On the 24th, although there was a Christmas game the next day, the Lakers did not arrange training.

Generally speaking, teams playing Christmas battles will have at least two days off before Christmas battles, as is the case for the Lakers and the Bulls.

But compared to Bulls players who can spend Christmas Eve with their families at home, the Lakers are much more troublesome.

But it's just a little trouble. The Lakers provide air tickets. If the players' families are willing to come away to spend Christmas Eve with the players on the 23rd or 24th, they can inform the team in advance.

On the 23rd, Zhang Hao booked a plane to pick up relatives and friends in the United States. Some of his teammates' relatives also came on the 23rd or 24th. Of course, there are still some teammates who want to take advantage of the two days that the team has not arranged a training wave.

For example, Barkley rode his horse in a nightclub for two consecutive days and did not return home at night.

On the morning of the 24th, Zhang Hao and Howard Schultz negotiated an agreement on equity swaps, and then they gave it to Pelinka with all rights reserved. Zhang Hao had business in the United States, basically it was handed over to Pelinka, and in China, it was handed over to his father. He liked money, but he could make himself extremely rich by playing basketball. In terms of business, he was just interested and wanted to do it. He just handed over the specific troublesome work to others, and he just counted the money.

After getting the business done, I won’t think about this anymore.

For him, basketball is his biggest hobby.

Moreover, after retiring, many places need to focus on his achievements in basketball.

Even now, it often depends on the identity of a genius star in the NBA.

At noon on the 24th, unlike Americans who usually have a hearty meal at night, Little Loli Lelin will go back to Seattle in the afternoon, so she had a hearty meal at noon.

Christmas Eve was very simple, Zhang Hao went to bed early and got up early as usual...

On the 25th, Christmas is here.

At 6:15 in the morning, Zhang Hao woke up and carefully placed April Clark, who was hanging on his koala like a koala, on the bed.

After taking a hot shower, Zhang Hao went to the hotel restaurant... When he arrived at the elevator entrance, the elevator just opened and saw Pierce with a haggard face.

By chance, Pierce greeted: "Good morning...ah...ah...Ax."

Zhang Hao looked at Pierce and asked, "Paul, did you really go to a nightclub with Barkley and have been trying to find two women all night?"

Pierce stretched out three fingers: "Hehe, not two, three! How about it! Are you strong?"

"..." Zhang Hao looked at Pierce speechlessly and said, "No, right? Be careful of your waist, have you never touched a woman?"

Pierce said angrily: "Who said the money didn't find any girlfriend? I would be single to college if you said this?"

Zhang Hao showed a confused expression and said, "Is there anything wrong with this?"

"You're just looking for a girlfriend! And it's still April. You can do all this kind of thing. What have you said? A rabbit doesn't eat grass beside the nest, and you'll do it all your good friends!" Pierce despised him.

"Uh... this is true, but there is another saying that you will get the moon first when you get close to the water tower... It means that you feel closer to the moon."

Zhang Hao felt that he would not force himself to translate idioms in the future, and ignored this. Zhang Hao looked at Pierce and said, "I said that I didn't find any girlfriends for nothing, but I'm very rich now! Isn't it time to find a girlfriend?"

Pierce looked at Zhang Hao with his neck tilted, and his neck stretched up. He wanted to fight!

Zhang Hao ran quickly, stopped taking the elevator and ran directly to the escape passage!

...

At 9 a.m., Zhang Hao took the team bus to the Chicago United Center.

The two days of rest have passed and the Christmas war is finally coming.

Today, when Zhang Hao met his teammates, he felt his teammates’ different mental outlook from those after entering mid-December, and he was very excited! He was very motivated!

Although the Christmas battle is not able to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas at home, fighting the Christmas battle is definitely an honor for a team, and the same is true for players.

The teammates didn't bring their families here, so they just went out to wander on the night of the 23rd. On the 24th, except for Barkley, even O'Neal stayed in the hotel honestly.

only……

Barkley is so in good spirits!

There is no harm if there is no comparison. Zhang Hao saw Pierce's appearance two hours ago, and then looked at Barkley... He went out to fool around for two days, and it seemed that he was only back at four or five in the morning today, and now he is full of energy!

This physical condition is simply unspeakable.

When it came to the preparation stage, although there was no tactical training yesterday, the preparation was very smooth. Most Lakers players had the experience of fighting the Bulls last season.

What you need to do today is to adjust your state and run the tactics.

Because the Bulls' style of playing this season is no different from last season, if there is a difference, it is that the Bulls' performance stability is better this season than last season.

The Bulls have started this year with 25 wins and 4 losses, which is not as good as the same period last year, but their stability is better.

Last year, the Bulls occasionally had great fluctuations in their strength. It was just that when the Bulls performed poorly last year, they performed much better than most strong teams. However, this year's Bulls' performance continued to stabilize at a very high level, and there was no need for anyone to explode, so they performed like this.

Del Harris commented on the Bulls this season in a tactical conference, saying that the Bulls performed better than last season.

However, even if you are about to face the Bulls, which have received high praise from the old Fox, the Lakers players are still confident and their fighting spirit has reached the peak stage since the beginning of the regular season.

It is because this is a Christmas battle and because they have to face the strongest team in the league that they have squeezed out such strong confidence and fighting spirit!

...

At 2 p.m. Eastern Time, the New York Knicks played against the Rockets at home, kicking off the Christmas game.

Olajuwon performed so well last season, and the Knicks brought in multiple stars in the offseason. Originally, before the start of the season, the Christmas battle was divided into the most attractive regular season games this season.

