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"Defend, defend the last ball, you know? This is the final distance between us and the champion, a semester of hard work, come on guys, come on! Go up and down!"

Bellman is doing the final mobilization.

This is April 1, 1981, in Los Angeles, where the finals of the California High School Basketball League Division II are being played.

The two teams are the champions of Northern California, the Palo Alto Vikings, and the champions of Southern California, Riverside High School.

The game has reached the last moment, and the Vikings lead Riverside High School by 1 point 64:63.

With the last 3.5 seconds left, Riverside High School had the last chance to attack.

Li Liang has scored 35 points in this game.

After a period of training in the mission, his skills have improved very quickly.

He's already an excellent center, proficient in turnaround jumpers, with superior strength and dominant defense.

The Vikings went from being an unknown underdog to winning the Northern California championship in one fell swoop and reaching the finals.

They are still 3.5 seconds away from the championship, and they have to defend the last ball.

The timeout ended, the game restarted, and Li Liang returned to the court.

He stared at a very thin bald head at Riverside High.

The referee blew his whistle, and the timeout ended and the game continued.

The bald head was running on the field trying to get out of the open space, he ran out, received the ball, turned around and was about to shoot a jumper!

But a big hand reached out and tapped the ball lightly.

The ball has been shot, but it is far off course, flying halfway and falling.

It was Li Liang. He adjusted his footsteps, spotted the shot, and blocked the opponent's lore shot!

At the end of the game, the score was fixed at 64:63, and the Palo Alto Vikings won the game!

The Vikings players flocked to the field, Li Liang raised his hands high, and at the same time he saw a huge "Gan's Restaurant" banner waving in the stands.

Not far away, a slender and lonely figure left, wearing a No. 5 jersey with the words "Miller" printed on the back.

After the ecstasy and cheers, the surroundings fell into darkness. Li Liang knew that his journey in Palo Alto High School was coming to an end.

This journey has been intermittent, starting from entering the first game of high school, until becoming the state champion, throughout Li Liang's 2016-2017 NBA regular season.

Li Liang has a completely different experience in the mission and in real life.

The kind of basketball career that starts from scratch and is full of blood and passion.

For a while, when the regular season was particularly exhausting, Li Liang even liked to enter the system tasks to relax himself and feel the fun of basketball again.

And in this process, the regular season of the 2016-2017 season is about to come to an end.

On April 12, 17, the last game day of the regular season, the Kings played their last regular season game.

The opponent was the Clippers, and Li Liang chose to rest all the players.

Before this game, the King's record was 57 wins and 24 losses.

57 wins is the first time in Li Liang's career that he has not won 60 wins in the regular season.

However, since the 2003-2004 season, the Kings have the best record in the regular season.

There is still the last game. If you win the Clippers, the Kings will get 58 wins!

You can use this to commemorate their opponent, Li Liang's former teammate Chris Paul.

But Li Liang still chose to rest in rotation, so that the main players can get a full rest before the playoffs.

For the Kings, whether they win 57 or 58 won't affect their ranking in the Western Conference.

The top three in the West have been determined, the Warriors, Spurs and Kings.

The Thunder fell behind after the All-Star break because Westbrook was injured and missed most of the post-All-Star break.

The Thunder, which had been healthy with all members last year, dropped out of the team this year due to injuries.

However, they still ranked fifth in the Western Conference with a record of 54 wins.

The Lakers ranked ahead of the Thunder with a record of 55 wins, and the two teams will have a battle in the first round.

Ranked sixth is the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Clippers have been stagnant in the past two seasons. It seems that after winning the championship, the team entered a gliding state.

Meeting the king in the first round is a blessing in disguise.

So, in the last game of the regular season, the Clippers got addicted to the Kings and beat the Kings by 25 points at 115:90.

In this way, the king ended the regular season with a loss, and the record was fixed at 57 wins and 25 losses.

Although this result is the worst regular season record in Li Liang's career, if you have read NBA historical statistics, you will know that 57 wins and 25 losses is a magical record.

From the 1968 season, after the NBA officially established the 82-game regular season game system, excluding the shrinking season, to the present decades, among the teams that entered the finals, the teams with a record of 57 wins and 25 losses in the regular season are the most. 10 times! (If you count the 2016 Cavaliers in parallel time and space, it will reach 11 times, and if you count the 2019 Warriors, it will be 12 times.)

Among them, the number of teams that won the championship is 5 (6 if the 2016 Cavaliers are counted), reaching half.

In other words, this is a "championship record" that seems to have a magical power.

Li Liang is very satisfied with this record.

For him personally, it is indeed the worst in his career.

But for the entire Kings team, getting this record first has proved that they have the strength to compete for the championship, and the difference of a few games is not a problem at all.

Anyway, Li Liang has an away advantage.

Moreover, in the second half of the season, Li Liang has been adjusting the lineup and experimenting with playing styles, and he has become more comfortable in the position of head coach.

For him, the regular season has completely become a martial arts arena, and the playoffs are the real battlefield.

After two days of rest, on April 15, the playoffs of the 2017 season started.

On the first day, the Warriors played against the eighth-ranked Trail Blazers, and the Kings played against the sixth-ranked Clippers.

Before the start of the game, Kings center Cousins ​​was quite nervous, so nervous that he didn't talk much.

This is Cousins' first playoff appearance in his career.

As the No. 1 center in the NBA this season, Cousins ​​didn't even have playoff experience before, which is enough to show how lonely the inside line of the NBA is.

Li Liang rubbed Cousins' shoulders before the game started, and said, "Who is your opponent tonight?"

"Clippers."

"Yeah, Clippers, are you nervous? Think we're going to lose?"

"I don't know... no, we will definitely win, we will definitely win!"

"There is no certainty. We just lost the game the day before yesterday. Nothing is certain."

When Li Liang said this, Cousins ​​was a little confused. Why didn't even Bruce Lee say that he wasn't sure?

Isn't that the end of the calf?

Li Liang took out his mobile phone and asked Cousins, "Come on, let's predict the score of this game."

"What?" Cousins ​​couldn't understand what Li Liang was talking about.

"I said predict the score of this game, we don't care about the Clippers, predict the Kings, how many points our Kings will get."

Cousins ​​fell into deep thought. He knew that Li Liang liked to make predictions before the game, but he never predicted the king.

Could it be that when it comes to the playoffs, he is going to start flagging his team on Twitter?

This idea is very dangerous.

But Li Liang asked very tightly, and said loudly: "Tell me Cousins! How many points are we going to score in this game!"

Everyone in the locker room heard it, and they all looked at Cousins, staring at him closely.

Cousins ​​had to say, and he couldn't say less, saying: "Tonight...tonight we will win, we will score 130 points!"

"OK, 130 points." As he spoke, Li Liang tweeted, "We're going to score 130 points tonight."