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The Lakers and Spurs.

The NBA's two major teams are amused.

The Spurs have been known as the rock band delayed by basketball in recent years, and the Lakers have become a comedian group delayed by basketball in recent years.

From time to time, the two teams will intentionally or unintentionally bring fans some interesting jokes.

The Lakers have a high degree of attention, and sometimes it is normal for fans to do one thing casually to become the focus of discussion.

The Spurs were regarded as the most disgusting team by fans ten years ago, and they kept pace with the Pistons, because the way they played back then was too disgusting. A team that averaged more than 80 points per game could not be disgusting. What.

It is said that teams with good offensives attract fans. This is true. Since the successful transformation of the Spurs in the 2010-2011 season, the number of their fans has skyrocketed all over the world.

This allowed the elderly Duncan's attention to reach the peak of his career, and his popularity began to skyrocket in 2010. Since his miss in the 2013 finals, Duncan's popularity reached its peak, and the number of endorsements reached the peak of his career.

Among the active players, James ranked first in the league with 169 commercial endorsement contracts. It is estimated that the total endorsement income for the 2015-2016 season will exceed 50 million dollars. Kobe ranks second with 151 commercial endorsement contracts. The 2015-2016 season endorsement income It will exceed $45 million. In recent years, Curry, who has been extremely popular in recent years, has 144 endorsement contracts. After signing the super sneaker contract with Nike, the total endorsement income of the 2015-2016 season will exceed $40 million.

Next is Duncan. Although his shoe contract is not as big as James, Kobe, Curry, etc., but the number is more than that of Curry and Kobe. There are 160 endorsements in the 2015-2016 season, and the total endorsements for the 2015-2016 season are expected. Income will reach a career high of more than 30 million US dollars.

This is related to Duncan's almost certainty that this is the last year of his career, because all the endorsement contracts he signed are only one year old, and he personally has no intention of renewing the contract, which makes many sponsors pay close attention to the last year of Duncan's career. This is the best moment to sell feelings.

In the past two years, Duncan's endorsement income has exceeded 20 million dollars, which even surprised him.

You must know that Duncan’s endorsement income during his peak did not exceed 10 million. Who knows that he has reached the peak from another aspect when he is old. This is also one of the key reasons for his repeated salary cuts since 2010, because it is a few more than every year. Millions of salaries, endorsement income is the bulk.

Looking at Duncan's 12 million endorsement of sneakers, Kobe's endorsement of sneakers is 20 million... Liu Ren felt sad looking at his 6 million endorsement contract this season...

Although, there will be a sales share at the end of the year, but that is a long-term meal ticket, and you may not see any big income increase in one or two years.

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The Lakers and Spurs have been getting closer and closer recently, especially the Spurs' recent 15-game winning streak is really dazzling, second only to the Warriors.

Although the Lakers now have two more wins than the Spurs, this is why the Spurs are getting more and more attention.

When the second-ranked team is only two points more than the third, people actually expect more of the third-ranked team. They feel that they are about to surpass the second, and that the second is about to be unstable. Fall to the third place.

This kind of psychology is very common, such as in long-distance running or racing, people always feel that the guy closest to the first will soon pass.

However, the gap between the Warriors and all other teams in the league is relatively large, so this mentality was placed on the second and third Lakers and Spurs.

Media news is always exaggerated. This kind of mentality among fans is infinitely exaggerated, and it blows up the Spurs.

Popovich saw that his family was described as being second only to the Warriors or not even weaker than the Warriors. How can this work? He still wants to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, although this "pig" is not much smaller than a tiger... …

Popovich wants to let the water lose two games and make the gap with the Lakers a little bigger. Anyway, no team in the Southwest Division is likely to catch up with their record. The fourth Thunder has lost 15 games. The gap is big. Go, don't worry about being caught up by the Thunder, the third in the West is very stable.

However, Popovich felt desperate, because the last two games happened to be the Grizzlies and the Lakers.

Although the Grizzlies can't make the top four, they are still in the playoffs. They are hovering in the sixth or seventh place, and they are working very hard, desperately trying to get to sixth.

The idea of ​​the Grizzlies is obvious, it is like playing the Spurs in the playoffs, "wolf ambition" is there, it is to fight the Spurs.

What can Popovich do? He is also desperate. He can only win the game with the Grizzlies in the last game. He doesn't want to be given a psychological advantage by the Grizzlies. The Grizzlies are already a terribly difficult one. The team, and the line-up play is very close to the Spurs, which can always bring a huge threat to the Spurs. It was once a black eight, and Popovich did not want to lose to them at all.

Then came playing the Lakers again, which was another game that could not be lost.

This game is the last time the two teams will meet before the All-Star Weekend. It is different from the last time the two teams did not send superstars. The last time was a period when both teams were still in the running-in period and looking for ways to arrange the lineup, and the season just started. , It doesn't matter if you win or lose a game or two, just play casually.

And this time the two teams have worked very well together. After the All-Star Weekend in one month, it is time to use all their strengths to impact the playoffs rankings, and to defeat the strong playoff teams and occupy the psychological advantage. At that moment, Popovich did not want to lose to the Lakers.

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From a strategic point of view, Popovich refused to directly defeat the Lakers by his team!

If the Spurs beat the Lakers~www.wuxiaspot.com~ then there will be only one record gap between the two teams, and the Lakers defeated by the Spurs themselves, the record gap will be directly by the fans, and most importantly, by Ignored by other teams in the league, the Spurs' psychological position in other opponents is estimated to be directly mentioned at the same level as the Warriors.

D'Antoni is very dominant in this regard, because they are the defending champions. From the perspective of the playoffs, they are inherently underestimated by their opponents because the defending champions generally do not play well in the playoffs. Some of the defending champions have a good record in the regular season. They knelt in the first round of the playoffs. This has happened four or five times since the beginning of the new century. The odds are extremely high.

Popovich is very helpless and desperate, but the game still has to win, just like they dare not let the Grizzlies play a psychological advantage, they want to win against the Lakers and occupy their own psychological advantage.

Well, there are great people who have said well that you must lower your posture before doing something to get twice the result with half the effort.

So before the game, it came time for Popovich to forcefully show his weakness: "The Lakers are very strong. They have the best lineup in the world and they are the strongest team. I think it is difficult for us to win this game. But we will try our best."

D'Antoni doesn't eat this set at all. He and Popovich have played against each other in the playoffs more than once or twice. How can you not know what this guy is thinking?

D'Antoni replied decisively: "Greg is right. They really have no chance to beat us. They are so old, or just retired. I remember Duncan and Ginobili are both 40 years old? I think They may play better with Leonard and Aldridge as the core combination."

Popovich almost didn't fall off his chair when he heard this. What was this operation?

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