Chapter 1138
Lamar swore inwardly that tonight was the last chance and would not be tolerated. To be honest, if it weren't for Ewing's intercession last time, Lamar would have had the team send Ariza, an ignorant guy, to the NBDL, and then dispose of him as an add-on this offseason.
The other players also walked out with Lamar, and they all knew that Lamar didn't want to see this brainless and arrogant kid, so naturally they didn't want to have anything to do with him.
Out of sight and out of mind, the best way to do it is naturally.
After his teammates left, the Knicks were left with only Ariza and Ewing in the locker room. Looking at the empty locker room, Ariza could clearly feel the indifference in his teammates, he felt very depressed, he felt as if he had been abandoned by people, and everyone was sorry for him. Apparently he was self-righteous again, and he didn't want to think about why this was the way it was.
When Lamar was still with the Los Angeles Lakers, Anderson also challenged Lamar's status when he first came out, but after being beaten by Lamar, he immediately became honest.
And after this incident, Anderson, who was ashamed and courageous, redoubled his training efforts, so he also won Lamar's favor. Now following Lamar from the Los Angeles Lakers to the New York Knicks, he has become an indispensable and important role for the Knicks.
But Ariza's situation is different! he is completely unjustifiably arrogant and arrogant, and he always feels that after being favored by Lamar's golden eye, he should be as prosperous as those guys before him.
The most important thing is Lamar's forbearance in the face of his provocation, which gives Ariza more arrogant capital.
But Ariza doesn't know, there is a limit to patience, the first and second time may be able to endure, but that's for the sake of Ariza is a teammate, and if there is a third time, not to mention that Lamar himself is a temper tantrum, he is a good old man and can't stand it.
"Damn! they'll regret it one dayγγγγγ! β
"Bastard, shut up!" Ewing really couldn't stand Ariza's arrogance and ignorance, glared at Ariza angrily, and reprimanded loudly: "I can tell you right now, if you bastard don't change your damn temper, you just have great ability and don't want to gain a foothold in the NBA! Do you know who Lamar is? He is the hottest star in the NBA today, the boss of the Knicks, and the king of New York!"
"In Madison, He's God! But look at what you've done? vexatious! No one in sight! Arrogant and ignorant! What else can you do? Score, grab rebounds, or assist? Damn! You don't know anything!"
"I think you're just a shit-stirring stick, look at who else is waiting to see you in the team now? If you don't know what it means to be a man with your tail between your legs, you are playing at the level of Chamberlain in this game, and I would advise the team to give up on you bastard!"
"The comrade-in-arms that the Knicks need!
Ewing roared a bit, finally feeling refreshed, and then slammed the door and walked out.
There was only one Ariza left in the locker room, and he was completely stunned by Ewing.
Ariza began to reminisce about every day she was with the Knicks, as if it was really Ewing saying it, finding someone to challenge every day with nothing to do, hoping to prove her abilities.
As a result, he was naturally defeated repeatedly, and even Jamal Nelson was able to kill him when he went head-to-head. If it weren't for Ewing not being able to stand it and interceding for him, and then staring at him every day to train, I'm afraid he would have been terminated by the Knicks by now.
is down to this situation, and he still fantasizes every day that his dog & can be like a diamond wrapped in mud, and one day it will be discovered by someone with a heart, and then it will naturally become a core player.
Now that I think about it, I really look like a clown!
Seeing that the players had already started to enter the stadium and the game was about to start, Ariza was starting to get confused, and he didn't know if he would be able to stay after this game.
"Forget it! It's an opportunity, just work hard!" Ariza silently encouraged herself, and then ran out with her teammates.
Just when Ewing was impatient, Ariza finally showed up on the Knicks' bench.
"You're not hopeless!" Ewing glanced at Ariza, then ignored him.
The fans at the scene also found that there was an extra player wearing a Knicks jersey on the bench, and they recalled it carefully for a long time and didn't remember which god this was.
At this point, the game has already begun, and the fans don't have the heart to pay attention to an inexplicable guy anymore.
It's a redemption battle for Ariza to prove herself and regain her bad image among her teammates. It's just that no one knows except him and the Knicks players!
The New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers game, from the first second, the cheers from the scene did not stop.
