Chapter 541

A second-year player, he scored 42 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Nowitzki was about to cry when he saw it, and Duncan was about to be silent when he saw it... It seems that Duncan is silent every day. Anyway, the Spurs players watching the TV in San Antonio didn't see any changes in Duncan's expression.

Nowitzki looked at Liu Mang and wished he was a player of his own team. If he had an outside player with a mid-range shot and a breakthrough, he wouldn't have to be so afraid of the Spurs.

The players of the Mavericks and the Spurs both watched the first game of the series between the Nets and the Eagles, and they both reached the Western Conference finals. The goals of the two teams are the same as the goals of the two teams in the East. They are all for the championship. Regardless of whether their series has yet to start, no matter what the outcome is, the final goal must be the championship.

Watching the series between the Nets and the Hawks, the two teams found that neither the Nets nor the Hawks seemed to be as weak as imagined.

The fact is the same. Even if Duncan is at the peak of the Spurs, if they meet the Nets in the finals, they will fight for six games and be robbed of the home court advantage.

No matter which team in the Western Conference reaches the finals, no matter who the opponent in the Eastern Conference will eventually meet, in short, Nowitzki and Duncan will firmly remember Liu Mang this time. One of the top four players, both Duncan and Nowitzki regard Liu Mang as a strong opponent!

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At the age of 20 years, 9 months and 1 day, Liu Mang broke the record of the youngest 40+ in the history of the playoffs by the Lakers legend Magic Johnson at the age of 21 years and 10 months!

If it wasn't for the reward of 5,000 superstar points given by the system, Liu Mang would not have known that he had set a record!

Liu Mang remembers that the youngest record for a magician in the future will be James, who made it to the playoffs in the third grade, at the age of 21 and five months.

At 20 years and 9 months, Liu Mang feels that he has done something great!

The magician is a rookie who got 40+ in the sixth game of the finals in his rookie season. He is already quite young. There are not many high-ranking rookies like magician who have entered the NBA before the age of 21. Jordan and Olajuwon are both He is over half the age of 21, so the youngest records of that year were basically broken by Kobe, and then basically all were broken by James.

That era was different from now. In that era, the more talented players were, the more they were willing to spend more years in college to hone their skills. Therefore, most of the ages to enter the NBA were twenty-one or twenty-two years old, and even twenty-three or four-year-olds, Even if you participate in the draft at the age of 25, it will not affect your draft pick, because at that time, you were a superstar in the NCAA, and you are basically a superstar in the NBA.

Of course, since the potential stars of that era stayed in college for a few more years, the talented college students had opponents to hone themselves.

Even if a high school student entered the NBA early, it is Kobe and James who can really break the record, and no one else has this ability.

Liu Mang thought about the current Cavaliers. It seems that it is still so miserable. If James is still selected by the Cavaliers, he will have to help the team deal with the team's mess in his rookie season, and lead the team out of the previous two consecutive years. Yao Ming and James In the second year, after the team cleared away the people who should go, traded some veterans and powerful stars with draft picks, it started to get on the right track. The third year attracted Larry Hughes, and it was the first time Into the playoffs.

Liu Mang looked at Boozer who was calling his girlfriend, he was really annoying, he didn't know how to call outside the locker room? It's really unpleasant to have a massage while ice compressing. It's great to have a girlfriend! Today's young people really don't learn well. They get girlfriends when they have money at a young age.

Thinking of this, Liu Mang remembered that Boozer seems to be more than a year older than him, and his skills and physical development have been basically perfected to enter the NBA... This is even more annoying! The little brother is actually older than the boss!

However, the Cavaliers are now without even Boozer. They selected a big center Mario Karan in the second round, and they were waived before finishing their rookie season.

In other words, if James goes to the Cavaliers, his rookie season will be even worse... It is basically impossible to reach the playoffs earlier than the original!

Liu Mang felt that his record would never come again!

