The NBA started with helping Iverson win the championship

Chapter 370 Deal with the Lakers
Li Xun has been paying attention to Ingram's performance almost the whole game, and he really feels a little like Durant.

However, it can be clearly felt that this new Lakers team has a lot of troubles in the team.

Because there are too many newcomers, and there is no boss in the team who can hold the field, these newcomers are fighting on their own, and no one wants to make wedding dresses for others.

Ingram is not a point guard, he doesn't have possession of the ball, he's not a center, and he can't grab offensive rebounds, so he doesn't take many shots.

Logically speaking, with a draft pick like Ingram's, he must try to rectify his rookie season.

But in this Lakers team, his shots can only be ranked fifth or No.6.

This is very sad reminder.

Li Xun was even thinking about whether to find a way to trade Ingram to save him from wasting three years with the Lakers.

But the Lakers shouldn't be fools, and they must be well aware of Ingram's talent.

After the game, Li Xun got up and shook hands with the Lakers players.

The Lakers lost this game, but the players looked calm and did not cry because of the loss.

When it was their turn to shake hands with Li Xun, they danced excitedly.

Everyone said that Li Xun was their idol, and they grew up watching Li Xun play.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this statement. Li Xun has been playing for eight years without knowing it. Young people like Ingram, when watching Li Xun play, are probably around 12 years old.

So it is not a lie to say that watching Li Xun grow up playing basketball.

That is, they all said that Li Xun was their idol, which made Li Xun speechless.

It seems that these young people, no matter what era they are in, after entering the league, if someone asks who their idol is, the answer they get must be No. 1 in the league today.

"Congratulations, Lee, for an incredible feat."

"No, you've done it once with the Pistons."

"It's just that I was still a player at that time, and now I have become the head coach of the Lakers."

After the game, Lakers coach Luke Walton stepped forward to shake Li Xun's hand.

The young Wharton once played with Li Xun, and even played directly against Li Xun.

Those players who have played against Li Xun may be able to truly appreciate how terrifying Li Xun's dominance on the court is.

This is the case with Wharton. In recent years, he has played every game against Li Xun. Now that he has become the head coach, he has imagined more than once how lucky he would be if he could coach Li Xun.

In doing so, he'd break any record in NBA history for coaching.

The record of the youngest coach to win the championship, the youngest [-] wins, [-] wins, and the youngest all kinds of consecutive victories. Anyway, as long as it is a coach-related record, Walton feels that he can break it.

It's a pity that Li Xun still has at least one year of contract with the Knicks, so his dream is destined to be difficult to realize.

"Luke, I think you should give Ingram more playing time."

"His talent is definitely the best on our Lakers team."

"Righting him up early and making him a leader is a good thing for both you Lakers and Ingram."

Li Xun frowned and said to Wharton.

Wharton was stunned. He didn't expect the young people in his team to attract so much attention from Li Xun.

"Li, this matter is actually not my decision."

"For a team like the Lakers, how much weight do you think the words of a rookie coach like me have?"

"But since you have said that, I think their management should pay attention."

Wharton said with a wry smile.

After chatting for a while, everyone returned to the locker room.

The Knicks' regular season schedule for this season is officially over.

No loss in a game, a serious record of victory.

This kind of terrifying dominance has actually made many competitors despair.

Especially the Cavaliers, their Big Four lineup this season, in fact, no matter what era they are in, even against the peak Bulls Dynasty, they still have a lot of chances of winning.

But now they are unlucky to run into a lineup like the Knicks that has never appeared in history.

The Knicks' five positions, the weakest in the UAE, are all at the All-Star level.

Soon, the first round of the playoffs will begin.

In this round of the series, Booker was placed in the starting lineup, and Pickle had a little muscle strain in the previous game.

The injury is not serious.

But after all, Paojiao had suffered a very serious injury before, so the Knicks management also paid great attention to it and did not dare to let him continue to appear.

Anyway, the previous playoffs can only be regarded as a formality for the Knicks.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Knicks' opponent is the Miami Heat.

The Heat have completely lost the brand of the original Big Three, even Wade has now left the Heat.

