In the last 20 seconds, on the Wizards' side, Maddy and Hamilton grabbed three-pointers one after another, but unfortunately they couldn't hit.

Jackson knew that the Wizards could only bet on three points, and they only needed to expand their defense to the outside.

Simple and effective.

The score on the court was finally fixed at 115-104, and the Lakers defeated the Wizards by 11 points and got the season off to a good start!

On the Wizards' side, Maddy had 31 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, and Yao Ming had 22 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 blocks.

On the Lakers' side, O'Neal scored a game-high 39 points, 16 points and 4 blocks!

Although it is not on 40+, this data is enough to match Kobe Bryant next door.

That childlike smile O'Neill showed after the game said it all.

Sun Hao's debut with the Lakers was a double-double of 27 points and 11 assists.

You may not believe it when you say it, this is the first time in Sun Hao's career that he has cut 25+10 data.

That's thanks to O'Neal, who fed the Big Sharks with six of his 11 assists.

It is said that baldness is a violent buckle, and this is an assist!

Moreover, Sun Hao said that he didn't shoot much, but the 8 points in the final harvest of the game directly made his score close to 30 points.

"Sun scoring is as easy as drinking water."

Just like the classic quote Barkley said before the end of the game, Sun Hao's current scoring explosiveness is already among the first gear in the league.

The post-match press conference was attended by O'Neal, Sun Hao and Phil Jackson.

"I believe the combination of Sun and Shaq is destined because I've never seen two players have this kind of innate chemistry before."

Phil Jackson's words are always philosophical, but you can still hear that he is blowing.

However, the two scored 66 points in the first game, isn't it worth bragging if it is not 6?

"Shaq is still the best center on the planet and it's the luckiest thing of my career to work with him."

Sun Hao was also full of praise for O'Neill.

Although he didn't shoot a lot tonight, to be honest, it's not just how many points you look at, it's not how difficult it is to score in the game.

When O'Neal is on the floor, he gets a lot more one-on-one chances than he did with the Mavericks, and it's much less difficult to score.

At this point, a silver horn king in Dallas sneezed hard.

However, compared to Phil Jackson and Sun Hao's words, O'Neal's next words are really fierce.

His words can even be said to make the reporters below fry the pot at once.

"I was so touched that he was willing to pass the ball to me! Some people have worked with me for 4, 5, 6 years, but they still don't want to give me the ball. ”

Even Sun Hao couldn't help but feel a burst of internal injuries.

This is sour, how much resentment O'Neal has for Kobe!

But...... It's normal.

Just as a quarrel between husband and wife never broke out suddenly, O'Neal has sacrificed a lot for Kobe Bryant in the past few years, but in the end he received the sentence "Shaq did it too".

O'Neill is good-tempered, but people are patient.

Over time, the husband and wife are still like this, not to mention that they are just teammates.

In the news after the game, O'Neal's words were also reported by the media.

"He's, I've passed him a lot more than he's passed to me, in 2000 with Portland in a tie-break, and I ended up passing to him."

And when the reporter threw this topic to Kobe, Kobe did not choose to remain silent as before, but responded positively.

The feud between Kobe Bryant and O'Neal finally broke out after the two separated.

And this time the outbreak was very intense.

It is foreseeable that when the Lakers and Mavericks play each other, it will definitely be a game where Mars collides with the Earth.

However, it will be relatively late.

Stern knew this was the most important event of the new season, and scheduled the first meeting between the two teams on Thanksgiving.

That would be a flashpoint in the NBA ratings.

defeated the Wizards in the first game, Sun Hao and O'Neal seamlessly ran in, and the Lakers also started a wave of "sweet journey" at the beginning of the season.

They knocked out the Jazz, Bobcats, Celtics and 76ers in quick succession to start the season on a five-game winning streak.

In these five games, O'Neal averaged 30.8 points, 13.5 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per game!

This is the most direct way to tell everyone that he is still the big shark who can do anything!

