Chapter 748

The last team meeting before the finals in the afternoon is over, and in the evening, the first game of the finals between the Eagles and the Lakers is about to begin.

The teammates went to the lunch break to recharge their batteries. No one went out for a few days. They were all working hard to prepare for the finals. Now they are in good shape.

After the teammates left, Liu Mang felt his heart beating violently with "boom bang..." because the game was about to start, and then gradually settled down relying on the characteristic of cold blood, Liu Mang obviously felt that the finals were about to start That excitement.

While waiting for the series against the Nets, Liu Mang hoped that the Eastern Conference Finals would start immediately, but when it came time to play against the Lakers, he hoped that this would come later.

It's not that I'm afraid, but that I want to have more preparation time.

The sense of threat brought by the two teams is obviously not at the same level. The Nets used to be very strong, but only compared to the previous Eagles, and the Lakers are the real ultimate enemy.

These days, Liu Mang is trying his best to improve himself. It took three years to defeat Kidd. As a result, even if the task of defeating the King of the East is to sweep the opponent, the completion rate is only 75%, and 250,000 star points are missing. Disillusioned Liu Mang's desire to upgrade all activated skills to the full level. After comprehending the innate skills, only 62728 superstar points remained.

But when it comes to the finals, there is no need to save on superstar points. I reserved 20,000 superstar points for possible injuries. I spent 42,000 superstar points to draw skill upgrade cards and upgrade the drawbar layup to level 5. Although Ru Pan's ability to block rebounds is not used much, it has also been upgraded to level 4, and his fancy dunk and hot pot feast have also been upgraded to level 4.

Layup master level 5: Pull the bar when laying up, and when successfully avoiding the opponent's block, layup ability +5.

Fancy dunk level 4: The strength and flexibility of the waist and abdomen are greatly improved when dunking, and the morale of the team is greatly improved when completing wonderful dunks.

Hot Pot Feast Level 4: The ability to block shots in the three-second zone is increased to 85, which is affected by golf quotient and physical fitness.

Rock Solid Level 4: When competing for defensive rebounds, there is a 40% chance to perfectly block the opponent, and when competing for offensive rebounds, there is a 20% chance to perfectly block the main opponent.

As for the high-position back up, there are no upgrades, and there are not many skill upgrade cards. The main reason is that the low-position back-up has not been fully understood yet, and the high-position back-up...let’s wait, if you get too greedy, you can’t chew it, and you will start to learn this trick. I'll talk about it later.

In addition, try to improve your state to the best possible level, and there is still a lottery for mid-level superstars, as well as Kobe's star card this season, the era's strongest point guard star card, Iverson's peak star card, Ma Bree's peak star card and Vin Baker's peak star card, plus 275 physical potions and 241 primary injury potions, the ammunition is sufficient.

Liu Mang felt overwhelmed when he saw that there was only one mid-level superstar value draw left. After completing the task of the enemy of the black mamba, he won a total of 8 mid-level superstar value draws, which is 80,000 superstar points , but now, this task is completed, defeating the little blacksmith will not be able to win the mid-level superstar lottery, and the little blacksmith also regards him as the strongest enemy, and he will not be so easily teased as before. Think about Liu Mang still has a little regret.

It's definitely not because teasing the little blacksmith is not so fun anymore, Liu Mang said absolutely not, he just feels sad that the reward equivalent to 10,000 superstar points is missing for each defeat...

Looking at the system panel, the ability evaluation of 89 is infinitely close to the top stars, and the state of playing is definitely not worse than other top stars. There are so many star cards, and all available skills have been raised to the highest possible level. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, at least it will increase a little bit of strength when the skill is triggered, a little bit is a little bit.

Looking at these, Liu Mang's self-confidence continued to rise, and he was even more excited about the finals that were about to start in a few hours! His heart began to "pound" again, and then he was suppressed by the cold-blooded characteristics, so he kept calm ...

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Looking at Dinah, Levia, and Alexia all wearing the latest t-shirts of "Rogue League" - Beat-LA is printed on the top of the chest, the four Chinese characters of Rogue League are printed on the bottom, and the Eagles championship is printed on the back , that is, the Hawks on the top and the NBA-Championship on the bottom, Liu Mang knows how enthusiastic Atlanta is about this year's finals. Even the three girls who know the meaning of the word "Rogue League" and have always disliked this brand bought Rogue. Union t-shirt.

The commission for a fifteen-dollar t-shirt is about one dollar, the high-end one is 75 dollars, and his signature collection is between 1,000-5,000 dollars, and the commission for a high-end one is about 5 dollars. He commissioned a $500 commission for a signature on the edition.

