After waving with the fans, Tang Shuai left the player passage with his teammates.

Tang Shuai's debut was amazing. He played for 38 minutes in the game, made 17 of 29 shots, and scored the team's highest 40 points. In addition, he also contributed the team's most 11 assists, plus 5 rebounds and 2 steals.

40+11+5+2, such gorgeous data are definitely one of the few transfer players in NBA history. Looking through the entire history, only 37+12+6+4 that Harden won in his debut when he joined the Rockets in 2012 can be compared.

At the press conference after the game, the entire venue was crowded by reporters. You should know that Tang Shuai was 20 years old when he ran last year and was only 21 years old this year! This is something Harden can't compare with. The rookie played such amazing data in the second year. God knows where his limit lies.

Tang Shuai was in a very good mood, and responded freely to the reporter's questions. It was the first time he talked about the future of the Lakers. To put it, he and his teammates were ready to revive the Lakers.

After the press conference, he followed him to the Clippers' locker room.

Compared with the enthusiastic scenes in the Lakers' locker room, the home team's locker room seems a bit deserted, because the players are not in high spirits after losing the game.

However, after Tang Shuai walked into the locker room, the team members became excited.

Compared to losing a regular season game, meeting with old teammates is obviously much more important.

"Derwen, she performed very well today. She scored 3 three-pointers, right?"

"4, Tang, you said one less."

"Blake, that dunk today is very good. Your knees have fully recovered, right?"

“It’s much better.”

"DAndrew, is that ball OK?"

"Are you okay? Didn't you realize that I fell to the ground on purpose because I was afraid of knocking you over?"

"I really didn't find it...haha, brother!"

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Apart from Tang Shuai, there is probably no other person in this league who can make the Clippers' locker room so lively.

After a while with his former teammates, Tang Shuai said, "I'll treat you tonight tonight. I haven't seen you for a few months. I have too many things to say to you. It's too crowded here."

"I heard that you have signed two more major endorsement contracts recently, and you have to go to Pasadena tonight." Smith said.

"No problem. Even if you book a plane to Europe at night, it will be fine if you come back after eating." Tang Shuai said with a smile.

Tang Shuai's words immediately caused laughter from the team members.

Before coming, he had asked Duffy to book a car, and the group got out of the stadium and went straight to the hotel.

Before getting on the car, Tang Shuai saw Ingram landing at the end of the team, walked over and patted him and said, "Are you okay?"

Ingram smiled embarrassedly. He didn't want to follow him, but Paul asked him to follow him, and only if he was absent, he followed him.

"Don't care, it's a game on the court, and it's nothing to do with the game off the court. Enjoy the NBA life well. If you figure it out, you will grow faster." Tang Shuai smiled at him and got in the car.

Tang Shuai and his teammates of the Clippers reminisced about the past, and he had no idea that at this moment, both at home and abroad, the fans and the media were already in a mess.

Private nagapore: I am a Lakers fan. I am really excited now and don’t know how to express my mood at this moment. Kobe’s era has come to an end. The era of Don has arrived. As it turns out, Kupchek is the greatest general manager in the world. In 2008, he robbed Paul Gasol, and now he robbed Don in the same way. Sorry, I use the word robbery, but this is really, really crazy! The Lakers are on the road to revival!

Blocking the Road: I am not a fan of the Lakers, but I am a fan of Tang Shuai. I support which team he goes to. 40 points, 5 rebounds and 11 assists. Tang Shuai's perfect performance cannot find any flaws. I have enough reason to believe that he will become China's first superstar on the outside of the NBA. I look forward to the moment he leads the team to win the NBA championship, and look forward to the Chinese standing on the highest podium of the NBA!

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American Sports Illustrated: This is a phenomenal performance. The Lakers' Shuai Shuai proved that he is a reliable team-building core with his super high shooting percentage (17 of 29 shots, 58.6%). It is even more rare that he showed us too many offensive skills in the game, textbook-style pull-up jump shots, elegant back-to-body singles, accurate open three-pointers, fast breakthroughs that make people unable to defend, etc. He will be the next Kobe, McGrady, Iverson, Curry, or Jordan. No one knows, but there is no doubt that his existence has once again shown the potential of a giant in this Internet era. Getting such a player is worth it no matter how much it costs.

Los Angeles Sports Weekly: Tang Shuai's super performance on the Lakers reminds people of what he has done. He eliminated the 73-win Warriors, averaged 40+ games in the playoff series, and led the "weak" Chinese team to the Olympic runner-up. We can only find his strength. What's incredible is that he is only 21 years old. If there is a player in the league, we think he is the best answer. It's incredible that the Lakers got him just after just one second-hand show and growing inside line. We believe that after more than ten years, this deal will definitely be compared with Kobe's deal. This is definitely a robbery.

