Chapter 305: Unreachable Mountains

The magnificent Staples Center became extremely quiet as the buzzer sounded.

The people of Los Angeles began to leave in an orderly manner.

But not many.

More Los Angeles residents stood in front of their seats, watching the world’s focus at this moment:

Suwan!

There was a hint of envy on Numb’s face.

This is the fourth time that Suwan has defeated the Lakers in the finals.

In the Lakers’ history, the opponent that has been defeated the most times by the same team is the Boston Celtics.

And the player who has been defeated most times by the same opponent…

Definitely Suwan!
There was envy in their eyes.

They really didn’t expect that one day, there would be such a “nemesis” in the history of the Lakers!
They have no temper at all…

The camera turned to Kobe Bryant the next second.

The sight of him keeping his head down and not saying a word made the Lakers fans feel very distressed.

They knew very well that Kobe, with his head lowered at this moment, had a look of unwillingness on his face.

They know Kobe too well!

But if I really want to say…

Even though Kobe lost to Suwan for the fourth time in the finals, they didn’t blame Kobe.

Looking back at Kobe’s entire career, even if his career ends this season, he is still one of the best players in the history of the Lakers.

The kind that is not inferior to “Magic” Johnson!
Johnson led the Lakers to the finals nine times in his career and won five championships.

Kobe has now entered the finals for the 9th time in his career. Even though he lost to Suwan four times, Kobe has already won four championships, including a “three-peat”.

Kobe is already on par with Johnson.

So when they look at Kobe, they only feel heartache…

Kobe himself has become more free and easy.

4场比赛，他场均可以贡献22.5分4.5篮板5助攻1.5抢断，场均投篮命中率45.5%，三分球命中率39.8%，罚球命中率84.5%。

At the age of 35, with his playing style and the pressure that the entire team needs to bear against the New York Knicks’ wings, he has given his all.

No matter what, after this round of series, no matter how unwilling Kobe is to admit his age, he has to admit that he is old.

Su Wan was standing next to him. When the game ended, Kobe did not glance at Su Wan with a sullen face and then reluctantly congratulate him as usual. His expression was straightened out the moment he looked up.

“Congratulations, man, you’ve completely left Michael Jordan behind!”

This is Suwan’s 8th championship. After winning this championship, his number of championships has surpassed Michael Jordan by 2.

And he also achieved the “3 consecutive championships” for the second time!
This number has also caught up with Michael Jordan, not to mention that this is his personal “fifth consecutive championship”…

No matter from which angle, in Kobe’s eyes, Suwan has surpassed Michael Jordan and become the best player in NBA history.

It is Kobe’s dream to surpass Jordan.

But it was not until he won his first “three consecutive championships” and began to be the master of his own house that he realized how difficult it was.

The ambition I once had has now turned into a completely clear understanding:

Kobe understood the gap between himself and Michael Jordan.

It was precisely because he knew how difficult this matter was that he felt so emotional about Su Wan.

Of course, he would keep these words in his heart and not say them out loud.

Congratulating Su Wan like this was already his limit.

In essence, he is still a stingy person…

It was naturally impossible for him to express his true admiration to the man who had defeated him four times without any burden.

Even if he already thought so in his heart.

However, Su Wan also knew what kind of person he was, so he knew very well that it was not easy for this guy to say such words.

Su Wan was proud of himself.

Meanwhile, Barkley loudly announced in the TNT studio:

“Let us congratulate Suwan for becoming the first player in NBA history to lead two different teams to three consecutive championships!”

It is a very difficult task in itself to lead a team to win three consecutive championships twice.

If Bill Russell’s “8 consecutive championships” are broken down, then in the history of the NBA, only Michael Jordan and “The Lord of the Rings” have achieved this.

Now, Su Wan has become the “third person”.

Jordan and Bill Russell both achieved this goal on the same team.

Compared to them, Suwan is the first person to do this in different teams.

