"Wow, that's cool! Carey: Did you hear that? The Lakers were going to build a new arena, and I looked at the design in the news, and it was bigger than the arena on our home court! "DeRozan is dressed in hip-hop clothes, and people are also hip-hop.

The little fat man Lowry doesn't understand why DeRozan is so happy, what does it have to do with them?

"Demar, do you see what those fans say about us? Say we're here to find Kobe Bryant's form! "Lowry has seen the news on the Internet since he came to Los Angeles yesterday, and the content is almost the same, turning out the stories of the Raptors being abused by Kobe Bryant for nearly ten years, and the Raptors have indeed been ten years, and they have not won against the Lakers since the beginning of the 05-06 season, and now they are facing the Lakers 20 consecutive defeats, and now Lowry is on fire.

Lowry is frustrated that those people don't see them as really second in the East, and in his opinion, his team can get to second place in the East step by step by relying on strength! And not just weak in the east!

In fact, since the Raptors introduced Coach Casey from the Spurs in 2011, they signed Lowry in the middle of three years, and the No. 5 pick selected Valanciunas, who was considered to be a ghost at the time, was selected with the fifth pick, just like Bennett was selected as the 2013 No. 1 pick, plus DeRozan, who was selected in the 09 lottery area, has progressed step by step from the top pick to the playoffs, the top four in the division, and now even competing with the Cavaliers for the first place in the East!

It's all a step-by-step record, and while other teams in the East are up and down, or up and down, the Raptors are steadily rising like a clear stream.

The Raptors are really a magical existence in the East, in the weak East, if you want to rise and make up two or three superstars in the year of play, such as the Heat and the Cavaliers, they were not very dripping, but the combination of giants will enter the Finals immediately, like the Hawks and Bulls, there are also those who play the first place in the division, but these teams say that they will rise, and they will fall when they say they fall, there is no process, those who are at the bottom have always been at the bottom, even if they get a lot of draft picks to select a bunch of high-ranking rookies.

But the Raptors are a clear stream, their record has improved every year, and they have a stronger appearance every year, and now they have become the first echelon in the East.

But because they don't have the kind of players who have always been regarded as superstars, they are still not favored, and with the experience of the Hawks last season, they seem to be labeled as the next Hawks.

In fact, if they have one or two more old superstars on the team, such as Pierce and Garnett, people's opinions will change dramatically in an instant, just like the Nets in the 13-14 season.

DeRozan was puzzled when he saw Lowry's angry look: "What people say is the truth, we have lost to the Lakers many times, they are indeed very strong, defending the champion." ”

Lowry felt that DeRozan was hopeless, and seeing that DeRozan admired the Lakers very much, he really couldn't help it, who called someone a Los Angelesman.

Seeing DeRozan ignore himself and continue to brush up on Lakers-related news, and interact with Nick Young of the opposing team, Lowry can only curse secretly: "Lakers fans are really annoying." ”

DeRozan is a native of Los Angeles, and Nick Young are both alumni of the University of Southern California, DeRozan, Nick Young, OJ Mayo, and Ty Gibson all played at the University of Southern California from 06 to 09, although they are basically not students of the same class, but they are in the same school at the same time, and the relationship is not bad, especially DeRozan and Nick Young, who have similar playing styles, personalities, and hobbies, and are a similar-minded USC duo.

Like Nick Young, DeRozan grew up in Los Angeles since he was a child, the home team is naturally the Lakers, the idol is naturally Kobe, and the Lakers are going to build a new arena for such a big thing, how can they not pay attention to it?

Lowry felt a little uncomfortable when he saw that DeRozan loved the Lakers so much, and suddenly he thought of something and asked in horror: "Demar, you don't want to go to the Lakers next year, do you?" ”

It's not that Lowry is worried, it's that DeRozan didn't accept the Raptors' 5-year, 100 million contract extension this past summer!

"To the Lakers? No, I don't want to play for the Lakers, why do you ask this? "DeRozan thinks Lowry is a little weird today, as if it's aimed at the Lakers.

In the eyes of fans like DeRozan, their home team is the best, and they are very puzzled by the targeting of others, which is the common point of most fans, and it does not only refer to the fans of which team......

"Don't you like the Lakers a lot? Don't you want to play for the Lakers. Lowry was a little curious.

"yes, I love the Lakers, but I want to beat him more than I play with the Lakers!" DeRozan's biggest dream is to beat Kobe, but he has been in the NBA for seven years and has yet to win against the Lakers......

"And you want to go somewhere else?" Lowry is still worried, because DeRozan hasn't renewed his contract yet! He Lowry himself signed a new 3-year 36 million in 14 years and only the second year.

"I just want to play in the hazy, I want to be like Kobe, always belong to a team and build my own legend!" DeRozan has a small goal, to beat him for 20 years with the Raptors first.

