People, always have to be happy, even if there is nothing happy, you still have to be happy, otherwise you can't be angry for so long in your life.

Mike Malone has been so comforting to himself.

Last season in the Kings, he became a head coach for the first time, and played very well with Cousins, which made Cousins very happy to play, playing a beautiful performance of 25+12 per game for the first time in his career, and fully exploited Cousins's potential.

Just when he thought his coaching career was starting to go smoothly, George Carr expressed interest in the position of head coach of the Kings, and then the general manager of the Kings fired him outright......

But fortunately, he allowed Cousins to play an average of 25+12 per game from a player who averaged 17 points and 9 rebounds per game last season, reflecting the ability to develop potential players, and was favored by the Nuggets with a large number of young potential stocks, reached a two-year contract, and returned to the position of head coach again.

When he first arrived at the Nuggets, the Nuggets had Lawson, Will Barton, Gallinari, Farid, Jokic, Nurkic...... A bunch of young players with explosive talent, he was excited and felt like he was going to turn over again.

Who knew that as soon as he signed a contract with the Nuggets, Lawson was traded, which made him feel incredible, this is a super point guard who averages double assists per game!

But he still comforted himself, be a man, be happy, didn't he also choose Moody, the No. 1 high school student in the United States that year.

And when Lawson shot 1 of 18 in the Rockets' opening game, he instantly balanced, and it seems that the management has long found out that Lawson will suddenly jump off a cliff.

But then when Moodier averaged 33 percent shooting per game and 29 percent three-pointers, he really couldn't be happier.

Facts have proved that the lineup of the Nuggets can only be played by George Karl, this group of people have bad brains! The shooting is poor and the shooting is strong, they are all a group of track and field muscles, and they can't play a little more complicated tactics, and he finally understands why Brian Shaw is gone.

And now Mike Malone's experience is worse than Brian Shaw, at that time, there was still a normal period of Lawson, and he really couldn't play complex tactics, and he could still let Lawson take the fight and run, and now it has become Moody......

Mike Malone happily said to management: Let's fight Simmons next year, okay?

One of the things that Mike Malone struggles with the most is that this group of players really can't play well, but they won't be particularly bad, and now they are 10-16, completely out of the top pick, but also in the playoffs......

Mike Malone was very emotional when he saw the Lakers' lineup, to say that the team in the league with the most similar lineup to the Lakers, the team with the same level of talent, happened to be the Nuggets he coached.

If D'Antoni were to coach the Nuggets, he would probably be able to play the same best coach-level record as George Karl.

But he's just Mike Malone after all, not D'Antoni, not George Carr......

So he's watching Clarkson's second-round pick last season blow up his lottery show this year, and then find something happy, at least the first-round pick Nurkic selected in 2014 and the second-round pick Jokic in 2014 performed well, and they didn't fall behind in the competition with Monroe, Monroe didn't look at it as a substitute this year, and he used to be a player who was at least 15+10 all year round since he started in the second grade, and he was a proper first-class center.

Although both Jokic and Nurkic have some disadvantages to Monroe, it is a matter of experience, after all, Monroe has played for the sixth year in five years, and both are still sophomores.

The Nuggets are happy now to wait for these two centers to play, as for Moodier...... Let's still look forward to Will Barton, who is facing off against McCollum, to grow into an all-around two-way guard, and Jokic also has good passing ability, both of them have grown up, and the organizational aspect is enough, Moodier ...... I've already chosen, what else can I do.

Mike Malone doesn't think about Porzingis, it's too far, it's about to fall to the second round, and he is not necessarily better than Jokic, Mike Malone is worried about Devin Booker, who was selected by the Suns with the 13th pick in the first round, and a rookie point guard who averages 15 points per game!

However, Mike Malone was still happy today, after all, the team is ahead...... Although none of the Lakers' five strongest players played......

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The Lakers rotated a wide range of games today, LaVine, Clarkson, and McCollum rotated the backcourt, Moodier defended who broke out, Nick Young and Gallinari in the frontcourt, and Gasol, Monroe, Biyombo, Blake and Farid, Jokic, and Nurkic on the inside.

The defense of both sides is not good, but the scene is very good, although the Nuggets have not had a particularly good organization, but the talent is really good, except for the point guard who was abused by Clarkson and LaVine, everything else is no worse than the Lakers.

