Chapter 1 The Night of the Championship Rings

　　On the evening of the 1st, the Air Canada Centre arena was filled with anticipation.

　　Although the Raptors had lost their opening game against the Lakers yesterday, this did not prevent the Raptors' players from receiving the adulation of Canadian fans upon returning to their home court.

　　Tonight, due to the championship ring presentation ceremony and flag-raising ceremony taking place on the scene, the whole of Toronto had already turned into a joyful ocean.

　　Especially as the Raptors' players successively received their championship rings under the introduction of the on-site DJ, Martin, 76ers' substitutes, Iverson and Ratliff, who had once fought side by side with Su Feng and Big Ben, both revealed a hint of envy in their eyes.

　　As for Christie, who had once played for the Raptors, his expression at this moment was as colorful as if his wife had whipped him with a leather belt.

　　Because McGrady and Battier had respectively gone to Phoenix and Denver this season, their championship rings would be received when their respective teams visited Toronto as guests.

　　In this life, Bogues, who retired a year early, had become the winner in life.

　　Because tonight, he officially created the NBA record for the shortest championship ring recipient in history.

　　CCTV, after the Raptors' home court's lively award ceremony and flag-raising ceremony, Zhang Weiping commented with emotion, "I think the topic of most interest to fans this year may be whether the Raptors can establish a dynasty, becoming another dynasty team after the Chicago Bulls."

　　And Yu Jia, who was partnering with Zhang, said, "However, for Chinese fans, the topic of most interest may have to add one more.

　　That is, compared with the 'Chinese Derby' with the Lakers before, in fact, in the eyes of many fans, the Raptors' game against the Philadelphia gangsters is the real Chinese Derby."

　　(Hu Weidong:?)

　　Zhang nodded and said, "Speaking of which, in the early years, at home, many domestic fans called the combination of Su Feng and Iverson the 'Shu Fu' combination (comfortable combination).

　　And this year, after Yao Ming joined Philadelphia, they gave Iverson and Yao Ming a new nickname."

　　"Oh?" Yu Jia echoed in cooperation.

　　"That is the 'Ai Yo' combination (ouch combination)," Zhang said with a smile.

　　"Haha, fans really have imagination.

　　So now the question comes.

　　Friends in front of the TV, are you interested in the story of the 'Shu Fu' combination and the 'Ai Yo' combination?

　　If you are interested, you can send a text message to xxxxx to participate in our live interaction, and there are more gifts waiting for you to take." Yu Jia said.

　　Air Canada Centre arena, just as Zhang Weiping and Yu Jia were chatting idly, on the court, the starting lineups of the Raptors and Philadelphia for tonight had been assembled.

　　It is worth mentioning that because Barkley and Smith had a bet about whether Yao Ming could get 30 points in a single game in his rookie season, before the start of this game, the person with the strongest desire to win in the Raptors team.......

　　I'm afraid it's this guy besides Su Feng.

　　"Su, I know Yao is your fellow countryman, you can't throw the game!" During pre-game warm-ups, Barkley said nervously to Su Feng.

　　Hearing this, before Su Feng could respond, Big Ben directly retorted Barkley, "Throw the game? Charles, don't you know that Su is the most ruthless when he hits 'his own people'?"

　　Su Feng: "......"

　　He didn't know why......

　　Clearly, Big Ben was speaking up for him, but Su Feng always felt that this guy was badmouthing him.

　　However, Barkley might not believe it if he said it......

　　In this game, Su Feng really intended to give the young Yao Ming a lesson.

　　A lesson titled, "If You Don't Grow Up Quickly, You'll Get Beaten."

　　As the saying goes, getting beaten is the only shortcut to success.

　　In the current league, perhaps no one knows better than Su Feng how crucial his early experiences of being beaten by Kobe and Jordan in turns were to his later growth.

　　So tonight, even if Little Yao used his meme to bribe Su Feng, Su Feng would not throw the game.

　　Moreover, with Yao Ming's character......

　　Did he need Su Feng to throw the game?

　　Especially with Iverson on the Philadelphia team.

