"At one o'clock in the afternoon on December 31, 2006, Los Angeles time, the Eagles have arrived at the Los Angeles Airport to prepare for the New Year's game at 11 o'clock in the morning on January 2, BJ time. Our reporters in front of us have invited us to broadcast the game live tomorrow.

Zhang Weiping, the game coach, came to analyze the key points of tomorrow’s game for us and switched the screen to the front.”

Domestic news has started building momentum for the game between the Eagles and the Lakers since the news broke at 9 o'clock in the morning on January 1st, BJ time, even though the game will start in more than a day.

The screens of the Imperial Sports Channel and the International Channel switched to a corridor with classic photos of all-time Lakers legends.

Yu Jia and Zhang Weiping appeared on the TV screen. Yu Jia said passionately: "CCTV, outside CCTV, this is the Staples Center in Los Angeles, USA. We just watched the shooting training of the Eagles and Lakers. Simply

I interviewed the stars of both teams. Both teams opened their team training this afternoon, but they only did simple shooting training and did not show their skills and tactics. Coach Zhang, please analyze it for us. The match between the two teams tomorrow is expected to be

What kind of situation?"

"The Lakers and Hawks are one of the strongest teams in the East and West. Needless to say, the Hawks were the best team in NBA history in the first two months of this season, with 27 wins and 1 loss. They just ended their streak.

They won, but they won another game immediately, and were in good shape. The Lakers had 23 wins and 10 losses, and were currently in the midst of a six-game winning streak.

The Lakers are currently ranked third in the Western Conference, and the Hawks are first in the league.

Although the record gap between the two teams is not small, I think in terms of strength, it is not as big as it seems. Ace and McGrady have to play five fewer games, and the opening schedule is much easier. Dayao and Kobe have to play harder.

It's normal for the starting record to be not as good as the Eagles.

Of course, the Hawks are more favored in this game. The Hawks have won four consecutive years at the Staples Center. In the past four seasons, the Hawks have beaten the Lakers 7-1 in the regular season and 4-1 in the finals.

, has a huge performance advantage.

Ace has averaged close to 10.7 assists per game this year. With McGrady, Brown, Tianzun and other stars, the Hawks have a better lineup than the Lakers.

However, the Lakers' interior duo of Odom and Yao Ming came in and performed very well, and Kobe is also the current league scoring leader. It's hard to say who will win or lose between the two teams."

After Yu Jia listened, he joked: "So, Director Zhang, which team do you want to win?"

"Haha, I hope the Chinese win!" Director Zhang was not fooled this time.

Both Yu Jia and Director Zhang laughed, and the scene switched back to the studio to continue the promotion and begin to analyze the two teams on some of their outstanding battles this season.

…

Liu Mang's father was watching TV at Kobe's villa, watching the Chaoting International Channel. Since before the Christmas game, the Chaoting International Channel had been promoting the Eagles and Lakers.

The Hawks arrived in Beverly Hills around two o'clock in the afternoon. After Kobe took Liu Mang's family to his villa, the two went to the Staples Center together. Both teams opened training interviews this afternoon.

There was only technical training, and neither team revealed their skills and tactics for tomorrow's game.

The training ended at five o'clock. After Liu Mang came to the villa that Kobe lent him at around six o'clock, he and his father Liu Lijie watched the sports news on Chaoting International Channel.

Liu Mang looked at the latest version of the 70-inch large LCD TV that Kobe specially bought yesterday and felt very unhappy. This guy was showing off!

Liu Mang said to Levia who was peeling fruits to make a fruit plate next to him: "This TV is really good, Levia, let's buy one for our family too!"

"Buy, buy, buy, why do you love Heke so much? Where can you put such a big TV? Let's buy a big TV cabinet by the way." Levia said helplessly.

"He must have seen that our TV was small, so he bought one to make me angry!" Liu Mang said angrily.

Although compared with the ultra-thin LCD TVs of the future, today's LCD TVs are still quite thick, with a total thickness of three to four centimeters.

But it’s much bigger than the 32-inch TV in Liu Mang’s home!

It’s more than doubled, Liu Mang’s TV is less than a quarter of this size.

Liu Mang felt that Kobe was just showing off that he was rich!

At this time, Kobe, who had just returned home about a kilometer away, sneezed...

"Okay, go take a bath quickly. You have to go back to the hotel after dinner. Why don't you stay here?" Levia asked curiously.

"We have a team meeting at nine o'clock. The time is too tight. There is a game tomorrow." Liu Mang also felt very painful, but it was too troublesome to rush back after the meeting, so Liu Mang stayed in the hotel.

And after Liu Mang finished playing the Lakers on the 1st, he will continue to play away games on the 3rd and 4th, playing the Hornets and Timberwolves back-to-back, the Pistons on the 6th, and the Cavaliers on the 8th. They are all strong opponents. They are strong opponents in five consecutive away games. 8

Five days of fighting, time is tight, and it’s too troublesome to move luggage around, so I stayed in a hotel.

