super small forward

Chapter 590 590. Milan Little Blacksmith

"Wow, that's cool! Have you heard, Kyrie? The Lakers are going to build a new arena. I saw the design in the news. It's bigger than our home arena!" DeRozan was all laughing Pretend, people are also very hip-hop.

Fatty Lowry doesn't understand why DeRozan is so happy, what does it have to do with them?
"DeMar, did you see what those fans said about us? They said we were used to find Kobe's status!" Lowry saw the news on the Internet since he came to Los Angeles yesterday, and the content was similar. In the past, the Raptors were abused by Kobe for nearly ten years, and the Raptors have indeed been ten years. They have not won the Lakers since the 05-06 season. Now facing the Lakers with a [-]-game losing streak, Lowry is full of anger .

Lowry feels very annoyed at those people who don't regard them as the real No. [-] in the Eastern Conference. In his opinion, his team's ability to reach the No. [-] Eastern Conference step by step depends on strength!And not just the East is weak!

The fact is also the same. Since the Raptors introduced coach Casey from the Spurs in 2011, they signed Lowry in the middle class for three years, and selected Valanciunas, who was considered to be a ghost at the time, at the time. Lithuanian Mr. Basketball was selected with the fifth overall pick, which is as surprising as Bennett's selection as the No. 5 pick in 2013. In addition, DeRozan, who was selected in the lottery in 09, has progressed step by step from the No. [-] pick to the postseason The top four in the game and the division, and now they are even competing with the Cavaliers for the first place in the Eastern Conference!

These are all achievements made step by step. When other teams in the East are ups and downs, or when they are ups and downs, the Raptors are rising steadily like a clear stream.

The Raptors are really a magical existence in the East. In the weak East, if you want to rise up and gather two or three superstars in their primes, such as the Heat and Cavaliers, they were not very good at first, but forming a giant combination will soon be enough. Into the finals, there are also some teams who are like the Eagles and Bulls who are the first in the division, but these teams rise when they say they rise, and they fall when they say they fall. There is no process. The draft pick selects a bunch of high-ranking rookies.

But the Raptors are a clear stream. Their record has improved every year, and they have a stronger appearance every year. Now they have become the first echelon in the Eastern Conference.

But just because there is no player who has always been regarded as a superstar to join, they are still not favored by people. In addition to the lessons learned by the Eagles last season, they seem to be labeled as the next Eagle.

In fact, if there are one or two more old superstars in their team, such as Pierce and Garnett, people's opinions will change drastically in an instant, just like the Nets in the 13-14 season.

Seeing Lowry's angry look, DeRozan was very puzzled: "What people said is the truth. We have lost to the Lakers many times. They are indeed very strong, the defending champion."

Lowry felt that DeRozan was hopeless. Seeing that DeRozan admired the Lakers very much, he really couldn't help it. Whoever called him a Los Angeles native.

Seeing DeRozan ignoring himself and continuing to read the news related to the Lakers, and interacting with Nick Young of the opponent team, Lowry could only curse secretly: "Lakers fans are really annoying."

DeRozan is a native of Los Angeles, and Nick Young is an alumnus of the University of Southern California. DeRozan, Nick Young, OJ Mayo, and Tai Gibson all played at the University of Southern California from 06 to 09. , although they are basically not students of the same class, but they are from the same school at the same time, and they have a good relationship, especially DeRozan and Nick Young, who have similar styles of play, personalities, and hobbies. duo.

Just like Nick Young, DeRozan grew up in Los Angeles. The home team is naturally the Lakers, and the idol is naturally Kobe. How can the Lakers not pay attention to such a big thing as building a new arena?

Seeing DeRozan's love for the Lakers, Lowry felt a little uncomfortable. Suddenly he thought of something and asked in horror: "DeMar, you don't want to go to the Lakers next year, do you?"

It's not that Lowry is worrying blindly, but that DeRozan didn't accept the Raptors' 5-year 1 million contract extension in the past summer!

"Going to the Lakers? No, I don't want to play for the Lakers. Why do you ask this?" DeRozan felt that Lowry was a bit strange today, as if he was targeting the Lakers.

In the eyes of fans like DeRozan, their home team is the best in everything, and they are very puzzled by other people's targeting. This is the common point of most fans, and it doesn't just refer to fans of any team...

"Don't you like the Lakers very much? Don't you want to play for the Lakers." Lowry was a little curious now.

"Yeah, I like the Lakers very much, but I want to beat him more than playing for the Lakers!" DeRozan's biggest dream is to beat Kobe, but he has been in the NBA for the seventh year and has not yet won the Lakers ...

"Then you want to go somewhere else?" Lowry was still worried, because DeRozan hadn't renewed his contract yet!It is only the second year that Lowry himself signed a new contract in 14 for 3 years and 3600 million.