In the future, the age limit for NBA drafts will become higher and higher, and the phenomenon of rookies entering the NBA selling their talents will become more and more serious. Many high-ranking rookies, even the top picks, will have to play for two or three years to realize their talents. The youngest 40+ record is almost unbeatable!

Even if James still made the playoffs in the third grade, he still started to abuse Arenas...Why Arenas again? Liu Mang thinks that Arenas is too pitiful, next time you meet him, please treat him more lightly, but it seems that he will come to the Eastern Conference next season, but unfortunately this guy likes to play with guns and the price is expensive, both of them are Eagles or else started.

Liu Mang felt flattered to get a record that was basically unsurpassable!

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Liu Mang slept until almost noon, ready to have a meal, practice in the afternoon, watch the Spurs and Mavericks game series in the evening, and spend the first day off without training arrangements. Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the restaurant, he felt From the envious and resentful eyes of his teammates.

Liu Mang is so strange, what happened to this group of people, is it possible that the young master is very handsome today?

Liu Mang ordered a steak, picked up the newspaper and looked at it, hehe, Liu Mang finally found out that he scored 42 points, which was even more explosive than he imagined, and caused a sensation in the United States, in China, and in the NBA fan circle!

To be able to get 40+ in a playoff game before the age of 22, this is in the NBA. Before Liu Mang, only a magician in the history of the NBA has done it. It was done in the final against the Spurs. Even Jordan and Chamberlain were 24 years old when they scored 40 points for the first time in the playoffs.

It’s not that there are young and powerful rookies, but when they entered the NBA, the team was rotten, and how difficult it is to make it to the playoffs. As for Duncan, he was 22 years old when he entered the NBA. 23 in the playoffs.

Unless he is young and capable like the magician, the Lakers are the favorites to win the championship, the No. 1 pick belongs to another team, and the head star is still absent in the playoffs, so he has the opportunity to get such statistics.

So Liu Mang made history by winning 40+ in the playoffs at the age of 20!

The day after the first game of the series between the Eagles and the Nets, Liu Mang dominates the screens of all major sports news! All major sports news, headlines are him.

Like ice hockey and rugby, the season is already over at this time. There are more than 160 games in the regular season of baseball. The regular season has just started, and not many people pay attention to it. The news is all about the NBA and Liu Mang.

On the domestic side, football is now starting to collapse. After such a miserable World Cup, domestic sports fans are in desperate need of comfort. At this time, Liu Mang and Yao Ming stepped forward. Yao Ming was eliminated early, and now all point to Liu Mang's good performance.

But Liu Mang really broke out, and the news about Liu Mang was overwhelming!

In the news of China and the United States, it is almost impossible to see that tonight is the opening game of the Western Conference Finals. The Spurs and Mavericks have not been paid attention to, and now no one pays attention to them.

In addition, some interesting things in the game last night, such as Jordan opening his mouth and saying "this is my apprentice", Liu Mang made Kidd furious "You love her so badly after being beaten by your wife?", Kenyon Martin was knocked over by Liu Mang first, and then by Ratliff, and he landed in the same posture... etc. It was all on the news, and Liu Mang felt that those reporters were really talented.

Liu Mang felt the envy of his teammates, especially Jason Terry and Raheem's envious eyes. Liu Mang sighed helplessly: "Oh, have you heard of Firefly? I didn't want to be so high-profile. Yes, I want to walk quietly and alone in the dark night, I don’t want people to find me, but I am like a firefly that can’t control its own glow in the dark night, and accidentally exposes my own light... Ouch, don’t, don’t , I was wrong, stop bragging...Yayu...Dunate...Hajima..."

A few minutes later, the ragged Liu Mang was waiting for his steak to arrive on the sofa chair in the restaurant.

There's no way, I'm not afraid to single out Liu Mang, but the key point is that this group of people are actually playing gang fights! Shameless! I'm still a child...

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Once again, Liu Mang became popular all over the United States, even in countries and cities with a lot of basketball fans all over the world, he made a big splash.

