The Clippers lost, and the record is still tied with the Mavericks for the first place in the league, and the losing streak is not big news, the Clippers are a rebuilding team, and if they are strong enough not to lose, it is really a hell of a life.

On the 15th, there were two big and attractive news in the NBA.

First of all, it is worrying for Chinese fans that Yao Ming has been injured and will undergo surgery for a fractured left foot and will miss six months of play.

After joining the Nets, Yao Ming's average playing time increased to 36.3 minutes per game, and the number of singles also increased, with an average of 21.5 points, 10.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 2 blocks per game.

According to Yang Rui's requirements, Yao Ming's weight is maintained at about 120 kg, and his height of 226CM is the same as that of Jordan Jr. and Howard, which greatly reduces the burden, but his left foot has always had injury hazards and must control the playing time.

In 1997, a year after Yao Ming joined the Shanghai youth team, he injured his left foot twice in training and competition, resulting in a fracture of his phalange. Perhaps it was these two serious injuries during the development period that laid the root of Yao Ming's left foot.

When he was with the Lakers, teammates could take on the offensive task of holding the ball, and quickly counterattacking with positional battles, Yao Ming was much easier. Now the Nets are almost all positional battles, with Yao Ming as the core offense.

The current head coach of the Nets is Avery Johnson, and he knows that the Nets have signed him on a short-term contract to let the star single, and if it weren't for the fact that there is no suitable person to replace him, the owner wants him to get out of the way now.

After Yao Ming's injury, the task of the Nets this season has become a mess, trying to select another high-pick rookie.

On this day, the Lakers announced a big deal.

After Evans proposed the idea of leaving at the end of last month, manager Kupchak immediately convened a meeting of management staff and proposed to adjust the roster, otherwise the Lakers may not even be able to make the playoffs this season, how to compete with the Clippers for the Los Angeles market?

After the discussion, the Lakers have two trade targets, Pau Gasol and Steve Nash.

Both of them changed their lives because of the butterfly effect brought by Yang Rui, and they were very unsatisfactory.

Pau Gasol has been with the Grizzlies, reaching the Western Conference Finals at most, being an All-Star a few times, but not winning a championship. The Grizzlies are also ready to rebuild, and sending him and Battier away would be a better way to mess around. The last time I played the Lakers, the Grizzlies didn't want to win at all, but with Big Gasol here, he blew up the Lakers' interior line and won accidentally.

The problem is that the Grizzlies want to trade Pau Gasol for the interior or package Byron Davis for a trade, and the Lakers don't want to send the interior and even less want to receive Davis' rotten contract.

Nash has won several assist titles, but he has not won the regular season MVP, which is far less glamorous than Yang Rui's previous life as the MVP, and the Suns are ready to rebuild.

The historical bias stems from the fact that the Suns poached O'Neal Jr., who left with a big drop in strength and did not exchange any players, but only freed up salary space. Stoudeyer joined New York, not to be paired with Nash by the Suns.

Without a super scorer, Nash couldn't lead the team to win, and in Yang Rui's previous life, after Xiao Si left the Suns, Nash didn't make the playoffs for two consecutive seasons.

The Suns are even worse now, and they haven't made the playoffs since trading O'Neal. Now it's just Channing Frye, who can shoot threes, and Robin Lopez, the "mascot finisher."

After two weeks of negotiations, the Lakers and Suns made a trade.

The Suns acquired Tyrek Evans and Joe Smith, the 2011 Lakers' first-round picks, and two second-round picks; The price for the Lakers' comeback was not too big, getting Nash.

In the summer of 2012, Nash would be a full free agent, and the Suns were not confident of keeping him, so they rushed to trade.

Nash is not young anymore and wants to fight for a championship ring at the end of his career, he doesn't have many options, the Clippers already have Paul, the Cavaliers have the Big Three, there is no way to have his place, he has a bad relationship with Mavericks owner Cuban, it is impossible to trade him back, and the Spurs have Tony Parker, who is also a star point guard.

After discussing with his agent, the only strong team that Nash may join is the Lakers, so he will not regret it.

After the trade was announced, Bryant was very happy and said in an interview: "This is one way the league has evolved, and to make the team competitive, you have to get at least three great guys. ”

'In a sense, we've always been together, but unfortunately we've always been opponents, we're representing different teams, and as long as he's on the pitch, every teammate on the pitch makes it easy, and he's the kind of player who makes you really good.'

Bryant gave Nash a high rating. 'He's not just on the pitch, he's a very good passer, I dare to pack a ticket, there's no second guy like that in the league. I can move with ease without the ball and I'm sure he'll make the right choice, and it's all very simple, instead of me holding the ball and opening the defence on my own. ”

Kobe Bryant said he was willing to play without the ball, but he didn't know if he could do it, and what he was good at in the past was to keep his teammates without the ball......

The media and fans began to be optimistic about the Lakers again, believing that after Nash joined, the Lakers have formed a new "F4", which is not inferior to the Clippers' four-man combination, and the positions of the core of the two teams are similar, just opposite.

Comparing individual abilities, Nash is slightly inferior to Paul; Rohrdeng was well-rounded last season, balanced offensively and defensively, outperforming Curry; Lefou's athleticism is not as good as that of Griffin, with a longer range and the ability to open up space, which is slightly inferior; is also good at singles, Kobe Bryant and Guy are compared, and everyone thinks that Kobe is far better than Guy.

On the 16th, the media began to hype up the Christmas game, and the league arranged for the Clippers to play the Lakers away.

This is the first meeting between the two sides this season, and David Stern has deliberately arranged it, and he wants to save the gimmick for the most suitable time, and the fans will be more interested.

That night, the Clippers narrowly beat the Pacers 101-95 on the road.

The Pacers are very similar to the team in Yang Rui's previous life, although Brad Miller, Michael Reed and others joined and changed the lineup during the period, but after the two left, the Pacers still embarked on the old path of rebuilding and put together the lineup of Roy Hibbert, Danny Granger, Paul George, Dundee Jones, McRoberts and others.

Steve Blake, who was supposed to join the Lakers, chose the Pacers because the Lakers signed Fisher and became the starting point on the team, giving the team a slight boost.

The Pacers are back in the playoffs and causing a lot of trouble for the Clippers, but reporters are not interested in talking about them at all, and talked about the Lakers in an interview with Yang Rui.

"What impact do you think Nash will have on the Lakers when he joins the Lakers? Can it pose a threat to the Clippers? ”

Yang Rui thought for a while and replied: "I don't think Nash joining the Lakers can make the team stronger, what the Lakers need most now is to strengthen the interior defense, not the outside offense." And no matter how strong the point guard is to the Lakers, the general positioning is a fixed-point shooter, Paul is no exception, this deal, I think the team that earned it is the Suns. ”

The reporter asked, "Why?" ”

"Suns backup point guard Dragic is an underrated player, and he can get more balls after Nash leaves, and I fancy him to play star stats. Moreover, Dragic and Evans are a good pairing, and Evans can play in the No. 2 position. Of course, whether the Suns can rise depends on trades and draft picks over the next two seasons. ”

The reporter asked, "Are you saying Kobe Bryant will make the point guard worse?" ”

"I didn't say that, but Nash has a lot of pressure in the future, and once the Lakers lose, there will be a lot of fans who say that he didn't give Kobe enough support, didn't average ten rebounds per game, and so on, good luck to him."