Game 1 vs. Trail Blazers: 22 points, 10 assists, 5 rebounds

Game 2 against the Clippers: 19 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds

Game 3 vs. Nuggets: 25 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds

After three games, Li Chen averaged 22 points, 8 assists and 4.7 rebounds per game, which made him the undisputed rookie of the year in the West in the first week of the 08-09 season.

And the double 80 shooting rate made other players in the league dare not look directly, and people exclaimed, "Another superstar in the league is rising".

Rose was elected the best rookie in the East with 14.5 points, 6.1 assists and 3.5 rebounds.

Especially Li Chen's playing time and number of shots are far inferior to Rose, and fans have lamented that the Lakers have taken shit luck, and let Vujacic go out and sneak around to introduce such a big baby to the team.

The Lakers' takeaways this week are much more than that, as Bryant Bryant led his team to a three-game winning streak this week while scoring 33.7 points, 4.3 assists and 5.5 rebounds to help him win the Western Conference Player of the Week.

Winning both the best player and the best rookie, Lakers fans were overjoyed, chanting that this season's Lakers are unstoppable and that a championship is just around the corner.

The best in the East went to Howard of the Magic, who averaged 26.4 points, 12.8 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per game to help the Magic win two in a row, of course, compared to Kobe's statistics.

Li Chen, who won the first individual honor in his career, faced an interview with reporters, abiding by his usual low-key style, saying that achieving such results is inseparable from the help of other players and coaches of the Lakers, he is just doing what he should do, and he has not considered the best rookie or anything, and he will continue to work hard in the future.

Li Chen knew that no matter how much he kept a low profile, the arrogant Los Angeles media would definitely not allow things to be so simple.

Sure enough, the next day's "Los Angeles Times" published an article saying that Li Chen's strength was stronger than Rose, emphasizing his amazing shooting percentage, and also mentioning that Rose, as a point guard, was inferior to Li Chen in terms of assists. even said that if it weren't for Kobe's data being too rebellious, the Lakers rookie might even be elected Player of the Week, in short, he was praised to the sky.

Of course, the media in New York are not hesitant to praise the players from their own turf, and they support Li Chen together with the media in Los Angeles. said that his strength is actually more, but because of Kobe's suppression, he has not fully exerted, and it is entirely possible to become the core of a team with his strength. At the same time, he pointed out that Li Chen's contract is only one year, so he strongly appealed to the New York Knicks to strive to bring home the Lakers super rookie next year. Such a blatant seduction made Los Angeles fans happy and disgusted.

The touting of the two well-known media outlets made Li Chen very angry, and the Chicago Sun's argument was weak in comparison.

The data proves everything, and Chicago, which is inferior in this regard, can only point out Li Chen's lack of offensive ability with the ball, single offensive means, weak free throws and other shortcomings, but these cannot hide the embarrassment that his players are inferior to other non-draft players in the data field.

After learning that he was selected as the best rookie of the week, Li Chen soon found that his phone was about to burst. In addition to his closest relatives and friends, friends from all walks of life in Los Angeles and New York who remembered or didn't remember all congratulated Li Chen, and the constant ringing of the phone made him almost nervous.

The bar is also full every day these days, and people who have heard the news have gathered at the bar in the hope of getting up close and personal with the Lakers' super rookie.

In the future, this bar has gradually become a gathering place for Li Chen's fans, where people watch and discuss the game, adding a lot of income to the bar.

At this time, Li Chen reluctantly hid in Amy's apartment, he felt that if he wanted to go out openly, he would definitely be watched like a rare animal, so he chose to hide in the student apartment of the University of Southern California.

Unfortunately, Amy and Julie both had classes, so Li Chen was left alone in the apartment to entertain himself.

With nothing to do, he took to the official forums of the Lakers and found some news related to him, one of which was a discussion about his nickname that piqued the interest of the protagonist.

After a few games, Li Chen won the love of Los Angeles fans because of his outstanding performance, and people began to discuss what loud nickname to give to the players they support.

Originally, people had always called Li Chen a mysterious master, but it was a bit out of place to call him after a few games. Enthusiastic fans left messages one after another, and the most popular ones were nicknames such as "Killer", "Zorro", "Gunners", and "Little General" based on the jersey number of 0......

At the same time, because Li Chen bluntly said a few days ago that he and Anthony are the same kind of people, imaginative fans gave Li Chen a fruit nickname such as "orange" and "apple" according to Anthony's nickname "melon", which won the support of many fans.

Li Chen, who was interested, also joined the discussion army, and finally, in order to avoid being named a strange and disliked title, Li Chen released a message under his real name, and determined a very cute and loving nickname for himself.

"Hey, dear fans, it's an honor to hear that you're talking about my nickname, and of course, I want to have a say in my own nickname. I love "Orange", but in comparison, I still prefer you to call me "Big Apple", which reminds me that I'm from New York, I'm a kid in the Big Apple, and I hope you like my choice."

The turmoil about the nickname of the mysterious master was finally ended because of the speeches of the people at the time, and since the people themselves spoke, the fans did not comment.

What's more, Li Chen's style is lazy and he looks good, which is indeed very suitable for this kind of small and fresh nickname. And fans in New York also left messages of support, and this very reminiscent nickname gave them hope of bringing Li Chen home.

