Coach K breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that Lamar went to the hospital yesterday to see Dampot, and the question was naturally about Dampoter's psychological condition. Hearing Lamar say this, he was finally relieved.

Now what Coach K has to do is to bring the Knicks to the Eastern Conference Finals, and then use the strongest team to attack the first NBA championship of his coaching career, so as to create his own NBA era like in the NCAA.

The month before the All-Star Game of the NBA regular season is one of the most intense periods of the year. During this time, it is also a chance for each team to make a final sprint, and those teams who are striving for a playoff spot and a championship glory will be able to pull out all their skills to fight for a strong spot in the leaderboard during this month.

This season, with the decline of old powerhouses such as the Detroit Pistons and the New Jersey Nets, the rise of new teams such as the Toronto Raptors, Miami Heat, and Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as the emergence of spoilers such as the Golden State Warriors and the Dallas Mavericks, the league has become more exciting.

In this most critical sprint stage, all the teams that still have some ideas about the championship have also sacrificed their strongest magic weapons and fought hard for the honor of the team.

In the Eastern Conference, the New York Knicks are currently the most relaxed. The shocking record and super overall strength have made them quite stable at the top of the Eastern Conference standings. If nothing else, they will be the first team to confirm a playoff spot this season.

After losing to the Denver Nuggets, the Knicks have once again made a comeback and have won seven straight games so far. However, fitness problems and injury problems also came to them at this time.

Finally, when Billups was cured of the flu and returned to the team, the two veterans of Mourning and Ewing fell one after another. The reason for their injuries is very simple, after all, they are either seriously injured or in their forties, and it is inevitable to cope with such a long season, especially with such a busy schedule, because of physical exhaustion.

But fortunately, the injuries of the two old guys are not very serious.

Mourning sprained his ankle while training and collapsed with a thigh muscle strain, requiring two weeks of rest.

Ewing is more hilarious because he didn't twist his waist when he was coaching Milicic in basket technique.

This has also become a joke in the Knicks, and it has been made fun of by Lamar and others.

At the same time as two people were injured, Lamar was also suspended.

This time it's not because of something big, technical fouls accumulate suspension. This kind of thing often happened to Rashid Wallace of the Roaring Celestial Venerable, and this time Lamar was hit.

However, the consequences are not serious, with a one-game ban, but the next opponent the Knicks will face will be a little more troublesome. It was Lamar's old club, the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Los Angeles Lakers did not perform as well as expected this season after trading O'Neal to form the Los Angeles Three. However, after controlling all the ball possession of the Lakers, Kobe's performance was remarkable.

Away from the Philadelphia 76ers, with the absence of Lamar on the team, coupled with injuries to Mourning and Ewing, the Knicks' lineup has become even more urgent.

For the first time, Wade wanted to show himself on the court, but unfortunately, although he is now enough to support an ordinary team, he is not enough to support the defending champions.

Kobe Bryant wanted to beat the defending champions and prove to Los Angeles fans that he could lead the Lakers forward even without O'Neal, so the Black Mamba played extra hard in this game.

When Wade faced this old bird, although he took out all the techniques he was good at, after being covered twice, there was still a problem with his mentality.

Although because Lamar was suspended, Bryant felt a little victorious. But in order to prove himself, he still played very hard in this game, suppressing the entire outside line of the Knicks.

Without Lamar and the loss of veteran Alonzo Mourning's stable military heart, Anderson and Milicic alone obviously can't support the Knicks' interior line.

Although the Los Angeles Lakers' interior line is not strong, Kris Mim and Luis Scola still beat the Knicks' weak interior line into a sieve.

In the case of all the internal and external lines being **, failure seems to be a natural thing.

After leaving Los Angeles with a loss, the Knicks are heading to Milwaukee to challenge their first bitter opponent of the season.

At the start of the new season, the Knicks' number of defeats has now accumulated to three. Taking advantage of the loss in this game, many people also saw the Knicks' current weakness, so they were ready to fall into the ground, wanting the Knicks to swallow another bitter fruit of defeat in the ice and snow of Milwaukee.

Revenge!

