After the Utah game, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles the next day and they will welcome two opponents at home.

One is a Timberwolves from Minnesota, and the other is a Bobcat from Charlotte.

Before the game against the Timberwolves, something happened that made the Lakers' morale fluctuate.

The Lakers go to the Toyota Center to train on time just like usual.

Because it was game day, they were just making small fusses to ensure they had enough physical fitness to deal with strong enemies at night.

Well, the Timberwolves are not a strong enemy, but the Lakers do not have the capital to watch the people play. They did not make the playoffs last season and were considered a weak team before the start of the season.

Wei Xia got on the bus early as usual.

He greeted the Lakers bus driver, "Good evening, Sammy."

"Do you really have obsessive-compulsive disorder? You are the second person to get on the bus every time." The driver joked.

To put it more, the first person to board the bus is always Kobe. He wants to prove that he is the most important person in the team, so the first person to board the bus is a proof of rituality.

Wei Xia chose the second bus to get on the bus not to prove that he had the ambition to squeeze Odom to the third place, but because he didn't want to squeeze around with others.

Come early and feel at ease.

By the way, the name of the Lakers' bus driver is very interesting. He has the same name as the male protagonist of "Taxi Express".

His name is Samy Naceri. He has been a bus driver for the Lakers since 1999. He has a cheerful personality and can chat with everyone. Because of his special name, everyone likes to amuse him.

Moreover, "Taxi Express" is one of Wei Xia's favorite movies. What he likes is not the plot or the male protagonist, but the heroine inside, nicknamed French Meiting Marion Cotillard. Her body inside makes Wei Xia surging countless male hormones.

And in the flower season where he was less than 1.6 meters tall, he swore to his brother and sister: "I will marry this woman one day!"

As for now, he is no longer interested in marrying Cotillard home. Because she often shows three points in the movies, as long as there are conditions, men from any region in the world can see her privacy. Wei Xia cannot accept this.

That's right, the reason why she didn't marry Cotillard was not the real technical problem of how to marry her home, but "she took it off". In this way, the dream of marrying Cotillard home disappeared like the childhood wishes of children who dreamed of growing up as scientists and pilots since childhood, and they disappeared.

Afterwards, Wei Xia's teammates got on the car one after another.

Vaughan Weaver sat next to him, Bynum occupied two people alone, and his size was indeed too large for no one to squeeze with him.

"I have a dream - I want to dunk on KG's head!" Weaver said shamelessly, "If I have the chance to play later, I will definitely let KG know how powerful I am!"

Smash Parker said disdainfully: "Stop blowing, when you see KG, you probably won't even be able to pronounce FU/CK, and then you'll stop."

"Woo, why do you expose me?" Weaver shouted sadly.

His acting skills are poor enough, but it is these performances that make him enjoy the excitement in front of every teammate and every coach.

Just by talking to people and talking to ghosts, you have to analyze and analyze with Shit classmate why you have such a bad emotional intelligence today. It is worth learning by Bynum, who does not take others seriously, except Kobe and Wei Xia.

Unlike Kobe, Phil Jackson is always the last one to get in the car.

Kobe is striving to be the first.

Jackson chose the last one to enter the venue as well as for some unspeakable sense of ritual.

He seemed to prove that everything was in control.

Today, after getting in the car, he rarely greeted the driver, "Sami, how did you think of it lately?"

"Very good, coach." The driver replied with a smile.

"Is the home okay?" Jackson asked with a vague smile on his face.

The driver replied as usual: "Everything is OK."

"That's right, I have something to inform you," Jackson said.

The driver looked at the Zen master.

"You're fired, Sammy."

Jackson's tone was as relaxed as if he was saying "You look good." The driver hesitated for a few seconds before he could react from the words of the Zen master.

He was fired?

This kind driver thought he had heard it wrong, Jackson was joking?

"What?" the driver asked with a stiff smile.

"You're fired, Sammy, it's a tough decision," Jackson said.

The bus, which was originally a bit idle, was silent.

The driver was so nervous that he didn't know how to place his hand holding the steering wheel. He was fired. Jackson was not kidding. He was very serious. How should he deal with himself and where to go? He didn't know, he didn't know what to do next.

"The club will send you your salary today as usual. Please get out of the car now."

Jackson, who had just greeted him, had changed his face to a ruthless face and did not give the driver a chance to ask the reason.

