

Wade: "May the King of Kobe come back, come on!"

James Harden: "I heard that my idol is going to make a comeback tomorrow night? I really want to watch the game live, but unfortunately I have to play tomorrow night, bless the boss!"

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There are also a lot of Hollywood stars who also expressed their blessings and expectations.

Not surprisingly, tomorrow night's game will be a grand gathering of celebrities from all walks of life. There is no way, this is Kobe's appeal.

Otherwise, why did the Lakers management treat Kobe so well, the old guy who was about to retire at the beginning, still dumped tens of millions of annual salary, why?
It is because as long as Kobe stands on the court, the dollars will flow in continuously. In the battle of Kobe's retirement, the Lakers earned hundreds of millions of dollars in that game alone!
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At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Lakers completed a day of extra shooting practice, and then the whole team, including D'Antoni, ran to Tang De's home for a regular "every Monday get together" event.

It's an early Christmas celebration...

(End of this chapter)