Chapter 284: [The most popular, the Lakers chaos]

After five straight victories, Guo Xu ’s popularity has risen to the highest in the league. The All-Star vote surpassed McGrady, Carter and Yao Ming to lead the league in one fell swoop and is expected to become the
vote king
this year.
Recently, the Sun players dunk too much. Fans hope Guo Xu to organize an offensive in the star game, and there are a lot of wonderful dunks.
NBA outside superstars usually have a high popularity. Compared with inside players, their play style is more flexible and elegant, suitable for star game performances.
With the increase in popularity, Guo Xu's commercial value, he played annual salary plus advertising endorsements, income has been able to rank in the top ten of the league.
In terms of beverages, Guo Xu replaced Gatorade sports drinks. The endorsement fee of 4 million per year is not high, but it is earned in vain because the price of NBA players' endorsement beverages is not high.
The league requires that no matter what beverage the star endorses outside, they can only drink Gatorade on the sidelines during the game. This is the only designated drink in the NBA League and Major League Football.
Gatorade has an 85% market share in the US sports beverage industry, with the slogan "Release thirst and thirst." If you really do n’t like drinking, players can only pour their favorite drinks into Gatorade ’s cups, and take out Gatorade ’s cups to drink other brands of beverages during the break.
Guo Xu does not intend to fight against the league. Gatorade ’s monopoly will only become more and more stable. In the previous life of the 2017-18 season, the NBA Development League was officially renamed the NBA Gatorade League. They became the first championship of the American professional sports league. Partners.
In terms of diet, Guo Xu endorsed KFC. Although he hardly eats this stuff, he had been with the "Zen Master" Phil Jackson on the sidelines for free for many years when he was at the Lakers. He felt that he deserved to get an endorsement fee.
Guo Xu also endorsed Apple Computer. He bought a lot of Apple shares. The other party knew that he was a small shareholder. The interests of the two parties were related and they hit it off.
With Guo Xu's strong rise, Hapi Waters has also become a famous agent in the league. He is not only responsible for Guo Xu, but also signed Amare Stardamer, Cavaliers second-round rookie Carlos -Boozer.
Stoudemire was a fan of O'Neal when he was a kid. He lived only a few streets away from the Magic Arena. When he participated in the draft, he wanted to partner with Guo Xu most, so he asked Hapi to be his agent, and his dream came true. In the view of others, Guo Xu's joining the Suns has a direct relationship with the promotion of the agent.
Guo Xu, in turn, helped Hapi a lot. Boozer was the one he suggested Hapi to sign. There must be surprises in the future.
Hapi is currently setting up a brokerage team to better serve customers. Every year on Thanksgiving, he and Guo Xu drank with emotion, thinking that Guo Xu changed his life and he regarded him as his best friend.
At the same time, in Los Angeles, the Lakers have lost their way after losing Guo Xu.
After losing to the 76ers, the Lakers lost another 71-98 to the last season's men's defeated Nets, creating the team's lowest score in a single game in three seasons. Except for Kobe and O'Neal, no one in the Lakers scored double figures.
Kobe Bryant played 43 minutes, 8 of 29 shots, 1 of 3 three-pointers, 5 of 5 free throws, got 21 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists; O'Neal made 7 of 13 shots, 5 of 8 free throws, 19 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.
The role players performed worse, mainly relying on Fisher, Devin George and veteran Robert Horry. Last season's marginalist Brian Shaw began to be reused. Dandi Kao was completely unqualified as a backup point guard.
On the side of the Nets, Kidd played 40 minutes, 12 of 20 shots, 2 of 1 three-pointers, 2 of 2 free throws, 8 assists and 3 steals with 27 points, 11 rebounds and 5 steals in his organization. People score in double figures.
After this game, the media revealed the news of the Lakers' locker room, O'Neill publicly accused Kobe of being too independent.
The Lakers originally had three points, but now there are contradictions in two points. Fans feel incredible.
In fact, both shots increased, but the distribution was uneven. O'Neill came back after 15 games and found that Kobe had gone crazy and couldn't stop. O'Neal is currently averaging only 18 shots per game, and Kobe is 22.6.
On November 7 this year, in the Lakers away game against the Celtics, Kobe Bryant made 17 of 47 shots, scoring 41 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals and 5 turnovers. The 30-iron single game created an unbreakable record in the league. After this, Kobe got into trouble and opened the door to a new world.
In the past when Guo Xu was in the Lakers, it was impossible for Kobe to throw so many goals. As long as he didn't have a good hand, Guo Xu wouldn't pass. He and O'Neill cooperated more and left him aside.
Fisher is now one of the worst point guards in the league. He passed the ball to Kobe Bryant after halftime and pulled the outside to let Kobe decide the distribution of ball rights.
Before Kobe would pass the ball to Guo Xu, I believe that the other side can shoot. Now that the Lakers' teammates don't approve of it, he feels that it is not as reliable as any one who passes to the outside. Phil Jackson failed to communicate with Kobe many times. In fact, Kobe's personal ability is indeed the strongest outside of the Lakers. Other people can't attract the team. The "Zen Master" simply let him play casually.
In Guo Xu's previous life, Bryant competed with McGrady for scoring this season, and the mid-term popularity was extremely high to become the All-Star ticket king. His votes are now lagging behind, and his popularity is only fifth in the league.
This is a butterfly effect. Guo Xu's argument of "no brothers, no basketball" has made countless fans begin to appreciate team basketball. The Lakers have mistreated individual heroic players. This season, Kobe suddenly developed in the direction of personal heroism. The Lakers changed from a record-breaking 35-game winning championship team to a weaker team with less than half the winning rate. Which fan can bear it?
If Guo Xu did n’t make comparisons, everyone would n’t think Kobe was better, but the data was beautiful.
On the 23rd, the Lakers defeated the Raptors 109 to 107 in overtime, 11 wins and 18 losses.
In this game, Vince Carter and Antonio Davis were both missing due to injury. The Raptors scored the most with Guo Xu University teammate Morris Peterson. He scored 27 points.
The Raptors center was Gerani McCoy, who was a marginalist in the Lakers last season. The defender was Lynch Hunt, who was rejected by the Lakers and the power forward was blue collar Jerome Williams. Even so, the Raptors and the Lakers fight overtime.
In another game played on the same day, Sun 108 defeated the supersonic 108 to 89 ~ EbookFREE.me ~ won six straight.
Guo Xu suppressed veteran Payton, played 40 minutes, 8 of 16 shots, 4 of 7 3-pointers, 4 of 4 free throws, 24 points, 4 rebounds and 12 assists.
Payton played 38 minutes, feeling very poor, 5 of 18 shots, 2 of 3 3-pointers, 2 of 2 free throws, 12 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists.
With the same style of play in the past, Payton's shooting rate has dropped. His data performance is good, with 20 points and 8.5 assists per game. In fact, he averaged 19 shots per game and the offensive efficiency is not high.
"Alcoholic" Weinbeck is playing a black hole defense, not at all pick-and-roll, Brent Barry is also hit by second-year rookie Joe Johnson, power forward Reggie Evans can grab a rebound, the offensive end is equal to fewer individuals Being able to dribble and trip yourself.
After the game, the Supersonics were 13-16. After this season, Payton was 35 years old. He began to feel powerless. In order to win the championship, he planned to leave the Supersonics.
On the 24th, the Suns all took a bus to Los Angeles to prepare for the Christmas War.
The media predicts that the outcome will be one-sided, all optimistic about the sun.