　　If Su Feng dared to throw the game, then he, Iverson, and Yao Ming would really break up before the game was over.

　　On the court, after the two teams finished warming up, the big screen gave the starting lineups for both teams tonight.

　　Philadelphia: Yao Ming, Ratliff, Christie, Iverson, Snow.

　　Raptors: O'Neal Jr., Su Feng, Jackson, Carter, Nash.

　　On the Philadelphia bench, when Carlisle noticed the Raptors' starting lineup tonight, the young coach frowned slightly, feeling that things were not simple.

　　Because before the game, there was no news from the Raptors that Big Ben was injured, so......

　　Carlisle knew that Davis was likely to unleash a big move from the start tonight.

　　And the facts proved that Carlisle's worries were correct.

　　On the court, after Yao Ming jumped the ball for Philadelphia, Snow dribbled the ball across the half-court.

　　And after crossing the half-court, the tool man Snow handed the ball to Iverson, who was matched up against Carter.

　　At this time, Little Yao also moved to the high post to give Iverson a screen.

　　In Philadelphia's opening game against the Nets, the "Ai Yo" combination's screen was said to have directly blown up Francis' mentality.

　　Fortunately, this world's Francis didn't know that this Little Yao would become his teammate in his previous life, otherwise......

　　Francis would definitely have a feeling of being screwed.

　　However, on the court, at the moment when Iverson and Little Yao completed their screen, the Raptors directly switched their defense!

　　On the other side, Su Feng had already switched positions with O'Neal Jr. a second before through a sliding step.

　　And Carter directly switched to defending Little Yao closely.

　　In this way, after Philadelphia's screen ended, the player who appeared in front of Iverson had become Su Feng.

　　It didn't matter if his offensive state was poor.

　　But defense, what mattered was attitude, not state.

　　You should know that after the opening game against the Lakers, Su Feng had held no fewer than a few meetings with Carter.

　　After all, after two consecutive championships, it didn't matter if he wasn't interested in the regular season anymore, but he couldn't treat every opponent like they were nothing.

　　And on the court, looking at Su Feng suddenly appearing in front of him, and Carter, who was sticking to Yao Ming, not letting Yao Ming move, Iverson decisively chose to come himself after thinking for 0.1 seconds.

　　In theory, even if the Raptors had successfully completed the switch, Yao Ming still had an absolute height advantage against Carter.

　　But in actual games, this theory was not universal.

　　Because any player, including Su Feng, would find it difficult to shoot directly with a defensive player sticking close in front of them.

　　And because Yao Ming's position after cutting out after the screen was still far from the basket, his height advantage could not be brought into play immediately.

　　Therefore, it looked like Yao Ming had successfully formed a big-on-small against Carter, but in reality, what Philadelphia had really formed was only Iverson's small-on-big against Su Feng.

　　And facing Iverson's unreasonable breakthrough, Su Feng didn't act like a fool and try to compete with Iverson in agility and speed.

　　He simply let Iverson into the paint and then trailed this top supercar from Iverson's side and rear.

　　This defensive approach was to prevent Iverson from easily passing him and getting a chance to shoot easily from mid-range.

　　And letting him into the paint......

　　Was because at this moment, O'Neal Jr. had already rotated back to the basket.

　　In the Raptors, apart from the tool man, O'Neal Jr. was the tallest player in shoes and barefoot.

　　Therefore, Davis's choice to let him start at center tonight was not entirely because O'Neal Jr. was the Raptors' player in the best shape since the start of the new season.

　　In addition, O'Neal Jr.'s movement speed was very fast at this time, and against a top penetrator like Iverson, Rodman had already proven that this type of short and stocky interior player was not effective in the early years.

　　So, giving up Big Ben and using O'Neal Jr. to start......

　　Was because Davis, who had coached Iverson, knew how terrible Iverson was.

　　Of course, there were other reasons that would gradually be revealed to the world as this game progressed.

　　Clang... Bang!

　　Unfortunately.

　　Although Iverson successfully broke into the Raptors' paint, under the interference of O'Neal Jr., Iverson's layup regrettably rolled out after circling the rim.

