The next morning, news of Indiana’s big victory over the Lakers spread all over the United States.
Many dia outlets were surprised by this.
The Pacers defeating the Lakers wasn’t anything too significant.
The Pacers’ current record had them sitting second in the Eastern Conference, and had Su Wan not been suspended and missed six gas, it was very likely that their late-season montum would have secured them the first place in both the Eastern Conference and the entire league.
What was there to fuss about a team like that beating the seventh-placed team in the Western Conference?
But they had expected the ga to feature Kobe scoring high and the Pacers taking the victory.
This would have been very in keeping with the way the Lakers had been losing all season.
They were rarely defeated by a huge margin.
But the Lakers ended up losing by a full 25 points.
The fourth quarter turned into "garbage ti."
Do you know what kind of situation leads to "garbage ti?"
It’s not that a team is down by 20 points; if that were the case, the NBA wouldn’t have seen so many classic "big cobacks."
It happens when the head coach judges that continuing to play will only make things worse, and chooses to give up on the ga.
This shows just how badly the Lakers were overpowered.
Kobe only scored 18 points, which surprised experts all around.
So far this season, Kobe’s lowest scoring ga had been 24 points.
And in this ga, Kobe scored only 18 points.
His shooting percentage was a terrible 33%!
They couldn’t even rember the last ti Kobe had such a dismal performance.
Artest, Su Wan, and Little O’Neal’s "trio" certainly made a na for themselves.
Hubie Brown, who had just won "Coach of the Year" last season and had stepped down because of injuries to beco an ABC comntator again, said, "This Pacers team now has the ability to lock down any top periter player in the league, which is terrifying!"
Because this ans that when it cos to the playoffs’ knife-fight, the opponent thinks they’ve launched a nuclear bomb, but after throwing it, they find it’s a "dud."
Bill Duffy also said, "This season we have been so focused on Ron Artest wanting to get ’Defensive Player of the Year’ and their changes on the offensive end that we’ve overlooked that this team has also acquired a set of top-notch defensive capabilities."
Praises swept in from all directions.
The reason was simple, the one they had shut down was Kobe, the sa Kobe who scored 81 points in a single ga!
But when Su Wan got to the locker room early in the morning, he found Little O’Neal sitting alone in front of his locker, fuming at a newspaper article. He approached and caught a glimpse of the headline, "Amare Stoudemire: A championship won by fighting is nothing special!"
Were these two still engaged in a "war of words"?
Su Wan rembered, since the last ga against the Phoenix Suns, where Little O’Neal claid to be an "enhanced version of Little Si," the conflict between the two had continued to this day, almost two months now.
Sotis you have to admire the patience n have on certain trigger points.
Little O’Neal probably couldn’t take it anymore and launched a "Kill": "Let this guy win a championship before he continues to argue with !"
But now it seed like Little O’Neal got "killed" in return.
Upon seeing Su Wan, he stood up as if seeing a "savior" and said very seriously, "Su, no, Su Wan, we must win the championship again this year, I must shut Amare up for good!"
Su looked at him, clicking his tongue in displeasure.
Little O’Neal was puzzled, "Did I say sothing wrong?"
Su Wan shook his head, "Getting the championship isn’t wrong, but the ultimate goal of arguing with soone is to win the argunt, to make the other person frustrated, not to prove yourself. By the ti you get the championship in June, the mont will have passed!"
"What’s the mont?" Little O’Neal’s attention temporarily drifted.
Su Wan: "..."
"So what should I do?" asked Little O’Neal, turning his gaze to Su Wan, realizing he should have asked sooner.
Su Wan said, "You should get Little Si to write a complaint letter to the league and have our championship taken back."
"Wouldn’t that disgust him to death?"
Little O’Neal laughed, finally understanding, and nodded in sudden realization.
He had learned!
February 1st arrived, the day when January’s "Players of the Month" were announced.
The regular-season MVP race between Su Wan and Dirk Nowitzki reached a fever pitch.
Because this ti, they were both selected together.
The Dallas dia and the Indiana dia escalated their war of words, back and forth, quite lively indeed.
Additionally, the league announced the starting line-ups for this year’s All-Star Ga happening in February in Houston after over a month of voting.
The final rosters were set.
In the East, the two guards were Dwyane Wade and Su Wan, the forwards were Little O’Neal and Vince Carter, and the center was Shaquille O’Neal; in the West, the two guards were Kobe and Steve Nash, the forward spots were filled by Kevin Garnett and McGrady, with Yao as the center.
Su Wan erged as the ultimate "Ticket King" this year.
Besides his stable dostic and Indiana fan base, this year he also gained support from the Asian and Asian-Arican communities, which helped him surpass Yao with 2,543,255 votes to beco the final All-Star Ticket King.
Little O’Neal also beca an Eastern All-Star starting forward as he wished, thanks to his more explosive playing style and the support of fans from Huaxia.
Indiana beca the biggest winner in this All-Star voting.
As for the biggest "loser"...
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