Los Angeles is not close to Houston. It took several hours to fly to Houston.

What surprised Lin Tian was that when their special plane landed in Houston, there were eight or nine ground staff holding signs to welcome them.

To be precise, they made a special trip to welcome Kobe.

When I went to other cities before, nothing like this happened.

Kobe's influence is indeed great.

Facing the enthusiastic ground crew, Kobe was not aloof and signed autographs for them one by one and even took a group photo with them.

…

They checked into a hotel near Toyota Center. Lin Tian took a shower and fell asleep in a hurry.

The next day, he got up early as usual.

Just when he was walking out of the room after washing, Kobe, who lived opposite Lin Tian, ​​just opened the door.

The two just looked at each other and smiled, without saying anything, they had breakfast together, and then Kobe took Lin Tian into the Toyota Center Arena.

Kobe detailed the things he had experienced in this arena, and also told Lin Tian some of the culture of this arena.

When talking about the Rockets, Kobe naturally mentioned Dayao.

After walking half a circle around the arena, the two chatted and laughed and found a security guard.

After negotiating with the team's security, the security took them to a court in the arena.

In fact, any arena has more than one training hall and court.

When the two were training, Kobe smiled and told Lin Tian that sometimes some home teams would not arrange training facilities for away teams.

Lin Tian also felt that it was nothing. Playing ball was like fighting, and it was normal for such a situation to occur.

The two of them trained alone for half an hour before Kobe's personal physical therapist Judy Seto and team staff arrived.

Kobe did not train any more and instead asked Judi Certo to give him a leg massage.

Lin Tian discovered that Kobe's usual time for physical therapy may be longer than his training time.

It can be seen that the injuries have tortured him all over.

But his professional attitude never needs to be questioned.

The level of effort of other players in the league may be quite different from Kobe's.

Another half hour passed before all the Lakers players and coaching staff arrived, and they began a day of training and fitness.

Since we have to play games in the evening, the training intensity will not be too high.

After the training, they were led by the arena staff to the multimedia room.

Scott took a bunch of tactical information, turned on the projection screen, and began to explain the tactics for the night against the Rockets.

They have already received the scouting reports for every Rockets player, but now Scott still needs to explain them in detail.

Scott said above that several players, including Nick Young, were drowsy, which made Lin Tian feel a little dizzy.

Maybe Nick Young went to a nightclub yesterday. After all, this is Houston and there must be a lot of nightclubs.

Lin Tian and Kobe were the two people who listened most carefully.

This season's Rockets schedule is close to half of the past, and their winning rate is only 50%. This is far from the goal they set at the beginning of the season.

Since Howard joined the Rockets in 2013, he and James Harden have been called the Magic duo.

This is their third season of cooperation, and the team's record is unsatisfactory.

The outside world often reports that the two have conflicts.

In fact, Howard of Warcraft has never been an easy teammate to get along with.

He once stayed with the Lakers, but eventually broke up with Kobe Bryant.

Later, after Howard left the Lakers, he met Kobe at war, and the two became like enemies.

In one game, Kobe even called Howard a softie.

Therefore, they absolutely cannot lose in today’s game!

After the team meeting is over, the players can finally take a rest and then just wait for the game time to start.

…

The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

Before five o'clock, Lin Tian and the others appeared in the away locker room.

Although it is the locker room of the Toyota Center Arena, the conditions here are still not comparable to those of the home locker room.

When Nick Young was changing shoes in front of his closet, he said depressedly: "I still prefer playing home games to playing away games."

Russell joked: "Stop it! Yang! I see you are very excited every time you play away games because there are different nightclubs to go to!"

Nick Young did not refute his words, and the two of them laughed tacitly.

Clarkson took out his phone and recorded the video.

Among the Lakers, Clarkson is one of the people who prefers to take videos to record his life.

There are also silent players, such as Randall.

Hibbert is one of those who prefers to let rookies help. He often talks about rookie after rookie, talking about Nance Jr. and Russell.

Among them, the person he likes to give orders to most is little Nance. I don't know if it's because the two people's positions overlap.

When Lin Tian first joined the Lakers, he was also called around by Hibbert.

But since his incredible performance, Hibbert wisely stopped asking him to do things, or even called him a rookie.

Hibbert knows Lin Tian's status in the team, and he has not forgotten the final fate of Ricky Davis of the Cavaliers.

What's more, his status now is much lower than Ricky Davis' status with the Cavaliers in 2003.

After Kobe finished changing his shoes, he walked up to Lin Tian and said, "Lin! Have you decided to guard James Harden tonight?"

Lin Tian has long said that he wants to guard Harden, and coach Scott has no objection.

"Yes." Today nodded, "Just leave him to me to deal with him."

Although Harden's salary with the Rockets this season is not as good as Howard's, he is the absolute core of the Rockets.

"Okay! Then you must pay attention! I have never seen a player so capable of drawing fouls in my life." Kobe complained.

He is also a shooting guard. He has faced Harden many times and is very aware of the opponent's ability to draw fouls.

"I know."

…

After they were almost ready, the players walked out of the locker room and came to the stadium through the players' tunnel.

Houston Rockets fans couldn't help but scream when they saw Kobe appear.

This is Kobe's last visit to Houston this season, which is of great significance.

Not surprisingly, this was also the last time in Kobe's career that he came to Houston as a player.

Facing so many extremely enthusiastic fans, Kobe also quickly signed autographs for some fans.

For Lin Tian, ​​this is also his first time coming to Toyota Center as a Lakers player.

The Rockets have a large number of Chinese fans, and the most important reason is Yao. He spent his 9-year NBA career wearing a Rockets jersey.
Chapter completed!