It's Time to Break the 33-Game Winning Streak This Season

The next day, Goodwin sat on the comfortable sofa at home, intently watching the game on television. It was the Los Angeles Lakers, whom he had beaten the day before, playing a road back-to-back against the New York Knicks.

After yesterday's loss, Kobe Bryant had an unusually strong desire to attack that night, but his shooting percentage left much to be desired.

Not only that, the entire Los Angeles Lakers team shot poorly, perhaps due to the fatigue of playing on consecutive days.

The current Los Angeles Lakers were no longer what they once were. They had become the oldest team in the entire league on average, without question.

For such an aging team, a back-to-back schedule truly put them under immense pressure.

Among them, the team's youngest player, Andrew Bynum, was completely contained when facing the New York Knicks' twin towers—Kevin Garnett and Tyson Chandler—and could barely show what he was capable of.

As the buzzer sounded to end the first quarter, the score stood at 15:22, with the Los Angeles Lakers trailing the New York Knicks by 7 points.

Goodwin could not help shaking his head, filled with doubt and confusion. He simply could not understand the Los Angeles Lakers' decisions after winning the championship.

They had actually chosen to trade away the young, talented, and outstanding Trevor Ariza, only to acquire Metta World Peace, who might have been more experienced but was already past his prime.

That season, Trevor Ariza had put up impressive averages of 14.9 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists, and 1.8 steals per game, while shooting as high as 46%.

Yet the team had decided to send him away. Perhaps management believed Metta World Peace could bring more experience, but he was, after all, past his peak.

For the Los Angeles Lakers, perhaps they