“TNT、Joke！”

Fans were hotly discussing on social media, and Durant couldn't bear to be lonely, and directly posted such a status on his personal Twitter account after TNT's show.

The literal translation of Joke is a joke, but in this tweet, it's clear that it means clown.

Fans were a little stunned when they saw this state for the first time, you must know that the Thunder are second only to the Heat in ESPN's list predictions, and higher than the Spurs!

But soon attentive netizens found the reason for Durant's state.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, TNT's program mentioned many teams such as the Heat, Spurs, Lakers, Clippers, Nuggets, etc., but only the Thunder team was missed.

It seems that Durant experienced last season's playoff encounters, practiced dribbling hard in the summer, and his strength has improved significantly, but this sensitive personality has not changed at all.

Time flies, in a blink of an eye, to the beginning of October, and the NBA preseason has officially kicked off.

Two days before the official start of the preseason, the Spurs boarded a plane to China with the Mavericks next door.

Stern is committed to the global promotion of the NBA, and China is a very important part of it.

Ever since the unprecedented success of the Rockets-Kings game in 2004, it has largely become an essential part of the NBA's every year.

Originally, last year's league was initially scheduled for the Chinese game of the Heat and Clippers.

But with the Spurs winning the championship and Yi Jianlian's contract extension to the Mavericks, the two sides naturally changed.

China match, China derby, these words alone are enough to make Chinese fans go crazy.

You must know that even when Yao Ming was still playing for the Rockets, because of Yi Jianlian's temporary transfer, fans could not see the Chinese derby in the Chinese game.

This time, they can finally make up for their previous regrets.

When Tang Tian and the others arrived at the Capital International Airport, they were greeted with unprecedented enthusiasm from the fans.

"Godfather! Godfather! ”

"Duncan! Duncan! ”

"Ginobili! Ginobili! ”

"Parker! Parker! ”

……

"It's crazy, even in my country, I've never seen such crazy fans."

Finally getting out of the airport, Ginobili couldn't help but sigh.

"Come to China a few more times."

Tang Tian said with a smile.

People all over the world love Wuwu, especially the Chinese.

Take Maddie as an example, his popularity in the United States is completely incomparable with Kobe, but in China, Maddie's popularity is not inferior to Kobe Bryant, and even higher than Kobe at his peak.

In fact, don't talk about Maddy, those players on the Rockets, "Boss Fros" Francis, "Diamond" Scola, "Divine Bird" Landry, etc., each have their own nicknames.

Even role players such as Novak and Bob Sula are familiar to many fans.

Now that Yao Ming has retired, Yi Jianlian has just regained his foothold in the NBA, and the home team with the biggest Chinese fans is the Spurs.

And now that mobile phones and computers are widespread, information will spread faster than it did at the beginning.

So the popularity of these Spurs players is probably even higher than those Rockets players at the beginning.

This can be seen in the number of fans waiting for autographed photos at the door when the Spurs arrive at the hotel.

"Well, I'll have to stay in the hotel all night."

Leonard didn't like this noisy environment, and after entering the hotel, he opened his mouth to Tang Tian.

Leonard didn't like to go out, but Dior and Ginobili were the opposite, and they enjoyed the environment, taking autographs directly in the lobby of the hotel to the fans in line for autographs, just like a book signing.

"You ...... It has a lot of potential to sell books. ”

Tang Tian couldn't help but complain after reading it.

But he was right, selling books is something that many NBA players do after they retire.

Jordan's words, his books brought him a very good income.

Bryant's "The Spirit of Mamba" is also a global bestseller.

There are two races in China, the first at Wukesong Arena in Beijing and the second at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai.

Both are domestic NBA-level arenas, which can accommodate up to nearly 20,000 people to watch the game.

There were a lot of slots, but in fact, after the off-season was confirmed for the China game, all the spots were sold out.

There are even a lot of scalpers selling in private, and the attention of these two games is unprecedented.

That night, when the Spurs players took the bus to the entrance of the stadium, they saw black-pressed fans, holding various signs.

“.go！” "We are champions!" "These are relatively normal.

"Tang Tian, don't be bald" and "BM (don't touch me)" are particularly clear and refined.

These are really talents!

"What does that mean?"

When the car drove past and saw those slogans, Ginobili was asking the meaning of Chinese at the back door of BM.

Tang Tian could only pretend not to hear.

It seems that this Chinese game, for Chinese fans, is comparable to the NBA All-Star Game.

"What happened? I'm even a little nervous! ”

Entering the locker room, Ginobili began to talk again.

"I've decided to come back to China next year."

Dior also had an expression of enjoyment, and he found that Chinese fans are really the most enthusiastic fans in the world.

"Guys, it's time to play."

Budenholzer pushed open the door to the locker room and shouted at them.

The players whistled and got up, and then they all came out of the locker room.

"Don, this is your home turf." As he walked out, Dio spoke.

Tang Tian laughed after hearing this.

Dio is so easy that Wade and James will definitely want to beat him up when they hear it.

As soon as they came out of the players' tunnel, the scene resounded with extremely enthusiastic cheers.

Both Joseph and Neil looked up unconsciously.

The atmosphere is even more enthusiastic than last year's finals.

Tang Tian glanced at the audience, and there were many directors and artists sitting in the front row.

He even saw the two big stars, Jackie Chan and Gong Li.

For them, such a competition is a big stage to show their faces, and it only costs the money of a ticket, which is quite cost-effective.

The pre-game warm-up is over, and the starting lineups of both sides have also been released.

The Mavericks played their part, with Darren Collison and O.J. Mayo on the outside, Marion and Nowitzki on the front, and Chris Carman on the center.

The same is true for the Spurs, with Parker and Tang Tian on the outside, Leonard and Dior on the front, and Duncan on the center.

When the starting lineups of the two sides came out, there was a burst of cheers at the scene.

It's not uncommon to have a star break in the preseason, especially when it comes to the Spurs.

But when the results came out, Popovich really gave enough face this time!

The camera was given to Popovich.

Popovich felt the cheers of the fans and reached out to say hello, but his expression was a little embarrassed.

In fact, he had planned to take a turn off Duncan and Ginobili for this game, but yesterday, Stern made a point of passing the word to the owners of both teams.

You can play less, but you can't not fight less.

This is the scene where the main forces of the two sides are at their best.