The Laker fans at the scene were filled with despair.

They suddenly understood why those in New York often jeered at their home team.

Because when the home team is terrible, you really have that urge.

The Lakers had only been bad for a few years, but the Knicks were bad most of the time!

The first quarter of the game became a microcosm of this preseason.

The Pelicans played a 2-3 zone defense, and Ball and Simmons' weaknesses of not being able to shoot three-pointers were magnified infinitely.

With the lack of talent of the other players, the Lakers ultimately suffered a crushing defeat to the Pelicans with a score of 70 to 90.

Simmons made 6 of 22 shots, scoring the highest 17 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists for the Lakers.

For the Pelicans, Brogdon scored a game-high 23 points and 4 assists, Siakam continued his previous hot streak, scoring another 16 points and 6 rebounds, Rose had 14 points and 2 assists, and Ding Yanyuhang had 5 points and 2 rebounds.

This game also led to a frenzy of abuse from Lakers fans on social media.

You have to know that they all used Time Warner to watch the game, and that was pay TV!

"Trash Scott, trash Lakers management, a complete mess after Kobe retired!"

"The Lakers' chaotic management has made free agents avoid this place like the plague! Once upon a time, this was a paradise for free agents!"

"George was very likely to come before, but the management said George wasn't worth it! Magic, you should go back to being your legendary player!"

"Your own son is almost being raised as a daughter, do you think he can manage the Lakers?"

"This has nothing to do with Magic, right? This is Jeanie Buss's decision!"

"But Magic hasn't achieved anything! He chose Simmons, who is always carefree! And a 'historic' guard who can't shoot?"

"Alas, Lakers championship, this has become an infinite joke on social media! We have fallen to such a point!"

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After defeating the Lakers, the Pelicans also successfully ended the preseason with a 4-game winning streak.

This record was expected, but no one expected the process.

The Pelicans actually won all the games with their substitutes and semi-substitutes.

This Pelicans team is much stronger than they imagined.

Moreover, just after their game with the Lakers ended, the Lakers officially announced the dismissal of head coach Byron Scott.

The team will temporarily be led by assistant coach Paul Pressey as interim head coach until a suitable new head coach is found.

This news sparked a new wave of discussion among fans on social media.

But what was unexpected was that the dismissed Scott expressed his dissatisfaction with the Lakers management in front of the media.

"I was deceived and betrayed by the management, they didn't give me any power at all, but they still expected me to achieve results during the rebuild."

However, not long after Scott made this statement, Jeanie Buss posted the following status on her personal Twitter.

"He simply didn't meet the requirements of our management, he didn't even do anything well."

After Kobe retired and D'Antoni left for Houston, the Lakers entered a rebuilding era, and Scott was selected as the new head coach.

During the rebuilding process, cultivating young players is naturally the primary goal.

Simmons' current state of being neither high nor low is just like the Lakers' current chaotic situation.

Whether it is Simmons' own responsibility or the responsibility of Scott as the head coach, no one can say for sure.

Now, a preseason game has caused a lot of fan dissatisfaction, and someone needs to take the blame, and Scott is naturally the least costly and most suitable one.

However, the focus of fans' discussions on social media is not this, but that the things they were worried and discussing before really happened!

Following Kidd, Scott has also been dismissed!

Because the league's new season has extended the regular season time, this year's preseason has been shortened compared to previous years, from 7 games to 4 games.

But it was these 4 preseason games that caused the Pelicans to dismiss the head coaches of two teams!

A 50% dismissal rate, this data is simply terrifying!

This is just the preseason, and the Big Four have only played one game together. Who knows what it will be like when the Big Four go all out in the regular season!

New York headquarters.

Adam Silver frowned.

He has been under a lot of pressure recently.

Since the Pelicans formed the Big Four, the management of various teams have expressed their dissatisfaction with him.

Although it can be foreseen that the Pelicans' games will receive a lot of attention, the attention of other teams' games will definitely decline accordingly!

A season with no suspense at all has made the owners of various teams very restless.

Even new Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta and Warriors owner Joe Lacob have questioned his ability, blaming him for not being able to stop Butler's trade in the first place.

He had unspeakable suffering. At that time, Butler's trade looked very normal. Who could have imagined that the Pelicans were planning such a big game?!

And he tried to stop it afterwards, but the Pistons and Jazz were helping the evildoers!

However, with his vision, it would really be difficult for him to detect it.

What's done is done, and there's no point in dwelling on it anymore.

Before the start of the new season, the only thing he can do now is to minimize the losses of other teams as much as possible.

"You go and tell the people at ESPN to put the Cavaliers at the top of the power rankings.

Give the Warriors, Rockets, and those teams high praise, and try to say bad things about the Pelicans."

Silver said to Borgia.

The media is the main channel for fans to receive information, especially large media like ESPN, which is basically like the weather forecast in the eyes of ordinary people.

The league often uses the media to influence fans' ideas.

It is now impossible to quell the anger of the team owners, so he can only ease it, which is the best way he can think of.

Borgia nodded and went out to do his job.

After he left, Silver began to rethink.

Relying solely on the media's hype is definitely not enough.

From a long-term perspective of the season, he still has to find a way to strengthen the Cavaliers and Warriors, and even the Rockets, Mavericks, and those teams.

The Bucks' experience in the preseason made him realize the horror of this Pelicans team. If he doesn't create more opponents for the Pelicans, the game will really have no suspense.

It's just that there are basically no players left on the free market now, and operating in the trade market is not that easy.

Thinking about it, he cursed Tatum in his heart again. If George could have gone to the Thunder in the first place, the Thunder would have also become a threat to the Pelicans.

Thunder.

He thought about it, and he heard that after the Thunder failed to trade for George, they set their sights on Anthony of the Knicks.

He could try to facilitate this trade.

Anthony was still in the top ten of the MVP list last season. If he goes to the Thunder to form a Big Three, that can also have an impact on the Pelicans.

And this also gave him inspiration, the Warriors, Mavericks, and Rockets still have trading space.

Anyway, he must create strong opponents for the Pelicans, otherwise his comeback will be a clown show, and he will have to roll away again after one year.