Losing to the Mavericks was like an alarm, and from that point on, Lakers' problems began to break out frequently.

Kobe has implemented a strategy of trusting his teammates for half a season, and more than 90% of the games have controlled his shots below 20 times. When the Lakers have a complete lineup, his sacrifice is rewarded. However, when the Lakers lack major generals and he reduces his shots, the game will naturally be unable to support it.

Starting from losing to the Mavericks, the Lakers lost five of the goals in eight games.

The two games won were to defeat the Warriors with Kobe's 42 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists.

When he met Wei Xia, he had 34 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists when he encountered the Celtics.

After defeating the Celtics, the Lakers received a gratifying news: Lamar Odom is about to make a comeback.

Yes, he is back.

But it is a matter of whether he can recover his previous state after his return.

Odom's first comeback match was against the Washington Wizards.

The Lakers team is waiting for the game and attaches great importance to this game.

Both sides have a harem.

In the last encounter, the two teams reached overtime, and Arenas dominated overtime and scored 60 in the whole game, making Kobe's 40 dim.

On the eve of the match with the Wizards, Weisha continued to play Haflicek.

Since Haflicek is already married, he has to be more careful. He doesn't want to take advantage of Haflicek anyway. So he makes sure to fall asleep before going home every time he travels over.

Once he fell asleep, his consciousness could break out of his body and go to the arena.

And today, Wei Xia encountered another real game.

Now he no longer regards these opportunities that can change history as key, because it is just the regular season and it cannot change much. What can really change history should be like his first time traveling to Haflicek and to Thompson, the Skywalker.

But it has been almost three years since he last got the opportunity to change history.

The 1963-64 season in the old days has also come to the eve of the All-Star Weekend.

This year, the league is preparing to make a big move.

This season's All-Star Weekend Tournament will usher in its first ever TV broadcast.

This is an opportunity for the alliance to show its image to the whole United States and let them know how interesting NBA is. However, the surface is thriving, but there are many reefs buried. If you don’t pay attention, it will be a fate of a ship being destroyed.

The Celtics are playing against the Cincinnati Royals today.

The Royals are the Celtics' biggest opponents to break out of the East, with league No. 1 defender Oscar Robertson, superstar Jerry Lucas, and three other active or future All-Stars.

The confrontation between the two teams will trigger widespread discussion at any time.

But today, neither side had the idea of ​​smashing each other.

Wei Xia was warming up while seeing Russell, Heinthorne, Sam Jones, Robertson, Lucas and others coming together.

You should know that Brothers basketball is not popular right now.

Four or five years ago, players from two cities had to write letters to each other if they wanted to contact each other. Although phone calls are popular now, they basically never interact with each other. So it cannot be said that they don’t want to play brother basketball, as this generation has no idea.

The two sides didn't have much private contact? Can't talk about friendship? They are also mortal enemies in the east, because they can't beat the Celtics? Robertson's locker in the locker room is often put into messy things. He has enough reason to be hostile to the Celtics? But not today.

Today, he tightened his hostility.

Wei Xia approached them and wanted to hear something.

"You really want to make this vote?"

There is no smile on Robertson's face? He is not as lucky as Russell, who has suffered a lot from the times.

Russell could at least be proud of his trophy? And when he helped his alma mater win the championship, the school treated him differently because of his skin color. From that time on, his view of the world changed.

Heinthorne's voice was as husky as ever: "It must be done unless you think you won't be the next Maurice Stokes!"

Robertson glanced deeply at the three mortal enemies in front of him.

He knew that this was a big deal? He also knew that once he took a step forward, he would not look back. He also knew that if he failed, he would not only be severely punished, but the players' guild founded by Bob Cousy and other predecessors would be ineffective in terms of capital.

They can only succeed but not fail!

"How sure are you?" he asked.

Heinthorne smiled and said, "If you have no problem, we have four votes here. You can do other people's work, and we will do the work of those masters in Los Angeles."

"I didn't expect I would say that?" Robertson's face showed a sneer, "But I will support you all in this matter."

Russell said arrogantly: "I really read you right!"

"But I will still beat you up today!" After that, I went back to warm up proudly.

Heinthorne and others snorted softly, turned around and saw Haflicek with a curious look on his face.

"Hongdo? Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, you can't help with this." Heinthorne said loudly.

Wei Xia was a little dissatisfied when he said this.

He couldn't help? Just kidding—"Why?" he asked.

Jones asked in a silly manner: "Are you an All-Star?"

"It's almost..." Wei Xia responded in a low voice.

"That's not a little bit!" Jones gestured noblely. "Many opponents who lost to us in the seventh game? They are also a little bit worse? Sometimes, the difference is a lot worse, which can determine the championship and runner-up, so you are still far behind. Don't get involved in the affairs of adults!"

Wei Xia was a little depressed. Havlicek was not selected as an All-Star because he was not strong enough.

