Pick-up gate at JFK Airport.

A large number of New York Knicks fans are holding banners, waiting for the city's new owner to appear, just yesterday, the official website of the New York Knicks officially announced, confirming the news of Yi Jianlian's joining, which made the Knicks fans last uneasy disappeared, completely relieved, and spontaneously organized this welcome ceremony, finally, after waiting for a long time, Yi Jianlian, who was wearing a peaked cap and casual clothes, walked out of the airport with the support of his agent Dan Fagan and a group of bodyguards.

"Welcome, Yi!"

"Yi Di, welcome to the Big Apple!"

"Please lead the Big Apple City back to its former glory!"

The waiting Knicks team instantly became agitated, all kinds of shouts came and went, Yi Jianlian originally didn't understand Dan Fagan's behavior of asking bodyguards, but after seeing such a large group of fans in front of him who came to pick up the airport, he was glad that Dan Fagan thought of this aspect of the matter for him, if it wasn't for the group of bodyguards around him, I was afraid that he would not be able to leave the airport at night today.

"This is Yi's influence!"

In order to show his attention to Yi Jianlian, Donnie Walsh personally came to the airport to pick up the plane today, and he couldn't help but sigh in the face of such enthusiastic New York fans.

It's been a long time since New York City has seen such an influential basketball player!

Thankfully, now they finally have it!

"Guys, we've got you at Madison Square Garden!"

Yi Jianlian successfully met with Downey, and before getting into the car, he waved his hand to the New York fans who spontaneously came to pick up the plane, which naturally caused a burst of exclamations.

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Donnie Walsh didn't take Yi Jianlian directly to the arena, but first sent him to a hotel not far from the arena, which was a hotel he had booked a long time ago, and it had been booked for two months, because he heard Dan Fagan mention that Yi didn't have a place to live in New York, and it would definitely take a while to find a house, so he booked an extra month.

Yi Jianlian was quite satisfied with the arrangement of Donnie Walsh's first meeting, at least showing his sincerity.

Donny Walsh has done a really good job in the past two years, not only has the poison contracts signed by Thomas almost been solved, but also got Amarestad Meyer from the Suns this summer to help the Knicks return to the top eight in the East after 5 years, if it weren't for the fact that in order to forcibly make up the Big Three, most of the teams were used to replace Carmelo Anthony, the Knicks would not have fallen into the abyss swamp again, look at the chips given for Anthony later! Wilson Chandler, Felton, Gallinari and Mozkov, plus two first-round picks and a second-round pick, plus $3 million in cash.

The draft picks in this deal are secondary, and the four players sent out are the key, these four players are all powerful players in the year, but only one Carmelo Anthony and Chauncy Billups were replaced, and the Nuggets also sent three role players, but these three players were sent to other teams, which is equivalent to saying that the Knicks sent so many things to get an Anthony plus a Billups, from the situation of these two later, the Knicks lost to his grandmother's house, Anthony in New York in the past few years, All they did on the court was to score points and fight for the ball, and as for Billups, he suffered an injury that led to a decline in form, while the Knicks lost both the future and the present.

Especially after Xiao Si was also reimbursed due to injury, the Knicks sank again.

It's fair to say that if it weren't for Donnie Walsh trading for Anthony, the Knicks would have been on the right path, far less bad than they were later.

Now, the arrival of Yi Jianlian has saved Donnie Walsh, because, later, the chips that Downey used to trade Anthony were no longer available, Wilson Chandler and Gallinari had been sent to the Bucks, and the remaining players could not make up four powerful young players in their playing years, and more importantly, New York already had Yi Jianlian, and he would definitely not pursue Anthony who was also a small forward!

The arrival of Yi Jianlian has eliminated a big hidden danger for the future of the Knicks.

Yi Jianlian rested in the hotel for a day, and attended the New York Knicks press conference in the evening, at the scene of the press conference, he officially put on his Knicks jersey, or No. 9.

This number originally belonged to Jarris Jeffries, but this kid is still very shrewd, and at the same time as the New York Knicks made the official announcement, he immediately stated on Twitter that he would give up the No. 9 jersey and wear a different number.

Yi Jianlian originally wanted to change his number and start over, but Jeffries was so enthusiastic that he was embarrassed to refuse, liked his tweet, and agreed.

It is worth mentioning that Jeffries's tweet has more than one million likes, which is a result that he has not achieved in so many tweets, and the closest number of likes is 100,000, which is not even a fraction of the number of likes on this tweet.

"Yi, how does it feel to be in New York? Do you think it's different from Milwaukee? Maybe you will say prosperous, I want to hear something else! However, not every New Yorker welcomes Yi Jianlian's arrival, for example, the reporter who is asking questions in the audience, looking at the arrogant appearance, you can know that he is a local reporter in New York, and only the reporters here will use this tone to ask questions, in order to show their compulsion.

"Is it a different place?" Yi Jianlian looked at him like this, and frowned slightly, if it was a reporter from Milwaukee, he would definitely know that Yi Jianlian was a little unhappy like this, and then he would fight back with unimaginable meanness, but the New York reporter in front of him didn't realize this, and thought that it was his sharp question that scared Yi Jianlian.

Sure enough! The guys from the small city are like this, trying their best to justify themselves, so that neither side is offended, hum! What a pity! I have questions for you!

"I guess the only difference is that the city hasn't won a championship in 38 years! And the Bucks just won their second championship in franchise history last year, and when I think about it, it seems that they have tied the Knicks! ”

"Anyway, the Knicks have been terrible in the last five years, and as a reporter, you should be most concerned about how I can help this team next, not what is the difference between Milwaukee and New York, I'm a basketball player, and if you haven't figured it out by now, then you shouldn't get up and ask!"

“……”

The reporter who asked the question sat down in confusion, he wanted to give Yi Jianlian a dismount, but he was knocked down by Yi Jianlian and his people.