The rest is just noise

Among the three games in the first round, the 76ers' most decent game was Game 2.

The 76ers' defensive intensity prevented the Knicks from opening up the score.

Dr. J had his best performance in the three games of the series, with 24+8+8, and an arm dunk that looked like he was 5 years younger.

However, the 76ers' strength is not as good as in the past.

In the past, once the 76ers encountered Dr. J's explosion, they would be unstoppable and play the most wonderful fast break in the league.

Now, Moses Malone is no longer there, Bobby Jones has retired, Andrew Toney is too injured to play, Cheeks is not a player who affects the situation after all, and Bowie looks older than the doctor himself. In the eyes of young people from New York,

It won't be a big deal just by looking at it.

Around this group of people, doctors age quickly.

In the fourth quarter of Game 2, the Knicks stretched the score to 14 points, and the outcome was decided.

Game3

The court was moved to Spectrum Arena, home of the 76ers.

Everyone knows that this will be Dr. J's final battle.

From the beginning of the competition, he was given the opportunity to perform.

The 76ers concentrated the power of shooting in the hands of the doctor, allowing him to attack as he pleased.

Here, no one can take away the ball from him.

In the whole game, he took 24 shots, scored 10 goals, and scored another 24 points.

Opposite him, young Benjamin Wilson made 11 of 18 shots and scored 28 points in an easier and more efficient way.

The days of Dr. J are over.

The Philadelphia fans who came to the Spectrum were very sad, and everyone was immersed in a low mood.

Louis can feel that emotion. Taking the NBA in 1987 as an example, even if only counting NBA results, Dr. J was the top 15 player in NBA history.

It's normal to feel sad when you witness the passing of such a person.

Due to family financial problems, Dr. J did not study for four years in college like many players in the early 1970s.

However, the NBA does not allow college students who have not studied for four years to enter the league. Therefore, he contacted the Virginia Gentlemen of the ABA privately and negotiated a "good price." The contract amount agreed by both parties was 500,000 for four years, of which 200,000 was

The delayed payment would be if Irving could help the Gentlemen survive seven years from now.

However, many people underestimated the young Irving, including Irving himself.

Because of the slam dunk ban triggered by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Irving could not dunk as he pleased. Then in the first training game of the Gentlemen, he dunked a ball that made many teammates "Hoot! This is the most awesome performance I have ever seen in my career."

"The dunk". You can imagine how many times the most awesome dunk in their career will be refreshed because of Irving's presence.

This frightened the management of the Gentlemen. They immediately ordered everyone on the team not to foul Irving during training. Anyone who dared to hurt him would not need to be dealt with by the management, and other teammates would have to take him down. It was very difficult.

Quickly, other teams in the ABA league have similar regulations. They cannot let Irving get injured. At that time, the ABA was already in a precarious situation and could collapse at any time. In 1972, it was discussed to merge with the NBA. If it were not for Oscar Robert

Sen believes that this will allow the NBA to form a monopoly and initiate an antitrust lawsuit. The era of league mergers will come early. But that is not necessarily a good thing. If the merger is completed at that time, 10 ABA teams will join the NBA.

Imagine the NBA had 28 teams in 1971? No matter how many basketball talents the United States has, they can't afford it.

The merger failed and the ABA team needed to persevere, so Dr. J's ticket guarantee became everyone's savior, and he began to play in a wonderful environment.

In the long run, this is not conducive to his growth.

In Louis' view, he is a crooked James. He has a perfect business image, a fan-attracting style of play, and the earliest boss-type player, but in a world where no one dares to foul him hard, everyone sees him and he is about to do it.

They will get out of the way and let him dunk, even if it makes their own fans switch sides.

During his peak years in the ABA, no one could shake his throne. Then when he came to the NBA, the old rules that protected Dr. J no longer worked. There were a bunch of bastards in the NBA who didn't take him seriously.

Louis didn't know how much his ABA career lowered Dr. J's ceiling, but it was that time that allowed people to see him in the NBA. A Greek monster who could fill up the stat column and play like a much shorter player also lacked long-range.

Shooting, he can't attack tough situations, but with the right team, he can lead the team to the Finals. As long as he doesn't encounter ruthless people like Walton, Bird, and Magic, he has a chance of leading the team to win the championship.

To be fair, this team leadership performance is good enough.

But this may only fulfill the lower limit of his talent.

Seeing everyone cheering for him at this moment, even a few young people outside the Knicks court wanted to go up and shake his hand.

They were stopped by Louis.

That's what you can do at the end of the game.

On the last night of his career, Irving was still playing "Dr. J", the god in the eyes of fans for the past decade.

Louis knew that this was not the real him.

The real thing is that he realized that his value was much higher than 500,000 in 4 years, so he did not hesitate to use himself as bait to lure the Atlanta Hawks. At that time, the Hawks owned Pete Maravich. Just think about Maravich

Being on the same team as Dr. J, no one would be crazy about it.

