Chapter 387: We are the champions

On this championship night, the Staples Center was bustling; this was a night when dreams shone into reality, a large number of media were wandering around, and every behavior of every Clippers player, every Clippers staff member, and even some Clippers fans would be sent out by the media as a focus.

Fan Xi walked through the bustling crowd, he high-fived everyone who reached out to him, and he responded to everyone's cheers and excited sounds.

He walked all the way back to the locker room; along the way, he saw everyone celebrating.

His teammates had already been pulled to various areas, and each of them was surrounded by a large number of media.

Under the long lens of Time Warner TV, Fan Xi walked into the locker room.

He was very calm; the Time Warner TV reporter asked him: "How do you feel now? You completed your scheduled goal before the game."

Fan Xi spread his palms and said: "It's hard for me to say easily that this was an easy victory; I put all my strength into this game, even exerting 120 percent of my energy, only then did I take down Miami with difficulty. Their performance was very good; LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Marcus Camby, Haslem... Shane Battier... each of them performed very well."

"I must admit one thing, we were almost defeated by them."

"But it only stops here."

"Tonight, we will celebrate well, and then forget all this before the sun rises tomorrow morning; we have to prepare for the 2012-2013 season. Of course, in between, I still have to work hard for the Olympics."

Fan Xi smiled and said: "I have about two weeks of rest time, and these nominal rest times will actually be used to shoot various commercials."

"Okay, tonight's program ends here. Please pay attention to Time Warner TV; in the future, you will see all the details of the Clippers on this channel."

Fan Xi reached out to clap, and the reporters left with their equipment; they had to go to shoot some footage of Clippers players celebrating.

This would be an exciting documentary.

It possessed real first-hand news, and it successfully recorded the Clippers from desperation to the championship. The courage and firmness Fan Xi carried from beginning to end would definitely move countless fans after it was broadcast.

Fan Xi sat down and put the MVP trophy aside.

And the championship trophy was still in the hands of Steve Nash or Arenas; they were celebrating bustlingly outside.

Fan Xi looked at the locker room quietly; he was very calm in his heart.

This season ended here.

But it was just an opening for a long career; Fan Xi still had many, many important things to do, important levels to pass, and many great achievements waiting for him to establish.

"Where is this going."

Fan Xi muttered, and he walked into the shower room to take a shower.

By the time he came back, the locker room was already full of celebrating crowds, staff, coaching teams, players, and players' families, they swarmed in.

Arenas and DeAndre Jordan were spraying champagne everywhere.

Arenas, this guy who took the minimum salary, was still bragging there: "Hey! Brothers, tonight we go happy, all the consumption, I, Gilbert, will pay for it!!"

Arenas definitely didn't lack money.

For him, money was not the most important thing either.

His career earned two big contracts, his total salary was close to 150 million US dollars, and until now, the Magic team still needed to pay him an annual salary of more than 20 million US dollars... because he was bought out.

He just took the minimum salary in the Clippers.

"No, Gilbert, let me pay for it tonight." Nowitzki was rarely so loud to grab the bill.

Then, Grant Hill joined in.

These billionaires were too happy.

For them, winning the championship, their career was complete.

In such an emotionally agitated situation, even if they spent 100,000 US dollars tonight, they wouldn't feel a bit of heartache.

Fan Xi looked at the crazy celebrating teammates, he was very happy.

He sat there: the feeling of dreams coming true is really wonderful.

Fan Xi woke up in Selena's seaside villa early the next morning; he didn't go to the team's carnival party, nor did he continue to talk about how difficult this year's championship was in front of reporters.

He left the locker room very early, and didn't even go to the post-game press conference.

For him, the task of this season was completed; next, after a slight repair, he had to invest in a new decisive battle.

Yao Ming and Grant Hill, Billups, Hamilton, Nowitzki, Arenas, Vince Carter, Steve Nash appeared at the post-game press conference together.

This was authorized by Fan Xi.

He hoped that these veterans would announce the end of this season; this was the moment their dreams shone the brightest.

However, at the press conference, Arenas went off-topic as soon as he came up. He said: From now on, the NBA is called the Fan Xi era.

Then, a group of veterans echoed one after another; they were extremely serious about this matter.

Of course, they also talked about their feelings of winning the championship.

Nowitzki said very firmly: This championship is of extraordinary significance to me, because it was taken from Miami. In the second game, I had a struggle; I once thought fate was unfair. It was Jack who helped me; he let me build confidence. Then I broke the record in the third game. However, my body was injured again; at that time, I was extremely confused. It was Jack again; Jack told me he would take the victory, and firmly rejected my request to play with a closed injection. He did it, and I have no regrets. I won the championship from the team I most wanted to defeat. Jack proved to me that as long as you are firm in your confidence, you can definitely win what you want.

Grant Hill also burst into tears; he kissed the trophy in front of reporters, and then he also announced that his career was complete. After this season ends, he will retire; he wants to do some public welfare activities to help society.

He was very excited; for him, this championship was the most perfect ending to his career.

Yao Ming also announced that he would retire from the NBA again, but he reserved the option to go to London, saying that if the national team still needed him, he was willing to go to London to draw a perfect ending to his national team career.

He also smiled and said: "Fan Xi can lead me to win the championship, so why can't he lead me to achieve a breakthrough in national team medals? I think we have a chance to break out of the group stage, and even break into the top eight, or even break into the top four and win a medal."

The domestic reporters below began to applaud.

For domestic reporters and domestic fans, Fan Xi and Yao Ming proving themselves in the NBA was very important, and also made them infinitely proud. However, if they could lead the national team to break the zero record of men's basketball medals in the Olympic arena, it was naturally even more significant. Especially now that the national team was in a period of withering personnel and yellow and green not connecting.

Compared to Yao Ming and Grant Hill announcing the end of their careers, Gilbert kept saying that he wanted to pester Fan Xi and win two more championships.

Vince Carter and Steve Nash's attitudes were much more ambiguous; they were reserving their options.

Billups was hesitating; he also didn't know if he should retire.

Hamilton was in his contract; he had two more years, and he had no reason to leave the Clippers; he played very comfortably beside Fan Xi.

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