　　O'Neal Jr. successfully protected the rebound.

　　After Nash got the ball, the Raptors quickly launched a fast break.

　　And at this time, Carlisle's idea of arranging Christie to deal with Su Feng before the game also fell through.

　　Because tonight......

　　Su Feng was appearing at the power forward position.

　　Without knowing Stephen Jackson's characteristics, Carlisle didn't dare to rashly let Christie directly switch defenses with Ratliff.

　　On the court, the Raptors' fast break failed, and they turned to a set offense.

　　Su Feng took the initiative to move to the high post to receive the ball.

　　O'Neal Jr. also pulled to the high post to set a screen for Su Feng.

　　And now, Philadelphia's two big interiors were a little panicked.

　　Because if they couldn't stop Su Feng's first step, then Su Feng's breakthrough would be smooth sailing.

　　At the critical moment, the young Yao Ming successfully predicted Su Feng's breakthrough route.

　　However, after Su Feng passed the ball back to O'Neal Jr., Yao Ming realized that......

　　Because they were afraid of not being able to keep up with Su Feng, Ratliff and himself were both covering Su Feng!

　　Swish!

　　At the high post, O'Neal Jr., who received Su Feng's pass, made a clean shot, using an exquisite three-pointer to open the scoring account for the Raptors first.

　　0 to 3.

　　Tonight, Davis's reason for choosing to start O'Neal Jr. was also because, under Su Feng's suggestion, Davis felt that O'Neal Jr. would become Yao Ming and Ratliff's nightmare on the offensive end.

　　In Su Feng's previous life, judging from the career matchups between O'Neal Jr. and Yao Ming, before Yao Ming adapted to the NBA, O'Neal Jr.'s style was quite restraining to him.

　　Of course, when Yao Ming gradually entered his peak, because O'Neal Jr. had already fallen at that time, Yao Ming did not have the opportunity to take revenge.

　　But overall, although Little Yao had exploded on O'Neal Jr. once or twice in his early career, most of the time, O'Neal Jr. would make him play not so comfortably.

　　And Big Ben......

　　Emmmmmmm.

　　To be honest.

　　With this Little Yao, Su Feng was quite afraid that Big Ben would be hammered by Little Yao as soon as he came up tonight.

　　Su Feng's previous life, a classic game of rookie Yao beating Big Ben, take a look.

　　As for Barkley......

　　Wake up, if Little Yao is really put into the low post, then Barkley, who doesn't even have 30% of his peak level, wouldn't he be in the same situation as Big Ben?

　　In short, among the Raptors' many interior players, whether it's offense or defense, the current O'Neal Jr. is the best choice for the Raptors to face Philadelphia.

　　In addition, in this life, because Philadelphia let Ratliff switch to playing power forward after selecting Little Yao, in fact, Ratliff's existence will, in a sense, liberate Yao Ming on the defensive end.

　　So......

　　This is why Su Feng would appear at the power forward position tonight.

　　Because his speed is something that even Ratliff can't keep up with no matter how fast he is.

　　In short, unlike the previous two seasons where they could win the game by directly playing Wang Zha (royal flush), Wang Zha again and again......

　　This season, Davis has deeply felt how well his card players can draw.

　　(Jackson, Carlisle, Riley: What the hell are you saying about Su Feng's trash?)

　　On the court, it was Philadelphia's turn to attack.

　　This time, Iverson learned to be smart.

　　He let Snow control the ball for a while, and waited until Yao Ming ran to the other side under Ratliff's cover before he stepped forward to receive the ball.

　　Carter and O'Neal Jr. couldn't stop such an unsolvable routine.

　　So these two simply threw the blame to Su Feng.

　　Whoosh!

　　On the court, along with a gust of wind, Iverson instantly broke into the Raptors' paint.

　　This season, Iverson, who had returned from injury, had shown a state no less than the Iverson from the beginning of the century in Su Feng's memory.

　t blowing black......

　　Before, even the HC rules couldn't stop him.

