With 103 points in the third quarter, the Lakers went crazy in the third quarter, widening the margin to more than 20 points and sending the game into garbage time.

Liu Ren played the whole quarter in the third quarter, incarnated as an excellent setter and directly delivered assists, and at the same time did a good job in rebounding, scoring 7 points and 7 assists in a single quarter, plus 11 points, plus 12 points, 3 boards and 3 assists in the first half, the economic version of the triple-double!

With 23 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, Liu Ren got a triple-double for the second time this season!

Compared with the triple-double monsters like James and Westbrook, Liu Ren's triple-doubles are too few, at most one or two a year, and it is only in these two years that he has the strength to get a triple-double, and the total number is very small, so D'Antoni also waited for Liu Ren to get a triple-double before replacing him.

The economic version of the triple-double was achieved, and the Lakers led the Clippers by 24 points, so Liu Ren clocked out of work.

Rivers' side didn't say anything about his rotation of mistakes in the third quarter, but because they were already going to lose anyway, they continued to let their son brush up on the court in the fourth quarter.

Sometimes fathers love such things......

But the Clippers players are actually used to it, why is Jordan Jr. so good at rebounding in the past two years? Rivers Jr.'s help is indispensable, and since he traded Rivers Jr. back in the middle of last season, Jordan Jr. has become the favorite for rebounding......

In the last quarter, the Lakers replaced the pure bench, LaVine took Nick Young, Nance Jr., Black, and Biyombo to continue to run on the court, although the organization was a bit miserable, but it was similar to Rivers Jr.'s team, and the two teams played a close match in the final quarter.

In the end, the Lakers easily won the game 131-110.

Liu Ren is still a little reluctant to play this game, and he can play the Clippers "away" at the Staples Center, and the opportunities are getting fewer and fewer, and there will be one less game to play.

Sometimes, it's still strange and lonely to lose an opponent who wants to steal the limelight all day long.

However, the game was won, all the games in January were over, and the Lakers also got their 40th win of the season, and their record became 40-8, which is generally gratifying!

Six more games and it's All-Star Weekend.

The next six games are back-to-back home games, then four consecutive home games, and then a luxurious 10-day vacation for most of the Lakers' players!

On February 2nd and 3rd, the Lakers welcomed the Hornets and Grizzlies at home, both teams have a certain strength in the East and West, both are playoff teams, the Hornets have Jeremy Lin, Kemba Walker, McGegie, Batum, Al Jefferson, Courtney Lee and others, also stirred up a wave of turmoil in the East, and the 76ers, Celtics are tied for the most surprising rising teams, becoming the representatives of emerging forces in the East.

The black and white bears of the Grizzlies are still powerful, especially Conley and Gasol Jr., the two have forcibly supported the Grizzlies who have aged a lot, and it is rumored that the Grizzlies owner is negotiating with the two about renewing their contracts early, but neither of them has agreed for the time being.

These two teams are not bad, but they are far behind the Lakers who are in good shape, and with Liu Ren, Antetokounmpo, and Kobe Bryant resting, the Lakers still won the two games easily, won three consecutive victories, and improved their record to 42-8.

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The winning streak is happy, winning, of course happy, the morale of the Lakers players is high right now.

Then just as they were about to embark on their road trip because of the arrival of the Grammys, the All-Star starting list was announced!

Liu Ren won the All-Star vote king with more than 5.93 million votes in the NBA record! Selected as an All-Star starter for the third year in a row!

Bryant voted 5.27 million votes, becoming the second-most voted player in a single year for All-Star voting in history.

James also exceeded 5 million votes and ranked first in the East with 5.15 million votes.

When the All-Star votes were announced, the fans were a little regretful, Liu Ren was so short of tens of thousands of votes to break 6 million, and Curry, who had 4.86 million votes, was also a little regretful, almost breaking 5 million votes, after all, there are still a lot of stars in the Western backcourt, Harden, Klay Thompson, Paul and others have shared a lot of votes.

The All-Star starting lineup in the East is being released in a week, and the Eastern All-Star starting lineup is led by James, and the other four are Anthony and Paul George in the frontcourt, and the strength and popularity of the two are among the Eastern frontcourt players, and James can stabilize them among the frontcourt players in the East, and the backcourt is Wade and Isaiah Thomas, who are also the popular kings in their respective positions in the East.

