569. The Battle Ring is Unveiled

The Lakers won eight straight preseason games and quickly found a way to deal with this tactic after the Warriors sacrificed five hours of death, but neither the Warriors nor the Warriors paid attention to the fact that the tactic they were going to use against the Lakers was found to be flawed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Steve Cole has a severe back strain!

Steve Kerr suffered a back injury when he was a player, and later became a general manager because of a recurrence of a back injury as a non-commentator.

Originally, Steve Kerr is doing a good job as coach now, and the injury is well controlled, who knows that in this preseason game, Barnes was stimulated by three consecutive open three-point irons to make continuous actions that should not be done, and the sudden twisting of the back made his back injury recur, and the pain was so painful that he didn't finish the game.

For most of the Warriors' players, Steve Kerr is their god, and the changes brought to the Warriors by Steve Kerr last season were too great, jumping directly from the sixth or seventh place in the West to the second in the league, if it weren't for the Lakers being too strong, they were likely to be the most likely team to win the championship last season!

Now that Steve Kerr is down, the Warriors players are instantly gone, and the most critical head coach is down, what preseason games are there to play!

The Lakers are even more stunned, what is the situation?

D'Antoni sympathized with Steve Cole's plight, but that's it, the grievances of the year were not to be let go, and it would be good not to get along with each other.

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

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A preseason game of strong matches 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 Cole had to recuperate in the hospital for at least one month, and he couldn't stand or sit for a long time after being discharged from the hospital, and he was not allowed to fly for at least three months, which means that before February, Steve Cole couldn't coach! Only in Los Angeles!

Immediately after WOJ's follow-up revelations, the Warriors let Luke Wharton replace Steve Kerr as the interim head coach of the Warriors.

The Lakers, on the other hand, aren't very concerned about that, and their own regular season opener is about to begin.

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

Yes, not the favourites, but the Timberwolves.

Adam Silva seems to have used a matchup that is difficult for veterans to have as a gimmick, and the matchup between Garnett and Kobe Bryant was once staged and made headlines on the NBA's official website.

But I have to say that feelings are very effective, especially for NBA games that you don't see a few times a year.

"Zake, as long as you walk on the court today, you'll set a record." Liu Ren leaned in front of Kobe and said.

"Records?" Kobe Bryant thought about it, what is the record?

More appearances than Jordan? This one has been done a long time ago, more than Jordan has played for years? This was done a long time ago. The score was also surpassed last season, and this year's target is Karl Malone, which is still more than 1,000 points away......

Kobe Bryant's mind is full of Jordan, especially this year, he is crazy about winning the seventh championship.

Watching Kobe Bryant meditate, Liu Ren said helplessly: "It's been 20 years!" You've been on the same team for 20 years, and you're going to surpass Malone and Stockton just by playing today. ”

I don't know if it's because I don't usually care about this or because I'm slow to react, Kobe Bryant was stunned when he heard about the time of 20 years......

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Today, there are a lot of fans wearing the Timberwolves' No. 21 jersey at the Staples Center, the game has not yet started, and the live broadcast of this game has been broadcast by more than 5 million people in the United States to buy the ratings, not counting those fans who bought NBA BesTV, the ratings have exceeded one percent and are close to two percent, which is quite rare in an NBA regular season, and it is generally a Christmas game to have such ratings.

When he saw this news, Liu Ren sighed that feelings are not something that can be deduced with common sense.

For example, in Liu Ren's original memory, in the seventh game of the 2013 finals, due to the sixth game of Ray Allen's magical three-point goal to drag the finals into a tie-break, the seven-tie battle attracted more than 6 million people to buy ratings, almost exceeding the ratings of the 2010 finals tie-breaker, and the number of people in China also reached 15 million.

And the last NBA live broadcast he watched in his last life was the one when Kobe Bryant retired, and the number of viewers of ESPN alone in the United States reached 5.3 million, and the overall reached 9 million, and 38 million people in China watched Kobe Bryant's curtain call game in Penguin Live, and more than 2 million people bought Penguin Sports members for that game to watch Blu-ray live broadcast, creating 10 million US dollars in revenue for Penguin NBA live broadcast.

Liu Ren still remembers that it was Kobe Bryant's retirement tour that year, and the Lakers were so bad that year, and the attendance, live broadcast number and live broadcast ratings were actually on par with the defending champion and the Warriors who were rushing to break the Bulls' 72-win record, which was almost incredible.

Just like the movies with Xing Ye and Fa Ge will be box office hits, the most valuable thing in these years is feelings.

