Chapter 1125 Kobe, Are You Happy?

This game became garbage time after the third quarter.

With the inside line exploded, the Magic completely lost control of the rebounds, which was fatal to the one-star-four-shooting tactics.

95:110, the Suns won by 15 points.

Li Ba played for 30 minutes and scored 30 points, 22 rebounds, 7 assists, 5 steals, 6 blocks, 1 turnover and 2 fouls.

"Iron Hammer, what do you think of the Magic?" asked the reporter after the game.

"They should have an advantage against other teams, but they can't beat us. Whether it's inside or outside defense, they can't beat us. This game has clearly told the Magic that they want to win the championship with such a lineup and tactics, it's not possible. Even if they have a big hit in the finals series and win one or two games, they can't win the entire series, this is for sure."

Li Ba said bluntly.

The next day, on the 5th, the Suns arrived in Boston.

O'Neal invited Li Ba to dinner and the two chatted.

"Hammer, this is my last contract. I will retire after the next season." O'Neal said with some sadness.

Since the end of his peak, he has been unhappy, especially after leaving the Lakers, he has been wandering around, being traded, and then his family has problems, which hit him hard.

"You should have retired a long time ago." Li Ba said indifferently.

Seeing Li Ba's attitude, O'Neal felt a little itchy and said dissatisfiedly: "I haven't had a good life since you entered the league."

Li Ba said in surprise: "How can this be related to me? It's not me who traded you out of the Lakers."

"You traded me out of the Suns." O'Neal said with his eyes wide open.

"Who told you not to play as a substitute?" Li Ba said.

"But you are not playing outside now? Why can Yao start in the Suns, but I can't?" O'Neal said dissatisfiedly.

"Of course it's different. Do you have the ability to shoot? Do you have the ability to open the basket? No, you don't, you can only block my breakthrough. And I must break through on the outside, you know, I am the same as you, I don't have a shot." Li Ba said helplessly.

O'Neal became depressed.

The next night, the Suns defeated the Celtics away from home, winning six consecutive games at the start.

On the 8th, the Suns continued their away trip and defeated the Wizards. On the 9th, they defeated the Philadelphia Digital Team back-to-back, completing an eight-game winning streak, and then returned to Phoenix.

The Suns had some troubles at the beginning of the season, with too many away games. After defeating the Hornets at home on the 11th, the Suns, who had won nine consecutive games, rushed to Los Angeles overnight and played the Lakers back-to-back on the 12th. This was also the Suns' third away back-to-back.

However, including the starters, everyone rotated a lot, and everyone had playing time, so it was not very tiring.

The Lakers are still very strong this season, with eight wins and one loss at the start, and were defeated once by the Mavericks away from home.

Before the game, the starting lineups of both sides were announced.

Lakers: Duncan, Garnett, Artest, Kobe, Parker.

Suns: Dayao, Alian, Tony Allen, Li Ba, Ginobili.

Both teams are super strong teams. For this game, the Lakers' ticket prices have more than doubled. The front row tickets have even been sold for 20,000 US dollars. This price for a regular season game shows how popular this game is.

"This is a competition between Chinese inside players." Yu Jia said this before the game started.

Zhang Heli laughed and said, "The Suns are a little weak at the third position. Tony Allen can barely play as a small forward, but it is a disadvantage to fight Artest. There is an eight-centimeter height difference and a 15-16-kilogram weight difference. But Artest's offensive ability is just so-so. He can't kill the Suns. He is the same as Malone. He has no breakthroughs and relies on shooting to score points. He has no lethality."

Xu Jicheng said, "Alian playing against Garnett is okay. Garnett is on the decline. His playing time and data are continuing to shrink this season."

Yu Jia said, "Yao and Duncan both rely on technology to make a living. They should explode each other. Duncan explodes Yao in the low post, and Yao can explode Duncan in both the high and low posts."

The game started.

"Defend! Defend..." The Suns' season slogan was shouted again.

Zhang Heli saw the stars sitting in the front row stand up and applaud the Suns, and laughed: "Lakers fans are helpless."

Yu Jia laughed: "According to the latest valuations from multiple investment companies, the Suns' market value has exceeded the Lakers' 2.5 billion, only 100 million behind the Knicks, up to 3 billion US dollars."

The game started, Dayao jumped the ball and lost to Garnett, the Suns retreated, and the Lakers attacked.

"Kobe, come on, I wish you a hot hand. I haven't played a quadruple-double this season, and today I met you, which is a good place."

Li Ba teased with trash talk.

Kobe glanced at Li Ba and said coldly: "If I really have a hot hand, I will definitely shoot you to death today!"

At this time, the ball came over, Kobe received the ball, turned around and broke through.

Li Ba followed the defense, and at this time Kobe suddenly stopped, pulled the ball back, stepped back and jumped, completed a backward move in the air, let go of Li Ba's block, and shot a three-pointer.

"Swish!"

The ball swiped down the basket.

0:3, Lakers lead.

Li Ba had already started to move fast when the ball went into the basket. This was his outside tactic today, fast break.

Under the basket, Yao Ming received the ball that went down the basket and immediately retreated to the baseline, ready to serve.

In the case of fast break, Duncan could not participate in the defense, so he stood in front of Yao Ming to interfere with the serve.

However, Yao Ming had the height and still passed the ball.

Li Ba grabbed the ball with one hand. At this time, Kobe wanted to go around Li Ba from the left and slow him down, but he immediately moved closer to the middle, let Kobe go, and rushed into the three-point line.

Parker and Ginobili had already run to the basket. At this time, the latter suddenly changed direction to the right wing and made a move to ask for the ball. Parker could only be pulled to the right wing, so the basket was empty.

With a bang, Li Ba flew up and smashed the ball into the basket.

2:3, the Suns were one point behind.

The Lakers attacked.

Kobe tried his touch again, asked for the ball outside the three-point line on the right wing, and then singled out Li Ba.

Li Ba saw that Kobe did not turn around to play back, but made a three-threat posture, and immediately guessed the opponent's next move. It would not be a turnaround jump shot, so it would be a breakthrough or a pull-up.

And with Kobe's first step, it is difficult to break through his defense. His turn and first step are too fast, so what is the most likely move Kobe will make?

"Bang!"

Kobe pulled up and jumped up, but before he could release the ball, Li Ba directly held him down with the ball.

Amid the exclamations of the whole audience, the referee blew the whistle, signaling Kobe to travel and exchange the ball.

"Kobe, do you feel good?"

Li Ba shouted at Kobe while running to the front court.

"Asshole, I will pay you back." Kobe said coldly.