NBA: Start the water cooler and reach the Hall of Fame

Li Ning is also the second brand in Huaguo that can sign an NBA superstar besides Hongxinerke. So as soon as the news came out, many people commented that Li Ning made a lot of money. Before Li Kaiming, who could have imagined that Huaguo Which brand can sign a big-name star like Wade?

In the past, the biggest star that Huaguoneng Brand could sign was Tony Parker. However, although Parker can be considered a star player, he is not considered a top star after all, and can only be regarded as a second-rate star. Therefore, people ridiculed Parker and said, "I have never been The first point guard, but I am only responsible for sending the first point guard home."

The news of Wade signing Li Ning also caused the latter's stock price to rise sharply after the market opened the next day, but it did not directly rise to the limit as Li Ning's executives predicted.

It seems that Li Ning's company management still overestimated Wade's role. Maybe before Li Kaiming came out, signing Wade could make Li Ning's stock price rise by the limit, but now China has stars of Li Kaiming's level. Signing Wade, to the Chinese people, is just a casual person. He talks about it after dinner and then forgets about it the next day. It is impossible to achieve the sensational effect Li Ning envisioned.

After the two preseason games in China, the entire Wizards team returned to America. The Wizards' starting lineup for the remaining two preseason games simply rested. Even the old man Sanders changed his position. He gave it to assistant coach Cassel and sat on the bench enjoying life.

Without the abnormal starting lineup, the Wizards' substitutes and water-cooler players certainly had no way to compete with their opponents' starting lineup, so they lost the remaining two games. However, Sanders, Li Kaiming and others were unfazed by this. .

If even the Wizards' starting lineup can beat other teams, then this NBA will really be a boring game for the Wizards.

After the preseason, the American basketball media, which had been dormant for several months, became active again and began to make various rankings and predictions before the start of the game.

However, after last season's sudden victory and the fact that Li Kaiming led China to win the gold medal in the Olympics, no media dared to underestimate the Wizards and Li Kaiming in this season's preview.

But even taking this factor into account, the Wizards' championship odds are still not the best in the league.

Because last season, the Los Angeles Lakers used Andrew Bynum as the main body to acquire All-Star center and three-time Defensive Player of the Year Dwight Howard from the Orlando Magic in a three-way deal.

After the end of the season, through a sign-and-trade deal, they acquired the league's assist leader Steve Nash from the Suns. At this point, the Lakers in the 2012-2013 season once again formed a heavyweight F4 combination - Kobe Bryant , Gasol, Howard and Nash.

This f4 reminds people of another Lakers f4 at the beginning of the century, the first generation f4 composed of O'Neal, Malone, Kobe and Glove Payton. Unfortunately, after this luxury battleship made it to the finals, it encountered the civilian Pistons. It was a shocking 4-1 gentleman sweep, declaring f4 a complete failure.

Among the official championship odds, the Lakers have the highest odds in the league at +175. The second place is the Wizards’ old rival, the Miami Heat, which has the Big Three, at +225, while the Wizards are at +250. The +[-] odds rank third in the league, and the odds are very close to the Heat. It can be seen that even the bookmakers are now starting to look at the Wizards, which shows that this Wizards has indeed conquered many people.

Of course, things like championship odds are still elusive in comparison. Where can there be news like player rankings for the season and player ranking predictions for the new season that are so popular?

Almost every major media outlet that has anything to do with the NBA has given its own opinion on the two rankings.

The result given by ESPN, the largest sports media in America, is that the No. 1 ranking in the league last season undoubtedly belonged to Li Kaiming. He won three MVPs in a single season, one of which was the youngest regular season MVP in history. , this season’s No.1 is well deserved!

However, in ESPN's outlook for the new season, they gave their No. 1 expectation to local star LeBron James. The reason they gave is that the last shortened season had a great impact on the Heat's rhythm. This season After the Heat resumes its normal game rhythm, it should perform brilliantly. James may once again return to be the most popular MVP!

Compared with espn, tnt is still more shameless. In addition to Li Kaiming, who undoubtedly won the title of No. 1 in the league last season, Li Kaiming is still No. [-] in the player rankings this season. The reason they gave is that Li Kaiming Being able to lead the Chinese team to win the Olympics in the offseason is impossible for anyone else. Therefore, Li Kaiming is an unstoppable athlete on the planet.

CBS has maintained the same ranking as TNT. It seems that Li Kaiming's defeat of America in the Olympics really shocked this group of media people. Even if Li Kaiming is Chinese, they are willing to admit him. It seems that he was directly Li Kaiming was convinced.