Of course Wade doesn't want to leave his home team, but if the Heat don't give him a decent contract, he can only leave.

No way, sometimes the contract not only represents how much money a player can earn, but also represents his league status.

Why should a player with a mid-level contract be the boss of the team?

So Wade was extremely disappointed and left the Heat.

And the Heat did not see any decline in strength because of Wade's departure. Now they are still in the playoffs, which is not much different from when Wade was there.

Active Dragic plus center Dabaibian is the absolute core of this Heat team.

Both of them can be regarded as Li Xun's former younger brothers.

"Boss, I haven't formally said thank you to you."

"Thank you for choosing me at that time, otherwise I really don't know if I would be here today."

When Da Baibian saw Li Xun, his face was full of gratitude.

Li Xun felt that this guy's memory was not very good, because he said this every time he saw him, and the key point was that he had to bring a sentence of thank you that he had never formally said every time.

Li Xun could understand Baibian's mood, because Baibian's draft pick was very low at the time, and he probably didn't think he could have any decent development.

As a result, Li Xun gave him a chance to be reused and gradually became the top inside player in the league.

Today, he has received a maximum salary in the Heat.

Thinking about the shrewd Riley not giving Wade a maximum salary, but Da Baibian's maximum salary, this is enough to prove that Baibian's value is very high.

Speaking of which, the four major blue-collar insiders in today's league were once Li Xun's little brother.

Jordan, Da Baibian, Zhuang Shen and Gobert.

Now all four are developing very well.

"Dudududu!"

With the whistle of the referee, the first game of the first round of the playoffs began.

Just looking at the starting lineups of both sides is actually enough to make Heat fans desperate.

Even the UAE, which has the lowest star position on the Knicks side, is actually a master-level role in the Heat.

In the first offensive round, Paul taught the young Dragic a lesson.

A change of direction in the frontcourt passed Dragic.

Just when Dragic felt that Paul was about to make a three-pointer, he took off directly to block the shot.

As a result, Paul made a fake move at this moment, not only making Dragic a foul, but even scoring this hasty three-pointer.

There was a 3+1 immediately after the opening, and the ending of this game is almost doomed.

When it came to the Heat's offensive round, Dragic passed the ball to his backcourt partner Dion Waiters.

Waiters is a combo guard with a height of 193 cm, but he is more inclined to shoot guard.

After receiving the ball, Waiters made a direct mid-range shot.

As a result, the moment the ball was just shot, a black shadow came over the sky, and a pair of big hands directly grabbed his mid-range shot from midair.

Of course it was Li Xun.

After Li Xun succeeded in grabbing the cap, he directly controlled the ball and advanced towards the frontcourt.

At the basket in the frontcourt, two people completed dunks under the basket.

Another 2+1.

"Shh!"

Li Xun made an easy free throw.

The Knicks fans at home were immediately overjoyed. What suspense can there be in this game?
Just 30 seconds into the game, the Knicks scored 7 points directly!
Two offensive rounds scored seven points. How did the Knicks lose this game?
This is not over yet. Paul played up tonight. I don’t know what to worry about with Dragic. The game on the field has almost turned into a teaching bureau.

Paul taught Dragic how to be an excellent traditional point guard.

By the end of the first half, the point difference between the two sides had reached an astonishing 33 points.

In just halftime, the point difference has already exceeded [-], and the heat of this game is already cold.

Li Xun didn't play in the second half at all. The core of both Heat is his former little brother, and he couldn't bear to kill him.

Carlisle also replaced Paul and other main players with a substitute lineup.

The next horrible thing happened. Even if the Knicks used the bench lineup, it seemed that the Heat were still unable to parry.

What surprised the fans the most was that Dabaibian, the first-tier insider in today's league, was unable to gain even the slightest advantage when facing Zhou Qi.

Although Zhou Qi didn't get any points, but in the second half against Zhou Qi, Baibian took 5 shots, only scored one, and only scored four points in the half.

It is said that it is a blue-collar insider, but Baibian still has to bear part of the offensive responsibility in the Heat.

As a result, he only scored four points in the half, and the Heat lost even worse.

This result did not exceed Li Xun's expectations. Biting tofu in brine, one thing down one thing, Zhou Qi's effect is not good when facing a flexible center like Cousins.