　　Then what's more, in this era when the HC rules were in a transitional period of cancellation?

　　In the restricted area, Su Feng became the Raptors' last barrier.

　　Then, in the blink of an eye, Su Feng also made a gamble.

　　It was a pity......

　　Iverson deceived Su Feng's feelings.

　　After completing the switch in the air, Iverson didn't send himself a block as stupidly as Kobe had done as Su Feng had thought.

　　Bang, Swish!

　　Beep!

　　The ball went in, the whistle sounded, and there was a free throw to be added.

　　"Hey, Su, you don't think I'll be the same as before, do you?"

　　And after landing, while poking Su Feng's waist, Iverson also teased Su Feng.

　　At this time......

　　Su Feng suddenly felt dazed.

　　Because back then, his waist seemed to be often poked by this short guy with the cornrows......

　　Speaking of which, that was when the first-generation Philadelphia gangsters challenged the Chicago Bulls.

　　Because Su Feng was very afraid that Rodman would injure Iverson, every time Iverson bravely completed a breakthrough, Su Feng would step forward to remind him.

　　Unfortunately, in the most critical one, it was too late when Su Feng wanted to call out to Iverson.

　　Otherwise, who would know if the first-generation Philadelphia would take a breath and complete the Pennsylvania fairy tale?

　　And when the memories ended, looking at Iverson, who was already at the free-throw line to fist-bump with Yao Ming, Su Feng realized......

　　It turned out that he didn't wear a headband today.

　　And yesterday, he didn't wear one either.

　　"Yao, after this game, I'll give you a headband, it's very cool," Iverson said to Yao Ming before the free throw.

　　The young Yao Ming nodded when he heard this.

　　Although these court equipment were not worth much, for the little Yao who was still actively integrating into the team at this time, he knew that this was Iverson's intention to show his goodwill to him.

　　Swish!

　　The extra penalty was hit.

　　3 to 3 tie.

　　Clearly, this game had just started, but Su Feng felt like this game had been going on for ten thousand years.

　　"Give me the ball, Steve," Su Feng said to Nash, patting his shoulder in an unquestionable tone when it was the Raptors' turn to attack.

　　Nash nodded.

　　In the Raptors, there has always been an unwritten rule.

　　That is, if Su Feng makes a decision on the court, then his words are equivalent to Davis's judgment.

　　High position, Su Feng still held the ball.

　　Then, O'Neal Jr. came over to screen again.

　　Well, you have your "Ai Yo" screen, and I have my "Su Ao" screen.

　　Uh......

　　Although the homonym of "Su Ao" (苏奥) doesn't have a good meaning.

　　But it doesn't matter.

　　On the court, after screening with Su Feng, O'Neal Jr., who had found another good opportunity, made another iron-blooded jump shot in the high position.

　　3 to 5.

　　People always say that how well a player plays in the new season depends on how hard he works in the summer.

　　And now, it was time for the Raptors to start enjoying the benefits of O'Neal Jr.'s potential explosion.

　　"Su, that was a great pass!" O'Neal Jr. said to Su Feng, patting his conscience while retreating.

　　And after fist-bumping with O'Neal Jr., Su Feng felt that......

　　There was another candidate for the Raptors' second leader in the future.

　　The game continued.

　　This season, after Little Yao joined, plus the team's coach was replaced by Carlisle, the strength of the Philadelphia gangsters was no longer the same as last season.

　　In fact, this Philadelphia, composed of Ratliff, Christie, Snow, Iverson, and others, was already not weak.

　　It's just that they have always lacked a stable secondary core to help Iverson reduce offensive pressure.

　　This season, after Carlisle came to Philadelphia, he did not completely deny the legacy left by Larry Brown.

　　After all, the defensive system left by Brown was a ready-made peach.

　　Why throw it away?

　　And Carlisle might not believe it if he said it......

　　Originally, in Su Feng's previous life, he was the one who would have his peaches picked by Brown, but this life, it was reversed.

　　It has to be said that fate is impermanent, and creation makes fools of people.

