The whole team finally flew to New York City at about three o'clock in the morning, and I finally fell asleep when I was close to five o'clock in the morning, and I was actually quite curious about this super city when I first came to New York, especially why the Lakers were able to win so many championships and eventually become a super giant, while the New York Knicks always returned empty-handed, and there was no change in the slightest except for some weird news every year.

Even if it has become a cemetery of famous superstars, the superstars who come here and want to prove themselves often end up being overshadowed by the city's bustle and become part of its drunken fans, and I sometimes wonder if Harden is traded to the city, and I don't know if even Kardashian can't prevent him from going on for a few seasons.

I'm now starting to understand why teams on the road often struggle to stay in good shape, and why the NBA must be divided into two regions, East and West, with teams in each region playing four games per season against teams from the same division and only two games against teams from different divisions.

Even in the 21st century, taking a plane for a long time is not conducive to the recovery of players, often each away boarding time will be different, which causes many players' sleep schedules will be greatly affected, as far as my personal experience is concerned, when you try to fall asleep on the plane, you can only enter a relatively shallow sleep state, and NBA players' daily physical consumption is too huge, it is obvious that this level of sleep is difficult to fully help players to recover their strength.

In addition, the interval between NBA games is very short, many times there will be a maximum of one or two days of rest, and there will even be many back-to-back away games, so those players who play away will inevitably have a certain gap with the home team in terms of physical recovery, and high-intensity NBA games are naturally very testing of physical condition, and long-term fatigue accumulation without sufficient recovery will directly affect the competitive state, and even more likely to be injured.

When I was at home, I was generally able to sleep for 8 to 9 hours, and on the first away trip I only slept for 7 hours before waking up, not because my body was not tired enough, in fact, because the training in the recent period of time is quite strong, even with Kobe's physical recovery ability, I still accumulate some fatigue, and the reason why I wake up is more because of the lack of adaptation to living in the hotel.

But now that I've woken up, I don't want to lie in bed anymore, there are no smartphones and a lot of video game software to play in bed in this era, the only thing in the room that can be considered modern is a 21-inch TV, I didn't turn it on, I don't know if it's black and white or color, I decided to go out for a walk.

It was about one o'clock in the afternoon, and I came to a steakhouse that looked good, and when I walked in, I found that the business didn't seem to be as good as I thought, and there were only a few couples sitting in the empty restaurant, most of whom seemed to be couples.

I sat down near the window, and a beautiful blonde woman came and asked me what I was eating, I don't know why I felt so hungry today, maybe because this body was still in the stage of growing body, and I did need to add a little more weight to improve my body's ability to resist.

I ordered a medium-priced steak and a portion of orange juice, and for the next half hour I watched the crowd come and go outside the window, feeling a little lost.

In my previous life, I dreamed of being a professional basketball player like an NBA player, and being able to make a lot of money from it, and then I could live the life I wanted.

Now that my dream is halfway there, to be a professional player in the NBA, and I have the opportunity to be the best in the league, all I have left is to make money to live the life I want to live.

But if I think about it, I probably don't know what kind of life I want to live, even if I can get millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars in money soon, but what dreams do I need to make this money come true?

This is actually quite a big question, although money is not everything, but in this real world money is still quite powerful, but whether those things that can be bought through money can really make me feel satisfied, this is really a question worth exploring.

Buying a sports car, finding a female celebrity as a wife, or buying a big house like a manor, or investing in real estate and the stock market yourself, or starting a game company, well, I'll admit it's too early to think about these things.

I'm trying to pull my mind away from my thoughts and back to reality, the first thing I need to do now is to play basketball and help the Lakers win a championship, isn't it?

The game against the New York Knicks officially kicked off at 7:30 p.m., and through the introduction of the big screen and the commentator, I found a few familiar guys, Gorilla Patrick. Ewing is naturally their star and one of the four centers in the 90s who are on par with Shaq, followed by the mid-pitcher Alan Brown. Houston, Big Mom Larry. Johnson, fighting expert Charles. Oakley and John Starks.

I have to say that New York's lineup is still quite strong, if nothing else, this season can enter the playoffs, of course, because of the good form in the last game, I can Shaq before the game is quite relaxed.

