The Godfather of Basketball

Because the number of fouls had come, Durant went straight to the free throw line.

After making two free throws, the Thunder played a 7-0 offensive and opened the point difference to double digits.

The Lakers' offense, this time Howard directly lowered his back to Ibaka, reaching out for the ball.

After running for such a long distance, he was a bit fed up.

Blake gave the ball to Bryant, who hesitated for a while before giving it in.

Howard took the ball and slammed his back directly.

Indeed, as the sideline commentary said, although Ibaka's confrontation ability has improved, it still has a gap with top insiders like Howard.

However, he sank his focus and let Howard shoot under the basket, not allowing him to go beyond the three-second zone.

Howard wanted to go in. What he wanted to do most right now was to smash the basketball into the Thunder's basket.

Diaw decisively shrinks the basket after seeing it on the weak side.

"Corner! Corner!" Bryant yelled at Howard under the basket after seeing it, indicating that Jamison in the corner was empty.

But Howard didn't hear it at all, and continued to gouge hard. One foot entered the three-second zone, and he turned around and was about to dunk.

Dior arrived at this time and directly blocked Howard's turning position. Howard turned around and dunked without getting up. The ball raised in his hand was slapped by Ibaka and flew out.

The referee didn't blow the whistle, the ball was not fouled.

The ball went out of the sideline in the battle between Bryant and Westbrook.

The referee called the Thunder's backcourt, and Kobe shook his head in frustration.

But at this moment, there was a series of whistles under the basket.

The camera was shown in the past, and everyone found Howard and Ibaka entangled under the basket. The referee whistled and signaled the players on the field to help.

It turned out that Howard felt that Ibaka fouled the ball just now, so he started directly.

The players on both sides went over and pulled for a while, and then separated the two.

After watching the video replay, the referee gave Howard a technical foul. Howard threw a towel angrily on the sidelines. If Gasol hadn't happened to block his view, he might have been expelled right now.

This scene was just an episode of the game. Howard was replaced by D'Antoni and calmed down. The two sides also began to enter the substitute rotation one after another.

The Thunder played Livingston, Harden, Collison and Brown in a row, leaving only Durant in the starting lineup.

On the Lakers side, Artest was the only one left in the starting five, and Jody Meeks and Jordan Hill were also replaced one after another.

Livingston dribbled the ball across half court against Blake's pressure, and then handed the ball to Harden to organize.

Meeks' main defense, Harden signaled to pull away and then went straight to singles.

Meeks' strength is the three-pointer, and his defense is below the league average. At the moment, he is obviously overwhelmed by Harden. Harden's continuous changes of direction quickly squeezed him to the basket.

Hill jumped out to help defend, and Harden directly passed the crotch and hit the ball to Brown under the basket. Brown took the ball and dunked with both hands.

There was an uproar throughout Staples.

The Thunder's lead has come to 13 points.

Meeks missed a three-pointer, and Artest squeezed Collison to make a tip-up and finally the home team breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that just after this tone, Harden assisted Durant to score a three-pointer in the frontcourt, and the point difference returned to 14 points.

Artest's breakthrough layup failed, the Lakers came back to double-team Durant and Harden, Livingston received a pass from Harden in the low post, turned around after the hit and pulled back, with a picturesque posture , The basketball is also firmly in the frame.

The role of Livingston, in addition to dribbling the ball across the half to help Harden share the pressure, the rest is this low-handed back kick, which is even more textbook than a textbook.

Tang Tian watched from the sidelines and nodded in satisfaction. It was right to let Livingston get used to it before, but now it is completely inserted seamlessly.

Blake missed a three-pointer from the outside, and Harden scored at the buzzer when he came back. At the end of the first quarter, the Thunder led the Lakers by 16 points 32-16.

This is also the gap in strength between the two sides.

D'Antoni wants to attack, but Nash and Gasol have limited physical strength, Kobe is no longer the "Peter Pan" who asked for anything a few years ago, Howard is even more unhappy with the status of the team, and all kinds of contradictions in this team are mixed together , which led to the current record.

In the second quarter, the substitutes played again, and when the two teams returned to the main force one after another, the point difference between the two sides was already 20 points away.

Before the game, the media was hyping it up, but there was a gap in strength between the two sides. Artest's three-game winning streak after joining was just an illusion. If he really played against a strong team like the Thunder, he would still be beaten back to his original form.

Kobe missed a shot from outside. This is the third time he missed a shot in a row. The Lakers' shooting percentage dropped in other points due to physical exertion, and the Thunder can double-team Kobe at will.

Durant missed a three-pointer from the outside, but Ibaka grabbed the offensive rebound, Dio stuck Howard, and Ibaka dunked directly with both hands.

After the dunk, Ibaka looked very excited and yelled at Howard twice.

Howard didn't say anything at the moment, and suddenly punched Ibaka in the chest.

Ibaka was caught off guard and was hit, and he rushed up immediately after reacting.

The two people who had been in conflict before didn't suppress themselves anymore and fought each other.

The referee blew the whistle everywhere, and the players of the two teams also went on the court to fight.

However, in the chaos, Artest gave Harden an elbow on the left side of the head, and directly put the latter on the ground. The players on both sides were completely in chaos. Westbrook jumped up and punched Artest in the head.

The players of the two teams also gave up the fight and went straight to each other.

From the basket to the technical table, the basketball game abruptly turned into a brawl.

There were screams from fans at the scene, and security personnel rushed onto the field from the sidelines.

At this time, Tang Tian stopped the players who were about to rush to the field, called the team doctor, and asked him to check on Harden's situation.

After Harden was carried off the field, seeing that Harden was in a bad condition, Tang Tian asked Stevens to go directly to the hospital with Harden.

Stevens and Harden left in a hurry, but the fighting on the scene did not stop. The computers on the technical desk were smashed in the chaos, and the fans on the sidelines all ran away in fright.

It took more than ten minutes until the security personnel pulled the two teams apart completely. Howard and Ibaka's heads were all open. Among the players on both sides, Blake and Westbrook's faces were also swollen.

This is a complete martial art!

Thanks to Tang Tian and D'Antoni being very rational, they stopped the players who didn't let the bench rush up, otherwise the consequences of this fight would be much more serious than what happened now.

As a result, the game was interrupted for half an hour. The fans returned to the scene after being appeased. The referee watched the replay of the video on the technical platform. The team doctors of the two teams were treating the wounds of their respective players. Even the substitute doctors of the Thunder came up. up.

The messy scene was comparable to the brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills nine years ago.