In the same city derby, the Lakers were upset, and Kobe Bryant scored 38 points in his debut! Hot 17 rebounds! —Los Angeles Times.

In the preseason, it was 5 games with a shooting rate of 20%? 0 of 16 shots? Is it a false illusion? - Bleachers.

The opening continuous dunk! Black Mamba doing his best? - Lakers Nation.

Kobe's state can't be judged by a single game! ——ESPN。

According to Lakers insider reports, I don't think Kobe Bryant has fully recovered. - ESPN Data Specialist Kevin Pelton.

Kobe Bryant played a good game with all his might! Future? Who knows? - Sports Illustrated.

Regarding this kind of brick family beast remarks, Kobe Bryant and Tang Qian are ready to fight back.

In the second game, facing the Warriors, who were close to maturity, the two sides played inextricably, especially after Tang Qian's physical strength declined, it was completely No. 24 who was scoring alone. In the end, Kobe Bryant scored 20 points in the last quarter and took the game away.

A staggering 48 points were scored in the game!

And he completely locked up the opponent Clay. Thompson, who got him into a singles monster circle.

Clay. Thompson was the key to the Warriors' final loss, because he was completely suppressed by Kobe Bryant on both offensive and defensive ends, well, because this Kobe was not the Kobe of the original time and space. At the top of the board, Clay. Thompson, with little chance of winning.

On November 1, 2013, he played at home against Duncan Cowai. The Spurs, who were absent from Leonard, were easily harvested, and both the inside and outside were completely stabbed by the Lakers. Kobe Bryant faced the elder Manu, who was a year older than himself. Ginobili, ruthlessly cut points, scored 40 points again in the game, and also handed out 7 assists, Tang Qian benefited from this, and also scored 17 points in the game.

Kobe Bryant 40 + 3 + 7 + 2, Tang Qian 17 + 21 + 8 + 2, merged inside and outside, and destroyed San Antonio, who did not return to the main force.

In the blink of an eye, the Lakers won three in a row and led the Western Conference Pacific Division.

Finally, some local media in Los Angeles couldn't help it, and a columnist publicly wrote an article:

Hey ~ Look~ Who is that? That's not a black mamba! That's Peter Pan!

This article quickly appeared in major newspapers in Los Angeles, making Lakers fans excited.

Someone on the fan forum commented:

Who said Kobe Bryant couldn't do it? Three games 38, 48, 40, he can't do it, you tell me who can?

Forget about the preseason, it's the black mamba teasing us, no matter how ferocious the animal is, it's going to doze off, isn't it?

I can't wait to see what Kobe Bryant has to say about ESPN! This must be a bubble drama!

Keep it up, Los Angeles, and don't languish in the middle of the climax!

Regarding this news, the alliance and Stern are also very satisfied, what is more interesting than the resurrection of full blood after injury, and the return of the king? In particular, Los Angeles is also located in Hollywood, which is also a very Hollywood bridge. After thinking for a while, the old Jewish man instructed Adam beside him. Schieval said: "A little bit of a command, strengthen the Lakers' home whistle in recent times. ”

You can see that Adam. Shival has been selected from several NBA vice presidents and is now a bit of a surprise to David. Stern taught by example. Because the latter has already stated that he will retire this season and let a new person replace him.

"Okay, Mr. Stern, I'll give the order, by the way, that Lakers' Eastern center, do you want to take proper care of it?" Sival asked. "What do you think? He's a player of your generation, I'm leaving this season anyway, so you'll be able to take care of the young players yourself. "David. Stern seemed to believe in the man, so he didn't intend to interfere too much.

"Well, I see, Mr. Stern, I'll take care of it at my discretion."

On November 3, 2013, U.S. time, the Lakers played the fourth game of the regular season against the Atlanta Hawks in the East.

The Hawks are still a fringe team in the playoffs this season, so they can't help but play, and after Kobe Bryant scored 36 points, the game went into garbage time early, and both sides came off the bench. Of course, Tang's potential interior line is also the existence of Optimus Prime, which makes the Lakers' No. 24 extremely satisfied.

