The Denver Nuggets, the only NBA team in Colorado, USA, as a team that has joined the NBA league during the ABA period, has a very long history, but compared with its long history, the honors it has won are not so on the table.

Since the ABA officially changed its name to the NBA, the Nuggets' best result in the next nearly 40 years was reaching the Western Conference Finals, and there is no other honor on the table.

For the Nuggets, Tang Shuai's deepest impression is naturally the famous Nuggets double guns, the Nuggets got the "answer" Allen Iverson who was still at the peak from the 76ers trade, and together with the "melon" Carmelo Anthony, who was becoming more and more mature at that time, formed a two-gun combination with explosive offensive firepower, although it failed to break through the first round of the playoffs in the end, but the gorgeous offense still captured the hearts of a large number of fans.

It's just that Iverson has long since retired, Anthony has long since left New York, and now the Nuggets are a team that is in the process of rebuilding, and the most famous of the team are Kenneth Farid, who was selected for the United States team this summer, and Italian Danilo Gallinari.

Against such a team, it is undoubtedly a perfect time for the Clippers to run in the lineup.

Because teams don't really do anything in the preseason, tickets to the preseason are much cheaper than the regular season, but even so, the fans in the stadium can't compare to the regular season.

On this day, more than half of the stadium that can accommodate nearly 20,000 people was empty, and it was estimated that there were only about one or two thousand people present, which was still in Los Angeles, where the ball market was hot.

However, for Tang Shuai, this does not affect his mentality at all, you must know that this is his first NBA game, how many opportunities he can get to play, and what kind of performance he will have, everything is unknown.

Compared to the regular season, many of the preparations for the pre-season are waived, and after a simple warm-up, the starters are called by the referee to the center of the pitch and ready to jump.

The coaches of both sides looked relaxed, and it was clear that pre-season was a very relaxed game for them compared to the regular season that was contested every game.

However, despite the pre-season, the managers of both sides ruled out the starting lineup at the beginning.

On the Nuggets' side, the interior line is composed of "orc" Kenneth Farred and French rookie Joffrey Lovergne, and the small forward is their offensive core, Italian Danilo Gallinari, and the backcourt is this year's No. 7 rookie, Emmanuel Moodier, who played for the CBA Guangdong team, and Gary Harrison, a rookie in 2014.

Compared with the Nuggets, the Clippers' starting lineup like the regular season is obviously much more interesting, Griffin and Paul are all top ten players in the league, Jordan is also the top five center in the league, plus the long-famous Pierce, and three-point sharpshooter JJ Redick, this lineup, just in terms of momentum, is a notch higher than the Nuggets.

Tang Shuai is sitting at the bottom of the bench at this time, and next to him are CJ Wilcox and Brandon Dawson, this position is indeed shabby, and the only difference between the two sitting on his left is that he is at least still on the activation list.

As the referee's whistle blew, the match between the two sides officially began.

The Nuggets' Farred jumped up and flicked the ball back to the Nuggets' halfcourt, and he was still a lot better than Jordan than the bounce.

However, compared with the Clippers, the only thing they can take advantage of is the bounce, when the game officially starts, the gap between the two sides is reflected at once, whether it is technical tactics or overall strength, the Clippers are a notch better than the Nuggets.

With a wave of Paul's hand, Griffin suddenly spun away from Farid, and jumped to his feet.

Before Griffin could take off, Paul threw the ball over the basket, and St. Paul's exclusive pass pack was activated, and the ball appeared directly in front of Griffin's hand with great precision.

Griffin almost didn't have to adjust, he grabbed the ball with one hand in the air and pressed it down, activating Riffin's exclusive dunk bag, which was also an empty catch, and the momentum of sweeping thousands of troops was incomparable to others, and even Lovenje, who came over to make up for it, shrank back in fright.

"Bang!"

Griffin slammed the dunk vigorously, and the whole person pressed down heavily, and the basket was pressed down several centimeters.

At 20:9, after playing more than half of the first quarter, Griffin used this explosive dunk to widen the margin to double digits in one fell swoop.

Nuggets coach Mike Malone shook his head helplessly and reached out to call a timeout.

The fans at the scene erupted in enthusiastic cheers, although it was a preseason game, but they could see Paul and Griffin's empty reception, and they had already bought the tickets in vain.

Listening to the cheers of the surrounding fans, Tang Shuai rubbed his hands a little nervously, at this point in time, it was almost time for the team to change.

Sure enough, after the timeout, Reeves began to make personnel adjustments, except for Jordan and Redick, the other three positions were replaced.

Tang Shuai waited expectantly, but there was no one among Reaves' substitutions, Austin Reaves, Wesley Johnson, Josh Smith, and the team's three offseason signings all appeared.

Tang Shuai rubbed his hands a little anxiously, and Paul, who was on the field, saw this, changed places with him, and sat down.

"How's that, you're a little nervous, aren't you?" Paul wiped his sweat with a towel and said with a smile.

"It's fine." Tang Shuai rubbed his hands and said.

"Don't be too nervous, the Nuggets are not very good, I believe it won't be long before you can play, remember what I said, show your strengths, you will get a chance." Paul still reminded.

Tang Shuai nodded, he had already agreed with Stephenson before the game, and after he came on the court, Stephenson would dominate the ball.

At this moment, there was a sudden uproar from the fans at the scene, and Reeves Jr. was in a hurry to attack, but was tackled by Moodier.

After Moodier's steal, he rushed straight from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and made a layup to add two points to the Nuggets.

"Austin is still in too much of a hurry." Paul whispered.

Tang Shuai turned his head to look at Reeves at this time.

Reeves was very calm, talking and laughing with Cassel next to him, and he didn't seem to care much about Reeves's mistakes.

The game was still going on, and as we saw midway through the second quarter, when the Nuggets' lead was already 20 points, Reaves finally remembered to work on the rookies, and he waved his hand at the end of the bench.

"Don, it's your turn." Paul patted Tang Shuai's shoulder and said.

Tang Shuai stood up from the bench, took off his coat, and walked straight to the field, where he wanted to replace Little Reeves.

Tang Shuai went up to clap with Little Reeves as usual, but he didn't expect to be ignored directly, and after Little Reeves squinted at him, he walked straight to the bench.

Tang Shuai smiled and withdrew his hand, and then walked on the court.

In fact, Reaves Jr.'s performance was not good, although the Clippers led by 20 points, but after he came on the court, he only contributed 2 points and 2 turnovers, such data is obviously a bit sorry for the amount of playing time his dad gave him.