"Then why didn't you renew your contract?" Lowry doesn't think it makes sense!

"You're stupid! Next year, the salary cap will be raised so much, and then my salary will be at least five or six million more a year, and now the contract renewal is too much of a loss, by the way, you are really stupid, last year the contract was renewed for three years, and you didn't ask for a player option! Don't you know that the salary cap will go up so much next year? DeRozan looked at Lowry like an idiot, and it was ironclad that Lowry would have a lot less money next season.

Lowry's grief and indignation, who knew that in 2014, wages would skyrocket in 2016! It wasn't until the beginning of this year that Adam Silva negotiated a new contract with the broadcaster, and it was revealed that the broadcast fee for this season was so high, who knew at the time!

However, hearing that DeRozan would not leave, and had the same goal as him, that is, to defeat the Lakers, Lowry praised DeRozan in his heart, he is really a good American teammate!

Lowry was selected by the Grizzlies, when he first arrived at the Grizzlies, it was the 2006-2007 season, and when he was still a rookie, he was slashed by Kobe Bryant by 60 points, and the Grizzlies sent everyone who could defend, including the strong little steel cannon Lowry.

That's when Lowry became hostile to Kobe.

Then in December '07, the Lakers used robbery-like means to replace Gasol, the core player of the Grizzlies, with a Kwame Brown, and at that time Gasol Jr. was still playing in Europe, and the Grizzlies just got his signing rights, so it looked like the Lakers had snatched the boss from the Grizzlies players alive.

That's when Lowry began to hate the Lakers.

In the summer of '08, Lowry was sold by the Grizzlies, because the team bosses were all sold, and the role players must have been thrown away, Lowry became more disgusted with the Lakers, at that time he had just been in Memphis for two years and was used to life in Memphis.

In the 08-09 season, Lowry went to the Rockets, and the Rockets played very well that year, and the Lakers played strongly to tie seven, and finally lost, which is not the key, the key is that the entire core combination of the Rockets collapsed that year, Yao Ming, Maddy, and Mutombo stayed away from the NBA one after another, from a playoff team to a lottery champion.

By this time, Lowry had thoroughly regarded the Lakers as an enemy.

What makes Lowry hate the Lakers even more is that he has run to the Raptors, and Kobe Bryant still uses his new team as the object of honor points several times......

At this time, when DeRozan said that his goal was not to go to the Lakers, but to beat the Lakers, Lowry's heart was like finding a good friend with the same dream!

Just when Lowry wanted to express his feelings to DeRozan, DeRozan suddenly screamed: "Hey, Carey, come and see, the Clippers are moving out of the Staples Center!" Banzai! I've long seen that the Clippers are not pleasing to the eye, so a team that can't even enter the Western Conference Finals is embarrassed to rely on the Lakers, do you know Kyrie? The first time I watched the NBA as a kid, I was upset with the Clippers...... Eh...... Carey, how did you go......"

Lowry instantly changed from emotion to sadness, he was very sad, he said that he would beat the Lakers together, but you are their fans! Forget if it's their fan, they still run over to show off that it's their fan!

"Sure enough, Lakers fans are the most annoying!"

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The Clippers are changing arenas!

This news is much more exciting than the Lakers building a new training gym!

During the Sterling period, the Clippers refused to move out of Los Angeles, just as the Nets desperately wanted to move to New York, in Los Angeles they guaranteed ticket sales, guaranteed endorsement fees, and guaranteed various incomes.

So even if you are always in the shadow of the Lakers, and even people who are not so familiar with the NBA when you mention Los Angeles don't know that there is such a team as the Clippers, and even know more about the Timberwolves than you know about the Clippers, but Sterling just doesn't want to move away, because you can make money in Los Angeles.

But who is Ballmer? NBA's No. 1 Rich Man! The first local tyrant! He doesn't care about the amount of money the Clippers make every year, and to be honest, the Clippers in Los Angeles can only guarantee that they will not lose money, they have to pay the luxury tax almost every year since 2011, and the biggest endorsement and broadcast fees must be given to the Lakers, they just take the rest.

Ballmer doesn't care about that money, he just wants to get out of the shadows of the Lakers!

One thing is that the Clippers training hall is just a small college basketball hall, and when the Lakers shared a training hall with several teams before, Ballmer said that it was acceptable that the area that the Lakers had at the Toyota Center was not as large as the Clippers' training hall.

But now that the Lakers are actually strong enough to build an NBA-level training gym before him, one of the former Microsoft owners and a super tycoon, Ballmer's temper tantrum couldn't help it at that time, and he directly held a press conference, preparing to invest 1.5 billion to build a new home court in Inglewood, California! Will be moving out of Staples Center.