The Lakers' five superstars and future superstars sat on the sidelines, watching the bench-based players on the court lose to the Nuggets, and watching D'Antoni's face flush and speechless.

It doesn't matter if the starter is not good, what about a 11th in the West casually?

D'Antoni was embarrassed, he looked like a ten-win team at the time, so he didn't pay attention to it at all, and went directly to persuade Antetokounmpo, Kobe, Liu Ren, Green, and Whiteside, who were supposed to start, to rest today and let the benches have more opportunities to play.

The five didn't think much about it, thinking that D'Antoni had the confidence to win, and the Nuggets did not have a good record, and there was no brutal bench like the Lakers in terms of wind reviews.

However, D'Antoni didn't expect it either!

How can D'Antoni go back and follow a team that can't make it to the playoffs, and how will he know that the Nuggets won those ten games they won......

It's just relying on talent, nothing else, it's just relying on talent to win ten games, no matter what tactics or defense, it's all talent.

Compared with talent, those guys from the Nuggets can be compared with the Lakers, seven or eight talented men, but they haven't fully grown up, and they haven't let Mike Malone play Princeton's passer, but it's really talented, and the Lakers' second team is completely defeated......

The Lakers' five superstars and future superstars were also very irritable at first, and they said that they would win casually and let the benches find a psychological balance! This was blown up, okay!

But there was no reaction to the five of them, what can they do, they didn't make it to the activation list today, wearing suits on the Nuggets' home court with the same movements, supporting their hands on their knees and looking at D'Antoni with resentful eyes, D'Antoni's face was suffocated, and he was very embarrassed by the five, and the six people formed a Lakers fan who only felt that this game was quite interesting......

119-110, the Nuggets ended the Lakers' winning streak at home.

The Lakers really have no problem on the offensive end in this game, the key is that the Nuggets are too good in talent and offensive ability, and the Lakers' bench lineup is also average in defense, and there are a few who don't defend at all, so it is reasonable to lose.

Then sure enough, D'Antoni was criticized by reporters who came with the team from Los Angeles, and the Lakers' five suit-wearing people didn't go to help share the burden, who let D'Antoni do it himself......

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After playing two straight games against the Thunder and Nuggets, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles and defeated the Thunder and Hornets back-to-back at home on the 21st and 22nd.

The Lakers were originally waiting for the Thunder, but the Thunder just finished the fourth game of the 7-day 5-game, and it was the second game of the back-to-back, Westbrook was okay, Durant was really tired, Coach Donovan was afraid that Durant would be overtired and injured like last season, and Westbrook's knee has always worried the Thunder management, so Coach Donovan directly rested the double less in this game, and the Lakers easily won the game.

The second game against the Hornets didn't have much to watch, the Hornets did play well this year, they already had Kemba Walker, McGegie and Al Jefferson in the summer, they brought in Jeremy Lin and Batum, plus the excellent coaching ability of the famous coach Steve Clifford, this year has become a disruptive team in the East.

However, it is only possible to disrupt the situation, and it is not a big problem to enter the playoffs in the East, but it is obviously unlikely to go far, and the top four in the East are still very strong.

The only highlight of this game is that Jeremy Lin returned to the Lakers' home court to receive the championship ring, and the Lakers fans are still very grateful for Jeremy Lin's contribution last season, in the case that Antetokounmpo did not grow up and LaVine was still a rookie, Jeremy Lin helped Clarkson withstand the pressure of so many super point guards in the league in the point guard position, and helped the Lakers win the championship again after 4 years, and it was the 17th championship tied for the Celtics.

Jeremy Lin is really emotional, even if he has a grudge against the Lakers, after all, he can only play as a substitute after being counterattacked by a rookie, and he didn't play good statistics in the contract year, and despite the bonus of a championship guard, he didn't get the same salary he expected last season.

However, the love of the championship is priceless, and Jeremy Lin and his teammates have a good relationship, and he still cried when Kobe Bryant called the ring to Jeremy Lin's hand.

