This season, the league is very differentiated, and the East is all weak except for the Cavaliers, Pacers, and Celtics. The only competitive ones in the West seem to be the Clippers and Thunder, and even the Mavericks and Spurs have weakened.

Some young people began to discuss online: Is the NBA boring because of the huddle?

The answer is no, in fact, the audience doesn't care whether they sign up for the group or not, what they care about is what data their favorite star can play, and whether their favorite team can win the championship.

Didn't you sign up for a group in the 80s? So how did the Lakers sho time and those gods get together, and does the Celtics win the championship by Bird alone? The regiment of the bulls in the 90s was not big enough?

The game is not exciting, the key problem is that the salary cap grows too fast, and the ability and value of many stars will rise in a step-by-step manner and break the original system.

In addition, in 2010, the decision of the Knights Big Three broke the rules, and it used to be the management operation in exchange for the giants, and the three brothers discussed it directly behind their backs, and then the eldest brother stepped forward to let the management do it. Although they failed to win the championship, it still affected the balanced development of the NBA in the long run.

On January 14, the Clippers won nine in a row against the Lakers, who won seven and six.

The Lakers started with four more games than the Clippers, including a three-game back-to-back, and some of the league's tendencies can be seen from the schedule, and they have weakened their support for the Lakers.

Not only are the players playing poorly, but the Lakers management is also under tremendous pressure, and everything is not going well this year.

In Yang Rui's previous life, the Lakers began to fall sharply in a trajectory that people can see from 11 years ago, until the bottomless abyss. The former king has been ranked first in the west for many years, and he went straight to the top of the championship.

The reason for this tragedy is due to Kobe's aging, the style of play is too simple and rough, and the change in the league's attitude is the key.

The league is good for the Lakers in this life, and in the previous life, Stern was able to prevent Paul from joining the Lakers for "basketball reasons".

Will the Hornets get Odom, Scola, Kevin Martin, Dragic and a 2012 Knicks first-round pick be worth less than Gordon, Carman, Aminu and the 2012 Timberwolves pick?

To put it bluntly, it's the Lakers' sky-high broadcast contract that is to blame.

For a long time, Lakers owner Jerry Buss was an ally and friend of Stern, and it was Buss who proposed to Stern that "the NBA should build stars", which led to the rapid development of the NBA in the past three decades, but during the 2011 shutdown, Stern and Buss parted ways and fell in love with each other.

The Buss family still maintained the original idea of "building stars and building a big market", and after the NBA cake became bigger, Stern began to think about common prosperity.

Time Warner's contract has made the Lakers an outlier, the same TV contract, and teams such as the Grizzlies, Suns, Hornets, and Bucks only have about $10 million, which has seriously affected the entire league landscape.

This year, Stern was really afraid that Facebook would also announce a monopoly on the Clippers' broadcast rights in the summer, so that the other bosses would make more trouble, but thankfully Facebook did not do so.

Regardless of what Thomas Bentley and Young Rui are thinking, Stern is relieved that he will retire in two years, and he hopes to wait until that day, and now he only needs to suppress the Lakers.

There is no shortage of this phenomenon in any commercial league, for example, there have been rumors in football for many years that UEFA is suppressing the Premier League, precisely because the Premier League is too profitable, which is not conducive to the value of the UEFA Champions League brand. The more the Lakers earn, the more the NBA brand will also suffer.

The friendship between Stern and Bass is not worth mentioning in front of interests, not to mention that now that the old Bass is seriously ill and the younger Bass is in power, there is no need to give them face.

In Yang Rui's previous life, Stern prevented the Lakers from getting Paul, and did not hesitate to expose the idea of suppressing the Lakers nakedly, in order to "equal wealth and poverty".

In 2012, the NBA sold the Hornets, which had been hosting for more than a season, for a total of only $335 million, and three years later, the Milwaukee Bucks, whose status and strength were not as good as the Hornets, were sold for 5. The BA team's premium comes at the expense of the Lakers' interests, and it is the tacit understanding reached between the NBA small-market teams and the league during the 2011 shutdown.

The 2011 collective bargaining was often seen as a clash between owners and players, while the small-market team's comeback against the Lakers was overlooked. Buss Jr. once said with some grief: "Most teams are targeting the Lakers, and they think we're doing everything unfairly. ”

Before the shutdown, the Lakers would pay about 5 million yuan to the league every year for regional television contracts, but after the shutdown, the Lakers' "protection fee" increased by more than 10 times, and they had to pay $50 million to 80 million to the league every year.

After this shutdown, many teams have come out of the red.

In Yang Rui's previous life, in the 2012-13 season, Jordan's Bobcats claimed to have made a profit of $8 million, but they actually lost $6 million, but they received an extra $14 million in dividends from the league, and part of the $14 million was the Lakers' money. To put it mildly, the NBA is "equal to the rich and the poor", and to put it mildly, it means that the small market teams are "eating the big ones", and the NCAA other sports eat basketball and football money.

It is not difficult to see that in 2014, the new president Adam Silva used Sterling to fall into a crisis of racial discrimination, forcing him to sell the team to the super-rich Ballmer, and also had the idea of propping up the Clippers and weakening the Lakers' influence in Los Angeles.

Even if the Lakers' market value soars to $5 billion or even $10 billion, as long as most of the league's teams are still losing money, the overall value of the NBA will not rise. Suppressing the Lakers, as long as more teams benefit, will be of greater help to the NBA, after all, this is not the time 30 years ago, when the NBA was eager to open up the situation.

As an old rascal, Jerebus is a thing in the pool, and when he encounters a storm, he will turn into a dragon, and the dragon will change in the sky, and the wind and clouds will swim in shallow water, and the success will be stormy, and the defeat will also be stormy.

The Clippers made the right choice, not to make a profit, to attract fans with great games, and to build a broad fan base.

In this game, Yang Rui did not let Tony Allen start, and fought with the Lakers to attack.

The Lakers have not been able to improve in terms of interior defense and point guard defense, and this Lakers backup forward Matt Barnes is also out due to injury, and the defense has become weaker.

Demarre Carroll has the potential to be a good role player, but Byron Scott has always disliked him, and management traded him to the Nuggets for a second-round pick.

With the Lakers, Carroll is a lot like Cunningham, a small No. 4 with an aggressive defense and a short range.

Playing the No. 4 position, he is a rough brother, he is still short, there is no advantage, in fact, as long as he changes to play small forward, the defense will become very good, and he is a 3D player if he practices 3-pointers.

After playing a few games as a substitute, Lefu found a theory with the management, and returned to the start, and when he returned to the start, he didn't have much ball, so he could only be a battery on the periphery, and the defense was sparse.

The Lakers' bench was not led by a scorer, the offensive power was poor, Murphy and McRoberts were not good at attacking with the ball, and the Clippers led by 24 points at halftime.

In the end, the Clippers won 130-94, with six players scoring double-doubles and four scoring 20+.

The Lakers only had three players in double figures, with Gasol shooting 7-of-17 for 14 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists; Lefu shot 6-of-13 from the field, 0-of-2 from three-point range, and finished with 12 points, 13 rebounds and 4 assists.

Bryant finished with 42 points, seven rebounds and four assists on 14-of-28 shooting, 2-of-5 three-pointers and 12-of-14 free throws. 10