"The mission: Wild Christmas Eve has been completed. Congratulations to the host for gaining superstar value. The third phase of the series of missions in Reign: Triggered by an encounter with a drug-addicted combination."

"An encounter with a drug-addicted team: The Los Angeles Lakers have a drug-addicted team composed of the man closest to God, Kobe Bryant, and the center Yao Ming, who is currently in the best shape. Mission goal 1: Defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in the first game of the new year. Mission

Goal 2: Prevent Kobe Bryant from scoring more than his season average in a single game. Mission reward: Goal 1 reward: Trait: Giant Founder; Goal 2 reward: 1 point for every time Kobe Bryant scores less than his average score per game.

, the reward is 3000 superstar points. Failure penalty: If any goal fails, the host needs to deliver a long speech for Kobe Bryant before the All-Star Weekend game."

"Ding...Due to Yao Ming's strong fighting spirit to defeat the host, the giant's New Year's gift was triggered."

"Giant's New Year's gift: The host needs to complete the hot pot hat against Yao Ming in the first game of the New Year. The task reward is: skill card: Giant Killer. Failure penalty: deletion of skill card: Hot Pot Feast."

After the game, Liu Mang gained superstar points, as well as an average of more than 2,800 superstar points per game. He made up for the superstar points lost due to treatment of his foot injury, and increased his superstar points by more than 9,800 points.

Then a new mission comes!

Giant founder?

Liu Mang didn’t remember that Kobe had this characteristic!

Liu Mang looked at the skill introduction.

"Founder of the Giants: Kobe Bryant, as the defender who best passes the ball to the center, can always make the inside performance better when paired with players over 2.08 meters tall. The stronger the inside teammates are, the better the inside teammates will be.

The higher the performance."

"Giant Killer Level 1: When the host blocks the shot to an inside player, the bullet speed increases by 10%, the bounce is 1, and the strength is 1."

These two skills are a bit cool!

But...it's so difficult!

What is more difficult is the next task, hating Yao Ming...

Liu Mang looked at his little arms and legs. Of course, he compared them with Yao Ming.

But Nate Robinson can hit Yao Ming, why does Liu Mang think he can't?

Liu Mang's improvement on the offensive end has been very slow now, almost to the point where he can do everything. He can only rely on time to polish his skills and practice his shooting better.

If you want to improve your performance in the game and do better on the road to competing for MVP and championships, you have to start from the defensive end.

Those era-level superstars, even Magic Johnson, have strong bodies and fast hands, and can rely on pressure and defense to steal. If it weren't for Jordan, Stockton, Mitchell Richardson, El

Guys like Vin Robertson are so good at steals. The only two magicians who made a big splash in steals in the first few years of their careers are those two magicians, and they are not the gambling steal type.

Other era superstars, Jordan, the Defensive Player of the Year, O'Neal, also defended twice, but Mutombo, Mourning, Ratliff, Ben Wallace successively occupied the Defensive Player of the Year, etc.

People are declining, and O'Neal is getting old.

Kobe Bryant, the youngest first defense player in NBA history.

Duncan's secondary defense in his rookie season was his worst in the first ten years of his career.

James, at his peak, was also a defensive master who was just shy of winning the Defensive Player of the Year award. He defended himself 5 times in his career.

Don't look at the comparison of 5 times of first defense against Kobe, Duncan, Jordan, and Raja Bell. They only have more than half of the number of first defenses. In fact, in the history of the NBA, those who can defend more than three times are all super defensive masters. In NBA history,

The three players with the most Defensive Player of the Year honors, Mutombo, only had 3 first defenses, Howard only had 4 first defenses, and Ben Wallace, which is a lot, only had 5 first defenses.

Liu Mang remembers that James was also selected for the first defense in his sixth season. Liu Mang is already in his fifth season. He is still a little far away from the first defense and even the best defensive team. Last season he was just lucky. This season

Kidd's defense was no weaker than that of Kobe Bryant and LaGarage Bell. Wade's defensive performance was still good. Prince, Billups, and Liu Mang also wanted to be selected to the All-Defensive Team again. They can't rely on luck.

, you must improve your defense.