The most important thing……

“We all know what Su Wan was like when he first arrived in New York!”

It is no exaggeration to say that it is no different from when Michael Jordan first joined the Bulls.

Of course, Michael Jordan is definitely more difficult.

After all, when Suwan came to the New York Knicks, he was already successful and had won five championship trophies. He was the veritable “No. 5 in the league” and no one dared to offend him.

Jordan faced much greater difficulties at that time.

However, Suwan completed Michael Jordan’s eight-year journey in just one season and directly cultivated his own Scottie Pippen, a speed that Jordan could not match.

In addition, the New York Knicks have been stuck in the mud for the past decade, with all kinds of troubles and messes. The fact that Su Wan was able to lead the team to rise at such a fast speed is enough to be on par with Michael Jordan.

His second “three consecutive championships” are absolutely full of gold content.

“Let us congratulate Suwan. He is one step closer to becoming the No. 1 player in NBA history.” Bill Walton also discussed Suwan’s historical status at the first opportunity.

This is also what the outside world has been most concerned about in the past two years.

Many media outlets began discussing two years ago whether Suwan would surpass Michael Jordan and become the number one player in NBA history if he really won three consecutive championships with the New York Knicks.

Many media outlets at the time viewed:

Sit on an equal footing.

Everyone thought that it was even more shocking that Michael Jordan retired for a year and a half and then won his second “three consecutive championships” after his comeback.

However, as Suwan really led the New York Knicks to win the “three consecutive championships”, public opinion has been completely rewritten under the promotion of the New York media. Before the finals, many media believed that Suwan was only one step away from becoming the first person in NBA history and winning his eighth championship in this year’s finals!
Maybe in some records, Suwan still can’t compare with Michael Jordan.

But returning to the essence of basketball, the number one player in NBA history always speaks with results. 8 championship trophies are 6 more than 2 championship trophies.

Don’t look at the 2 seats…

You know, many players may not win even one championship in their entire lives.

In addition to the ancient Boston Celtics legend, Michael Jordan’s 6 championship trophies can already be ranked in the top three in NBA history. It can be seen how difficult it is to accumulate championship trophies!

Plus, the limelight always belongs to the guy at the peak of his powers…

Just like when Kobe won two consecutive championships in 09 and 10, he was considered to be surpassing Jordan.

Now Suwan’s achievements have completely surpassed Michael Jordan and he deserves to be the “No. 1 in NBA history.”

Because history is meant to be transcended.

Barkley said: “I think Michael must be regretting retiring to play basketball now!”

If Michael Jordan had not retired and won 8 consecutive championships, Suwan would have only tied his achievement and would still have a long way to go before surpassing him.

Two “three consecutive championships” are still a long way from “eight consecutive championships”.

In other words, there was no gold content in ancient times, otherwise, Bill Russell would definitely be the “No. 1 in history”.

Of course, even if the value of the honor is slightly reduced, Russell is still one of the top five players in NBA history.

It can be seen how shocking the “8 consecutive championships” are.

O’Neal lamented: “The history of the NBA is still too short!”

Indeed, this is the oldest basketball league on the planet, with a history of nearly 70 years.

But Su Wan caught up with everything that happened in the past 70 years in just 10 years.

From 04 to 13…

Not even 10 seasons.

9 seasons, 8 championships, these two numbers, just thinking about them makes people want to curse:

abnormal!
NBA Commissioner David Stern has the same idea as O’Neal.

In the silent Staples Center, the moment the buzzer sounded, the whole venue was filled with the sound of the New York Knicks celebrating.

It was a sound that pierced the ears of the entire Los Angeles.

Amid these harsh sounds, all the New York Knicks players hugged each other and enjoyed the moment.

Most of them have celebrated their championship trophy on such a night for the third consecutive year.

but……

Everyone knows that this year’s championship is not ordinary!
It represents the birth of the New York dynasty!
Bringing a championship to the New York Knicks, who hadn’t won a championship for more than half a century and had been in a quagmire for the past 10 years, this fantasy became a reality and no one could remain calm.