And Sun Hao also averaged 27.2 points and 7.9 assists per game, of which the shooting rate was as high as 55%, and the three-point shooting rate reached a terrifying 61%!

Although he took fewer shots than he did with the Mavericks last season, his efficiency has improved a lot.

As mentioned earlier, his presence liberated O'Neal on the inside, and O'Neal's presence also made him play more efficiently!

The two did not have a run-in period, and directly started the "hot love" mode.

Fast forward to late November, and after nearly a month of competition, the league's pattern is beginning to emerge.

The Lakers have a 7-2 record in nine games, losing to the rising Suns and the defending champion Pistons.

This record ranks second in the league.

First in the league, well, not the Mavericks.

Although the Mavericks overturned the Pistons in the opening game, their performance has been up and down since then.

Although Kobe Bryant went from the Lakers to the Mavericks, his style of play has not changed much.

He's still confident and he's still shooting a lot.

And he has the backing of head coach Avery Johnson in doing so.

However, although the 6-3 record is not as good as the Lakers, it is enough to support Johnson to continue to stay in the Mavericks' position.

At the top of the list is the Suns, who have beaten the Lakers.

They sit at the top of the league with an 8-1 record.

It has a lot to do with their schedule after the start of the game, but what fans can also see is their stunning attack and the perfect timing for the team to appear.

The fit between D'Antoni and Nash has been proven with the Warriors, and the reason the Warriors are struggling to go any further is defense.

As a result, the Suns, Marion, Joe Johnson, and the presence of Petrus completely solved the problem.

Plus the emergence of new rules.

Nash is a late bloomer, and his weak body in the early stages of his career has limited his ceiling.

The emergence of new rules has raised his ceiling all at once.

The time, place, and people are favorable, and the emergence of this Suns team can be said to be completely reasonable.

The Suns, Lakers, Mavericks, and the Spurs, who are also 6-3, are in the top four in the West.

This also constitutes the first group in the west.

On the eastern side, the Pistons, Wizards, Heat, and Pacers are in the top four, which also constitutes the first group in the East.

Although the emergence of the new rules has had a certain impact on all teams in the league, it will also have a transition period as previously analyzed, and the impact will not be as great as imagined.

It was also at this time that the game between the Mavericks and the Lakers, which fans were most looking forward to, was about to start.

Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday of November, falls on November 25 this year.

The start of the competition is less than a week away.

At this time, Sun Hao encountered an annoyance.

November 22, three days before the competition, was Scarlett's birthday.

Sun Hao is struggling to give Scarlett a birthday gift.

This is also a problem that many men encounter, giving a gift to a girlfriend or wife, and not asking what you want.

What, you don't have a wife and no girlfriend?

Sun Hao has.

And when you get to a certain level of income, this kind of thing becomes even more tricky.

Because money alone is no longer functional.

Sun Hao took out his diary and looked at it.

Yes, Phil Jackson's Zen studies were not very interesting to him, but as he had thought, he found the diary useful and began to write.

He wanted to see if he could tell anything special about Scarlett in the diary.

It's just that after reading it, he found a very unfortunate thing.

He didn't seem to remember much about Scarlett.

It's not that their relationship has faded after a long time, but that the two don't have much time together.

One is busy making movies, the other is busy playing, and the combination of celebrities and celebrities will always have this kind of trouble.

Closing the diary, Sun Hao tapped the front of the notebook with his hand.

Suddenly, his eyes were drawn to the diary.

Something suddenly occurred to him.

On the 22nd, it happened to be an off-season, Sun Hao and Scarlett spent a sweet afternoon together, and after dinner, Sun Hao took out his own gifts.

It was a TN travel codex.

When Scarlett opened it, she quickly discovered what was inside.

Those were some photos he took when he traveled to Spain before, and Sun Hao washed them out and pasted them on them.

And the date and location are written underneath each photo.

Scarlett was very moved after reading it.

Sun Hao's birthday gift really put a lot of thought into it.

First of all, the travel codex is a very appetizing gift for her, who likes to travel.

