Li Liang didn't expect Bird to ask such a question. This question was so straightforward that Li Liang couldn't react.

"James."

Li Liang thought for a second and replied.

Bird was silent for three seconds and said, "If you want to cooperate with him, you shouldn't come to the Pacers."

Li Liang shrugged, "It's just that I shouldn't go to the Cavaliers, but James can come to the Pacers."

Bird had nothing to say.

"OK, the team has some difficulties, but we won the game, I think I can move, the team's situation is still very good. Don't think about trading if there is a little problem, the trade you made last year was not bad enough Is it? It’s not a good habit to dismantle the lineup casually, you play 2K, let’s talk about it after playing for a while.”

Li Liang criticized Bird unceremoniously.

Bird was not angry, he said: "I just want to communicate with you and understand your views, we should communicate more, shouldn't we?"

Li Liangdao: "You should communicate with every player. If you do this, you won't make that stupid trade last year. Granger is a good player. I know you want the team to have a better striker." , come help me. Let me tell you, Granger is good enough, as long as he can come back to the Pacers."

What Li Liang said was swearing, Bird, who has always been very assertive, was actually persuaded by Li Liang.

Danny Granger was taken by the Clippers last season, and to be honest, he didn't play a particularly big role.

But he won a championship with the Clippers. It can be said that the merits and deeds are complete, which is the biggest mockery of Larry Bird who traded him away.

To get him back now, no matter how you look at it, it's a bit like making up for it.

However, Granger's condition is really worrying.

He did not renew his contract with the Clippers in the summer, and he was basically on the injured list throughout the playoffs.

The Heat, who lost James in the summer, signed Granger, and judging from the performance of the previous few games, Granger will never return to the man who supported the Pacers back then.

Li Liang saw Bird's hesitation, and said, "Larry, there are some things that don't require hesitation. Do you know what it is?"

"What?"

"What Bruce Lee told you to do."

Bird is speechless, you little brat, you are so good at pretending!

I fucking...

However, Li Liang really has a solution, as long as Byrd can get Granger back.

When leaving the office, Li Liang reminded Bird again, "The current Pacers need a Granger, even if he is just sitting on the bench."

This sentence moved Byrd.

If the Pacers are going to rebuild this year, Bird won't trade Granger back.

Anyway, it has already been torn apart, and it doesn't make sense to replace him, it will only make the situation worse.

But this year the Pacers want to continue to compete for the championship, and they replaced the core of the team.

Li Liang just happened to be teammates with Granger, and he won a championship with him last season. Wouldn't it be a good thing for Granger to come back?

So Bird didn't think much, and immediately picked up the phone on his desk and dialed Pat Riley's number.

Pat Riley, I don't know what kind of chips he will want?

...

The Pacers beat the Wizards with difficulty.

On the same day, there was a team that continued to soar in the league, and that was the Golden State Warriors.

On the day of the Pacers game, a focus battle in the Pacific District fell to the defending title.

The defending champion Los Angeles Clippers challenge the Golden State Warriors away.

The game between the Warriors and the Clippers last season was like sparks hitting the earth, which was very beautiful.

But this season, the strength of the Warriors has steadily improved, but the Clippers have been sucked out of their souls.

Without Li Liang, people realize how important he is.

The Warriors beat the Clippers by 121:102 at home by 19 points.

Their offense is almost exactly the same as last season's Clippers.

Powerful three-pointers, strong firepower, the Clippers were pierced in three quarters.

As the saying goes, one ebbs and another, the NBA is such a cruel place.

After Li Liang gave Bird's advice, he missed the team's training again on November 7 and continued to practice in his system.

Fourth task.

After spending time with the 76ers, McInnis was traded to the Denver Nuggets.

He was there with none other than Dan Issel, who beat him in the ABA Finals.

It can only be said that this world is very wonderful, and the world of basketball is indeed not big.

Teaming up with the person who defeated him, turning the enemy into a friend, is really common.

But McInnis didn't play for long with the Nuggets.

Although he is not very old, he has already begun to decline.

In 1978, the Nuggets had just had a relatively perfect season. Under the leadership of David Thompson, they reached the conference finals and lost to the Seattle SuperSonics.

The Nuggets traded for McGuinness in the offseason and wanted to go further.

Unexpectedly, after McGinnis came, the performance of the Nuggets plummeted, and the season began with a losing streak.

Head coach Larry Brown resigned, and after a coaching change, the Nuggets stopped their decline and finally made the playoffs.

McGinnis' excessive weight, unreliable shooting, and a large number of turnovers (NBN is the first player with 400+ turnovers in a single season), made his career with the Denver Nuggets not very successful.

The effect of cooperation with old rival Dan Issel is also average, and the Nuggets have not achieved good results.

Li Liang's fourth mission was to help the Nuggets make a breakthrough in the 1979 playoffs and defeat the rival Lakers!

That year, the Lakers did not get Magic Johnson.

Even if there is a magician, Li Liang is not afraid, but he is afraid of your Lakers without a magician?

Therefore, in the third life-and-death game of the first round, Li Liang came on the stage and helped the Denver Nuggets defeat the Lakers led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, reached the Western Conference semifinals, and challenged the Seattle SuperSonics, the Western Conference overlord at the time.

This can be regarded as a relatively satisfactory result for McGuinness's Nuggets career.

Later, McInnis was traded back to the Pacers.

The Nuggets got English, and since then they have their core combination in the 1980s, which opened the Nuggets' first golden period in the NBA.

As for McGinnis' story, that's what Li Liang has to do in the next mission.

After defeating the Lakers, Li Liang got [the left foot of the Man of Steel], and there is one right foot left from the last item.

Li Liang didn't want to wait any longer, the task wasn't too difficult anyway, so he directly opened the last book and entered the last task.

After McGinnis returned to the Pacers, he was not able to return to his hometown.

Times have changed. The NBA entered the 1980s, and it is no longer the world of their unruly people.

The NBA has entered a golden age, entered the yellow-green hegemony, and opened the real glory.

The bad stuff of the '70s, the drugs, the violence, the scandals, the low ratings, and McInnis' poor shooting, are all going to be swept into the dust pile of history.

In the 1980-1981 season, the Pacers made the playoffs and were swept out in the first round.

And none other than Dr. J. Irving's Philadelphia 76ers beat McInnis and his Pacers.

Everything seems to be coming to an end at this time.

In fact, McGinnis was only 30 years old in 1981, which was the best time for a player.

However, McGuinness's management of his body is obviously not good enough. His excessive weight and unrestrained life style made him no longer a "little bull" at the age of 30, but an "old scalper". Old cattle that can no longer plow the cornfield.

Li Liang replaced McGinnis in the game. At the Pacers' home court, he used a 40-point performance to help the Pacers beat the Philadelphia 76ers and tie the series.

It was a wonderful performance for McGinnis' last dance in Indiana.

Having completed the task perfectly, Li Liang finally got the full set of props for [McGinnis' Man of Steel].

At the moment when the props were on his body, Li Liang felt like he had become an Iron Man!

I just don't know, what kind of changes can this set of things bring to me?

It's okay, see you soon.

On November 8th, the Pacers will be a guest in Boston!

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