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Chapter 569. Chapter 569.

The Lakers won eight consecutive games in the preseason, and quickly found a way to deal with this tactic after the Warriors sacrificed five dead players. However, even the Warriors did not take the fact that the tactic they were planning to use to deal with the Lakers was found to be loopholes. up.

Steve Kerr suffers severe back strain!

This Steve Kerr suffered a back injury when he was a player. Later, he did not become a commentator because his back injury recurred and then became the general manager.

Originally, Steve Kerr is doing a good job as a coach now, and his injuries are also under control. Who knows that in this preseason game, he was stimulated by Barnes' three consecutive open three-pointers, so he continued to do what he shouldn't do. The movement, the sudden twisting of the back caused his back injury to recur, and the pain was so painful that he didn't even finish coaching the game.

For most players of the Warriors, Steve Kerr is their god. After Steve Kerr came last season, the Warriors have brought too many changes. Second in the league, if the Lakers are not too strong, they are likely to be the team most likely to win the championship last season!

Now that Steve Kerr has fallen, the Warriors players are instantly bewildered. The most important head coach has fallen, so why play preseason games!
The Lakers are even more stunned. What's the situation?
D'Antoni expressed sympathy for what happened to Steve Kerr, but that's it.

Then D'Antoni looked at Walton, Steve Kerr fell, the best coach of the Warriors is Walton, he was curious what Walton would turn the Warriors into?

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A strong preseason game ended in such a muddle, but it was just a preseason game, and people were more concerned about Steve Kerr's injury.

In the end, woj broke the news that Steve Kerr had to stay in the hospital for at least a month, and he was not allowed to stand or sit for a long time after he was discharged from the hospital, and he was not allowed to fly, at least three months, that is to say, before February, Steve Kerr can't coach!Only stay in Los Angeles!

Immediately after woj's follow-up broke the news, the Warriors let Luke Walton replace Steve Kerr as the Warriors' interim head coach.

The Lakers are not very concerned about this, their own regular season opener is about to begin.

This year's Lakers opener against...the Timberwolves.

Yes, not the favorites, but the Timberwolves.

Adam Silva seems to use the veteran's difficult duel as a gimmick to create a magic barrier. The duel between Garnett and Kobe was once put on the stage and made headlines on the NBA official website.

But I have to say that feelings are very effective, especially for NBA games that are rarely seen a few times a year.

"Zha Ke, you just need to walk on the court today, and you will set a record." Liu Ren leaned in front of Kobe and said.

"Records?" Kobe thought for a while, what records?
More games than Jordan?This has been done a long time ago, with more years of playing than Jordan?This was done a long time ago.The score was surpassed last season, and this year's goal is Karl Malone, which is still more than 1000 points away...

What Kobe wants to surpass is Jordan, especially this year, he wants to win the seventh championship crazily.

Seeing Kobe thinking hard, Liu Ren said helplessly: "20 years! You have been playing on the same team for 20 years. If you play today, you will surpass Malone and Stockton."

I don't know if it's because he doesn't care about this or because he's slow to respond. Kobe was stunned when he heard the time of 20 years...

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Many fans wearing Timberwolves No. 21 jerseys came to the Staples Center today. Before the game started, more than 500 million people in the United States had already purchased viewing rights for the live broadcast of the game, not counting those who bought NBA BesTV. Fans, the ratings have exceeded [-]% and close to [-]%. This is quite rare in an NBA regular season, and such ratings are usually only seen in the Christmas game.

When Liu Ren saw the news, he lamented that feelings cannot be deduced with common sense.

For example, in Liu Ren's original memory, in the seventh game of the 2013 Finals, Ray Allen's magical three-pointer in the sixth game dragged the finals into the tiebreaker. The tiebreaker attracted more than 600 million people to buy The ratings almost surpassed the ratings of the 2010 finals tiebreaker, and the number of people in the country also reached 1500 million.

And the last NBA live broadcast he watched in his last life was when Kobe retired. In the United States, the number of viewers on ESPN alone reached 530 million, and the overall viewership reached 900 million. In China, there were 3800 million viewers on Penguin Live. After watching Kobe's curtain call, more than 200 million people bought Penguin sports memberships to watch the blu-ray live broadcast of that game, creating a revenue of $1000 million for Penguin's NBA live broadcast.

Liu Ren still remembers the year when Kobe Bryant retired from the tour. The Lakers were so bad that year. The attendance, live broadcasts, and live broadcast ratings were actually on par with the defending champion and the Warriors who were rushing to break the Bulls' record of 72 wins. It was almost unbelievable.

Just like movies that feature Master Xing and Brother Fa will sell well at the box office, the most valuable thing these days is feelings.

