I’m Really Playing Basketball

Chen Xiao, who returned to Golden State after the Asian Championships, is very satisfied with the Warriors' preparations this offseason.

Throughout the offseason, the Warriors still maintained the team's main structure. The five main players and important rotation players are all looking forward to defending their title this season with high spirits.

Even the three new players to the team, Devin Booker, Powell and Chuck Hayes, are not thorns in the side and do not want to create disputes in the team. They are all working conscientiously to help the team along with other players on the team. Work hard to defend the title.

Such a united team atmosphere is exactly what Chen Xiao and Jerry West want.

With Duncan's retirement, the Warriors will basically be invincible in the entire league next season. The only team that can pose a threat to the strongest Warriors next season is the Warriors themselves. As long as the Warriors themselves are not in chaos and do not suffer injuries. Chao Tide, the Warriors next season will be the undisputed number one favorite to win the championship.

This is why Jerry West was very restrained this season and did not sign any major free agents.

After two days of training with the team, Chen Xiao took the Warriors players on a special plane to Europe on October 6.

In this year's NBA, David Stern has started to live up to his standards again.

In order to make it more convincing that the NBA championship is the world championship, David Stern decided that starting from this season, the NBA championship team last season will fly to Europe to play a game called The 'World Basketball Club International Championship' competition, referred to as the 'Basketball Club World Cup', is hosted by FIBA ​​and the NBA. The low point is the switch back and forth between Europe and the NBA. The invitees are the NBA championship and the Champions League. Champions of the Turkish League, Italian League, Spanish League, Chinese CBA League and other 32 continents or countries around the world will participate.

The competition is a single-elimination tournament. The NBA and Champions League champions are ranked as the No. 1 seed teams in the upper and lower halves respectively, while other teams need to draw lots.

I have to say that David Stern is really playing a big role.

The first Club World Cup cost a lot. The championship bonus alone was US$2 million.

You know, the NBA championship bonus is less than 4 million US dollars.

In the basketball world, $2 million is a lot of money.

Even if you don't win the championship, as long as you participate, in addition to free food and accommodation, reimbursement of air tickets, and not spending a penny, there is also an invitation fee of 200,000 US dollars.

Each team has this 200,000 invitation fee, which is not included in the bonus.

Champion 2 million

Runner-up 1.5 million

Second runner-up 1 million

The fourth 800,000

500,000 for the top eight

300,000 for the top 16.

Therefore, this event only costs 16.1 million US dollars in bonuses and appearance fees. Taking into account the expenses of various staff such as accommodation and field training for each team, it is impossible to host this event with 30 million US dollars.

However, the owners of each NBA team surprisingly unanimously agreed to host this event.

Let’s not talk about whether this event can make its own profits and losses in the future. It has to deal with losing money. Now that the NBA is doing so well, this is an opportunity to expand its influence.

It's rare that FIBA ​​also supports it, so even better.

As for whether it will be hard work to win the NBA championship, it really won't be that hard. Let's not talk about the level of the world's basketball clubs in the future. For now, it is definitely far behind the NBA.

What's more, there is no need to travel and travel, and all the games can be played in one place.

The host city of the Basketball Club World Cup in the first quarter is Madrid, which can be regarded as the holy land of European basketball.

Real Madrid Basketball Club is the team with the most Champions Leagues, winning a total of 9 times. This year, it just won the Champions League again after 20 years.

It can be said that Real Madrid is now the center team of European basketball and the focus of public opinion.

Even Dongcic, a graduate of the first junior high school of Chen Xiao Basketball School, rejected the invitation of Chen Xiao Basketball Team and chose to go to Spain to play in Real Madrid instead of playing in the CBA.

Nowadays, the Chen Xiao Basketball Team is attracting a lot of attention. Since Jokic’s super explosion, the Chen Xiao Basketball Team has become an overseas team where scouts from various NBA teams are stationed.

However, whether Real Madrid is popular now has nothing to do with Chen Xiao and the Warriors.

When Chen Xiao and the Warriors came to Madrid to participate in the World Cup, they came to be stars.

Let's put it this way, Chen Xiao is still the most popular star in the entire basketball world, even in Europe, the base of football. When Chen Xiao's plane landed at the Madrid Airport, he was surrounded by enthusiastic European reporters, media and fans. .

