NBA: The start beat Kobe Bryant in his old age

Chapter 72 Kobe's Last Visit to Houston
Los Angeles is not close to Houston, and the plane took several hours to get to Houston.

What surprised Lin Tian was that when their special plane landed in Houston, there were eight or nine ground staff holding signs to welcome them.

To be precise, they made a special trip to meet Kobe.

When I went to other cities before, this did not happen.

Kobe's influence is really great.

Facing the enthusiastic ground staff, Kobe was not aloof, and signed autographs for them one by one, and even took a group photo.

……

They checked into a hotel near the Toyota Center Arena, and Lin Tian hurriedly fell asleep after taking a shower.

The next day, he got up early as usual.

Just as he walked out of the room after washing, Kobe, who lived opposite Lin Tian, ​​just opened the door.

The two just looked at each other and smiled, without saying anything, they had breakfast together, and then Kobe led Lin Tian into the Toyota Center Arena.

Kobe counted the things he had experienced in this arena, and at the same time told Lin Tian some culture of this arena.

When talking about the Rockets, Kobe naturally mentioned Dayao.

After talking and laughing, the two walked half a circle in the arena and found a security guard.

After negotiating with the team security, the security took them to a court in the arena.

In fact, any arena has more than one training hall and court.

When the two were training, Kobe told Lin Tian with a smile that sometimes some home teams would not arrange training halls for away teams.

Lin Tian also felt that it was nothing. Playing basketball is like fighting a war. It is normal for such a situation to occur.

The two of them trained alone for half an hour before Kobe's personal physical therapist Judy Saito and the team staff arrived.

Instead of retraining, Bryant asked Judy Sato to give him a leg massage.

Lin Tian found that Kobe's usual physical therapy time may be longer than his training time.

It can be seen that the injury has tortured him all over his body.

But his professional attitude never needs to be questioned.

The level of effort of other players in the league may be far behind Kobe.

Another half an hour passed before all the Lakers players and coaching team arrived, and they started a day of training and fitness.

Because there is a game to be played at night, the training intensity will not be too great.

After the training, they went to the multimedia room under the leadership of the arena staff.

Holding a bunch of tactical materials, Scott turned on the projection screen and began to explain the tactics against the Rockets at night.

They have already received the scouting report of each player of the Rockets, but now Scott has to explain it in detail.

Scott said above that several players, including Nick Young, were drowsy, which made Lin Tian a little dizzy.

Maybe Nick Young went to a nightclub yesterday. After all, this is Houston, and there must be a lot of nightclubs.

Lin Tian and Kobe were the two people who listened most carefully.

For the Rockets this season, the schedule is close to the past half, and the winning percentage is only [-]%, which is far from the goal they set at the beginning of the season.

Since Warcraft Howard joined the Rockets in 2013, he and James Harden have been called the magic combination.

This is the third season of their cooperation, and the team's record is not satisfactory.

The outside world also often reported that the two had conflicts.

In fact, Warcraft Howard has never been an easy teammate.

He also stayed in the Lakers, and eventually broke up with Kobe.

Later, after Howard left the Lakers, he met Kobe in arms, and the two were also like enemies.

Once in a game, Kobe even called Howard a softie.

Therefore, in today's game, they must not lose!

After the team meeting is over, the players can finally rest, and then just wait for the game time to start.

……

The game is scheduled for 07:30 pm.

Before five o'clock, Lin Tian and the others appeared in the away locker room.

Although it is a locker room in the Toyota Center Arena, the conditions here are still not comparable to the home locker room.

When Nick Young was changing his shoes in front of his closet, he said gloomily: "I still prefer playing home games to away games."

Russell joked: "Stop it! Yang! I see you are excited every time you play away because there are different nightclubs to go to!"

Nick Yang didn't refute his words, and the two laughed tacitly.

Clarkson took out his phone and was recording a video.

Among the Lakers, Clarkson is one of the people who prefer to shoot videos to record their lives.

There are also silent players, such as Randle.

Hibbert is one of those who prefer to ask rookies to help. He often says rookie after rookie, talking about Nance Jr. and Russell.

Among them, the person he likes to order the most is Xiao Nance, and I don't know if it's because of the overlapping positions of the two.

When Lin Tian first joined the Lakers, he was also called around by Hibbert.

But since he played against the sky, Hibbert has been very sensible and never asked him to do things, and he didn't even call him a rookie.

Hibbert knew Lin Tian's status in the team, and he did not forget the end of Ricky Davis of the Cavaliers.

What's more, his current status is far worse than Ricky Davis' status in the Cavaliers in 03.

After changing his shoes, Kobe walked up to Lin Tian and said, "Lin! Have you decided to defend James Harden tonight?"

Lin Tian had already said that he wanted to guard against Harden, and Coach Scott had no objection.

"Yes." Nodded today, "Just leave him to me to deal with."

Although Harden's salary in the Rockets this season is not as good as Howard's, he is the absolute core of the Rockets.

"Okay! Then you must pay attention! I have never seen a player who can draw fouls so much in my life." Kobe complained.

He is also a shooting guard, he has played against Harden a lot, and he is very aware of the opponent's foul-making ability.

"I know."

……

After getting ready, the players walked out of the locker room and came to the stadium through the player tunnel.

The fans of the Houston Rockets couldn't help screaming when they saw Kobe appearing.

This is Kobe's last visit to Houston this season, which is of great significance.

Not surprisingly, this is also the last time in Kobe's career that he will come to Houston as a player.

Faced with so many extremely enthusiastic fans, Kobe also quickly signed some fans.

For Lin Tian, ​​this is also the first time he has come to the Toyota Center Arena as a Lakers player.

The Rockets have a large number of Chinese fans. The most important reason is Dayao, who spent his 9-year NBA career wearing Rockets jerseys.

When I came to the audience today, I could still see some fans wearing Dayao jerseys.

(End of this chapter)