But when facing blue-collar insiders, his effect is very prominent.

What made the fans even more surprised was Booker's performance tonight. In a trance, the fans seemed to see the young Kobe in Booker.

The desire to attack is extremely strong, basically don't even think about it when the ball is in his hands.

The key is that he can really score.

After the whole game, Booker scored a game-high 42 points, and also scored 5 rebounds and 3 assists.

A perfect classic shooting guard data.

Booker himself is very famous now, and he is regarded as the candidate to take over the second position after Pickle leaves the Knicks.

Now that such a top performance has come, it has made his reputation even more famous.

In the next three games, the Knicks also deliberately gave Booker a chance.

After the first round of the playoffs was over and the Knicks easily swept away the Heat, Booker was even able to get the top shooting guard data averaging 34 points per game.

Not to mention outsiders, even Li Xun was a little speechless.

You know, this is just a second-year Booker.

Of course, there is also an element of luck, but in four consecutive games, Booker played perfectly. With a round of playoffs, Booker directly entered the ranks of the league's first-line shooting guards.

After winning the Heat, the Knicks faced the Washington Wizards in the second round.

Unknowingly, the Wizards are now branching out.

In the years when Li Xun first entered the league, the Wizards have always been the weakest team at the bottom of the league.

However, since winning the No. 12 pick Wall and the [-]-year No. [-] Bill, this pair of backcourt double guns directly carried the Wizards to rise.

As far as the Wizards' lineup is concerned, it is actually really good.

In addition to the double guns in the backcourt, the inside partner is the Polish Hammer Gortat plus Morris, and the small forward is Otto Porter.

There are no obvious shortcomings in the five positions, and there are still some good players on the bench such as Marcus Thornton, Bogdanovic, and Mahinmi.

This Wizards' ability to reach the Eastern Conference semifinals is indeed not unexpected.

It's a pity that they ran into the undefeated Knicks.

The Wizards' lineup is indeed not bad, but when compared with the Knicks, it pales in comparison.

In this round of the series, Booker was reused again, and he still played quite well.

Even Booker himself felt abnormal.

On the night the Wizards were swept away, Booker called Li Xun directly and came to Li Xun's residence.

"Boss, how do I feel that the team has a plan to trade me?"

"I'm not a fool. The players you sold before seem to have been reused for a while before they left."

Booker was still very careful, aware that he might be sold.

Li Xun nodded, there is no need to hide this kind of thing from Booker.

If it is put on other teams, it is definitely not possible to tell Booker at this point in time to prevent the morale of the army from being disturbed and affect the team's plan to win the championship.

But in the Knicks, it is reasonable to say that the presence of Booker or the absence of Booker actually has little impact.

Even the aging rookie Brogdon may not be worse than Booker now.

"There is indeed a plan in this regard, but for you, it is actually a good thing."

"Los Angeles Lakers, what do you think?"

"They will take out Ingram plus this year's first-round pick, and trade you, Siakam and Zhou Qi."

Li Xun said with a smile.

After he played the Lakers game before, he chatted with Walton a few words.

After the chat, he didn't take it very seriously, but the current Lakers president Magic Johnson called him.

The purpose of the call is to seek a deal.

From what Li Xun said, it seemed that he was very interested in Ingram, so he simply used Ingram as a bargaining chip.

Johnson's idea is very simple. Instead of taking risks and gambling, it is better to trade with Li Xun and get some ready-made players.

Needless to say, Booker has been selected as an All-Star this year.

And Zhou Qi is playing pretty well now.

As for Siakam, the talent currently displayed does not seem to be worse than Ingram.

Looking at it this way, the Lakers got three potential players, and the price they paid was Ingram plus a draft pick. No fool would refuse such a deal.

Li Xun didn't think the deal was too profitable.

The reason why he agreed to Magic Johnson was because he wanted to train Ingram on the one hand.

On the other hand, the Lakers are the No. [-] pick this year. Under normal circumstances, they used this draft pick to win Brother Ball.

If it were Li Xun, he would definitely not choose Brother Qiu, but Jason Tatum.

(End of this chapter)