Liu Ren got an interesting discussion from the Pelinka company documents that the chick received, and Durant had asked Pelinka if his commercial value would be affected if he joined the Warriors or the Clippers.

And Pelinka's feedback is not only not affected, but also Oakland and Los Angeles are places of great commercial value, Los Angeles needless to say, San Francisco, where Oakland is located, is one of the top five mega metropolises in the United States, only New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia can be said to be more prosperous than the San Francisco city circle, Durant can go to the Warriors or the Clippers Pelinka, who was still an agent at the beginning, gave feedback that the commercial value will rise sharply.

It is completely impossible for Durant to go to the Clippers, the Clippers already have Griffin, Paul, and Jordan Jr. three top salaries of more than 20 million a year, plus a group of expensive and not so practical role players, the Clippers' salary is about to break 100 million, and the total salary of players with skyrocketing contracts next season has reached 85 million, and most of the premium contracts of Crawford are more than 10 million, and there is no way to trade them out to make room anyway.

So Liu Ren came to the conclusion based on this document that Durant and Curry have an ulterior Mimi...... No, it's a secret!

Then the current situation this season has become very interesting, the Lakers do not want to compete for the first place in the West, because the eighth place in the West is likely to be the Rockets, Grizzlies, Mavericks, Pelicans, these four difficult teams in the Southwest Division, the first in the West has to fight with them, and the fourth and fifth Thunder and Clippers are not easy to deal with.

And the Thunder has always had a huge advantage over the Clippers is a small forward, no matter how many small forwards the Clippers have changed, no matter how famous they are, in the end they will be scrapped when the Clippers arrive, and the Clippers' strongest point Paul has no advantage in the face of Westbrook, so the Thunder has basically stepped on the Clippers in the past few years.

In this way, if the Warriors' ferocious momentum this year is maintained until the end, then the Thunder and Warriors are highly likely to meet in the second round, and then one of Curry's and Durant's teams is bound to lose.

Liu Ren found it interesting, if the Warriors lost to the Thunder, would Durant still choose to join a team that lost to them? It's really embarrassing to join! If the Thunder loses to the Warriors and Durant joins the Warriors, the impact will definitely be more brutal than when James joined the Heat.

As the boss of Curry and Durant's agency, Liu Ren doesn't think there's anything wrong with this, the giant effect brought by the duo has definitely risen sharply, and criticism also represents popularity, the more popular Durant and Curry are, the bigger their endorsement contract will be, and Liu Ren can make more money.

Therefore, Liu Ren looked at this matter with the mentality of watching the excitement.

As for the possibility that the Warriors may form a supergiant lineup that is scary to look at, Liu Ren said that it is fake to say that he is not worried, but it is more exciting, and the stronger the opponent, the more challenging it is.

Winning the championship is important, but what about the other than winning the championship? Defeating the strongest opponents, of course.

Liu Ren has never been famous in his previous life, but he still loves basketball, and it is the kind of spiritual accomplishment that comes from defeating opponents and defeating stronger opponents is the best.

Now that Liu Ren is not short of money, there is no lack of popularity, and the championship has been won, what he wants to do most next is to achieve honors that others can't do, and defeat others who seem to be invincible opponents.

Look at the excitement and look at the excitement, but the Thunder team is really not the opponent of the Warriors, now the Warriors are in that almost invincible state, the Thunder team is very good, but there is really nothing to do in the face of the Warriors who have won 25 consecutive victories, from the beginning to the end of the game, the Warriors have been leading and have not given the Thunder a chance.

This game...... The Lakers feel that it has been seen in vain, and there is no reference value at all, the only feeling is that the Warriors are really strong, they have won 26 in a row, and the start of 26 wins and losses is 26-0, and the Warriors have almost raised the opening winning streak to a point where it is difficult to break in the future.

The Warriors have been getting crazier and crazier year after year for the second year in a row, and they are no worse than the Lakers who just came out of the shadow of the Big Four failures in the previous two years.

