"Do you find it strange, Kobe?"

On the eve of the Eastern Conference Finals, Wei Xia asked Kobe this question.

"What's strange about it?"

"Ten years ago, we fought the Celtics together," Wei Xia sighed, "Ten years later, we fought the Celtics together."

Only then did Kobe realize that 2008 was ten years ago.

"I didn't expect that I'll still be playing ten years later." Kobe shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It's really a long time."

"Then will you continue to fight?"

Wei Xia’s question is actually asking whether Kobe will retire after the season.

He signed a three-year contract at the beginning, and the second year was the player option.

If he plays for three years, he will be at least 41 years old when the contract ends.

Now, there are only two players in the league who are older than Kobe.

One is Carter and the other is Nowitzki (Bryant Big Bryant for two months), but they have not played against the NBA for longer.

"I thought about this." Kobe said, "You should know that I don't want to wait until one day to remind the fans to retire."

Wei Xia asked: "What if we win the championship this year?"

Kobe said lightly: "That would be a perfect ending."

His answer is already very obvious.

Wei Xia could only complain: "You can't even keep the champion. You are such an unreasonable person."

Kobe glanced at the 11th season of the documentary "The Aerial Catastrophe" that is currently airing on TV.

In fact, when I first watched the first season, Kobe was thinking about whether to sell his plane.

Too thrilling.

This documentary not only makes people feel sad, but also makes people afraid of flying. Kobe did not give up on private planes in the end, but greatly reduces the frequency of taking private planes.

Although he didn't really believe that accidents would happen to him, the lessons the documentary taught him was enough to help him avoid all flight risks in life.

Although his safety awareness has been developed, watching this documentary has become a habit for Wei Xia and Kobe.

This habit is more firmer than watching the unabridged version of Game of Thrones together.

Because "Game of Thrones" has become a cerebral palsy drama since the fifth season, but as the series progresses, the plot becomes increasingly unbearable. Kobe was originally a loyal fan of drama, but when he watched it with Wei Xia, as long as the plot is a little bit complaining, he forgot the movie-watching etiquette, and the uncontrollable soul of complaints successfully changed Kobe.

They watched "Game of Thrones" not just to watch the drama, but to watch how low the lower limit of the double DB can be.

Next year, in 2019, when the final season of "Game of Thrones" is aired, Wei Xia and Kobe will definitely discover that there is no most cerebral palsy, only more cerebral palsy, and the double DB is the essence of cerebral palsy among American screenwriters.

And now, they can only watch documentaries when they are fine.

The documentary "The Catastrophe in the Air" is released every year. Wei Xia and Kobe watched it for two years before they saw the eleventh season.

The next day, the Eastern Conference Finals arrived on schedule.

The Celtics have an extremely strong lineup: Irving, Jaylen Brown, Tatum, Horford, and Embiid.

There are three All-Stars in the starting lineup alone.

Brown, Tatum, and Embiid are all rookie contracts.

They are very similar to the Warriors in 2015. They rise up with super rookies and have contract benefits from rookies, and can attract stars as they please.

When I formed such a lineup, I didn’t expect that Irving and the young people in the team were not in a similar way.

Irving is a philosopher. Although he has never won the championship, he is very good at educating rookies.

But he himself never proved himself without leaving James, and the Celtics had reached the Western Conference Finals before he came.

At the beginning of the game, Irving made people see his magic.

His outstanding singles ability has always been his strength, and no one has ever doubted this.

The 76ers also focused on preventing him, but he was persistent in singles and had a serious lack of sorting out team offenses.

Wei Xia took the initiative to defend him, as if he was a little conspiracy, and he guided Owen very patiently.

It is too strong and unpredictable.

His purpose is not to prevent Irving from death, but to make Irving feel that he has the ability to break his defense.

If that feeling never disappears, you won't give up easily.

Irving was obsessed with personal attacks. Brown, Tatum, and Embiid saw him playing alone for a few minutes, and it was Celtics coach Brad Stevens who called a timeout to ease his desire to attack.

The Celtics are typical super strong team embryos who are both young, talented and able to pursue achievements.

It is difficult to appear in this kind of embryo, and it is even more difficult to form.

Irving must be prevented from allowing his personal will to override the team in order to achieve healthy development.

In the first half of the quarter, the Celtics and the 76ers played no victory or defeat.

In the second half of the quarter, Wei Xia began to show Irving the most authentic singles.

Thanks to Wright's sudden replacement of Cousins, he took a one-star four-shot system with Zhou Qi as the center, allowing Wei Xia to pull four people out of the three-point line in every singles.