The new driver is ready. His name is Claude Brialy. The biggest difference between him and Sammy Nasselli is that they are completely different.

Nasselli likes to laugh. He has a tense face and even introduces himself is full of coping. He doesn't care about the fact that there are a bunch of millionaires sitting in his car, just like a driver in the army. His tone makes people imagine him saying "yes, sir" with a solemn and rigid look.

Moreover, his name is Claude? Oh my God, his parents may think this French name is very interesting, but in France, 5 of the 10 male actors are called Claude, and the other 5 who are not called Claude may have 1-2 real names called Claude.

Boring name, boring person.

10 Claudes can't beat one Sammy.

The firing of Nasselli was undoubtedly Jackson's personal act, and he had enough rights to do it.

What is puzzled is why he did this?

Nasselli is just a driver, and he has a good relationship with everyone. It can be found that the atmosphere on the bus is declining rapidly, which is the sequelae of the fire Nasselli in public.

If Jackson did this silently behind his back and chose a suitable time to announce it, there would never be such a negative reaction.

He couldn't have no idea how he would react to doing this, but he did it anyway.

After doing it, he still hopes that everything will be the same so that everyone will not doubt, worry, or be curious - how is it possible?

Nasselli may be a friend of a player, but he is too lazy to explain. He sat silently, with his own authority that cannot be challenged, such a complex person, such a distant authoritarian.

Until today, Wei Xia was convinced that it would never be possible to establish a friendship between him and Phil Jackson, such as high school coach Greg Donner and college coach Jay Wright.

Weaver looked around until he and Wei Xia met with each other's eyes and each saw the anxiety in each other's eyes.

Yes, they are still wondering about Nasselli's fire.

They even felt a little regret and sad about the driver's departure.

Later, the veteran in the team, Tony Kukoc, who has followed Zen master for many years, shared a story about him and Zen master on the Bulls.

Almost exactly the same as today.

The Zen master fired a staff member who had been working for the bull for no reason. He did not make any mistakes, but the Zen master announced in public that he was fired and asked him to leave immediately.

Why did he do that?

Kukochi, the old subordinate of the Zen master, still doesn't understand. "We can't understand Phil's thoughts. Maybe that's his purpose. He just doesn't want us to understand what he does."

Fortunately, Wei Xia not only had this channel, but later he got the answer at Jim Bass.

Sam Nasselli is the eyeliner placed by Bus Jr.

In fact, it is a bit strange to say that he has an eyeliner. He just regularly reports to the people around Buss about the team.

In 1998, Bus Jr. just took over part of the Lakers' work, and it was gone, with no foundation, no one, and without his father's support, he didn't count on the team. So he arranged for Nasselli before the Zen master took over the Lakers.

He learned about the earliest internal situations of the Lakers through Nasselli.

Later, as time went by, although Little Buss had not made any contribution, he gradually had more and more people under his command, and there were more and more ways to get news. Since 2001, Nasselli has been just an ordinary driver, and even Little Buss has almost forgotten his existence.

Although Wei Xia learned some inside information through many channels, he still couldn't understand Jackson's purpose.

Perhaps what Kukoc said is the truth, and what Jackson wants is that they can't understand and can't read it thoroughly.

Think about how he described the Triangle Offense?

philosophy.

He actually described a mere basketball tactical system as philosophy.

He didn't know that saying that would make people feel overwhelmed? He couldn't not know, maybe that was his purpose, he wanted you not to understand.

Jackson's dismissal of Nasselly disrupted the morale of the team. Kevin Garnett took out a DPOY-level defense in the game against the Timberwolves that night.

He allowed Kobe to score only 20 points in the game.

Do you think Kobe scored 20 points with another 30 shots? No, Kobe scored 20 points with a 56% shooting percentage.

That's why Garnett has a great defense.

Kobe's touch was very good, but the Timberwolves' defense with Garnett as the axis gave him no chance to take action. He made 9 of 16 shots in the game. Although he scored a quasi-triple double-double with 8 rebounds and 9 assists through passing, he encountered the Wolf King, who had amazing defense performance and explosive touch. He made 12 of 16 shots in the game, made 4 of 5 three-pointers, and made 34 points in front of Wally Szebiak, who slashed 34 points, was in a bad breath.

113 to 108

The Lakers ushered in their first defeat in December by 5 points.
Chapter completed!