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January 21, 2010—the Lakers' 41st regular-season game.

And this day was destined to become one Chris Paul would never forget for the rest of his life.

He was about to lead the New Orleans Hornets against the Los Angeles Lakers, whose 39-game winning streak had just been snapped.

"Shit!"

"Fuck!"

"Why am I always the unlucky one?!"

Before the game, Chris Paul lay awake all night.

Because he knew perfectly well that the Lakers would vent every last bit of their pent-up rage on him.

Before the game.

A troublemaking reporter interviewed Chris Paul about the Lakers' winning streak being ended.

Reporter: "CP3, as one of the league's outstanding guards, how do you view the Los Angeles Lakers' 39-game winning streak coming to an end?"

Chris Paul: "Honestly, I think the officiating in that game was unfair to the Lakers. If you're willing to watch the replay, you can see that the referees missed a lot of calls and made a lot of wrong ones."

Paul's words stunned the reporter who had been hoping to stir up trouble. He truly could not understand why Paul, who had always had bad blood with the Lakers, would risk a league fine to speak up for the Los Angeles Lakers.

However, although Paul had defended the Lakers before the game, it still did not make them go easy on him.

With a smack, Zhou Ze snatched Paul's floater off the pick-and-roll out of the air with one hand.

Floaters were developed to avoid help defense from big men in the paint, like Eiji Sawakita in Slam Dunk. But against Zhou Ze, who could reach the top edge of the backboard, blocking one was only a little harder than blocking an ordinary layup.

After the snatch block, Zhou Ze fired a quarterback-style full-court pass