Time comes to the 92-93 season.
Before the start of this season, Cobra James Worthy announced that he would officially retire at the end of this season.
In fact, people already saw the clues last season.
Cobra can provide Lin Ran with less and less help in the finals, and in some games it even has a negative effect.
The reason why he has to fight for another year is just to have a chance to achieve the three consecutive championship dynasty that even the peak SHOWTIME Lakers have not achieved!
The news that James Worthy announced his retirement before the season also cast a layer of gloom on the Lakers this season.
In the opinion of many media experts, the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1992-93 season may be the weakest defending championship team.
At the beginning of the season, people no longer even discussed whether the Lakers could win the championship.
The topic given by the media is: Can the Lakers make it to the finals?
Under the heavy pressure of public opinion, Lin Ran resolutely took up the banner of the Los Angeles Lakers' attack.
As the Lakers defeated the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference playoffs and defeated Hakeem Olajuwon.
Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich said this about Lin Ran and his Lakers:
"Never underestimate the heart of a champion!"
Eliminated Olajuwon and the Houston Rockets in the first round.
In the second round, they defeated the Seattle SuperSonics of Gary Payton + Sean Kemp.
Defeated Charles Barkley and the Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference Finals!
Lin Ran rode through the level alone, leading the team with a single core in an absolute sense, and once again faced off against Michael Jordan at the top of the Forbidden City!
This time, it was different from the previous two years.
The Chicago Bulls have become a team with home court advantage.
Before the finals started, the media gave the Lakers a winning probability of only 7%!
This 7% is just for Lin Ran's sake.
The trend of G1 is exactly as the media expected.
The Chicago Bulls defended their home court without any blood and won their first victory in the Finals.
The big score came to 1:0!
In the second game of the Finals, the Chicago Bulls once again took the advantage. They defended their home court and headed to Los Angeles with a 2:0 score.
Under the 232 schedule of 2 home, 3 away and 2 home in the Finals, Scottie Pippen said in the post-game interview after winning G2:
“The series is not coming back to Chicago!”
It seems that the Bulls are going to win the long-lost championship in one go and complete the coronation ceremony at the home court of the Los Angeles Lakers!
certainly.
Things are not that simple.
In G3 of the finals, Lin Ran once again turned the tide.
He played the entire 48 minutes without taking a single second of rest except for timeouts and intermissions!
It even forced Lakers coach Mike Dunleavy to resort to his ultimate move: call a timeout to give Lin Ran a breather!
Under his stamina-burning tactics that played throughout the game, the Lakers defended their first home victory in the Finals and brought the score back to one!
In the next two home games, Lin Ran still played the full 48 minutes.
The Los Angeles Lakers also won consecutive games and successfully overtook the lead to 3:2!
The series returns to Chicago!
Before the start of G6 of the finals, it was recognized all over the world that the finals of the 1992-93 season would have a tiebreaker.
In this regard, Lin Ran said in the pre-match interview:
"Who recognized it?"
Played 48 minutes in the fourth consecutive finals, scoring 45 points, dishing out 13 assists, grabbing 15 rebounds, plus 5 steals and 5 blocks!
Lin Ran contributed to the greatest individual performance in the history of the NBA Finals.
Created the only 45+10+10+5+5 data in the NBA Finals!
At the decisive moment, he first stole Michael Jordan 1V1 on the defensive end, and then broke the Jordan + Pippen double circle on the offensive end and hit the winning throw.
The Los Angeles Lakers won the final victory amid the wails of tens of thousands of fans at the United Center in Chicago.
Big score 4:2!
There was no tiebreaker, but the Lakers won 4 games in a row while trailing by a big margin and won the NBA championship in the 1992-93 season!
Three consecutive championships in three years!
Even though no one was optimistic about it, the Lakers still created the first dynasty in the early 1990s!
After the game, Lin Ran, who was finally relieved of his heavy pressure, sat down on the midline LOGO of the Bulls' home court to catch his breath.
This scene became a classic moment captured by countless photographers at the scene.
In their opinion, this is a completely famous scene!
In the end, it was James Worthy who personally put the Lakers championship hat on Lin Ran, who was sitting on the floor.
When David Stern presented the award, the entire Lakers team allowed Lin Ran to step forward and lift the 1992-93 championship gold cup against all odds!
Lin Ran also deservedly won his third FMVP trophy!
Three championships in three years and three FMVPs!
This young man from China has become the youngest three-time FMVP winner in NBA history, and he is also three consecutive FMVP!
Defeating the top Jordan for three consecutive years also made Lin Ran feel how lonely it is to be invincible.
On the eve of the 1993-94 season, Lin Ran announced to the world through Los Angeles TV not long after James Worthy officially retired:
I will officially retire!
His existence is like a shining star in NBA history, hurriedly crossing the sky of NBA history.
After that, Michael Jordan finally won his first championship trophy in the 1993-94 season.
From then on, they were out of control and defended their title in the 1994-95 season.
95-96 season - this year, the Bulls strengthened Rodman in the summer, lost only 4 games before the All-Star break, swept the entire league, and had the momentum to win three consecutive championships and create a dynasty!
This leads to today's topic on ESPN - the Lakers and the Bulls, who was the strongest team in the 1990s.
"James, you are a thing of the past."
The camera returned to the ESPN studio tonight, Dennis Rodman said: "You were really strong in the past, but that was only the past."
"The name of this era is Michael Jordan!"
This season the Bulls are about to create the best regular season record in NBA history.
The playoffs are aimed at three consecutive dynasties.
When the Bulls and Jordan truly achieve all this, they will be the most dominant team in the 1990s and even in NBA history, bar none!
The Los Angeles Lakers in the 1990-93 season are just in the past after all.
The Chicago Bulls in the 1993-96 season are the main theme of this era!
"That's because Lin Ran retired!"
James Worthy was obviously detonated. He stood up and pointed at Rodman and said:
"If Lin had not retired, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls would have been the runner-up for six consecutive years!"
