One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty-Six. How Many Tickets Do You Want?

"Gary, look, this guy is really like me. He is about to catch up with me in the number of championships. He is worthy of being the player who looks most like me in the world."

"You are not as good as him in the 18th year of your career. You are already a fat man in the 18th year of your career."

"Fat people can win championships, don't you think so, Gary?"

"..."

Payton can fight back against anything else. Anyway, he is the kind of person who is shameless when quarreling. He can't fight back against the matter of hugging thighs to win championships. No matter how thick-skinned, for players of that era, they really don't have the face to fight back against this matter, just like Barkley can only go crazy every time he mentions the championship.

There are some differences between players. Those who are still active in front of the public for many years after retirement are basically engaged in the basketball industry for life, or commentators, coaches, or trainers. The most awesome is of course to be a boss like Jordan, but Jordan, the boss, ended up being a joke contributor.

And most of those who do not continue to work in the basketball industry have faded out of the public eye.

Since they are engaged in the basketball industry for life until retirement, it at least means that basketball has always been important in their minds. In this circle, the achievements before retirement are the biggest capital when bragging.

Sun Ce listened to the two former best defensive players and guards quarreling with each other, speechless, and continued to watch the game.

Originally, they were going to watch the game live. The first game of the finals was played in Los Angeles, but the two did not want to go. They would only want to go if a team got the match point and played the finals in Los Angeles.

However, Sun Ce and Payton made an appointment to watch the game together tonight. Jordan insisted on coming to give advice. He came up and boasted about how awesome he was in the finals that year. He counted the opponents he defeated in the finals. Among them, Jordan's opponent in 1996 happened to be Payton. Jordan said that he was invincible in the finals that year, but Payton said that he defended Jordan to an average of only 20 shots per game and a hit rate of only 41%. Jordan immediately refuted, and then the two quarreled.

After a long argument, Jordan didn't win this time. So, when Jordan saw Kobe receiving a pass from James for four consecutive rounds and hitting two-pointers or three-pointers, he and James teamed up to widen the gap to 13 points and stopped the Heat. He immediately looked for an opportunity to bring up the number of championships...

However, in the first game of this finals, Sun Ce felt that the gap in strength between the two teams was somewhat obvious.

Paul, who averaged 18.3 points and 12.3 assists per game in the Eastern Conference Finals, may have been under too much pressure in his first finals. He only made 2 of 12 shots tonight; Wade seemed to have used all his strength in the Eastern Conference Finals, averaging 24.7 points per game in the Eastern Conference Finals, and didn't play well in the first game of the finals.

These two core players didn't play well on the outside,

Chandler and Josh Smith's offense couldn't open up!

The best player of the Heat tonight was actually Chalmers. The reason for his explosion was simple. Leonard went to defend Paul, James went to defend Wade, and the one defending him was Kobe or Nick Young. Kobe was fine, JR Smith would not be a sieve if he tried hard to defend, but JR Smith was not in good shape tonight, so Nick Young played when Kobe was resting. Tonight, Chalmers faced Kobe and Nick Young's rotation defense and scored 25 points in the first three quarters with 10 of 15 shots, tying his personal playoff scoring record of 25 points in a single game against Jason Terry in the 2011 Finals.

With 25 points and 7 assists, Chalmers helped the Heat hold on for a long time, but in the first half of the fourth quarter, Kobe and James joined forces, and Leonard also switched to defend Chalmers, locking Chalmers in several key rounds.

This wave of 11 to 0 established the Lakers' advantage.

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Heat 107 to 99 steadily and won the first home game.

After watching the first game of the finals, Sun Ce quickly fled the mirror villa. The two best defensive players were over 100 years old, but they still quarreled over a disagreement. Sun Ce couldn't stand it.

Fortunately, during training, the two didn't teach him together, otherwise he would go crazy.

At noon, they discussed that Jordan would teach from Monday to Wednesday, rest on Thursday, and Payton would teach from Friday to Sunday. The two of them only taught in the morning. After all, they were old enough to get up early, but they couldn't stand working hard all day.

The total time was four weeks, starting from June 21st and ending on July 18th.

Payton's salary had been negotiated long ago, the market price was 20,000 US dollars a week.

Jordan just wanted to go against Payton and teach voluntarily.

As for why they had to wait a week from the 21st, one was that they were not satisfied with Sun Ce's current physical condition, and the second was that they had to prepare. After all, they hadn't played basketball for many years, and their comments on things were just flowery.

Watch Sun Ce's game videos and observe the details of Sun Ce's defense; compare the defenses they are good at and the defenses they have encountered to see which ones are suitable for Sun Ce... Since they want to teach, both of them are ready to teach well.

Payton took the money, so he naturally couldn't ruin his reputation. He also occasionally held training camps; Jordan didn't want to lose to Payton.

In addition to these, Sun Ce found that Boss Joe seemed to be very reluctant to let the Lakers win again, and hoped that the Heat would win very much. Moreover, Jordan seemed very happy that their Grizzlies were eliminated early...

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The day after the first game of the finals, that is, June 13, Sun Ce had already resumed training.

Get up at 3:50 in the morning, get dressed and wash in five minutes, and go to the arena in the backyard of your home to train at 3:58 to complete the "persistence at four in the morning" and activate the training effect bonus.

Lily Collins, who came to Los Angeles at the end of April, knew that Sun Ce would definitely need a place to train after he arrived. There was an open space behind the villa she bought. It was originally used for planting flowers. She had someone bulldoze it and build an indoor basketball with a wooden structure. On the field, Sun Ce had already begun to install the basket frame when he arrived.