The one that sells the most must be the regular version. Even this season, Eagles fans have several rogue league t-shirts. Every home game can sell tens of thousands of new t-shirts. The Eagles club often purchases the quantity used as gifts for fans.

The sales of high-end products are not bad, and the pure cotton ones are definitely more comfortable to wear than the ordinary versions made of polyester materials.

The number of signed editions sold is relatively small, mainly for the collection of two characters, and there are only a hundred pieces a year, which is a rare commodity.

According to the conservative estimate given by Schwartz, Liu Mang probably sold nearly 100,000 T-shirts in the past few days after reaching the finals, with an estimated profit of around US$150,000. Little happy.

But when he thinks that his girl wants to wear this torn T-shirt, and actually spent more than 200 US dollars to buy three of them, Liu Mang's heart aches! I slander this bad partner, he is so incapable of being a human being, I don't know how many pieces to send.

He completely forgot that it was he himself who refused the brand's t-shirts and basketball peripherals to enter his home, and asked Schwartz to refuse...

Seeing the excited three girls shouting excitedly to beat Los Angeles in the car, Liu Mang felt that these three girls were more excited than him.

After confirming that the opponent was the Lakers, San Niu became more and more excited every day, and began to prepare for watching the finals at home. Alexia contacted many friends from college and colleagues who are now working at the school. She has time and spare money More than a dozen or twenty people, made an appointment to watch the game together; Levia also found a few good friends who are now celebrities for many years; Because of the relationship, I bought in advance the home game tickets that the Eagles used to sell as physical tickets in the last few days, occupying dozens of seats behind the technical table.

NBA tickets are not sold out at one time, and the current online ticket purchase is not very developed, mainly on-site tickets and telephone bookings are paid by bank remittances. In order to ensure the smooth progress of NBA globalization, game tickets, If you go early a few days before the game, you can still buy tickets. Even on the day of the game, at least a hundred tickets will be reserved until they are sold out on the day of the game, so that those who can’t wait to get the US visa will arrive two days before the game or even on the day of the game. Tickets are available for local foreign fans of the team.

Of course, when foreign fans come, they already buy the tickets that the scalpers lined up to grab all the tickets in the morning.

The game didn't start until 8:30 in the evening. In order to cooperate with the live basketball broadcasts all over the world, Liu Mang had picked up Dinah and three other girls outside the arena at 4:00, mainly to avoid traffic jams.

San Niu went to the appointed coffee shop next to the arena to meet up with her friends.

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Liu Mang first went to the locker room to change into his training clothes, and then came to the training field. First, he continued to practice shooting. He could practice for a while, and there was an interview before the game.

"Haha, Ace, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Director Zhang was originally interviewing Jason Terry. When he saw Liu Mang coming, he immediately left Jason Terry and gave Liu Mang a big hug. Jason Terry's eyes widened from behind, staring at Liu Mang with envy and hatred.

Liu Mang ignored Jason Terry, who wanted to be famous and crazy, and hugged Director Zhang: "Director Zhang, long time no see."

The main reason is that the camera came over. When foreigners are interviewing, they can be funny. Relatively speaking, European and American countries have a stronger concept of entertainment. In China... if you do something, you will be criticized. If you lack everything in the country, you will be criticized. There is no shortage of people who catch and bite. After all, there are 1.3 billion people, and there are all kinds of people, and there are many...

After exchanging pleasantries, Director Zhang continued: "A few days ago, your team was closed for training and did not accept interviews. We didn't come to bother you for fear of delaying your training. How about it? Do you have confidence in winning the championship?"

"We're ready for the championship parade."

"Haha, Ace, you are still so confident. I heard that you recommended him to play with the Lakers. You also got his American nickname. How about it? Now that he is your opponent in the finals, do you regret recommending him? He goes to the Lakers?"

Hearing the question from Director Zhang, Liu Mang knew that the older generation of basketball players wanted to create momentum for the younger generation. Although Wang Zhizhi was not a top player in the NBA, he had gained a firm foothold anyway.

"This is a very interesting thing, generally great, I have always thought his shooting and defense at the basket are very good. I recommend him to the Lakers because I think he is very suitable to partner with O'Neal, but he can only be the general manager this year. Runner-up, I feel sorry for him."

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After all, Imperial TV is its own media, and its interviews with athletes from its own country are usually very friendly. The main one is Imperial Sports TV. Their remarks are relatively friendly. Except for some extreme situations, Imperial TV rarely makes eye contact with athletes.

What's more, it was the commentary team led by Director Zhang who came to live broadcast the finals this time, and the questions they asked Liu Mang were very friendly, and the interview ended smoothly and amicably.