But Liu Mang is used to this, and the growth of popularity has entered a bottleneck period. Liu Mang has all-star starts, playoffs, and scoring shows, but he has no real hard honors, such as MVP. and championship.

Just because of these limelights, Liu Mang is also in the limelight in the United States, the largest market in the NBA, and although there are not many such performances by him, there are also many, such as McGrady and Kobe, who performed far better than him in the regular season.

So Liu Mang is only in the limelight in many places, only in Atlanta, or expanding a little to Georgia, and then in China. These two main places have become the focus of discussion, and other places are all in the limelight. How much movement.

After all, most fans have stars they support, and Liu Mang is neither a star of a local team nor a star of his own country.

This is the most different point between Liu Mang and other young stars. Other young stars, who became famous at a young age, forget about it. For example, the second pick of the Bulls who disappointed people. , signed a 4-year 10 million sneaker endorsement contract with Reebok last summer. Although the rookie season was bad, the contract is still being fulfilled. In addition to the second place salary of almost 2 million dollars after tax, the money is in hand. How can I control whether I played well or not.

The Bulls' season has only been over for less than two months, and Jay Williams has already caused a lot of trouble in nightclubs, but they are all small things, and many young players have, so there is no big news.

But just before the start of the Western Conference finals between the Spurs and the Mavericks, something happened to Jay Williams.

Liu Mang really said that motorcycles are dangerous when he was spamming against Jay Williams in the last match of this season. Children should not ride motorcycles indiscriminately. It is a friendly reminder, anyway. Just a reminder is a lot of meat, in case a lost boy is saved.

Maybe Jay Williams really listened to it. Instead of buying a motorcycle, he bought a go-kart and even drove it on the road in violation of the regulations.

The speed of the kart, when driving on the road, when turning, because the kart is too short, a small truck did not see it when turning, Jay Williams rushed to the brakes, even if the US-Imperial Highway is well repaired , also threw Jay Williams out and was seriously injured...

After the news that Jay Williams was seriously injured while driving a kart was exposed, there were regrets, but many people felt that it was not surprising at all. Jay Williams played a lot of high-risk things like this before...

The NBA circle is so big, and it is a closed league. Most of the players are concerned about the players in this league. Of course, the Eagles know about such a big matter.

Liu Mang heard about Jay Williams when he came back from training. He couldn't help but sighed and observed a few seconds of silence. Then, like the rest of the Eagles, he told everyone to be careful.

And then it's gone.

Although he knew that something would happen to the other party, what else could he do? Liu Mang had already put aside his grievances and reminded him in a "humanitarian spirit", but the other party actually had other things to play with, and he didn't care about his own death. It is very humane to remind him.

The coaching staff and the owner Price, who came to New Jersey with the Eagles, also called the players together for a meeting because of this incident, emphasizing which off-court things are strictly prohibited, which violates the suspension of the team even if there is no accident.

Like skiing, bungee jumping, difficult yoga, racing...etc.

In particular, Liu Mang, the youngest member of the team, was repeatedly instructed by Coach Kruger and Price...

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Just like what Liu Mang thought, he was still the headline in the morning, and the news was robbed in the afternoon. After the Mavericks and Spurs played the first Western Conference finals in the evening, no matter how low the attention of the Mavericks and Spurs was, it was still the same. In the division finals, although their game was not in the headlines, they still made the headlines after the game.

In Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, the Spurs were shot dead by Dirk Nowitzki and Michael Finley 110-115.

The Spurs had a lot of lead at the beginning, but who would have thought that Michael Finley, the former Jordan successor who seemed to have passed his peak in the regular season, would score 20 points in the final quarter, leading the Mavericks to a 30-19 single quarter score, In the last quarter, they reversed and defeated the Spurs, grabbing home court advantage!

However, the Spurs and the Mavericks still didn't get much attention. The next morning, they just made the headlines. Before the headlines were hot, the names of the headlines were changed immediately.

