Date: May 21, 2016.

The Lakers challenged the Warriors in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals on the road.

The first part of Barnes' frenzied iron striker tour.

Barnes said he was upset, why, why! He's going to prove to the Lakers that he's no worse than Thompson, and he's going to slap the Lakers in the face.

However, Barnes played so well in the regular season, averaging 16 points per game, and even averaged 18 points per game during Wharton's tenure, which was even more efficient than Thompson.

Barnes averaged 16 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists per game throughout the season, shooting 48 percent from the field and 40 percent from three-point range.

Most of this stat was played during Wharton's tenure, in large part because Curry and Thompson helped him draw the defense away, so that he could be so effective in singles.

And now he has completely become a black hole of ball power, and the ball is in his hands, and basically it can't come out.

This is a disaster for the Warriors' Steve Kerr's team play, because Steve Kerr's tactics have never let the small forward play alone, and in Steve Kerr's strategy, everyone creates easy shooting opportunities for Curry and Thompson, rather than letting these two create opportunities for others, which is the difference between Steve Kerr and Wharton.

And when Barnes continued to ask for the ball and was defended by Liu Ren in the first quarter with only half of the 7-of-7 shooting, the Warriors' tactics collapsed at the beginning.

Steve Cole's whole person was not good, and he called a timeout continuously, but no matter how he scolded, Barnes did not change, and he came up.

Finally played the first quarter, and Steve Kerr had plenty of time to spray.

On the Lakers' side, everyone sat down to rest for a while at the intermission.

Today's start was really good, surprisingly good, with an 17-6 lead of 11 points in the first quarter, and the Lakers played 33-13 after the first quarter.

Liu Ren looked at the Warriors bench, and there were two people who made him feel weird and have done something bad.

One of them is Barnes, who is already manic today, and the other is Thompson, who is inexplicably unmotivated today.

Just today, at noon on the day of the game, Time Warner's Sports Illustrated revealed an "amazing insider", and they got the exclusive revelations from the Warriors' internal sources, which stunned OJ.

Lakers president Magic Johnson is in talks with Warriors owner Bob Myers about a postseason trade.

It's not a big deal, and there have been rumors for a long time, and the Lakers have been interested in the Warriors' Barnes since mid-season and have had several detailed discussions.

If it's just about Barnes, it's not a matter at all, it's the job of the heads of both teams.

And from the reporter's interview, it seems that the Warriors do not have much desire to keep Barnes, and they did not renew his contract in advance last summer, and Barnes does not reject joining the Lakers, not only does not exclude, but yearns for it, and has repeatedly expressed his appreciation for the history of the Lakers and so on.

This time, the revelations of Sports Illustrated suddenly became a hot topic and even a breaking point, because the protagonist in the revelations was not Barnes, but Thompson!

According to the "inside information" obtained by Sports Illustrated, the target of the trade proposed by Magic Johnson is Klay Thompson, the Warriors' shooting guard!

People are brainstorming, and it seems to people that Magic-Johnson's previous visits to the Warriors were not about Barnes, but about the Thompson trade!

Actually, it's normal for the Lakers to be interested in Thompson, they need a more pure, off-ball pitcher similar to Kobe Bryant, who is now a role player, and Curry on the Warriors' side is a high-quality off-ball pitcher, Curry needs a teammate with the ability to score with the ball, and whether it is Barnes or Thompson, this aspect is not top-notch, Barnes meets Leonard, Liu Ren, James, who have better physical fitness than him, and Thompson is simply a pitcher.

The Lakers have McCollum as a trade chip, which the Warriors desperately need, and the Lakers can send other chips, the Warriors will definitely be tempted.

If this news is the usual news, it will also spark discussion, but it will not become the headline of the headlines as it is now, after all, the two teams are about to play the Western Conference Finals.

