NBA peak

Chapter 679
Sure enough, when the ball was about to hit the backboard, Joshua jumped up and set the ball on the backboard with one hand.

Harrell's mouth opened wide enough to swallow a duck egg in an instant.

Is this still within the range of a human's bounce?

Harrell growled.

Joshua has already slapped Harrell's layup on the backboard.

Moreover, seeing Joshua lingering in the air, unwilling to fall down, it seems that he is not satisfied with this block.

The teammates watching from the sidelines covered their faces, unable to bear to watch.

Next, an even more unnatural scene happened.

Joshua's ball was originally intended to block Harrell.

As a result, when Joshua blocked Harrell's ball, he felt too relaxed.

He even had a chance to grab this rebound in the air!
Just do it!

I saw - Joshua's body that had risen to the highest point suddenly stopped in the air, and then Ge Feng saw Joshua twisting his waist in the air.

"I don't know... I can't..." Ge Feng said something in Chinese.

In the next second, Joshua completed a mid-air turn in the air.

Moreover, Joshua also took advantage of this time to reach out his other hand and grab the rebound in his arms.

Harrell broke down.

All the Lakers players howled like a pig.

"Two ghosts knock on the door!"

"Twist your waist 180 degrees in the air!"

"Report sir, we found an alien. The alien's projectile speed reached 100 kilometers per hour, and the jump height directly reached 3000 feet!"

"..."

When Joshua landed, the Staples training hall was full of players roaring.

Joshua's ability to block shots is a bit abnormal.

He has obviously been left behind by Harrell, but he can also strike back and complete the double ghost strike.

Ge Feng felt that the Lakers had picked up a treasure. Joshua was not only a basket maniac, but also a shot block maniac.

However, Joshua's bad playing habits are still a very fatal weakness.

In the next game, Harrell took Joshua's bounce into account, and every step of the breakthrough, he firmly held Joshua to death before making a shot.

Joshua really failed to hit a follow-up wonderful block.

However, Joshua relied on his bounce to get a lot of rebounds on Harrell and McGee.

The game between the two teams lasted about 10 minutes.

In the end, it was Kobe who blew the whistle and everyone stopped attacking.

After the training match, both Kobe and Ge Feng had a comprehensive understanding of Joshua's ability.

Joshua, a player, is a double-edged sword.

Used well, the effect Joshua can play is not even weaker than that of Warcraft at its peak.

But if he is not used well, he is prone to jitters, weak in confrontation, and loves to jump around, and he will ruin the entire team at the most critical moment of the game.

However, as Ge Feng said before: "Joshua is younger than Whiteside."

This sentence is enough.

Youth is capital, there is nothing that cannot be improved through hard work.

Joshua has been in the team for more than half a month, and Kobe only included Joshua on the activation list in the last regular season before the start of the All-Star Game.

Joshua's first game for the Lakers was an away game against the Pelicans in New Orleans.

In the first regular season game of the new season, the Lakers will face the Pelicans at home.

It's just that the Lakers didn't have enough tactics at that time, and Ingram and Zion finally seized the opportunity to take the game away.

Ingram scored 41 points and Zion contributed 5 blocks on the defensive end. The Lakers regretted their first loss of the season.

However, after losing the first game, the Lakers increased quickly, and they immediately won a wave of 30 consecutive victories, ranking first in the league.

Tonight, the Lakers challenged New Orleans away, taking Kobe Bryant's mission of revenge.

The Pelicans beat the Lakers once at the Staples Center, so the Lakers have to beat the Pelicans once at the New Orleans Arena.

Before boarding the plane, the slogan of the Lakers' revenge was known all over the city.

This is the job of the marketing teams on both sides.

As enemies in the Western Conference semifinals last season, as soon as the Lakers and Pelicans meet this season, the marketing team will arouse grievances between the fans of the two teams and make the game as good as possible.

Perhaps the fans' emotions were too high this time, and the gaming company directly took advantage of the opportunity to open a large number of odds for the fans to participate in guessing.

In addition to betting on the outcome of the two teams, even the point difference between the two teams, as well as the final scores of Ge Feng and Ingram, were expelled from the market by the gaming company and placed on the official NBA advertising space for publicity.

Xiao Hua's face turned green when he saw all kinds of gambling links appearing on the NBA's official website.

The range of gaming companies authorized by the NBA may not be included in the NBA's official advertising space, which promotes handicap other than the outcome of the game.

The cooperation established by Xiao Hua and the gaming company MGM actually only dared to test the water slightly.

The NBA allows MGM to use the NBA logo, and the NBA will also provide MGM with advanced and timely data support to help lottery players make better bets.

At the same time, the NBA will also promote MGM's basketball betting business through social media such as official Twitter.

Correspondingly, MGM will also promote the NBA on its own sports betting platform.

The contract signed by the two parties is a mutually beneficial relationship.

Judging from the specific content of the contract signed by the two parties, the contract signed by the NBA is essentially just selling the logo, data and advertising space, and it does not include the NBA's rationalization of the gambling nature of the gaming company.

However, these projects authorized by Xiao Hua to the gaming company are actually just a small test of the water for the cooperation between the entire NBA and the gaming company.

However, as the testing of the waters gradually deepened, more and more gaming companies exceeded their authority.

That's the way business is.

It is reluctant that the child cannot catch the wolf.

Gaming companies know how to weigh the pros and cons, and often violate the contract content, even if they have to pay a large fine, they will go beyond their authority and promote their handicap on the NBA's official website.

Bookmakers are too greedy.

Silver has been a little out of control, and gaming companies are eroding the speed of the NBA.

The world is hilarious, all come for profit.

According to authoritative statistics, the number of lottery players in the world is far greater than the number of NBA fans.

Maybe one out of every one hundred American fans likes the NBA.

But at least one of every [-] American football fans has participated in a gambling-like business.

Xiao Hua originally wanted to attract more lottery fans to pay attention to the NBA.

As a result, Xiao Hua did not expect that when a large number of lottery players flooded into the NBA, the gaming companies in turn took advantage of the enthusiasm of the lottery players for the NBA, opened up the market, and made tens of millions of bonuses in one go.

As for Xiao Hua's various restrictions on the gaming company before the cooperation, they are all regarded as a joke by the gaming company now.

Gaming companies take advantage of the popularity of the NBA to earn tens of millions, and then pay the NBA compensation ranging from 300 to 500 million according to the contract.

Overall, bookmakers still earn more.

(End of this chapter)