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After the game, the experienced market-savvy Mr. Na, accompanied by the privately romantic Spanish big sister-in-law, the legendary playboy rich kid Zhang San, and most of the teammates headed to the nightclub to celebrate.

Absent again was the old ironsmith; as early as his days as a young ironsmith, Kobe was out of sync with his teammates in this aspect.

However, people at different stages receive completely different evaluations for doing the same thing.

In the young ironsmith days, teammates said Kobe was pretentious;

Now that he's the old ironsmith, his teammates admire him greatly, praising him as the man closest to Jordan, and all express their desire to learn from Mamba's spirit of self-discipline next time.

Zhang Yang originally didn't plan to go, mainly because over in Los Angeles, the Thunder Team and Clippers first started Game 6 two hours earlier. The Thunder Team, trailing 2-3, evened the big score.

This year, the Clippers' first-round performance was average; they struggled to beat the Western fifth-ranked Trail Blazers after a seven-game battle; Brother Cannon was bullied by the young Lillard.

Lillard averaged 24.3 points and 6.7 assists over 7 games, with a shooting accuracy of 47% and a three-point accuracy as high as 48.9%, averaging 5.7 three-point attempts per game and hitting 2.8 balls, with a total number of three-pointers in the first round higher than Zhang Yang and Curry.

Performing so well in the first playoff appearance, even against defensive beast Paul, Lillard was rewarded with a 10-year contract renewal worth up to 100 million US dollars from Adidas after being eliminated.

In the second round facing the league's top Thunder Team, while everyone was down on the Clippers, Paul exploded, shooting 51% over five games, with a 45% three-point accuracy, averaging 22.6 points, 6 rebounds, 11.8 assists, and 2.6 steals, leading the Clippers to a 3-2 lead, gaining match point... This is also why people say that as long as the Spurs pass the Lakers, it will get easier; the Spurs don't fear players like Paul, and with the Thunder's current performance, even making it to the Western Conference Finals likely won't be a match for the Spurs.

However, just one step away from the Western Conference Finals floor, Brother Cannon seemed to be stuck in a curse.

Zhang Yang had Sacred open the game report while he was doing therapeutic ice baths and saw the Clippers leading by 11 points after three quarters, only to collapse in the final quarter, closing a 10-point gap in the first 11 and a half minutes.

With 30 seconds left, the Clippers were still ahead by two points and had possession of the ball; Paul only needed to waste time, take a buzzer-beater shot, and let Griffin and Little Jordan fight for rebounds.

As a result, Paul confidently took a solo three-pointer during regular time and missed... leading to a disastrous counterattack.

Ibaka grabbed the defensive rebound and passed it to Harden, Harden pushed and attracted defense, passed it back, Durant caught the ball and his three-point shot was a dagger straight to the basket for a quasi-game-winner.

Afterwards, the Clippers called a timeout and Paul's potential game-winning mid-range shot missed, taking the Thunder Team from trailing 67-78 in three quarters to winning 105-104, dragging the series to a game seven.

Zhang Yang simply read the report and felt that for Paul's second-to-last attack, not shooting and getting a 24-second violation would have been better than confidently missing a shot.

This reminded Zhang Yang of Little Fat Deron, once he faced the Jazz Team, Jazz Team trailing by 1 point with 13 seconds left, he thought Deron would choose to make a buzzer shot, but Deron threw it with 8 seconds left and missed!

It gave people a sense of lacking confidence and wanting to leave some time for leeway and reconsideration.

The game seven between the Thunder Team and Clippers will start the day after tomorrow, on the 15th, and the Western Conference Finals have been scheduled to start on the 18th, leaving the Lakers four days of rest, which won't interfere with any fun, and Zhang Yang thought he hadn't yet experienced the land border scenery of the United States, and with the well-informed Mr. Na leading the way, he'd go along to broaden his horizons...

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Broadening horizons really does broaden them, Zhang Yang wandered around the nightclub, raised a toast to celebrate the victory with his teammates, drank two glasses with the swarming women, tipped a bit, and then returned to the hotel.

It's not that he didn't encounter someone with the right figure and looks, but he does have a girlfriend now; before they confirmed their relationship, he didn't mind playing cards with the little babes one day and bringing two girls back to his room for a workout the next day, but now it's definitely different. It's not right by experience, these things rely on one's heart, where there's one there'll be two, other people's hearts are not to be tested, let alone his own.

The teammates just think Brother San has too high standards, after all, he usually hangs out with Hollywood female stars.

After defeating what could be the strongest opponent in this year's playoffs, the pressure brought by the evil Stone Buddha disappeared, Zhang Yang slept soundly tonight, waking up almost at noon the next day.

The team arranged for a later time to return to Los Angeles, gathering at 2:30 in the afternoon, Zhang Yang leisurely got up to take a shower and had the hotel send lunch, eating while browsing the news.

There are currently two hot topics, one is Brother Cannon messing up at crucial moments;

The other is the snake and Stone Buddha battle, the snake winning again, Kobe vs. Duncan, the playoff 'score' reaching 5-2.

Following that topic, a rumor appears again—Duncan is going to retire.

Such rumors have come up for the third time.

The first time was at the end of the 09-10 season, when the contract expired, rumors spread about retirement, he had his career's worst performance only making it to the third team and second defense, but later he renewed with a pay cut at 2 years for 40 million US dollars.

The second time was at the end of the 11-12 season, contract expired again, more retirement rumors, later renewed for 2 years at 20 million US dollars.

This time it's happening again...

Zhang Yang recalled an interesting thing, every time Duncan renewed his contract after his rookie contract, the starting salary was lower than the last year's salary from the previous contract.