If explained literally, it is actually an opponent or a competitor. However, more people are willing to interpret this word as an old enemy, which has been sublimated from the state of a competitor to another level.

Just by looking at this word, you can tell that the smell of gunpowder contained in it is self-evident.

This guy is not an old enemy, this guy is not an old enemy. Well, a very strange existence like the Demon King of Roushan is also considered a kind of old enemy, but it looks a little bit 2.

The old enemy who is qualified to deserve this word must be a pair of enemies of the same period, take off at the same time, fight against each other, and a pair of enemies of the same level will use each other as a mirror, and look at each other and see their own ups and downs.

Only such people are qualified to be old enemies, otherwise they will just stomp the other party to death, which will reduce a lot of fun. After all, a person's invincibility is lonely. Only with a rival who is equal can you truly achieve greatness.

Just like how many years Jobs and Bill Gates had been in stalemates, although they later walked together, the number of secret confrontations between the two people is probably indispensable, even after cooperation.

For example, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, Moutai and Wuliangye, McDonald's and KFC, Baidu and Google, Nike and Adidas, uh, Japanese romance action movies and European and American romance action movies, etc., anyway, as long as there are two giants in the same industry at the same time, the confrontation between them will often cause chaos in the industry.

For example, the Smurfs and Gargwons, the Concave Man and the Little Monsters, the Big Big Wolf and the Xi Yangyang, these are all old enemies.

The same is true in the basketball world. There are always challenges like Payton and Miller around the leader of Joe. They are entangled and fight desperately to achieve the greatness of the God of Basketball.

Although he has been a background for many years, no one can forget the scene where Payton squirted about the trash at Joe's leader, and no one can forget the arrogant arrogance when Miller pushed Joe away and threw a three-pointer.

Only when the leader of Gang Qiao defeats them will make people remember the most glorious era of the Bulls. If you are the sun, if there is no group of stars around you that can shine, your existence will be lonely.

This is the role of the opponent. Without their existence, even if you are a naturally great guy, you will lose the splendor he deserves because of the lack of top confrontation, and your value will be discounted.

Things like greatness all require a qualified foil. The stronger the background man, the stronger you will be.

However, looking at the entire history of the NBA, such as the Knicks and the Heat, the Pistons and the Bulls, these are all old enemies, but the entanglements of these guys are limited to ten years and have not lasted for decades.

Only the Celtics and the Lakers can be considered lingering forever. From the day they were in the NBA, they have been like couples for several lifetimes. Today you bullied me openly, and I will fight back tomorrow.

I guess no one is more confused than them, especially the Lakers, who have been suppressed by the Celtics, won twice, not to mention the number of times they won the championship (as of 2007, it is one time now.) It is because they have never gained much advantage in the direct confrontation between the two, mainly since the 10 years since the 1958-59 season, they have almost been losing. As long as they enter the finals and meet the Celtics, the Lakers will be in one game.

That decade really wasted a group of geniuses of the Lakers. The Celtics' eight consecutive championships made them desperate. No matter West or Baylor, they could not break through the encirclement of the Celtics, even if their talents were amazing.

Including West, this awesome figure who has been frozen on the NBA icon (although the official NBA now avoids this fact, of course, I believe that the icon recognized by the whole world must be based on West, but NBA does not intend to pay for decades of portrait rights, and Stein is really not ordinary stingy.), and now he talks about the era that belongs to Boston, and he looks helpless.

Because of those ten years of confrontation, every time I met the Celtics in the finals, the Lakers lost without exception, and West was the personal experience of the series of failures.

The entanglement in the 1980s, the Lakers' five championships, the Celtics' three titles, and the competition between Bird and Johnson's two heroes was also a new era that began after Stein began to firmly take up the position of league president.

The only thing the Lakers can be pleased with is that their record after entering the millennium is far better than the Celtics who have been sinking to the bottom.

They have narrowed the championship gap between the two from their three consecutive championships since 2000. If this is not the case, they probably will have to catch up for a long time before they can catch up the number of championships on both sides to the same level of magnitude.

Don’t say that the basketball level in the 1950s and 1960s was not developed enough, and the Celtics won the championship was well-behaved. In fact, these remarks can be refuted in just one sentence, "You can’t win if you are not developed, so what’s the point!?"

However, no one denies the greatness of the Lakers. Just like the Celtics, they are also a symbol of the NBA. Now, no one doesn't know that "showwww.jtxsk.comba started that day, and judging from this situation, they are likely to continue this desperate state.