For example, Garnett and Kobe Bryant may be the most season-to-season match, after all, Garnett didn't play much last season, and the injury situation this year is not optimistic, Adam Silva is really afraid that Garnett will retire suddenly, and he has already made a name for himself, almost won the NBA Grand Slam, what MVP, best defensive player, championship, best team, best defensive team, All-Star MVP...... Garnett has basically won all the trophies, so at the beginning of the season, when Garnett was still fully healthy, he put the Lakers and Timberwolves together.

It's the era of national entertainment, and Adam Silva is indeed a very forward-thinking president, although he is a little lacking in controlling the birth of super teams, for example, as soon as he came to power, the Cavaliers formed the Big Three again, and it didn't play any role, but he has a lot of money to make, and to some extent, it benefits the players in the league.

This Adam Silva is stronger than David Stern, in 2009 when David Stern signed a 6-year broadcast contract with major TV stations, he almost gave the live broadcast to major TV stations, including a certain wave of sports in China, although David Stern is the greatest figure in the NBA's internationalization, even greater than Jordan and Yao Ming, but after all, he grew up in different years, and he still attaches more importance to TV broadcasting.

And 2008 is the time when the world's Internet speed has greatly improved, in 2009, various live broadcasts have sprung up, and those TV stations have watched more people on their websites than on live TV, making those TV stations earn blood for 6 years, Adam Silva, who was still vice president at that time, had no decision-making power, so in 2014, after he took office, he began to talk about new contracts with those broadcast TV stations, and after the news of the new contract came out, the market value of the NBA skyrocketed in an instant, and it increased several times.

For example, the Russian tyrant owner of the Nets spent 410 million to buy 80% of the shares of the Nets in 2010, and in 2012, he spent 160 million to buy the remaining 20% of the shares of the Nets, becoming the only owner of the Nets, and spent a total of 570 million to buy the Nets, and the market value of the Nets was 379 million that year.

NBA teams are usually more valuable than their market capitalization, such as the Clippers, whose market value was more than a billion before the sale, and 2 billion when they were actually sold.

And this summer, the NBA's new broadcast contract was signed, and the Nets' market value skyrocketed from 420 million in the summer of 2014 to 2.2 billion now, almost fivefold!

In 2014, the Knicks, who had a market value of 1.4 billion, now have a market value of more than 3.3 billion, although the growth is not as terrifying as the Nets, but he has a large base!

The Lakers are now ranked second in the NBA with a market capitalization of $3.1 billion, which skyrocketed almost instantly after the NBA signed contracts with major broadcasters.

For this, Liu Ren smiled proudly in his heart, he had a plan to buy shares of NBA teams when he first planned to invest in the direction of investment with Xiaoniu, and he had long known that the market value of NBA teams would rise sharply.

In the late regular season last season, before the stock market crash, he asked the chick to sell all the stocks, and sure enough, just like Liu Ren remembers, the stock of a domestic video website with a gimmick of making cars to make money plummeted not long after, and Liu Ren seized the opportunity of the stock to rise from 24 to 197 from October 2014 to April 2015, and invested the 3 million US dollars that Nike got from 2014-2015, and finally skyrocketed to more than 27 million US dollars.

At the end of the regular season last season, Chick bought two percent of his shares from the Lakers' Chinese-American shareholders for $28 million, which didn't attract much attention because it was in the name of the company.

This Chinese-American shareholder bought 4.5 percent of the shares from Magic for 20 million yuan in 2010, and after selling a small half of the shares in five years, he made 8 million yuan.

And the purchase of this share Liu Ren got the news from the chick that Jenny Bass took the lead, which Liu Ren has never been able to understand.

But making money is justice! Less than half a year after I bought it, the 28 million rose to more than 62 million, which was just a fixed asset, which made Liu Ren lose the pleasure of counting money.

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Timberwolves want to beat Lakers...... It's basically impossible, so the atmosphere of this game is relaxed.

Garnett and Kobe have a good relationship, Liu Ren was also brought by Kobe to see the four bigwigs when the Nets Big Four were in the past, although Garnett later scolded Liu Ren, but now seeing Korver jumping behind Liu Ren, Garnett immediately gave Liu Ren a small punch in the chest.

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

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

"You kid...... I really want to go back to five years ago, and I'm absolutely going to you Lakers. Garnett was angry when he saw Liu Ren's virtue.

