Chapter 49: The Best Rookie Competition

"Come on, pick up the basketball" Li Hao, Kobe, Randle plus Boozer, two veterans, two rookies, this is the Lakers' makeup photo this season.

Although this set of makeup photos does not say anything explicitly, anyone with a discerning eye can see it, just two words, inheritance.

Kobe Bryant was once the first man in the league, but he's old, and Boozer was an All-Star, but he's also old.

Li Hao and Randle are both rookies this season, and they are both rookies with great potential, rookies who are expected by Lakers management.

After the makeup photo, it will be the media conference, and seriously, with the Lakers' current lineup, Kobe Bryant is the only one who can attract the media.

But who told the Lakers to be in the City of Angels, and what is the least lacking in Los Angeles? Unscrupulous media, so even if the Lakers' stars are dim this time, they can still attract countless media, including media from China.

Recently, Gong Luming's pressure has been a little great, because the men's basketball team lost in the Asian Games, and also lost to Japan, this defeat directly blew up the fans, and Gong Luming has been reluctant to recruit Li Hao into the team before.

All of a sudden, Gong Luming was criticized by countless people, but as an old coach, Gong Luming is very good at resisting pressure, and the Basketball Association already knows Gong Luming's plans, but he doesn't really do anything to Gong Luming.

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"It's normal to win or lose basketball games" Before the Chinese media had no chance to interview Li Hao, so at the Lakers media conference, the Chinese media finally found an opportunity.

"Coach Gong is an experienced coach, and I, a young man under the age of twenty, am not qualified to evaluate such a respected head coach" Li Hao is not stupid.

After giving enough face to the Chinese media, the press officer began to order other media, and compared with the Chinese media focusing on Li Hao, other media obviously paid more attention to Kobe's state after recovering from injury, and paid attention to Randle, a local rookie in the United States.

Li Hao did perform very well in the summer league, but Randle's performance was not bad, and as the No. 7 show in the first round, Randle is more worth looking forward to than Li Hao's No. 31 show in the second round.

The only thing that no one cares about is another veteran, Boozer, who is not very interesting to watch, and his popularity is not high, not to mention that Boozer is now old.

After the press conference, the Lakers began to fully prepare, and the other teams did the same.

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When the NBA team began to make final preparations for the new season, the outside media began to do all kinds of things, but this is also a regular operation, not to do the attention that comes from there, and there is no attention where the money comes from.

Speaking of TNT, the Big Three gathered to start warming up for the new season, and for the three big mouths, from the transfer operation of their respective teams, to the hope of winning the championship in the new season, the MVP candidate, as long as they can talk about the basics, they can talk about it.

Of course, the best rookie is also in this ranks, this year is a big year for the draft, and many rookies are favored, so after discussing this year's MVP candidates, the topic of the three shifted to the best rookie.

"Charles, who do you fancy about it?" Kenny Smith was the first to ask Barkley the big-mouthed.

O'Neal also has a big mouth, but O'Neal does have a big mouth full of emotional intelligence, and in contrast, Barkley, who has something to say, is the best one to ask first.

"Jabari Parker" Barkley utters a very conventional name.

Although this year's champion is Wiggins, in fact, most people are more optimistic about Jabari Parker, who is also ranked first in ESPN's best rookie rankings.

The second is Wiggins, and the third is last season's rookie No. Norrence Knowle, the 13-year-old No. 6 pick didn't play a season due to injury, and according to NBA rules, if the rookie doesn't play in a season, it can be incorporated into the next year.

And there are not a few such lists, for example, Griffin, the Clippers star next door to the Lakers, was seriously injured in his rookie season and did not play, and then there is 76, Noll is the rookie of the previous year of 76, Embiid this year, and Ben Simmons behind.

The fourth is that the Lakers have taken a fancy to Exum, who was cut off by the Jazz, and this template penny guard is favored by countless people, and the entire uniform team is happy when the Jazz choose him.

Further down is the Lakers' Randle, who is a double-double monster in the NCAA, and his performance in the summer league has also proved his strength as the No. 7 pick.

As for Li Hao, Erluxiu is qualified and qualified to compete for the best rookie, so Li Hao's name is not in the list of best rookie at all.

"Shaq, what about you?" Kenny Smith looked at O'Neal, and after O'Neal retired, TNT formed a new Big Three, and the biggest attraction of this new Big Three is the mutual pinch between Barkley and O'Neal.

"I choose ~~~~ Li Hao" O'Neal originally wanted to choose Wiggins, but just as he said it, the chat with Kobe Bryant suddenly sounded in his mind.

Kobe and O'Neal have released their suspicions, and the two occasionally keep in touch, and not long ago, O'Neal took the initiative to call Kobe.

O'Neal knows very well that Kobe, who has been in the league for 18 years, is injured all over his body, and he used to be the same, and it is because of his own experience that O'Neal called Kobe Bryant.

After caring about Kobe's physical condition, the two couldn't help but talk about the Lakers' situation this season, if it was Kobe Bryant before, as far as the Lakers did this summer, Kobe would have rushed to the general manager's office, but that was before, and the current Kobe Bryant is completely different.

Kobe Bryant is very clear that he can't return to the top, and in this case, the Lakers can't attract a weighty star at all, and this summer is the best proof of this.

However, Kobe Bryant is not so pessimistic about the new season, after months of training with Li Hao, Kobe believes that Li Hao will bring great surprises to fans in the new season and will become a good helper for himself.

Even Kobe Bryant has cultivated Li Hao as the core of the next generation of the Lakers, otherwise Kobe Bryant would not have spared no effort to help Li Hao with his training stone team during this holiday.

For the current Kobe, instead of chasing some unrealistic championships, it is better to cultivate a future core for the Lakers, worthy of the salary paid by the team.

It is precisely because of the importance of Li Hao that Kobe couldn't help but talk about Li Hao when chatting with O'Neal, and in Kobe's mouth, Li Hao is the core of the Lakers in the next ten years.

O'Neal has known Kobe Bryant for more than ten years, and knows how strict Kobe Bryant is, and because of this, O'Neal knows how rare it is to be a person who can be so highly rated by Kobe.

Then there was the scene above, O'Neill temporarily changed his choice and pronounced a name that the entire studio did not expect.