On Christmas Eve this year, the league arranged three major battles.

The Warriors are at home and face the door-to-door challenge of the Seattle Supersonics.

The Bulls rushed to the Big Apple City and played against the Knicks away.

Finally, it was the Lakers' home game against the Spurs.

The three games have their own highlights.

The Bulls and the Knicks are old rivals, and in the past two years, they have rebuilt their former core to varying degrees.

Last season, the Bulls and the Knicks were also opponents in the final Eastern Conference Finals.

As for the Lakers vs. Spurs, the rise of the Lakers this season is already obvious.

Looking at the regular season so far in the new season, the Lakers have only lost a little more.

But who can guarantee that the entire league will not lose to the Warriors?

As for the Spurs, their results are not very stable at the beginning of the new season.

The power of the Admiral plus Duncan's double towers has not yet been revealed.

But after all, it is an All-Star-level double tower. The Spurs' comprehensive inside strength is already a real top in the league. It is not even an exaggeration to give an evaluation of the first inside combination of the league.

As for the five centers, Mo Ning was not very famous. Dameng, General and Ewing are both getting older and declining. Sharks are now the center of No.1 in the league.

The league's first center against the top inside team, the highlights are also full of attention.

Compared with previous years, this year's Warriors' Christmas battle has become the worst of the three games.

To put it bluntly, the biggest highlight of this Christmas battle is the brother battle between Lin Xing and Payton.

Compared with the Bulls vs. Knicks' old opponent battle, there are much less highlights.

Compared with the Lakers vs. Spurs' strongest inside competition, there is no advantage.

Of course, the main reason is-

The Warriors' winning streak and the hot state of the three mistresses make people feel that there is no suspense in this Christmas battle.

"The Warriors' Zaoji power is now full, and the Supersonics have never been their opponent."

"The Warriors are in such a hot state now that the Supersonics have even less chances."

It's a kind of suspenseful game that fans like to watch, and no one is interested in games like Warriors vs Supersonics, which have already known the result before the start of the game.

Of course, the Warriors and Supersonic fans are still interested.

But how many fans of these two teams can have together?

...

After playing the Nuggets, the Warriors got three days off.

And this is also the compensation given by the league to the teams that play in the Christmas game.

After all, there will be games on Christmas Eve, which is equivalent to having to go out to work on New Year's Eve. You may not be willing to give you three times your salary, let alone the NBA group of rich and rich nouveau rich people.

The idea of ​​the alliance is to give you a few days off in advance, so don’t make any trouble for me during the Christmas battle.

Lin Xing doesn't care anyway, and he doesn't care at all when he plays on Christmas Eve every year.

But he can't escape this Christmas gift every year.

Lin Xing still cares about this.

Two years ago, he gave each of his teammates a Patek Philippe watch.

Counting further, Lin Xing also gave his teammates a customized suit.

This year, Lin Xing thought about it but didn't expect anything suitable.

If you repeat it, you will give me some customized suits and watches, which is too uninnovative.

After thinking about it, Lin Xing thought of the most suitable one.

Two days ago, he directly found a gold shop and customized dozens of thick gold necklaces, preparing to give each person one.

"After all, there are big gold chains and small watches, and there are only big gold chains."

The Christmas gifts were selected. Regarding this Christmas battle, Lin Xing also discussed it with the Warriors' coaching staff.

In fact, to be honest, this Christmas battle between Warriors vs. Supersonics is more than just a brother battle between Lin Xing and Payton.

And such as-

The battle between Lin Xing and Pi Er, who just transferred to the Supersonics, can be traced back to the All-Star MVP battle between the two in the 1994 All-Star MVP.

In the finals in the past two years, Lin Xing and Pi Er have also played a lot.

In the end, Pi Er was forced to leave Chicago and leave Seattle, which was also unrelated to Lin Xing.

Also, this summer, Supersonics took advantage of the east wind of the Bulls' reconstruction and created a small three-man giant.