"I just want to play in the Raptors. I want to be like Kobe, belong to a team forever and build my own legend!" DeRozan has a small goal, first playing him in the Raptors for 20 years.

"Then why didn't you renew the contract?" Lowry felt that things didn't make sense!
"You are stupid! Next year's salary cap will increase so much, and then my salary will be at least 600 million more a year. It is too bad to renew the contract now. By the way, you are really stupid. Last year, the contract was extended for three years and you didn't want any players. Options! Don't you know that the salary cap will increase so much next year?" DeRozan looked at Lowry like an idiot, and he was determined that Lowry would have a lot less money next season.

Lowry's grief and indignation, who knew in 2014 that wages would skyrocket in 2016!It was not until the beginning of this year that Adam Silva negotiated a new contract with the broadcaster, and it was revealed that the broadcast fee for this season was so high. Who knew at that time!

But hearing that DeRozan will not leave, and he has the same goal as him, which is to defeat the Lakers, Lowry praised DeRozan in his heart, he is really a good teammate of the United States!

Lowry was the player selected by the Grizzlies. When he first arrived in the Grizzlies, it was the 2006-2007 season. He was still a rookie and Kobe scored 60 points head-on. They were dispatched, and among them was the strong little steel cannon Lowry.

At this time Lowry began to be hostile to Kobe.

Then in December 07, the Lakers used Kwame Brown to replace Gasol, the core player of the Grizzlies, with a robbery. At that time, Gasol was still playing in Europe, and the Grizzlies just got His signing rights, so it looks like the Lakers have snatched the boss from the Grizzlies player.

At this time Lowry began to hate the Lakers.

In the summer of 08, Lowry was sold by the Grizzlies, because the team bosses were sold off, and the role players must be thrown away. Lowry became more disgusted with the Lakers. At that time, he had just stayed in Memphis for two years and was used to it. life in Memphis.

In the 08-09 season, Lowry went to the Rockets. The Rockets played very well that year. They played against the Lakers in the tiebreaker and lost in the end. This is not the key point. The key point is that the entire core combination of the Rockets was in that year. All collapsed, Yao Ming, McGrady, and Mutombo stayed away from the NBA one after another, changing from a playoff team to a lottery champion.

At this time, Lowry has completely regarded the Lakers as an enemy.

What makes Lowry hate the Lakers even more is that he has gone to the Raptors, and Kobe still regards his new team as the object of collecting honor points several times...

At this time, when DeRozan said that his goal was not to go to the Lakers, but to beat the Lakers, Lowry felt as if he had found a good friend with the same dream!
Just when Lowry wanted to express his feelings for DeRozan, DeRozan suddenly yelled: "Hey, Kyrie, come and see, the Clippers are moving out of the Staples Center! Long live I don’t like the Clippers for a long time, so a team that can’t even make it to the Western Conference Finals is ashamed to stay with the Lakers, Kyrie, do you know? I was very upset when I watched the NBA for the first time when I was a child Ship... hey... how did you go, Kaili..."

Lowry instantly changed from being moved to being sad and angry. He was very sad. He agreed to beat the Lakers together, but you are their fan!It doesn't matter if they are their fans, but they even ran over to show off that they are their fans!

"Sure enough, Lakers fans are the most annoying!"

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The Clippers are changing arenas!

This news is much more explosive than the Lakers' new training facility!
During the Sterling period, the Clippers refused to move out of Los Angeles, just like the Nets desperately wanted to move to New York. In Los Angeles, they guaranteed ticket sales, endorsement fees, and various guarantees. income.

So even if they are always in the shadow of the Lakers, even people who are not so familiar with the NBA when they mention Los Angeles don’t know that there is a team like the Clippers, and even more people who know the Timberwolves than the Clippers, but Sterling I just don't want to move, because I can only make money in Los Angeles.

But who is Ballmer? The No. 2011 rich man in the NBA!No. [-] local tyrant!He doesn't care about the little money the Clippers earn every year, and to be honest, the Clippers can only guarantee steady profits in Los Angeles. They have to pay luxury taxes almost every year since [-]. The biggest endorsement and broadcast fees must be For the Lakers, they just take the rest.

Ballmer doesn't care about that little money, he just wants to get out of the shadow of the Lakers!
One important thing is that the Clippers training facility is just a small college basketball facility. When the Lakers shared a training facility with several teams, Ballmer said it was acceptable. The Lakers were in the Toyota Center. The area it owns is not as large as the Clippers' training hall.

But now the Lakers are trying to build an NBA-level training facility before him, one of the former Microsoft bosses and a super rich man. Ballmer couldn't bear his temper at that time. He directly held a press conference and planned to invest 15 billion , to build a new home in Inglewood, CA!Will be moving out of the Staples Center.

