The NBA started with helping Iverson win the championship

Chapter 360 The Seventh Championship

The combat power of the Mavericks should not be underestimated, but Li Xun did not expect them to beat the Warriors with a score of 4:2.

Li Xun felt that this team of warriors almost meant something.

Except for Clay and Green, they have the same lineup as the Warriors, and there is an extra Iron Eagle Barnes.

But no matter the offense or the defense, it seems to be a grade behind.

On the offensive end, because there is no series connection of Green, their offense is not so smooth.

On the defensive end, without Green's DPOY-level defense, there are also shortcomings.

Looking at it this way, it is normal for the Warriors to lose to the Mavericks.

For Warriors fans, this series was nothing short of disappointing.

They not only missed the chance to win the championship, more importantly, they are likely to lose Durant next season.

At the press conference after the loss to the Mavericks, Durant did not give an answer to the reporter's question that he would renew his contract with the Warriors.

Looking at it this way, he probably already had the intention of leaving.

Coincidentally, next season happens to be the time when the NBA salary cap will rise sharply.

The salary cap of each team this season is only 7000 million, and the salary cap of next season will directly skyrocket to 9400 million.

That's $2400 million more than this season!
What kind of concept is this? It is equivalent to saying that any team can sign a maximum salary player in the cap.

In the previous era of Baotuan, it was still a small fight, and only a few teams could form a Big Three lineup under special circumstances.

But now with the salary cap soaring, it would be embarrassing to say that you want to compete for the championship if you don't form a Big Three.

The Knicks played against the Mavericks and played two games this season, one in Game [-] and the other in March.

The Knicks won both games.

However, these two games exhausted Li Xun. The first game lasted 45 minutes, and the second game lasted a full 48 minutes.

In other words, if the Knicks want to win the Mavericks, they can only let Li Xun play hard.

As long as he is not on the court, the situation will explode immediately.

Now it's time for the finals, many fans are not optimistic about the Knicks now.

Because Li Xun never played all seven finals for 48 minutes, even Iron Man couldn't stand it.

In case of another injury, the Knicks can only be finished.

It has to be said that even without Li Xun, the combat power of this team of Mavericks is still terrifying.

The main reason is that the Mavericks management did not mess around. Unlike the Pistons at that time, after Li Xun left, all kinds of riots made a mess of a dynasty team.

On the Mavericks side, the only change made was to move Antetokounmpo to the third and fourth positions, and Rondo was added to the first position.

There is no problem at all with this operation, very professional.

The Mavericks are now trying their best to maintain the original lineup when Li Xun was there, and try not to make changes.

With the precedent of the Pistons, any fool knows that changing Li Xun's lineup rashly can only lead to a dead end.

The finals start.

In the first game, the result was somewhat beyond the expectations of the fans.

Because it is the home court of the Knicks, it can be said that this is the first time in Li Xun's life that he has enjoyed a lot of home calls at his own home court.

After all, it has to be the Knicks, the son of the league, that's not nonsense.

Coupled with Clay's poor hand feeling tonight, the Knicks have established a considerable advantage in the first three quarters.

In this situation, Li Xun can certainly take a break.

As a result, in this game, Li Xun played only 35 minutes and led the Knicks to win against the Mavericks.

In the second game of the finals, the Knicks still got a lot of home calls. In this game, Li Xun played 43 minutes and led the team to win the game.

By the time of G3 of the finals, it was already the home of the Mavericks.

It is said to be their home court, but it looks like it is still the Knicks' home court, because the Mavericks didn't get any home whistle.

Judging from this situation, the league obviously doesn't want the Mavericks to continue to win the championship.

They have already won three consecutive championships. If they continue to win four consecutive championships, it is really not a good thing.

It's a pity that Li Xun's basket was also very inaccurate in this game. After playing for 42 minutes, he was unable to recover in the end and failed to lead the team to win.

After all, the Knicks' lineup is still too bad.

If the depth of the benches on both sides is similar, even if Li Xun does not perform well, he can easily lead the team to win just relying on rebounds and defense.

In the fourth game, the Knicks won again, and this win was very difficult.