At the post-game press conference, Kobe Bryant did not hesitate to praise and publicly said: "My Oriental buddy, he must be the DPOY of this season!" His energy on the defensive end is even better than that of Peak Ben. Wallace and Dickon Bay. Mutombo! He's the strongest blue-collar worker I've ever worked with! He's a superstar among blue-collar workers! ”

Note that this is the first time someone has called Tang Qian a superstar in public, and he was only an All-Star player before.

Tang Qian replied humorously: "Hey, my Western guy, I just want to ask, my performance is worthy of the position of the 103rd player in the league, right?" Kobe Bryant also laughed and taunted the ESPN reporters in the audience: "Of course, we are all big 'value', aren't we? After all, I'm only in the 25th ranks. ”

The topic was so strong that it completely ignited ESPN's side.

Many bricks are called beasts, no, it is an expert professor who posted a column:

What does 4 games represent? There are too many teams in the history of the league that have had a good start and died miserably!

Look at the Lakers' offense and defense, at the bottom of their efficiency, they hardly run the ball much, and the league's setter and setter data are at the bottom!

Oriental hot! Wait until you really become a DPOY to say something like that!

In Game 5, the Lakers were finally given a chance by ESPN. Because of the winning streak, many teams in the league began to put away their contempt and carefully watch the Lakers' videos and videos this season. Among these teams is the opponent in Game 5, the Dallas Mavericks.

The Mavericks used the misplaced style of play, specifically avoiding Kobe and Tang Qian, and using quick attacks to increase offensive and defensive rounds, so that it was okay for a short time, and after a long time and more rounds, several other starters were "timid". Of course, they can't be blamed for that, Steve. Blake, Jordan. Hill, Wesley. Johnson, the highest annual salary among them is Blake, but it is just $4 million. Among them Wesley. Johnson is a base salary player, how far can you expect them to do it?

In this case, it's OK to go downwind, after all, they are all professional players, but what about headwind balls? Then there is no way.

Compared with the 4 consecutive wins at the beginning, now the league has taken the Lakers seriously, Tang Qian and Kobe Bryant don't care, but the other three have become the breakthrough of the opponent. After all, basketball is played by five people, and if you can't do it with three points, it's still difficult to win.

The Dallas Mavericks took advantage of this and played Steve. Blake, Jordan. Hill, Wesley. The Johnson trio, especially the German Dirk. Nowitzki, his style of play, is like a big center like Tang Qian. It doesn't matter how strong your defense is, anyway, I'm just shooting, throwing, throwing outside the box!

What can you do to me? I'm sure! My range is straight beyond the three-point line!

Tang Qian really has no problem with this, it's not that he is unwilling to sacrifice data and pounce to expand Nowitzki, it's just that with the Lakers' current starting lineup, he goes out, which means that the power of the interior line will be wasted. You count on Jordan. Hill? Isn't that funny?

But you don't go out, you don't change the defense, okay, Nowitzki just one ball at a time from Jordan. Hill's head was thrown in, especially in this game, the Germans also exploded, beating Jordan even more. Hill, with a swollen face and a blue nose. In this quick mismatch play, the Lakers fell behind, and Kobe Bryant scored 48 points in the game, and he couldn't save the big picture.

Nowitzki scored 39 points on a 69 percent shooting percentage, which was efficient enough to offset the Lakers' No. 24.

123-104, the Lakers suffered their first defeat of the new season.

After seeing the Lakers' 19-point rout, the media led by ESPN immediately tweeted as if they were beaten with chicken blood:

19-point fiasco? The Lakers are revealed?

Kobe Bryant's style of play is too poisonous! Hurt the team! He's still the biggest cancer in Los Angeles!

From the analysis of the data, the luck component of the Lakers' 4-game winning streak is in!

No one can win all the time, 82-0, which is basically impossible, but ESPN's attitude made Tang Qian and Kobe Bryant angry. The next opponent is estimated to be unlucky.

And coincidentally, the next opponent is the Houston Rockets.

This game is broadcast live by ESPN, after all, it is full of gimmicks and highlights.

Kobe Bryant and Harden's battle for the first quartile!