Liu Mang's defensive performance is good, a first-class defense, but there is a clear gap compared with those top defensive players, and even compared with Tracy McGrady who focuses on defense, let alone Prince, the aloof little prince.

Yao Ming and Liu Mang have a strong desire to complete this task!

It’s just that Yao Ming is so tall...

…

…

"Uncle, what is this... wow... it's so cold! Uncle, it's so cold in winter, what are you doing?" Little Lolita had never seen Liu Mang's physical therapy, so she touched the ice pack tied to Liu Mang's shoulder and was shocked.

shouted.

"There's more." The team's physiotherapist took out an ice pack from the ice bucket and tied it to Liu Mang's legs, mainly his knees and ankles, especially the ankles. After the ice application, he had to check and go to the hospital tomorrow.

Nuclear magnetic resonance.

I just borrowed the equipment from the Suns team's medical office to take an X-ray, and there was no injury to the ankle bones. However, X-rays cannot be used as a basis for diagnosis for professional athletes, and an MRI is still needed.

However, the X-ray was fine, and Coach Kruger was relieved. The MRI was just for safety, so Liu Mang was allowed to spend Christmas Eve with his family.

"Uncle, do you have to be like this every time you finish a game?" Little Loli asked distressedly.

"Of course, if you exercise too much, all the muscles will be congested. If you don't apply ice to the muscles, the metabolism will speed up. You have to massage them after ice application, otherwise the muscles will become hard." Liu Mang explained to the little Loli, "And it's very comfortable.

Yes, Dinah, do you want to try it?"

"No! Uncle is a bad guy! So cold!" Little Loli escaped from Liu Mang's clutches and came to Avril: "Xiao Xiu Xiu, when you grow up, ignore your uncle, he is a bad guy!"

Liu Mang couldn't help but laugh when he saw the little loli bewitching the baby.

After the Hawks' Christmas game, half an hour later, Liu Mang was doing physical therapy in the lounge arranged by the Suns for his family while watching the Lakers game.

In addition to his love for his son, Liu Mang's father is also a loyal fan of Yao Ming.

Big guys are always preferred.

Just like this season's All-Star voting, although domestic fans are very enthusiastic about Liu Mang's 90 points, Liu Mang still holds the record as the All-Star voting leader. He has already won the voting leader once. This time, domestic fans "massively

"Chip" wanted to send Yao Ming to the All-Star vote king position, so Liu Mang's votes were slightly lower than Yao Ming's.

Liu Mang doesn't care about this, as long as he can be selected. The vote leader may be considered a career honor, but it is just an extra point, hard honor is the foundation.

…

In the first game of the Christmas game, the Hawks scored more than 130 points so frantically. In the middle, Liu Mang did not rest after being injured. He went straight to the game and scored 22 points and 17 assists with a swollen ankle. He clocked out in three quarters, and Tracy McGrady's three quarters.

More than 30 points, Nash's 3 quarters had more than 40 points.

The excitement of the first show completely ignited the atmosphere of Christmas Eve.

Although there are only two Christmas battles this year, people not only did not feel disappointed, but felt more happy! They did not have to be so tired from noon and could devote themselves to the two battles.

At 8:30, the second Christmas game between the drug addict group and Wade and O'Neal's group, broadcast live on the three major TV stations, started on time!

For the Eagles' previous game, players from both teams watched the game at the Staples Center training ground.

The trio of Liu Mang, Tracy McGrady, and Kwame Brown put a lot of psychological pressure on both teams!

Coupled with Jason Terry, a guy who gets angry when playing against strong teams, and two outstanding second-year players in Iguodala and Josh Smith, both teams feel the pressure brought by the Hawks.

In this game, the Lakers and Heat are both full of motivation. In addition to the pressure brought by the Hawks, there is also face!

In the first Christmas match between Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady, Kwame Brown played so well. Wade was unwilling to lag behind because of Liu Mang's performance. Yao Ming and O'Neal wanted to play better because of Kwame Brown's performance!

Especially O'Neal, who was snatched away from the All-Star Game by Yao Ming and Kwame Brown. When he saw in the morning that he lost to Kwame Brown on the first day of voting, he was going crazy.
Chapter completed!