On the second day of training camp, the first game of the new season for the Kings arrived.

And the first opponent is none other than the old rival in California, Li Liang's first love club, the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Lakers' biggest win in free agency this summer was Dwayne Wade.

That's right, after losing Kobe Bryant last season, the Lakers gained huge salary space.

But Li Liang was reluctant to come and did not contact the Lakers management for a long time, Durant stayed with the Thunder, and James went to the Warriors.

As a result, the Lakers set their sights on Wade, who did not renew his contract with his old club.

As a meritorious player of the Heat, Riley is really hard-hearted.

Wade won the first championship in history for the Heat, played a great role in the Finals FMVP, and accompanied the team through the trough in his prime, but he did not get a contract with a maximum salary.

Wade has indeed been greatly affected by injuries in the past two years, and he can no longer become a Flash like he did back then.

But his experience, skill and heart make him one of the best shooting guards in the league.

For this reason, the Lakers made a 4-year contract of 112 million to bring the Flash to Hollywood.

The Lakers are like that, their signing may not be the best value for money, but it will certainly be the most shiny!

What a place is this, Hollywood, the center of the world stage.

Any signing or deal that lacks explosive points and highlights will be considered a failure.

Defeat on the field of play also makes people feel defeated.

Wade's arrival apparently made the people of Los Angeles quite satisfied.

However, many Los Angeles fans still miss Li Liang, and take the Twitter that Li Liang posted many years ago to question, saying that he will come back?

They didn't say when they would come back.

This preseason matchup has attracted a lot of attention.

However, the process of the game was as usual uninteresting.

As the head coach of the team, Li Liang has a big advantage that he can arrange the team's lineup by himself.

So, Li Liang was very decisive and put himself on the list of injuries.

This scared the Kings fans and the Chinese fans.

Why did you get on the injury list in the first game? I didn't fight a single one!

One look at the injury: groin strain.

It feels quite serious, this injury is not easy to treat.

As a result, in the first preseason game against the Lakers, the Kings lost 101-115 to the Los Angeles people.

Li Liang's first command as head coach ended in defeat.

To be honest, it feels really bad to sit on the sidelines and wear a suit.

The main thing is that when you see a player on the field making all kinds of mistakes, you can't rush to the field and roar in his ear.

And can only be impotent and furious on the sidelines, and when the timeout is called, the fire in his heart has almost dissipated.

Mistakes should be pointed out as soon as possible, and the memory is the deepest for the players.

Of course, Li Liang made up his mind to be a Confucian handsome, so he still had to restrain his urge to scold.

After losing to the Lakers in the first game, in the second game, Li Liang came out of the injury list.

His groin is fine again, it's fine.

Two days later, the Kings welcomed their second preseason opponent, the Golden State Warriors.

After the Warriors brought in LeBron James in the summer, their strength swelled to a new level.

Although the media's attention was on the Kings and Li Liang becoming the head coach of the Kings throughout August, 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, and from the perspective of the team's lineup, the Warriors are in the only gear, the Kings, Thunder, and Lakers, and the Spurs are in the second gear.

Then all the teams in the East are in third pot.

In addition to signing James, the Warriors also added Pachulia to make up for Bogut's departure.

At the end of the year, he signed veteran Tayshawn Prince to decorate the forward line, which is also a Kentucky graduate, and may be able to curb Li Liang's goods as a senior.

In order to deal with Li Liang, the Warriors also signed Josh Smith, who ended his contract with the Lakers.

Just like the whole league dealt with O'Neal back then, hoarding the forward line in the third and fourth positions has become a basic need.

Frontline players who play in the league have to thank Li Liang for allowing them to eat NBA meals for a few more years.

The competition took place at the SAP Center in San Jose.

There are very, very many regional arenas in California, and preseason games are both warm-up games and promotion games.

It needs to be promoted overseas, and it needs to be promoted within the United States.

After all, new fans always grow up in a way.

Because it was a game between the Warriors and the Kings, both sides were star-studded, so it attracted a lot of fans.

The star-making and god-making movement that began with David Stern has been a success so far.

Stars have become the face of the NBA, and the biggest attraction for fans is not the basketball itself, but the people who play it.

Like football fans, they generally belong to a certain club, and some of them change their doors with the stars.

And basketball fans, NBA fans, generally follow the stars everywhere, and a few are the club's diehards.

This situation originally appeared mainly in China, after all, Chinese fans have no local consciousness, and it is better to like the team from their hometown than to like it.

Now, such a situation is also starting to spread in the United States.

Many young fans with local teams are also not interested in local teams.

In the past, when live TV was just getting started, and when there was no Internet, fans who liked basketball could only go to the Honjo Pavilion to watch games.

For example, fans in Philadelphia will definitely go to the Spectrum Center to support the 76ers.

And earlier, the NBA's team selection was not based on your strength, but on your origin.

If you're a local and have a good local base, the team will pick you.

Because this can attract local fans to the stadium to watch the game, the team can earn income.

The league even introduced a local first-draft clause.

Later, live TV became more and more developed, and then there was the Internet, and the situation was different.

Fans don't have to be there to see the stars on TV and online.

Coupled with the alliance's star-making movement, it is natural to see which one you like.

For example, young fans in Denver just like Jordan, and 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 little by little, and the new generation of fans is gradually increasing.

Fans gradually began to see a phenomenon: recognize people but not the ball, recognize people but not the team.

After Li Liang, James and others broke the shackles of "loyalty", this manifestation became even more serious.

The game was played in San Jose, which was originally part of San Francisco's Greater Bay Area City District, so it was the home of the Warriors.

But tonight's game scene can be seen that the purple is simply one after another, and they are all young fans wearing the King's No. 28 jersey.

Li Liang's Olympics can be said to have made him countless fans in the United States.

The reason was something Li Liang didn't expect.

On the one hand, he led China to the finals, which is the favorite image of a lone hero in American pop culture, which adds another resume to Li Liang's superhero character.

On the other hand, Li Liang's loss to the U.S. team in the final did not hurt the pride of the U.S. fans, but also gave him a layer of tragic hero color, although he smiled happily.

In fact, the Argentinian Ginobili and the Lithuanian Jascovitius, who had actually defeated the United States in the World Series, were ignored by the Americans.

After all, the Romans would have written hymns to their own conquered alien heroes, but when Rome really fell, there was no one to write songs.

At the scene, the new fans were full of thoughts about the confrontation between the stars.

The focus of the media campaign is also on this.

There is no way, the inertia formed over the decades has turned the public opinion situation of the NBA into a giant ship that cannot turn the bow of the ship.

Whether it is an iceberg or a whirlpool in front of you, you can only go one way forward.

At the very least, this year's NBA looks like it's going to be very prosperous.