James. After a year of leading the team alone, Harden's personal ability has improved greatly, and he has also been officially praised as the first percentile in the league by ESPN and Sports Illustrated. If you look at ESPN's pre-season list, first of all, Harden is fourth on the 2013-2014 player rankings, a who's 22 spots up from the 2012-2013 season. And in doing so, it's clear that ESPN thinks that James. Harden has become a top five star in the league. Then came the 2013-2014 percentile list, where Harden jumped ahead of Kobe Bryant for the first time and jumped to the top of the list. What about Kobe? It was only ranked fourth by ESPN.

For Kobe Bryant, a competitive maniac, it is a matter of fighting for a slap in the face.

And he lost to the Mavericks in the last game, he felt very unhappy, and in this game, he wanted to vent on his opponent.

In addition to the above set of highlights, Howard's "Lakers debut" after the transfer is also a hot topic for everyone, especially Howard's words before the start of the season that "the league's first center and the league's first quartile combined" pushed this game to the forefront.

In the end, the Lakers, like the Rockets, are currently 4-1, so both sides want to destroy their opponents and fight for a higher regular season standings.

That's enough to hype up ESPN, a company that made $10 billion in profits in 2013. Close to 70 billion yuan. Therefore, without some ability, they can't do this status.

Creating topics, fighting explosions, hype, warm-ups, and war of words are all common tactics of ESPN, and it seems that it has been effective and endured for so many years. According to a 2013 survey, ESPN has more than 90 million subscribers across the United States, so it's clear that its influence is very strong and its audience is quite wide.

However, this myth will be slowly eroded, and this will be said later.

For a big popular game like this, there is usually a pre-match press conference before the game, usually the home team in front and the away team in the back. After Stern came to power, in order to increase the energy and influence of the NBA, the old Jewish man spared no effort to start cooperating with major media outlets. At this point, on the contrary, it came from behind and came to the forefront of the four major leagues.

Of course, the players have also benefited a lot in disguise, after all, the higher the level of business in the NBA, the more developed they are, and the higher their salaries will be. In this part of the United States, there is no one who can't get along with a beautiful knife that smells of ink.

From the bottom to the top, it's the same, and no one is exempt.

……

"Mr. D'Antoni, the Lakers and the Rockets have the same record at the moment, do you think you have a good chance of winning?"

"The Rockets are a very strong team, especially this year when they brought in Dwight. With a strong center like Howard, we're going to be serious about preparing for the game. D'Antoni's statement is very official, but he is actually unsure, the Lakers have not injected his tactical system at all, and the lineup is broken, to be able to play this start, to be honest, D'Antoni himself is a little unbelievable.

Therefore, the confidence to speak will not be too strong.

But the head coach and the harmony do not mean that the players will be like this, especially the gap between the Lakers and the Rockets' Howard, and some people will naturally spare no effort to scare them. For example, Kobe Bryant said directly: In this game, he will not make the Rockets have a good time!

As a result, someone became interested, and a reporter from Sports Illustrated deliberately "made a difference" and said, "Bryant, who are you talking about?" Howard? Or the league's first percentile James today. Harden? "Kobe Bryant is not the Kobe of the original time and space, as the so-called people are full of morale, and the artists are bold, with his current body and determination to win in the last season, what do you think he will say?

"Whoever you think is who you are." Kobe Bryant looked at the reporter and said coldly: "But are you sure that James. Is Harden already the first percentile in the league? ”

"Hehe, Bryant, this is the front row of ESPN, and everyone generally agrees." The Sports Illustrated reporter immediately began to shift the fire.

"You X's ESPN." Kobe Bryant was already convinced that he was in his last season, so there was no longer so much restraint and forbearance between his words: "Don't you want to know? I'm telling you, I'm going to let the people in this position learn the power of my 25th place in the league and the fourth percentile in the 13-14 season. ”

……

"Hot, you're far ahead of second place in the rebounding and blocking charts now, can you keep it up?"

"Of course, that's fine, unless it's almost as late as the dinosaurs of the '90s are restored."