The training ended at 6 o'clock, and she took a shower, rested, and had breakfast. At 8 o'clock, she took Zu'e, who turned into a caddy, to practice shooting. They practiced until 11 o'clock. Zu'e felt that if she continued to work like this, she would have to practice on her vest line after Sun Ce finished training. come out.

Picking up balls is hard work!

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after Sun Ce got up from his nap, he started physical training. The amount of strength training was not large. This thing cannot be high-intensity training all the time. The weight and strength must be suitable for his playing style and what his body can accept. Otherwise, it would be tragic if he injured himself like Kobe did in the 2004-05 season.

Practice shooting in the morning, strength training in the afternoon, watch TV or play LoL with the two girls until 10 o'clock in the evening, then practice the Nash training method, and sleep...

Sun Ce's terrible self-discipline began to take effect. It only took three days for his training to get on track. He became accustomed to eight hours of training every day, two hours in the morning, three hours in the morning, and three hours in the afternoon. It was like clocking in to work on an eight-hour work day. Same.

As time went by, the finals gradually came to an end. On June 19, the Lakers won an away game in Miami, leading the Heat with a big score of 3 to 1!

Since the finals have to take care of China and the United States, the two countries with the largest number of basketball fans, the start time is usually 7:30 pm Los Angeles time, which is 10:30 am Beijing time. Sun Ce has watched every game.

The strength gap between the two sides in this year's finals is indeed very obvious. Kobe still maintains a superstar level in terms of scoring alone. When paired with James, even if Leonard only averages 13 or 4 points per game, the combination of Kobe and James is already strong enough. , Leonard only needs to undertake singles tasks at necessary moments, and the key lies in his defense.

The Heat won the first game back at home, but couldn't hold on in the second game and were given match point by the Lakers.

Wade is indeed quite embarrassing. Whether in the original time and space or now, his state declined earlier than Kobe...

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The second day of Game 4 of the Finals was the morning of June 20. After Sun Ce finished shooting training, he did not prepare to train in the afternoon. He took a rest and relieved his mental fatigue. Starting tomorrow, he will learn defense from Boss Qiao!

In addition to defensive training tomorrow, there is another thing to do, which is to watch the fifth game of this year's Finals that will be played at the Staples Center.

After lunch, Sun Ce estimated that Kobe would have arrived home, so he called Kobe's landline. As for why he didn't call his mobile phone... This guy often missed calls, and he didn't know how to call back. He had to wait for a long time every time, waiting for him to reply. On the phone, Sun Ce probably forgot what he wanted to say.

After the call was dialed, it didn't take long for him to pick up, and it happened to be Kobe. Sun Ce immediately said hello: "Hello, Black Mamba, good afternoon."

Hearing Sun Ce's voice, Kobe on the other end of the phone was not angry at the voice this time and responded: "Hello, lord, good afternoon."

Listening to the excitement in the opponent's voice, Sun Ce knew that the opponent was about to win the championship again. He was happy. Sun Ce asked for help and stopped being mean-spirited. He said: "Tomorrow's finals, I want a few tickets in the front row." Tickets, it should be no problem to find you, right?”

Kobe on the other end of the phone replied without hesitation: "Of course. I'm so happy that you came to see me win the championship. How many do you want?"

Sun Ce counted on his fingers: his grandchildren, Zu Goose; Jordan, Jordan's Cuban fiancée, Hardaway Sr., Hardaway Jr. who came to Los Angeles to train with him two days ago; Payton, Payton's wife Monique, Payton II; Paul George, Curry, Harden, Klay Thompson... responded: "13!"

After Sun Ce said the number, there was silence on the other end of the phone. Then, Sun Ce heard the "bang" sound of the landline hanging up, and then "beep beep beep beep beep..."

Sun Ce didn't curse this time, he also realized that it seemed a bit too much...

Just when Sun Ce was about to dig into his own pocket to buy the ticket, the phone rang again. It was Kobe’s home phone.

As soon as Sun Ce answered the phone, his voice came to mind: "I'll drop it off for you when I get home in the evening!...Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep..."

Before Sun Ce could speak, the person on the other end hung up the phone again...

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Face is a very important thing for Kobe. He has never seen someone like Sun Ce asking for more than a dozen tickets. However, after he went to the arena to discuss tomorrow's game with the coaching staff, he finally I still went to the team and asked for 4 tickets, and then bought 9 tickets with my own money. When I passed Sun Ce's house, I called Lily Collins and asked Lily Collins to go to the gate of the yard to get the tickets without saying anything. After two sentences, he left directly.

Originally, Kobe now felt that no matter what Sun Ce said, he would not be angry.

But he found that he underestimated Sun Ce too much. This guy could vomit blood at any time!

Don’t mention it. Lily Collins was a little confused when she got 13 tickets… The official selling price of the tickets for the fifth game of this year’s finals is an average of 1,350 US dollars per ticket. The official price of the cheapest ticket in the last row of the stands is 99 US dollars, and the official price of the most expensive ticket directly opposite the technical desk is 15,000 US dollars.

At the scalpers, the cheapest tickets are sold for more than 500 US dollars, and the most expensive is 110,000... That is, Kobe got the tickets reserved by the Lakers to give to those celebrities and dignitaries.

Sun Ce went to Kobe for a very important reason. He estimated that he only needed to get two or three tickets. If he bought them, there was no channel. The scalpers were too expensive. He went directly to the Lakers management to buy them. The other party would probably give them away, but then he would owe the Lakers a favor. .

It was different to go to Kobe. Kobe once owed him a favor, but Sun Ce himself didn’t notice that he counted so many people...

Although it was a bit embarrassing, but he accidentally took advantage of Kobe... Sun Ce felt very happy!

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