　　In the first quarter, after the two teams fought fiercely back and forth for 12 minutes, the score of the two teams was 26 to 29.

　　After the first quarter, Su Feng got 8 points and 5 assists.

　　O'Neal Jr. had 14 points and 6 rebounds.

　　And on the Philadelphia side, Iverson scored 12 points in the first quarter, and Little Yao also had 4 points and 4 rebounds.

　　From the technical statistics, if you didn't watch the game, you would definitely think that O'Neal Jr. exploded Yao Ming.

　　But in fact, in Su Feng's view, Little Yao's value to this Philadelphia was no longer something that could be reflected by a few data.

　t like how he successfully liberated Iverson back then.

　　This season, under Carlisle's guidance, Iverson, who had regained the three-pointer weapon, was not just simply outputting wildly under Little Yao's silly smile.

　　In Su Feng's previous life, the quality of Little Yao's screen was so high that even Brooks could be blocked into a first-line point guard by him.

　　It looked like Brooks had a higher average score in the 09/10 season.

　　But in fact, in the 08/09 season, under Yao Ming's protection, that Brooks was the real high efficiency.

　　At that time, he could not only score an average of 16+ points per game in the playoffs with a shooting percentage of more than 45%, but also in that season's playoffs, Brooks's three-point shooting percentage was as high as 43%.

　　But since then, Brooks has never reached that height again.

　　And in this life, when peak Iverson collided with young Little Yao, it was simply like kindling meeting a raging fire.

　　Because even if Iverson didn't need a screen to penetrate the opponent's defense, but because Little Yao had a certain range, after he screened for Iverson, did you think Iverson's breakthrough environment was the same as before?

　　In addition, at the critical moment, the young version of Little Yao was not unable to back up.

　　It's just that his efficiency was not as high as it would be in the future.

　　Therefore, in Su Feng's original timeline, Kobe would be so envious of Yao Ming.

　　As for the Chinese market?

　　To give a simple example......

　　In the Chinese market around 2019, do you think James, Curry, and others would be envious of a certain "Big Devil"?

　　To put it bluntly, in the NBA, without strength, even if you are a super rich second generation, others will not value you.

　　After the first quarter of the game tonight, Su Feng felt that even without waiting for the future, Philadelphia would have to cause a lot of trouble for the Raptors this season.

　　Because Carlisle's use of Yao Ming......

　　Was very similar to his future use of Nowitzki + Chandler.

　　Even, looking at Little Yao's soft touch, Su Feng suspected that in the past month when he clearly hadn't contacted him, Carlisle must have made him practice three-pointers.

　　"Alas! Why is the whole world full of rebels?"

　　After the first quarter, Su Feng felt that he had become the target of this era.

　　Before, O'Neal didn't even want his idol baggage in order to win against himself once.

　　And now......

　　Iverson, in order to kill himself, actually took the initiative to apply for death......

　　In the second quarter, on the Raptors' side, Su Feng did not rest as usual.

　　And on the Philadelphia side, Iverson also did not rest.

　　"Alas, back then, Iverson and Su Feng's stamina was their guarantee to defeat the Chicago Bulls," Zhang commented with emotion on CCTV.

　　"But now, these two people with the best stamina in the NBA are going to engage in close combat," Zhang added after a pause.

　　Air Canada Centre arena.

　　In the second quarter, on the Raptors' side, Big Ben, Barkley, Su Feng, Old Curry, and Jaric lined up in a row.

　　And on the Philadelphia side, Stan Lee Roberts, Jumaine Jones, Christie, Iverson, and Aaron McKie were ready to go.

　　Carlisle and Davis were very clear......

　　This quarter of the game would completely determine the direction of this game.

　　On the court, the Raptors attacked first.

　　Jaric, who was still adapting to the NBA, didn't dare to do too much, and handed the ball to Su Feng after crossing the half-court.

　　And at this time, on the Raptors' bench, Davis also began his teaching of Carter.

　　In fact, tonight's game, according to Davis and Su Feng's design......

　t it should be Carter who stood up to decide the outcome.

　　After all, it was fine if he couldn't defend Iverson on the defensive end.

