I have to say that the league's schedule for the Lakers is not friendly at all, and after Christmas, the 27th and 28th will have back-to-back away games, first going to Salt Lake City, and then the next opponent is actually the Nets. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At nine o'clock in the morning on the 26th, Liu Ren, who tossed Chen Hanni until dawn, got up, and after taking a bath, he ate breakfast and saw Monica who had just sent little Lori to school and returned home.

"Erin, take me to buy a car, it's too much trouble for you to deliver it every time you have to go out." Liu Ren said casually.

"Uh, okay." Monica seemed to be in a hurry, so she hurried to the direction of the room in response to Liu Ren's voice.

Liu Ren is a little strange, the financial sister who is usually very enthusiastic is so weird today?

Without thinking too much, Liu Ren went back to the room to change his clothes and came out, Monica was ready and waiting for Liu Ren to leave with him in the business district not far from Beverly Hills.

Liu Ren and Chen Hanni have been here many times together, but Chen Hanni is shopping every time, the kind of pure shopping, and when she sees that the one she likes is too expensive, she doesn't buy it, but goes home to buy the same style online.

When they arrived at a Ferrari flagship store, Liu Ren and Monica parked their cars and went in, and when Monica came out today, she drove Chen Hanni's sports car, so the staff of the flagship store were already waiting at the door to open the door.

"Welcome, what do you need...... You're Liu! Wow, it's really Liu, hello, are you going to buy a new car today? The business literacy of this female clerk is still enough, and after being excited, she quickly suppressed her emotions and did her own job.

As for the woman next to Liu Ren, it seems that she is not the Chinese girlfriend he rumored to be, the clerk doesn't care at all, how many players come out to buy a car with their wives or girlfriends?

The clerk was very enthusiastic to introduce the car to Liu Ren, much more enthusiastic than the other people who usually asked, no way, who called the NBA players to give people the feeling of being stupid and how arrogant they are. There are a lot of celebrities who usually come to this store, and when they really come, they pay directly to buy things, except for some young heirs of large companies, NBA players.

The cheapest cars in such a store are more than 200,000 US dollars, and the clerks are all on a rotational rest system, some clerks are unlucky and can't sell two cars a month, and some are lucky to have high rollers every time it is her turn.

As the clerk expected, Liu Ren quickly chose the car he originally wanted, the Ferrari Lusso, today.

In addition to the great power and appearance of this car, Liu Ren is interested in the fact that he has four seats......

For such a simple and crude reason, Liu Ren directly asked the clerk to fill up the gas, transfer the money and sign and leave, leaving the clerk who had not yet said the sales jargon in the wind......

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After the team gathered for practice in the afternoon, the Lakers bus took the players to the airport and flew to Salt Lake City in the next state.

Salt Lake City is not far from Los Angeles, more than 20 minutes by plane, and generally speaking, like playing teams such as the Warriors and Kings, flying will not be too tiring.

But the scariest thing about Salt Lake City is not that it can be compared to long-distance flight, and not many teams are willing to play the playoffs against the Jazz for only one reason, and the altitude here is close to 1,500 meters!

If you have been to the Inner Mongolia Plateau or climbed the Yellow Mountain, you will know that the kind of altitude sickness has not yet reached the point of making people feel altitude sickness, and there is an embarrassing height that is a little bit about to produce altitude sickness.

In short, Liu Ren was only a little uncomfortable when he arrived here, like a little palpitation after a cold.

And this is a typical highland mountain climate, and at the end of December, it is already icy and snowy.

And it's that clammy cold! Liu Ren is now wrapped in zongzi, and he still feels the cold air seeping into his clothes. He finally knew why, before getting on the plane, Kupchak gave each of his players a suitcase full of cold gear.

You know, it's rare for Los Angeles to get below 5 degrees in winter! And the weather in Los Angeles is very good in all seasons, and the sky is not a single cloud that cannot be seen if it doesn't rain, and the warm sun shines at all times.

Who would have thought that Salt Lake City in the next state would be cold like this?

After Liu Ren got off the plane, he shrunk into a ball of cold, rushed into the team bus, and felt the warm air conditioner before he was relieved, and couldn't help but say: "I really envy Steve for not using it, and going directly to New York." ”

"If you're 40, the management will let you not play back-to-back." Kobe joked.

"I said, how did you come to Salt Lake City? It's weird that you won't be on the roster tomorrow. Liu Ren glanced at Kobe.

Kobe Bryant looked at the white snow scene outside the window, and his eyes revealed nostalgia: "This is a very important place in my career, I don't know how many times I can come as a player, I can't help but come and see it." ”

Liu Ren wanted to continue to spray with Kobe, but when he saw Kobe like this, he chose to forget it and not say anything.

"Maybe this old man is the last person who wants to admit that he is old, right? Otherwise, he wouldn't be 38 years old and use the most shots per game to prove that he is okay, but in the end he admits that he can't do it. ”

If the Lakers play games against other nearby teams, such as the Kings, Warriors, or even the Suns, they go on the same day, sometimes even go back to Los Angeles on the same day, and play the Jazz a day earlier, because of the climate here.

They didn't have to rent a stadium to train like going to other places to play away, they went straight to the hotel to rest until the next afternoon, three hours before the game started, and then went to the Energy Solutions Stadium to warm up.

The Energy Solutions Arena can only be described as a crowd, and apart from the media in Los Angeles, there are only a few local media outlets who have covered the game.

Not to mention that the Jazz have always been unloved by fans, let's just say that their record this year, even if a high-profile team like the Lakers comes to play on the road, it will not attract much attention.

Even those crazy fans who used to be known as the home of the Devils, now most of them don't watch the game, since Sloan's retirement, the Jazz team has been worse every year, and they barely made the playoffs in the 11-12 season, they were overtaken by the Lakers and Rockets last season and withdrew from the playoffs, and now this year they are ranked third from the bottom of the league with 7 wins and 25 losses, and the bottom of the West, only the 76ers and the Bucks have a worse record than them.

After entering, Liu Ren saw the sparse fans on the long side, and the attendance rate was only about 80%, right? Even the 76ers had a higher attendance than that......

Just like the record, the Jazz team is very bad, very bad, originally the league asked the Lakers to send food to the Jazz, who called the Jazz almost made the playoffs last year, the league thought that their young players this year went further, and they might become dark horses like the Grizzlies, but I didn't expect it to be the Jazz to send food to the Lakers.

With Gasol, the Lakers are completely different from the Lakers before Christmas, the Jazz used to be average on offense and excellent on defense, but now the offense is still average, and it can even be described as rotten, and the defense is worse than the offense.

In the first half, D'Antoni directly ranked the strongest combination of Antetokounmpo, Nick Young, Liu Ren, Gasol, and Whiteside, and beat the Jazz 20-3 in the opening wave, not giving the Jazz a chance to struggle.

In the end, the Lakers easily slaughtered the Jazz 133-100, and it was only after the Lakers ruled out the disaster-level combination of Marshall, McCollum, Nick Young, Carman, and Thackeray in the second half that the opponent scored less embarrassingly.

Following D'Antoni's wishes, the Lakers didn't spend too much energy on the game today, and tried to save their energy for tomorrow's game against the Nets.