It's over when people talk about it, it's normal business negotiations, and the season is still ongoing, they're just doing business negotiations for what happens after the season, it's just a normal thing, it's just a normal thing, but the two teams may trade to make these two super teams stronger, and it's scary not to give the rest of the league a way to live, if the Lakers get a player who succeeds Kobe Bryant and Kobe Bryant's current style of play, and is more accurate and younger, the Warriors get the ball-handling offensive master they dream of, Make up for the weakness that they only have three ball-handling points Curry, Randle, and Iguodala, and they will be even more terrifying, and maybe the Warriors can also get one of the Lakers' terrifying interior group to make up for Bogut's weakness of only playing about 20 minutes, and there is still a huge salary space to poach in the summer......

That's what people are focused on.

But when it comes to the players, the fluctuations are huge!

McCollum on the Lakers' side is okay, he is a Kobe Bryant fan, and it is not wrong to like the Lakers, but he has already realized his dream of winning the championship in the Lakers, and the place he is going to is the Warriors, a perfect next home, and there if he can take over Thompson's shots, he is so happy that he doesn't know where to go than in the Lakers, the Lakers have too many points to hold the ball, it is difficult to get him in turn, and he still plays the starter when he goes to the Warriors!

Thompson here...... Fortunately, his bad performance today is mainly because he feels abandoned by the team, and he is very entangled in his heart If he really goes to the Lakers and becomes a teammate with Liu Ren? …… It's a little exciting to think about...... He's the team's best three-pointer!

Overall, these two people have worries, but there are also joys, Thompson can only say that he played normally today, and it is reasonable to open up space for Barnes to single, as for why Barnes singles...... A big part of Barnes' role in the starting lineup was to open up space to turn the ball, and now that Barnes doesn't pass the ball, he has to open up space for him.

And Thompson is indeed a little disappointed and not playing actively, after all, he played for five years with the Warriors, and it became a trade chip?

After this revelation came out, it was Barnes who hit the hardest.

He has been fantasizing about going to the Lakers for half a year, and then suddenly told him: Don't daydream, boy, the Warriors won't renew your contract, and the Lakers don't want you......

Liu Ren glanced at Barnes, who lost his mind and ignored Steve Kerr's scolding on the Warriors' bench, and then looked back at the private room where Magic and the Warriors owner watched today, and sighed.

Liu Ren used to think that basketball was very pure, but he didn't expect that there were so many ways in basketball, public opinion, criticism, anti-discord, and discord...... Are these bosses all watching the Art of War?

Without being a player himself, and climbing to the top of the player pyramid, Liu Ren really didn't know that the NBA was not just a league that played ball.

There are villains like Popovich and David Blatter, good old guys like Rudy Tomjanovich, smiling tigers like magicians, overlords like Larry Brown, and scheming old men like Zen masters......

But that's the real NBA!

Liu Ren knows that he actually learned this, and he may experience these in the future, and may become the protagonist in it, just like Kobe Bryant's dashing return to Eagle County in 03, James's decision, Iverson driving out Larry Brown, and the collapse of the Nets' three musketeers, the Mavericks, and the three musketeers of the Mavericks...... And so on and so forth, things can fall on your head.

After this incident, Liu Ren looked back and thought about when Kobe, James and others were in a storm of public opinion, if there was no hostile team to help them, he would never believe it!

Generally speaking, only teams at the peak of their prime, such as Kobe Bryant, Eagle County, chic incident, when the Lakers first formed the Big Four, James decided to have such a big impact because he formed a super combination of three top 10 players in the league and did not give other teams a way to live.

And now, the Warriors are like they are going to give the Lakers a way to live, for the Magic, his first year in office, last year's all-time record won the championship, this year's lineup is complete, the young players are stronger, if he fails to win the championship again, he will not be given a way to live.

Liu Ren thought of this afternoon, when the Magic returned to the hotel chartered by the Lakers, he still had an angry face before entering the hotel door, as if a big thing had been leaked by the Warriors, but after getting on the elevator with him who happened to see the news and rushed back to appease McCollum, the magician immediately smiled like a chrysanthemum.

At that time, Liu Ren understood that all this was calculated by the magician! Including the "friendly and intimate" communication with Thompson that was "secretly photographed" in the nightclub afternoon two days ago, and the so-called "Thompson spent money to invite Lakers players to eat expensive desserts to please future teammates" from the bar waiter, all of which were used!

"Don't worry, boss, you just need to play well, and we will help you create the best opportunities and find the best teammates for you."