Until the last 30 seconds of the game, the Knicks were still behind by three points. At the last moment, Li Xun and Ah Lian made consecutive hits and succeeded in taking the lead by one point. Li Xun's mid-range shot beat the Mavericks and successfully Got the match point.

The fifth game continued to come to the Knicks' home court. It may be that the referee was afraid of having a long night and dreams. The referee gave the Knicks all kinds of outrageous whistles.

Li Xun felt a little ashamed, this was completely invincible.

When the final referee blew the whistle to end the game, the defending champion Mavericks lost to the New York Knicks 101:106.

After 40 years, the Knicks won the championship trophy again.

The entire Madison Garden Arena directly became a sea of ​​joy, regardless of whether the judgment of this round of finals was ugly or not, they did win the championship and broke the Mavericks' three consecutive championships.

"Li Xun!"

"Li Xun!"

"Li Xun!"

Li Xun's name was shouted wildly at the scene.

This is the terrifying effect of Li Xun joining a team. In just one season, he led the Knicks to win the coveted championship.

And if Anthony continues to lead the team, it would be good for the Knicks to make the playoffs this year.

Anthony, who was far away in Los Angeles, turned off the TV at this moment, feeling very aggrieved.

Everyone is a top player, why can't they make it to the playoffs when leading the team? Li Xun won the championship after only one season?

Is there really such a big gap between people?

If the Knicks spent more money this season, it's acceptable.

The key is that the Knicks' salary has not increased this year, which is similar to that of previous seasons.

This is very telling.

Fortunately, at this moment of joy, no one remembered Anthony, otherwise Anthony would have to be whipped out.

Seeing that everyone was celebrating and shouting their names wildly, Li Xun forced a smile on his face.

He is not very cold about this championship.

On the one hand, he already has six championships in his hands, and this is his seventh championship.

On the other hand, the championship is too weak to win. If it weren't for the referee's whistle, it would be hard to say whether he could win the championship.

But after all, it was the moment of winning the championship, and it was not appropriate to put on a bitter face. Li Xun could only force himself to put a smile on his face.

At the next moment of holding the trophy, Stern announced a news.

That's when he's finally ready to retire.

When the awards ceremony is over, he will officially retire and leave the position of NBA president.

Xiao Hua's face behind him was serious, but he was probably already happy in his heart.

After winning the cup, Li Xun undisputedly won his sixth Finals MVP.

Since then, Li Xun has actually surpassed Jordan in all aspects of honor.

At this moment, Li Xun already has full confidence, telling the world that he is No.1 in NBA history.

But Li Xun's skin is not thick enough to shout out this kind of thing by himself.

Two in the morning.

NBA New York headquarters.

Because the fifth game was played in New York, after the game, Li Xun was called by Stern to come to the headquarters together.

In the president's office, Stern has already cleaned up, and the desk is clean and empty.

It looks like Stern is ready for the Knicks to win tonight.

"Li, what do you think of my successor Xiao Hua?"

Stern asked with a smile.

Li Xun shook his head, "It's not that good, I feel like an idiot."

"Are you sure this guy isn't gay?"

Stern smiled wryly, Li Xun was still the same Li Xun, still lawless, and he could say such words.

But I'm about to retire now, and I don't bother to care so much.

He knew very well that even if Li Xun and Xiao Hua broke their faces, and Li Xun gave Xiao Hua a big mouth in public, Xiao Hua actually had nothing to do with Li Xun.

He wants to ban Li Xun, and other teams in the league will definitely disagree.

Bear the brunt of the Knicks.

What a joke, just won the first championship, the Knicks are still counting on Li Xun to lead them to build a dynasty.

Want to ban Li Xun now?

As the NBA's big money maker, James Dolan, he must be the first to refuse.

And other teams must not agree, because after Li Xun leaves, they may become Li Xun's next home.

Looking forward to the stars and looking forward to the moon, finally looking forward to Li Xun's coming, but you said you want to ban Li Xun?

It's no wonder these teams are not impatient with Xiao Hua.

A championship can bring innumerable wealth, not to mention the triple crown dynasty.

So as long as Li Xun is in this alliance for a day, no one can touch him.