　　But with Carter's physical quality, wouldn't he also crush Iverson when he came back?

　　However......

　　Apart from the impact of international games on Carter, Carter's enterprising spirit had now become an insurmountable obstacle to his further progress.

　　In Su Feng's previous life, if you talked about love for basketball, then Carter would never be below Kobe and him.

　　But if you talked about ambition......

　　To be honest, even his younger brother was probably more ambitious than him.

　　With two championships in hand, and also an Olympic gold medal, for Carter in this life, premature success had become his shackle.

　　Therefore, Davis knew.

　　It was time for him to take out his little red book to stimulate Carter's subjective initiative.

　　As the right wing of this galaxy battleship, only when Carter and Su Feng took off at the same time could the Raptors play the same offense as last season.

　　And before Carter regained himself......

　　Davis knew very well that Su Feng's decision in the first quarter was correct.

　　Because at this moment......

　　Looking at the Raptors, who seemed to have a lot of stars, the only major core they could truly rely on was Su Feng.

　　Swish!

　　On the court, it was too late and then too fast.

　　Su Feng crashed into the Philadelphia gangsters' paint unreasonably after bumping into Christie.

　　In the restricted area, Jumaine failed to delay Su Feng's attack.

　　Beep!

　　Bang, Swish!

　　The ball went in, the whistle sounded, and there was a free throw to be added.

　　And at this time, Iverson was also in a daze.

　　Because he almost went up to high-five with Su Feng.

　　Yes......

　　In that era of the first-generation Philadelphia gangsters, there would always be someone who would stand up to give himself time to refuel when his fuel tank was running dry, wouldn't there?

　　But now......

　　The only one who was still wearing a headband was himself......

　　No......

　　It wasn't just himself.

　　On the court, after glancing at Yao Ming, who had returned to the court to recover, Iverson clenched his fist.

　　A long, long time ago, there was a young man from China who formed the famous "Ai Feng" (Iverson & Feng) with the then-still-slightly-green Iverson.

　　And now, Iverson was not alone.

　　Because there was another big guy from China who formed "Ai Yo" (Iverson & Yao) with him.

　　Air Canada Centre arena, along with the cheers of MVP, MVP, Su Feng hit the extra penalty.

　　No way......

　　The road to the king was destined to be lonely and lonely.

　　Therefore, don't look at Su Feng saying that the Lakers were too strong, the Celtics were too domineering, and this era was too unreasonable......

　　But in fact, he was happier than anyone else.

　　Because......

　　Those who couldn't kill him would only make him stronger.

　　What stability?

　　What sneaky development?

　　In competitive sports, there wasn't so much stability that could be stabilized.

　　And in the NBA arena, there wasn't so much time for you to develop.

　　In this era that had gone wild, whoever was more horizontal could laugh to the end.

　　On the court, Philadelphia attacked.

　　Iverson shook open Old Curry and hit a three-pointer.

　　29 to 32.

　　Coming back, Su Feng successfully tricked Christie with his one-handed triple threat.

　　Swish!

　　Su Feng's dry pull-up also went in!

　　29 to 34.

　　On the Philadelphia gangsters' bench, the young Little Yao finally understood what Old Hu had told him before, that you would only know how terrible Su Feng was after you had played against Su Feng.

　　"Old Liu? Old Liu's limit in playing in the CBA is only an average of 30 or 40 points per game......

　　But if Little Su goes to play in the CBA......

　　Then I feel that he can easily score an average of 50+ points per game."

　　Swish!

　　On the court, Iverson's mid-range shot hit the iron, and coming back, Su Feng's fadeaway went in again!

　　29 to 36, Carlisle was ready to call a timeout.

　　"I remember that during the Finals last season, I once interviewed a Raptors fan on the scene," Zhang suddenly said with emotion on CCTV.

　　And Yu Jia, who was on the side, asked curiously, "And then?"

　　"Then, I asked him, when you watch the Finals, do you feel nervous?"

　　"As a result, he answered me that he wasn't nervous.

　　Because......

　　They had Su Feng."