After the warm scene is over, it is Kobe Bryant who tyrannizes Jordan's team, today Kobe's running position is as positive as playing the Thunder, Green is also very active and constantly blocking and dismantling Kobe without the ball, Antetokounmpo and LaVine's passes are also very timely, Kobe, a guy who likes to "abuse" all kinds of animals, has more than 20 open shots in the whole court, plus some Hornets changed defenses after Kobe Bryant faced Kemba Walker or Jeremy Lin's defense when he was single, Kobe Bryant scored 44 points on 15-of-27 shooting today.

Liu Ren was desperate, Kobe Bryant performed well today, leading the Lakers to keep pressing the Wasps, so D'Antoni asked him to watch Kobe Bryant's skills on the sidelines, and clocked out after the first quarter, fortunately, he had a bad premonition when he saw Kobe Bryant so positive in the first quarter, and decisively waved a few three-pointers, luck and feel good, 3 of 4 three-pointers, plus a rebound and a breakthrough, 5 of 6 in the first quarter and scored 13 points, so it was a double-double......

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25-4, the Lakers' record this year is indeed worse than the same period last season, but there is no way, last season the Lakers were determined to break the Bulls record after playing a record that surprised them at the beginning, and improved the record to 74 wins, which looks like there is no confidence to break the height, so this year, neither D'Antoni nor the Lakers players have thought about continuing to refresh the record, and it is normal to take a turn off when it should be rested, which is worse than last season.

After the Lakers played back-to-back games between the Thunder and the Hornets, the Lakers got two days off, and the next game is the Christmas game.

The Lakers' Christmas game is against the Warriors, who have now won 28 in a row!

On the second day after the Lakers and Hornets game, that is, on December 23, the Warriors defeated the Los Angeles Clippers on the road, winning 29 consecutive games, and then did not return to Oakland, and lived directly in Los Angeles, and because Oakland is very close to Los Angeles, the Warriors management and coaching staff made an exception this time to let the Warriors players take their wives and children to Los Angeles, and then chartered a large estate in Beverly Hills, so that the Warriors players can spend Christmas Eve with their families on the road.

Thanks to the fact that the Warriors' Christmas game is to play away from home in Los Angeles, otherwise it will be another sad night when they can't spend Christmas Eve with their families, and the whole team will spend Christmas Eve together, which is also a special taste.

Of course, there are also unlucky ones like the Cavaliers, who want to go to New York away from home, no way, the Christmas game is generally played on the larger side of the city where the home court of the two sides is located, the Cavaliers and the Knicks are the two most watched teams in the East, and it is normal for the ratings to be pulled by the Christmas game and now it is starting to decline because of aesthetic fatigue.

There are five Christmas games this year, the first is the Cavaliers away to challenge the Knicks, then the Hawks go to Toronto to play the Spurs system battle with the Raptors, the third is the Lakers host the Warriors, the fourth is the Texas civil war between the Spurs and the Rockets, and the last game is the Thunder away to the Clippers.

The Clippers are unlucky again, and even the Thunder are unlucky, because the Lakers have to warm up on the freshly changed floor, freshly wiped floor, and then play the game after the Lakers finish the game.

There is usually a problem with the freshly changed floor, and only the Lakers and Clippers often encounter it, which is slippage, everyone can only play very carefully, and the beauty of the game will also decrease.

This is another thing that makes Clippers owner Ballmer want to change his home court immediately......

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On the morning of the 24th, Liu Ren took the family to Curry and Thompson's invitation and came to the big estate rented by the Warriors.

The place rented by the Warriors is in Beverly Hills, which is two or three minutes' drive from Liu Ren and Kobe's home, so naturally they have to invite the Lakers players to get together and exchange feelings, no one can say whether they will become teammates one day, because the players of the Warriors and Lakers are very talented, and the Thunder are invited together.

For the Thunder, the Warriors treated it differently, after all, the relationship is not so good, and the relationship between Randle and Ibaka and Adams is also relatively bad...... Durant was hired because of the camaraderie with the company, Westbrook was invited to appreciate his ability, and the rest of the Thunder was ...... To be honest, the Warriors, who have won 29 in a row, don't look down on it at all.

Someone invited guests to dinner, Liu Ren and Da Lori are very happy, they don't have to cook today!

So Liu Ren became famous again, and took the little girl, the big Lori, the two little Lori, and a pregnant woman to the manor rented by the Warriors in a business car......