I chatted with Stern for a long time, after all, we have been friends for so many years.

If it is really a choice between Stern and Silver, Li Xun will definitely choose Stern, as he said, Silver is really an idiot in his eyes.

With the end of the finals, the season can be regarded as settled.

But this offseason has gradually become a turbulent rhythm due to the sharp increase in the salary cap.

If there is no accident, at least a few teams in the league will have to skyrocket in strength.

Because it was the first time in 40 years, and New York was indeed rich, the momentum of the championship parade was extremely huge.

There are dozens of parade buses alone.

Li Xun just finished participating in the championship parade on the front foot, and received a call from Durant on the back foot.

"Lee, I have decided not to renew my contract with the Warriors."

"Let's join forces."

"We can definitely build a New York dynasty."

On the phone, Durant was very excited, and he didn't know where his excitement came from.

It seemed that he was sure that Li Xun would accept him.

It's a pity that Li Xun didn't like the word he used to join forces.

He obviously wanted to hug his own thigh, so why did he insist on joining forces, it's almost as good as helping him.

For Durant, Li Xun appreciated it at first.

Although this guy occasionally has some weird operations, but he looks like a stupid and cute, very likable.

But then the Nets did the kind of thing he did with Irving, and Li Xun discovered that Durant was not only stupid, but also bad.

It's just a typical example of being stupid and bad.

When he was seriously injured, the Nets gave him a maximum salary, waited patiently for him to recover from his injury, and even got him top-level helpers.

As a result, this guy is not doing anything.

Looking at it this way, Harden is still shrewd. When he sensed that something was wrong, he quickly picked up the bucket and ran away.

"Kevin, we were the championship before you came."

"So if you come to New York, it's definitely not us teaming up."

Li Xun's words almost made it clear that he didn't want Durant to come to the Knicks at all.

Why should this guy enjoy the fruits of victory for the country he has conquered by himself.

Durant was dumbfounded.

What is this scenario?
As expected, he felt that Li Xun would be very happy and welcome him to join the Knicks with his hands up.

In the end, Li Xun poured cold water on him.

"Li, you will definitely regret it!"

"I swear, you'll absolutely regret it."

Durant roared angrily on the phone.

Li Xun simply ignored him and hung up the phone.

Make yourself regret it?That depends on whether he has the ability.

The players in this league that Li Xun can regret are, at least not yet born.

At noon the next day, gossip spread from all parties in the alliance.

Durant is negotiating with the Cavaliers, and he is going to join the Cavaliers to form the Super Big Four.

Li Xun was not surprised by this news at all.

Because if Durant wants Li Xun to regret it, he can only join some top teams, and the Cavaliers are undoubtedly a good choice.

Coupled with the sharp increase in salary space, as long as Durant cuts his salary slightly, the Cavaliers can sign him.

In the Eastern Conference finals last season, it was actually because of the striker that he suffered a big loss.

If Durant is added to this, their combat power is indeed frighteningly strong.

Even Li Xun has to admit that if the Knicks don't strengthen, they probably won't be able to beat the Cavaliers.

But you have Zhang Liangji, I have a wall ladder.

In a team like the Knicks, with rich locals, Li Xun doesn't need to think about salary space at all.

The first championship has already been won, and the boss Dolan must now look forward to the next two championships to build a New York dynasty.

So Dolan would definitely be willing to spend as much money as possible.

If the Cavaliers can introduce Durant, Li Xun can introduce other top stars.

The first thing he thought of was Leonard, who is currently the head of the orphanage in the Pistons.

Leonard just signed a maximum salary with the Pistons last season. In fact, it is not easy to trade him. If he is free to sign, then even think about it.

But for things like trading, as long as there are enough chips, there is always hope.

And if Leonard can't do it, the Pacers' pickling will be much easier.

In addition, DeRozan also became a free agent this offseason.

In addition, Howard is also a free agent. Li Xun only needs a phone call, and Howard may appear in front of him tonight.

It's a pity that Li Xun is not very interested in Howard now, and his contract must not be less than 2000 million.

To sign Howard at this price, money can't be wasted like this.

(End of this chapter)