It was only when we arrived in the United States that the smell of gunpowder began to become stronger.

It mainly comes from several media affiliated to the Time Warner Group that has a good relationship with the Lakers and some media from places like California, Arizona, and Washington State that are very fond of the Lakers.

Although most of the questions smacked of gunpowder, Liu Mang only needs to answer normally.

But when a reporter from Sports Illustrated asked a question, Liu Mang couldn't hold back his desire to piss off a certain player.

"Everyone is saying that Kobe's performance in the playoffs is better than yours, and he is more worthy of the MVP of the regular season. Do you have any response to this?" a reporter from Sports Illustrated asked.

Seeing this extremely familiar man with glasses, with a square face and glasses, Liu Mang felt a strong sense of being a gentle scum... Wearing glasses makes him an intellectual up? I'm going to tell you what a cultural person is.

Liu Mang wasn't angry at first, his mind was on the game tonight, now he's going to get angry!

Seeing that Liu Mang didn't answer right away, the reporters from Sports Illustrated were already preparing for the next tougher question.

Just when the man in glasses from Sports Illustrated was about to continue attacking, Liu Mang lowered his head to stare at the man in glasses and asked, "Who are you? Introduce me?"

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Not only the man with glasses, but also the other reporters who were waiting to pick up a bargain and watch a good show didn't respond. What's the answer?

The man with glasses feels very bad, why does he feel like meeting a real person? The reporter is not afraid of being interviewed by fierce people, but is afraid of meeting someone who is really stupid. The man with glasses said bravely, "Everyone is the fans."

"Fans? Where are the fans? Fans from your newspaper, or fans from Los Angeles? Our Atlanta fans think Greg is better than O'Neal. You can ask O'Neal how he will respond."

Liu Mang was furious.

But the pen of the man with glasses is not a vegetarian, he continued to attack: "Kobe's performance in the playoffs this year is the best, do you think your performance is better?"

Liu Mang also doesn't know who stimulated Kobe in this year's playoffs. After the Western Conference finals, he has played 16 games in the playoffs so far, averaging 29.7 points, 7.5 rebounds and 6.7 assists per game, which is close to the Western Conference playoffs of the 2000-01 season. The data of 31.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and 6.6 assists per game is even better than Kobe's average of 32+5+5 in the playoffs last season.

Therefore, some media, mainly Sports Illustrated, Los Angeles Times and other national media are promoting the topic that Kobe is more worthy of MVP.

"Of course I am better. How many times have we won the playoffs? It seems to be the first in history, and I also won 70 wins in the regular season, and I also won the MVP. All experts voted for me, that is, Say you think you are better than all the experts who voted? I checked, and it seems that your name is not among the voters. You Sports Illustrated also has voters? You can also ask Kobe what he thinks about this matter Respond."

Liu Mang's mouth was like a cannonball, and he finished speaking in two or three seconds, causing the people around him to be stunned.

This guy is so hot! The Sports Illustrated reporter prepared several sharp questions, but they didn't know how to ask them.

So...the media who had a good relationship with the Lakers, who were clearly aggressive, retreated.

Liu Mang looked at the reporters who surrounded him one by one and left him to interview the rest of the Eagles, he was a little surprised: Hey, I haven't had enough of it yet! What are you running for! There is no one who can fight!

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At eight o'clock in the evening, the Eagles' warm-up was over, and the game was about to start in half an hour.

The locker room, which is usually noisy and joking, has also become very quiet.

The chill atmosphere hovered in the Eagles locker room.

Facing the Lakers, the Eagles have no feeling of fear. Even if they won three consecutive championships a year ago, they have won 70 games in the regular season and 12 games in the playoffs. 82 victories have already been won, and the heart of the strong has reached its peak!

Full of fighting spirit, Liu Mang didn't need to deliberately say anything, just glanced at each other with a few teammates who had worked together for three years, and knew what the other party was thinking, and everything was in the air.

At the same time, this kind of fighting spirit spread from the core combination and infected the whole team, forming a chilling atmosphere in the Eagles locker room, with a strong confidence and fighting spirit that has never been seen before!

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At 8:10, the entrance ceremony for both sides of the competition began.

The first to enter is the Lakers players.

Kobe, Fisher, Devin George, Malone, O'Neal, when the Lakers players came out, the boos were intense from the very beginning.

Mainly for Kobe!

Kobe played an excellent performance in the playoffs this year. I don't know when it started. Kobe has become the best one on the Lakers in terms of performance.

Of course, it's the finals, how can there be a lack of fans who are more extreme? All kinds of abuse were directed at Kobe's head, and personal attacks immediately started.

