Chapter Twenty-Three: Los Angeles Away Challenges the New York Knicks
In the next two games, the Lakers won one win and one loss, won the Nets and lost to the Nuggets, and the Lakers are currently ranked 7th in the West with 3 wins and 2 losses in 5 games.
The Eastern Conference Player of the Week award went to the Cavaliers' LeBron James.
Lei Lei averaged 30.8 points, 3.7 rebounds, 5.8 assists, 2.1 steals and 1.3 blocks per game this week to win the Western Conference Player of the Week.
This is also the first time in many years that the Lakers have won the Player of the Week award in his rookie season.
At that time, the news was flying all over the sky, and Lei Lei's endorsements were endless, and the Lakers also made a lot of money because of Lei Lei.
When the scandal between Lei Lei and Zhan Na was flying all over the sky, Lei Lei admitted their relationship in the post-game interview, and suddenly Zhan Na also gained more exposure, and Zhan Na didn't expect Lei Lei to admit this relationship, which made Jenna want to handle Lei Lie even more, after all, the most important thing around Lei Lei is heat.
Lei Lei has also confirmed the core position of the Lakers, second only to Kobe, Russell also has to stand aside, and when Kobe retires, the Lakers will build a team around Lei Lei, this season is just like the former Thunder, not caring about the record, is to cultivate rookies, and the Lakers are also to make Kobe Bryant draw a successful end in the last season.
The second game of the Lakers' 5-game winning streak and the Eastern Conference 4-game losing streak.
Los Angeles Lakers vs New York Knicks.
This is the first time Lei Lei has faced the league's top small forward, and the first time he has faced a superstar in the same position.
When he arrived in New York, when Cameron Anthony invited Kobe Bryant to dinner, Kobe Bryant brought Lei Lei, after all, he had to think about his 'apprentice'.
In the pre-game interview, Lamelon Anthony told the media: "Ray is a very good young player, his potential should have been seen by everyone, and he will become a superstar in the league in the future, just like Yao, and Kobe Bryant has slowly taught Lei Lei what he has learned all his life, and in time, Lei Lei will become the new king of Los Angeles!" ”
The media didn't expect the unruly Anthony to have such a high evaluation of Lei Lei, in fact, this is also Anthony's face for Kobe, and Anthony knows that he has a lot of fans in China, so why not?
As the head coach of the Lakers, Byron Scott also emphasized the importance of this game in his pre-game press conference.
"The New York Knicks have always been a powerhouse in the NBA, and they have one of the best scorers in the world — Carmelo Anthony, and of course, we have Kobe Bryant and Lei Lei. In short, I hope to give the fans a good game tonight. ”
With an hour to go before the game, players from both sides came to Madison Garden for warm-up training!
In order to better explain the game between the Lakers and the Knicks, the commentators of the Penguins and Yang Ma came to the Madison Garden Arena for live commentary.
At the same time, a total of 12 media and television stations in the United States broadcast the game.
And there were a lot of celebrities at the scene, "Black Widow" Scarlett, Durant dreamed of drinking her bath water, Anne Hathaway, "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr., this game can be said to be very hot.
The Lakers' starters are:
PG: Clarkson, SG: Kobe, SF: Lei Lei, PF: Randall, C: Hibbert
This is the current Lakers' main lineup.
The Knicks started with:
PG: Jose Calderon, SG: Lakers veteran Sasha Vujacic, SF: 'Guago' Carmelo Anthony, PF: 'Boshen' Porzingis, C: Lopez Jr.
As soon as the referee's whistle blows, the game officially begins!
The first to steal the ball was Junior Lowe, Calderón received the pass, held the ball past half the court, and saw Anthony reaching for the ball on the left flank.
Calderón passes the ball over.
Lei Lei looked at Carmelo Anthony in front of him very vigilantly, and his defense was very good, which was also the first time Lei Lei faced a top small forward since he entered the league.
Cameron held the ball with his left foot and tried to step, and when he saw that Lei Lei was not shaken, he suddenly pulled up and shot.
Lei Lei's reaction was very fast, jumping up and interfering.
Cameron made a shot in the face of Lei Lei's defense.
'Bang-'
The ball hits the basket and the ball doesn't go in.
Randle safely picked up the defensive rebound and passed it to Clarkson.
Clarkson stopped the ball when he held the ball past half court and wanted to give the ball to Kobe, but Kobe pointed at Lei Lei and had to pass the ball to Lei Lei on the wing.
The fans at the scene and the audience in front of the TV did not expect Lei Lei to receive the ball in the same position, and Lei Lei and Cameron faced each other as soon as they started.
Lei Lei also made a tentative move, Lei Lei knew in his previous life and in this life that the defense of 'Gua Ge' was like an ornament.
The three threats turned around, Cameron's lateral movement speed was not slow, blocking Lei Lei, Lei Lei felt Cameron's physical confrontation, took a step back and threw the ball, the two legs stretched forward slightly, the path was crooked, the imported Jordan DNA, but the ball was playing more and more like Kobe.
After Lei Lei threw the ball, he took two steps back and stepped on Cameron's instep, and Cameron also withdrew his foot when Lei Lei stretched out his foot.
'Bang-'
also hit iron, and both of them didn't feel good at the beginning.
Porzingis jammed Randle for the defensive rebound.
Knicks possession.
Cameron blocked Lei Lei, who was chasing the defense, through Xiao Luo's blocking and dismantling, and ran out of the vacancy.
Received a pass and scored two points
'Brush-'
The ball goes in
Got the first point of this competition
0:2
When Lei Lei's defense was in place, Cameron had already thrown the ball.
Cameron said to Lei Lei, who came later: "Rookie, welcome to the NBA!" ”
Lei Lei shook his head with a wry smile after hearing this, he should be late but not absent.
Lakers player.
Kobe Bryant received a pass from Clarkson and tried to get back on the court for his little brother Lei Lei.
Dribbling through and passing Vujacic in one step, the two are old friends, and Kobe Bryant knows Vujacic too well.
Bryant made a pull-up jump shot past Vujasic
'Brush-'
The ball goes in
2:2
Kobe Bryant felt okay today, and scored the first goal in the opening game.
Vujacic shook his head, Kobe Bryant is still so strong even if he is old.
Knicks possession.
Instead of passing the ball to Cameron this time, Calderon let Pelzingis step forward to block and block Clarkson and go inside.
Randall made up the defence and Calderon took advantage of the ball with a ground-hitting pass to Porzingis, who was inserted.
Porzingis received a pass from Calderón on the march and scored with both hands in front of an empty insider.
2:4
Porzingis glanced at Lei Lei defiantly after scoring the goal, and Lei Lei shook his head with a wry smile.
Now the 15th rookie except for Russell, all take Lei Lei as an enemy, Lei Lei is too strong in this draft, because it is a big city, the exposure is higher than that of the champion Downs, and the game is also very good.
As the No. 4 pick, Porzingis thinks that he is not bad, also in a big city, and New York is more exposed than Los Angeles, why can't he be favored?