On July 6, the Las Vegas Summer League will officially begin.

The Lakers set off on the 5th and headed to Las Vegas, a casino city, to prepare for the summer league.

Brother Sun also took this opportunity to move out of this enviable palace, and he would not go back to live.

He does like Zhao Dashao's manor and living environment, but he can't stand the days of getting up before four o'clock every day, and he can't stand the fact that a rich second generation works harder than him and can endure hardships more than him.

Zhao Dashao didn't care, he knew that human nature could not be changed, if he wanted Brother Sun to become his helper in the future, then he could only wait for the store to upgrade, and use the "spiritual" card to force him to become diligent.

The CCTV film crew also said goodbye to him, and Director Zhang has replaced the third position on the fan list with his name in the past few days, the first is of course Yao Ming, and the second is his neighbor Kobe Bryant, and now Zhao Dashao is Director Zhang's third favorite player.

Director Zhang will also follow the Lakers to Las Vegas, Brother Sun and Zhao Dashao don't know yet, CCTV originally wanted to focus on tracking and reporting on Brother Sun, but under Director Zhang's suggestion, Zhao Dashao finally took the lead.

But the three of them all know that the Lakers go to Las Vegas this time, and there is only one protagonist in the whole team, and that is Zhao Dashao!

As long as you look at the Lakers players who rush to carry bags and shoes for Zhao Dashao every day, and even old players like Famar, Ariza, and Vujacic don't want to run around and make a big fuss, you can know who will be a blockbuster on this trip to Las Vegas!

This year's Summer League has invited all NBA teams to participate, and the rules have changed drastically from the past, presumably after the Swiss system used in the Dota and CS programs in last year's Ti3 International.

The format is simple, with 30 teams split into West and East, played in Las Vegas and Orlando, respectively, which is equivalent to merging two summer leagues.

The opponents of the two major regions are selected by drawing lots, and after the game, the team with 1 win and the team with 1 win will continue to play, and the team with 1 loss and 1 loss will continue to play. After this match, teams with 2 wins and 2 wins played, teams with 1 win and 1 loss and 1 win and 1 loss, and teams with 2 losses and 2 losses played.

This will ensure that each team can play at least three games in the group stage, and the top eight teams in each group will enter the knockout round, at which time a playoff-like format will be used, with the eighth team playing first, but unlike the playoffs, it will still be a Bo1 format.

The final winner of this format has to play a total of 7-9 matches, and the difference is whether the group stage is advanced 3-0, 3-1 or 3-2.

This schedule is very interesting, the official draw of 30 teams is on the 5th, and the first opponent drawn by the Lakers is the San Antonio Spurs, which is considered an old enemy.

Los Angeles is not far from Las Vegas, and the Lakers depart by bus in the morning and arrive at their destination by noon.

In the afternoon, everyone had a light pre-match training, and in the evening it was the first game, and the competition venue was at the Mack Center.

Zhao Dashao has felt the attention of the coaching staff in the past few days, and they must have regarded themselves as the main object of inspection in the summer league.

This has nothing to do with the local tyrant, he himself has the best offensive and defensive awareness and tactical execution ability in the team, of course, excellent athleticism and technique, and even the physical confrontation is not the worst one, and considering his popularity, what reason does the team not focus on him?

The coaching staff of the Lakers also wondered, how could Zhao Dashao have such an unnatural popularity, just because he was rich?

They guessed right, and that's really the reason.

Of course, Zhao Dashao is also very good at hiding.

His style of play in training is indeed a bit like Stockton, and when he breaks through, he is like Nash, in short, he can pass and shoot, and his shot options are more reasonable than this year's No. 1 Rose and No. 4 show Westbrook.

Lakers players quickly willingly want to help him win the assist title, who doesn't like such a point guard?

If there is anyone who doesn't like it, it must be Famar and Brother Sun, because they are competitors in the same position.

But one of these two is not in danger of losing his job, and he only cares about serving the Bugatti Veyron all day long, and he has long regarded Zhao Dashao as a good brother; The other is not only a Buddhist player, it is said that the national team is about to have its final training camp, and it is difficult to say whether Brother Sun can finish the summer league.

In this way, no one in the entire Lakers team dislikes him, and Zhao Dashao's popularity is so good that it explodes!

