My name is Paul Pearce, and I'm a kid from Los Angeles, and I remember when I was at Inglewood High School in Los Angeles, it was 1991, the time of the coronation of the new gods, and it was also the period when the Purple and Gold were at their last glory, and it was during this period that I decided to play for the Lakers.

What a wonderful story it is for a kid from Los Angeles to play for his beloved team all his life.

However, stories for children are always fairy tales, and I never imagined that after I announced my participation in the draft, what I was waiting for turned out to be a nightmare. It's a big joke that I, Paul Pearce, a kid born in Oakland, a kid who grew up in Los Angeles, a kid from Kansas, was going to play for the team I wanted to play for, the Boston Celtics on the East Coast!

But I don't have the ability to choose, not at all. I can only choose to obey.

Soon, something even more uncomfortable happened, I actually, I actually, I actually enjoyed playing here, as if I had been born here, and I started to give my best for every game, to be annoyed by every goal I conceded, to be excited about every one of my strikes. I started to become, I liked the floor, the beef cheeseburger at that burger joint across the street, the green jersey, the fans in the land.

So, I changed my name, I wasn't a boy from Los Angeles anymore, I was Paul Pierce from the Green Shirts.

Now, I'm playing in the playoffs with my team, and unfortunately, we're down 3-0 now, and there's a devil on the other side, who was an unqualified substitute who couldn't play when he first entered the league, but now, as much as I don't want to admit it, I have to say that the yellow giant across the street is the best center in the league. And he also has quite good teammates, coaches and all other things linked to the identity of the championship, his victory, it should be, right?

But I don't know why, I always have a feeling of unwillingness, and this feeling is very strong just now.

Just this morning, on my way to the stadium for training, I was stopped by a little girl who was only four or five years old because she was wearing my jersey.

Looking at me, her eyes suddenly turned red, I was startled, I didn't know what was going on, just when I was at a loss, she said with a slight choked voice: "If, I mean if, if we lose today, you must not cry, be as strong as me." New York is strong, but we are also strong, we will win in the end, we can't do it this time, we have the next time, we... ”

The little girl couldn't finish what she wanted to say, she burst into tears, and ran away as fast as she could, as if afraid to pass on her bad feelings to Pierce, and ran straight to a lady on the side of the street who also wore a green jersey that seemed to be her mother, and threw herself into her arms.

The young mother gestured to Pierce apologetically, then picked up the little girl and coaxed her softly, as if she wanted to reward her bravery with an ice cream.

Pierce walked into the arena with a blank face, started training with a blank face, and stood in the players' tunnel with a blank face waiting to play.

At this moment, his mind was completely occupied by the little face that was pink but had a lot of redness and swelling, and the face that obviously wanted to cry, but still kept smiling, always lingered.

Pierce felt that he might not wear a jersey of any other color in his life.

"Now, let's call out our captain, from the University of Kansas, number thirty-four, the best Paul Pierce ————————"

Hearing the introduction of the DJ in the stadium, Pierce walked into the venue, he walked not very fast, not very slow, but very solemn, he felt that he was playing here today, not just basketball, but a very sacred thing.

He walked to the center of the field and received cheers from the fans.

He is Paul Pearce, the only king of the land, and the captain of this historic giant.

Pierce is different today, although not many people notice it now, but of course some people have noticed, for example, the big man on the other side of the thirty.

The warm-up was over quickly, the game was about to begin, Pierce came to his own half, waiting for the kick-off, the first offensive power Celtic was very confident that they would never get it, so it was better to simply prepare for defense.

Sure enough, Mo Xi managed to jump to win the ball, and the Knicks launched their first offense.

George Karl didn't change the starting lineup for this game, and a lot of things are better gradually.

Jason Williams and Mo Xi do the blocking, the tactical changes of these two people are not comparable to the No. 1 position like Arenas, the two did not appear to attack immediately after the split, but moved to the flanks respectively, completely vacating the middle.

Pierce is the No. 4 position in this game, this is the last gambling change of the Celtics, he has been following Ratliffe's side, although the height difference is huge, but Latliffe's offensive means are not rich, Houston and Sprewell started at the same time at the moment, both came to the bottom corner, moved towards Ratliff's side, and moved to the wing with the help of the cover under the basket, that is, at this time, Mo Xi suddenly turned around, went straight to the middle, and ran all the way to the basket.

Now is the time!

Pierce seemed to grasp the key point, and he abruptly abandoned Ratliff and rushed out.

Pierce's speed wasn't his strong suit, but it was so sudden that it was completely unexpected, and he actually saw Jason Williams' passing route and took the lead to snatch the ball away from Houston's hands.

The Celtics' fast-break counterattack, or rather, Paul Pearce's counterattack.

Speed is indeed Pierce's disadvantage, obviously a striker, but at this moment he was caught up by Mo Xi in the process of fast attack.

A cold glint flashed in Pierce's eyes, in this position, according to Mo Xi's ability, he would probably choose to fly and chase the hat. Pierce held the ball in his arms and started to make a layup.

Mo Xi, who followed closely, also began to adjust his pace, preparing to find the right rhythm and beat Pierce's fast attack from behind.

1，2

Mo Xi was suddenly startled, it was too late to adjust his body, Pierce's figure had a strange change in his eyes, obviously it was started before him, it was obviously a half-body person in front of him, and now it actually appeared near his shoulder, and looking for this situation, he must have been fouled by the other party.

