December 25th.

Another year of Christmas is coming as scheduled, and just like last year, the Bucks are still not scheduled for Christmas games.

However, all fans have to admit that even if there is no Bucks and Yi Jianlian in this season's Christmas War, Yi Jianlian will definitely be on the list of Christmas Wars next season - in terms of his current influence, this is something that you don't need to think about.

Perhaps Stern has regretted not putting the Bucks into the Christmas game this year, after all, he didn't expect Yi Jianlian to make such a big increase in the second season of his career.

The increase in data is even more terrifying than that of LeBron.

It's just that, although there was no game, Yi Jianlian couldn't rest, he accepted TNT's invitation, and will be with Kenny Smith and Barkley to explain the focus of this Christmas game - Lakers vs. Celtics, which can be said to be a sequel to the 08 Finals, and it may also become a warm-up for this year's Finals, of course, this is not what the league wants to see.

Yi Jianlian is going to be a special guest commentator for TNT, and along with Barkley and Kenny Smith, the news that the Lakers vs. Celtics will be on Christmas was soon announced by TNT officials, which attracted a lot of attention:

"Hahaha, Yi is actually going to TNT to fight Barkley and Kenny Smith? Really? Originally, I regretted that the Christmas war was not easy! Well, now this Christmas battle isn't boring! ”

"TNT is getting more and more gimmicks now, Yi is a Chinese player, and he doesn't need to spend Christmas, so he can be invited as a guest commentator, and I bet that there will be more fans watching TNT than ESPN in this year's Christmas game!"

"I think ESPN also reacted in hindsight, Yi is a Chinese player, don't have to spend Christmas?"

After TNT's official Twitter announced the news, it really caused a lot of reactions, and at the same time, ESPN's official Twitter actually announced the guest commentators invited by the Christmas War, but it didn't make any waves.

This made the head of ESPN's channel a big hit.

It's a pity that the wood has already been completed, so he can only silently mark December 23 next year on his mobile phone notepad: remember to invite Yi Lai to be a guest commentator.

Well, if he doesn't fight the Christmas war!

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Christmas War is a traditional meal in the NBA every year, and because the other three major leagues in the American sports world do not play on this day, this also makes the NBA's "Christmas War" even more special, and on this day, the league usually arranges some heavyweight games, in addition to feasting the eyes of fans, but also to attract new fans to the NBA.

Naturally, this year's Christmas War League has also arranged heavyweight matches!

The first meeting between the two teams in the just-concluded '08 Finals, the Lakers and the Celtics, this season, became this year's Christmas dinner!

The pair of old rivals who had just met in the finals in June met again after half a year, and it was naturally an exciting fairy fight!

The Staples Center paid as much attention to this game as the Finals, with all kinds of elaborate decorations, and many Lakers fans gave up enjoying Christmas and came to the arena early, waiting for the game to start, in order to send their cheers as soon as possible.

It's no wonder that they care so much about this game, it's really that they don't accept it, they don't think they should lose in June! Because of the injuries of Bynum and Ariza, the Lakers' lineup to enter the Finals in June this year is actually incomplete, and now these two main players have returned from injury, and the Lakers, including Lakers fans, want to prove that when the Lakers are fully line-up, no team can beat them!

"Celtic are also in very good form at the moment, with 10 wins in a row!"

After the raucous opening ceremony, Kenny Smith gave a general introduction to the recent situation of the two teams, taking advantage of the final warm-up time of the two teams.

"Count the days, it's time for them to come to Bradley Arena soon!" Yi Jianlian interjected.

"You're saying they're going to end their winning streak?" Barkley looked at Yi Jianlian and suddenly spoke, slightly stunned, and immediately cooperated.

"Well, if they can make it to that point!" Yi Jianlian replied expressionlessly.

"Hahaha!" Barkley couldn't hold back, laughed evilly, and said halfway through laughter, "They're the defending champions!" ”

"Huh? You mean they can still win the championship this year? ”

Although the strength of the Celtics is strong this year, everyone can see that they do not have the same dominance as last season, if they definitely can't win the championship this season, this is too absolute, but in fact, if they really want to defend the title successfully this season, I am afraid that the difficulty will be more than doubled, not to mention the Bucks team whose style of play obviously restrains them, that is, the Magic team, they are also a headache, Howard's dominance on the inside this year is too terrible.

"Hahaha!" Barkley couldn't help it at all, today was his first contact with Yi Jianlian, and he found that this guy from Huaxia was much more interesting than he imagined.

That's too dare to say!

Kenny Smith knew that Yi Jianlian had conflicts with the Celtics, which was one of the reasons why TNT invited Yi Jianlian to be a guest commentator, but this guy came up and hurt the Celtics in various ways, which is too ruthless, right?

And this guy, Kenny Smith glanced at Barkley, who is also a guy who doesn't think it's a big deal to see the excitement, and cooperates with Yi Jianlian in various ways to let Yi Jianlian say what he wants to say.

Fortunately, Yi Jianlian and Barkley did not continue to talk, and quickly moved the topic to other places, to say that these two guys can really talk and say anything, Kenny Smith has become the superfluous person, silently watching the two guys talk about all kinds of nonsense.

Finally got to the start of the game, and the two of them finally focused their attention back on the game.

Garnett jumped to the ball, the Celtics attacked first, the ball was given to Rajan Rondo, Rajan Rondo chose to break through the ball, Ray Allen received the ball outside, and the three points were there!

"Wow, just throw in a three-point when you come up, Ray feels really good tonight!" Kenny Smith complimented Ray Allen and looked at the two on the side.

According to the division of labor in the commentary, at this time, one of Barkley and Yi Jianlian had to explain that the Lakers were not doing well in the shot just now.

It must have been Barkley's in the past, though he wouldn't have been so honest.

But today Yi Jianlian came, and Barkley, who had a good conversation with him, gave Yi Jianlian this opportunity.

Yi Jianlian was also not polite, and said: "Actually, this ball is not so much that Ray Allen shot well, but that Derrick has a problem with Rajan Rondo's defensive strategy, everyone knows that Rajan has no shooting ability, just pull away to prevent him from breaking through, don't worry about anything else at all, if he chooses to shoot, the best way to defend is to go to the basket and wait, because there will be a rebound waiting for you!" ”

Kenny Smith: "......"

Barkley: "......"

That's too ridiculous, isn't it? Kenny Smith and Barkley glanced at each other, and muttered in their hearts: Fortunately, this guy hasn't retired yet, otherwise after this game, I would have given him this position!