Chapter 274: LeBron still wants to take drugs? Doping companies no longer sell NBA players

“Who said you’ll retire next season? Don’t talk nonsense!”

Jiang Ming simply patted Yao Ming on the back and scolded him with a smile.

“That’s right. If you don’t agree with my retirement, who dares to say that I want to retire?”

“Hahahaha, well said!”

“Put on the plaster and don’t listen to Kobe’s nonsense. There’s no way he can retire.”

As an agent, Zhang Mingji sees everything clearly.

Jiang Ming also blinked.

Of course, Kobe said he retired just to distract from the tragic fact that he was defeated 4:0. After this game, he has been described by James fans as a player of the same level and honor as James.

因为勒布朗詹姆斯07年总决赛也是被马刺4：0，都是4：0，没什么不同。

And in the eyes of James fans, Kobe was the one who swept the team, so it is obvious that James is more powerful.

Therefore, under this kind of public opinion, if the Lakers and Kobe do not come up with other topics to divert the attention, I am afraid that his career status will plummet.

So he just pretends that he has no desire and wants to retire, so that the fans will shift the focus to Kobe fans and passers-by who hope he does not retire.

Howard fans and Nash fans were also happy to see this scene, so they added fuel to the fire and started talking about this topic together, which led to the Lakers really planning to hold a Kobe retirement tour in the 2013 season.

That is to say, let Kobe play out the last year of his contract, and then use this last year as his retirement tour.

It turned into fans persuading Kobe to play for another year.

Kobe didn’t say anything else now.

In fact, you will know if you think about it.

The youngest “30000-point player” in NBA history, Kobe is also the fifth-highest scoring player in history. Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Malone, Jordan and Chamberlain are ahead of him. It can be said that Kobe is the symbol of this era.

This season, Kobe’s scoring is unstoppable, averaging 30.1 points, 5.4 rebounds, 4.9 assists and 1.4 steals per game.

His shooting percentage reached 47.8%, the highest in his career.

Retire in this state?
Who believes?

Everyone else’s opinion is fine, but Kobe’s is the most fake.

Who would suddenly retire in this state?
Learn from Jordan?
Jordan also retired when he was at the top and felt lonely. For a competitive player like Kobe, wouldn’t he want to fight back after being swept in the Western Conference Finals?
nonexistent!

Gasol is the only honest man among the Lakers.

When the media asked him why he suffered such a terrible defeat this time, he directly spoke from a tactical perspective.

Gasol scratched his head and said bitterly:
“I think the reason we didn’t get a win was because of one player, James Harden, who can start or come off the bench. We really underestimated him.”

“So I still don’t understand why the Thunder let him go last year. After the Trail Blazers had him, we couldn’t find a breakthrough at all.”

Gasol’s words are something that all old Lakers fans will deeply agree with.

Harden!

It’s Harden indeed!
You know, Harden had an amazing performance in his first game for the Trail Blazers, even though it was a preseason game, it was still exaggerated.

He scored 37 points, had 12 assists and grabbed 6 rebounds in the game against the Pistons. In NBA history, no player has ever scored 37 points and 12 assists in his debut with a new team like Harden.

So in the playoffs he can play 44 minutes a game, and there are also games where he can play for 15 minutes. His presence is very special for the Trail Blazers.

As long as they let Harden play for a while in a game that they can’t win, the ball-holding combination of Harden + Roy + Curry is really terrifying. Even if they are behind by 20 points, they can catch up like a piece of cake in front of these three people.

Not to mention that the Trail Blazers’ inside line will be even more terrifying after the addition of Ade and Ibaka, a pure scoring lineup.

Therefore, after the Heat defeated the Bulls in Game 6 to win the Eastern Conference Championship, all the players had gloomy faces. It took six games to beat the Bulls, so what about the Blazers?
The Trail Blazers are obviously stronger than last year!
The main reason is that the Bulls really relied on Rose and the willpower of their team. Even so, the Heat, who were hailed as the cosmic team, took 6 games to win?

And except for the first two games, the next four games were all very tense.

Unlike the pioneers, there were sparks and lightning all the way, it was comfortable.

Of course, there must be a reason why the clinic will send someone to do physical therapy for the Bulls tomorrow. This is a bug, a small cheat, but hiring a team doctor is officially allowed by the NBA.

Moreover, what worries Heat President Riley the most is that the Bulls only invited interns from the clinic, Chinese medicine practitioners, to provide physical therapy to the players tomorrow.

