The summer league is underway, but the Lakers actually couldn't even find people to play in the summer league at first, and there was no way that the Lakers already had fifteen players, and the roster was full!

In addition to Carman, who left the Lakers, Wesley Johnson and Farmar left the team without getting a contract extension, and Marshall, who was given up by the Lakers, already had 12 players, and the draft was traded to Jeremy Lin, LaVine was selected in the first round, and Clarkson was selected in the second round, and the 15-man roster has been completed!

What are free agents participating in the summer league for, isn't it just to join the NBA, the Lakers are already full, naturally there will be no free agents. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's the same as last season's training camp, where Kupchak couldn't even get together 10 people from outside the team to play against each other.

Fortunately, the summer league does not require players to sign official contracts to participate, only summer league contracts are required, and other teams can be signed from other teams' summer league teams, and the Lakers barely recruited 7 people to play.

But that's not enough!

There is no choice but to send NBA players to play, Kupchak will be selected this year LaVine, Clarkson, Henry who needs to find a feeling after returning from injury, Antetokounmpo and McCollum in the second year are all sent to play in the summer league, and this is how to make up the 12-man squad.

Originally, Kupchak wanted Thackeray to play more, but Thackeray went to the Canadian national team's training camp to prepare for the World Cup.

Now that the summer league is over, Kupchak sees that there is a short center named Tariq Black in his team who is very energetic and physical, and is very suitable to stay and play as a substitute, but the roster is full, so he can only regret giving up and recommending it to Morey, the general manager of the Rockets who helped the Lakers get LaVine this time.

Kupchak could already see that training camp in October had turned into intra-squad training again, and he was quite unhappy as a player who had already fallen in love with discovering hidden talents. How did you run out of slots on the team!

Browsing the list of players, Kupchak's eyes were fixed on the name of the second-round pick Jordan Clarkson, he was inexplicably unhappy with this rookie, and the other players also got it, Henry, Nick Young was recruited by himself last season, Thackeray is also his favorite big center, Green, Whiteside, McCollum, Antetokounmpo are all talented young people, Kobe, Gasol, Nash are the pillars of the team, Jeremy Lin is a half-sold giveaway, and the strength is not bad, Even LaVine and Bazemore are Liu Ren's handpicked younger brothers, what is this Clarkson?

Kupchak was overjoyed after selecting LaVine, from the aura shown by LaVine in the trial, Kupchak seemed to see another Kobe, although it was far worse than the strength that Kobe Bryant showed when he was 17 years old, but this kind of talent is not said to be there!

Kupchak used his position as a vouch for this when discussing this with management, and LaVine is definitely the number one center guard talent in this draft!

Clarkson was recommended by the team's scouts from the minor league of the college league, and after getting LaVine, Kupchak randomly chose a name from the scouting report, which happened to be Clarkson, so Clarkson was selected by the Lakers in the second round.

Judging from the physical test results, Clarkson's physical fitness is still good, the bounce is a little worse, but the explosiveness is barely at the first-class level, the speed is first-class, the impact is strong, the projection ability is poor, the confrontation is poor, and the defense is poor.

Kupchak now regrets why he chose so hastily at the time, he just wanted to strengthen the defender at the time.

But if he gives up the signing right, he feels that it is a waste, and he can be favored by scouts, Clarkson must have something for scouts to appreciate, since the scouts helped the team bring Liu Ren, Kupchak paid more attention to the vision of his own team's scouts, so he was ready to sign Clarkson with a two-year rookie base salary, of course, the second year is not guaranteed.

Although he was selected by himself and was ready to sign it, Kupchak still felt uncomfortable!

Suddenly, Kupchak thought of something, and the old face showed a wicked smile, and he took out his mobile phone and dialed Liu Ren's number.

"Liu, didn't you always say that there was a shortage of training opponents? I have a ...... here."

……

Liu Ren looked at the two imps in front of him, yes, they are imps, although Liu Ren is not necessarily older than them, especially one of them is very old, but as an "old-timer" who has been playing in the NBA for three years, he can call them imps.

One of the energetic imps was looking around at Liu Ren's family's training hall, revealing a sigh of amazement, as if he was envious of the superstar's family is different, and actually built a training room directly in the garden of his home.

This guy is LaVine, who is quite familiar with Liu Ren, and after the NCAA league in the second half of the regular season, he often goes to the Toyota Center to hang out.

Although the Lakers management can't contact LaVine, people are here for "sightseeing", and by the way, it's good to "try" the Lakers training hall basket, and the Lakers definitely didn't have a draft pick to select this talent who was almost locked in the top eight picks at the time, and the league didn't say anything.

So after coming and going, LaVine and the Lakers players are all familiar with each other, especially Liu Ren, who brought him to visit the Toyota Center, has a good relationship with him.

Liu Ren, Laven's talent, had long known about it, so he didn't care about him.

Liu Ren is more curious about this very tense year in front of him, Jordan Clarkson!

Seeing Clarkson, Liu Ren remembered this offensive point guard who has always been underestimated, but he didn't expect this guy to be selected by the Lakers, he was destined to become a Lakers player!

If you want to say who is the player who Liu Ren originally remembered the Lakers in the last two years of his memory, of course, it was Kobe, Kobe's last year of "tour" was simply amazing, that year was definitely a unique feast in NBA history, and even the Warriors, who were about to win 73 wins, became a supporting role.

But it wasn't Kobe Bryant who supported the Lakers in those two years, to be honest, Kobe Bryant could indeed be called a laggard in those two years, a hasty comeback, injuries one after another, and the remaining seventy or eighty percent of the strength was lost, and the luck was really bad!

But the Lakers had a guy who had been overlooked and climbed out of the end of the bench, first knocking over the starter Jeremy Lin to the starting position in the 14-15 season, and then overshadowing the Lakers' draft in the 15-16 season and almost winning the best sixth man.

This person is Jordan Clarkson, who is so nervous in front of him!

Liu Ren can be said to be both admiring and curious about Clarkson, how did this guy stand out from the Lakers' "purgatory" environment in those two years?

It's really curious!