In the five games played here, the opponents in each game would pursue Chen Xiao like an idol after the game and take photos with Chen Xiao. Many players even cried when taking photos with Chen Xiao.

This is no exaggeration at all. Chen Xiao is 33 years old this year. He has been playing in the NBA for 13 years and is about to start his fourteenth season in the NBA.

It can be said that most players in the current basketball world grew up watching Chen Xiao's games.

Even if people of the same age as Chen Xiao are still standing on the court at this time, they have watched Chen Xiao's games for at least 13 years.

It can be said that Chen Xiao is the Maradona + Pele in the current basketball world, and they are still Maradona and Pele in active service. If you are a football player, you will be excited to see these two active football champions.

For the Warriors, the intensity of the Basketball Club World Cup is a bit low. Even the Champions League champion Real Madrid is far from a match for the Warriors.

But looking at such enthusiastic opponents, European fans, and media, Chen Xiao and the Warriors are still taking this Club World Cup very seriously.

Chen Xiao even played in every game from the first round to the final.

Moreover, every game is played to the fullest.

This really moved the opponents, European fans, and media.

Chen Xiao, the god in the basketball world, is too serious and respects his opponents too much.

In other words, as long as the players of all the opponent teams against the Warriors, whether starting or substituting, will have the opportunity to compete with Chen Xiao on the same field.

So much so that in many games of the Warriors, many opponents' players were so excited that they burst into tears because they were intercepted by Chen Xiao, or blocked a shot, or made a shot in front of Chen Xiao.

Yes, the biggest impression given to fans and spectators in this Club World Cup is that this group of rich and powerful men are actually made of water, and they shed tears on the field at every turn.

It can only be said that Chen Xiao's influence on the basketball world is too great now.

After all, whether in the NBA or FIBA, he is God's man, the one who reaches the highest level of achievement.

After playing five games in the Club World Cup, it was already October 22nd when Chen Xiao and the Warriors returned from Europe.

At this time, the NBA preseason has ended, and all NBA teams are preparing for the opening game of the NBA regular season on October 27.

On October 27, 2015, at the Oracle Center in Oakland, Golden State, the Warriors' opponent in this year's opening game was the Lakers.

Yes, the Lakers are playing the opening game against the Warriors again.

It can only be said that David Stern really knows what it means to grab a wool and pluck it hard.

However, David Stern is indeed right this season. This season, Kobe and Chen Xiao are destined to become the two most talked-about people in the NBA.

At the end of last season, Kobe's total regular season points had reached 36,659 points, less than 300 points away from surpassing second-place Malone.

For Kobe, this is only a matter of 10 games, and from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, it is also only 1,700 points, which is only a matter of 60 games.

It can be said that this season, the entire NBA will be staring at Kobe's scoring.

However, Mr. Ke’s achievements are indeed worthy of everyone’s attention. After all, he is the first man to score 40,000 points.

Next season, as long as Ko is not seriously injured in his career, he will definitely become the first 40,000-point player in NBA history.

Brother Ke told Chen Xiao that he hopes to announce his retirement from the NBA when his total score in the NBA reaches 40,000 points.

That moment will definitely be very glorious.

Thinking about it, it is indeed a great honor.

So Chen Xiao said to Mr. Ke: "Then I hope to retire from the NBA when my total NBA regular season score reaches 50,000 points."

After Chen Xiao finished speaking, Boss Ke fell silent.

It's not that Brother Ke kept silent because he was bragging about Chen Xiao, but that Brother Ke suddenly discovered that Chen Xiao could indeed score 50,000 points in his career.

Chen Xiao is less than 26,000 points away from 50,000 points. For Chen Xiao, this only takes 11 or 2 seasons.

With Chen Xiao's current physical condition, he does have a chance.

After all, Chen Xiao can easily play the entire game now, and his physical condition is too great.

The camera returns to the opening game between the Lakers and the Warriors. Because the Warriors were the NBA championship last season, this game has a ring awarding component.

The Warriors arranged this link before the start of the game. Before the start of the game, Chen Xiao received the seventh championship ring of his NBA career from the two owners of the Warriors, Bage and Wang.