In 2003, since 1996, the lottery of the most watched and most talented draft conference came!

For the Eagles, although they are in New Jersey, they don't need to go to New York, because the lottery has nothing to do with them.

Among the playoff teams, only the top executives of the Pistons ran to New York. They executed the right to exchange first-round picks with the Grizzlies after the regular season.

The draft is the starting point for most NBA players to enter the NBA. This kind of thing will definitely pay attention.

The NBA playoffs are a carnival for fans of strong teams, and the draft lottery, mixed in with the playoffs, is a carnival for fans of weak teams.

In the lottery, the probability of an upset is actually not high. Most of the time, the ranking depends on the pick. The biggest thing to watch is not the pick, but the appearance of the lottery teams.

It's like Cavs fans occupy most of Madison Square Garden, all chanting: "We want LeBron..."

The draft lottery started at 7:00, and it would end in half an hour, but the live broadcast started at 5:30.

Interviews with the 13 teams before the lottery, from the worst record to the best, and then see what their own "lucky mode" is, some bosses sent their sons and daughters to draw lots, some Famous people were sent out, and some of them drew lots directly from their own players, such as Francis, who got the No. 1 lottery last year due to his luck...

Then interviews with fans, professional media to analyze the probability, and even invited a spooky witch to use tarot cards to predict which team will win the No. 1 lottery...

After nearly two hours of bells and whistles before the lottery draw, the real lottery draw was over in two or three strokes.

The inertia of the wheel of history is still so strong, the Pistons held the right to draw the lottery with the Grizzlies' fifth-lowest record in the league, and they got the second lottery with an 18% chance!

The hearts of the Cavaliers were about to explode, and they finally won the No. 1 lottery with a 25% chance.

The Nuggets have the same record as the Cavaliers, both have a 25% chance, but they only got the third pick.

The worst Raptors and Heat, a bad year, a No. 4 pick, a No. 5 pick, especially the Raptors, Carter is fully healthy, but the team is bad, the relationship between the Raptors and Carter has been on the verge of rupture In this draft lottery, the Raptors originally wanted Carter to try to replicate the miracle that Francis brought to the Rockets last season, but Carter refused.

After Liu Mang saw the results of the draft lottery, he felt so boring, there were no surprises at all, but thinking about it, why did so many surprises come from.

But Liu Mang always feels that if he doesn't do something, he will feel bad!

After the draft lottery is over, the live broadcast is not over yet, and there will be live broadcasts of this year's draft predictions, interviews with various teams about who they want to draft, and so on.

Liu Mang saw that James, Anthony, Bosh... and even Hinrich were regarded as the top picks in the predicted rankings, among which James and Anthony were the most popular. Darko Milicic of the Youth Championship is also regarded as the favorite for the No. 1 pick.

Liu Mang looked for the next name he was looking for, and only saw the last one in the lottery prediction.

Draft evaluation of Dwyane Wade: A junior at Marquis University, not tall enough to play a shooting guard, not good enough to shoot a point guard, too many turnovers, impulsive personality... Predicted to be selected in the middle of the first round.

Although Liu Mang hadn't seen any news about Wade for two years, he didn't expect him to be so unpopular.

interesting!

Liu Mang thought of the guy on the south coast who picked up Wade secretly and made it more difficult for him to draft... No, Liu Mang pouted, how could he be that kind of unscrupulous person?

It's just that Wade is such a good and talented rookie, how can you not help him promote the publicity? A rookie with such outstanding talent can't let him be dusted!

Although I know that there are already people who want to choose the top four picks. The Cavaliers want James. If the Nuggets can’t get James, they will definitely get Anthony. Before their rise, they didn't choose Anthony and Bosh, but chose a center, and they don't know what they thought.

Maybe Wade will still be selected by the Heat, but it’s fun to give the fuel a bit of excitement, isn’t it? Liu Mang immediately called his teammates who were still discussing who would be the No. 1 pick after seeing the draft, and discussed it At once, the teammates expressed their interest!