The Knicks want to save face, and they refuse to completely rot the perennial high draft picks, and they refuse to admit defeat when they encounter a strong team that obviously can't be beaten and are already 20 points behind at the end of the third quarter, which has nothing to do with their head coach Don Cheney, but James Dolan ran directly to the bench and ordered that this game could not be given up, giving Liu Mang the opportunity to play 41 minutes.

Originally, Coach Kruger was going to go to Stockton to brush up on the data to maintain his state, but he didn't expect that when he was about to change to the water cooler lineup, he saw that the five starters on the Knicks' side continued to play, and decided to replace Liu Mang to stabilize it.

For the sake of face, the Knicks refused to give up the game when facing the first possible first-round opponent of the playoffs in the East, and then something big happened!

Liu Mang is 60+ for the second time this season!

Prior to this, no player other than Wilt Chamberlain had been able to score at least 60 points twice in a single season!

Moreover, Liu Mang also broke Jordan's personal record of 55 points in a single game set at Madison Square Garden, and after Liu Mang scored 50 points in the fourth quarter, the fans on the scene have already defected!

Liu Mang's average points per game increased to 31.9 points in one fell swoop, which is only 0.2 points short of the highest single-season average per game set by Maddie last season in 10 years!

And Maddie's side, when he fully showed the idea of winning the scoring title, the opponents were crazy about him, in the absence of teammates to attract some defense, Maddie at least two people in every game to play hard, the other party just refused to let him get a high score, as for his passing, and the Hawks Liu Mang passed out to have the opportunity to pass into an assist, at least to disrupt the opponent's defense, Maddie's pass out most of the time is the end of the iron.

Maddy's 42 percent shooting rate this year is okay, while the Magic's team-wide shooting percentage is 41.7, which is not as good as Maddy's own defense.

After the game with Liu Mang, Maddie played a few highlight performances, but as the other party responded to his idea of wanting to cut high scores and didn't want to be the background, Maddie's average points per game began to weaken, and the average points per game in his early 30s couldn't go up to 31.

Similarly, Liu Mang's side would have had this tendency to weaken the momentum of the score rise, and in the process of the initial seven consecutive wins, Liu Mang's score rise momentum stopped, if it wasn't for this game against the Knicks, it is estimated that it would be in the 31 points for a long time.

If the team is strong, Liu Mang is easy to cut high scores, and the opportunity to beat the weak team Liu Mang to cut high scores is not particularly good, the weak team, especially the bad team, has no rules for playing, and it is said that the bag is clamped, and it doesn't matter whether it is leaked or not, as long as Liu Mang and Maddie are not allowed to cut high scores on their heads.

Compared with Maddie, Liu Mang's advantage is that when he encounters a strong team, the opponent does not dare to easily trap him, otherwise the rest of the Eagles will throw away.

Of course, if you encounter a "kind" team like the Knicks, which is the strength of the team in the second half of the Eastern Conference playoffs, and insist on saving face and thinking that it is a strong team, Liu Mang likes to meet this kind of opponent the most, and in one fell swoop opened the gap with Maddy's average points per game to 1.4 points, and Maddie's current average score per game is 30.5 points.

As more and more games are played, it will become more and more difficult to chase points, the Hawks are now 37-7, and if Liu Mang wants to improve by 0.1 points, he will have to score 5 more points per game than his average points in a single game to improve by 0.1 points, and the same is true for Maddie's side.

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"Oh, thank you, Michael, but why do I think your tone feels like you want to make a comeback......"

Liu Mang and Lao Jordan, who seemed to be a little unbalanced in their hearts, finished the call, and saw the reply to the text message they received, and they could finally breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the reply they had received, and they had all the calls that needed to be made.

It's too tired, sometimes I know a lot of stars, it's a good thing, but at this time, it's not a good thing, there are those who sincerely congratulate such as Gasol's moderates, there are Jordan's "conscience" congratulations with generosity and cautious eyes, and Carter, who is obviously envious and jealous but has a good emotional intelligence, is the type that ridicules Liu Mang for taking too many shots and bringing bad children.

However, Liu Mang didn't receive a text message from the guy in Los Angeles, and he was a little regretful, so he couldn't call to show off......

After playing the Knicks, the Hawks returned to Atlanta for the final stretch of their game before All-Star Weekend.

After the Rockets carried the live broadcasts of the three most-watched games in the first seven days of the Chinese New Year, the Hawks' schedule was difficult.

From January 31st, four consecutive home games, and it was 5 days and 4 games, and then a three-game away game, fortunately, there was no back-to-back in a row away games, that is, 7 games to be played in 11 days, and the holiday of the All-Star Weekend began on February 11, from February 11th to 17th, the Hawks' All-Star Weekend rest time this season is 7 days, of course, for Liu Mang, the time to rest is also the beginning and the end, and the time in the middle is either activity or playing.