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I have to say that the young players of the Lakers are a little stimulated by the Warriors.

The Warriors' prestige this year is the same as last year's Lakers, with an invincible posture that runs rampant in the league, and the record is even better than that of the Lakers at the same time last season.

In fact, although the Lakers won 74 wins last season, it is the same record as the same period this season, which was 24-3 at this time last season, and this year's schedule is a little easier, and now it is 22-3, and the Warriors have changed their interim coach Luke Wharton, and they have started with a 26-game winning streak.

The Warriors defeated the Thunder so easily, and the Lakers players were naturally not far behind the Warriors, and they were very eager to beat the Thunder today, and they didn't want to continue to lose to the Warriors.

At 6 p.m. on the 17th, the Lakers came to Ford Center Arena in Oklahoma City to challenge the Thunder who played Game 2 of a back-to-back away.

The relationship between the Thunder and the Lakers players is good, Durant is a member of Liu Ren's company, and he admires Kobe Bryant, Westbrook is a child in Los Angeles who grew up watching Kobe Bryant's ball, so he has a good relationship with Lakers players, although the playoffs seem to have been eliminated by the Lakers in the past two years, but this does not affect the relationship between the players, Kobe Bryant often gives Westbrook advice on playing.

However, Westbrook and Durant didn't have a particularly deep friendship with Liu Ren before, because they were really not that familiar, but now they can have a friendship.

To Liu Ren's surprise, Westbrook, who looks like he should be more unrestrained, is actually more shy, while Durant, who looks more like a migrant worker and seems to be not good at words, is more talkative and lively.

After Liu Ren got acquainted with them, Durant talked more: "Boss, when will you invite me to your arena to play?" Now that I'm all your players, I can't see you like that. ”

Liu Ren is embarrassed, the top ten superstars in the league, except for the Clippers players, basically he has been invited to his house to sit, so that his training hall has become a special event for superstars to be invited, but except for the Clippers who have not been invited because of hostility, the other top ten players have not been invited to Durant and Westbrook, so it is indeed a little embarrassing.

However, Liu Ren was really not familiar with the Thunder players before, although the Thunder have always had a good record, but they are the kind of dad who doesn't hurt and grandma doesn't love, no matter how good the record is, the schedule is very strange, in the past two years, they have played the Lakers and are about to go to other cities back-to-back, or they will play other teams and then come to Los Angeles back-to-back, and even obviously there are Lakers and Clippers in a few consecutive away games, but they don't play in a row, but come to Los Angeles, go to other cities the next day, and then come to Los Angeles, There is no schedule privilege that a strong team should have, and back-to-back has never been less, belonging to the kind of poor baby who is sad and tears when he hears it.

Therefore, Liu Ren has never established a friendly relationship with these two, and it feels too strange to invite people to lunch.

Liu Ren's answer was still quite face-saving, and he said in a joking tone: "Of course, I wanted to invite you a long time ago, and Russell is the same, but every time you come to Los Angeles for a day, you leave, and you don't even give me the opportunity to invite you, Kevin, you definitely didn't expect that one day I would be your boss, so don't give face and be careful I will put on small shoes for you, and go and discuss with your management to get you to Minnesota." ”

“NO！ Boss, you can't do that! We're brothers! Hahahaha......" Durant laughed out loud and joked with Liu Ren very cooperatively.

Although the agent has the power to guide the player to where to go, and there is an agent like David Falke who manipulates the player to go to the bad team that is willing to give a big contract and get the high signing fee given by the bad team, but Liu Ren's agency has been known for its good reputation for more than two years, if David Falke signs a group of talented young players like the Lakers, he would have been making a fuss about letting the Lakers trade and make a lot of money, and even if the player is taken to the bad team, there is no way to say anything, Because David Falke did make more money for them by finding a team that could give them the biggest contract.

After the pre-game greetings and the Thunder's home pre-game event, the players of both teams are no longer giggling and friendly, and the game is about to begin.

