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After being "picky" by Kupchak, he found that none of them were easy to get by. He had suggested cutting some of the team's fringe players to clear room for new signings, but now he found that that was too much to take for granted.

At least none of the players he has his eye on are free agents who can be signed. If you really want to bring one of these people, such as Nolens Noll, to the Lakers, you can only go the trade route.

However, if it were to be traded, the Lakers' trade chips would ......

For the reinforcement of the team, Kobe Bryant came to Kupchak without a clue, but after looking for it, he still had no clue. After driving Yi Feng to the training hall, Kobe Bryant turned around and went home.

I didn't expect Kupchak to call him at this time!

"Kobe, do you remember last summer? You told me that you wanted to bring Yi Feng to the Lakers, but I didn't agree. ”

Kobe Bryant certainly remembers it vividly!

Although he and Yi Feng had a good conversation with Kupchak when they were at Kupchak's house just now, he still had some doubts about the incident last summer.

At that time, he personally visited Kupchak, but the result was unhappy. In the end, he approached Lakers owner Jimmy Buss, and it was Kupchak who paid a big price or got Buss' consent to force Kupchak to go to great lengths to trade Yi Feng over.

Although Kupchak did well in the trade, it also made Ko Ru want in the end. But the unhappiness of that unhappy break still made Kobe remember it in his heart.

However, Kobe Bryant has always liked people with strength, and Kupchak's ability to operate in the free market has been recognized by Kobe, and although some mustard has not been eliminated, it is harmless.

"Remember, you were very opposed to the easy trade. But now do you regret your decision? If this deal is really blocked by you, then we Lakers have lost another chance to build a dynasty! ”

Kupchak was suddenly silent for a while, and then said in a shocking voice, "Kobe, I'm afraid you'll regret it!" ”

Kobe Bryant was surprised and lost his voice: "What?!! ”

Kupchak: "Sure enough, you're still thinking the same thing you were a few months ago, and you're still so optimistic about that guy. ”

Kobe Bryant was a little anxious, Kupchak questioned Yi Feng, in Kobe's opinion, as if he was questioning him!

"Mickey, in the past two months, Yi's performance has been obvious to all. As far as his rookie season goes, I don't think there's really one better player in history than Wilt Chamberlain! ”

"He's so good, Mickey, what else do you want to say?!"

Kupchak's voice was a little indifferent, "And that's just for now. Two months is too short, and even if he performs well during that time, it doesn't mean that he will be able to do so well in the future. And you look at his weight, every time I watch him play, I'm worried that he's going to be knocked apart! ”

Bryant: "You don't have enough muscles to protect your body, and it's really easy to get hurt. But Yi made rapid progress, weighing just over 180 pounds (82 kilograms) at the draft, but now he is almost 200 pounds (91 kilograms)! So you won't see the day he gets knocked apart. ”

Kupchak sneered, "Kobe, blind weight gain will only make players get injured faster!" As a professional footballer, you can't be unaware. And he's a mere yellow man, and he's more likely to be hurt than a black man! If you look at Yao Ming's retirement without finishing eight seasons, you will know how fragile the body of the yellow race is! What's even more terrifying is that Yi Feng can still run and jump, and his style of play also makes him at greater risk of injury! ”

Just a yellow race!

Bryant sensed the disdain in Kupchak's mouth as he said this. With his white identity, it is indeed easy to have a sense of discrimination against other races, but to say it so blatantly......

Regarding this common phenomenon in American society, Kobe Bryant didn't want to make more comments, so he just skipped it.

"What do you mean by Mickey......"

Kupchak smiled, "Kobe, didn't you just say that?" No one but Wilt Chamberlain has performed better than the current Yifeng, which means that the current Yifeng has a very large trade value......"

Kobe Bryant was both shocked and angry, "Mickey! Easy is the future of the Lakers, how can you trade him?! ”

Kupchak was unmoved, "Don't you want a big man who moves fast and can defend?" As long as you send this Yi Feng out, what Joakim Noah, Nolens Noll, whoever you want! But once this Chinese reaches the limit of his physical endurance and encounters injuries, he will be worthless. You're going to regret it......"

