After a month and a half of acclimatization in Sacramento, the two national teams began to compete in the Summer League.

Although the national teams of the two republics, as well as several teams from the Pacific Division of the league, and the Orlando Magic in the East, there are as many as 12 teams participating in the California Summer League this time, and among these 12 teams, in addition to the players of the two Republic national teams, there are some superstars from other league teams who have not paid attention to the summer league at all.

For example, the Lakers' Streey Carter, the Grizzlies' Paster Manny, and Gao Ming also brought all of his Thunder players to this summer league.

Thanks to the participation of many superstars, as well as the participation of the two national teams of the Republic, this is the California Summer League has received unprecedented attention, and the league officials have also participated, and they have even invested all the funds from the sale of the broadcast rights of the California Summer League into the support of the Summer League.

Therefore, compared with the previous summer league, this California Summer League has a much higher degree of formality, not only can you use the various stadiums in Sau, but even sponsors provide a lot of bonuses.

The opening match of the California Summer League was the Runners against the red team of the national team coached by Lin Yongfu.

Wang Lei expressed his attitude to Lin Yongfu before the game, saying that he would not have the slightest retention, and wanted to let domestic players clearly feel the huge gap between them and the top international teams.

Lin Yongfu also informed the players of the situation, and he hoped that his players would be fully prepared, especially mentally, and hoped that they would not be crushed by the huge point difference.

Although the players said they were all ready, they were inevitably hit hard when the game did come.

The starting line-up of the Runners, with Turgun, Blair and Salich at the core, gave the young players of the red team a good start, and the Runners were constantly running from start to finish, running and passing, running and shooting.

In the first quarter, the red team had completely lost its rhythm, and the young players felt like they had played a full two hours.

And the score difference in the first quarter of the game was enough to show the huge gap between the two teams.

54 to 19, it was the Runners who didn't defend much that allowed the red team to score some points.

In the second quarter, Francis Leonardo of the Runners gave the RED players another glimpse of what top-level speed looks like.

Although Francis is not the fastest in the league compared to Wall in the previous Finals, his speed is definitely among the top in the league among point guards.

The young players on the red team were barely able to limit Francis's speed.

After the second quarter, the red team barely managed to score 37 points, while the Runners scored 90 points in the half.

The next game is a mental test for all the players in the national team, and the players who can withstand such pressure at least show that they have a future to develop, and if they can't even face this fiasco, then basically the future achievements will not be too great.

In the end, the Runners ruthlessly won 165-75 against the national team red team by 90 points, which shows the huge gap between them and the Runners, and also shows how strong the offensive firepower of the Runners is.

The second game after the opening game was the national team's blue team against the Lakers.

The Lakers' players were much more lazy than the Runners, with Stellar Carter leaving after less than five minutes against the blue team, and the Lakers putting a bunch of bench players who rarely played in the league against the blue team.

In the end, the national team blue team played well, and they only lost to the Lakers by 11 points.

The different circumstances of the two national teams have caused domestic fans to fall apart, and some fans think that Wang Lei does not give himself face, and also think that the red team is playing too badly.

And most fans in China generally believe that the blue team performs much better than the red team.

Lin Yongfu is always paying attention to the domestic news, but he is not nervous about his unfavorable news at all, and he knows that everyone will give him and the red team a public opinion after the next summer league.

Lin Yongfu's expectations were not disappointed, and in the following summer league games, although the red team led by Lin Yongfu did not win a single game, they played a very similar offensive effect to the Runners.

In stark contrast to Lin Yongfu is the blue team led by Xu.

The Blues lost to the Lakers by only 11 points in their opening game, but their performance in the subsequent games cannot be described as a rout.

The 40-point loss to the Grizzlies can also be explained by the Grizzlies' tactics of restraining the blue team's tactics, but the loss to the Thunder by a full 50 points cannot be explained, you must know that the Grizzlies ranked higher than the Thunder in the regular season last season.

And the most criticized thing about the blue team is that there was violence on the pitch in the late summer league game, and the various bad actions in their defense really angered many people, and there were always all kinds of chaos in every game, and finally there was even infighting.

After the entire summer league was played, the Runners did not win the final championship, but their training task was completed.

Although the two Republic national teams are winless, several young players on the red team have been favored by many NBA teams, and Lei Heng and Zhan Tiankai have won short-term contracts from the Thunder and Grizzlies.

On the other hand, the blue team, not only did not win a game, but also made all kinds of jokes in the end, not to mention that two players were injured, and even one player entered the police station in Sacheng, and in the end Wang Lei came forward to bail out.

After playing the summer league, all kinds of criticism of Lin Yongfu in China completely disappeared, and that Coach Xu became the target of public criticism, and then there was even a scandal in the media that Coach Xu accepted bribes from players to arrange playing time.

The Basketball Association responded immediately to the chaos of the blue team, and Coach Xu was immediately dismissed, and the players of the blue team were temporarily managed by Lin Yongfu, and then he will be re-elected as the head coach of the blue team.

After the summer league, the red and blue teams returned home together, and several players from the red team received offers from a number of teams to participate in the team's preseason matches.

Wang Lei is happy to see such a situation, and he knows that although many of these teams are aiming for the huge market of the Republic, at least these young people have a rare opportunity.