The Lakers' starters Clarkson, Kobe, Liu Ren, Green, and Whiteside.

On the Thunder's side, Westbrook, Baca and Whiteside jumped to the center circle.

Whiteside lost the jump ball, he was embarrassed! Although Ibaka suffered an irreversible decline in explosiveness due to the deterioration of the injury caused by the forced playoff injury two years ago, the speed and bounce height did not decline much, but the explosiveness and confrontation ability decreased a lot.

Ibaka tossed the ball to Westbrook and the Thunder took the lead.

Westbrook advanced to the frontcourt and changed direction in a row past Clarkson to the free throw line, and when the Lakers were focused on Westbrook, Durant took advantage of Westbrook's block to get an open opportunity, and Westbrook passed back to Durant who came to the top arc.

Durant took the ball and shot high and fast, the key was to be accurate, and it fell into the Lakers' basket with a bang.

Not to mention, although some fans complained that Westbrook was too sticky to the ball, shot too much, and stole Durant's ball, Westbrook is really Durant's perfect partner, because of his existence, Durant will have so many vacant opportunities and be so efficient.

In the 2013 playoffs, Westbrook was reimbursed due to injury and when Durant led the team alone for most of the 2013-2014 regular season, it can be seen that without Westbrook, although Durant can still score, his efficiency is much lower, and it is difficult for the Thunder to even enter the playoffs.

There is a good saying, Durant, a super scorer, is to raise a team's ceiling, Westbrook, an all-round point guard, is to ensure the team's lower limit, and the combination of the two is perfect.

It's the same as people have been expecting James and Kobe Bryant to work together.

Lakers offense.

The Lakers are advancing quickly, and most of the other teams' rapid advancement is only fast at guard, but the Lakers are very fast overall.

The Thunder just ran over, and the position was not completely settled, the Lakers caught up from behind and set up an offensive formation, Glinka took the main position, and Clarkson on the outside had already passed the ball in.

Other teams should be prepared for a long time when they play a low-post offense in the half, but the Lakers' low-post offense here can be used as a fast offense.

Ibaka's speed has really dropped a lot, and he just ran back to his own inside line, and before he could catch his breath, Green had already posted up and hit a back-to-back single.

The Lakers just played the connecting stage, and Green played Ibaka with an unstable foothold, turned and hit a small throw, and scored the first shot for the Lakers.

The Thunder came over in the second round, Westbrook came over with the ball, and this time it was Liu Ren who went up to mark the defense, and he found that Clarkson, the poor version of Westbrook, was really struggling to defend Westbrook.

Liu Renfang is different, his speed is not slower than Westbrook, and his strength and height are completely crushed.

Seeing this, Durant immediately ran out of the interior to provide Westbrook with a cover.

Westbrook and Durant have a really good understanding, Westbrook seems to have expected Durant to come up to block the pick-and-roll, and before Durant started, Westbrook ran in the direction of Durant's block.

Perfect blocking and pick-and-roll coordination, Liu Ren was blocked by Durant, and Westbrook went inside.

Clarkson's attention behind Durant was on Westbrook, and Liu Ren's attention was also on Westbrook, and the two pounced together, and Westbrook once again passed the ball back to Durant.

Durant hit a long-range shot from the three-point line.

Played twice in a row by the same style of play, the Lakers felt a little unhappy, and the psychological pressure was greater, but the biggest growth they have in the past two years is their psychological quality, after Durant scored, Whiteside immediately picked up the ball and served, and the Lakers counterattacked directly.

That's the tactics the Lakers prepared before the game, and D'Antoni is really imitating the Warriors' tactics.

First, the Warriors' tactics are really good, otherwise they would not have been able to play the first 26 consecutive wins in history, because their lineup is actually not better than the Cavaliers, Knicks, and Spurs, at most half a catty, but their style of play is very advanced, and it is the most in line with the current trend of play, and D'Antoni naturally wants to integrate into his own system.