Inglewood, a residential city in California, is under the jurisdiction of Los Angeles, which is actually the county seat where Los Angeles International Airport is located, but the county and city planning in the United States is different from that in China, and what people usually say is that Los Angeles is actually a county in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and their counties and cities here are not necessarily big or small.

Although Inglewood is only in the southwest area of Los Angeles, and there is no gap in the middle, the urban agglomeration is connected, and it can be driven from Staples Center to Inglewood in an hour or two, which is similar to Shanghai's Hongqiao to Pudong, or even closer, but literally the Clippers are already moving out of Los Angeles!

Ballmer wanted to be better than the Lakers, so he immediately allocated money to Inglewood's government department to allocate land and prepare to start building it immediately, so that the Lakers' new gymnasium could be used before the end of the new training hall.

As soon as the price of 1.5 billion US dollars came out, the entire basketball circle was shocked.

It caused a storm on the Internet.

A well-known sports forum.

"Clippers owner Ballmer just wants to have a stadium of his own, every game can be cheered on his own turf, make his team's fans more enthusiastic, I can understand, he is a former Microsoft owner, he was one of the most profitable people in the world, of course he does not allow his industry to be suppressed by others, otherwise he will not leave Microsoft, I just don't know if Apple has a boss position to invite him to work?"

"Haha, you're really enough upstairs, but to be honest, I still don't understand how the investment of 1.5 billion was decided, it's really too rich to find a place to spend it? The Nets' arena I think has reached the extreme of a basketball stadium I can imagine, and even the Rose Bowl Center is not that valuable, 1.5 billion, is it to build an Olympic venue? ”

"Upstairs, you may not have watched last year's news, Ballmer heard that the Nets owner is the richest man in the NBA, and he was very upset that he had half more money than the Nets owner."

"So Prokhorov used 1 billion to repair a arena to increase the market value of the Nets to more than 2 billion, so Ballmer wants to use the way of repairing the arena to prove that he is worth half as much as Prokhorov?"

"What I said upstairs makes a lot of sense, not talking about the possible impact on the market value of the Clippers, after all, if Ballmer incorporates his new arena into the Clippers, the market value of the Clippers is likely to rise significantly! It's quite possible, after all, Ballmer owns all the shares of the Clippers. So it's understandable that they're moving away, and the players may feel more confident when the sky over the home stadium is no longer covered with posters covering other teams' championship flags and retired jerseys. ”

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Just when people were discussing the topic from a rather professional point of view, one person got into it.

"Floor stevedore: finally no need to be busy changing floors! Someone always wants to steal my collection of Xiduel floors, and I can finally get free! ”

"Poof...... Hahahaha, upstairs, people are having a serious discussion......"

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On the Lakers bus, they are en masse on their way to the Staples Center.

Two big news broke out today, although they have little to do with the players, and the players only need to be responsible for playing, but psychologically speaking, today's two news make the Lakers players very happy!

"The local tyrant boss from Microsoft is different! Our Staples Center seems to have been repaired for 200 million back then? Even if inflation is now, it will be at most four or five billion US dollars, which is really rich! Liu Ren couldn't help but sigh.

"Isn't that good? We won't have to share a arena with the Clippers in the second half of next season, and we won't have the problem of slippery floors that we just changed. "Bryant always looked at things differently.

But it's true, wax and polish the court floor after changing it, although the NBA's floor-changing staff has a way to get the floor ready for use within a few hours without the danger of slipping.

But sometimes the Clippers and Lakers are playing at home on the same day, with only one to two hours in between, or even less than an hour apart. Especially the air conditioning in the stadium is so powerful.

Liu Ren expressed his contempt for Kobe's boring response, and asked casually: "By the way, Kobe, why didn't I see you in training this afternoon?" Where have you been? ”

Liu Ren returned to the training ground after eating that damn nutritious meal at noon, and was surprised to find that Kobe Bryant was not training! He was curious that Kobe Bryant was a basketball maniac who would come to the training court even if the coach gave him a break unless he was injured.

"I have something to talk about with management." Kobe Bryant replied lightly.

"What's the matter?"

"It's your business."

"Slag, you little Milanese blacksmith."

“？？？？” Kobe Bryant looked confused......

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At 8 p.m. on November 21, the Lakers will host the challenge of the Toronto Raptors at home, and they are warming up and pre-game activities.

It's weird, Liu Ren feels weird.

Kobe Bryant usually walks around the court after the warm-up stretch, saying hello to this person, saying hello to that person, why didn't even his famous fan DeRozan pay attention to it today, but held a mobile phone and giggled there?

Liu Ren curiously leaned up and glanced at the screen of Kobe's mobile phone, he was actually playing Weibo!

