After the Thunder's morale recovered, they didn't stop in the locker room for long.

Everyone quickly set off and headed straight to Los Angeles.

They are going to play another team in Los Angeles the day after tomorrow, the Los Angeles Clippers.

It was the last battle before Christmas, and the last battle before Lee Forest went home.

The Thunder was last year's vice-squad leader, and based on the record, it was naturally not its turn to take the Christmas war.

Since the '40s, the NBA has had a tradition of launching heavyweight games on Christmas Eve, and this business idea was quite ahead of its time at the time.

After the popularity of televising, watching the NBA live on Christmas Eve has become a tradition for Americans.

The premise of the Christmas war is that the two sides will either have a strong dialogue or a highly topical showdown.

The current Thunder is clearly not such a team, and no one wants to watch a bad team play at Christmas.

Of course, everyone on the Thunder team is reluctant to play at Christmas.

In the United States, Americans treat Christmas the same way Chinese treat Spring Festival, and no one wants to work overtime during the Spring Festival.

Because the festival is approaching, this time the Thunder plane is a bit special, and many players' families have taken the team's special plane.

Westbrook's hometown is in California.

He and Nina were preparing for Christmas in California.

Durant and his mom are also going to California for two days, and then he and Collison will go to Dallas Lang.

Compared with the lively and lively family of his teammates, Li Linlin, a single dog, seemed alone at this time.

The interior of the team's plane was modified beyond recognition.

The cabin has a capacity of 160 passengers, with about 80 seats left after the modification.

The entire cabin is divided into three parts.

The frontmost cabin has only 15 seats and is reserved for players.

The cabin in the middle has about 12 seats, divided into 6 rows, and there is a square table in the middle for the coach to hold a meeting.

The rearmost cabin generally has 7 rows of seats, which belong to the staff or some family members.

In addition, the cabin entrances and exits, toilets, etc. have also been modified.

Looking at the crowd in the lively plane preparing for the festival, Li Forest also felt homesick.

Although I was homesick, I had to go to Los Angeles to play this last game, which is also the price after my dream came true.

The distance from Ohlahoma City to Los Angeles is about 1800 kilometers, and the plane flew for about 3 hours.

As soon as you get off the plane, Los Angeles' airports are filled with the spirit of Christmas coming up.

Christmas trees are everywhere.

Soon, the whole team came to the hotel, and the game was played the night after tomorrow.

So, the players all went back to their respective homes and looked for their mothers.

Wei Shao, whose home is in California, went straight home.

Li Forest stayed in the hotel, although it was late at night, but Li Forest actually had insomnia.

I picked up my phone and called my mother and told her the date of her return.

After my mother told me to pay attention to safety on the road, I hung up the phone.

.................

This summer, the Los Angeles Clippers opened wide and became the biggest players in the transfer market.

Captain Brand and second-in-command Margeti have switched to his team,

In their place were hot-blooded guard Davis and basket defender Camby.

Helpless or deliberate, the Clippers have completed a drastic change from top to bottom.

Purely theoretically, the Clippers will not increase or weaken in terms of strength by bringing in two stars and leaving two stars, so they will still be excluded from the playoff threshold.

Of course, this calculation may not be scientific, but the redesigned Clippers really still don't have the absolute strength to make a difference in the Bloody West, although they already look like they have a good roster.

There are two reasons for this.

First, after the Clippers have been in and out a few times, the team has basically changed its appearance, various playing styles and routines need to be reformulated, and teammates also need time to run in; Second, coach Dunleavy is too lenient and even conniving, in the face of character defender Davis and the disgruntled Camby, can the good old coach handle it?

Of course, the above two points are only the general direction, and the team's small problems are even more numerous.

For example, when Livingston left and the new signing White Chocolate retired, Davis was only backed by Jason Hart......

The former has a tendency to get hurt, while the latter is notoriously unreliable;

For example, the team lacks a cadre of about 2 meters to serve as a small forward.

With Margeti and Rose both leaving, he spent a lot of time playing power forward last season, and the 2.05m Thorton is likely to play the No. 3 position.

The team's two major options for the No. 2 spot are Mobley, who is less than 1.95 meters tall, and rookie Eric Gordon......

Such a height ladder is too big;

Another example is that Camby and Carman, two pure centre-forwards with similar characteristics, must be on the pitch at the same time, and they also need to divide their own work.

All of the above problems are enough to make coach Dunleavy scratch the scalp.

In addition, in addition to the busy transfer and transfer of goods, the team has a bigger move, and it is incredible that Baylor, the general manager who has been with the Clippers for 22 years, does not have a single contract.

If the out-of-court settlement fails, the management and labor will inevitably go to court, although this is only an off-court dispute, but it also reflects the irregularities in the team's operation.

In addition to these, Li Forest knows that the Clippers owner himself is also in trouble.

The current owner of the Clippers is Donald Sterling, and in the future, a recording of an argument with his girlfriend will be exposed by the famous gossip website TMZ.

And in this recording, Sterling is involved in racist remarks, which will stir up a thousand waves.

NBA commissioner Adam Shaw punished Raheem Sterling after an investigation.

Raheem Sterling was banned from any NBA-related activities for life and forced to sell the Clippers.

After that, the Clippers were acquired by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

...........

"Rest tomorrow?"

Li Linlin's mobile phone, who was scrolling through the web, received a mass holiday text message notification from Brooks.

Brooks saw that the team was playing on the road in a row, and Christmas was approaching, so he decided to give the players a temporary holiday.

Since it's a holiday, there's no training scheduled for tomorrow.

Tomorrow is a holiday, and Li Forest suddenly doesn't know what to do.

Why don't you go shopping?

After traveling back for so long, Li Forest has not tried a day without competition and training.

It's really a dick.

The phone rang.

The sound of Westbrook Rough Mine could be heard through the phone.

"Lee, do you have something to do tomorrow afternoon? If you're okay, come with me to an event at UCLA. ”

"yes, okay."

Li Forest is also idle, after hearing Westbrook's invitation, he also wants to go to UCLA to see the demeanor of this world-famous basketball school.

........

"Whew, I'm so tired, I'm so tired, the game is finally over, sister, let's go to UCLA tomorrow to have a look"

Lin patted his chest slightly and said to his cousin.

"Okay, I'll check the address first."

Looking at this well-behaved cousin, Lin Feifei agreed very simply.