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Chapter 65 Before the Game

The news that the Spurs will not play the three GDPrs in the game against the Lakers was spread through Popovich's mouth, and it instantly ignited the attention of the media.

You must know that the Spurs and the Lakers were broadcast live across the United States, attracting the attention of nearly a hundred well-known media reporters from more than [-] countries around the world, and the level of attention was no less than that of the Christmas game.

The media reporters did not believe the personal reasons Popovich mentioned. GDP was played in the last game. Although the performance of the game was not good, it was not injured.

As for the off-court situation of the three members of GDP, they all knew that nothing major happened off the court under the resource sharing among media reporters, so it was clear that this was another reason for Popovich to find a rotation.

This Popovich did this again, and the media reporters were instantly excited. This was a huge news, and they all wanted to interview Popovich in order to dig deeper information from it.

It was also at this time that they discovered that not only did Popovich not care about them, but even the informants who usually had a good relationship were silent at this time.

This made the media reporters stunned. They asked the big shots in the circle one after another in private, but found that they were also confused. Faced with this situation, the media reporters had no choice but to find the NBA official staff member.

What surprised them was that the NBA officials who would stand on their side in the past played Tai Chi this time. They found that the officials not only did not make substantive punishments for Popovich's rotation behavior this time, but even Support is provided to a certain extent.

This series of unreasonable things made the media reporters smell a little unusual, and also aroused their inner curiosity and persistence to find out the truth. After discussing with everyone, under the organization of a big boss, they never NBA officials began to continue digging.

Soon after, they got that Stern will be at the scene to watch the game, there will be an ambulance on the scene, the Lakers management has applied for the reinforcement of the on-site order management personnel, and the assistant coach Borrego will be in charge of the Spurs during the game ...

All the news gathered together, not only did not let the imaginative media reporters guess anything, but they were deeply shocked, but they were still confused at the end. Under this situation, the time has come The day the Spurs played the Lakers...

TNT, ESPN and other TV stations attached great importance to this nationwide live broadcast of the game, and they sent out their own basketball commentary teams one after another. When the fans entered the stadium in an orderly manner, those professional commentary teams also started their own work.

TNT TV station sent the golden pair of Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith, plus the newly joined O'Neill, the three sitting in front of the live commentary stand, after hearing the director's voice in the earphones, they immediately started talking.

"Is there any suspense in tonight's game?!"

Big Mouth Barkley was the first to speak with his earphones, and he spoke very casually and directly. In his opinion, it is absolutely impossible for the Spurs to beat the Lakers without the three GDP players.

"I think so too. They shouldn't have sent the three of us here. What a waste of resources!"

Smith shrugged, fully agreed with Barkley's words once in a while, and complained about TNT TV station.

On the far left, O'Neill, who just joined TNT and retired for less than a year, obviously didn't think so. He shook his head at the two and said, "Guys, what you said is wrong. Anything is possible in competitive games."

"Shaq, do you really think so?"

Smith turned his head, looked at O'Neill and smiled.

"Forehead."

O'Neal was taken aback.

Barkley tilted his head, looked at O'Neal with disdain, felt very contemptuous of his thoughts, and asked directly: "Shaq, don't say too much, just tell me who in the Spurs guarded Kobe? "

"Forehead."

O'Neal was taken aback for another moment, and thought about it carefully, don't say that the Spurs without the GDP trio, even if they had the Spurs, might not be enough to defend against Kobe, and then think of the Spurs without the core of the offense, the offensive rhythm in the game must not be as good as before, For a while, I began to doubt the idea I just had.

At the same time, on the other side of the Staples Center arena, the special triangle commentary combination sent by ESPN TV station, former NBA Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy, famous mouth Mike Breen and former NBA star Mark Jackson, also We talked about this topic.

"I don't think this game will be as one-sided as Mark you said. Even if the Lakers win, it won't be so easy."

The white-haired Breen sat in the center of the three, wearing earphones on his head, shaking his head calmly and speaking, obviously refuting Jackson's just-proposed notion that the Lakers would win the game without pressure.

Jeff Van Gundy nodded. On Brin's side, he said the same: "I think so too. Borrego, who replaced Popovich to coach this game, has many years of coaching experience in the top European leagues." , there is reason to believe that he has made sufficient preparations for tonight's game."

"Coach Borrego might be able to do it perfectly."

Mark Jackson nodded. He played under Van Gundy as a player and knew Van Gundy was no-nonsense and insightful in his evaluation of a coach.

But this does not mean that he will be convinced just like that. Jackson leaned down, looked at the two of them back and forth, and said with a slightly raised mouth: "But you two, don't forget that the game mainly depends on the performance of the players. The Lakers With Kobe Bryant and Gasol worth looking forward to, but who is the Spurs without the GDP trio?"

"Danny Green? Richard Jefferson? The performance of the two of them in the game is still very good."

Van Gundy frowned, and said with some hesitation and uncertainty.

"Speaking of this, I think the two young men in the same position in the Spurs may be worth looking forward to."

Brin said thoughtfully, he thought of the scene he saw a day ago when he went to visit his friend who was a doorman in a small arena.

"Which two are they?"

Jackson asked curiously.

"Yang Ke and Leonard."

Brin opened his mouth and said.

Van Gundy, who seldom watched the news, shook his head and asked suspiciously, "I don't know, who are these two?"

"Two rookies of the year."

Jackson explained to Van Gundy that he had read countless reports about Yang Ke and the two, turned his head to look at Brin, and said slowly: "For the two of them, there are a lot of news off the court, but their performance on the court Not much was reported."

"It is precisely because of this that it is worth looking forward to."

Brin said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)