Before the start of the new season, ESPN and Sports Illustrated started to make rankings again. Anyway, they do this every year, but everyone watches it with gusto, mainly because it can make comments, right? The number one Tang Qian is almost no suspense. Part 1
He won another Grand Slam this season, which is basically an invincible level. In addition, he led the team to three consecutive championships. If you don't give it to him, you will probably be blackballed by everyone. As a self-proclaimed authoritative media, this kind of stupid thing
I still won’t do it. Although they still gave LeBron James the first place in the original time and space. The second place was the Los Angeles Clippers. There is almost nothing to say. For so many years, James has been their
No. 1 in the world, there was no Tang Qian in the original time and space. Regardless of whether he won the championship or not, he was still No. 1. He is so doting! He is so strong!
The third is Curry.
Fourth is Harden.
Fifth is Durant.
Fifth is Giannis Antetokounmpo. Don't be surprised, that's what they did in the original time and space, they just arranged two out of the blue. Antetokounmpo and Durant are tied.
Sixth is Davis, the brother with thick eyebrows. Yes, ESPN did not rank fifth this year. It’s just like this, what can you do!
Seventh is Westbrook.
Eighth is Leonard.
Ninth is Embiid.
Tenth is Lillard.
Regarding this ranking, there is actually no controversy at the front. Tang Qian is firmly on the throne. You can argue as much as you want later. This is also the first time since Tang Qian led the team that a teammate was ranked in the top ten in the league by ESPN before the start of the game. But you
Look at the Clippers, three of them are in the top ten, they are called ruthless.
But this thing, ESPN has just lined up interesting things and hasn’t even started playing. How do you know how these people will be in this season? For example, Paul was kicked out of the top ten for the first time in so many years. He was ranked No.
Eleventh place. But it doesn't matter. Tang Qian doesn't care about this at all, because he must be number one. It doesn't matter how you ESPN and Sports Illustrated arrange it or do it. This matter can no longer be changed.
The leader of the team who has led the team for three consecutive championships, do you dare not give him the first position? He has stepped on James continuously, and they can't do it if you give them a hundred leopards. After all, praising Tang Qian now is "politics"
"Correct". At the same time, there is also the ranking of each position. Tang Qian is also number one anyway, so he no longer cares about the subsequent ranking.
Anyway, no matter who you are, you are not as good as me, so you all just go and compete for second place.
There is really no one who is dissatisfied with the fifth position and the center position, because Tang Qian's personal ability is so terrifying that if you try to fight head-on, it doesn't count. It's just looking for abuse. Tang Qian was also interviewed by reporters
When answering this question, he said with a smile: This is something that everyone has expected for a long time. I don’t think there is any surprise, and this thing is not a real personal honor. Ranking first is not the third.
One person, it really doesn’t have any impact on me. You still have to win what you deserve. Champions are the way to go.
Of course, that's what I said. If you really think he didn't rank first, you'll see. Maybe the situation won't be so understated.
These words have invisibly belittled the authority of ESPN. ESPN is really crying. Their number of paying people for the new season has dropped again and again. This is not just about the NBA, but all paying people.
are decreasing year by year, and there has been an unstoppable momentum. This is really not made up. According to the annual report of Disney, the parent company of ESPN, we can see that their number of paying people has dropped to 2005.
The lowest point. Do you know how many subscribers they had at their peak? It was more than 100 million! And you have to think about how many people there are in the United States. This is a super ratio of one-third. Three Americans
There is one subscriber to ESPN. But now it has dropped to only 86 million subscribers. A decrease of more than 15 million! According to statistics from the American "Fortune", this number will reduce ESPN's annual revenue by more than 1 billion US dollars.
income!
Therefore, ESPN has started a wave of layoffs since 2017, and it seems inevitable this year.
And their way to stop losses is... to raise subscription fees! They steal money from TV stations and satellite service providers. The original fee was US$4.69 per person, but by 2018 it had increased by more than 50%.
7.21 US dollars! And it will increase even more in the future. This is all a compromise to maintain ESPN's own huge expenditures.
But this is a vicious cycle. Treating the symptoms but not the root cause. Although ESPN+’s online media now has one or two million users, due to copyright issues, they cannot broadcast live broadcasts of the four major North American leagues and the NCAA on it, so... at present, it is basically
There is no way to recover the subscribers that are lost at a rate of millions every year. So now Tang Qian is attacking them unscrupulously. T.N.T is naturally enjoying the gains, both for public and private purposes. At this time, they all choose to follow the Lakers No. 29
Let's vent our anger. Because they are not as big as ESPN, so if they can occupy a little more, it is just a little bit. Anyway, every additional share will basically be pulled over from the other side, ESPN. They are guaranteed to make a profit without losing money. Why not do it?
Woolen cloth?
What's more, it's still a situation where one goes down and the other goes up.
The profits are enough, these capitalists don't think about it that much.
After all this, the main thing is to start the preseason. Because of the popularity of the Lakers, the China game has been put on the agenda again. Although the opponent is a super weak Magic team, everyone still watched it with interest. Tang Qian was also in the game.
Played a little more time and easily harvested a triple-double. In the preseason, everyone focused on training, so the main players were not suitable to play for too long. No, after the two games in China, the Los Angeles Lakers
We returned to the Staples Center and continued to practice against weak teams. It seems that the league is also very smart and knows what everyone wants to see, so there is basically no chance for preseason games between strong teams.
It is the strong team that is exploiting the weak team and taking advantage of it.
