Basketball Legends: Strikers Are King

"Roar~~!!!"

As the final whistle sounded, Jason Terry threw the basketball in his hand into the air and let out a roar of victory together with his teammates.

The Dallas Mavericks players sitting on the bench ran over and surrounded their absolute core, the German tank Nowitzki. Nowitzki also high-fived his teammates with excitement on his face.

They sang and danced, freely venting their emotions that were about to overflow.

It is impossible for the Mavericks to be unhappy. Since entering the playoffs, the Mavericks have been despised, from the first round against the Trail Blazers led by Roy and Aldridge, to the aggressive defending champion Lakers in the second round;

From the young Storm Thunder in the Western Conference Finals to the Heat in the Finals, the Mavericks have almost always been the underdog.

Their leading brother is the "softest" power forward in history. He is white. His shooting style and athletic ability can be bullied by any normal power forward.

In the 2006 Finals, with a huge 2-0 lead, Wade lost four games in a row;

In 2007, he ranked first in the Western Conference in the regular season. Entering the playoffs, he was reversed by the eighth-ranked Warriors. He was eliminated with a big score of 2-4 and was defeated in eight games;

In 2010, he ranked second in the Western Conference in the regular season and was eliminated again by the seventh-ranked rival Spurs 4-2.

Their players are 37-year-old Jason Kidd, 32-year-old Shawn Marion, 30-year-old Caron Butler, 33-year-old Jason Terry, and Nowitzki? He is also 32 years old.

The only young one, 28-year-old starting center Tyson Chandler, is still a pure blue-collar center.

However, in the summer of 2011, with scores of 4-1, 4-0, and 4-1 in the three rounds, the Mavericks once again stood in the finals. Facing the top three Big Three, they won cleanly with a big score of 4-2.

Defeated the opponent and won the championship that season!

The fans held back their grief and left, and American Airlines Arena gradually fell into silence. Is there anything more sad than watching your opponent be crowned at home?

The 26-year-old Bosh, James and 28-year-old Wade stared blankly at the Mavericks celebrating. Bosh turned around and returned to the home team's locker room through the player tunnel. He was afraid that if he was delayed for a second, tears would fall from his eyes.

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James and Wade walked up, whispered a few words to everyone on the Mavericks, and then turned and left.

"Hmm."

Terry looked at the slightly lonely two people, looked at each other with Nowitzki, smiled and continued to be immersed in the excitement of winning the championship and realizing his dream.

The struggle between players is far less beautiful than imagined.

After confirming that Nowitzki had a fever, James and Wade imitated the German during training and laughed out loud.

After this scene was photographed and recorded, it reached the ears of the Mavericks.

This naturally aroused the anger of the Mavericks. Nowitzki and his teammates successfully counterattacked their opponents with their own performance on the court. There is nothing more comfortable than winning an away game and watching the opponent's face turn ashen.

Nowitzki, surrounded by his teammates, came to the center of the arena, where NBA President Stern was waiting for them. Next to Stern, it was the Mavericks owner who had given everything for this moment, Nowitzki's boss -

—Mark Cuban.

"Dirk!"

Cuban came up and hugged his Maxima, and Nowitzki also leaned down slightly and hugged him.

"We made it!"

Seeing the Mavericks finally win the first championship in team history instead of letting it slip away like the previous one, even Cuban, who has been in the financial industry for more than 20 years, shed tears of excitement.

Nowitzki whispered:

"Don't worry Mark, today's championship is just the beginning, I promise!"

Cuban's eyes twitched, he raised his head without changing his expression, and took a deep look at Nowitzki.

"It's time to accept the award, Dirk."

Stern's voice came at the right time:

“…the winner of the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award is Bill Russell!”

"Dirk Werner Nowitzki!"

Amid the applause of the entire staff, Nowitzki took the silver trophy from President Stern, held the O'Brien Trophy and the Bill Russell Trophy in his hands, and began to deliver his acceptance speech:

"First of all, I want to thank my boss, Mark Cuban..."

There was an unusually dead silence in the Heat's locker room.

The team president and the league's coach of thousands of wins, Pat Riley, left the arena long ago and went home.

Riley's nearly two and a half years of hard work finally bore fruit in the summer of 2010 - the unprecedented Big Three!

After trying so hard for so long, he fell down on this last tremor!

The No. 1 pick in the 2003 draft, James, who had been playing in the league for seven years, sat silently on his chair. He risked being criticized just for the sake of the final championship, but in the last round

I swallowed the bitter pill of failure in the competition.

"Brown!"

In a daze, he suddenly felt someone taking a picture of him. When James looked up, it was Ilgauskas wearing jersey No. 11.

The Lithuanian player nicknamed "Big Z" entered the All-Star Game twice after being selected by the Cavaliers. After being traded to the Wizards and being bought out by the Wizards, he returned to the Cavaliers in his twilight years, but

Different from the 17.2 points and 7.5 rebounds in his peak period, Big Z, who is earning a basic salary, can only contribute 1.7 points and 1.6 rebounds.

James suddenly felt his throat became more blocked.

In the summer of 2010, Big Z followed James and came to the Heat. Although he could only sit on the bench to cheer for his teammates and fill in part of the center time, deep in James's heart, he didn't want to give this veteran

How about a perfect career ending for the eldest brother, winning a championship ring?

Big Z comforted his little brother in a low voice:

"There is a proverb in the far East, which is called 'Failure is the mother of success.' We are all fighters and will never give up because of this momentary failure."

Listening to Big Z's words, James didn't feel at all comfortable. Failure never makes people feel comfortable.

"LeBron, I have something to tell you."

James turned his head and looked at his brother, Dwyane Wade, who was looking at him.

…

In order to avoid the number one sport in the United States - football (from August each year to February of the following year), all NBA games came to an end after June 12, 2011.

However, there is another highly anticipated event that will be broadcast live across the United States on June 24th, and that is the 2011 NBA Draft!

Freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors from the NCAA will compete with other overseas players without American college basketball experience, and even Development League players, for a total of 60 draft spots in two rounds.

What is different from the past is that among the young people who announced their entry into the draft, a young man with black hair once again appeared...