For example, Garnett and Kobe may have played against each other this season. After all, Garnett didn't play too many games last season, and this year's injury situation is not optimistic. Adam Silva is really afraid that Garnett will suddenly die. Retired, he has become famous, almost won the NBA Grand Slam, what MVP, best defensive player, championship, best team, best defensive team, All-Star mvp...Any award with a trophy, Garnett Basically got it, so when Garnett was still fully healthy at the beginning of the season, he put the Lakers and Timberwolves game together.

Now is the era of national entertainment. Adam Silva is indeed a very forward-looking president. Of course, he is a bit lacking in controlling the birth of super teams. For example, as soon as he came to power, the Cavaliers formed the Big Three again. , But he is very good at making money, which to some extent has benefited the players in the league.

This Adam Silva is better than David Stern. When David Stern signed a six-year broadcast contract with major TV stations in 2009, he almost gave the webcast to the major TV stations for free. Television stations, including some domestic sports, although David Stern is the greatest figure in the internationalization of the NBA, even greater than Jordan and Yao Ming, but after all, he grew up in different ages, so he still pays more attention to TV broadcasting.

And 2008 was the time when the Internet speed of the world was greatly improved. In 2009, various live broadcasts sprung up, and the live broadcasts of those TV stations’ websites were watched by more people than the live TV broadcasts, which made those TV stations bloody for 6 years. At that time Adam Silva, who is still the vice president, has no decision-making power, so after he took office in 2014, he began to discuss new contracts with those broadcast TV stations. After the news of the new contract at the same day price came out, the market value of the NBA suddenly increased. It has doubled several times.

比如篮网的俄罗斯土豪老板在2010年花了4.1亿买下了篮网80.00%的股份，2012年又花了1.6亿买下篮网剩下的20.00%的股份，成为篮网唯一的老板，总计也就花了5.7亿买下篮网，而当年篮网的市值是3.79亿。

Generally speaking, the real value of NBA teams is higher than the market value. For example, the Clippers had a market value of just over a billion before the sale, but they were sold for 20 billion when they were actually sold.

And this summer, the NBA's new broadcast contract was signed, and the market value of the Nets skyrocketed from 2014 million in the summer of 4.2 to 22 billion now, almost five times!
The Knicks, whose market value was 2014 billion in 14, has now exceeded 33 billion. Although the growth rate is not as terrifying as the Nets, his base is large!
The Lakers now rank second in the NBA with a market value of 31 billion, which skyrocketed almost instantly after the signing of contracts between the NBA and major broadcasters.

Regarding this, Liu Ren smiled triumphantly in his heart. He had planned to buy NBA team shares when he first planned the investment direction with Xiao Niu. He had known for a long time that the market value of NBA teams would rise sharply.

At the end of the regular season last season, before the stock market crash came, he asked Xiao Niu to sell all the stocks. Sure enough, just as Liu Ren remembered, the stocks of a domestic video website that used the gimmick of building cars to make money didn’t last long. It plummeted, and Liu Ren seized the opportunity when the stock rose from 2014 yuan to 10 yuan from October 2015 to April 4, and invested all the 24 million US dollars he got from Nike from 197 to 2014, and finally Soared to more than 2015 million US dollars.

And at the end of the regular season last season, Chick bought 2800% of the shares he held from the Chinese shareholders of the Lakers for $[-] million, because the shares were purchased in the name of the company and the share was too small , did not attract any attention.

This Chinese shareholder bought 2010% of the shares from the magician for 2000 million in 5. In the past 800 years, he sold less than half of the shares and made a profit of [-] million.

Moreover, the purchase of this share was led by Jenny Bass, which Liu Ren had never understood.

But making money is justice!Less than half a year after the purchase, the 2800 million rose to more than 6200 million. It was just a fixed asset, which made Liu Ren lose the pleasure of counting money.

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It's almost impossible for the Timberwolves to beat the Lakers, so the atmosphere of this game is very light.

Garnett and Kobe have a very good relationship. Liu Ren was taken by Kobe to meet the four big guys in the Big Four of the Nets. Although Garnett beat Liu Ren later, but now he sees Liu Ren behind him. Korver jumped up and down, and Garnett immediately gave Liu Ren a small punch in the chest.

"You Lakers are really all actors next to Los Angeles!" Garnett said angrily.

"That's because you are stupid." When Liu Ren is proud, he always looks like that.

"You kid... I really want to go back to five years ago, I will definitely kill you Lakers." Garnett was furious when he saw Liu Ren's virtue.

"How about it? You are envious to see us win the championship, right? If you agreed to come to the Lakers 8 years ago, we traded Bynum to you and Brown to Paul, you can still win the championship easily, maybe three consecutive championships , and maybe we will still be teammates now, the No. 1 in the history of the Lakers team in the future will lead you old men to win the championship, but the Lakers will not trade you away for draft picks." Said.