No one will question the two giants Payton and Pier, and the remaining giant is Antonio McDace.

Simply put, this season, Payton averaged 19.2 points, 4.6 rebounds, 8.3 assists and 2.3 steals per game.

Scores fell slightly, but assists were a career high.

McDace also attended all kinds of people, averaging 15.1 points, 7.6 rebounds, 1.2 steals and 1.7 blocks per game, which can be said to have perfectly replaced Kemp's position.

As for Pi Er, in the original history, in order to force the Bulls to sign a contract with him, he chose not to have any surgery if he had any injuries during the offseason. He waited until the season officially announced that he was injured and then surgery, so he missed most of the regular season games in the 1997-98 season.

As a result, Danzi's excellent team-leading ability directly shattered Pi Er's plan.

In a word: There is really little difference between a bull having him or not.

In this life, because of his bad performance in the finals for two consecutive years, the Bulls gave up on him directly.

This time, he was injured at the end of last season. Pi Er was holding on to prove himself in the new season. Naturally, he had surgery immediately as soon as the season ended, and quickly caught up with the supersonic pre-season training camp.

Pi Er is so serious, but his performance in the new season is also average.

Average of 19.1 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 1.8 steals per game, which is just the performance of an ordinary star forward.

Just follow this trend and Pi Er wants to prove himself, but he is afraid he is too much.

In fact, in Lin Xing's previous life, Pi Er left the Bulls and joined the Rockets to form the Big Three. At that time, he also left the Bulls and left Jordan to prove his thoughts.

But what happened? He averaged only 14.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 2.0 steals per game in a season, and was pissed by Barkley.

Prove yourself? Stop teasing!

I can only say that in terms of disappointment, Pi Er never disappoints people.

Back to the Christmas battle in front of you, this supersonic is still not weak, just looking at the strength on paper.

The back line is the partner of Payton and former New York main controller Greg Anthony. Greg Anthony is equivalent to a fake starter. Although he doesn't play much, he does a good job in defense and three-point functional work.

The forward line is Pi Er and Mike Dais, and the strength is also full, while the center is Elvin Johnson, who has the same name as the Magician.

With this starter, there is no problem with Greg Anthony.

However, in the new season, the biggest increase in supersonic speeds is their bench thickness.

Detrev Schramf became a substitute because of Pier 2's arrival.

In the new season, he has substituted every game, averaging 14.0 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game, making him the biggest competitor of Kobe's best sixth man honor.

In addition, substitutes such as Nate McMillan, who has three-pointers, Jerome Casey, who was originally going to come to the Warriors but failed to come due to injury, and Warriors' former player Dale Ellis.

The thickness of the Supersonic bench is no worse than that of the Warriors.

It can be said that this opponent is really not to be underestimated.

"Everyone says that we will win, but in fact, if it is the playoffs, they can think so, but now it is the regular season..."

"Thinking about the regular seasons in the past few seasons, we have lost a lot to the Supersonics. This Christmas battle cannot be underestimated."

Lin Xing means that they cannot lose this game, so they must pay attention to it.

Old Nelson nodded. Public opinion was very optimistic. Lin Xing paid attention to it, but he was actually very optimistic.

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But Old Nelson was still a little worried, he thought:

"Don't underestimate the supersonics, they have Gary Payton, Nate McMillan, and replaced Sean Camp with Antonio McDestin this summer, and got an extra Scottie Pippen."

"Don't look at Scottie's performance in the finals in the first two seasons is because the tasks the Bulls gave him were too heavy."

"Now, he's joined the Supersonics, with Gary Payton outside and Antonio McDyce inside. Now he can focus on scoring and supporting, as well as assisting defense on the defensive end."

"If you deal with the Supersonic defense in this Christmas battle, it is the key..."

This summer, the Bulls' big moves are eye-catching.

But the summer profit is still supersonic.

George Carl's deal is a good medicine.

He knew that the NBA was now dominated by the Warriors and Lin Xing.
To be continued...