The wide offensive space provides the perfect stage.

Wei Xia randomly beat Shuangjie Tanhua. The young man had a temper and wanted to come back when he was singled. Wei Xia's single defense was not a joke.

In those five rounds, Wei Xia either broke through and scored, stopped jump shots, scored three-pointers from the outside, or 21, and none of them were scored by the opponent on the free throw line when the attack was launched.

Every score is very tough, and it is a reflection of strength and technology.

Conversely, the counterattack of the two-wife Tanhua only caused his foul to be on the free throw line, and he defended it in the other four rounds.

The balls that were defended had two counterattacks that formed the Celtics.

The singles of young people have caused more serious consequences than Irving, but the Celtics think that they should give young people a chance to make mistakes and should not be too harsh on them.

The end of giving young people a chance is to let Wei Xia bring a wave of rhythm.

The coaching staff wanted to give young people a chance, but Irving's attitude towards the camera was: No, I don't want to!

At halftime, the Celtics fell behind double digits and acted as helpless as the Bucks and the Raptors.

Irving decisively began his speech: "Some young people don't know the importance of it. They think wish is the mediocre opponents they have met before. When they see wish, they want to play singles by themselves. This is a selfish expression. They should know that their actions are hurting the team! If we want to win and defeat a powerful team like the 76ers, we should focus and reduce selfish behavior!"

One of the biggest wonders on the basketball court is that Irving advocates selfless playing style.

I don’t know if it was influenced by Irving, but the morale of the Celtics was very high.

"Why does it look like I gave up?" This is not the Celtics that Kobe is familiar with.

The Celtics in his memory will never be weak early in the playoffs.

Of course, the Celtics he met happened to revive the most unique side of the Green Kai team's history, and the new Celtics today do not have that temperament.

But he didn't expect that he could be so much different.

In the fourth quarter, Embiid led the team to counterattack.

Chase up to 7 points.

However, Wei Xia's three-pointer was chasing, Kobe made another three-pointer, and Cousins ​​played Embiid 21 from a low post, ending the suspense of the game.

Wei Xia scored 34 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists in the whole game. It was rare that he finally scored good statistics from the beginning of the series.

His average data was seriously affected by the Raptors and the Bucks before.

He only has assists to lead the team, and he averaged less points per game than Cousins ​​and a little more than Kobe.

Cousins ​​defended his authority as the league's number one center in this game, taking 27 points, 15 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks from Embiid.

As the 76ers' best player in the playoffs this season, he and Wei Xia were selected for the first team of the year together.

The difference is that Wei Xia was also selected as a defense.

DPOY lost to the French Spider-Man Gobert by a slight gap in the vote.

At the same time, Kobe was 40 years old and with averaging 22 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists per game, Kobe was slightly controversially defeated Jimmy Butler, who averaged 21 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game, and was selected into the third team of the All-Squad with a 22-point, 4 rebounds and 4 assists per game.

The controversy is that Kobe seems to be the third best player in the 76ers team, but his data is similar to Butler and his efficiency is better. As a 40-year-old man, his attendance rate is also higher. It seems that it is no big deal to give him, but professional critics generally believe that if he puts Kobe in the Timberwolves, he can only scold those talented players for being autistic and then lead the team to win the No. 1 pick.

However, Kobe is worthy of data, record, efficiency, and attendance rate, but Butler can only accept Coptis chinensis.

In the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the 76ers' core inside and outside were showing, but Kobe was tortured by the young Celtics.

They couldn't help but focus on Kobe.

How can a 40-year-old comrade withstand such destruction of young people?

So Kobe was not performing well all night.

There are not many single digits, rebounds and assists.

For a moment, voices of injustice for Butler flooded social media.

"I don't know where these doubts come from. Even if Kobe's performance is so bad today, his average number in the playoffs is still better than most players." Wei Xia posted a Twitter to help Kobe speak.

This is also a fact.

Kobe currently averages 19 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists per game, and Butler, a "tragic player suppressed by big-name players", leads the Timberwolves in the first round. Of course, it is an amazing achievement to lead this team to the playoffs after leaving Garnett, but in the first round, he averages only 15.8 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists per game.

It is extremely unreasonable to use his playoff performance to criticize him.

Kobe was not grateful for Wei Xia's helping him, which was taken for granted in his opinion.

"You divide half of your skill in smearing me outside on these things, and I've long been innocent!" Kobe kept remembering those things.

Wei Xia was stunned on the spot and could not speak.
Chapter completed!