The Western All-Star starters have Liu Ren leading the frontcourt, Whiteside ranks second among Western frontcourt players in the number of votes, Gasol comes from behind, and Griffin is contrasted at the last moment, beating Anthony Davis and Thackeray, and the frontcourt of the Western All-Star starters is covered by the Lakers!

The backcourt is now dominated by Curry, the most popular point guard in the league, and Kobe, the most popular scoring guard, and it is estimated that as long as Curry and Kobe are still playing in the league at the same time, the two positions of the Western All-Star starting backcourt will not be touched at all.

Gasol, who was working as a team bus, was so excited that he cried out when he saw that he was selected as an All-Star starter, and his sister-in-law's cry was so tempting......

Lakers four All-Star starters! Very good and strong, Gasol was also selected as an All-Star starter last year, but last year his data was not bad, and he was still the starting power forward of the Lakers, but this year he went to play with the bench, and he didn't expect to be selected as an All-Star starter, not only to the surprise of many fans, but also to his own surprise, although there was Liu Ren's "risking death" to send out a canvassing tweet, but he didn't really look forward to it, who knew that in the last few hours of competition, the fans who voted for Gasol stood up, At the last moment, he beat Griffin, Anthony Davis, and Thackeray!

The Lakers players are very happy, even if they are not selected, they are happy for their teammates, because this thing depends on popularity, if the teammates are popular, they can also get a little bit of sidelines, drive their own popularity, maybe the endorsement contract can get tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands.

And the Lakers have a good relationship with this group of people, generally speaking, the teammates of the teams that win the championship together have a very good relationship, otherwise the relationship is not good, and they will not be able to play tacit cooperation.

Of course, Kobe Bryant and O'Neal are exceptions, and the two of them are the kind that are so suitable to be teammates that they don't realize it.

In fact, Kobe and O'Neal are really the most suitable partners, Kobe likes to shoot, O'Neal has the ability to make up for him even if his teammates can't shoot, so Kobe Bryant shoots, and Kobe's ability to pass the ball to the basket is also very strong, and he can give O'Neal a lot of assists.

That's why Kobe Bryant's partnership with Howard, as well as O'Neal's partnership with James, doesn't feel like a good fit.

Of course, O'Neal and Howard were not at their peak when they partnered with James and Kobe Bryant respectively, especially O'Neal, who was not far from retirement at that time, but no matter how old O'Neal is, he still has a certain strength, he is still a monster under the basket, and the tonnage of the body is there, he wants to see James shoot a lot, so he can not go out to block and waste physical strength, because he can still dominate the basket as long as he still has physical strength, but James prefers to pass, and it is a passing line.

So some fans joked that O'Neal saw James passing the ball all the time, and was complaining: My former partner rushed to shoot the key ball.

And when Kobe Bryant and Howard partnered, they were both thinking about the league's No. 1 center, there should be no difference, and then they kept shooting and let Howard grab rebounds, Howard was naturally unhappy, because even if he was in his prime, he didn't have O'Neal's dominance under the basket.

Kobe Bryant and O'Neal's partnership is an extremely rare exception, the relationship between the players of other championship teams is generally very good, even if they leave the team in the future, the teammates who recall the most are still those teammates who won the championship together, after all, it is difficult for most players to have a championship experience once in their lives, and one percent of the players are unable to feel the joy of tasting the championship with their teammates throughout their lives.

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Of course, as soon as the All-Star starting list came out, the basketball fandom exploded!

The same team has four All-Star starters, the Lakers are making history, last season was six people selected for the All-Star Weekend, but that was only Kobe, Liu Ren, Gasol three starters, this is not no team has done, but last season six people were selected for the All-Star Weekend is already a record.

This year, four people were selected as All-Star starters, and if it weren't for the fact that there were only four people in the frontcourt, maybe even the guy who only knew how to wave a towel would have been selected.

Sakistone was second only to the three Western frontcourt starters in the final moments, finishing with more votes than Anthony Davis......