Liu Ren remembered the magician's words, and he didn't know whether to be happy or ...... Rejoice, everything that happened in these two days is only good for him, and there is no harm in it.

However, he felt the coldness of a team.

Sure enough, the NBA is a business league! Although the Lakers have a lot more humanity than other teams, most of them are just a foil to their peers, and they are ...... Their humanity is probably limited to the superstars they have cultivated, McCollum said that he would throw it out, and he immediately became an outcast......

The second quarter of the game is about to start, Liu Ren threw off those irrelevant thoughts of the game, got up and prepared to kill the Warriors with the second team!

Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, this is Liu Ren's code of conduct in the game!

Who knows how long Barnes' emotional breakdown will last, and grabbing the home advantage now is the top priority!

What made Liu Ren quite happy was that McCollum was not disappointed but excited to replace Nick Young, after all, it was possible to go to the Warriors to play as a starter! No matter who the Lakers are going to in the end, he will definitely start when he goes to the Warriors, and Thompson can play small forward after all, he is two meters and one tall, and it is not bad to partner with Barnes.

This is also the reason why Liu Ren feels that the Lakers are still more humane, after all, they have found a better future for McCollum.

In the Lakers, when Kobe Bryant no longer dominated by singles and became an off-ball pitcher, they gradually no longer need Kobe as a singles, and the task of singles was given to Liu Ren, they need a pitcher more, and it is a more pure pitcher than Kobe.

The Lakers fielded LaVine, McCollum, Liu Ren, Antetokounmpo, and Green in the second quarter.

On the Warriors' side, Barnes was sat on the bench, which broke their rotation, and the bench outside combination composed of Barnes and Iguodala and Livingston was the best, but now Barnes can't play, in order to maintain the bench firepower lineup where all five players have the ability to score, Curry can only continue to be sent and Curry, Livingston, Iguodala, Speight, and Randle are sent.

The Warriors are going to fight for the first game of the Western Conference finals! Curry and Randle are starting to be beaten to death!

This lineup is Curry and Liu Ren going head-to-head.

Liu Ren came up with the heart of killing the Warriors, Curry also came up with the determination to reverse, and both of them looked at each other murderously, this has nothing to do with off-court factors, but the two of them just met when they arrived on the court!

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The most luxurious private room on the scene of the Warriors, Bob Myers watched Curry have to fight against the Lakers when it comes to rotation time, this is only the first game, and he is so distressed that he doesn't want to, and even so, the Warriors are just a Lakers team to play half a pound, Liu Ren in the Western Finals has completely turned on the scoring mode, and Curry, who has also opened the scoring mode this year, has played on par, Green and Randle have started fierce physical confrontation again, and they can't care about organizing offense.

The Warriors sent the team's strongest inside and outside line, but they only kept the point difference from being stretched wider and did not have a tendency to shrink.

The Warriors have been shaken internally due to the team's external affairs, and this starter's problem is not only affecting him, but even many people in the entire Warriors are at risk.

Bob Myers had already said before the game that those things were fake, but no one believed them.

Seeing the situation of the game, Bob Myers looked at the smiling two-meter-and-six-meter fat man next to him with the eyes of a shameless villain.

"Okay Bob, it's not like you are usual." The magician laughed.

"Hmph, Erwin, you're always so sinister, just like when you were a player, you deceive people with your smile every time, your shotime is a liar and play again!" Bob Myers said angrily.

"Shotime is a lie, and if we don't cheat our opponents, how can we win." The magician said indifferently, if a 'magician' can't deceive people, is he still called a magician?

"I refuse to talk to you." Bob Myers snorted coldly.

Seeing that Bob Myers seems to be playing petty, this shrewd businessman is a little different, and it is clear that it is deliberate.

Seeing that the magician smiled even more, this is just a negotiation method for business, so the magician directly enlarged the move: "McCollum plus Biyombo plus the first-round picks protected by this year's and 2018 lotteries, we will bear the salary cap." ”

This big move is no longer about business, it's just bombing!

Bob Myers' eyes widened in an instant, and he thought he had misheard.

"Ahem, I'm certainly not that calculating...... Let's talk about the details......"