Kobe Bryant simply yelled at this time, "We don't have Yi, what's the use of a big man who can defend?" Do you think the Lakers are doing so well now, relying on me? ”

Kobe Bryant couldn't agree to the team trading Yi Feng, and Kupchak advocated trading Yi Feng away before he could drop the price. The two of them didn't agree with the dimension at all, so they could only break up unhappily again, only this time on both ends of the phone.

Kupchak hasn't been too optimistic about Yi Feng all along, and this has been the case since Yi Feng was not drafted. Even now Yi Feng continues to make a name for himself through his performance on the field. And Kupchak's reason is also very simple, he is instinctively discriminating against the color of the easy wind.

A lot of times, it doesn't take much reason to hate someone, just one is enough.

Kupchak had a reason not to be optimistic about Yi Feng, and it was natural to think that he was doing well now, but it was only a flash in the pan. In the past 15 years, the Lakers general manager has already made him develop the habit of a businessman, and from the perspective of chasing profits, it is indeed the best choice to trade Yi Feng as soon as possible.

But after all, the future is not something that the current people can decide, Kupchak believes that Yi Feng will become a glass man sooner or later, but Kobe Bryant firmly believes that Yi Feng will lead the Lakers to rise in the future and even rebuild the Lakers dynasty.

The future that the two of them believe in is only two of the countless timelines, and maybe the future will really develop into what one of them believes, but it is more likely that neither of them guessed the ending.

A person's future, how many ingredients can be decided by himself, Yi Feng does not know. But as for his own future, he wants to decide his future to the best of his ability. As an NBA professional basketball player, one of Yifeng's goals is to sign a "bully clause" with trade veto power as soon as possible. This largely determined his fate as a professional basketball player.

When it comes to the transaction of the team within the team, the reinforcement of the team lineup, etc., there are many relationships that need to be adjusted and there are many contradictions that need to be coordinated, and some quarrels and disputes are inevitable. Therefore, it is normal for Kobe Bryant and Kupchak to disagree with each other.

The Lakers won't be able to make up for it in the short term, but the clock is still going on, and the regular season will go on.

On January 3, the Lakers sat at home in Los Angeles to face the challenge of the Phoenix Suns.

In November, at the start of the regular season, the Lakers played the Suns once, and that time it was the Suns' home court; This is the second and final meeting between the two teams this season.

Before the game, Kobe Bryant announced that he was still unwell and continued to take a truce. Yi Feng looked at him with a dark face, and it was estimated that he would not be in a good mood.

Maybe they didn't find a way to strengthen the team, right?

With Bryant out of action, Anthony Brown replaced him as the starting small forward again. It was the first time Anthony Brown started two games in a row this season, and it was something to remember for him.

At the beginning of the first quarter, the Lakers showed a different momentum. Because the last time they played against the Suns, the Lakers lost, and tonight at home, they didn't allow themselves to be double-killed by their opponents!

The interior duo Randle Good Hibbert scored points one after another, and quickly hit a wave of 10-4 mini-climaxes to lead the Suns.

Although next, the Suns offensive picked up. But on the defensive end, in the face of the Lakers' onslaught, they had nothing to do. Yi Feng used more and more proficient turn-over jump shooting skills and hit the basketball, which set off another wave of offensive climax of 10-0 for the Lakers, widening the difference to as many as 16 points.

At the end of the quarter, Suns No. 35 forward Mirza Teletovic made a layup, and the Suns finally barely scored more than 10 points in a single quarter. At the end of the first quarter, the Suns in Los Angeles trailed the Lakers by 10:29 by 19 points!

With so many doors behind in the first quarter, the Suns should be ashamed and brave, but in the second quarter, the Suns became more and more sluggish on both offensive and defensive ends.

In the first half of the second quarter, only No. 20 guard Archie Goodwin scored four points with free throws and layups.

On the Lakers' side, Louis Williams made a series of threats, he first hit a step-back jumper to score two points, and then hit two three-pointers in succession!