It is reported that this season is Tom Heinthorne's last season, and he has never expressed his opinion on this, but fans have thrown him into the starter.

He divided many votes belonging to Haflicek.

Therefore, Havlicek, who made great progress in the second season, averaged 19.9 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists per game, fell behind Heinthorne, who averaged 16.5 points, 6 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game.

He was just savoring what they said, and suddenly one person broke his silence: "John, do you have time during the All-Star Weekend?"

Wei Xia looked over.

The one who spoke to him was Royals veteran Jack Twyman (jack      sf).

Although this person is a veteran, he has a lot of prestige in the league. Even a white man has been respected by almost all black players.

The reason why Wei Xia remembered him was because of the bloody playoffs between the Celtics and the Royals. This man performed extremely well. He was Robertson's biggest helper and the No. 2 threat to the Royals. Tweman's figure is similar to Haflicecke. He made a 198-centimeter swinger. He debuted in the mid-1950s. His size and position were rare at that time. He did not disappoint his body. He averaged 31.2 points and 8.9 rebounds per game at his peak. His career average shooting percentage was an astonishing 45% higher than Russell. He was at the same level as Baylor, and from the perspective of the time, he was a rare and efficient scorer.

The reason why he is respected by all black players has nothing to do with his strength. Chamberlain's strength is unparalleled, but few superstars of his time respect him.

The reason why Tweman is respected is related to another player - mentioned above, now I will deepen my impression. The man is called Maurice Stokes. One of the shooting stars of the 1950s. He scored 32 points, 20 rebounds and 8 assists in the first game of his career. In the rookie season, he averaged 16.8 points, 16.3 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game. He ranked 10th, 1 and 8th in the league in three statistics. He was selected as the best rookie without any dispute and was selected as the All-Star and the second team of the All-Star for three consecutive years. He is a rising star in the NBA.

On March 12, 1958, the regular season finale, Cincinnati Real vs. Minneapolis Lakers. Stokes fell backwards after a layup and fainted. It took a while to recover his consciousness. According to reports at the time, Stokes was in a very abnormal state when he got up. He kneeled on the floor like a confessor, covering his head with his hands in pain, and it took him a long time to stand up.

If it were Wei Xia's era, Stokes would have been sent back to the locker room for relevant inspections. However, in that era when basketball players and lumberjacks were not very different, his teammates just waited for him to stand up and patted his butt to show encouragement. After a while, Stokes returned to the court. In that game, he scored 24 points and 19 rebounds, and the Royals defeated the Lakers 96-89.

In the following days, Stokes felt uncomfortable many times, but the team doctor did not pay attention. On his way back to Cincinnati from away, he lost consciousness. When Stokes woke up again, he saw the ceiling of the hospital. At this time, he felt that his hands and feet could not move, and he could not even say a word.

Stokes was diagnosed with traumatic encephalitis, and severe brain injury and delayed treatment (especially afterwards he played a high-confrontation game) eventually led to his lifelong paralysis. At that time, the NBA players did not have medical insurance, which made the worse the Cincinnati Royals faced a sale at this time. Stokes' $20,000 contract was directly abolished, and the new boss after taking over also refused to renew his contract. Among the players of the Royals, only Tweman stayed next season.

Tweman was a white man, while Stokes was a black man. The two had not had a harmonious relationship before and had some conflicts with each other. After all, they were both new stars in the forward position. In addition, racial discrimination was prevalent at that time, no matter how you look at it, Tweman should not get involved in that matter.

The reason why Tweman chose to help Stokes was so simple that it was unbelievable - they all came from Pittsburgh, and he was the only one who could help Stokes.

However, Stokes' annual treatment fee is as high as 100,000 US dollars, and Tweman's annual salary is only 15,000 US dollars after tax, which is not enough. There are many difficulties, Tweman still chose to help Stokes. First, he recovered some compensation for him through legal means, and then held a charity competition through a hotel owner's suggestion. There are many NBA superstars joining each charity competition. It was those charity competitions that raised medical expenses for Stockton and helped him through the most difficult moments.

At this moment, Tweman asked Haflicek if he was free, and wanted to invite him to the charity competition held during the All-Star Weekend.

Wei Xia didn't understand the inside story, but just said: "Yes."

When Tweman invited him to participate in the charity competition, he did not agree immediately. Haflicek should be the decision of this matter himself. If Haflicek wants to participate, he will reply to him by himself.

They didn't communicate much.

After saying this, they separated, warmed up and shot, and focused on warming up.

From beginning to end, the atmosphere on the court was strange, and there was no previous tension between the Celtics and the Royals.

After the competition began, the atmosphere was a little cheerful.

They played happy basketball.

Wei Xia was stunned, and when he tried to dunk in the game, his college teammate Lucas knocked him down.
Chapter completed!