It was 2001, when I was a sophomore in high school, and I watched the first game of the finals in the classroom with my classmates. I asked a female classmate, do you prefer Iverson or Kobe Bryant? The female classmate said that I like Iverson. Why? The eyes are big.
So who do you like?
I like kings.
I can't say, who knows the king? But those years of children who love basketball and surfing the Internet, but few people do not know white chocolate, the sound of basketball drums and basketball shoes rubbing the floor with basketball shoes in the advertising film "Hip-hop Wind and Thunder" has never stopped, we finally know that basketball can still be played like this, and then we will find mosaic effect AND1 Mixtape, we will find white chocolate, we will find that game - 2000 rookie competition, second-grade "white chocolate" Jason Williams sent an elbow pass that you still can't imagine.
White chocolate is a non-fleeting presence on the basketball court, we have seen Iverson and Tim Hardaway, and even Jamal Crawford, we will not be too surprised by Irving, we have seen Jordan and Hill, so whether it is Maddy or Kobe, we can find some shadows of convergence, but we have not carefully watched Petrovich and the magician's performance, so when we see white chocolate, he draws us the imaginary boundary of the passing possibility.
Since then, the King's No. 55 jersey has become the shirt I most want to get, until many years later, this feeling will be found again in a No. 15 fat man, but it is not as good as the old love, but the old love posture is too much, to this day, I have never seen so high frequency of not watching people pass, back passing, back passing, crotch hitting the ground pass appeared on the field, once the sea was shipwrecked, all the imitation of white chocolate is bound to be clumsy, The imitators think that the commotion is nothing more than a smell. Teacher Qiang Ruyue can't do it, and the clown's unpredictable passing in front of white chocolate is just a rural high school girl to a metropolitan socialite, Zhao Jinmai to Aoyama Zhikezi, and a little swan 5.5 kg drum washing machine to Sany Heavy Industry 14-square concrete mixer truck.
This is White Chocolate, a great passing master, a true performing artist, an outlier who can forget the nature of basketball competition, a madman or genius who can't be measured by data and game results. The NBA is one basketball, and white chocolate is another.
It is worth mentioning that White Chocolate has begun to shoot about 6 three-pointers per game with a shooting rate of about 30% in that era, and one or two of them must be 2 steps away from the three-point line, and I don't know which coach can tolerate this behavior.
Not really. White Chocolate not only couldn't make long shots, but his overall shooting percentage was less than 40%, and his defense was also very average, so he stayed with the Kings for 3 years as the No. 7 pick in the first round in 1998, and was sent to Memphis to return to the same year's list Mike Bibby. But Bai Qiao's task as a primer has been accomplished, and he has planted a seed in my heart for that king.
Essentially, it's a king that belongs to Adelman, a king who belongs to the Princeton system, and they're essentially playing around divac and Weber's high-low coordination and other people at the bottom line, and they really don't need a point guard who directs traffic to do it all. The Kings offense is as pleasing as you watch the Warriors in 2016 years later, without having to raise the free throw line standing webb and the short corner standing Divac, even christie, who is labeled 3D, can bounce off the wall with a non-stop back pass in the players' tunnel, even Stojakovic, who is labeled as a three-point shooter, can send a water-drifting ground pass through the 2/3 half, and their bench has Bobby Jackson, who will win the best sixth man in the future. Turkgru, who will be the president of the Turkish Basketball Association in the future, Gerald Wallace, who will become Elvis Presley in the future, is the worst, and you can also appreciate the hairstyle of substitute center Pollard. I was young enough to watch The Kings game 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without getting bored, and there was only one thing that could stop me from actually doing that kind of thing — the gaokao.
That summer 20 years ago, the Jiangsu gaokao was still in July, and more than a month ago, about the end of May, the Kings lost perhaps the most important game in team history.
It was a more painful scene than Jordan running along the sidelines in the 1992 Finals. Coach Adelman has received what may be the biggest regret of his coaching career, whether it is the previous two losses to the 90s Pistons and 92 Bulls in the Finals, or the later leading the Rockets to lose to the 2009 Lakers, these three series have a sense of desperation. But unlike the Kings of 2002, they have climbed to the top, winning the league first in the regular season with 61 wins, the offensive efficiency league 3rd, the defensive efficiency league 6th, the 100 rounds net wins league first, the playoffs easily into the Western Conference Finals, facing the Lakers who eliminated themselves in the playoffs twice in the past two years, it is time to end the OK combination's two consecutive championships.
Prior to that, peja, the team's second-time scorer in the regular season, could not play due to injury, but the Kings still took a 2-1 lead in the first three games, and in the fourth game, the Kings' second away game in Los Angeles, they once led by 24 points, and in the third game they also led by 27 points, the Staples Center was quiet, and everything was moving in the direction of revenge against their old enemies. Even in the final 1 second of the game, in the face of the Lakers' crazy counterattack, the Kings still have a 2-point advantage, Kobe Bryant missed the layup, O'Neal did not hit the basket, the time was about to come to an end, Divac struggled to dial the ball out - this is from the experience of he was a second-year player 11 years ago, in the sixth game of the 1991 Western Conference Finals, the Lakers led Adelman's Trail Blazers by 1 point, Terry Porter missed a layup, the Magic grabbed the rebound, and lost a forward court. Leaving only 0.1 seconds for the Blazers to serve the bottom line, the Lakers qualified, and Divac remembers the moment, the Magic experience, and can't go wrong — Divac struggled to pull the ball out of the three-point line, and Robert Holly stood there and then threw that three-pointer.