If this is considered cheating, then the Trail Blazers have the real Jiang Ming, who is doing the physical therapy himself.

What to do then?
That’s the real Trail Blazers medical team, all five of them are there!

Therefore, when Coach Spoelstra and LeBron James lifted the Eastern Conference championship trophy, they were all thinking about the game against the Trail Blazers a week later.

Headache, really a headache!
James has been asking Rich Paul to secretly look for health supplements or illegal drugs, but no company dares to produce them for James.

Since this time last year, James has become a thorn in the side of the league and the World Anti-Doping Agency, and is a person under key surveillance.

Needless to say, this year’s finals will involve crazy testing of the entire Heat team, so pharmaceutical companies that make stimulants dare not take orders from the NBA, especially the Heat.

There is no other reason, it’s just because there is a miracle doctor in NBA. If he discovers something, all pharmaceutical companies will be finished!
The Spoelstra coaching staff and the team medical staff have even more headaches.

Because they played against the Bulls for too long, and the Trail Blazers were well rested, they are at a natural disadvantage. It is difficult to study them because there is no time.

I want to ask other Western Conference teams, but the Heat don’t have a very good relationship with them, so they won’t help.

Gasol’s words in the interview are still the most valuable to study. Do the players on the court think that Harden is the most difficult to deal with?
Okay, let’s study Harden!
So the award ceremony of the Eastern Conference Finals also created a “famous scene”, that is, although everyone was holding the trophy, their faces were worried, the kind that you could tell at a glance that they were worried, and no one was smiling from top to bottom.

It’s normal for workers not to smile, they are just like cattle and horses.

But the Heat players didn’t even smile, and it looked like they had lost the game.

The main reason is that the Heat players have waited too long. Some media have compiled statistics on the Heat players’ determination to win the championship:

For the championship, James and Bosh waited for 9 years, Battier waited for 12 years, and Wade waited for another 6 years;
In order to achieve the moment of winning the championship, 27-year-old James, 28-year-old Bosh, and 30-year-old Wade paid too much.

James was blamed, Bosh was questioned, and Wade suffered injuries, but they still wanted to reach the top with their strong will and unswerving faith, so what does the Eastern Conference championship mean?
They have won the Eastern Conference championship too many times, and now, they just want to win the championship!
Even if it’s just this once this year!
Everyone is really crazy about it!

Including the two powerful players Ray Allen and Birdman, didn’t they join because they wanted to win the championship? They are not just playing for the Eastern Conference championship.

Of course, the same goes for the Big Three.

In the 2011-2012 season, the Heat ranked second in the Eastern Conference with a record of 46 wins and 20 losses.

In the end, the regular season MVP was awarded to James, who averaged 27.1 points, 7.9 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 1.9 steals per game. As his revenge season with the Heat, he played extremely dominantly in the regular season and just wanted to make a comeback and win the championship!
Of course, in the eyes of Jiang Ming and other Trail Blazers executives, the Heat are so strong this year because of the reinforcements of Ray Allen and Birdman Anderson, which provide a sharpshooter on the outside and someone to do the dirty work in the inside, which makes things much more comfortable.

But James’ performance this year is indeed good. In this season’s playoffs, James averaged 30.3 points, 9.7 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 1.86 steals per game.

东部决赛6场比赛分别得到30分9篮板4助攻、32分8篮板5助攻、29分14篮板3助攻、26分9篮板12助攻、31分7篮板8助攻；其中第5场比赛还砍下了三双(26分、11篮板、13助攻)。

At the end of last year, James was named Sports Illustrated’s Athlete of the Year, the first NBA player to receive this honor since 2006.

The 2006 Athlete of the Year award went to James’ teammate Dwyane Wade.

So this year, both the general environment and public opinion are actually leaning towards the Heat.

Because the Trail Blazers did not show their strength in the regular season and seemed lukewarm.

Ranked third in the Western Conference, the team does not have any players with explosive stats, and the players are not good at socializing. It is a small market, and the team also arranges rest from time to time. The entire roster has only played in 55 games together.

It wasn’t until the playoffs that the Trail Blazers showed their true colors as the defending champions. Not only was there no one missing, but those who usually slacked off really stood out in the playoffs.

I’m talking about Yao Ming in G4.

During the regular season, Yao Ming was almost fired from the Trail Blazers area because of his slow defense and his standing still on offense.

As a result, after a blood C in the playoffs, there was no sound at all. This is the role of a super giant.

