"Come on, pick up the basketball." Li Hao, Kobe, Randle and Boozer, two veterans and two rookies, this is the Lakers' final look for this season.
Although this set of makeup photos didn’t say anything clearly, anyone with a discerning eye can see it. It’s just two words: inheritance.
Kobe was once the number one player in the league, but he is old. Boozer was once an All-Star, but he is also old.
Li Hao and Randall are both rookies this season, and they are both rookies with full potential. The Lakers management has high hopes for them.
After the makeup photos are taken, there will be a media meeting. To be honest, with the Lakers' current lineup, Kobe is the only one who can attract the media.
But who said the Lakers are in the City of Angels? What does Los Angeles lack most? Unscrupulous media, so even if the Lakers' star power dims this time, they can still attract countless media, including media from China.
Gong Luming has been under a lot of pressure recently because the men's basketball team lost at the Asian Games, and also lost to Japan. This defeat directly made the fans explode. In addition, Gong Luming has been reluctant to recruit Li Hao to the team before.
Gong Luming was criticized by countless people at once, but as a veteran coach, Gong Luming was very good at withstanding pressure. In addition, the Basketball Association already knew Gong Luming's plan, so it did not really criticize Gong Luming. do what.
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"Winning and losing basketball games is normal." The Chinese media had no chance to interview Li Hao before, so at the Lakers media meeting, the Chinese media finally found the opportunity.
"Director Gong is an experienced coach. I, a young man under twenty years old, am not qualified to evaluate such a highly respected head coach." Li Hao is not stupid.
After giving enough face to the Chinese media, the press officer began to point to other media. Compared with the Chinese media focusing on Li Hao, other media were obviously more concerned about Kobe's recovery from injury and Randall, a local American rookie. .
Li Hao did perform very well in the summer league, but Randall's performance was not bad either. Furthermore, as the No. 7 pick in the first round, Randall is more worth looking forward to than Li Hao, the No. 31 pick in the second round.
The only one that no one cares about is Boozer, another veteran. It is said that Boozer's playing is not interesting to watch, and his popularity is not high, not to mention that Boozer is old now.
After the media meeting, the Lakers began to fully prepare for the game, and other teams were similar.
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When NBA teams began to make final preparations for the new season, the outside media began to stir up trouble. However, this is also a routine operation. If there is no trouble, the attention will come, and if there is no attention, the money will come.
Let’s just talk about TNT. The three giants have gathered to warm up for the new season. As for the three big mouths, they can talk about everything from their respective teams’ transfer operations to their hopes of winning the new season and MVP candidates. Can be talked about.
Of course, the best rookie is also in this category. This is a big year for the draft, and many rookies are favored by others. So after discussing this year's MVP candidates, the three of them shifted the topic to the best rookie.
"Charles, who do you like?" Kenny Smith asked the big-mouth Barkley first.
O'Neal is also a big mouth, but O'Neal is indeed a big mouth with full emotional intelligence. In contrast, Barkley, who speaks directly, is the most suitable to be the first to ask.
"Jabari Parker" Barkley said a very conventional name.
Although the No. 1 pick this year is Wiggins, in fact most people are more optimistic about Jabari Parker. In the best rookie rankings given by ESPN, Jabari Parker also ranks first.
The second is Wiggins, and the third is last season's rookie Nerlens Noel. The No. 6 pick in 2013 has not played for a season due to injuries. According to NBA regulations, if a rookie If you don't play in a season, it can be carried over to the next year.
There are many such examples. For example, Griffin, the Clippers star next door to the Lakers, was seriously injured and did not play in his rookie season. Then there is the 76 side. Noel was the rookie of the 76 team last year, and Embiid is here this year. , followed by Ben Simmons.
The fourth is that the Lakers are interested in Exum, who was intercepted by the Jazz. This model penny guard is favored by countless people. When the Jazz selected him, the entire front office was happy.
Next is Randall of the Lakers. As a double-double monster in the NCAA, Randall's performance in the summer league also proved his strength as the No. 7 pick.
As for Li Hao, whoever is a second-way pick is eligible to compete for the Best Rookie of the Year, so Li Hao's name is not on the list of the Best Rookie of the Year at all.
"Shaq, what about you?" Kenny Smith looked at O'Neal. After O'Neal retired, TNT formed a new Big Three, and the biggest highlight of the new Big Three was the fight between Barkley and O'Neal.
"I choose~~~~Li Hao." O'Neal originally wanted to choose Wiggins, but just as he said it, the chat with Kobe suddenly rang in his mind.
Kobe and O'Neal have settled their differences and occasionally contact each other. Not long ago, O'Neal took the initiative to call Kobe.
O'Neal knew very well that Kobe, who had been in the league for 18 years, was full of injuries, and he had been the same way before. It was because of his own experience that O'Neal made this call to Kobe.
After caring about Kobe's physical condition, the two couldn't help but talk about the Lakers' situation this season. If it was Kobe in the past, based on what the Lakers did this summer, Kobe would have rushed to the general manager's office long ago, but that was before, and now Kobe It's completely different.
Kobe is very clear that he has never returned to his peak. Under this situation, the Lakers simply cannot attract important stars. This summer is the best proof.
However, Kobe is not so pessimistic about the new season. After several months of training with Li Hao, Kobe believes that Li Hao will bring great surprises to the fans in the new season and become a good helper for him.
Even Kobe has regarded Li Hao as the core of the Lakers' next generation, otherwise Kobe would not have asked his training stone team to spare no effort to help Li Hao during this holiday.
For Kobe now, instead of chasing a somewhat unrealistic championship, it is better to cultivate a future core for the Lakers who is worthy of the salary the team pays him.
Precisely because of his high regard for Li Hao, Kobe couldn't help but talk about Li Hao when chatting with O'Neal. In Kobe's words, Li Hao will be the core of the Lakers in the next ten years.
O'Neal, who has known Kobe for more than ten years, knows very well how strict Kobe is, and because of this, O'Neal knows how rare it is to be praised as highly as Kobe.
Then there was the scene above. O'Neal temporarily changed his choice and read out a name that surprised the entire studio.