Popular science, Inglewood is a resident city in California, which is under the jurisdiction of Los Angeles. In fact, it is the county where Los Angeles International Airport is located. However, the planning of counties and cities in the United States is different from that in China. People usually say that Los Angeles is actually Los Angeles. A county in the city circle, the county and the city here are not necessarily big or small.

Although Inglewood is only in the southwest of Los Angeles, and there is no gap in the middle, the urban agglomeration is connected together. It takes an hour or two to drive from the Staples Center to Inglewood, which is just like Hongqiao in Shanghai. Pudong is almost the same, even a little closer, but literally the Clippers are already moving out of Los Angeles!

Ballmer wants to be better than the Lakers in everything. He immediately allocated money to find the Inglewood government department to plot a land, and prepared to start construction immediately. A new arena will be available before the Lakers' new training facility is over.

When the price of US$15 billion came out, the entire basketball circle was shocked.

There is even a storm on the Internet.

A famous sports forum.

"The Clippers owner Ballmer only wants to have an arena that belongs to him. He can cheer in his own place every game and make his team's fans more enthusiastic. I can understand that he is a former Microsoft owner. He used to be one of the most profitable people in the world, of course he would not allow his industry to be suppressed by others, otherwise he would not have left Microsoft, but I don’t know if Apple still has a boss position to invite him to work?”

"Haha, you upstairs are really enough, but to be honest, I still don't understand how the investment of 15 billion was decided. Is it really too rich to find a place to spend? I think the Nets' arena is already Reaching the ultimate basketball stadium I can imagine, even the Rose Bowl Center is not that valuable, 15 billion, is it to build an Olympic stadium?"

"Upstairs, you may not have read the news last year. Ballmer heard that the owner of the Nets is the richest man in the NBA. He was very upset and said that his money was half that of the owner of the Nets."

"So Prokhorov used 10 billion to build an arena to increase the market value of the Nets to more than 20 billion, so Ballmer wants to use the way of repairing the arena to prove that he is half worth more than Prokhorov?"

"What you said above is very reasonable. Don't talk about the possible impact on the market value of the Clippers. After all, if Ballmer includes his new arena as part of the Clippers, the market value of the Clippers is likely to rise significantly. This is very possible, after all, Ballmer owns all the shares of the Clippers. So it is understandable for them to move away, when the home field is no longer covered with championship flags and retired jerseys used to cover other teams The players may feel more confident when they see the posters."

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Just when people were discussing this topic from a rather professional point of view, someone messed in.

"Floor loader: Finally, I don't have to be busy changing the floor! There are always people trying to steal my Western Conference floor, and I can finally be relieved!"

"Pfft...hahahaha, upstairs, people are having a serious discussion..."

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On the Lakers team bus, they are heading to the Staples Center collectively.

Two big news broke out today. Although neither has much to do with the players, the players still only need to be responsible for playing, but psychologically speaking, the two news today made the Lakers players very happy!

"The wealthy bosses from Microsoft are different! Our Staples Center seems to have been repaired for [-] million dollars back then? Even if the inflation is up to now, it will be at most [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars. You are really rich!" Liu Ren couldn't help it. Exclaimed.

"Isn't that good? We won't have to share the same arena with the Clippers in the second half of next season, and there won't be problems like slipping on the newly replaced floor." Kobe always looked at things from a different angle.

But it's true, after changing the court floor, it needs to be waxed and polished, although the NBA's floor replacement staff has a way to make the floor ready for use within a few hours, without the danger of slipping.

But sometimes the Clippers and the Lakers play at home on the same day, and there is only one to two hours between them, or even less than an hour between them. It is quick to change the floor, and it is also quick to polish and wax, but it is not so easy to do. !Especially the air conditioning in the arena is so powerful.

Liu Ren expressed contempt for Kobe's boring response, and asked casually, "By the way, Kobe, why didn't I see you in training this afternoon? Where did you go?"

Liu Ren returned to the training ground after eating the damn nutritious meal at noon. It was strange to find that Kobe was not training!Here he is very curious, Kobe is a basketball obsessive who will hang around the training ground even if the coach tells him to rest unless he is injured.

"I have something to discuss with the management." Kobe responded lightly.

"what's up?"

"none of your business."

"Zha Ke, you little Milanese blacksmith."

"????" Kobe looked confused...

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At 11:21 pm on November 8st, the Lakers ushered in the challenge of the Toronto Raptors at home, and were conducting pre-game warm-ups and pre-game activities.

Very strange, Liu Ren felt very strange.

Kobe usually walks around the court after warm-up and stretching, saying hello to this person and that person. Why didn’t even his famous fan DeRozan respond to him today? Holding a mobile phone and giggling there?

Liu Ren leaned over curiously, and glanced at the screen of Kobe's phone, he was playing Weibo!

