king of los angeles

Chapter 654 654. Starry Night Los Angeles

After the game on the 7th, the key rankings in the East and West continued to be anxious.

Facing the menacing Houston Rockets, the Lakers temporarily retained the third place in the Western Conference.

Next, they will continue to sit at home to meet their current opponent in the first round of the playoffs, the Utah Jazz.

After last night's game, Jazz core Donovan Mitchell said that he is not afraid to compete with Lin Feng, even if he has a halo.

The Utah coach even said frankly that they will not deliberately lose in order to avoid the Lakers, and always striving for victory is the essence of basketball.

In fact, if the Jazz lose this game, it means that they will have the same record as the No.7 Thunder, and they will rank sixth in the relationship with the Thunder.

The Jazz's remaining two opponents are the Nuggets and the Clippers. Although the Nuggets have almost stabilized the second position in the West, coach Mike Malone is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

Obviously, Denver's team will also target the Thunder with twin stars in the first round. In addition to killing the Lakers three times this season, the Nuggets also killed the Thunder four times this season.

Facing Oklahoma, which is weak on the inside, Jokic, the "human pork belly essence", taught them a good lesson. The season-high 45 points were scored by the Thunder.

Now, the Thunder, which ranked among the top three in the West at the beginning of the season, has become a team that everyone bullies, and even the fourth-ranked Rockets are also calculating how to match them.

But Westbrook and George feel good. They think their team is perfect and should be in the top half, but they fell to No.7 because of injuries.

Westbrook has the confidence to beat any top half team, and George has the same confidence.

There is a team in the West that has been forgotten by people, and he is the Portland Trail Blazers led by Damian Lillard.

People automatically filter this team out of all discussions, assume they'll be out in the first round, and then no one brings it up.

In fact, since Lin Feng scored 52 points for the Trail Blazers, they have been training hard in silence, so that one day they will not make the same mistakes in the playoffs.

Lin Feng has been paying attention to the news of the Blazers. He believes that it is a team that should not be underestimated.

Lillard is tough, one of the best guards in the West, and has a big heart.Just like LeBron said, if Lillard is given to him, he will let the entire league know his strength.

If the undercurrent of disputes in the upper half of the district is surging, then the fight in the lower half of the district is fierce.

The Clippers, who lost to the Lakers, had no choice. They had to go all out to win so as not to be squeezed out by the Spurs behind them.

The remaining three teams have their own ideas, but no matter how they choose, the first round will not be easy.

The situation in the Eastern Conference is gradually becoming clear, and the only suspense is who will enter the playoffs as the eighth place between the Heat and the Pistons.

The top three teams have obvious advantages, and they will easily advance to the first round if there is no accident. Another suspense is the duel between the fourth and fifth Pacers and the 76ers. The winner will directly match the league record in the second round First Bucks.

The penultimate round of the game is on the 9th, which is two days after the Los Angeles Civil War with the Clippers.

The Lakers continue to sit in Staples to meet the challenge of Donovan Mitchell.

Lin Feng formed a friendship with him in Charlotte, and the two often retweet each other's wonderful shots on Twitter, and then encourage each other.

Now, they may meet directly in the first round of the playoffs, which also adds to the spectacle of this game.

On the same day, the Miami Heat played against the 76ers at home.

Brett Brown sent charcoal in the snow, announcing as early as the day before the game that he would reserve power for the playoffs and rested starters Embiid and Redick.

Even so, they still have Simmons, Jimmy Butler, two All-Star players and Harris, a quasi-All-Star, in their starting lineup.

For the mediocre Heat, it is still a big challenge. Wade rarely speaks out, saying that as long as there is a glimmer of hope, he will go all out to fight.

As his close friend, Lao Zhan retweeted and expressed his support.The Four Heroes expressed their opinions one after another. Anthony, who had no game to play, flew directly to Miami with his wife and belt to cheer for his good brother.

Lin Feng was very envious of the relationship between those four guys, and he hoped that one day he and Hart Kuzma Yingge could also become such friends.

On the day of the game against the Jazz, abstract portraits of the entire Lakers team lit up on a huge billboard across from Staples.

Lao Zhan wears a crown and holds a scepter. There is no doubt that he is the emperor of the basketball world.

Lin Feng's image is very cool, he is a ruthless killer in a purple jacket, and the tattoo on his arm is the iris symbol of the Third Street Saints.

Obviously, the friend who made the base map is more than half of Raymond Lam fans.

He was quite satisfied with this ad image, and even took a photo of it as a Twitter background image.

When the Jazz players arrived in Los Angeles, they were really shocked by the hot ball market in this city. They didn't have this kind of treatment in Utah.

The Jazz team has a strong desire to beat the Lakers, and their presence in the West is only a little better than the Trail Blazers.

"League villain" Quinn Schneider almost used their strongest lineup, but the gap between the two teams is a horizontal gap. As long as the Lakers play normally, they have a [-]% chance of winning.

Lin Feng was still placed on the bench, and the coaching staff held a meeting to discuss, and still focused on stability, allowing the players to appear in the most suitable positions.

In the game that night, the Jazz were the first to enter the state. They led 6-2 at the start, but McGee made consecutive strong kills at the basket and showed his offensive ability in the matchup with Gobert.

After the first quarter, the Lakers led by 5 points.In the second quarter, Lin Feng took over the game. He played against the 26-year-old Jazz forward Georges Niang, and the two hit the basket successively to make kills.

Korver, who was teammates with Lao Zhan last year, made two three-pointers in 2 minutes to help them get closer to the score.

But soon, Lin Feng's frequent attacks to the basket made "the dirtiest rookie in history" Grayson Allen start to hit his attention.

This guy was selected by the Jazz with the 21st overall pick last year. The university is known for playing dirty. He is nicknamed "the villain" and often causes conflicts on the court.

Allen, who came off the bench tonight, planned to attack Lin Feng. His self-righteous covert actions were completely exposed by Lin Feng.

Allen made a subtle trick before Lin Feng made a layup, which caused Lin Feng to lose his center of gravity and fell to the ground with the ball.

The guy also fell to the ground, and then put on a very painful expression.

After Allen got up, Michael Beasley stepped forward and hugged his neck without saying much, just the look in his eyes made Allen regret it.

"Shut up your little tricks, this is not a campus, understand?" Beasley's words made the kid tremble, after all, no one wants to deal with a guy full of tattoos.

Lin Feng scored 15 points in a single quarter, helping the team lead 63-43 to [-] points at halftime, and a victory seemed to be beckoning to them again.

(End of this chapter)