Chapter 564: Excitement
Streamers floated down over Madison Square.
The cheers of the audience also reached ** at this time.
For New York fans, this day has been waiting for too long, and now more than half of New York fans have not experienced the first and second championships of the New York Knicks.
What they have experienced is more tragic and quagmire.
Ewing did give the team hope, but he didn't end up bringing glory to the Knicks.
After Ewing's departure, the New York team fell into the abyss, from the beginning of 2000 to before 2010, the team was simply rotten to the roots, and none of the players signed could still maintain their form after coming to the Big Apple!
The Big Apple has since become the muddy ground of the NBA league, and Madison Square, the so-called "basketball mecca", is more ironic than glorious in the eyes of New York fans......
As a result, they become more and more mean, especially to their own players, and if they are a little unsatisfactory, they will send all kinds of ridicule, and only then will they feel better.
Even though they have become well-known mean fans throughout the league because of this, how many people know that they hate iron and steel!
……
“mvp!”
“mvp!”
“mvp!”
Fortunately, it's all over now!
The New York team has risen completely this season and directly broke the curse of New York City's 37-year championship-free streak!
The happiness came so suddenly, and it also made the New York fans so excited that they could only express their excitement and gratitude to Yi Jianlian with their cheers at this moment!
They are not blind enough to know why the New York team has been successful this season!
If there were no Yi Jianlian, then they would be nothing.
Yi Jianlian is the man who saved the New York Knicks!
The MVP's cheers resounded throughout Madison Square, and this was the way they could think of their greatest gratitude to Yi Jianlian!
At this moment, Yi Jianlian was already surrounded by the players and staff of the New York team, and they excitedly pushed Yi Jianlian to express their excitement.
Xiao Si cried!
Having entered the league in '02, he has been playing for 9 years!
In terms of years, it's not too long, but in terms of his style of play, it is destined that he can't play for 9 years, and even playing for another four years is a bit reluctant, in the past two years, Xiao Si has felt more and more that after every game, the reaction of his knee is greater! This shows that multiple injuries did damage his knee and caused irreparable trauma, and it goes without saying what it means to an interior player.
Especially for a player like Xiao Si who relies on explosive power, once there is a knee problem, half of that skill will be wasted at once.
But Xiao Si still has something to prove, he hopes to prove that he is one of the league's first-class interior lines, not just an interior line that needs Nash's help to fly, but an interior line that can also support a piece of strength by his own efforts.
As for how to prove it, it is natural to grasp both data and honor.
He didn't do well in the regular season, averaging 25.4 points and 10.4 rebounds per game.
He's kind of proven that he can still play star stats without Nash.
The next thing he had to prove turned into honor.
He could have reached the Eastern Conference Finals, and he was already satisfied, after all, this was his first season away from the Suns and he could return to the stage of the division finals, which at least proved that he was still capable enough to play in the Eastern Conference Finals.
But what he didn't expect was that he finally reached the finals!
In his first season away from the Suns, he reached heights that he hadn't worked so hard to achieve for so long, and that couldn't have thrilled him.
And most importantly, they beat the Bulls, who had the best regular season record in the Eastern Conference Finals, and Derrick Rose, who just won the regular season MVP award.
To be honest, he didn't play very well in the Eastern Conference Finals, averaging only 18.4 points and 9 rebounds per game, and his overall statistics have declined from the regular season, especially in terms of scoring, which has dropped by two notches, from a super scorer who averages more than 25 points per game to a quasi-first-line interior scorer who averages less than 20 points per game.
It stands to reason that with his data, the New York team should lose in the Eastern Conference Finals, and he will be criticized after the game for dragging Yi Jianlian back, and his status will further decline.
But Yi Jianlian dragged the New York team into the finals with his own strength, which also gave him a chance to redeem.
Although his performance in the Finals is still not as good as the statistics in the regular season, he also averaged 19.5 points and 10 rebounds per game and averaged a double-double.
It's really nice to have such data in the finals!
And most importantly......
Champion!
They also eliminated the Mavericks in the end and won this year's championship!
I'm going to have a championship ring too!
This is the reason why Xiao Si is most excited, and this championship ring will also give him a lot of historical status.
What's more, who would dare to say that he is the culprit of the Suns' failure to go further after winning the championship in his first year after leaving the Suns?
Xiao Si knew that this time he really turned over!
Another person who was excited was D'Antoni.
Like Xiao Si, he also has a lot of negative evaluations.
The biggest negative comment is that this guy's basketball philosophy can't win the championship!
As a head coach, such an assessment is undoubtedly the biggest insult!
But now, he's also a championship coach, and it's finally time for his basketball philosophy to be recognized.
As a head coach, until this moment he felt that the humiliation he had received before was not humiliation.
Because the championship proved that there was nothing wrong with his philosophy!
As for whether it was because of Yi Jianlian in the lineup, he won the championship.
This is completely unimportant.
Would anyone deny Phil Jackson's greatness because he coached Jordan?
In the same way, no one will deny it all because of Yi Jianlian!
He can be considered to have survived......
Yi Jianlian was surrounded by the players, and he was also very excited.
There's nothing you can't get excited about winning the championship!
What's more, this championship is too difficult for him to win!
There used to be Mo Williams and others to help him, to help him hold him up when he was in a slump, waiting for his recovery.
And now he doesn't have the help of these people, he can only rely on himself, and the only one who can output stably is Xiao Si, but his style of play is destined to be difficult to play better in the playoffs, so he has to rely on himself.
And his performance throughout the playoffs, as far as he is concerned, he is satisfied!
He can't say dissatisfied, that's too fake!
After all, every time he was needed to step up, he did it!
Such a performance, and won the championship, if he is not satisfied, then he is too demanding of himself!
It's really unnecessary......