Liu Ren looked at the content: Hey, boys and girls, today your boss called me a blacksmith. I don't need to look up the dictionary. I know it must be a meaningful word in your country. Can you tell me what it means?

Seeing this question, Liu Ren broke out in a cold sweat.

This problem is a bit big!In domestic forums, saying that Kobe is a blacksmith will cause a large-scale scolding battle, and then the forum administrator will delete the post!

Liu Ren was a little timid, but he suddenly thought of something and stopped being timid!

Because if Kobe received the answers from those black fans, Kobe would definitely be furious. Kobe has never been a guy with a big heart.

Curiously, Liu Ren borrowed a mobile phone from the teaching assistant and downloaded Weibo. After opening Kobe's latest Weibo comments, he suddenly felt that he was not well!

These fans are amazing!

Let’s not look at the Chinese answers first, Kobe definitely didn’t read the Chinese answers, and he doesn’t know them, and there are quite a few domestic basketball fans who can speak English, and there are many fans who overcame the wall and reposted content on American forums.

The comment with the most likes is this: "Blacksmith, this means that Kobe, you train hard, play hard, hit the basket when you don't score during training, and hit the basket more than Blacksmith. It is describing that you have been tempered into steel and possessed a firm and indomitable quality! As for Milan, it is talking about your experience growing up in Italy, saying that your quality was developed from a young age! You are born with perseverance and forging iron."

There are also metaphors: "Kobe, have you ever heard of blacksmiths in ancient China? They beat the iron with a hammer repeatedly by the burning stove, and for ten years and twenty years, they finally created the strongest sword! This is Boss is praising your excellent quality of playing for the Lakers for 20 years!"

There are also myths: "Kobe doesn't know if you have read a Chinese legend. There is a couple of blacksmiths named Ganjiang Moxie. They spent their whole lives building a pair of weapons. Finally, they used their lives and souls Take the sword to the fore, this is the boss's description of your hard work on basketball..."

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If Liu Ren didn't have a thick skin, he would blush after reading these answers!The mouth of the Chinese!Absolutely nothing!

Since this is the case, Liu Ren doesn't intend to bother Kobe who is having fun...

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Soon, the pre-match activities were over, and the game was about to start.

The Lakers sent Antetokounmpo, Kobe, Liu Ren, Green, Whiteside.

Today it is the turn of Monroe, Biyombo, and LaVine to rest. Ci Shiping went back to the Development League to play. In exchange for Black to enter the active list, it is difficult for the three in the Development League to have a chance to play. Just played for a few minutes.

Regarding the rotation of the three point guards, D'Antoni basically let them take turns to truce, but when they meet a playoff team, it is LaVine and Clarkson who take turns to rest. Antetokounmpo must play.

In the previous game against the Knicks, there was no Antetokounmpo. The Lakers only had Liu Ren on the perimeter. The Knicks broke the news. The Raptors are also a team with two star perimeters. Antetokounmpo Bo is naturally the starter.

The starting lineup for the Raptors is Lowry, DeRozan, Carroll, Scola, Valanciunas.

Whiteside and Valanciunas went to the middle circle to jump the ball.

Finally, there is a big center with a shape similar to Whiteside. Regardless of physical fitness, Valanciunas is 125 meters tall and [-] kilograms in weight, and he is the hard stubble of a standard Lithuanian white man. Compared with Whiteside's rough and rough appearance, Valanciunas is slightly shorter than Whiteside, and his impact on opponents is no worse than Whiteside's in terms of size!

Except that Valanciunas is [-] meters tall and has a wingspan of [-] meters...

Whiteside's jump ball, this is one of the happiest things for the Lakers this season. A small jump ball expert can make Lakers fans so happy. It can be seen that Gasol almost lost a year in a row last year. How deep is the despair...

Liu Ren looked at Whiteside and Valanciunas preparing to jump the ball, and always felt that something was weird, as if someone was looking at him with hatred. He followed this uncomfortable feeling to find the source, which was actually the former Rockets The hot hatch of the team!

"Why is he looking at me?" Liu Ren didn't play two full games with the Raptors last year, and he really didn't know where he offended this little fat guy.

When Liu Ren was still a fan, he liked Lowry very much. The Rockets will never spoil one of the members of the team.

But this is in the game, Liu Ren naturally wouldn't ask Lowry why he looked at him with that kind of eyes, even if it wasn't in the game, Liu Ren wouldn't ask about the arrogant personality he didn't know he had, he What I think now is that since Lowry seems to hate him very much, let Lowry hate him even more!

Liu Ren found another reason for himself to increase his motivation, and beat the Raptors!
If Lowry knew what Liu Ren was thinking, he would definitely vomit blood. What he was looking at was Kobe!Who told Kobe and Liu Ren to stand on the same line!

(End of this chapter)