On November 24, the Lakers defeated the Warriors 117-91 at home.

The Lakers won 67 in the regular season last season, and this season's second-team offense has improved, and they have been more aggressive, and they are basically one-sided against teams outside the playoffs.

The team wins easily, and the final quarter will go into garbage time, and the core can "clock out" in advance, thereby reducing the chance of fatigue and injury, forming a virtuous circle. The victory is decided, and even Phil Jackson, who likes to use the main force to death, can only replace the core to rest.

Kobe Bryant showed his advantage against Larry Hughes, playing 30 minutes on 13-of-19 shooting, 2-of-3 three-pointers, and 3-of-4 free throws, scoring 31 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists.

O'Neal played 31 minutes, shooting 7-of-11 from the field and 1-of-4 from the free-throw line to finish with 15 points, 14 rebounds, 6 assists and 6 blocks.

Even if Ao Fat doesn't score much, it will explode blood on the outside of Warriors center Eric Dampier's lips, and his heart, liver, spleen and lungs will hurt inside. Dampier played 26 minutes, shooting 1-of-9 from the field and finishing with 4 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 fouls. In one round, he was slapped twice by O'Neal for a low-post attack, and he even forgot to defend himself.

The future "No. 2 center in the West" is still just a low-key blue-collar worker, and he doesn't even dare to breathe in the face of O'Neal.

It's a lot of fun to partner with stars, sometimes just watching them perform, Guo Xu returned to the bench lineup, led his teammates in the second quarter, and was responsible for the main attack.

He relied on his flexibility to play against Warriors point guard Bob Soula, playing 25 minutes, shooting 5-of-8, 3-of-5 three-pointers, 3-of-4 free throws, and finishing with 16 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists.

On November 27, the Lakers beat the Clippers by 14 points.

It was a slow-paced positional battle, Guo Xu only played 24 minutes, fell into foul trouble and shot low, shooting 3-of-10, 1-of-5 three-pointers, 2-of-2 free throws, and only 9 points and 2 assists.

Opposite Guo Xu was 193CM two-way guard Jeff McGinnis, who got 20 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists.

One thing drops one thing, Guo Xu can take advantage of several star guards, and he will also suffer from ordinary dual-energy guards. Harper is better suited to McGinnis, and this time "underdog Jordan" is out injured.

Back-to-back against the Pacers on the 28th, the "OK combination" was as strong as ever, and Guo Xu also recovered his brave state, playing 35 minutes, 8 of 13 shots, 4 of 6 three-pointers, 1 of 2 free throws, and 21 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal.

Facing the Pacers' starting point guard, Travis Best, who is 180CM tall, Guo Xu firmly has the upper hand, and the latter only has 8 points and 6 assists.

Guo Xu's luck is very good, and the six rebounds in a single game are a new career high, all of which are picked up.

After the game, Guo Xu also received a good news, Harpy negotiated another commercial endorsement, just waiting for him to return to Los Angeles to sign a contract.

As the season progresses, Guo Xu's value is getting higher and higher, and Harpy has long guessed this, and he will not be endorsed until the All-Star voting begins this season.

The new endorsement is Coca-Cola's "sports drink Powerade". After negotiations, the merchant was willing to pay $3 million to find Guo Xu to endorse for two years. All he had to do was drink drinks from the merchants on the sidelines and shoot two commercials.

This price is very fair, Guo Xu is not an all-star yet, and it is impossible to endorse Sprite at a high price like Kobe. He only signed a short-term contract, and the price of the two-year extension contract could be increased.

The main ingredients of Powerade are sugar, a variety of electrolytes and antioxidants, which can replenish the nutrients lost during exercise, maintain and improve exercise capacity, and accelerate the elimination of fatigue after exercise. There are many flavors such as tropical fruit flavor and lemon grapefruit flavor, Guo Xu has drunk it and feels good. Even if he doesn't like to drink, he won't give up the opportunity to endorse, he has no enmity with money.

Guo Xu eats meat, and Harpy follows the soup to develop, and he can get 12% of the commission for commercial endorsements, and he will have hundreds of thousands of dollars in his account a year, if Guo Xu is selected as an All-Star in the future, his annual salary of one million is not a dream.

Guo Xu has a chance to be selected as an All-Star this season, and has been reported by many media outlets.

The results of the first-week All-Star voting were released, and Guo Xu ranked third in the Western Conference guard selection ahead of Jason Williams of the Kings, Gary Payton of the SuperSonics, and Steve Francis of the Rockets, behind teammate Kobe Bryant and Suns core Kidd.

In Guo Xu's previous life, the Bucks' Blanton Jennings scored 55 points in his rookie season and was not so popular, and the division star vote could not be ranked in the top 10 guards, which is the difference between playing in Milwaukee and playing in Los Angeles.

Guo Xu's exposure is too high, and basketball fans around the world basically know that there is such a person. Fans like to watch the story of the sling counterattack, the strong rise of the last rookie is popular with everyone, and the development of China's Internet is slower than that of the United States, and Chinese fans do not participate in the NBA voting much, and his vote is not swiped.

People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and Guo Xu's fame is too fast and easy to become famous, which also arouses the disgust of some people, including the opponent in the next game, supersonic star point guard Gary Payton.

In the 1997 and '98 seasons, Payton was the All-Star starter in the West, but last season he was only the third most popular in the West, and only 10,000 more votes than Jason Williams.

In the first week of this season, Payton had a lot less votes than Guo Xu, and even Williams, who averaged less than 10 points per game this season, was not as popular, and his popularity only ranked fifth among Western defenders.

Why are those two young people who are obviously not as strong as him in front? Payton couldn't bear it, he felt like he was about to explode, obviously he was still at his peak, and he played the best data of his career in the past two seasons, why didn't anyone pay attention?

As we all know, Payton is a person with strong self-esteem, and he is indeed strong, and Kidd and Kobe Bryant were his younger brothers before.

Kidd is Peyton's little brother who has known him since Oakland, they played streetball together when they were younger, the two have similar styles, and Kidd learned a lot from Peyton; Kobe Bryant asked Payton for advice on defense, and Peyton refused at first, but then Kobe Bryant agreed to it.

The cruel reality gave Payton a hard slap in the face, even though he has the most beautiful statistics, averaging 23 points, 4.6 rebounds, 8 assists and 1.6 steals per game, those two are more famous than him.

Of course, it's not uncommon for Peyton to get slapped in the face because he has a big mouth that doesn't hold back. In a preseason game in 1990, he was just a rookie who had just entered the SuperSonics, and he dared to despise Jordan, who won three scoring titles in a row.

At that time, he said confidently: "I don't care who Michael Jordan is, well, he's playing well, but he's not at that point where he can't defend himself." ”

Payton scored 19 points in that preseason game, and Jordan sat more off the court. Every time Payton scored, he would run to Jordan and stare at him a few times, when he felt like he was invincible.

After that, in the first regular-season game between the Bulls and the SuperSonics, Jordan refused to shake Payton's hand and shouted, "Leave this rookie to me." Payton didn't play long before he got into foul trouble, and the coach replaced him and barely played again. He didn't score for about seven or eight minutes, and Jordan scored 33 points.

Towards the end of the game, Jordan walked up to the Supersonic bench, looked at Payton and said, "Is this what you blew in the preseason?" Welcome to the NBA, lad. In the end, the Bulls won the game 116-95.

At this time, the veteran ruffian Payton planned to abuse Guo Xu in the next game, let him know who the star was, and also said to him, "Welcome to the NBA, boy." ”