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Fans and media are the performance of NBA players' influence in the league, and the Lakers' official also took the opportunity to start a strong publicity for Tang Shuai.

The day after the Los Angeles derby ended, a huge poster of Tang Shuai was hung outside the stadium in Staples Center.

Tang Shuai jumped high with the basketball in his hand, pulled the ball behind him with his right hand, and dunked towards the basket with full momentum. His movement was taken from his shocking dunk over Ingram at the Los Angeles derby, but Ingram was repaired in the background.

Next to this huge poster, there is a sentence full of aura: The next Lakers era.

Not only outside the stadium, but also the Lakers' official website, the large picture on the homepage has also been replaced by this poster.

Compared with the Clippers' public relations, the Lakers seem to have done much more in terms of publicity.

For a time, Lakers fans, who had been silent for several years, began to become active again. In fact, it was not just Lakers fans. Tang Shuai's outstanding performance in the Olympics also won him many fans. Domestic fans can no longer hold back. It is no exaggeration to say that Tang Shuai only took one game to make his popularity reach a new level.

The Lakers' start schedule is intensive, with 4 games in 10 days and no back-to-back games, and the opponents are not too strong, namely the Kings, Pacers and Magic.

After defeating the Clippers, the Lakers' morale was high and they won the Kings and Magic in the next game. Although they lost to the Pacers, their overall record was 3 wins and 1 loss, and they even ranked in the top four in the West.

This surprised all media. No one expected that just one offseason passed, and the Lakers were completely different from the team last season.

In fact, the biggest reason for this change is that Tang Shuai, as the strongest signing for the Lakers off season and the absolute core of the current Lakers, in the first four games, he averaged a league-high 30.2 points, plus 4.5 rebounds and 7.8 assists, and his shooting percentage reached an astonishing 54%!

This is definitely a terrifying data for an outside player.

Although the sample size of four games is very small and such data does not have much significance, it can also show the Heat status since the start of the game.

The Olympics battles left his body in a relatively exhausted state, but the law that competition is the best way to maintain a competitive state will not change.

Excellent record and perfect personal performance, everything seems so beautiful, but Tang Shuai knows that the Lakers' current performance has a lot to do with the schedule and the opponent. Perhaps in the eyes of the league, the reason for such a schedule is probably because he thinks that the Lakers will have a poor record and don't want this old team to be as unbearable as last season.

On October 11, US time, the Lakers' next game opponent is the Memphis Grizzlies.

Due to the injury of the team's core Gasol Jr., the Grizzlies were swept by the Spurs in the first round of the playoffs last season. The offseason boss Robert Pera spent a lot of money, first signed Parsons with a four-year maximum salary contract, and then renewed Mike Conley with a five-year, $153 million NBA largest contract. Including the original gray-white bears, they have very good strength on paper.

In fact, the Grizzlies are in good shape at the start of the game. They have successively knocked down strong opponents like the Mavericks and Thunder, and now they have a record of 3 wins and 0 losses, tied for the top spot in the Western Conference with the Warriors.

Moreover, the significance of this game has another meaning to the Chinese.

Wang Zhelin, a Chinese player who once scored 19 points and 8 rebounds at the Nike Summit and led the international team to defeat the American team with a number of super potential shows such as Wiggins, was finally selected by the Grizzlies in the 2016 NBA draft.

It's a bit dramatic. When Zhou Qi was selected, all members of the national team, including Tang Shuai, were celebrating wildly. Wang Zhelin's selection was only known on the way to the hotel, and it was definitely an unexpected surprise.

Although he was selected in the 57th overall pick in the second round, fortunately, because he gave Parsons and Conley a consecutive maximum salary contract, the Grizzlies had serious insufficient salary space, and the Chinese team made the Olympic runner-up, which made the Grizzlies finally choose to sign Wang Zhelin.

In the first three games, Wang Zhelin only played for 5 minutes in garbage time in the game against the 76ers, scoring 2 points for 1 of 2 shots.

Such performance is obviously not outstanding, but for the Chinese, this is another Chinese derby staged in the NBA arena after Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian.

However, before this game, two things happened that had a significant impact on the game.

The first thing is Tang Shuai, I caught a cold.

ps: This is a ten thousand rewards for time chicken, and I still owe 2 updates.
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