"Has your relationship with Howard been repaired a bit? How would you treat this game? ”

"Nope. Not at all. Tang Qian opened his mouth and said, "I have nothing to repair with him, because it has long been broken, isn't it?" As for this game...... My answer is the same as Bryant's, I'm not going to make the Rockets feel better! Well, that's it. ”

"Oh, are you saying you're going to blow up Howard?" The reporter from the bleachers asked with some excitement.

"haha~" Tang Qian smiled: "Guess what." ”

"Hot, can you explain the incident of 'False Testimony' and 'AgeGate'? You keep silent, is there something hidden? Or is it true? Tang Qian swept his eyes, and his face immediately turned cold and said, "ESPN people? I'm sorry I'm the No. 103 guy in the league, are you thinking too much about making news with a guy like me? ”

"Are you deliberately changing the subject?" The people at ESPN are in hot pursuit.

"What do I divert to?" Tang Qian said directly: "Do you ESPN people have too many brain circuits, and you like to do nothing all day long?" ”

"Then why don't you talk about it?"

"I'm 50 years old, okay, satisfied, can I get out? Next! ”

However, compared with Tang Qian and Kobe, the rest of the Lakers players are much more low-key, playing official accents and playing Tai Chi.

After the home team's pre-match interviews, the reporters immediately prepared for the next wave of attack.

"Harden, Kobe Bryant and Scalding said that this game will not make you better, what do you think?"

"Haha, this kind of trash talk is meaningless, on the playing field, strength speaks." Harden isn't just starting to be the boss, and a year of experience is enough for him to learn how to deal with these tough problems.

"Kobe seems to be unhappy with his ESPN rankings, do you think you live up to your name?"

"Of course." James. Harden enjoys this feeling of being sought after by the league, which makes him go to a nightclub, and the probability of being actively asked to be asked by someone has increased several times at once, thinking about those plump and round big butts, hehe, he drools.

"I think I'm ready for the history of the league to always be reinvented."

On the other side, Howard was also surrounded by the media, and the voice of questions was noisy and bustling:

"Howard, this is Kobe Bryant and hot talk, what do you think? Is it stressful? ”

After coming to Houston, Howard's old superstar feel returned, and these reporters no longer snubbed themselves every time they surrounded Kobe. The Rockets' No. 12 said confidently: "I don't have any pressure, we have the No. 1 center in the league and the No. 1 point in the league, I feel like we're strong, I feel like I'm feeling good." ”

"How much better than being with the Lakers?"

"Of course, absolutely."

"Would you give the Lakers a 'special treatment from their old club'?" This refers to a tradition of NBA stars "revenge" on their old clubs, similar to how you feel blind and let go of the old ones. The Son is your greatest loss.

“Yes！ Yes！ Howard said, "You know Superman always does his best, right?" ”

"Do you think you didn't make the All-Defensive Team last season, did you lose your position?" This problem is relatively bad, it obviously belongs to the topic of stirring up trouble, and the topic maker belongs to the well-known ESPN. They are very professional in data analysis, and similarly, they are also very professional in doing topics and breaking points. Many of the most famous topics in American sports were born from them.

Howard felt uncomfortable when he heard the pronunciation of this name, and he also put on a bad face and said: "I was just trapped in a back injury last season and came back early, so I was not in good shape, and this season, this situation will never happen again." I mean, I'm not just going to be in the All-Defensive Team, I'm going to be in the first team. He's a second-defense player, and I've never taken it to heart! ”

Before the game started, the words and swords were frantically fought first, and this effect was exactly what ESPN wanted.

After a series of opening ceremonies, Tang Qian was about to play, and when he turned around, he was stunned for a moment, and then said with a wry smile: "Bryant, you, what are you...... You entered 'The.Zone' before the tournament even started? Are you trying to do something? The Lakers No. 24 said with a cold face: "I lost the last game, and I can't lose this game again, especially the Houston Rockets!" ”

Well, Kobe Bryant is really a competition maniac, he still cares about certain things in his heart, right?

Alas, James. Harden, Dwight. Howard, be blessed with yourselves.

If you want to blame ESPN, let you lie down.

Tang Qian shook his head, also took off his training clothes, and officially entered the field.

PS: This is the first update, the 5k big chapter is not ambiguous, the next chapter is around 12 o'clock in the evening, see you then~

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