But who knew that after the Knicks had so many stars, the game became more and more ugly. As the season deepened and after the running-in period, the record was rising. They played 30 games before the Christmas game, with 20 wins and 10 losses, and had already reached fourth in the Eastern Conference, but the game was even more ugly than at the beginning of the regular season!

He averaged 94.4 points per game and lost 92.1 points per game. He was grinding from beginning to end in every game! The game was usually very anxious, but there was no viewing quality.

The Rockets are even worse. Although the Rockets started poorly in the previous two seasons, it can be seen that Olajuwon performed very well in his personal performance. But this year, Olajuwon has only averaged 22.6 points, 9 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.9 blocks per game. Of course, it is also the All-Star level, but the gap is too big with the past two years.

After a fancy deal, the Rockets sent away Kenny Smith, Robert Horry and other heroes to win the championship, and their record improved, but more so Olajuwon and Drexler began to recover as the season deepened. In addition to getting Divac's good deal, other trades were dragging their backs.

With 14 wins and 15 losses, the Rockets' winning rate has not exceeded 50% until now.

The first Christmas game was ugly. In the end, after 2 hours and 21 minutes of iron-blooded battle, the Knicks defeated the Rockets 79-71.

The second Christmas game was a match between the Heat and the Pacers.

The Heat and the Knicks performed exactly the same this season... They both joined by a large number of stars and played the most ugly game.

Moreover, the Heat are even worse than the Knicks, averaging 93.2 points per game so far so far, and averaging 89.1 points per game!

61 to 39, the Heat only scored 61 points in the first three quarters, but they are already ahead of the Pacers, which seems to be mysteriously collapsed in most people this season.

The matches against the Heat and Pacers also started at the same time as the Spurs and Jazz’s Christmas battle…

Originally, the game between the Spurs and Jazz is one of the most concerned games every year. Let’s see what the first center will be bullied by Malone. This year, Malone has performed at the peak, but there are no ones who bullied them.

86 to 51, when the third quarter was finished, the Jazz were already leading the Spurs by more than 30 points.

Just as the third quarter of the game between the Heat, Pacers, Jazz and Spurs, the Chicago United Center, the most popular Christmas battle today, both sides entered the stadium.

...

At 6:40 pm, at the entrance of the United Center's visiting team players, after the Lakers substitute player stood at the position, O'Neal was the first to run out, and the booing had already begun.

Zhang Hao ran out the second time, and he was greeted with booing more violently than in any other stadium.

The fans in this city and this stadium are very unfriendly to Zhang Hao.

Last year, it was because Zhang Hao pushed Jordan out of this stadium to complete the final victory.

This year, Bulls fans felt the strong threat!

Since Jordan entered the NBA, except for the rookie season, every season since then, as long as Jordan played most of that season, Jordan was the scoring leader, and has been like this since the 1986-1987 season.

In the past 10 years, only in the two years when Jordan retired, the scoring champions had the idea of ​​"competing for". Last season, no one discussed the competition for scoring champions.

But this year is different!

Currently, Jordan averages 30.6 points per game, and Zhang Hao averages 30.3 points per game, which is almost the same!

Until now, the regular season is about to enter the middle of the season. Originally, only Jordan was able to maintain a stable average of 30+ per game. It seems that he is not suspense and wants to dominate the scoring list, but there has been unpredictable changes in the past week.

Zhang Hao scored 50 points in one game and 64 points in one game. After O'Neal's comeback, his average score, which had once dropped to 28.3 points, relied on these two big explosions and rushed back to the ranks of 30+ players per game!

This really threatens Jordan's domination on the scoring list!

In addition, Zhang Hao is under 20 years old and threatens Jordan's dominance of scoring champions. Last year, Jordan finally surpassed Chamberlain and became the player with the most scoring champions in NBA history. But now, Zhang Hao, who is only 20 years old next month, has begun to attack the scoring champions!

The others in the Lakers also received violent booing, such as Barkley, Kenny Anderson, and the Magic.

In addition to Zhang Hao's threat to Jordan, the Lakers are also regarded as thorns in the eyes by Bulls fans.

The Christmas War must be broadcast live across the United States.

Before the start of the season, the Christmas battle between the Heat and the Pacers was broadcast live on two TV stations, and the Jazz and Spurs matches were broadcast live on three TV stations. Due to the collapse of the Pacers and Spurs' record due to various reasons, it was reduced to only one TV station left. It was still the live broadcast that the league could not specify. After all, it was still the Christmas battle. If there was no live broadcast, it would be too bad.

However, before these two games were finished, they were only halfway through the fourth quarter. Time Warner Cable Sports and Fox Sports had already cut to the scene of the Lakers and Bulls game with the latest picture-in-picture techniques.

It was a good Christmas, and the first three Christmas games in the afternoon were all uglier games. At this time, fans were looking forward to the Lakers and Bulls games!

On the court, as always, several top 50 superstars began to greet and take photos after entering the court.

Zhang Hao could only stand on one side.

The Lakers have three top 50 superstars, Magic, Barkley and O'Neal, and the Bulls have three top 50 superstars, Jordan, Pippen and Robert Parish.

Zhang Hao was already numb to this scene...

"Jordan's ability evaluation is 103, averaging 30.6 points, 6 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 1.8 steals per game... It's a little lower than last year, but it's still the strongest.

Pippen’s ability evaluation is 93, averaging 20.6 points, 6.8 rebounds, 6.4 assists and 1.9 steals per game... Pippen, who is the second in command, is more perfect, and seems to be a little better than last year.
To be continued...