Facing the Milwaukee Bucks again, the Knicks were like seeing the bloodthirsty bandits of their enemies, and even their eyes turned red. So the Knicks bandits fought hard at the beginning of the game.

After a rush of punches, the Knicks' crazy performance of a player made the Milwaukees completely sober up, and also understood that their previous idea of beating the Knicks home and away in one season was destined to be an unrealistic pipe dream.

"The same thing never happens twice!" was the only thing Lamar said in his press conference after the match.

Coming back from Milwaukee, the Knicks once again had a day off. Then they will have a second chance to get revenge at home, and this time Kobe Bryant will once again lead the Purple and Gold from Los Angeles to New York and Lamar in a desperate race.

Scola, who returned to this court, was very positive in this game, and the Los Angeles Lakers also took the lead in the opening stage with his and the Lakers' three less performances, and maintained the lead until the end of the first half.

At the beginning of the second half, in order to save the defeat, Coach K replaced Billups with a stronger attack Cassel, but he didn't expect this substitution to work wonders.

The aliens have been acting decently in the Knicks before, and there is nothing unusually impressive. Maybe the old guy's previous behavior of accumulating energy was for the explosion of this moment. In this game, the alien seems to be ten years younger, or back to the top, and suddenly explodes.

As soon as he got on the court, Cassel stole a pass from Caron Butler at the three-point line. Then on the offensive end, he received Lamar's pass and threw the ball in 2 meters from the three-point line.

For a period of time after that, a Knicks player also began to consciously make the ball for Cassel, who felt hot.

Kassel didn't live up to the high expectations of his teammates, and the game began to turn into his show, with outside shots, pull-up throws, and butterfly walk-through layups. For a time, Kassel seemed to be possessed by God and became omnipotent.

Finally, before the end of the third quarter, with Kassel's performance, the Knicks took the lead for the first time in the game.

After successfully taking the lead, the Knicks can't easily give up their chances.

In the following time, Lamar managed to take over the game, and after a flurry of bombardment, the Knicks successfully realized their revenge plan on their own doorstep.

While the Knicks were sprinting for the playoffs, several other powerhouses in the East began to do their best for the same purpose.

The Cleveland Cavaliers, who are currently in second place in the East, have also been in good form recently. After losing to the Knicks, they once again ushered in a wave of winning streaks.

The Knicks have now become the charger of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and every time they are beaten up by the Knicks, they immediately start to accelerate like a lost electric car is recharged, and each time they can usher in a wave of consecutive wins.

In the last two games, the Cleveland Cavaliers have achieved a double against the Boston Celtics at home and away, completely solidifying their second place in the East.

As for the Celtics, they're in an awkward position.

While the Bostonians are still eighth in the East, their recent record has not been great, with the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks following them never stopping to catch up. I believe that if the Bostonians don't find a way to change the team's current decline, it is estimated that the playoffs will be hanging this year.

The fight is in full swing on the eastern side, and the situation is almost the same on the western side.

Since the beginning of this season, although the Los Angeles Lakers have experienced great turmoil, the five lucky stars that shook the league last season have fallen apart. The Lakers not only traded Shak O'Neal, but also lost major stars such as Malone and Payton.

Although they lost these experienced veterans, the Lakers also retained Kobe Bryant and stabilized the morale of the army. And as the cooperation between the Lakers and the three young people became more and more tacit, the Los Angeles Lakers only lost 9 games under Kobe's leadership, ranking second in the West.

The performance of the Los Angeles Lakers not only did not show the cliff-like decline predicted by experts, but even made these self-righteous experts drop their glasses.

Ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers, the top spot in the West is the Minnesota Timberwolves led by Jackson. Under Jackson's tutelage, the Timberwolves have now completely abandoned their previous decline and become a super strong team that can attack and defend.

This season, the Timberwolves' record is obviously a very obvious improvement from the previous season, and the best performance among them is Wolves king Kevin Garnett. His performance this season has been nothing short of perfect, and he is currently ranked second in the regular season MVP rankings behind Lamar.

There is reason to believe that this season, the Timberwolves are likely to achieve a historic breakthrough under the leadership of home Garnett. The grand final? or even the championship is very likely!

Of course, the premise is that they can pass the layers of hurdles set by Western powerhouses such as the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio.