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Chapter 657 657. Four All-Stars starting!
With 103 points in three quarters, the Lakers went crazy in the third quarter, widening the point difference to more than 20 points and sending the game into garbage time.

Liu Ren played the entire third quarter, turned into an excellent setter and sent assists directly, and also did a good job in rebounding. He scored 7 points and 7 assists in a single quarter, plus 11 points, plus 12 points in the first half. With 3 rebounds and 3 assists, the economical version has a triple-double!

With 23 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, Liu Ren got a triple-double for the second time this season!
Compared with triple-double monsters like James and Westbrook, Liu Ren's triple-doubles are too few, at most one or two a year, and it is only in the past two years that he has the strength to get a triple-double, and the total number is extremely small , so D'Antoni also waited for Liu Ren to get a triple-double before replacing him.

The economic version of the triple-double was achieved, and the Lakers led the Clippers by 24 points, so Liu Ren clocked out of get off work.

Rivers didn't say anything about the rotation of his mistakes in the third quarter. Instead, because he was about to lose anyway, he continued to let his son count on the court in the fourth quarter.

Sometimes father love is such a thing...

But the Clippers players are actually used to it. Why did Jordan rebound so well in the past two years?The support of Little Rivers is indispensable. Since Rivers traded Little Rivers back in the middle of last season, Jordan has become a favorite in rebounding...

In the final quarter, the Lakers replaced the pure substitutes. LaVine led Nick Young, Nance Jr., Blake, and Biyombo and continued to run on the court. In one quarter, it was evenly matched.

In the end, the Lakers easily won the game 131 to 110.

Liu Ren still has a little bit of reluctance to give up on this game. To be able to play the Clippers "away" at the Staples Center, the chances are getting less and less, and one game is one less game.

Sometimes, it's lonely without an opponent who wants to steal the limelight all day long.

But the game was won, and all the games in January were over. The Lakers also won their 1th win of the season, and their record has become 40 wins and 40 losses. Overall, it is gratifying!

With six more games to go, it's the All-Star Weekend.

The next six games will be a back-to-back at home, and then four consecutive away games with strong and weak opponents, followed by a luxurious ten-day vacation that is equivalent to a vacation for most Lakers players!

On February 2nd and 2rd, the Lakers welcomed the Hornets and Grizzlies at home. The two teams have certain strengths in the east and west respectively. They are both playoff teams. The Hornets have Jeremy Lin, Ken Ba Walker, McGeeji, Batum, Al Jefferson, Courtney Lee and others also stirred up a wave in the East, and they are tied for the most lethal team with the 3ers and the Celtics. The unexpected rise of the team has become a representative of the emerging forces in the East.

The Grizzlies' black and white bears are still strong, especially Conley and Gasol. The two can be regarded as forcibly supporting the already aging Grizzlies. It is rumored that the Grizzlies boss is negotiating with the two about an early contract extension. , but the two of them did not agree for the time being.

These two teams are strong, but they are far behind the Lakers who are in good shape. With Liu Ren, Antetokounmpo and Kobe on truce, the Lakers still easily won the two games , won 3 consecutive victories, raising the record to 42 wins and 8 losses.

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A winning streak makes people happy. Winning, of course, is happy. The morale of the Lakers players is very high now.

Then just as they were about to start their road trip for the Grammys, the All-Star starters were announced!

Liu Ren won the All-Star vote king with more than 593 million votes, a record in NBA history!Selected as an All-Star starter for the third consecutive year!

With 527 million votes, Kobe became the player with the second most votes in a single year in the history of All-Star voting.

James also broke through 500 million votes, ranking first in the Eastern Conference with 515 million votes.

When the All-Star votes were announced, the fans were a little bit regretful. Liu Ren was only tens of thousands of votes short of breaking 600 million. Curry, who had 486 million votes, was also a little bit regretful, almost breaking 500 million. There are still a lot, Harden, Klay Thompson, Paul and others have divided up a lot of tickets.