However, before the start of the 11-day, seven-game schedule, the Hawks have three days off, and the Eagles are back in Atlanta at noon today, and the rest of the day is tomorrow and the day after tomorrow except for two training sessions in the morning.

After returning home, Liu Mang turned on his mobile phone and saw a bunch of text messages, and then replied according to his intimacy.

As soon as Liu Mang solved the matter of sending a text message with blessings, a little Lori came up.

"Uncle, come and see the hotel we chose!" Dinah pulls Liu Mang to Levia and Alexia, who are looking at a magazine about hotels in Los Angeles' Manhattan Beach.

There is no doubt that with the habits of Levia's local tyrants, it is also a single-family villa hotel.

Looking at the price of 75,000 US dollars a week, Liu Mang exclaimed: "It's too expensive!" ”

Seeing that Liu Mang's old mistake had been made again, Alexia pushed Dinah in front of Liu Mang.

Dina said that she was tasked and hugged Liu Mang's arm and coquettishly: "Uncle...... We'll just stay here, okay......"

“……”

There's no way to refuse!

After a painful struggle in his heart, he was defeated, and Liu Mang endured the pain point and nodded.

Los Angeles has no winter, it is so hot all year round, the movie capital of the world, and in addition to Hollywood, food festivals, singing contests in the United States, and many leisure activities and sports activities, such as the Los Angeles station of the marathon international race, which is in February, there is also a variety of ski competitions on artificial slopes that appear every winter, although Los Angeles may not have a snow for many years, but they can make their own ......

And with the All-Star Weekend, plus the original Los Angeles winter housing prices are very expensive, superimposed, the hotel that usually costs 10,000 US dollars a week has risen directly to 75,000.

Seeing Dinah, Levia, and Alexia cheering and high-five in celebration, Liu Mang felt a different feeling in his heart...... Is the master so picky?

What is called Grande is finally willing to bleed!

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After returning to Los Angeles on the 28th, he rested for the night, and on the morning of the 29th, Liu Mang got up early to train as usual, made breakfast at seven o'clock, sent Dinah and Alexia to class, and then came to Phillips Arena.

The weird thing is that the training only started at ten o'clock today, Liu Mang's usual non-high-intensity training is close to nine o'clock at eight o'clock, there is usually no one in the stadium, and a few hard-working teammates will come at nine o'clock, and some veterans like Stockton and Kevin Willis, this kind of non-confrontational training is stepping on the start time of the training session.

Liu Mang is usually one of the first players to come to the stadium to train, the team atmosphere is contagious to every teammate, Liu Mang and other core players train hard, the Eagles train hard as a whole, there may be only a few, but everyone is very focused on the usual training, but some players just don't like to practice, this is no problem.

Liu Mang watched that all his teammates had arrived, and after looking at the time, it was only 8:40, hell!

But after looking at it, it seems that it is not training, but a group of people gathered around...... It's gambling again!

Liu Mang feels that this group of guys is really, gambling money to the stadium!

But Liu Mang was a little curious, and stepped forward and asked, "Are you crazy, you ran to the stadium early in the morning to gamble money, what are you gambling?" ”

Liu Mang only watched Jason Terry sitting in the bank, collecting money and writing his name and amount.

"Ace, you're here, we're betting on Ace, can you pass 4 million votes as an all-star this time, do you want to have fun too?" Jason Terry greeted.

"Forget it, I'm not interested in this." Liu Mang went to change his training clothes to warm up.

Liu Mang then remembered that today is the day when the All-Star starting list is announced, and after returning to Atlanta yesterday, Schwartz also called to ask Liu Mang if he would like to participate in the slam dunk contest and skill challenge again.

Let's not talk about the skill challenge, it's boring, the slam dunk contest...... Last time, I pretended to be angry, and this time I guess it's not so fun.

Since Liu Mang promised to rent a cruise ship for them to play for a day when he got the ticket king, Ratliff promised to pay for his teammates to play in Los Angeles for a week, and the all-star voting deadline on the 26th, at nine o'clock this morning, the all-star starting list will be announced.

So they were very excited to come early.

It was so early and a bit boring to wait, so Jason Terry made a small bet, which was not too big, and wanted Barnes and Korver, who wanted to participate but had no money, to play together, with an ante of $10.

The stars also have the same mentality as ordinary people, always wanting to see the answers they want for the first time, and by 8:50, everyone came to the team's rest area.

When the All-Star starting lineup was announced, the incredible happened!