The second is to use the Thunder team to come up with a way to deal with the Warriors' style of play, because Bickerstaff has never been able to think of a way to deal with the Warriors' style of play, which has always been an unsolvable topic in the time and space of Liu Ren's previous life.

The Lakers are fast attacking, Clarkson ran over and passed the ball to Liu Ren, Whiteside had already blocked it when Liu Ren took the ball, at this time Liu Ren took the ball and moved sideways, and Whiteside cut to the basket.

This is a fixed routine of the Lakers, Liu Ren took this opportunity to hurriedly pass the ball inward, the Lakers' tactics played clearly, the Thunder's interior combination was really not bad, Adams who defended Whiteside had both speed and strength and footwork on the defensive end, the bounce was a little worse, but the movement speed and confrontation were very strong, and it was not a little dirty.

Liu Ren passed the ball so directly, and Adams pushed Whiteside to break the ball.

Whiteside yelled for a foul, but the referee at the Thunder's home court ignored it, and Whiteside had no choice but to run back to defend quickly.

Fortunately, it was Green who interfered with Adams' passing route and blocked the Thunder's opportunity to break fast.

Westbrook received the ball and advanced to the frontcourt, Ibaka and Witesse both pulled to the 45-degree angle and bottom corner on one side, the Thunder lineup except for Adams, the other four have three-point ability, Ibaka is the first group of 3D players, but now Ibaka is only left with 3 without D.

On the other side, Westbrook and Durant continued to block and pick-and-roll.

Westbrook evaded Liu Ren's defense by blocking and dismantling, but this time Liu Ren and Clarkson had a better tacit understanding, and the two immediately switched defenses, and Clarkson blocked in front of Westbrook.

But Clarkson really can't stop Westbrook! Westbrook was thrilled when he saw Clarkson, and immediately took a step forward to dribble, and then pretended to be a strong shot but suddenly stepped back and got up to shoot from mid-range.

Westbrook's rhythm was well mastered, and on the second step, he completely shook Clarkson back again and again, and Westbrook almost unguarded shots from the free-throw line and hit them with ease.

The opening game was 7-2, leading the Lakers by 5 points.

In the face of Westbrook and Durant's strong offensive ability, the Lakers are feeling the pressure.

This time Liu Ren got the ball, Liu Ren took the ball and chose to break through, easily crushing Dion Vitesse into the three-second zone, and Ibaka and Durant directly came up to wrap up.

At this time, Kobe, who has a very low sense of presence recently, is vacant, and Liu Ren immediately passed it to Kobe, and Kobe Bryant hit the vacant position!

Although the real Kobe gives people the impression that there is no difficulty to create difficulty, and all kinds of incredible shots, but in fact, his vacant shots are very accurate, but there was basically no chance to shoot in the vacant position before.

The Lakers chased the score to 4-7.

The Thunder came over again, and Westbrook made a long pass into Ibaka's hand.

Ibaka was about to play a fast break when he got the ball, but Liu Ren was watching from the side to stop him from playing fast, and when he reached the three-point line, Ibaka held the ball up, and waited for Westbrook to come over and returned the ball to Westbrook.

Westbrook broke through with the ball, and the Lakers' defense immediately closed the circle, defending Durant and Westbrook tightly, and Westbrook immediately sent the ball to the hands of Waiters, who was in the middle distance of the baseline.

Vitesse is a big blacksmith, and Liu Ren still remembers that he seemed to be famous for dealing with Vitesse, and that brutal block pushed Liu Ren into the eyes of Lakers fans and pushed the Lakers management's attention list.

Vitesse is indeed a bit watery, the draft pick is high, but the strength has not improved much, the average of 15 points per game in the rookie year and sophomore year is basically the peak, and then it is getting lower and lower, and the shooting rate is also touching.

However, the overall feeling of the Thunder today is very good, and Vitesse's mid-range shot also scored, helping the Thunder rewrite the score to 9-4, and the Thunder lead the Lakers by 5 points.

The Thunder started ferociously and forced the Lakers to call a timeout first.