Beijing time today, the 2022-23 NBA regular season unveiled at home in the two finals teams last season. The championship Warriors easily defeated Lakers ; the badminton finals Celtics also had a good start, winning the game against the 76ers.
Last season's Eastern Conference champion Celtics and the 76 team started the game first. Team 76, which has been joined by Harden this season, has indeed become the strong opponent of the home team. Harden, who scored 35 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists in the whole game, is the key man for the team to be able to keep entangled with the Celtics until the last moment of the game. Harden contributed 16 points in the first quarter, helping the 76 team take the lead; when he fell behind in the fourth quarter, Harden made consecutive three-pointers to keep a close eye on the score.
Celtics are obviously stronger, Tatum and Brown each scored 35 points, and the two scored 70 points together, helping the Celtics win the first game of the new season with 126:117.
Of course, today's focus is still the confrontation between the Warriors and the Lakers.
Before the start of the new season, people were speculating whether the Lakers, composed of James , MDB and Westbrook , can make a comeback after a failed season. The opening match against the defending champion Warriors is naturally the best touchstone.
doesn't know if you don't try it, but it's still the same as before.
The Lakers not only have poor defense against the Warriors, but their offensive shooting percentage is also worrying. After the game started, they made only one goal from outside the three-point line; the three defenders in the starting lineup combined to make only 2 of 11 three-pointers. This directly led to the Lakers not being able to suppress the score while the Warriors had not yet entered the state in the first half.
Wait until the second half of the Warriors core Curry began to find the feel, and the Lakers were suddenly widened by their opponents and could no longer catch up with the score.
Curry was in a mediocre form in the first half, scoring only 4 points from 1 of 7 shots in the first quarter. But after adjusting his state, 9 of 15 shots in the last three quarters scored 29 points, and still scored 33 points in the whole game.
Especially in the last quarter when the Lakers were chasing points, Curry stood up. He scored 9 points in a row to secure the victory, and even contributed a 3+1 wonderful three-point shooting, helping the Warriors secure the victory with more than 2 minutes left in the game.
38-year-old LeBron James ushers in his 20th NBA season. Facing last season's championship Warriors, although the Lakers lost, the old James and his own "quasi-triple double" data were contributed to 31 points, 14 rebounds and 8 assists in the opening game.
James scored 31 points today, which also made his total score in the opening game of his career reach 500 points, which is the first person in NBA history.
But James is more concerned about the reasons why the Lakers lose. He said after the game that the Lakers, who made only 10 of 40 shots outside the three-point line in this game, did not have a three-point shooter. "I feel like we have many good opportunities, but we just miss the shot. When we have the opportunity, we must take action, but we don't have a career three-point shooting percentage of 40%. "
For Lakers fans, the team's prospects this season are still not optimistic, so it's better to care about James's impact on the NBA's historical scoring champion.
At present, James is still 1294 points away from the historical scoring record of Kareem 38387 points. If James averages 30.3 points per game last season, he will surpass him after playing about 43 games in the new season.
At least from the first game, James' momentum in the new season is not bad, he scored 31 points and reached his average score last season.
Each has its own opinions on the popular candidates for the new season NBA championship . In addition to the Warriors and Celtics, the most favored ones are Bucks in the East, Clippers in the West, and Nuggets in the West.
But what is more worthy of attention is that there will be many teams with lower strength who will "strive" to a worse regular season ranking.
Why? Because next year's NBA draft , there is a French super talented player Wenban Yama who makes all teams jealous, and the worse the ranking means the higher the chance of getting the No. 1 pick.
Wenban Yama has a height of 2.24 meters and a wingspan of 2.44 meters. What's even more terrifying is that at the age of 18, he can still run, dribble, shoot three-pointers like Durant ; he can hit the basket as strongly as Antetokounmpo.
This year, when the United States and the NBA Development League ignited the team to play two warm-up games, it attracted executives from almost 30 NBA teams, hundreds of scouts, as well as many NBA stars to watch it live.
The French genius did not disappoint, he averaged 36.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.5 blocks in these two games. NBA experts all exclaimed: "Sign him, the team's market value will increase by 500 million!"
Because of Wenban Yama, even NBA president Xiao Hua had to remind those teams that want to get him, not to make a fuss because of this: "I know that many teams in the league salivate him because it is possible to get him through the lottery draft, but they should continue to compete hard this season."
