The opposition from the fans has made Simmons' return full of bumps, and Simmons seems to be ready for this. After all, it is not easy for a person who was once named Judas to be accepted by fans again.

"I don't know how to describe how I'm feeling right now, it's really complicated. Maybe I'm still a traitor in the minds of the New York fans! When I go back to the city, they still boo me, but I don't regret my decision, and I don't think I did it wrong. ”

"It was just a choice, and I felt like I wasn't going to get a chance with the Knicks, and I just wanted to take a step forward in my career. I didn't think about betraying anyone, I never thought about it, and whether the Knicks fans believed me or not, I'm going to do my best when I get back to the city here. ”

Regardless of whether Simmons has any concerns in his heart, a return to the Knicks is inevitable. It's just that he returned to New York this time, and he hated the Lakers a little more in his heart.

The Knicks' players did not warmly welcome or deliberately reject Simmons' arrival. It's like Simmons has been here all along, without any special treatment. This made Simmons always a little nervous, and he didn't know what his real situation with the Knicks would become when the season started.

But there's not that much time for him to think about it anymore, and despite being a traitor, his performance with the Lakers last season is obvious to all. Van Gundy will not abandon Simmons because of his original decision, not to mention that the overall strength of the team continues to increase, and Van Gundy's heart is also happy.

The 2003-2004 playoffs kicked off at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, where last season's league championship team, the San Antonio Spurs, host the Denver Nuggets after a summer of depression.

The curtain has been lifted and the new season has finally begun.

The first regular season game of 2003 was far from being as exciting as people thought. Defending champions San Antonio Spurs and Denver Nuggets teamed up for a boring and dreary defensive battle at AT&T Center.

Before the kick-off, league president David Stern presented last season's championship rings to the Spurs' players, but during this time, there was a chorus of boos from the stands at the AT&T arena.

It can be seen that even the local fans in San Antonio are unhappy with the Spurs' championship last season, after all, although there is no evidence that Bowen had substantial contact with the terrorist, there is no way to get rid of suspicion. Such a championship is a bit disgraceful even for them, the fans.

The discord before the opening game also seemed to affect the performance of the Spurs, who shot just 37% from the field throughout the game, but the Denver Nuggets were clearly even worse under the Spurs' iron-clad defense.

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In the end, the more dominant Spurs defeated the young Denver Nuggets on their home court by 9 points. The process of the game was quite tedious in the midst of the sound of iron, and even against a recognized underdog like the Denver Nuggets, the Spurs focused on defense throughout the game.

At the end of the game, even Tony Parker, the top scorer of the game, scored a measly 17 points for his team.

The Denver Nuggets, for their part, are trying to attack the roar of new head coach George Carr. When he was the head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics, George Karl held high the banner of offense, and when he arrived at the Denver Plateau, the old coach still liked the exciting and emotional offensive basketball.

But it's a pity that George Carr doesn't have a big player like N&Ne Hilario and Carmelo Anthony in his hands now, which makes him inevitably hate the Knicks who robbed Hilario and Wade a little more. Because he had a chance to get a big player like Wade and Hilario, but unfortunately because of the stupidity of the Denver management, those two talented players were picked up by the Knicks like garbage back to New York.

However, although he doesn't have his favorite player, the configuration of Denver's interior line is actually not weak, the combination of Marcus Camby and Wicks, plus Oterlo on the bench, such a configuration is absolutely strong in any team.

But the problem is that although the staffing is good, Camby and Andre Miller are fighting for the leadership position of the team. There is no cooperation on the court at all, and they even habitually tear each other down, which makes the atmosphere in the Nuggets' locker room a miasma.

Throughout the game, the Nuggets' interior line was blown up by Duncan alone with ** shooting on the board. George Karl had no choice but to rely on last season's Defensive Player of the Year contender Marcus Camby to defend Tim Duncan. Camby's defense did a really good job, grabbing a game-high 17 rebounds and 5 blocks in the whole game, but Camby only took shots defensively. Look at Camby's score, 3 points!

In the end, the Denver Nuggets can only drink away from home, and the road to revival seems to be far away, and they can only go on slowly.

In a few games that started a little later than the Spurs vs. Nuggets, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the New Orleans Hornets led by Queen Bee Barron Davis 118-89 at their home stadium, Staples Arena. The first performance of the four kings plus the Hawks was a great success, and the starting five scored all double-doubles, and the most points were not the Lakers leader Shaq O'Neal predicted before the game, nor the outside core Peter Pan, but Joe Johnson, who defected to Phoenix for a big contract.

Joe played quite well in this game, and he blew up all of the Hornets' three-point shooting alone, shooting 9-of-11 from three-point range to provide the team with 32 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists.

In the other game, the Detroit Pistons, who have added fresh blood this season, did not have the same good luck as the Lakers. They lost 88-123 to the young Chicago Bulls on the road, and it seems that after losing the team's brain, Billups, the Pistons' new five tigers are completely devoid of their historical toughness. The game was like losing their souls, playing with a chaotic and completely disorganized game, and most of the time they had to rely on Rasheed Wallace's three-pointers and Hamilton's individual ability to break through and play with the Bulls.

Although Van Exel showed good offensive ability in the game, it was clear that he was not good at combing the team's offense, especially after making a side-by-side comparison with Billups, who performed well in the Knicks.

It seems that Detroit fans want to see their team win the championship, and this is unlikely to be the case!

In one more game, the Toronto Raptors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers at home. The forward combination of Anthony and Vince Carter is incomparable, giving Toronto fans hope for a revival at once.

Anthony was in charge of the charge, Vince Carter was in control, and the two complemented each other perfectly. Anthony scored 37 points in a frenzy, and Anthony, one of the four brightest players of the 2003 generation, broke out first after being coached by Vince Carter.

And Vince Carter, who began to learn to change, performed even more dazzlingly, with a big triple-double of 27 points, 11 rebounds and 14 assists. After a lengthy recovery period, UFOs returned from injury to deliver a spectacular game for the home fans.

On the Cleveland Cavaliers' side, although the combination of LeBron James, Stark House, Carlos Boozer, Ilgoskas, and Snow is also sharp, several cores of the team have their own ghosts.

James, who is a genius and has the support of fans, coaches and management, sees it as a matter of course for him to become the king of Cleveland. But Stackhouse was unwilling to give up power in his hands and become an assistant to James, a rookie. Carlos Boozer is hell-bent on getting the team to give up the team option in his contract at the end of the season, so that he can sign a big contract early.

In fact, the three most powerful people in Cleveland have their own thoughts, and their tactical execution ability will of course become very poor when it comes to games. In addition, Mike Brown is a nanny-type head coach, so the team is very chaotic both offensively and defensively, and when playing downwind, they can eat the opponent in one go, but once they are held hostage by the opponent, they are not far from failure.

After a summer of frantic trading, some teams' cash-burning offensive has begun to pay off. As for the Detroit Pistons, Daco Mirisic seems to be a joke. Without Billups, the Pistons are destined to have no solid foundation for the skyscraper, and it looks like a championship is out of the question.

"The way the Pistons are right now is completely self-inflicted. Van Exel's is not a good point guard in the first place, and they didn't take advantage of the picks in their hands, so Milicic is destined to be a parallel commodity. Maybe they think the team can limit us with the Wallace brothers, but they forget that if there is no good point guard in charge, the Wallace brothers are an ornament on the inside!"

Seeing that the old enemy Pistons were unlucky, Lamar certainly didn't mind falling into the ground. But reporters are more concerned about the Knicks' performance in the new season, and their regular season will start in a day's time.

"The team is in good shape at the moment, although we suffered losses from the previous trip to China and the preparation for the summer was a little less adequate. But that's okay, we're at our best all the time. We've been looking forward to the new season for a long time, and I owe the fans here a championship!" 2kReading.com