"In front of Kobe, wearing the seventh ring surpassing Jordan, I always feel that David Stern's arrangement of this game is full of malice towards Kobe."

"Tracy, I think this is a sign of respect for Kobe. David Stern is saying to Kobe, look, someone helped you achieve the dream you have been pursuing, and this person is still your die-hard fan. .”

After Chris Webber finished speaking, Maizi next to him fell silent.

This is the first game of his commentary career after retiring.

At this time, in front of the Lakers bench, when Chen Xiao put on his championship ring, Kobe Bryant on the sidelines was applauding Chen Xiao crazily.

Obviously, for Kobe, just as Weber said, Chen Xiao helped him complete the dream he had previously pursued.

For him, at this moment, he was excited and satisfied.

Although, he was not the one who finally realized this dream.

But, at least, what he thought before was correct. The whole world thought that Jordan could not be surpassed, but he felt that Jordan could also be surpassed!

And now, when Chen Xiao surpasses Jordan, it proves that his previous thoughts and pursuits were correct!

It's just that he is not strong enough to directly surpass Jordan like a fan like him.

But then again, Chen Xiao followed his Mamba Way all the way and surpassed Jordan on his way!

This is not Ah Q, he is indeed proud of himself.

Thinking of this, Boss Ke's mood was indeed very agitated.

So much so that in this game, Chen Xiao also celebrated by hitting a few more pieces of iron in front of him.

In this game, Brother Ke really went crazy. He just did it with the ball and even made Klay who was opposite him vomit.

In the game, Kobe shot 16 of 50, 6 of 18 three-pointers, and 18 of 21 free throws. He scored 56 points and 34 irons in the game, breaking his own single-game iron record in one fell swoop.

Brother Ke celebrated Chen Xiao's historical first with a first in NBA history.

Boss Ke's 34-gun salute was fitting for the occasion.

After defeating the Lakers 121-111 in the opening game, the defending champion Warriors seemed to be on the fast track.

From October 27th to December 11th, the Warriors started with a 24-game winning streak.

Until December 12, they played back-to-back away games against the Bucks and ended up losing 115-128.

The Warriors really have no way of winning against the Bucks, because before playing the Bucks, the Warriors had already played 5 consecutive away games in the Eastern Conference.

This wave is the Warriors' most difficult 6-game series in the Eastern Conference this season.

Bobcats, Raptors, Nets, Pacers, Celtics, Bucks...

This wave, the Nets led by Irving are simpler.

The other five Eastern Conference teams are all Eastern Conference playoff teams.

However, with 24 consecutive wins at the start of the season, this record still makes the entire Warriors team very satisfied.

And after losing to the Bucks, the Warriors' winning streak started again.

Moreover, the next time they lose will be in the first game after the All-Star Game.

In the first game after the All-Star Game, the Warriors played the Trail Blazers away. This year's All-Stars, the Warriors Chen Xiao, Jokic, Nong Mei, Klay, and Beal, were selected for the All-Star Game, while the Trail Blazers The leading defender Lillard once again missed the opportunity.

This young guard, who has always been strong, is waiting to play the Warriors in this game.

In the end, participating in the All-Star Weekend caused some ups and downs for the young players of the Warriors. In addition, Lillard was really awesome in this game. He hit 12 three-pointers in three quarters and scored 57 points. It was a direct wave. The flow took away the Warriors.

At this point, the Warriors' 27-game winning streak after losing to the Bucks on the road came to an end with the Trail Blazers.

After that, in the remaining games, the Warriors suffered their last loss of the season, which was back-to-back away games against the Spurs on March 19. In this game, the Warriors lost to the Spurs 111-118 on the road.

In the end, at the end of the regular season this season, the Warriors' record was 79 wins and 3 losses, which once again broke the NBA regular season win record. The record that was broken was 78 set by Chen Xiao in the Bobcats. A record of 4 wins and 4 losses.

By the way, during the game between the Warriors and the Lakers, the Warriors defeated the Lakers away from home, but also witnessed Kobe surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in total points and becoming the all-time scoring leader in NBA history.

Therefore, these two records make the 2015-2016 regular season destined to be extraordinary.