"How? It's envious to see us win, right? If you had agreed to come to the Lakers 8 years ago, and we traded Bynum for you, and Brown for Paul, you could still easily win the championship, maybe three in a row, and maybe we would have become teammates now, and the first person in the history of the Lakers in the future will now take a few of you old men to win the championship, and the Lakers will not trade you away for draft picks. Liu Renniu said with a bang.

Garnett did feel a little regretful when he heard Liu Ren's words, after he became famous with the Celtics, he did think that if he partnered with Kobe, would his career become greater? You know, in that case, there is no opponent for the Celtics, and the Lakers didn't have any opponents from '08 to '10.

However, Garnett is still very happy with his choice: "What you said is very tempting, but time will not go back, I am very happy with the result I have now, people always have to be a little regretful, so that we have more things to remember." ”

An old man is an old man, and Liu Ren is really ...... for this kind of guy whose dreams have been fulfilled to the point that he has no dreams Speechless!

When Kobe Bryant heard that he had been playing for the Lakers for 20 years, he instantly became less quarrelsome with Liu Ren, so he came to Garnett, a fellow trash talk king, who knew that this guy was even more open-minded than Kobe.

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

The pre-game ceremony of today's game is relatively long, and there is a very important reason, that is, the Lakers have to accept the flag-raising ceremony of the championship flag and the championship ring award!

Nash, one of the Lakers' current advisors, also came to the scene to receive the championship ring, Henry, who was supposed to be leveling in the Development League, also came, and Jeremy Lin went to the Hornets, so he only brought the ring with him the next time he played the Hornets.

After a lapse of five years, the Staples Center once again raised the championship flag, and it was the seventeenth championship flag that tied the Celtics, and the fans at the scene were very enthusiastic, including the Timberwolves fans who followed Garnett to watch the game, cheering for the Lakers, because 5 of the 17 championship flags over the Lakers arena were obtained in Apolis, Minnesota, which is now the city where the Timberwolves are located, and they also have special feelings for the Lakers.

Championship rings are the NBA's official basic funds for making diamond rings, and the money they provide can almost make 20 diamond rings that will not lose face in the NBA, but generally speaking, the owners of each team will pay for a luxury version of the championship diamond ring out of their own pockets, such as the local tyrant such as Mavericks owner Cuban, who paid 5 million US dollars in 2011 to create the legendary most luxurious championship ring in NBA history for the team's players and staff, especially the team players and head coaches, The assistant coach's championship rings are worth as much as $200,000.

Because the Lakers have won too many championships before, of course, it is impossible to be such a loser, and the previous championship rings are relatively ordinary.

But this 17th championship, tying the Celtics to become the most championship-winning championship in NBA history, the Buss family is also bleeding, unlike the previous diamonds, this time the championship ring is inlaid with 17 50-carat diamonds around the Lakers icon!

The value of those 17 diamonds alone is estimated to be more than 200,000 US dollars!

This makes the Lakers' new players envious, they all know that even if the Lakers successfully defend the title this year, the future championship diamond ring will not be as luxurious as this year, because the significance of this championship is much more significant than other championships, suppressed by the Celtics for 50 years, and finally succeeded in equaling the number of championships of the Celtics, which is irreplaceable by future championships.

Especially Ci Shiping, the championship ring he got with the Lakers 5 years ago was a 75-point diamond ring in the middle of the Lakers logo, and now there are 17 of them!

"How much can this sell for......" Ci Shiping couldn't help but mutter.

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

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On the field, there were joyful awards, flag-raising, and fans cheering loudly, but in a private room in the Staples Center, someone had a gloomy face.

Rivers and Ballmer, the head coach and CEO of the Clippers and the owner.

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

Rivers looked even more ugly, he came to the Clippers for two years, and was easily defeated by the Lakers in the playoffs in both years, winning only one game in 9 games, which made him very shameless, when he came to the Clippers, he vowed to let the glory of the Staples Center belong to the Clippers, when the Lakers were at the bottom, Rivers had that confidence.

But I didn't expect that as soon as the Lakers reached the bottom, they immediately bottomed out and rebounded, and rebounded to the point where they could hit the first place in history.

Rivers had no words to refute Ballmer's words.

Seeing the Lakers cheer loudly after taking the championship ring, raising the championship flag, and Kobe Bryant giving a championship speech on behalf of the Lakers there, this scene gave Ballmer goosebumps.

Ballmer has never been a Lakers fan, and even dislikes 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 tycoons were in a hurry to make a move.

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

Ballmer suddenly roared, startling Rivers.