Chapter 918: Still prosperous

On the second day of the training camp, the first game of the new season for the Kings arrived.
And the first opponent is no one else, it is the old opponent in California, Li Liang's first love club, the Los Angeles Lakers.
The biggest gain for the Lakers in the free market this summer was Dwayne Wade.
That's right, after losing Kobe last season, the Lakers gained a huge salary space.
But Li Liang didn't want to come, and he didn't contact the Lakers management for a long time. Durant stayed in the Thunder and James went to the Warriors.
As a result, the Lakers turned their attention to Wade, who did not renew his contract with his old club. Update the fastest computer terminal::/
As a meritorious player of the Heat, Riley is really hard-hearted.
Wade won the first championship in history for the Heat. The FMVP of the Finals made great contributions, and accompanied the team through the trough period during his peak period. As a result, he did not get a maximum salary contract.
Wade has indeed been greatly affected by injuries in the past two years, and can no longer become the Flash like he did.
But his experience, skills, and big heart make him still one of the best shooting guards in the league.
To this end, the Lakers signed a four-year contract of 112 million yuan, allowing the Flash to come to Hollywood.
The Lakers are like this. Their signing may not be the most cost-effective, but it will definitely be the brightest!
Where is this, Hollywood, the center of the world stage.
Any contract or transaction that lacks hot spots and bright spots will be considered a failure.
Failure on the game field also makes people feel like failure.
The arrival of Wade obviously made the people of Los Angeles quite satisfied.
However, many Los Angeles fans still obsess over Li Liang, questioning Li Liang's Twitter sent many years ago, saying they will come back?
No one said when to come back.
This preseason matchup attracted a lot of attention.
But the game process, as always, was nothing to watch.
As the head coach of the team, Li Liang has a big advantage, that is, he can arrange the team's lineup by himself.
Therefore, Li Liang was very decisive and put himself on the injury list.
This shocked the Kings fans and Chinese fans.
Why was it on the injured list in the first game? Didn't fight a game!
Look at the content of the injury: groin strain.
It feels quite serious, this injury is not cured.
As a result, in the first preseason game against the Lakers, the Kings lost 101:115 to the Los Angelesers.
Li Liang's first command as the head coach ended in failure.
To be honest, the feeling of sitting on the sidelines and wearing a suit is really bad.
The main thing is that when you see all kinds of mistakes made by players on the field, you can't rush to the field and shout in his ears.
But he can only be incompetent and furious on the sidelines, and when a timeout is called, the fire in his heart has almost dissipated.
Mistakes should be pointed out for the first time, and the memory is the deepest for the players.
Of course, Li Liang was determined to be a Confucian leader, so he still had to restrain his urge to curse.
After losing the first game to the Lakers, in the second game, Li Liang came out of the injury list.
His groin is healed again and he is all right.
Two days later, the Kings ushered in their second opponent in the preseason, the Golden State Warriors.
After the Warriors introduced LeBron James in the summer, their strength has expanded to a new level.
Although throughout August, the media’s attention was focused on the King and Li Liang becoming the King’s head coach, but many people know that the strength of the Warriors this year has really overwhelmed all teams.
Including the Sacramento Kings.
The gap between east and west has further widened. From the perspective of the team's lineup, the Warriors are the only one, with the Kings, Thunder, Lakers and Spurs in second.
Then all teams in the East are in third gear.
In addition to signing James, the Warriors also added Pachulia to make up for Bogut's departure.
He signed veteran Tayshaun Prince with a year-end salary to make up the striker. This is also a Kentucky graduate, and may be able to contain Li Liang as a senior.
In order to deal with Li Liang, the Warriors also signed Josh Smith, who ended the contract with the Lakers.
Just like the entire league dealt with O'Neal back then, hoarding strikers at the 3rd and 4th positions has become a basic need.
The forward players who play in the league must thank Li Liang for allowing them to eat more of the NBA for several years.
The venue was arranged at the SAP Center in San Jose.
There are so many arenas in California. The preseason is both a warm-up match and a promotion match.
It needs to be promoted overseas, and it needs to be promoted in the United States.
After all, new fans always grow up.
Because it is a game between the Warriors and the Kings, both sides are star-studded, so many fans are attracted.
The star-making and god-making movement that started with David Stern can be regarded as a success so far.
The star has become the face of the NBA, and it is not the basketball itself that attracts the fans the most, but the players.
Like football fans, they usually vote for a certain club, and some follow the stars to change the door.
Basketball fans, NBA fans, generally wander around with their stars, and a few are club irons.
This kind of situation originally appeared mainly in China. After all, Chinese fans have no local awareness, and they should like their hometown team as much as they like.
Now, this situation is also beginning to spread in the United States.
Many small fans with local teams are not interested in local teams.
In the past, live TV broadcasting had just started. When there was no internet, basketball fans generally had to go to the local stadium to watch games.
For example, fans in Philadelphia will definitely go to the Spectrum Center to support the 76ers.
And earlier, the first thing the NBA team chooses is not your strength, but your origin.
If you are a local and have a good local mass base, the team will choose you.
Because this can attract local fans to the arena to watch the football, the team has income.
The league even introduced provisions for local priority drafts.
Later, live TV broadcasting became more and more developed, and later on, the situation was different.
Fans do not have to go to the scene, they can see the performances of the stars on TV and the Internet.
Coupled with the alliance's star-making movement, it is natural to watch whichever you like.
For example, small Denver fans like Jordan. When Jordan's bulls come to Denver to play away, he will go to the arena to watch a game.
This situation has become more and more serious over time.
The traditional fans of the older generation are decreasing a little bit, and the fans of the new generation are gradually increasing.
Fans gradually began to appear a phenomenon: recognize people not the ball, recognize people not the team.
After Li Liang, James and others broke the shackles of "loyalty", this manifestation became more serious.
The game was played in San Jose, which was originally part of the San Francisco Greater Bay Area, so it can be regarded as the home of the Warriors.
But as you can see at the game tonight, the purple is just one piece of one piece, and they are all young fans wearing King No. 28 jersey.
Li Liang's Olympic Games can be said to have made him countless fans in the United States.
The reason was unexpected by Li Liang.
On the one hand, he led China to the finals. This is the favorite image of a lonely hero in American pop culture~EbookFREE.me~ Let Li Liang's superhero set another resume.
On the other hand, Li Liang lost to the US team in the final, which not only did not hurt the pride of American fans, but also gave Li Liang the color of a tragic hero even though he was smiling happily.
In fact, the Argentine Ginobili and Lithuanian Jaskovicius, who once truly defeated the United States in the World Series, were ignored by the Americans.
After all, the Romans would write hymns for the alien heroes who were conquered by themselves, but when Rome really fell, no one would write songs.
At the scene, all the new fans were thinking about was the confrontation between the stars.
The focus of the media's propaganda campaign is also on this.
No way, the inertia formed over the past few decades has turned the NBA's public opinion situation into a giant ship that cannot turn its bow.
No matter if the front is an iceberg or a whirlpool, they can only move forward one way.
At least, this year's NBA looks very prosperous.