The old superstar is still a superstar, and his ceiling is there. When he really starts to kill, it will still make the fans happy.

However, the Trail Blazers also carefully analyzed their opponents in the next two games of the Heat and the following week.

Compared to the Heat, the Trail Blazers also want to win consecutive championships, and they want to complete a crazy three-peat!

According to head coach McMillan’s chicken soup:

“We’ve come this far, why don’t we win the championship? It has to be our second championship!”

Jiang Ming will not go to the clinic tomorrow, and will go directly to the tactics room to discuss research with everyone.

They not only watched the matchup between the Heat and the Bulls, but also watched the Heat’s first two rounds of matches.

Because the Bulls are actually not very similar to the Trail Blazers, and Noah restricted Bosh too harshly.

But in fact, the Trail Blazers don’t have someone like Noah. If you want to see Bosh’s performance, you have to look at the first two rounds.

“Let’s watch the videotape. It brings back such distant memories.”

When Jiang Ming first worked as a team doctor for the Rockets, he watched video tapes part-time just to find out the rounds in which McGrady made mistakes and edit them out. Of course, the reason for letting him watch them was to also find out in which rounds the players might get injured and edit them out as well.

But in fact, no one watched the rounds that were prone to injuries edited by Jiang Ming.

Who cares about you?

If you are not actually injured, who would watch the rounds where you think you might be injured?
Even if they did, who would believe you, a team doctor?

Unlike Jiang Ming’s current identity, if he says that your action is prone to injury, would you dare not change it?

If you don’t change, you might get injured in a few days. The players are really scared. It is because of the existence of this magical Chinese medicine that people who know Chinese medicine diagnosis by observation are like the god of death wherever they go. Everyone is really afraid of the Chinese medicine doctor speaking.

This time, Jiang Ming was really focusing on studying basketball.

In the first round of the playoffs, he faced the Knicks led by his good friend Anthony, and of course, Jeremy Lin was there too.

However, Jeremy Lin twisted his ankle after playing one game. He wanted to come to the clinic to see Jiang Ming tomorrow, but Jiang Ming said he was busy with the team and treating Rose at that time.

James and Wade combined to score an average of 48.8 points per game to help the Heat easily eliminate their opponents 4-1. From this round of the series, it can be seen that the Heat’s first ball handler is undoubtedly James, and his performance did not disappoint the trust of the team and teammates in him.

The second round matchup against the Pacers was one of the toughest opponents the Heat had encountered in the Eastern Conference in the past two years. The reason was that the Pacers’ strength in the interior was exactly the Heat’s weakness. After Bosh transitioned to the center position, his confrontation in the interior became even worse.

And due to injuries this year, Bosh has been playing on and off. He only played 16 minutes in the series against the Pacers.

Limited by the salaries of the Big Three, the Heat cannot make significant reinforcements at this position, so James is forced to gain weight and focus more on interior defense and rebounding.

After the first three games of this series, the Heat fell behind 1-2, but James stepped up at the critical moment.

G4他出战44分钟狂砍40分18篮板9助攻2抢断2盖帽的全面数据。

最后两场比赛他的数据则分别为30分10篮板8助攻1抢断1盖帽、28分6篮板7助攻3抢断，在他的爆发下热火也有惊无险的完成了逆转。

值得一提的是这轮系列赛韦德的发挥同样非常亮眼，除了G3只拿到了5分之外，其余5场比赛他均砍下了20+，尤其是最后一场他更是爆砍41分10篮板3助攻2抢断，投篮命中率还高达68%。

So will last year’s 8-point release of troops happen again in this finals?
After all, from the current perspective, if Wade performs better in the finals, the FMVP might still go to Wade?
“Pah, pah, pah, what are you talking about? No matter what they do, the championship belongs to us, the Trail Blazers, and the FMVP also belongs to our team.”

Jiang Ming started laughing as he thought about it, and then he edited a few videos of James’ offensive rounds and sent them to Harden:
“Watch carefully how he attacks. It will put a lot of pressure on you to defend. If you can defend him, we can win.”

Harden, who was about to go to the nightclub to find his big-butt girl, was shocked when he received Jiang Ming’s message and quickly drove back to watch the video.

He dared not reply to messages from others, but when it came to messages from Dr. Jiang Ming, he had to reply immediately after finishing his work!!!
In the Trail Blazers, Jiang Ming’s words are orders!

(PS: The Spurs are awesome, Zebra + Fox, there really could be something! Looking forward to it)

(End of this chapter)