It’s just that during the battle, those witnesses will change a group of players every few years.

This kind of hostility that penetrates deep into the bones cannot be erased with time, and as time accumulates, the color of grudges of old enemies will become stronger and stronger, just like the sediment of history.

The king's grudges and entanglement made the two choose to continue to fight against this kind of choice, and no one would choose to take a step back.

Rivers is also part of the inheritance of this kind of old enemy. As a member of the Celtics, he only had one idea about meeting the Lakers, that is, he stomped the opponent under his feet.

This is not a hatred, it is just a habit. Just like when Auerbach was still a coach, he said a very classic saying, "Lost to the Lakers? I'm really sorry, that's something that absolutely cannot happen."

This old guy really did what he said. When McCann played for the Lakers, the Lakers, who were still named Minneapolis, reached the top on the Celtics, and the coach at that time was Auerbach.

However, after McCann retired, the situation completely reversed and they never got over again.

Especially after the Lakers moved to Los Angeles, whenever they met Auerbach's Celtics, they would only end up losing. Even if you can get stuck in the finals until Game 7, it would still be a fate of losing.

So the Celtics now have a habit that whenever they meet the Lakers, even in their lowest years, they can often play very tough games. This is a fierce temperament that bursts out from their bones. Just like those old seniors, they will never lose to this opponent easily.

This is an unsolvable phenomenon. No matter whether you are happy or not, the Celtics are such a tough existence. However, as their old rivals, the Lakers are not vegetarians, and they are also great.

So this entanglement will continue until now. The first stop of the Celtics' Western Conference trip is to make trouble in Los Angeles, and these guys are planning to take away the victory. They have stepped onto the Lakers venue countless times, and then every time the two meet, the game will be filled with sparks.

Rivers is not afraid of the arrival of this kind of confrontation. Anyway, he has been mortal enemies with the Lakers for so many years, and this game is not bad. It is just that the schedule of playing away games in the West has given him a little headache.

"If we can play two more games at home, maybe we can create an eight-game winning streak, and we will have a chance to make it to the top four in the Eastern Conference," Rivers said as he was studying the schedule with Thibodeau.

"Actually, there is nothing wrong with this. The game is too smooth. If we meet the main opponent in the playoffs, we may not be so relaxed. You also know that the playoffs and the regular season are completely confrontations of two levels. Now the opponents we can defeat may not be able to win once in that occasion."

"If those wild boys kept winning so smoothly, there might be an unexpected decline when there were setbacks. This is not something you and I can control, so if there is any problem, it would be better to be exposed early."

Thibodeau has always been a kind of guy who is very calm. For him, the gap between fifth and sixth in the East is not big, and the schedule gives them a chance to hit the top four, but this opportunity is not big.

After all, the Pistons, Bulls, Heat, Nets, and Magic are all very strong, and the Raptors' rise is also difficult to suppress. Just fighting with these teams will make the Celtics very difficult.

Instead of hoping to make it to the top four in the Eastern Conference, it is better to be more stable and try to hold the Raptors down in the Atlantic Division. Anyway, there is a desperate situation between fourth and fifth places, but the difference is only at home and away games.

According to the current team's condition and personnel combination, the Celtics will definitely have a place in the East, but there is no way to predict where they can reach the end.

It can only be played one by one. If you are lucky enough, you may be able to enter the top four and have a good home advantage. Otherwise, you will wait to fight with the team ahead, which is inevitable.

Anyway, if you can get through the first round, your home advantage may not be great if you encounter any team later.

And as he said himself, the game is too smooth now, which will make the wild boys under his command relax. Once it is in a high-confrontational game like the playoffs, this relaxation is likely to be fatal.

If losing is inevitable, Thibodeau hopes that trouble will come sooner, so that they still have time to correct those wrong things.

If it only broke out in the playoffs, it would definitely be a situation that no one likes to see. At least he and Rivers don't want to put failure in that kind of situation.

So it's not a bad thing for the Celtics who have been too smooth recently. At least Thibodeau and Rivers think so.

But now when they meet their old enemy, old enemies, no one wants to lose this game easily.

Whether in Boston or Los Angeles, the Green-shirted Bandits collided with the Purple Gold Legion, it would be a tough confrontation. Since it was a game, there would always be someone trampled on it. Who wins and who loses?


Chapter completed!