He privately promised Famar that he would drive the car as long as he wanted.

Of course, you have to settle the maintenance and usage fees of the car yourself.

Famar has only been driving for a few days, and I don't know how pitted this car is, at most I feel that the fuel consumption is a little against the sky.

But when he went to maintain, he knew that all of them had to be customized, but the accessories that greatly sacrificed their service life for performance could only be described as pit money.

Zhao Dashao has focused all his attention on the competition with the Spurs, although the GDP combination and Popovich are on vacation at this time, but the Spurs still have a noteworthy rookie - George Hill.

George Hill is also a quasi-All-Star in the future, and despite the poor stats, this scrappy player is very versatile, not only playmaking offense, but also defending opposing star guards, playing with the ball or sacrificing for the team without the ball.

Let's put it this way, as a person who can replace Leonard alone, no matter how bad it is, it can't be any worse, right?

Zhao Dashao knows that this is a tough battle, George Hill is a senior player, and his physical fitness has fully reached the NBA level, and he is one of the most powerful guards in this rookie class.

Look at his 18-year-old tender meat, when he encounters such a small fritter, even his teammates and coaches don't think he can get out of it.

Las Vegas is a gambling city, and everything is easy to associate with the word "bet", and there is certainly no shortage of markets to guess which team will win the championship

On the day of the game, Zhao Dashao heard the discussion of his teammates, but the Lakers were not favored among the 30 teams, and their odds to win the championship were only 1 to 15.

This means that apart from the Los Angeles fans, there are basically no people who are optimistic about them.

Zhao Dashao was immediately reluctant, he felt that with those 12 Tesla sports cars, the odds of the Lakers winning the championship should be at least about 1 to 5.

But in fact, even Los Angeles fans are not optimistic about their own team, and Zhao Dashao is really wrong to blame the spinach company.

The Lakers reached the Finals last year, but they are not a team with a strong bench lineup, on the contrary, the Lakers' bench has always been criticized by fans.

Zhao Dashao can understand the fans' complaints, so he might as well whisper something from his heart, he also thinks that Lao Ke is really famous.

After Kobe Bryant's teammates left the Lakers, it can't be said that they all declined, but most of them did decline in varying degrees, but they all played at the peak by the boss's side, and they always said that the old teammates were really wronged.

There are no pre-match and post-match press conferences in the Summer League, at least not in the group stage.

Each team just needs to arrive at the stadium on time, enter the locker room on time to prepare for the game, warm up on time, and finally start the game on time.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, Zhao Dashao walked into the locker room with his teammates and put on his brand new pair of NIKE· Zoom· Kobe 3 generations.

Seeing that the players had changed into their combat gear, Bernie finally clapped his hands and called everyone over to announce the starting lineup for tonight.

As for tactics, they have only been gathering for a week, how can there be any tactics at all, just go up and fight a few blind games, he doesn't know that Zhao Dashao added food to the players in private, and he never thought about winning the championship.

"This year's Summer League has new rules, every game counts, and winning the first game means we can play at least four games, so don't think you have a chance to lose and not take this game to heart."

Bernie first reminded the players that no matter what the format, it is definitely better to win than to lose.

But this reminder was obviously redundant, and everyone's desire to win was far greater than he imagined.

In fact, although Ni buddies don't have any scheming, they also know that it will be difficult for them to stay, even if the Lakers win the Summer League.

Famar, Vujasic, Ariza, Mbenga, none of them are likely to be eliminated.

Not to mention Zhao Dashao, if you count Brother Sun, there are already 6 people.

So they can have at most two or three people who play well to have a chance to stay in preseason training camp, but it will still be difficult to get a guaranteed contract.

This also shows how precious Zhao Dashao's additional dishes are, as long as the Lakers win the championship, he will give each person a luxury car worth about 100,000 US dollars.

Even if these people are just for this luxury car, there is enough reason to fight hard to help the Lakers win the championship.

Bernie was also about to boost his morale, only to find that the fighting spirit of the big guy was a little overflowing as soon as he came up.

He didn't know what was going on, but it was definitely a good thing, and he simply turned the cumbersome into a simple one and announced the starting lineup for tonight......