On October 1st, the day of China's National Day, the NBA's training camp also began. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

By this time, the free agents who could find jobs had basically found their homes, the deals for each team were almost complete, and the main rosters of each team were basically determined.

That's when the media and TV stations come up with their predictions.

Each team's training camp is different, but it is generally a dozen or so players with guaranteed contracts, and more than a dozen players under training camp contracts, and finally a few players from the training camp contract players are selected to make a 15-man squad.

Then select thirteen regular activation players from the fifteen-man roster, and two water cooler managers who can only sit on the cold bench for a year without accident.

However, injuries are inevitable and it is difficult to have a player who does not play all season.

However, the Lakers have been the exception for both years, and once again this year, they did not have a training camp contract, and went straight to the step of selecting thirteen regular rotation players.

Unfortunately, Thackeray, the cornerstone and the future Breakthrough King Clarkson, were beaten into the suit clan at the beginning of the training camp.

Thackeray is not really teasing him as a nuclear weapon this time, but his training has only just begun, and the coaching staff will need to develop the soft touch he inherited from his mother and surprise his opponents in the second half of the season.

Clarkson is an unpopular second-round pick, and his skills generally need to be practiced hard, and there is no place for him.

LaVine is relatively lucky, after all, he is a key target for point guards.

However, Clarkson is not without a chance to play, Nash will definitely not play back-to-back, and he will not play on consecutive away games, and then it will be his chance.

Although the Lakers' training camp may seem a little boring, especially Kupchak, it has many benefits in that it can be used to get into the tactical phase from the start, although it started as early as two weeks ago, but now that D'Antoni and Bickerstaff have worked together to integrate the revamped offensive and defensive system, the progress has become even faster.

The seven-day training camp time passed in a flash, and the lists of major media outlets were released.

The most important of all the lists are Sports Illustrated and ESPN, one of which is the most authoritative in the industry and the other is the favorite to create topics.

There is no suspense in the team power rankings, and both lists are the first of the Spurs.

In the past two years, the Spurs' combat power can be ranked first in the league, even if the 13-year championship is the Heat, people think so.

The second place was controversial from the beginning, with the Sports Illustrated side placing the Lakers in second place and the Cavaliers in third.

The reasons given by Sports Illustrated are more convincing, although the Cavaliers have a strong lineup, and the Big Three have also attracted some veterans to strengthen them, but the run-in is always a problem. And the Lakers have gone through a successful season, and the young players are bound to improve even more to be good enough to be in second place.

But ESPN's Lakers are only sixth, even one place lower than the Clippers, third with the Thunder and fourth with the Rockets.

The reason given by ESPN is the old topic of the contradiction between Liu Ren and Kobe, and the Clippers are ahead of the Lakers, and they give that the Clippers only declined last year because of off-court effects, otherwise it was the Clippers who reached the Western Conference Finals.

The reason is very good and strong, the overall strength of the top six is not too much from the actual point of view, Liu Ren can barely bear it after reading this list.

But when it came time for the player rankings, Liu Ren and Kobe Bryant were angry!

Sports Illustrated is roughly ranked according to last season's individual performance and improvement trends, James is ranked first for the fourth consecutive year since 2012, Paul is second, Anthony Davis is third, Liu Ren is fourth, Westbrook is fifth, Griffin is sixth, Curry is seventh, Love is eighth, last season's MVP Durant is only ninth, Harden is tenth, Howard is eleventh, and Kobe is twelfth.

Although Liu Ren complained a lot on Sports Illustrated's list, Paul ranked second and could barely accept it, what the hell is Anthony Davis? He admits that Anthony Davis is very talented, but even in 2016, Anthony Davis was just an unaffordable stat freak who could easily take on him by a team with a good interior line.

However, complaining and complaining, Sports Illustrated ranked him fourth, Liu Ren was still startled, and he was also very happy.

Kobe Bryant's ranking in Sports Illustrated dropped three places, and Sports Illustrated ranked Bryant ninth at this time last year.

In fact, he doesn't care how many Kobes are ranked, the key is that he is lower than Howard, which makes him very unhappy.

Liu Ren was delighted in the ranking of Sports Illustrated, and Kobe Bryant was annoyed.

By the time they arrived at ESPN, their expressions completely reversed.

ESPN doesn't know which tendon is wrong, they have been crazy about Kobe Bryant before, and they photographed Kobe Bryant to fifth place, second only to James, Durant, Paul, and Westbrook.

ESPN Transferred? Not the Black Lakers anymore? Obviously not, Liu Ren is only in 21st place!

Kobe Bryant was naturally happy when he saw Liu Ren's expression from joy to anger, and Liu Ren was so angry that he choked!

However, Liu Ren thought about it carefully, ESPN is by no means a black Kobe Bryant, but a person who wants to be blackened has become him!

ESPN obviously thinks that Kobe is about to retire, because Kobe is a year older, even those who are black Kobe are a little reluctant to him, ESPN people find that no matter how black Kobe is not very moving, Kobe has become a feeling, and there is no second person among the veterans who still have the strength and willingness to support a team like Kobe! Even Duncan has become a system player, and among the veterans, Kobe Bryant can still play at a star level outside the system.

ESPN is a businessman, they know how to create topics, and now using Kobe Bryant as a topic maker will obviously not only offend Lakers fans, but even the feelings of non-Lakers fans, so they shifted the target of black to Liu Ren!

ESPN's explanation for Liu Ren's ranking is that he played so well last season because of the team's open offensive system and Kobe Bryant's attraction to the opposing defense, and Kobe Bryant's fifth place gave the same reason.

The purpose is too obvious, not only to hack Liu Ren, but also to provoke the relationship between the two, if the two continue to "make contradictions", then the discord between the two they advertise will become true!

"These bastards, I'm going to see if there are 20 stronger than me in the league!" Liu Ren said angrily.

"Oops, isn't it just a media ranking! You see the official ranking is that I am sixth, and you are seventh, so that's a little more accurate. Bryant said in a tone of inflatedness.

"Do you think anyone will look at the official rankings? They were ranked according to their performance in the playoffs last season, and Leonard was still first. By the way, I remember Howard had a list one place higher than you, right? "Liu Ren is also a troublemaker.

The corners of Kobe's mouth twitched, although he knew that Liu Ren meant to say this, he was still unhappy.

"Rockets ......" Kobe Bryant gritted his teeth as he looked at the opponent in the first game of the regular season schedule hanging on the wall.