And Kobe now attaches more importance to the Eagles than anything else, mainly because the guy who showed off 70 wins and MVP in front of him has no MVP so far, whether it is the regular season or the All-Star, not even a rookie game MVP Kobe, before this season, would definitely be jumping with anger, but now he attaches more importance to Liu Mang than anything else, and now, in a certain way, he has become more mature because of Liu Mang's influence.

Liu Mang leaned against the wall in the dark player tunnel, watching Kobe coming out and encountering the abuse that he could hear clearly here, but he didn't respond. The key is that he was still high-fiving O'Neal after O'Neal played, Liu Mang was a little bit Surprised, but this is both unexpected and understandable.

After the players on the Lakers side finished playing, it was the turn of the home team, the Eagles.

The scene slowly quieted down, and he slowed down his throat, ready to cheer for the players of the home team.

Hearing the scene quiet down, Liu Mang leaning against the wall, his heart started beating fast again, and then he was suppressed by a coldness from his heart.

At this moment, Raheem came over and patted Liu Mang on the shoulder. Liu Mang took a deep breath and patted Raheem's butt in response.

This moment has finally come!

After the Eagles' substitutes ran out of the player tunnel and lined up in two rows, the DJ suppressed the surprise and excitement in his heart, and loudly introduced his team's starting lineup: "Ladies and gentlemen, children, welcome to the best kid in the world." Forward, Sharif Rahim!"

The name of the first player to play shocked the fans. Raheem was the first to play? The playing order of the team's second child? Isn't that...

After reacting, the fans first gave Raheem cheers, seeing that Raheem really ran out, the excitement in their hearts was about to explode.

But the fans are still not sure, what if, for example, Stockton is going to start, and the Eagles will give him face and let him start against Malone? Just like that trip to Salt Lake City, let Stockton start as the team boss? Although the possibility is almost impossible, this is not a joke about playing against weak teams in the regular season, but the highest basketball stage, but what if?

"...Welcome to the most flamboyant power forward in the world...Rashid...Wallace..."

"... welcome to the best defensive player in the world... Theo... Ratliff..."

"...Welcome to the world's best single-defense player...Tyshaun...Prince..."

Hearing the DJ call out the names of the starting players one by one, it was the same as when the players first started, but the order was changed, and the cheers on the scene kept rising.

The fans didn't dare to get distracted, and listened to the DJ yell out the last name: "Ladies and gentlemen, children, next, welcome the best basketball player in the world, Ace... Liu!"

As soon as the last name came out, the already boiling cheers at the scene completely detonated!

In the player tunnel, Liu Mang, who was still excited even with the characteristic of being cold-blooded, was even more excited now, and he was a little afraid to go out.

After the warm-up was over, Raheem came to find Liu Mang, and without saying anything, let him play the last one. Liu Mang was a little confused at the time, but he is still very excited now.

Coach Kruger came to Liu Mang's side, and looked at Liu Mang who was short of breath under the dim light. When Rahim told him about it, he was shocked. Liu Mang's progress was too fast. Let the best player on the team recognize his strength.

Liu Mang looked at Coach Kruger. Coach Kruger felt Liu Mang's excitement and uneasiness, and knew Liu Mang's thoughts very well.

When Rahim played for the first time, although the other teammates were just surprised and didn't say anything, Coach Kruger felt Liu Mang's uneasiness, and he expected it. The passage is ready to give the little apprentice a little help.

Listening to the louder and louder cheers at the scene, coach Kruger said to Liu Mang seriously: "Ace, are you ready to become great?"

When Liu Mang heard this, the uneasiness caused by Rahim's sudden abdication was released. Isn't this what must be experienced on the road to greatness? Not everyone is Duncan or David Robinson, at least Liu Mang knows he is not.

"Of course." Liu Mang smiled at Coach Kruger.

"Then go!" Coach Kruger patted Liu Mang on the shoulder.

Liu Mang took a deep breath, adjusted his emotions, and came to the player tunnel.

The spotlight immediately shifted to Liu Mang. Seeing Liu Mang's figure, the cheers that were about to weaken a little bit, went against the trend again and reached the peak!

Liu Mang suppressed the excitement in his heart, relying on the calmness brought by the cold-blooded characteristic, put away all his expressions, slowly ran out of the player tunnel, and ran across the wall of his teammates lined up in two rows on the left and right. Raheem, who ran out and stood on the outermost side of the human wall, clapped hands and hugged each other.

Finally, on this day, the day of reaching the finals for the first time, Liu Mang took over the position of team leader from Rahim.

Hearing the cheers at the scene, Liu Mang felt the pressure and motivation: Champion, here we come!