D'Antoni cut the cap with a cigar tong, held a cigarette in his left hand, drew an extended match with his right hand, lit the match, stopped for a few seconds, and then at a distance of 3 centimeters from the cigar to massage and warm the cigarette feet.

There is etiquette in smoking cigars, and D'Antoni obviously knows this, and there are many cigar lovers in the world, but if you want to compare the posture when smoking cigars, I'm afraid no one can compare to the cardinals and Michael Jordan of the NBA.

Now, every season when a team wins a championship, players who can smoke or can't smoke celebrate with a cigar in their mouths.

D'Antoni took a puff of his cigar and took it in his mouth, letting the smoke swirl back and forth in his mouth, making full contact with the saliva, and then slowly exhaled, his eyes moving to Walsh's body, waiting for his tirade.

Walsh quickly began to tell: "Brad Pitt plays the same role as me, he is the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team in the movie, because the team is financially difficult, he has to give up three star players, he asks the big boss for money, the big boss says there is nothing he can do, so he has to run around, and soon, he meets an economics graduate guy, and they use their own formula to dig up some seriously undervalued players." ”

"WOW, maybe you should ask someone who studied economics to help you." D'Antoni listened and interjected.

Walsh continued: "The players were bought, but the coach didn't believe that these people could do anything, so they abandoned it, and the team was defeated. ”

D'Antoni suddenly scrambled to speak: "I think I know what the plot was later, in the end, the coach must have used those people again, and then the team won all the way, and even broke the winning streak!" Are you trying to use this story to tell me that I should trust you general managers and think that I am a waste as a coach? ”

Walsh said calmly: "Don't get excited, Mike, the story is exactly what you said at the end, but I don't mean to say that, you have had great success with the Phoenix Suns, and I can't be more skilled in employing people than you." When I talk about this movie, what I really want to tell you is why the coach in the movie uses those people, and that coach is even more stubborn than you. ”

"Why?" D'Antoni also asked.

Instead of answering directly, Walsh said, "Guess what." ”

D'Antoni instantly grasped the answer from Walsh's lofty eyes, and he quickly got up angrily: "You threaten me? If I didn't use Joe, would you trade both Fields and Wilson away? ”

Walsh was noncommittal, and finally picked up his general manager's style: "Don't make me wait too long, if Joe can continue to perform like this, let him start immediately, the ticket manager called me specifically to praise him, and besides, don't be too loud when you go out." ”

D'Antoni twisted the cigar in a Churchill porcelain ashtray and turned away.

……

The next day, at 10 a.m., after arriving at the Knicks training gym, George was doing shooting drills, and the team's trainer, Chris Brickley, came up to him and asked, "Joe, I noticed that in these two games, you were able to score or defend even when you had a physical confrontation with the opponent, and it really looks like you are a little heavier than you were during the rookie physical test a few months ago, can you come over and weigh me your current weight?" ”

"Oh, no problem." George put down the basketball and followed Brickley, a white young man with tattooed arms.

After weighing, Brickley found that George was 8 kilograms heavier than before, and then said to George: "Joe, I have read your daily recipe, you are still trying to gain weight, this is not okay, weight gain should be a long-term process, if you gain weight too fast, you will be very vulnerable to injury, from today onwards, I will control the speed of your weight gain, and I will also supervise your daily diet." ”

[It's amazing, it's amazing, the anchors have personal trainers, I can't love it! ] 】

[This flower-armed man is so annoying, even if the anchor is fat O'Neal, as long as he buys a Dwyanwade and is as fast as lightning, it is nonsense to gain weight and cause injury, he doesn't use his own body at all! ] 】

[Yes, if the anchor's weight gain plan is stopped, then the anchor will not dare to let go of the power of Hayes. 】

[Don't say it, trying to buy a star who matches the anchor's body is the solution, you must choose a good bouncing one! ] 】

"Okay, thank you very much, Chris." George smiled and replied that it was good to be valued by the team, but George was really annoyed that others would interfere with him, because he was different from ordinary players after all.

……

The next day, the Knicks continued to sit at home against the Philadelphia 76ers.

The 76ers once had "Basketball Emperor" Chamberlain, "Dr. J" Julius Irving, three-time regular season MVP Moses Malone, and "Answer" Iverson, who was loved by countless fans.

However, since Iverson left the 76ers, it has been difficult for this team to have the same impact as before.

Today, the 76ers led the team with Elton Brand and Holiday (Holiday), they played away, but they were in a good mood, maybe they have won one after another since the start of the game, and have not tasted a defeat so far, so, during the pre-game warm-up, George could hear this year's star show Evan Turner singing to Holiday in the other half, "Holiday, Celebrate......"

This is a very popular Madonna song, the title of the song is the same as Holiday Holiday surname, the song melody is cheerful, so when Evan Turner sings, he also dances in front of Holiday a little, amusing this dark-skinned teammate who laughs more ugly than crying.

Holiday who entered the league a year earlier than Evan Turner smiled and said to Evan Turner: "Rookie, aren't you nervous?" Even John Wall was teased by the kid opposite, and that ball was also ranked first in the top ten, aren't you worried about being educated by that undrafted pick today? You're the second pick in the first round. ”

Evan Turner liked Madonna very much, he thought Madonna was a stunner in the world, he often fantasized that he could be born more than ten years early, and then play in Rodman's time, of course, he wanted to be like Rodman, and he could sleep with Madonna.

However, although Evan Turner is also strong, he has a flat head, and he looks as cute and delicate as a high school student, which is not the same style as the beast Rodman, and perhaps, he will not have Madonna's taste at all.

Evan Turner looked relaxed and said with a smile: "John Wall was played by him, if I am played by him again in this game, it shouldn't be big news, right?" After all, John Wall was ahead of me. ”

Evan Turner has a very good mentality, and he's not hostile to George, in fact, he's happy that George can play.

D'Antoni couldn't help but envy the 76ers when he saw that the atmosphere was so harmonious, and no one on the Knicks was so frolicking.

On the sidelines, "Knicks number one fan" Spike Lee came again, George was very satisfied with George's performance in the last game, this one, before the start of the game, he said to George: "God arranged the thing, is that you can't refuse, look, the last game you just taught John Wall, the first round of the first round, this time you met the first round of the second pick Evan Turner, Mike, oh, I heard that everyone calls you 'Joe', Joe, kick Evan Turner's ass hard!" ”

George didn't want Spike Lee to make an enemy for himself anymore, so he hurriedly said, "Don't say that, John Wall scored more points than me in the game, but he wasn't taught by me, and Evan Turner is not my enemy." ”

"Hahaha, don't be nervous, I'm looking forward to you continuing to surprise us." Spike Lee said that the team should return to glory with Stoudemire.

The game started quickly, George was still off the bench, while Evan Turner was the starter, and the 76ers' first score came from him, and it was a very beautiful open dunk.

George looked at Evan Turner, who was as dashing as Maddie, from the sidelines, and sighed in his heart: "His body shape and even his smile are very similar to Maddie, but unfortunately he didn't become a superstar like Maddie." ”