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Chapter 279 279. The so-called list

On October 10st, China's National Day, the NBA's training camp also began.

By this time, the free agents who can find jobs have basically found their next home, the transactions of each team have almost been completed, and the main lineup of each team is basically determined.

At this time, it is time for various media and TV stations to give their various predictions.

The training camps of each team are different, but generally there are a dozen players with guaranteed contracts and a dozen players with training camp contracts. Finally, a few are selected from the training camp contract players to make up the 15-man roster.

Then select thirteen regular activated players from the 15-man roster, and two drinking fountain administrators who can only sit on the bench for a year without accident.

However, injuries are inevitable, and it is difficult for a player to miss the entire season.

However, the Lakers have been an exception in the past two years. They did not have a training camp contract again this year, and went directly to the step of selecting [-] regular rotation players.

Unfortunately, cornerstone Thackeray and future breakout star Clarkson were kicked into the suits at the start of training camp.

Thackeray really didn't tease him as a nuclear weapon this time, but his training has just begun. The coaching staff wants to develop the soft touch he inherited from his mother, and catch opponents by surprise in the second half of the season.

Clarkson is an unpopular second-round pick. Generally, his skills need to be practiced hard, and there is no position for him.

Relatively speaking, LaVine is lucky, after all, he is the key training target for point guards.

However, it is not that Clarkson has no chance to play. Nash must not play back-to-back and consecutive away games. Then it will be his chance.

Although the training camp of the Lakers seems a bit boring, especially Kupchak is the most boring, but there are many benefits, you can enter the tactical drill stage from the beginning, although it started as early as two weeks ago, but now D'Antoni After working together with Bickerstaff to integrate the improved offensive and defensive system, the progress became faster.

The seven-day training camp time passed by in a flash, and the lists of the major media were also released.

The most important of all the lists are Sports Illustrated and ESPN. One of them is the most authoritative in the industry, and the other loves to create topics.

There is no suspense that the team ranks first in the team strength list, and the Spurs rank first in both lists.

In the past two years, the Spurs' combat effectiveness has been ranked first in the league. Even if the 13-year championship is the Heat, people think so.

No.2 has been controversial since the beginning. Sports Illustrated ranked the Lakers second and the Cavaliers third.

The reasons given by Sports Illustrated are more convincing. Although the Cavaliers lineup is strong, the Big Three have also attracted some veteran reinforcements, but running-in is always a problem.After a successful season for the Lakers, the young players are bound to make greater progress, enough to rank second.

But the Lakers on ESPN are only ranked sixth, even one place lower than the Clippers, third is the Thunder, and fourth is the Rockets.

The reason given by ESPN is the old topic of conflict between Liu Ren and Kobe. The Clippers ranked ahead of the Lakers. They gave the Clippers' decline last year due to off-court influence, otherwise the Clippers would have reached the Western Conference Finals.

The reason is very good and strong. The overall strength of the top six is ​​actually not too different. Liu Ren can barely bear it after reading this list.

But when it came time to rank the players, both Liu Ren and Kobe were furious!

Sports Illustrated generally ranks according to the personal performance and improvement trend of last season. James ranked first for the fourth consecutive year since 2012, Paul ranked second, Anthony Davis ranked third, and Liu Ren ranked first. Fourth, Westbrook fifth, Griffin sixth, Curry seventh, Love eighth, last season MVP Durant only ranked ninth, Harden tenth, Howard No.11, Kobe Bryant No. 12.

Sports Illustrated's list Liu Ren complained a lot, Paul ranked second barely acceptable, what the hell is Anthony Davis?He admits that Anthony Davis is very talented, but even in 2016, Anthony Davis is just an unaffordable data freak, and teams with good interiors can easily deal with him.

However, complaining about it, Sports Illustrated ranked him fourth, Liu Ren was still shocked, but also very happy.

And Kobe's ranking on Sports Illustrated dropped three places. At this time last year, Sports Illustrated ranked Kobe Bryant at ninth.

In fact, Kobe doesn't care much about how many ranks he ranks. The key is that he is lower than Howard, which makes him very upset.

In Sports Illustrated's ranking, Liu Ren was delighted, but Kobe was angry.

When they arrived at ESPN, their expressions completely changed.

ESPN doesn't know which tendon is wrong. They have been mad at Kobe before, and they took Kobe to fifth place, second only to James, Durant, Paul, and Westbrook.

ESPN turned gender?Don't black the Lakers anymore?Obviously not, Liu Ren is only ranked 21st!
When Kobe saw Liu Ren's expression from joy to anger, he was flustered with joy, and Liu Ren was so angry!
But Liu Ren thought about it carefully, ESPN is by no means changing his sex and not blacking Kobe, but turning the person who wants to black into him!
ESPN obviously felt that Kobe was going to retire soon, and because Kobe was one year older, even those who hated Kobe were a little bit reluctant to bear him. ESPN people found that no matter how black Kobe was, Kobe had become a black person. This kind of feeling, among the veterans, there is no second person who is as capable as Kobe and willing to support a team!Even Duncan has become a system player, and among the veterans, only Kobe can play at a star level outside the system.

ESPN is a businessman, they know how to create topics, and now using Kobe as a topic generator will obviously offend not only the feelings of Lakers fans, but also the feelings of non-Lakers fans, so they shifted their black target to Liu Ren!

ESPN's explanation for Liu Ren's ranking is that he played so well last season because of the team's open offensive system and Kobe's ability to attract the opponent's defense. Kobe's fifth ranking is also given for the same reason.

The purpose is too obvious, not only to blackmail Liu Ren, but also to provoke the relationship between the two. If the two continue to "conflict", then the feud between the two they promote will become true!
"This group of bastards, I want to see if there are 20 people in the alliance stronger than me!" Liu Ren said angrily.

"Oh, it's just a media ranking! Look at the official ranking. I'm sixth and you are seventh. That's more accurate." Kobe said in an awkward tone.

"Do you think anyone will read the official rankings? They are ranked according to their performance in the playoffs last season, and Leonard is still number one. By the way, I remember Howard has a list higher than you, right?" Liu Ren He is also a challenger.

The corner of Kobe's mouth twitched. Although he knew that Liu Ren said this on purpose, he was still upset.

"Rockets..." Kobe gritted his teeth as he looked at his opponent in the first game of the regular season schedule on the wall.

(End of this chapter)