The starting lineup for the All-Stars, which is about to start in one week, is being released. The Eastern All-Star starting lineup is led by James. The other four are Anthony and Paul George in the frontcourt. The strength and popularity of the two are also among the frontcourt players in the East As far as James can stabilize them, Wade and Isaiah Thomas are in the backcourt, and they are also the most popular kings in the East in their respective positions.

The All-Stars in the Western Conference started with Liu Ren leading the frontcourt. Whiteside ranked second in the frontcourt players in the Western Conference. The All-Star starting frontcourt was taken over by the Lakers!

The backcourt is currently dominated by Curry, the most popular point guard in the league, and Kobe, the most popular shooting guard. It is estimated that as long as Curry and Kobe are still playing in the league at the same time, the Western All-Stars will start the two positions in the backcourt. Don't even try to get your hands dirty.

Gasol, who was working on the team bus, saw that he was selected as the All-Star starter, and he cried out excitedly. The cry of his sister-in-law is so attractive...

The Lakers started with four All-Stars!Very good and strong. Gasol was also selected as the All-Star starter last year, but last year his statistics were not bad, and he was still the starting power forward of the Lakers. But this year he has been playing with the bench. I did not expect to be selected as the All-Star starter. , not only to the surprise of many fans, but also to himself. Although there was Liu Ren's "death" canvassing tweet before, he didn't really look forward to it. Who knows that in the last few hours of competition, The fans who voted for Gasol stood up and beat Griffin, Anthony Davis and Thackeray at the last moment!
The Lakers players are very happy, even if they are not selected, they are still happy for their teammates, because it depends on popularity. If the popularity of teammates is high, I can get involved no matter what, and drive my own popularity. Maybe there will be more endorsement contracts Take tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

Moreover, the relationship between the Lakers team is good. Generally speaking, the teammates of the team that won the championship together have a very good relationship. Otherwise, if the relationship is not good, there will be no tacit cooperation.

Of course, Kobe and O'Neal are exceptions. They are the kind who are so suitable to be teammates, so suitable that they don't even realize it.

In fact, Kobe and O'Neal are really the most suitable partners. Kobe likes to shoot, O'Neal has the ability to make up even if his teammates can't make shots, so Kobe can shoot casually, and Kobe's ability to pass the ball to the basket is also very strong. Send a lot of assists to O'Neal.

That's why Kobe and Howard, and O'Neal and James, don't feel right.

Of course, O'Neal and Howard were not at their peak when they partnered with James and Kobe respectively, especially O'Neal, who was not far from retirement at that time, but no matter how old O'Neal is, he still has certain strength. Beast, the body tonnage is there, he wants to see James take a lot of shots, so that he doesn't have to go out to pick and roll to waste energy, because as long as he has energy, he can still dominate the basket, but James prefers to pass the ball, and is Outline.

So some fans joked that O'Neal saw James passing the ball all the time, and complained: My former partner rushed to shoot key shots.

When Kobe and Howard partnered, they thought they were the number one center in the league. There should be no difference. Then they kept shooting and let Howard grab rebounds. Howard was naturally not happy, because even in his peak period, he didn't have the basketball of O'Neal. Dominance.

The partnership between Kobe and O'Neal is an extremely rare exception. The relationship between players on other championship teams is generally very good. It is very difficult to win the championship once, and [-]% of the players will not be able to feel the joy of tasting the championship with their teammates throughout their lives.

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Of course, as soon as the All-Star starters came out, the basketball fandom exploded!
The same team has four All-Star starters. The Lakers are making history. Last season, six players were selected for the All-Star Weekend, but there were only three starters of Kobe, Liu Ren, and Gasol. This is not without a team. Yes, but last season's six players were selected for the All-Star Weekend is already a record.

This year, four people were actually selected as All-Star starters. If it weren't for the fact that there were only 4 players in the frontcourt, maybe even the guy who only knew how to wave the towel could be selected.

Sakishi's votes at the last moment are second only to the three starters in the frontcourt of the Western Conference, and finally got more votes than Anthony Davis...

(End of this chapter)