"Two big apples, we look forward to this day." Some fans left messages expressing their expectations, one of the two big apples refers to Li Chen, and the other refers to New York, the intention of recruiting is too obvious, and the New York Knicks are also very cooperative to express their desire to expect the Lakers super rookie to join the team.

Of course, such a blatant seduction brought the Knicks not Li Chen, but a $20,000 fine issued by the league, but the deep-pocketed New Yorkers would not care about such a small amount of money.

"What are you looking at?" When Amy came back from class, she saw Li Chen sitting in front of the computer browsing something, and she was very curious and put her head in front of the screen.

Horn, such a good opportunity is naturally not to be missed, after taking a hard bite, Li Chen said with satisfaction, "I'm discussing my nickname!" After a pause, he said leisurely, "Beautiful lady, from today onwards, please call me the Big Apple"!

"Apple? Amy are you losing weight? Julie's voice happened to come from the doorway.

"No, we're talking about Cruz's new nickname." Amy saw Julie coming back, and hurriedly ran over and said why, "The Big Apple is his new nickname, haha, it's so cute." The girl couldn't stop laughing.

"Well, who gave you the nickname, it's too imposing, in my opinion, it's better to call it a warrior, a knight or something......" Julie expressed her opinion, "However, the big apple is not bad, it is delicious and can lose weight."

Cold, Li Chen had three black lines on his forehead, and Julie's bad taste made him worry about whether he would be eaten as a weight loss meal by a girl one day, but after thinking about it, he calmed down, who eats who is still uncertain.

"Eh, dear", Amy suddenly remembered something, "our school will have an internal fashion exhibition in a few days, each student has to design several sets of clothes, Julie has already agreed to be my model, I still need a male model, can you help me"?

"No problem, of course it's better if you can design a few separate outfits for me." Li Chen agreed without hesitation, after all, this kind of opportunity is rare, he can not only look at beautiful women but also be in the limelight, and he can also help his sweetheart, there is no reason for him to miss it. Especially this guy has been coveting Julie's hot figure for a long time, and he certainly won't miss such a blatant opportunity to appreciate it.

"Eun, in time, I will definitely put you on the cover of Vanity Fair." Getting her boyfriend's consent, Amy happily hugged each other's arms.

After returning to the team, after making two sets of free throws as always, Li Chen began to practice his back body technique, and he benefited a lot from facing Anthony in the last game, and the performance of the melon perfectly interpreted the definition of a small forward.

The most fundamental requirement of the so-called small forward is to be able to score, and it is to score from a long distance. As soon as a small forward receives the ball, the first thing that comes to mind is how to stuff the ball into the basket. He may grab a rebound, but not necessarily; He may be good at passing, but he doesn't have to; He may be resilient, but still unnecessary; He may defend very well, but he still doesn't have to. The basic job of a small forward is to score, score, and score.

A forward is a position with the lowest requirements for a shooting percentage, generally speaking, as long as 4 out of 5 is considered qualified, and more than 40 percent is acceptable. Of course, there is a premise for this, that is, he has to be able to score. If a small forward scores seven or eight points per game and the shooting percentage is only 40%, then it is better to ask him to sit on the bench.

Then again, why can a small forward have a lower shooting percentage? Because he is the main scorer on the team, he often has to actively look for opportunities to shoot, stabilize the morale of the army at certain moments, or even play the opponent alone in a more difficult way to improve morale, and even give the opponent a downward spiral, giving the enemy a head-on attack, etc.

So the small forward will have more chances, and probably not very good chances, so we can allow him to shoot a little bit less as long as he can score.

All Li Chen has to do now is to do everything he can to improve his scoring ability. But fortunately, because of the existence of Kobe, the Lakers' requirements for Li Chen's scoring ability are not too urgent, and he can take this opportunity to improve his physical fitness and defense and so on, so as to be fully prepared for leading the team alone in the future.

It is essential to fix several sets of strength exercises every day, as for free throws, Li Chen has already planned to resign himself to fate, two sets a day, love to improve or not, he doesn't want to waste his precious time on free throw practice.

"Hey, Big Apple", Odom came over to tease Li Chen's new nickname, such a fresh nickname is much better than his, his most classic embarrassment is to pass the ball to his teammates on the bench and the referee on the field, you can still expect the fans to give him a normal nickname after such a feat.

Li Chen smiled, and took advantage of Odom's body to make a turnaround jumper, which stunned the big lama.

"Wow, this back is worthy of being the best rookie!" Odom teased again, "So, do any of our rookie best rookies have any plans to celebrate lately?"

"My salary is only 800,000 yuan, which is still before tax, and it is not even as good as your fraction, how much spare money do you have......

Li Chen shrugged his shoulders and expressed helplessness. Indeed, although the personal welfare of American citizens is good, the tax problem is indeed a hard problem for the rich, and you don't see that even NBA stars will take the tax rate as a very important factor when transferring.

"But if you go to my bar, I can give you a free order, how about it?"

Odom agreed without thinking, and had already heard from Vujacic that there were a lot of beautiful women in that bar, and he must find a chance to see them.

Continue to practice his offensive skills, somehow, in the next game against the Clippers, Li Chen always had a bad premonition in his heart, and he always felt that the weakness that the old Dunleavy said must be in himself. In the end, how will the old guy experiment with him, Li Chen feels that the top priority is to improve his strength, as long as his strength is improved, no matter how others deal with him, he can always deal with the past.

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