Li Liang did not expect Bird to ask this. This question was too direct, which made Li Liang feel a little overwhelmed.

"James."

Li Liang thought for a second and replied.

Bird was silent for three seconds and said, "If you want to work with him, you shouldn't come to the Pacers."

Li Liang shrugged, "It's just that I shouldn't have gone to the Cavaliers, but James can come to the Pacers."

Bird had nothing to say.

"Okay, the team has some difficulties, but we won the game. I think I can help, and the team's situation is still very good. Don't think about trading if you have a little problem. Didn't you make a deal last year? You casually split the lineup. This is not a good habit. You are playing 2k, and you'll talk about it after playing for a while."

Li Liang criticized Bird without hesitation.

Bird was not angry and said, "I just want to communicate with you and understand your opinion. We should communicate more, right?"

Li Liang said: "You should communicate with every player. If you do this, you won't make that stupid deal last year. Granger is a good player, and I know you want the team to have a better forward line to help me. I tell you, Granger is good enough, as long as he can come back to the Pacers."

Li Liang was talking about swearing, and Bird, who had always been very interested, was actually moved by Li Liang.

Danny Granger was defeated by the Clippers last season, and to be honest, it didn't play a particularly big role.

But he won a championship with the Clippers, which can be said to be a perfect merit, which is the biggest ridicule of Larry Bird, who traded him.

Now that I want to get him back, it seems a bit like making up for the merits.

However, Granger's condition is really worrying.

He did not renew his contract with the Clippers in the summer, and he was basically on the injury list throughout the playoffs.

The Heat, who lost James in summer, signed Granger. Judging from the performance in the previous games, Granger will never return to the person who supported the Pacers back then.

Li Liang saw Bird's hesitation and said, "Larry, there are some things that don't need to be hesitant. Do you know what's going on?"

"What?"

"What Bruce Lee asked you to do."

Bird was speechless, you little brat pretended to be a little bit!

I Tm...

However, Li Liang really has a way, as long as Bird can get Granger back.

When leaving the office, Li Liang reminded Bird again, saying, "The Pacers now need a Granger, even if he is just sitting on the bench."

This sentence touched Bird.

If the Pacers are preparing to rebuild this year, Bird will not have exchanged Granger for it.

Anyway, it has been broken up, so it doesn't make sense to replace him, it will only make the situation worse.

But this year the Pacers want to continue to compete for the championship, and they replace the team's core.

Li Liang happened to be a teammate with Granger. Last season, he also won a championship with him. Wouldn't it be a good thing to let Granger come back?

So Bird didn't think much about it, and immediately picked up the phone on his desk and dialed Pat Riley's number.

Pat Riley, don't know what kind of chips he would want?

...

The Pacers struggled to defeat the Wizards.

On the same day, a team continued to rush in the league, and that was the Golden State Warriors.

On the day of the Pacers' race, a focus battle in the Pacific region fell to defend its title.

The defending champion Los Angeles Clippers challenge the Golden State Warriors on the road.

The Warriors and Clippers' match last season was like Mars colliding with the Earth, which was very beautiful.

This season, the Warriors' strength has steadily improved, but the Clippers have their souls removed.

Without Li Liang, people know how important he is.

The Warriors beat the Clippers with a home advantage.

Their offense is exactly the same as last season's Clippers.

With powerful three-pointers and powerful firepower, the Clippers were penetrated in three quarters.

As the saying goes, one rises and the other falls, nBa is such a cruel place.

After giving Bird's advice, Li Liang missed the team's training again on November 7 and continued to enter his system for practice.

The fourth task.

After spending some time with the Sixers, McInnis was traded to the Denver Nuggets.

The one who partnered with him there was nothing else, but Dan Isel, who defeated him in the aBa finals.

I can only say that this world is very wonderful, and the world of basketball is indeed not big.

It is really common to turn enemies into friends with those who defeat themselves.

However, McGinnis has not played in the Nuggets for a long time.

Although he is not old, he has begun to decline.

In 1978, the Nuggets had just had a perfect season. Under David Thompson, they reached the division finals and lost to Seattle Sound.

The Nuggets exchanged for McGuinness in the offseason and wanted to go further.

But after McGinnis came, the Nuggets' performance plummeted and they lost all the way to the season.

Head coach Larry Brown resigned, and the Nuggets stopped the decline after changing coaches and finally made it to the playoffs.

McGinnis's overweight, unreliable shooting, and a large number of mistakes (nBn's 4O turnovers in a single season) made his career in the Denver Nuggets not very successful.

The cooperation effect with old rival Dan Isel is also average, and the Nuggets have not achieved good results.

Li Liang's fourth task is to help the Nuggets make a breakthrough in the 1979 playoffs and defeat their opponents Lakers!

That year, the Lakers had not yet received Magic Johnson.

Even if there is a magician, Li Liang is not afraid, but you are afraid of the Lakers without a magician?

Therefore, in the third game that determines life and death, Li Liang appeared on the stage and helped the Denver Nuggets defeat the Lakers led by Jabbar, reaching the Western Conference semi-finals, challenging the then Western Conference overlord Seattle Music Team.

This also gave McGuinness's Nuggets career a relatively complete result.

Later, McInnis was replaced by Pacers.

The Nuggets got England and since then they have their core combination of the 80s, opening up the Nuggets' first golden age in nBa.

As for McGinnis' story, it is what Li Liang is going to complete in the next mission.

After defeating the Lakers, Li Liang got the left foot of the Iron Body, and there was still a right foot left from the last item.

Li Liang didn't want to wait any longer. The task was not very difficult anyway, so he opened the last book and entered the last task.

After returning to the Pacers, McInnis was unable to return to his hometown.

Times have changed. In the 80s, they are no longer the world of their unruly people.

nBa entered the golden age, entered the battle for yellow and green, and opened up real glory.

The bad things in the 70s, drugs, violence, scandals, low ratings, and McGinnis's crappy shots, were about to be swept into the dust of history.

In the 198o-1981 season, the Pacers made the playoffs and were swept out of the round.

And it was not someone else who beat McGinnis and his Pacers, but Dr. J Irving's Philadelphia 76ers.

Everything seems to be settled at this time.

In fact, McInnis was only 30 years old in 1981, which was the best time for a player to be in his youth.

However, McGuinness obviously did not manage his body well enough. His excessive weight and unrestrained lifestyle made him no longer a "little bull" at the age of 30, but an "old cow", an old cow that could not be farmed in the cornfield.

Li Liang replaced McGinnis in the game, and at the Pacers' home court, he used a 4O-point performance to help the Pacers beat the Philadelphia 76ers and tie the total score of the series.

It was a wonderful performance for McGinnis' last dance in Indiana.

After completing the task perfectly, Li Liang finally got McGinnis's full set of props.

When Li Liang was on the body of the prop, he felt like he had become Iron Man!

I just don’t know what kind of changes this set of things can bring to myself?

It doesn't matter, I'll see it right away.
Chapter completed!