In addition to these big media, of course there are also many small or pheasant media that make random arrangements to attract attention, such as ranking Li Kaiming outside the top ten in the league. However, this kind of ranking is not objective at first glance. It is also full of discrimination against yellow people, so it can only attract some like-minded guys to discuss it below. Most people just laugh it off and don't argue with idiots at all.

While the media are doing various rankings to warm up for the new season, as time goes by, each team’s media day has also arrived. Generally, the main content of this day is interviews before the start of the season, and filming the team’s new season. Season makeup photos, etc.

After winning the championship, the Wizards are no longer the team that few reporters came to support during the media day. As soon as Li Kaiming walked into the interview site, the flash lights kept going off, and reporters almost crowded the entire venue.

"Li, what is your goal for the new season? Will you still strive for the regular season MVP?"

The first question was simply a scoring question for Li Kaiming. He smiled and replied to the reporter, "Our goal is of course to win the championship again. People are like this. They are greedy. After experiencing the feeling of winning the championship once, I just want to experience it for the second and third time. Of course we want to be the eternal winner! As for the regular season mvp, I ask myself and hope that I can win this honor again. After all, this is the league’s affirmation of me, but I won’t To fight for this honor, my goal is always to help the team compete for the championship."

Because the Wizards' lineup has not changed much this season, the positions for the makeup photos are the same as last season. However, this time the Wizards asked Li Kaiming, Thompson and Leonard to take a group photo. This means that in In the eyes of team management and fans, with the growth of Leonard and Thompson, the Wizards have gradually become a team with three cores...

At this time, the Wizards are like a galaxy. Li Kaiming is the central star, and Leonard and Thompson are the two largest planets. All the remaining celestial bodies are orbiting Li Kaiming in an orderly manner, Leonard and Thompson These two giant planets also play an important role.

With less than half a month left before the season opener, Wizards players have also begun their final joint training at home, practicing tactics and preparing for the upcoming regular season opener.

On December 2012, 12, there was one day left before the end of the world predicted by the Mayans on the Internet, but the NBA did not take it seriously. Although the players also wanted to witness the end of the world with netizens on the Internet, but Their more important task now is to start working like an office worker, because today is the Wizards' season opener.

It may be that the Wizards did not have much influence in the league before, so the season opener was basically an away game. After winning the championship last season, this season's opener became a home game. It can be seen that this NBA official is also a favor. Yes, but this makes Washington fans more excited. After the team won the second championship in team history in 30 years, Washington fans identified with the Wizards even more strongly. Tickets went on sale almost as soon as they went on sale. It was snapped up by local fans.

At 06:30 in the evening, after the pre-match warm-up, Li Kaiming went to the auditorium to sign autographs for the young fans as per his usual practice, and then returned to the locker room, waiting for the start of the game.

The Wizards locker room before the game was also very lively. The players were wearing the Wizards' new season jerseys and gathered around the team's head coach Sanders to listen to the tactics.

Last season, Sanders first won the best coach of his heart, and then led the team to win the championship, completely clearing the fans and media's doubts about him, so now he can be said to be high-spirited and has never been so happy in his life.

"Just play your tactics as normal later. Remember to defend well. Our special skills this season are not just offensive. We also want to let other teams have a taste of our strength on the defensive end!"

After saying the last sentence, Sanders nodded heavily on the tactical board, and the Wizards players next to him also nodded solemnly.

Since the emergence of the Wizards, they have given the impression to the outside world that they are an offensive team. When people discuss a strong defensive team, no one has ever put the Wizards as an alternative. As for the league's best defensive team, there are no Wizards players. Nothing, but this season is different, each of them knows what they can do, what this team can do...

Soon the time came to 06:30, the mci center was full of people, and it was the long-lost entrance ceremony!

And the more important championship ring awarding ceremony!

The entire arena was plunged into darkness. Along with the rhythm of the music, a deep DJ voice sounded, "Welcome to the 2012-2013 Washington Wizards season!" A blue flame suddenly appeared on the arena's big screen. on the screen, and then quickly spread to the screens around the arena, causing the entire arena to be engulfed in a sea of ​​blue fire!

The searchlights were turned on, and the two teams led performers dressed in Wizards-themed attire, waving flags with the Wizards logo in their hands, ran out of the player tunnel, and then circled the court!

The team's mascot pushed a cart with last season's championship trophy on it, and all the fans at the scene began to cheer!

"Washington! Champion!"

"Let's go! Wizards!"

At this time, the DJ on the scene also read out the name of the first player to appear tonight!

"The first one to appear is, Washington Wizards, All-Rookie Team, Champion, Kawhi Leonard!"