Mo Xi snorted coldly, pressed down with his big hand, and hammered it on Pierce's arm with a huge and unparalleled force.

Pierce felt a flash in front of him, as if his arm had been severed by a giant axe, and just as he felt that he was about to lose his grip on the ball, the face of the little girl with tears in his eyes appeared in front of Pierce's eyes again.

Pierce gritted his teeth and forced the ball to lift the ball with one hand with his other hand, and the hand that was unable to exert his strength because of the pain relied on the soft hand he usually trained to maintain the shape of his hand and hold the ball towards the basket.

Although Mo Xi had been prepared, he didn't expect Pierce to be so tenacious. Hurriedly used his other hand to try to get rid of the ball, but it was too late, and the basketball stumbled into the basket.

"Toot ~"

The referee's whistle blows, and Pierce scores a valid goal, plus a penalty kick.

Pierce took a deep breath and steadyly scored the ball.

got a foul at the beginning, even if there is still Ratleaf under the basket, but obviously for the Knicks' defensive formation, Moxi's foul is still a bit fatal, at least in eight minutes, Moxi needs to avoid another foul, if the Celtics attack Moxi at this time, then the Knicks have to let these people on the court take turns to block bullets for Moxi.

The Knicks started to attack again, and just after Pierce saw through Jason Williams' passing lane, which made the passer even more angry, and with the help of Mo Xi's cover, Williams attacked the basket.

In an instant, the white chocolate was sandwiched between the four Celtic people, which was a very dangerous choice, not why, just because this person was white chocolate.

Jason Williams didn't panic when he found out he was in the middle of a siege, on the contrary, he liked the situation because it meant that his teammates were in the open space.

White Chocolate raised her hand and smashed the ball into the rebound as if throwing a tomahawk missile.

With the rebound's rebounding force, the basketball flew backwards over the heads of a group of people.

Mo Xi leaned forward, caught the ball, and hit the half-volley directly.

The Knicks relied on the stunning rebounding pass of white chocolate to perfectly respond to Pierce's steal and fast break 2+1, just these two goals are enough to attract the attention of many neutral fans.

And what surprised them the most was that the game was far more exciting than they imagined.

In the first quarter of the game, Murphy and Pierce had already played a real fire, Pierce played the entire first quarter, and scored 13 points in and out, but Murphy still failed to protect himself, and received a second personal foul in the sixth minute, and had to take a four-minute break, and only scored 6 points in the first quarter.

And in the second quarter, Mo Xi began to show his might, blocking two consecutive offenses from Pierce, and giving Pierce another 13:6.

At halftime, both were both 19 points, but the Knicks scored a lot more than the Celtics, leading by six points at 48:42.

At halftime, George Karl expressed his support for Mo Xi very directly, and in the next game, no matter whether the ball can reach Mo Xi or not, the Knicks team still have to express their full support for Mo Xi.

If the regular season is the place where all players prove themselves, then the playoffs are the battlefield of absolute superstars, absolute supergiants, Paul Pierce doesn't know what went crazy today, and it can be said that he played the best game of his entire career so far.

Contrary to the Knicks locker room, the home locker room on the Celtics' side is still quiet, but looking at many people suffocating to death, it is obviously different from the previous games, this time, the Celtics' silence is only because the man is too quiet, quiet enough to make them all feel scared.

Pierce chose to sit on the floor, with his back against his cabinet door, looking up at the ceiling of the locker room, and that look alone made no one think it was the look of a man who had just scored 19 points in half a game against the defending champions in the playoffs.

Paul Pearce's gaze now is like that of a pure fawn.

It's still not enough, Pierce knows that according to the current development, they still can't win against the Knicks, although it is very promising, but it is far from enough, in his mind, if he wants to win, he should do better, better.

The second half started and the game continued.

The Knicks made a bold change, George Karl simply replaced Houston with Reggie Evans, put Sprewell back at the No. 2 position, and used Evans to defend the No. 3 position on the Celtics' side, while stepping up the impact on the frontcourt rebounding.

The Knicks' adjustment allowed them to win more shots, the Knicks are now a lot taller than the Celtics on average, and the Celtics' rebounding was completely dominated by the Knicks, but even so, Pierce still did not lose his fighting spirit, but played more ferociously, he hit the basket again and again, and even knocked over Ratliff very directly, and even very simply hit Mo Xi twice in a row.

“it's crazy！ it's crazy！ it's crazy！ ”

The commentary door and the fans were already in a very crazy state, in their opinion, Pierce was crazy, he was like a crazy swordsman, a swordsman, an assassin, even if he shed blood, he would chop the king's throne to pieces.

After the third quarter of the game, Mo Xi has only rested for four minutes now, and Pierce is even more ferocious, only taking a short break for a minute, that is, taking a breath off the court, seeing that the score on the court was pulled away by the Knicks again, and immediately returned to the court.

The two of them really started a match, better than the last duel between Arenas and Pierce, because this time, everyone knew what the two of them were going to do, but they couldn't do anything to stop their goals, and what was even more excessive was that these two guys with such a huge difference in size had been directly opposed more than once in this game, and the two people's pure offense and defense had directly clashed no less than ten times.

Pierce has 30 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal so far, and Mo Xi is not far behind, with the same 30 points, but he still has 12 rebounds and 3 blocks.

The decisive battle in the fourth quarter is also about to be staged, and judging from the current situation, the fourth quarter will obviously be a duel between these two people.

The center does not die