"Ace, should we wait until you finish playing consecutive away games before returning to Atlanta, or should we go back the day after tomorrow when you leave?" Levia asked.

"You guys can stay a few more days. If you can't, you can move back to our villa. Anyway, Dinah is on vacation." Liu Mang thought it would be good to let his parents change places to play.

Liu Mang had a villa in Los Angeles, but it was too far away from Beverly Hills, so he borrowed the Kobe family's villa. This was also the reason why Kobe was unhappy that he would stay in it even though he had a house of his own.

"good……"

…

The night before the game, Liu Mang, Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi did not get together, and Yi Jianlian did not come to disturb them.

Fortunately, Wang Zhizhi is the third player anyway, but for Liu Mang and Yao Ming, who are competing for the number one player in the country, this game is very important for the team and for individuals.

First establish the atmosphere of opposition.

After Liu Mang finished the team meeting at 9:30 pm, he and Tracy McGrady walked around in Beverly Hills.

"Ace, look, there are so many foreigners." McGrady shouted deliberately.

"Shut up!" Liu Mang pulled Maddie and ran away.

After running to a place where no one noticed them, Liu Mang said angrily: "Tracy, haven't you had enough fun? Do you want to be surrounded by a group of fans and ask for a photo again?"

"That's pretty good! Apart from going to China to promote, this is the first time I've seen so many foreigners." McGrady said with a smile.

Foreigner? Liu Mang looked at McGrady, you are a foreigner, okay... Wait, Liu Mang remembered that this is the United States, it seems that he is the foreigner.

Los Angeles is full of Chinese people these days, especially since before Christmas. Now, the game between the Lakers and the Eagles is coming. The whole Los Angeles is like a Chinatown, with several big hotels in Beverly Hills, hundreds of

Seventy percent of the rooms were booked by Chinese people.

Now during the New Year's Day holiday, some children from wealthy families also come to Los Angeles to watch this game. There are many wealthy people in China, and the base is so large...

Los Angeles is originally a tourist city. Because Yao Ming came here to play, more Chinese people came to this city. Compared with Liu Mang's economic improvement in Atlanta, Yao Ming brought more income to Los Angeles.

Because the economic base is different, Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States. Although the proportion of economic improvement is not as large as that of Atlanta, the total amount is larger.

This is the first real "Chinese Derby", and the enthusiasm of Chinese basketball fans can be imagined.

Nowadays, many football fields in China have been filled in and turned into elderly activity squares. Basketball courts have also been built next to them. The domestic basketball atmosphere is stronger than the time and space where Liu Mang originally lived, especially since Liu Mang won two consecutive championships.

After the NBA left non-English and Arabic numerals on the championship banner for the first time, more and more basketball infrastructure was built in the country, and more children participated in basketball.

After wandering around for a while, I'm ready to go back to the hotel. I need to rest early and get up early to prepare for the game tomorrow.

On the way back, Liu Mang said to Tracy McGrady: "Tracy, you have to score more points in tomorrow's game. They will definitely guard me very tightly. I just scored 90 points on that court."

"I know, but what if they also know what we are thinking?" McGrady asked.

"Scoring is still very attractive to me." Liu Mang said with a smile.

"I understand." Tracy McGrady feels so comfortable playing with Liu Mang. They are both smart people, and both of them can compete for the first place in scoring and passing.

On the other side, Kobe was at Yao Ming's house discussing the details of tomorrow's game with Yao Ming.

The strongest cores on both sides are taking tomorrow's game very seriously.

As for them still discussing it so late, it's mainly because someone is coming back!

…

…

Liu Mang returned to the room and opened the system panel.

Just be prepared enough.

Liu Mang looked at the star cards, top star cards and above, including Bynum, Ray Allen, Ginobili, and Kobe, and they were all top star cards.

Kobe Bryant's Liu Mang card can't be used in the regular season, so the star card cannot be wasted.

Ray Allen's star card is mainly to experience Ray Allen's shooting touch and shooting ability. Liu Mang is no longer weaker than Ray Allen.

Bynum's star card... is so useless.

Then the star card with the greatest impact is Ginobili’s peak star card from the 2004-05 season!

If necessary, during breaks or timeouts, you can also draw a lottery. Although Liu Mang wants to collect one million superstars worth to draw a prize this season, it doesn't matter if he uses part of it in such a game.

Win!

Hat Yao Ming!

When thinking of capping Yao Ming, Liu Mang thought of the Pistons' random star cards from the 2004-05 season.

Use it!

"System boss, use the Pistons random star card!"

"Ding... the host uses the Pistons' random star card to randomly obtain the Pistons' 2004-2005 player random star card..."

The virtual three-dimensional images of Bosh, Hamilton, Billups, Ben Wallace and others appeared in front of Liu Mang's eyes, and they were constantly beating.

"Ding... Congratulations to the host for getting the Ben Wallace Peak Star Card."
Chapter completed!