Garnett felt a little regretful when he heard Liu Ren's words. After he became famous with the Celtics, he really thought that if he partnered with Kobe, would his career become even greater?You must know that in that case, there would be no opponents like the Celtics, and the Lakers would not have any opponents from 08 to 10.

However, Garnett is still very satisfied with his choice: "What you said is very tempting, but time will not go backwards. I am very satisfied with my current results. People always have to be a little bit regretful, so that we can have a better future." So many things to remember."

An old man is an old man, Liu Ren is really... speechless for this kind of guy who has fulfilled his dreams to the point that he has no dreams!
When Kobe heard that he had played for the 20th year with the Lakers, he instantly stopped arguing with Liu Ren, so he came to talk to Garnett, who is also a trash talker. Who knew that this guy was worse than Kobe? Be open-minded.

Liu Ren said it was boring, but he was also quite emotional.

The pre-match ceremony for today's game is relatively long. There is a very important reason that the Lakers will accept the flag-raising ceremony of the championship flag and the awarding of the championship ring!
Nash, one of the current consultants of the Lakers, also came to the scene to accept the championship ring. Henry, who was supposed to be practicing in the Development League, also came. Jeremy Lin went to the Hornets, so he had to bring the ring to the Hornets next time.

Five years later, the Staples Center raised the championship banner again, and it was the No.17 championship banner tied with the Celtics. The fans were very enthusiastic, including following Garnett to watch the game All Timberwolves fans are cheering for the Lakers, because 17 of the 5 championship banners above the Lakers Arena were all obtained in Minnesota Apolis, which is the city where the Timberwolves are now. They also have a special feeling for the Lakers. Feelings.

The championship rings are the basic funds provided by the NBA to make diamond rings. The money they provide can almost make 20 diamond rings that will not lose the face of the NBA, but generally speaking, the owners of each team will pay for a luxury version. The championship diamond ring, such as local tyrants such as Mavericks owner Cuban, he spent 2011 million US dollars in 500 to create the most luxurious championship ring in NBA history for the players and staff of the team, especially the team The championship rings of players, head coaches, and assistant coaches are worth as much as $20.

Since the Lakers have won too many championships in the past, of course it is impossible to be so prodigal. The previous championship rings are relatively ordinary.

But this No. 17 championship, tying the Celtics to become the championship with the most championships in NBA history, the Bass family is also bleeding. Unlike the previous broken diamonds, this time the general championship ring Inlaid with a full 17 50-carat diamonds surrounded by the Lakers icon!
The value of those 17 diamonds alone is estimated to exceed $20!

This made the new players of the Lakers very envious. They all knew that even if the Lakers successfully defended their title this year, the future championship diamond rings would not be as luxurious as this year's, because this championship is more meaningful than other championship rings. The meaning of the championship is much greater. After being suppressed by the Celtics for 50 years, it finally succeeded in tying the number of championships with the Celtics. This kind of meaning cannot be replaced by future champions.

Especially Ci Shiping, the championship ring he won with the Lakers 5 years ago was a 75-point diamond ring in the middle of the Lakers logo, and now there are 17 rings!
"How much can this sell for..." Ci Shiping couldn't help but muttered.

Liu Ren, who had just received the ring and walked back to the team, heard Ci Shiping's words, and his head was instantly covered with black lines. He still remembered that Ci Shiping sold it only a year after winning the championship, and he was thinking of selling it again. The championship ring thing...

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On the field, the awards were presented happily, the flag was raised, and the fans cheered loudly, but in a private room at the Staples Center, someone had a gloomy face.

Rivers and Ballmer, the head coach, executive president and owner of the Clippers.

"Doug, if you want to cover the Lakers championship banner this year, you need another poster." Ballmer didn't know whether he was mocking or stating.

Rivers looked even uglier. He came to the Clippers for two years and was easily defeated by the Lakers in the playoffs in both years. He only won one game in 9 games, which made him very embarrassed. He came to the Clippers back then At that time, he vowed to let the glory of the Staples Center belong to the Clippers. At that time, the Lakers were at the bottom of the valley, and Rivers had that confidence.

But I didn't expect the Lakers to rebound as soon as they reached the bottom, and they rebounded to the point where they can hit the first place in history.

Rivers had no words to refute Ballmer's words.

Seeing the Lakers cheer loudly after winning the championship ring and hoisting the championship banner, and Kobe Bryant's championship speech there on behalf of the Lakers, this scene gave Ballmer goosebumps.

Ballmer has never been a Lakers fan, and even hates the Lakers as much as Rivers, otherwise he would have bought the Nets, which are all big city teams, and the Nets were cheaper at the time, and the Russian rich were also eager to make a move.

"No, I don't want my team to stay in this arena!"

Ballmer suddenly roared, startling Rivers.

(End of this chapter)