Shaq was still in the locker room performing the parts he hadn't had time to perform at the nightclub party last time, his huge body writhing in a way that seemed quite rhythmic, causing everyone including the manager to laugh so much that the manager finally forgot to set us up for tactics.

And Shaq just told everyone to just hand him the ball, he will make the gorilla cry in front of tens of thousands of fans in New York tonight, and he didn't forget to imitate a crying nose after saying that, which is really unbearable.

However, when the game officially started, the New York Knicks gave us a slap in the face, and it was obvious that Ewing and his group of younger brothers did not intend to let the big sharks dominate their own turf so easily, so they took the lead, not only to carry out a very targeted shrinkage defense against Shaq, but also to take advantage of Ewing's range advantage on the offensive end, and frequently punish Shaq in the middle and long distance.

Contrary to our 15-5 start in the previous game, this time the team with the same 15-5 score was only 5 points, and Shaq was clearly enraged by the opposite side, he yelled and rushed towards Ewing, and everyone stepped forward to pull him when they saw that the situation was wrong.

For this reason, Shaq paid another technical foul, and he had already committed two fouls in the opening six minutes, and we were already 10-25 down by a full 15 points when the whole team was dumb, and it has to be said that it is a very humiliating thing for the opponent to score 25 points in less than six minutes.

I also came on the court with anger, because when I was off the court, I could clearly see the tricks used by the guys on the other side, and those very hidden foul actions can often escape the referee's sanctions, and when you are dissatisfied with this and complain to the referee, it will be further targeted by the referee, so I really can't complain about the referee, no matter how small the opponent plays, I have to respond to them with strength.

I did find a little bit of the feeling of the last game in the first two shots, a dry three-pointer and a pull-up half-volley after a breakaway to hit the basket safely.

However, then they sent Charles. Oakley came to focus on my defense, and I was supposed to be playing against the mid-range king Allah. Houston, now Charles. Oakley, a strong black man, has already set his eyes on me, and I can see a murderous aura in his eyes, normal people will show a look of fear when they see this kind of look, but I am not an ordinary person, I am Kobe Bryant now. Bryant is a rookie who is not afraid to enter the league, and I will step on their heads to climb to the top of this league!

So when I faced him in the first defensive round, I didn't flinch in the slightest and was ready to fight him with the ball, but in fact I was too inexperienced, and it was clear that Oakley, who had been in the league for many years, taught me a lesson, he took advantage of his somewhat easy personality and introduced me into the vortex of singles.

And he skillfully used physical confrontation and defensive small movements to make my offensive rhythm become scattered and disordered, and three consecutive attacks ended with my iron, at which time the coach couldn't stand it and called the second timeout on our side of the game.

I was so annoyed that I couldn't listen to what the coach said to me afterwards, and I even ignored the look that Shaq threw at me, and I only had one thought in my mind, which was to blow Oakley on the offensive end.

Maybe it's the power of anger that is still a bit useful at some point, and soon the overall offensive rhythm of our team will rise, and the opponent has not quickly entered the state because of the main force, and the guy who came on the bench has not quickly entered the state, and the most important point is that their lineup on the field at this time lacks a real core, so it will also fall into the quagmire of one dozen and one without cooperation.

And my one-on-one singles ability was far above these guys, so for the rest of the first quarter, I scored another 8 points in one go, and 13 points in the first quarter alone.

Just when I was still trying to play at the beginning of the second quarter, the coach pressed me to the bench, and I started shaking my head and even spewing trash talk at the manager.

The manager didn't say anything, just let me whine like a kid who couldn't get candy.

"Don't say it, I know when it's time to let you play, you should trust my judgment."

I was completely speechless about this, after all, this guy was the manager, and now I was just a rookie on the bench, and I sat heavily in my chair, and my mind gradually cleared up, and I started to focus on the game again.

In the second quarter, both sides came to a standstill, and even when I came back on, I was no longer in good shape in the first quarter, and the score was 18-13 in the entire second quarter, and we scored 18 points and the opponent scored 13 points, but because we were more behind in the first quarter, we were still 10 points behind at halftime, 43-53.

Although the 10-point difference does not seem like much, in the 90s, when the game was not fast-paced, the defensive action was large, the three-point shooting was low, and the overall shooting rate was very low, it was still difficult to recover the difference quickly.