Chapter Fifty-Six: Furious O'Neill!
Since the start of the broadcast, this is the most intense competition scene that the audience has seen!
[The anchor's trash talk is really awesome! ] actually degraded a player of historical level like O'Neill to nothing! This is not something that ordinary people can do. 】
[The anchor seems to know all the stories of O'Neal well, he knows everything about O'Neal too well, so the appropriate benefits of the attack, O'Neal was disdainful of the anchor just now, but now he is in a hurry! ] 】
In Seattle, Erin saw George and O'Neal squirting again, and her sadness deepened, she grabbed the pillow in her arms very hard, one was her favorite brother, the other was her favorite basketball player, at this moment, she didn't know what mood to watch this farce.
"It must have been the big guy who said nasty things to Joe! I don't like him anymore! This 'Margiela'! 'Gorilla'! 'Fat Albert'! I'll tear up your poster in a moment! Erin said angrily at O'Neill on the TV screen.
Byron, who was on the side, understood Irene's mood, sighed and shook his head, and looked at the TV screen again: "I hope their conflict is just trash talk, and it won't escalate again." ”
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Madison Square Garden, New York.
It's been a long time since it's been so lively here, after this series of events, there are almost no fans in New York who don't know George, there were originally some on the scene, but after seeing George and O'Neal hard bars, they will ask "Who is this player?" Then, they all remembered George's name.
The first quarter ended quickly, and when he got off the court, O'Neal was still angry, and when you looked at him, you could feel the smoke of fire coming from his flushed face.
O'Neill is the person who loves to pretend to be forced and love face the most, when he just went to college and didn't have money, he liked to pretend to be rich, he got a telephone from the dormitory, answered a telephone line, hung it on his mustang cart, made it like a car phone, and pretended to call when he saw people, but it didn't work at all, he did it purely pretend.
Another time he got a $2,500 Pell Grant at school, which would be not much if it were exchanged for $100 Franklin, and he wanted to pretend to be forced, so he exchanged the $2,000 for $1 Washington, and in order to prevent others from seeing, he would put a hundred dollars on the top of each stack, and all the bottom was one dollar.
Then, with this "large sum of money", he drove the car, stretched the money out of the car window, and waved it back and forth at the people in the school.
It is conceivable that such a good-faced person will be angry at this moment when he is said to be worthless by George?
Anger is only one aspect, the key is that what George said is still reasonable, O'Neill is afraid that others will think the same way as George.
O'Neill sat in the dugout and said to his teammates: "Don't believe that stinky boy's nonsense!" I've never imitated that guy in Ewing, I've always disliked him, the first time I played him 18 years ago, I got the ball on top of him, I just knocked him away, and then I dunked on his head, if you don't believe it, you can pull the guy off his jersey and ask him personally. ”
"We absolutely believe, Shaq, that you're going to be the best player in the New York Knicks in your rookie season." Paul Pierce, as the leader of the team, felt guilty for letting O'Neal suffer such resentment.
The others were also silent, and Nate Robinson even wanted to laugh a little when he heard O'Neal's last words, thinking that Ewing is not dead now, why pull down the retired jersey and ask instead of asking in person.
But Nate Robinson also knew that if he asked the question, O'Neill would be sure to say another pretending that he was ready to say.
O'Neal was saddened by the fact that no one asked the question, and he lost a chance to brag about himself, so he continued, "Do you know why I went to college in Louisiana? What was the only school chasing me at the time? But they knew I liked rugby, so they invited me to a football game, which was crowded with tens of thousands of spectators, but all of a sudden, the lights went out, a spotlight hit me, the announcer shouted my name and called me the first high school student in the United States, and tens of thousands of fans in the audience shouted my name frantically in order to let me join them, and the wind SAO girls sitting next to me that I had never seen before, they also promised me that they would be with me when I came here! ”
"Wow, Shaq, you were so charismatic in high school, it's really not like the average person!"
"Shaq is so cool, Mike George still wants to denigrate your strength, it's ridiculous!"
These teammates around the Celtics are all flattering, even players like Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, in order to appease O'Neal's heart, they also cater to this.
O'Neal's mood was a little more relaxed, and he continued: "I won't talk about the glory days of my youth, even when I left the Lakers and went to the Miami Heat, Pat Riley learned that I was sure to join, what do you guess he did? He fired all the marketing staff on the team! ”
"Yes, he did the right thing, with you, there is no need to worry about ticket sales at all, you are the guarantee of the box office, Shaq, we have all experienced it." Garnett followed suit.
Celtics coach Doug Rivers didn't speak, suddenly glanced at George opposite, and exclaimed in his heart: "A little rookie, he actually let a player of Shaq's level deliberately bring out the glorious history of the past to prove himself, it seems that this kid's trash talk is really powerful, fortunately, the Knicks are not a team that can compete for the championship, otherwise it will be really troublesome in the playoffs." ”
Coach Rivers told the players, "Let's not talk to the No. 30 rookie, it's better not to talk to him." ”
Pierce was the first to disagree: "Why? We're not afraid of him! I've got to teach this guy a good lesson and avenge Shaq. ”
"That's right, this guy has to be educated!" Kevin Garnett was also indignant.
As veterans of the league for many years, how could they bow down to a rookie? If this thing gets out, won't they be laughed to death when they meet Kobe Bryant and Artest in the future?
Speaking of which, Pierce respects O'Neal very much, O'Neal was also invited by him to the Celtics, in the summer when the Celtics had signed Jermaine O'Neal, Shaquille O'Neal once thought that he could not join the Celtics, and it was Pierce who called Shaq again and again.
"Shaq is someone I invited, this may be the last season of Shaq's career, and as the leader of the team, if I don't protect him, then I will blame myself for the rest of my life!" Pierce has made up his mind to avenge Shaq.
So, in the second quarter, Coach Rivers had O'Neal sit on the bench for a long time and said to him, "Leave it to Paul." ”
O'Neill has no objection, after all, he is already old, and George's qualifications are not enough, so it is appropriate to let the juniors help teach the juniors.
D'Antoni decided that George had upset the morale of the Celtics, so he also put George up early and told the players to take advantage of this time to open the score.
Since George was defended by Pierce, the scoring points were given to others, and although George didn't attack, that didn't mean Pierce would let him go.
When George runs without the ball, Pierce will follow very closely, and when the referee is not paying attention, he will make tricks on George, George was pushed out by Pierce again and again, and even fell out of bounds, and the referee turned a blind eye.
[Pierce has too many small actions! The referee didn't even blow it! 】
[The anchor goes back, don't let Pierce bully you like this!] 】
Erin and Byron, who are in Seattle, also complain about George, thinking that George must be very tormented at the moment, in fact, George is not only suffering, but happy.
Because, the conflict he was expecting, came again.