Facing the challenge from the Toronto Raptors, looking at Jaylen Rence who had hurt him in the 2000 Finals...
Kobe Bryant.
This most outstanding shooting guard in the league today pressed the button called Celestial God Descending.
Although by halfti, Kobe had only scored 28 points, shooting 11 out of 18.
But soon, by the end of the third quarter, Kobe’s score quickly increased to 55, showing no signs of stopping.
This caused panic to start spreading on the Raptors’ bench.
At Staples Center, throughout the entire fourth quarter, the scoreboard flashed with MVP, MVP.
With 4 minutes and 28 seconds left in the final quarter, the reporters on site were no longer focusing on Kobe Bryant but on the "Zen Master" Phil Jackson on the sidelines.
The reporters frowned.
Because the Lakers’ lead had reached 17 points, they were worried that Jackson would take Kobe out early, as he did against the Mavericks when Kobe scored 65 points by the end of the third quarter.
However, the "Zen Master" did not spoil the night and decided to keep Kobe in the ga.
Thus, on the score sheet...
Kobe’s score finally settled at 84 points.
After the ga, Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw excitedly said in an interview: "When we played the Mavericks before, I discussed with Kobe whether he could score 80 points if the ’Zen Master’ kept him playing in the fourth quarter.
After getting Kobe’s confirmation, I knew he had the ability to achieve all this!"
On January 22nd of that year, as Kobe scored an earth-shattering 84 points on Dragon Slaying Night...
The entire basketball world went completely crazy.
Forr Chicago Bulls legend Scottie Pippen, upon learning of Kobe scoring 84 points from a friend at 3 AM, lay sleepless all night and imdiately pondered how he would handle such a Kobe if it were him...
"I think in so aspects, Kobe Bryant has done better than Michael Jordan." Pippen said in an interview.
As for Pippen’s teammate Michael Jordan, he did not comnt on Kobe scoring 84 points in a single ga imdiately.
"This is the most spectacular scoring performance I have ever seen in my life." Later, "T-Mac," who was still asleep at the ti, said in an interview; even in gas, he didn’t know how to control a player to score so many points.
Overnight, Kobe stole all the attention of the basketball world.
However, not all dia gave Kobe positive reviews after Dragon Slaying Night.
For instance, The San Diego Union-Tribune stated that this ga was utterly aningless.
And George Koochi from The Chicago Sun-Tis comnted in an article: "Kobe doesn’t have anything to do with being a hero."
Additionally, Kobe received polarizing comnts within the league.
For example, Vince Carter said Kobe had set a bad example.
And Kobe’s forr teammate, Shaquille O’Neal said, "Give 50 shots, and I can score just as much."
anwhile, O’Neal’s teammate Antoine Walker supported him, saying, "If soone scored 84 points in front of , the next ti we et, I’d surely punch him."
Needless to say, this January...
The previous "Goodnight, Los Angeles" scorer and the one being scored upon seed like they had arranged it all together.
The forr was praised as the greatest rookie in NBA history by Jovan Buha, a journalist from The Los Angeles Tis.
While the latter washed away the negative impact of the Eagle County incident with an 84-point scoring feast at the end of January and sparked a debate in the basketball world about whether he could score 100 points in an NBA ga.
But regardless of whether these two were intentional or not...
They inadvertently joined forces to make nurous holes in Shaquille O’Neal’s already small heart.
Previously, in an interview with reporters, O’Neal had said, "When will Jovan Buha shut up? I’ve tead up with ’D-Wade’ to defeat the Warriors. How can the kid the Warriors drafted be as great as he claims?"
However, what caught O’Neal off guard was that Buha, who has always hated him, added a specific note in his article praising Qin Yue:
"Trust , that lazy and stupid fat pig will soday say he tead up with ’D-Wade’ to defeat the Warriors...so here, I must tell everyone, in that ga, ’D-Wade’ scored a total of 37 points, 4 rebounds, and 7 assists. And our Shaq? Let’s see, he only scored 14 points and 8 rebounds, shooting 4 out of 14 free throws. Is this the so-called best center in the league?"
As the protagonist of this article, even Qin Yue himself probably didn’t expect...
Buha would inadvertently stir up a wave of hatred from O’Neal.
In fact, if it weren’t for the racial discriminatory remarks, which he said were just jokes, that O’Neal made when Yao Ming entered the league...
Upon seeing Buha’s article, O’Neal might have wanted to rush to Oakland to duel with Qin Yue imdiately.
Because he, with his always small-mindedness, could never tolerate Buha using a re rookie to criticize him.
Even though Qin Yue is also a Chinese player and O’Neal is already aware of the consequences of offending the Chinese market, he still couldn’t bear to see a rookie who has never even touched the Finals court exceeding his image in the world.
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