In Los Angeles, the Hoop Sports Headquarters building, the crowds of people show that this is one of the largest sports media outlets in North America.

The fifth-floor office is home to Hoop Sports' national correspondents.

As the new season is about to kick off, these national journalists are also getting busy, and some go to the finance and accounting department to apply for travel expenses for the next quarter.

Others are in their seats, holding a laptop, as if writing something.

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Adrian Wonarowski is the biggest star reporter of this offseason, and almost all the transfers and signings in the offseason were first revealed by Adrian Wonarowski, and he was also awarded the title of a Wo God.

The Bobcats signed Michael Reid for six years and $62 million.

The Mavericks traded Antoine Jamison plus some cash for Josh Howard and rookie Devin Harris, and Anthony Walker for Jason Terry.

The Suns signed Steve Nash for 6 years and 66 million.

The Cavaliers traded Tony Batti with two second-round picks to get Drew Gooden, Andre Vallejo and Steven Hunter from the Magic.

The Pistons signed Antonio McDyce with a multi-year mid-range deal.

The Grizzlies passed the interview and hired Mike Flatrow to become the team's new coach.

The Lakers promoted Cortambis to become the team's new coach.

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And now, the offseason is completely over, and Adrian Wonarowski is completely idle, he sits in his seat and scrolls through Facebook for a while.

Then, he squatted next to his colleague Zach Lowway and watched Zach Lowway write.

"Zach, let me see, who's number one in the West?"

Zach Lowe is writing a pre-season preview, and as in previous years, he predictively ranked the 30 teams in the East and West.

Wo God wants to see, and Zach Lowe didn't stop him.

"Who is number one in the West? Houston Rockets? After seeing the rocket, Woshen shouted: "Wow, Zach, you are too conservative, anyone will choose the rocket, if I were you, I would come to something different, for example, how about the Grizzlies first, the Lakers second, and the Rockets third?" ”

Zach Lowe glanced at Woshen and ignored it.

Woshen shrugged his shoulders, continued to see the eastern part, and then continued to complain: "The first place in the east is the Pistons, and it is a conservative choice. ”

This time, Zach Lowe took the initiative to talk: "If it were you, what would you choose?" ”

"Me?" Woshen thought for a moment: "I would pick the Cleveland Cavaliers as the first place in the East." ”

"Knights? Last year, they were lotteries, and in the new season, they didn't have too many reinforcements, but they only got Drew Gooden and Eriksno through trades, but these two people can't help them get the first place in the East. ”

Zach Lowe shook his head, and he added: "But if LeBron James can make some progress in the new season, the Cavaliers should have no problem making the playoffs." ”

Adrian Wonarowski also shook his head helplessly, in fact, his idea is different from Zachlovy, his idea is that the pre-season prediction preview is to find a few teams with high topics, and then make random predictions.

Strive to provoke some war of words to attract attention.

But Zach Lowe's idea is that his pre-season prediction must be the best, and when he pulls it out at the end of the season, many people will sigh: This guy's prediction is really accurate!

Woshen glanced at the penultimate names in the East and West, the Denver Nuggets to the west, and the Charlotte Lynx to the east.

Then, Woshen remembered something: "By the way, Zach, did you know that Kevender guy also made a pre-season prediction?" ”

Zach Lowe became interested and looked up at Woshen: "Did he make a prediction too?" ”

Wo Shen nodded: "That's right, does he know how he is arranged?" ”

"How?"

"The No. 1 Rockets in the West, like you, but No. 2 in the West is not the Grizzlies, not the Lakers, not the Spurs."

"Who's that?"

"Phoenix Suns!"

"The sun?" Zach Lowe frowned, in the offseason, although the Suns signed Steve Nash, the team's strength has not improved significantly, Zach Lowe believes that the Suns have a chance to make the playoffs, but to say that they can get the top four in the West is a dream. “

Also, the Charlotte Bobcats are in the top eight in the East in his prediction and seventh in the East.

Zach Lowe shook his head: "Kevin, this guy, has always been biased towards Qiao Hai's team. ”

Zachlovy didn't know what was going on, but Adrian Wonarowski did, he opened his mouth, thought about it, and still didn't tell Zachlovi the truth.

Zach Lowe continued: "The Bobcats are the penultimate in the East, which is already the consensus of many media, ESPN ranked them in the penultimate ranking, Sports Illustrated is also the penultimate one, USA Today gave them a penultimate in the rankings, and Yahoo Sports still gave them the penultimate ones. ”

"A team of fringe players from other teams, 1-7 in the preseason, I don't see this team having the quality to make the playoffs anyway."

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The moment Charlotte and Qiao Hai announced the official end of the pre-season training camp, the entire training camp resounded one after another roars of joy from the heart, which sounded very cheerful.

But Qiao Hai then repeatedly emphasized that the regular season is about to start, and the players must enter the game as quickly as possible.

In the first game, the Bobcats will play at home against the Washington Wizards.

This game will be the first regular season game in Bobcats' history, and barring no surprises, this game will go down in history.

Therefore, although this opponent has no special significance to Bobcat and Qiao Hai, Qiao Hai still attaches great importance to it.

The Wizards are still quite strong, and this season, they have formed a trio of Musketeers, Gilbert Arenas, Larry Hughes and Antoine Jamison, plus No. 10 rookie Jarvis Hayes in '03 and center Brandon Haywood.

These five should be the starters of this Wizards.

Also off the bench were No. 12 rookie Etan Thomas in '00, No. 11 Kwame Brown in '01 and No. 11 rookie Jared Jeffries in '02.

Judging from the draft picks, this team is also full of talent.

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The opponent is very strong, and the pressure on Qiao Hai is naturally very great.

A few days before the game, the Bobcats began to join defensive training, and Qiao Hai was ready to play the same defensive tactics that he played with the Rockets last season - infinite rotation.

Relying on a few fast-moving, athletic wings, the defense switches when it comes to cover, and the rest of the time it's one-on-one.

This set of defensive tactics is relatively brainless, and the Bobcats practiced for a few days, and soon formed combat effectiveness.

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Before the start of the regular season, Qiao Hai used up all the 11 Dynasty Points he had accumulated in the past year, and then got 5 Intermediate Potential Improvement Cards, 1 Advanced Potential Improvement Card, 1 Injury Card, 10 Status Cards, a Rapid Growth Card, and a card that has never appeared before - "Satisfied"!

"Satisfied, special effect card, after using this card, you can change the probability of the draft draw to a certain extent, and at most help a lotto draft pick increase the probability of the first lottery by 15%."

"Note: The probability of winning the champion is up to 25%, and it can't be higher."