T H E B O O K | Volume Fourth

[Barbatrucco]

The Association lasted four years, from the 2012-13 season to 2015-16. Barbatrucco Coach with the Los Angeles Lakers won the ring in 2013 through three game seven (and remounting from an 0-2 against the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals, finished 4-2), including one in the Finals against the Miami Heat where there were seven lead changes in the final minute and a half.
In the following season (2013-14) we were eliminated from the Portland Trailblazers in the first round, in the last second of the seventh game due to an entrance of Damian Lillard. This action, marred by a not-defense of Steve Nash and from lack of defensive help in Dwight Howard, has sanctioned the farewell to Canadian and DH12. In summer 2014 both players go to the Clippers in Exchange for Chris Paul and De Andrè Jordan. With the departure of Pau Gasol also ends an era.
The Lakers 2014-15 are a new group and struggled to find chemistry. There is also a breakdown of performance of old Metta World Peace that complicates things. The team passed the first round of the playoffs, went ahead 1-0 against the Clippers in the Western Conference Semifinals but then collapses, losing four consecutive games and 4-1 is deleted.
The Coach 'Barba' surprised everyone in the summer of 2015 promoting in the starting five the greek forward Kostas Papanikolaou, purchased four years ago and grow in the team. By free agent come the former Thunder Thabo Sefolosha and bid farewell to World Peace. To current season comes another former OKC, Reggie Jackson. The team, potentially lower than previous ones, is in the course of a crazy chemistry. Comes second in regular season in the West, passes the first two rounds before getting in front of Oklahoma City in the Western Conference Finals. It is an unequal battle, predictions of a 4-0 Thunder, but the resounding surprise are the Lakers, who won the series 4-3.
In the Finals the other sensational surprise of the season are the Charlotte Bobcats, which eliminated Miami in game seven. The Lakers won easily 4-0 the Finals against Charlotte and are again Nba champions!

And this is the new Association just started ...

[Barbatrucco]

The Bryant of 2013 is the best Kobe ever. The experience does not buy but the knees a bit if in summer go in Germany to try this innovative treatment which has already rejuvenated Tiger Woods, Nadal and Tim Duncan: tissue regeneration based on the plasma enriched. The Kobe 2012-13 is a mix that only a handful of years ago would have been impossible to do, i.e. 17 seasons of career with a newfound youth. The result? Already seen in the the other Association (four consecutive top scorer titles, the first three with an average more than 30 points per game), but even in this Asso doesn't mess around. In the traditional Opening Game in Salt Lake City, the Black Mamba marks just 47 in fluency, with 6 assists, even though he is a triple from the corner by Metta to decide the game with 50" left (100-109). Then there is the seasonal debut in Staples Center and Bryant massacres the Atlanta Hawks by taking 38 shots for a total of 48 points and 5 assists. In New Orleans comes the third consecutive victory and the Black Mamba will deliver still 47 with 5 rebounds and 6 assists, including the bomb to tie 71" from the end and the assist for the decisive Howard dunk.
47.3 points with 64.6% in the first three games, what else?