At this point, the Lakers' lead has reached as many as 27 points! Such a huge disparity in points made the Lakers team very relieved.

Then, both teams' offensive efficiency declined. Brandon Knight and P.J. Tucker cut points in succession, and the Suns closed the gap slightly. But with Yi Feng's three-point shot, at halftime, the Suns were 22:53, trailing by as many as 31 points!!

In the first half, the Suns shot just 9-of-46 and 0-of-10 from three-point range, shooting just 19.6 percent overall, and they had 10 turnovers, more than they hit.

In the entire first half, the Suns scored only 22 points, setting a record for the worst half-time scoring in franchise history (the previous record was 24 points scored against the Spurs last season) and just one three-pointer away from the NBA's record for the lowest first-half scoring in the first half.

It is worth mentioning that the team that set the NBA's lowest first-half scoring record was the Clippers, and the opponent the Clippers faced at that time was the Suns' opponent at the moment - the Lakers!

On December 14, 1999, in the Clippers' away derby against the Lakers, the Clippers, who had been 5-17, played against the Lakers, who were 18-5, was not a competition between teams at the same level, and the Clippers fell behind by as many as 16 points in the first quarter at 16:32. To make matters worse, the Clippers scored only 3 points in the second quarter, while the Lakers scored 17 points. As a result, the Clippers scored only 19 points in the entire first half, setting a record for the fewest points in a half in NBA history!

The current Suns team will not be much better off than the Clippers back then.

The Suns are currently on an eight-game losing streak, and coach Jeff Hornacek has been embroiled in rumors of a dismissal. The whole team is disheartened and in a mess.

Yibian fights again, and the decline of the sun continues.

In 5 minutes and 31 seconds of this section, Hibbert received the ball in the middle and completed the split dunk through Tyson Chandler, the goal was scored, and the enthusiasm of the audience was completely ignited!

Hibbert, who has always been gentle, actually has a day when he splits people! And the object of the split is still the "boxing king" Tyson Chandler! Although the current Chandler has long lost the state of his peak, it is not a "high roundness" like Hibbert who can be arbitrarily separated.

The reason for this, in addition to Hibbert's surprise attack, is that the Suns' eight-game losing streak and the recent poor team atmosphere have affected Chandler.

After Hibbert's dunk, the Lakers also led by as many as 38 points.

Although after that, the Suns, with the help of Teletovic, set off a small climax of chasing points. But with Yi Feng's relentless attack mode turned on again, the Lakers still had a 30-point lead at the end of the third quarter.

In the final quarter, there was no suspense about the outcome of the game, but in the Suns, Devin Booker's performance was surprising.

Booker and Yi Feng used to be teammates in the draft training camp, and now although they are their own masters, the two still have a short time to communicate before the game. To be honest, for Booker's performance tonight, Yi Feng is indeed very disappointed from a friend's point of view.

In the first three quarters, Booker made only three of 12 shots and zero three-pointers to score just six points. Although this is not unrelated to the alignment between Booker and Yi Feng, Yi Feng feels that Booker's own state is problematic.

But in the fourth quarter, Booker suddenly seemed to be a different person, and instantly lost all the negative baggage, breaking through to the layup, making a stop-and-go shot, and shooting three points from a distance, everything!

Yi Feng, who clocked in and out of work in the third quarter, looked at Booker's performance in the fourth quarter and couldn't help but be very satisfied. However, Louis Williams, who was opposite Booker in the fourth quarter, was also in good shape, although he did not block Booker's offense on the defensive end, but he also made Booker helpless on the offensive end.

Although Booker led the team to catch up, the hole dug by the Suns was too deep to be filled in a quarter. In the end, the game was over, and the Suns lost to the Lakers 87-107 on the road, reaping the team's nine-game losing streak.

The Lakers, on the other hand, are on a four-game winning streak at home.

In this game, the Lakers outscored their opponents by 20 points, the highest net difference of all games won this season. That doesn't mean, though, that tonight was the Lakers' best night of the season, and they played well tonight. The reason why the net difference is so high is because of the Suns, who only scored 22 points in the first half...... (To be continued.) )