Before the game, the Pacers, who had fantasized about winning against the Knicks, who had already secured the top spot in the East and had broken the Chicago Bulls' best regular season record, and could catch the last train of the playoffs, were desperate after the game began.
The Pacers, who were still asleep after the start of the game, finally woke up, and they finally knew that they were naΓ―ve.
The Knicks, whose pursuit of victory has reached a point of madness, simply won't miss a chance to win.
In this game, the Knicks not only did not have reservations for the upcoming playoffs, but for some reason they did their best.
As for the person who affected the mentality of the Knicks players, there is no doubt that after driving out the beast Artest, the baby-faced Jermaine O'Neal, who sat firmly in the position of the team's leader.
Since the Pacers traded Ron Artest, Jermaine O'Neal has indeed gotten a lot of what he's been dreaming of.
A contract with a maximum salary of tens of millions of dollars, a unique position for the team's boss, but he also lost a lot while getting this.
O'Neill Jr. has now realised that the position of the team's boss is not so easy to sit in.
This season, the Pacers' record is still not much better than last season, and it is impossible for him alone to turn a weak team into a strong team like Lamar.
O'Neill Jr. now even misses the days when he played next to Reggie Miller. At that time, there was Reggie Miller in the locker room and Ron Artest on the outside, and he didn't have to do anything but defend the inside.
Many times O'Neill Jr. just needs to wait patiently on the inside, and the ball will pass to his hands. Then all he has to do is score.
And now, he has to shoulder the responsibility of leading the Pacers back to life, and under such great pressure, O'Neal Jr. is about to run out of breath.
The game came to Madison again, and O'Neal Jr. thought he was ready to go for a bayonet confrontation with Lamar.
But when O'Neal Jr. was really there, he found that the Knicks didn't take themselves seriously at all, and it was Birdman Anderson who defended him.
In the first two meetings between the two teams this season, O'Neill Jr. missed out due to injury. Now that we're finally getting a chance to play against Lamar, the league's best interior lineman, O'Neal Jr. is ready to put on a good show.
But in the face of the contempt of the Knicks, O'Neal Jr. found that he couldn't control himself a little.
At this moment, O'Neill Jr. felt insulted, coupled with the insults from the surrounding fans before the game started, O'Neal Jr.'s anger soared.
When the players just entered the stadium, O'Neal Jr. enjoyed the cheers of the Knicks fans. The overwhelming boos and shouts from the audience almost drowned him out.
O'Neal Jr. is now getting a taste of what it was like when Reggie Miller led the team to Madison.
The game was already in the second half, and the score was 75-66, with the Knicks leading by nine points.
Of course, if it weren't for Coach K's reservations and compressing Lamar's playing time, the score could have been expanded.
In a corner that is almost forgotten, Ariza is anxiously waiting for his playing time, or rather his time to redeem himself.
At this moment, Ariza's mind kept ringing what Lamar had just said in the dressing room: you will have time to play, but whether you can stay or not depends on your performance on the field.
Now that I've been waiting for so long, I've seen that most of the game has passed, but the chance for redemption that Ariza was waiting for has not yet come. This made him anxious, and he could feel that Coach K was already preparing for the playoffs after that.
Because now on the Knicks' bench, except for Hilario, who has just recovered from injury, everyone else has been given the opportunity to play, but he is not.
Ariza couldn't sit still, her eyes kept sweeping over Lamar's body, hoping to get an answer from Lamar's body. But unfortunately, Lamar was watching the game from start to finish and didn't notice him at all.
"Hey, Patrick!" Nowitzki Jr. finally couldn't help himself, wanting to get some instructions from Ewing, who had turned assistant coach.
"Wait patiently!" Ewing didn't explain anything to him, but told him to wait patiently.
Ariza pouted and looked at the clock, there were only four minutes left until the end of the third quarter.
"Trevaux!"
Ariza stood up almost subconsciously, and in a trance, he didn't know who was calling him.
When Ariza came back to his senses and saw Coach K looking at him, he was nervous. He could even hear his heart beating faster and faster.
"You go on the court for Taysiyen! Remember, when you come on the court, you open up space and you can go up and block Dulwich when you have the chance. When defending, watch Stephen Jackson. Well, that's it. Stephen is very well-rounded, you do your best to defend him, you know?"