He sued the ABA, claiming that he was under the legal age of 21 when he signed the contract and that the contract did not fully reflect his personal wishes. Then he flew to Atlanta to participate in the Hawks' preseason training game. To make matters worse, he did not

I know that the Bucks also spent a first-round pick to select him in 1972, which resulted in a complicated lawsuit throughout the year, involving two leagues and several clubs. After a series of draft picks and money transactions, the ABA did not hesitate to do anything.

It retained its top star, but the price was to send him to the New York Nets, one of the few profitable teams in the ABA, and the Nets gave him a five-year, $2 million contract.

contract.

As the protagonists of this series of events, the doctor and the general manager of the Gentlemen accused each other of lying and cheating in court, and used all kinds of words to attack each other. You know, during this time (several months), he was still with the Gentlemen.

In his second season, he averaged 31.9 points, 12.2 rebounds, and 4.2 assists per game, becoming the league's scoring leader.

After the matter settled, the doctor went to the Nets. His old club, with whom he had a heated argument in court, thought he was very professional and had no resentment towards him.

Dr. J is a gorgeous dunk performer on the court, with beautiful scoring statistics, and he jumps and flies with all his strength. Off the court, he is also a well-rounded communicator, ruthless in calculation, and has the ability to balance the interests of all parties without losing any words.

Do you really not think of another person decades later?

In the eyes of Louis, Dr. J is a false existence. In the imagination of the fans, he is a fanatical performer who can dunk on five people at will, regardless of the consequences. He has the passionate love of fans, teammates, and reporters.

But he himself was never moved by this. He just stood on the court and played the role that everyone wanted him to play.

Dr. J must be perfect and flawless, so he makes himself look like a saint on and off the court.

Even in the 1977 Finals, when they won the first two games, the Trail Blazers took the initiative to fight and seemed to have lost their mentality. When the eye-catching battle between Lucas and Dawkins happened, many people from the Blazers stepped forward.

Help, and Dawkins' teammates all looked at Dr. J. According to Henry Beebe, Mike Beebe's biological father, they all had the same idea at the time. Unless the doctor came to help, they would not move.

Can Dr. J fight? He must be perfect, how can he fight? In ABA, he has the privilege not to fight, and no one will take the initiative to hit him, because ABA players know that if Dr. J is injured, he will be unable to fight.

If they play basketball, the facade that the ABA relies on for survival will immediately collapse, and they will immediately lose their jobs.

It was the doctor's first season in the NBA, and he didn't know what kind of place it was.

So his reaction was astonishing. He sat on the ground and hugged his knees reservedly, just like watching two beasts biting each other in the Colosseum. It had nothing to do with him.

As you know, Dawkins returned to the locker room and got angry because his teammates didn't help him. He smashed the locker room and destroyed the 76ers' championship prospects.

He is stuck in his own persona, and will always be like that. The only time he stepped out of his character was in the 1983-84 regular season game with the Celtics.

He was crazily humiliated by Bird, and finally was completely angered by the damn country bumpkin's trash talk.

This is by far the most impressive game in Louis' rookie coaching season. He even beat the Mavericks by 81 points and was only ranked second.

Now, the drama comes to an end.

When the drama came to an end, the 76ers lost by 24 points.

Dr. J took 30 shots in the last game, hit 10 goals, and actually scored another 24 points.

He hugged everyone, including his own opponents, and brutally abused his team's opponents.

He maintained his consistent demeanor and humility, as if he was truly a perfect being.

Just like at the beginning of last year, a girl wearing tennis clothes came to Dr. J. In fact, she was the doctor's illegitimate daughter, but he had never met her. Because this illegitimate daughter was an accident after he had a night of spark with a female reporter.

Giveaway.

But the doctor knew her because the female reporter sent him pictures of the girl every year, hoping that they would recognize each other.

When the girl comes to the doctor in person, will the doctor not recognize her? No, he is still Dr. J, just like treating an ordinary little girl, he asks with a kind smile: "Girl, what do you want?"

My signature?”

The crowd cheered for Dr. J. He was obviously the one who was swept, but he still had to address and speak out for this failed season.

Louis watched from a distance, hoping that Wilson and Ewing would stay away from this guy.

Players should never be locked into the image created by the team. Once they are stuck in this image, they will never get out.

This is one of the biggest problems of the print media era.

You really can't vent your negative energy by playing the trumpet like Durant did.

PS: I think the fact that Bird provoked Dr. J to take the initiative to beat him is definitely underestimated. Everyone only remembers that Buckley deflected and Bird was beaten, but they did not expect that that was the only time the doctor broke the defense and showed "

QTMD, I’m going to kill this bastard country bumpkin today”