Coupled with these contents in it, it records all the moments when they met in Spain.

The point is that Sun Hao still remembers it in so much detail.

This gift is more meaningful than giving her a sports car.

And this codex is not all glued, and it can even be said that most of it is blank.

"We can spend the rest of our lives filling it up little by little."

Sun Hao's words were slightly fleshy and numb.

However, there is nothing wrong with the meaning of this statement, and the two people who both like to travel will definitely go around to play in the future.

At that time, they recorded every bit of what they experienced, and this codex would become a record of their lives.

This is also what Sun Hao realized when he knocked on the diary that day.

Some people may say that keeping a diary is not an operation that normal adults do.

But every time the person who wrote it reads it, he feels like he has lived another life.

……

On November 25th, the long-awaited Lakers battle is about to begin.

On this day of pre-match training, O'Neill had some toe soreness.

This is also O'Neal's old problem in the past two years, in fact, since the 2001~2002 season, he has missed more than 20 games because of this problem.

The team doctor advised O'Neill not to play this game to avoid aggravating the situation.

But this suggestion was directly ignored by O'Neill.

"I'm the big shark, Ryan."

O'Neill grimaced at the team doctor.

Team doctor, there is no way.

Sun Hao can fully empathize, because when he persuaded O'Neill to lose weight before, O'Neill also had a similar reaction.

O'Neill is a good-natured man, but if you're going to ask him to do something he doesn't want to do, he always has a hundred ways to escape.

And you can't do anything about his kind of approach.

What's more, tonight, he is going to play against Kobe.

All eyes are on, the Lakers fight.

The Staples Center was packed.

As soon as they came up, the two teams turned on the mutual assault mode.

Johnson is also a defensive coach and Sun Hao's former head coach, but he can't do much in the face of Sun Hao + O'Neal's combination model.

This is also an unsolvable problem.

However, the game was played for less than a quarter, and there was an unexpected situation on the field.

O'Neal crouched there after a dunk and didn't move.

Phil Jackson quickly realized what was going on, and after calling a timeout, he called the team doctor to the court as soon as possible.

The eyes of everyone at the scene also looked at O'Neill, hoping that nothing would be a big deal.

After all, the Lakers' honeymoon has just begun, and if O'Neal suffers any injury, then the honeymoon will end early.

In the end, Divac and the team doctor helped O'Neill to the sidelines.

After the game, the team doctor has been checking O'Neill's thumb.

He was also helped into the dressing room by Anderson and the team doctor before half-time.

The fans didn't see their big shark come back in the second half.

Without O'Neal, the Mavericks frantically wrapped Sun Hao, and even once had three or four people in the bag.

Johnson, as Sun Hao's former head coach, knows Sun Hao second only to Nelson Sr.

This kind of treatment is quite in place.

The Lakers' triangle offensive system originally relied on Sun Hao and O'Neal, but now O'Neal is injured, and Sun Hao is being targeted like this, and the offense is greatly affected.

In the end, the Lakers lost 87-101 at home to the Mavericks.

Sun Hao scored 33 points in the air, and his two fists were hard to beat with four hands.

On the Mavericks' side, Kobe Bryant scored 41 points on 30 crazy shots, and Nowitzki scored 21 points and 11 boards.

The process and result of this competition can be said to have been beyond everyone's expectations.

And after the game, Kobe's words raised the conflict between him and O'Neal to a new stage.

"Dirk is a better fit for me than Shaq, and I can win a championship without him."

The two who were originally tense during the Los Angeles period were completely torn apart.

But this may be the NBA tradition.

Like Chamberlain and Russell, as well as Bird and Johnson, there are always some "sworn enemies" for various reasons.

Of course, these are all off-the-field factors.

Now for the Lakers, the real trouble is coming.

The team's defense has not been able to get better, and O'Neill has been injured again.

And according to the team doctor's post-game examination report, O'Neill will be out for at least a month or so.

In other words, maybe the Lakers will have to rely on Sun Hao in the next month.