Whet the audience's appetite.
The Lakers had a 7-1 win in the preseason, which was pretty good. The one they lost was because Larry Brown kept experimenting and adjusting the team's lineup, and his opponents took advantage of a loophole.
Oladipo had a personal explosion and suddenly took away the game. There was nothing we could do about it. Although the intensity was not high, everyone still saw a better sign, that is, the giants of the Los Angeles Lakers played really well.
It's extremely smooth, everyone performs their duties, and there is no discomfort at all. This is what makes people feel amazing.
After all, even after the training camp starts, the running-in is usually not so fast. Whether it is the previous Big Three or the current N-Big Three, basically everyone still has some problems with the running-in. Just look at James, and you will know it.
The game was a bit sluggish, and the cooperation between the stars was not in place. The chemical reaction did not meet expectations. The five-star giants on the Warriors' side were slightly better. After all, Cousins had just returned from injury, and if he was not good, the rest
They are all old players, so there is no problem in playing. They will not be like the Clippers, they are all regrouped, and their tacit understanding is not high. Therefore, the Warriors have won all 8 games in the preseason and have not lost a game. It seems that they
This season is like the real devil.
A 5-star combination, this is really scary. Even if Cousins does not recover, the camel will be bigger than a horse. Moreover, the biggest shortcoming of the Warriors in the past was the inside No. 5 position. Especially after Bogut's decline in ability.
It seems a bit stretched. Now that Cousins has been added, it looks much better. And obviously, starting from this place is already somewhat different from the original time and space. The longer Tang Qian plays in the NBA, the bigger the change will be. Slowly
Slowly, slowly, the butterfly effect is getting bigger and bigger. The typical example is Cousins. Because he remembered Tang Qian’s warning and started to control his weight earlier, his Achilles tendon injury is
He is much weaker than the original time and space. So I dare not say anything else. If he fully recovers now, he will probably still be a star-level insider. At least his recovery is much better than that of the original time and space.
This is a true five-star warrior. Five All-Stars can be called a hell-level opponent.
However, this is interesting. In the eyes of Tang Qian and this Lakers team, ordinary giant combinations will not be so scary at all. Of course, we cannot underestimate these people, they are all superstars.
It’s really hard to say if there is any chemical reaction when the stars team up. The Los Angeles Lakers’ first game will be on October 16th, US time. As the opening team, they will have a game with the Dallas Mavericks.
game. The other opening game is the Warriors VS Thunder. To be honest, these are the schedules for strong teams to beat rookie teams. Although basketball is round and miracles can happen at any time, this is normal.
Judging from the situation, the Lakers and Warriors still have a huge chance of winning. After all, you can tell just by looking at the odds of this opening game. You don’t need to think too much about it. It would be weird if these two rebuilding teams can beat each other.
It seems that the league still has some tricks in its schedule.
On October 15th, Tang Qian had the last day of special training with the Sky Hook. After a whole offseason of hard training, he could finally shoot with the Sky Hook from a distance near the free throw line. This also made him feel that he finally
Just like opening up the Ren and Du channels, the attack distance is no longer a problem that bothers me, and...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar finally gave Tang Qian's training results a "pretty good" and "somewhat talented" evaluation. And it is already rare for you to get such an evaluation from him. When Tang Qian left, he even made a special trip to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A ball was hooked into his head, which was considered a "bad breath". It was rare that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did not criticize Tang Qian this time, just to let him understand it as soon as possible and not waste his precious time every offseason.
Come on, none of these old monsters are easy to deal with. They are all vicious-tongued and arrogant-looking guys.
But the thanks are still sincere, and this Tang Qian will not be confused.
Now, the situation of the new season is about to break out, and everyone is waiting to see the battle between dragons and tigers this season. Although there are more weak teams, there are also more super teams. In this way, once the focus battle occurs,
Then the level of attention will definitely increase exponentially. Tang Qian has also discussed with the whole team that he will have a good start tomorrow night.
As for which super rookie the Mavericks choose, the next Nowitzki, the next Larry Bird, that has nothing to do with them. Anyway, he is just a rookie, no matter how good he is, can he go to heaven? Besides, even if
So what if Nowitzki and Larry Bird are real? Tang Qian will definitely not be timid or afraid at the moment.
At this historical position, there is no other choice but to move forward bravely and fight all the way.
If you don’t advance, you will retreat!
And in this position, people's ambitions and inner thoughts, or you can call them inner desires, are slowly and subtly changing. Cao Cao said that he only wanted to be a county guard, and that was his biggest wish in his youth.
. But later, everyone also knew... This is an example of ambition and desire changing after status changes. Humans are such animals. Tang Qian may have only wanted to be among the top ten in history at first, but
After arriving, he wanted to be better. Now he wanted to enter the Presidential Mountain. Then, after sitting on the Presidential Mountain, he naturally wanted to... go higher, higher, until no one can challenge him.
Therefore, he will not be afraid of anyone's challenge. What he has to do is to sweep everything and move forward with the strongest posture until he completes his vision step by step. Currently, he is ranked sixth in history, so next time
, there is only one goal, Presidential Mountain. The leap for this championship will be huge, and it can even be said that it can directly sit in the second place of Presidential Mountain.
Just be thick-skinned.
No joke, 5 core championships, 4 FMVPs, and the rest of the honors are enough to compete with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant, and Russell. So now, Tang Qian only has one thought in his mind, and that is...
win.
Keep winning.
And keep winning!
The 18-19 season begins.
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