Give Divac another 100 chances and he won't be able to pass such a comfortable pass.
Anyway, that's it, I won't mind that there will be another kill in this series, there will be an overtime grab, there will be a taint referee Donaji to write a book to expose that this is a "league control" series, and Lakers fans will no longer talk about Bryant's pre-game food poisoning and Divac's fake fall performance. It's been a long enough time, as far as Duncan, who slapped the floor in 2013, and Curry, who shot three points in 2016, to blur all memories, but that moment will be a unique experience, a regret and a huge loss that you can experience without having to pay it yourself.
After the series, time began to accelerate, the Kings never got close to a championship, their record declined year after year, Webb had become a bloated fat man with a knee-disabled disability when he left for Philadelphia, Divac returned to the Lakers to play his last 15 games, Christie went to the Magic, and all of this happened in 3 years. In 2006, when Adelman brought the Kings into the playoffs for the last time, the team's core lineup became Bibi, Artest and Peja, and after being eliminated by the Spurs in the first round, their only gain was that Bunch Wells turned down a long-term big contract from the team. Adelman then left, and Bibby held out until 2008 and then to the Eagles, two years after White Chocolate followed the Heat to the title.
After 2006, the faces of the Kings came and went, in 16 years, they changed 12 head coaches, 4 general managers, and in 2013 they changed 1 boss; in 16 years, they only had an All-Star Cousins, none of their 14 lotto signings were cultivated, and they could not be trained, and the highest achievement may be Isaiah Thomas, who is 60 overall in the second round, but that has nothing to do with the Kings, and the real fact related to the Kings is that in 2009 they missed Stephen. In 2012 they missed Lillard, in 2018 they missed Doncic, and it is said that on the night they missed Doncic, the King's office went through the night to celebrate that they got Bagley.
A month after the Holly kill, I took the most important exam of my life, and at the last moment I was killed by mathematics and admitted to a Fujian sanshu. At that time I was still young, still love to listen to songs, there is a sony walkman tape Walkman, we buy tapes do not distinguish between genuine pirates, Alicia Keys' "Songs in A Minor" just came out a year, Zhou Dong's "Octave Space" I like the train to go, after all, yellow chocolate, it is difficult to refuse, Utada Hikaru's "First Love" has been sung for almost two years, it is still brand new, but on the green-skinned train that leaves home, The one I listened to the most was Beyond's "Gray Trail", and now it seems easy to understand that this young fat man is running into the unknown in this way in a bumpy carriage mixed with the smell of bubble noodles, cigarettes and feet, which is a bit emo.
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But where can a young man be sad, the ancients said very well, in order to give new words to say sad, and then go up, which means that the level of young people's sorrow is very low, after all, the vision is there. Another point, go to college without writing essays, it will avoid a lot of "strong talk" thinking trouble, now think about it, three years of high school may be my most worried about the country and the people of the stage, when I realized that as a small citizen of the city, eating and drinking at a distance is the true meaning of life, it is already many years later.
But the middle school teacher did not lie to us, college life is really good, college basketball is very fun, college girls are not bad, the memory of the king, basically frozen in the summer of 2002, and the aftermath of the next two or three years, and then I was attracted to other things, at least Yao Ming came I have to see, Maddy came I have to see, the big three, two consecutive champions, James, rookie Duncan, the universe warriors, basketball kneelers are very busy, have no time to take care of so many, the king of this rotten team, who will care about it.
But as the summer of 2022 gradually approached, the epidemic intensified, I was locked in my office, and the sad news I had received in the past two years was like water pouring into the oil pot, and at this time I received the most inconspicuous one:
The Kings have not made the playoffs in 16 years, setting a new league record.
After reading this short sentence of news, who has the most tears in the seat? Shaxian Wang Honey Green Shirt wet, we did practice the phrase "bad team out of die-hard". Suddenly, 2002 came to mind, and white chocolate poured into the mouth, fading the bitterness and turning out to be all sweet. It's about the king's memories, and the memories of youth, like the king of that year, are all wonderful and beautiful, but we all understand that it's just a collection of filters after another.
In the summer of 2006, the Kings were eliminated from the final playoffs, and I graduated, rolling up the covers and returning home as happy boilermakers. Looking back on these 16 years, like the King, the biggest achievement that can be brought out of the wine table is still everything that happened 16 years ago, the King is the series full of "ifs", and I am admitted to college, and every time I think about it, I am ashamed, I don't know if the Kings team, if it is a person, will I finish three drinks and sigh. Remembering their own fleeting and ultimately untraceable 16 years, we were hastily thrown into society, tortured, every time unsatisfactory, we also vowed to rebuild our lives, but looking back, you think you have gone a long way, but it seems to be still in place, and finally reached the age of having money to buy that No. 55 jersey, you clicked into the Taobao jersey purchase page, looked at it but silently clicked to exit, changed into a bag of Kao diapers and put it into the shopping cart, at this time the sound of tape deformation came from the ear again, That's Beyond singing on a rocking green-skinned train:
Everything that has passed will be calmed down, the wall will not be broken, and the road ahead will not be clearly seen.
Stepping on the gray track, there are the shadows of the abyss.