champion heart

Chapter 141 140. Harden
After the plane landed, the entire Lakers team went directly to the pre-arranged hotel to rest.

In order to allow the players to have enough rest time, D'Antoni ordered that today there is no need to deliberately train, and the main thing is to rest well!
But after all, the big battle is imminent, and it's impossible not to train at all, so it's a symbolic walk anyway.

After sleeping until around two o'clock in the afternoon, Tang De called his teammates to the training hall after waking up and tidying up.

Before the departure, Tang De received a message from Cantor, which probably meant to tell him that she had already negotiated all the sneaker contracts with the other side, and asked Tang De to go to Beijing as soon as possible after finishing this road trip. Talk to the other person face to face to make sure!
After seeing the message, Tang De called Cantor directly and told her to make an appointment in three days, and he would go there directly.

This is very happy. Is there any fortune at the age of 21?It's so cool!

This sneaker contract is much, much higher than Tang De's salary. As a Chinese player in the NBA, if he only relies on salary to make money, he is simply a fool, and all kinds of endorsements are the big ones.

In Tang De's heart, building his own business empire is also one of his ultimate goals.

And this super sneaker contract is the beginning of his future business empire.

Just like LeBron James and Iguodala, playing in the NBA is more like a side job, and being the boss is their main job.

From this perspective, James and Iguodala are definitely business elites.

……

At [-] o'clock in the evening, the Toyota Center began to be lively. The Rockets will face the challenge of the Lakers for the second time at home this season.

In the previous game, the Rockets narrowly beat the Lakers by 2 points, and Kobe hadn't returned from that game.

The head-to-head confrontation between Kobe and Harden after his return tonight also added a lot of excitement to this game.

In addition, Howard and Kobe's reunion is even more important!

The excitement at the Toyota Center is only relatively lively. From the current point of view tonight, their home attendance rate is still not very optimistic.

The Rockets' home court can be regarded as a relatively cold home court in the NBA. This is always a very metaphysical question.

……

TNT commentary seats.

Kenny Smith: "In the previous game, Nick failed to make a lore, and the Lakers narrowly lost to the Rockets in the away game. After Kobe returns tonight, let's see what changes will be brought to the Lakers."

Barkley: "The Lakers are in good shape recently. They have won consecutive games. On the other hand, the Rockets, their recent state has nothing to do with good. They have already experienced a three-game losing streak before, so they fell to No. 5 in the Western Conference. position, so tonight's game is too important for them, if they can't win it smoothly, the Lakers will soon overtake them!"

O'Neill: "I don't know whether to win or lose this game. What I'm looking forward to is the soaring points battle between Don and Harden, as well as the inside explosion between Hassan and Dwight!"

Penguin Sports Live.

Wang Meng: "Kobe and Howard are really enemies tonight. The relationship between the two of them was so bad in the Lakers last season. I don't know what this meeting will be like."

Yang Yi: "I think they should laugh at each other, and they shouldn't let us see if there is anything really. At most, they will have a PK off the court, haha..."

Obviously, everyone is interested in the same point, and they are all very interested in this meeting between Kobe and Howard.

Soon, Kobe and Howard, who were busy warming up before the game, gave everyone an answer.

After the two hugged each other, they looked at each other and smiled.

There is no verbal communication between them, everything is like a superficial touch, and it ends.

But this can already explain a lot of problems, at least the relationship between the two is not as bad as people imagined.

Penguin Sports Live.

Yang Yi: "Well, I'm guessing right, this hug between the two is worth studying."

On the court, Harden also took the initiative to come over to exchange pleasantries with Kobe, as if following a fixed process.

After all, Kobe is Harden's idol.

Harden: "Hey, Kobe, in my opinion, you are recovering very well, and your state is becoming more and more stable!"

Kobe: "James, don't talk about me, I'll just do that. I think you guys are not in a good state recently. Are you ready to lose to us tonight?"

Harden: "Don't mention it, I've been very unhappy recently. Not only am I unhappy playing the game, but I'm not enjoying it. There are always some people on the team who are talking about me, an irritable one."

Tang De: "I said beard, is Dwight unwilling to accompany you to the nightclub to have fun?"

Harden: "shit, Don, how do you know? I was just about to say that, since the big man came, I have been getting more and more unhappy. Next time I go to Los Angeles, you must accompany me to have a good time. Skin!"

Tang De: "Come on, Beard, listen to my advice, just go to the nightclub once in a while, don't spend all day in it, how haggard are you? Don't you have any points in your heart?"

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From these words of Harden, Tang De can fully feel that this guy's current fighting spirit is really very problematic, and he is a bit too Buddhist for the game.

And the cooperation between him and Howard is really not that happy.

Tang De didn't feel much about Harden. After all, he was still young. In the near future, when he realized the threat of "point guard" Kardashian, he would change his ways.

Leave the Kardashians, Harden say Jordan.

This sentence is really not just words!

Tang De's real "distress" is still Howard. With Harden's current attitude towards the game, Howard will waste another year of youth with him.

Soon the starting lineups of both sides will be shown on the big screen at the scene.

Rockets: point guard Jeremy Lin, shooting guard James Harden, small forward Parsons, power forward Motie Yunas, center Howard.

Lakers: point guard Kobe, shooting guard Nick Young, small forward Don De, power forward Gasol, center Whiteside.

Compared with the past, the lineups of both sides have not had any major adjustments. Only the Rockets replaced Jones with Motiejunas as the starting power forward.

Compared with Jones, Motaiyunas's low-post skills are still much stronger.

Howard and Whiteside walked to the center circle.

Howard didn't say any harsh words to Baibian this time, and he was slapped in the face by Baibian after he said harsh words last time.

The referee whistled, the ball was thrown into the air, and the two "giants" jumped almost simultaneously.

Jump ball this time.

Whiteside lost again to Howard.

Whiteside, who almost never loses a jumper, lost to Howard twice against the Rockets.

What is rhythm?
Is it some kind of curse again?

After jumping to the ball, Howard directly allocated the ball to Jeremy Lin in the backcourt, yes, it was to Jeremy Lin, ignoring Harden.

Jeremy Lin held the ball, and Kobe stepped forward to mark it.

There are also many stories between these two people. The most classic is that during the "Linsanity" period, Jeremy Lin scored 38 points in the game against the Lakers. After the game, a reporter asked Kobe what he thought of Jeremy Lin. Kobe said: " WTF, he scored 30+ points on me the fuck, what am I supposed to think?"

The other is the story of Jeremy Lin "commanding" Kobe in the Lakers...

(End of this chapter)