Apart from……

Su Wan was surrounded by everyone!
Of course, he has enough capital to pretend to be so.

9 championships in 8 years, David Stern has seen awesome people, but he has never seen anything as awesome as this!

He once thought that Michael Jordan was a “genius”, but now it seems that there are even more geniuses above the genius.

Su Wan’s arrival is already better than his predecessor!

He watched Su Wan put on the “champion T-shirt” again, and a similar sentence popped up in his mind:
The NBA has only been around for over 60 years, and players like Suwan have appeared so soon. Isn’t this too much of a setback for latecomers?

He really couldn’t imagine what kind of pressure such a high mountain would bring to those who came after him.

It is even more unimaginable that no one after him can surpass such a miracle!
It can be said that Michael Jordan allowed later generations to see the possibility of surpassing him in theory, but this is always possible.

But now what Su Wan has brought to this league is great achievements that are not even theoretically possible!
This guy is so scary.

in particular……

He is not yet 29 years old this year!
What the hell!

Even if he plays until he is 35…

That’s scary enough.

What makes David Stern even more desperate is that if Suwan allows this league to rule for another five years, will there be any newcomers who can emerge?
Although Michael Jordan dominated the 90s, at least there was Olajuwon during that period, and after he retired, there was Shaquille O’Neal’s peak period.

Among the current generation of “Pan-04 Generation” that grew up with Su Wan, there is no player who can compete with him.

After this round of finals, all David Stern saw was Kobe Bryant, the only “older generation” player who could compete with him, was his old age.

The “longest river” in the league was played by Su Wan to its “ultimate length”…

The peers cannot be relied upon, and the “older generation” has almost been exhausted.

In the new generation, Kevin Durant is still in his “inner demons”. This time he was killed by Kobe again.

Derrick Rose and the Bulls also showed weakness.

The two best players after them:
Stephen Curry and James Harden.

It’s really amazing.

But one is Su Wan’s “second in command”, and the other is a “maximum level account” that has just left the “Novice Village” and still needs to accumulate experience.

It is really difficult to expect them to play opposite Su Wan.

If we really have to wait another five years, they will also live in Su Wan’s shadow.

Then there will really be a generation in the NBA that will be suppressed by Su Wan.

And the suppression was even more severe than that of Michael Jordan.

What might be done?

He has seen the changes in the alliance over the years. In order to snipe Su Wan, the “super giants” of the alliance have banded together, but in the end, after so many years, Su Wan is still standing on the top of the mountain overlooking the mountains…

Awesome!
David Stern has no choice but to give a thumbs up now.

At the same time, I would like to ask:
Su Wan, do you have any thoughts on retiring at the peak of your career?
This may be the best way to deal with the new generation in the current league.

Let Su Wan leave, let them grow wild for two years and regain their self-confidence.

Of course, he also knew that this was impossible.

Not to mention anything else, first of all, Dolan would never allow Suwan to retire.

The New York Knicks have just established a “three-peat” dynasty, and a large amount of potential commercial resources are waiting to be harvested this summer and in the next two years. If David Stern really dares to let Suwan retire, he will dare to establish a new NBA!

Another thing is that as the “leader” of the league, Suwan does not have as profound an influence on all American fans as Michael Jordan.

but……

Six million New Yorkers, plus tens of millions of Asians and fans who support Suwan, also regard him as a “spiritual belief.” Especially in terms of international influence, his influence is even greater than that of Michael Jordan.

FIBA is happy to see better basketball players than the Americans.

This is an absolute irony for America, the “basketball powerhouse”.

The best basketball player is not American…

Just saying this sentence can make you feel how much fun it is!
If Su Wan really retires, the NBA’s internationalization strategy will definitely be shaken, and in the United States, the large base of New York State will also be shaken.

So David Stern doesn’t even dare to have such an idea…

(End of this chapter)