Liu Ren took a look at the content: Hey, boys and girls, today your boss calls me blacksmith, I don't need to look up the dictionary, I know that it must be a word with meaning in your country, can you tell me what this means?

Seeing this question, Liu Ren a drop of cold sweat flowed down.

That's a bit of a big deal! In the domestic forum, saying that Kobe Bryant is a blacksmith will cause a large-scale scolding war and then be deleted by the forum administrator!

Liu Ren was a little cowardly, but he thought of something in an instant and didn't cowardly!

Because if Kobe Bryant received the answer to those black fans, Kobe would definitely be furious, Kobe Bryant has never been a guy with a big heart.

Liu Ren curiously asked the assistant coach to borrow a mobile phone to download Weibo, opened the comments on Kobe's latest Weibo, and instantly felt that the whole person was not good!

These fans are amazing!

Don't read the Chinese answer first, Kobe Bryant is definitely not the Chinese answer to read, he doesn't know, and there are really many domestic basketball fans who can speak English, and there are many fans who go over the wall to the American forum to reprint the content.

The comment with the most likes is this: "Blacksmith, this means that Kobe trains hard and plays hard, and the ball that you don't score during training hits the basket, and hits the basket more than the blacksmith, which is to describe that you are tempered into steel and have the quality of perseverance!" As for Milan, I'm talking about your experience growing up in Italy, and that your qualities were cultivated from a young age! Born with tenacity to strike iron. ”

There are also metaphors: "Kobe, have you heard of the blacksmiths in ancient China?" They struck the iron with their hammers for ten or twenty years by the burning stove, and finally created the strongest sword! This is the boss praising you for 20 years of playing with the Lakers! ”

There are also myths: "Kobe Bryant doesn't know if you have seen a legend in China, there is a blacksmith couple called Gan Jiang Mo Ye, they spent their lives to build a pair of weapons, and finally they used their lives and souls to open for these two swords, this is the boss to describe your hard work on basketball......"

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If Liu Ren wasn't thick-skinned enough, he would have blushed when he read these answers! The mouths of the countrymen! It's absolutely stunning!

Since this is the case, Liu Ren doesn't plan to disturb Kobe Bryant, who is having fun......

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Soon, the pre-game event is over and the game is about to begin.

The Lakers sent Antetokounmpo, Kobe, Liu Ren, Green, Whiteside.

Today, it was Monroe's turn, Biyombo, and LaVine to take turns to rest, Ci Shiping went back to play in the Development League, and Blake entered the activation list in exchange, and it was difficult for the three in the Development League to have a chance to play, and Ci Shiping only played for a few minutes last time he came back.

Regarding the rotation of the three point guards, D'Antoni basically put them on a rest, but when it comes to playoff teams, it is LaVine and Clarkson who take turns resting, and Antetokounmpo has to play.

When I played the Knicks before, there was no Antetokounmpo, and Liu Ren was the only one left on the outside of the Lakers, and he was blown out by the Knicks, and the Raptors are also a team with two stars on the outside, and Antetokounmpo is naturally the starter.

The starting lineup on the Raptors' side is Lowry, DeRozan, Carroll, Scola, Valanciunas.

Whiteside and Valanciunas jump the ball to the centre circle.

Finally has a big center with a similar body shape to Whiteside, aside from physical fitness, Valanciunas is two meters and three meters tall, 125 kilograms of tonnage, and the kind of hard stubble muscles of the standard Lithuanian white, compared with Whiteside's rough appearance, Valanciunas is not worse than Whiteside in terms of size, and the impact on the opponent in terms of size is no worse than Whiteside!

In addition to Valanciunas's height of two meters and one three, the arm span is also two meters and one ......

Whiteside jumps, this is one of the happiest things for the Lakers this season, a little jump ball expert can make Lakers fans so happy, you can see how deep the despair that Gasol almost lost last year to Lakers fans......

Liu Ren watched Whiteside and Valanciunas prepare to jump the ball, and always felt that something was strange, as if someone was looking at him with hatred, and he followed this uncomfortable feeling to find the source, it was actually the little steel cannon of the former Rocket Team!

"What is he looking at me for?" Liu Ren didn't play two games with the Raptors last year and the year before that, and he really didn't know where he offended this little fat guy.

Liu Ren liked Lowry when he was a fan, and the Rockets never messed up as one of the members of the group.

But this is a game, Liu Ren naturally won't ask why Lowry looks at him with that kind of eyes, even if it's not a game, Liu Ren doesn't know that he has a tsundere character and won't ask, what he thinks now is that since Lowry seems to hate him, let Lowry hate him even more!

Liu Ren found another reason for himself to increase his motivation and overturn the Raptors!

If Lowry knew Liu Ren's thoughts, he would definitely vomit blood, he was looking at Kobe! Who told Kobe Bryant and Liu Ren to stand on the same line!