The NBA is a hodgepodge of basketball players, where all players with skills can find their own stage, such as super scorers who can score anywhere and in any way, such as interior pillars who can influence the direction of the game by themselves, such as top point guards who can play with their opponents with their own hands, such as the defensive backbone who is determined and never backs down, and can infect the defensive backbone of the whole team with his own spirit.

And the best of these players, the few players who stand at the top of the league will become the most special type of players - the privileged players.

What are the privileges of a privileged player? On the field, they can play freely without being constrained by the coach's tactics, and the referee will take care of them a little bit; Off the pitch they are free to arrange their training and even have some special terms when they sign a contract.

This is the unique rule of the NBA, if your strength, your status, your popularity reaches a certain level, then you can have privileges.

Throughout the ages, the NBA has produced many impressive privileged players, such as Michael Jordan, who everyone can think of, but even Jordan, the god of basketball, his so-called privileges are actually only super high wages and Nike's sneaker brand created for him. After Jordan, the commercialization of the NBA has intensified, and the privileges of those star players are getting higher and higher, such as Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, etc., who have the right to veto transactions, such as LeBron James, who can command the coach and always stick the ball in his hands, and James Harden, who is favored by the referee and makes free throws.

In short, those superstars will always get more care and more benefits than the average player, just like Irving is now with the Celtics.

Stevens actually couldn't stand the situation on the court for a long time, and he couldn't sit still since the endless singles of Irving and Roy.

Stevens still clearly remembers every word he arranged before the game, to give full play to the strength of the team, to play tactics, to control the tempo. But Owen actually overturned his tactical arrangement as soon as he came on the court, and Stevens, who has always emphasized discipline, of course couldn't stand Owen's willfulness, and he was able to see with interest that it was now the greatest tolerance and privilege for Owen.

But after Roy crushed Horford with his physical advantage, Stevens really couldn't help it, he couldn't play like this, he had to adjust his tactics, he had to make changes.

Irving walked off the court with an aggrieved face, and as a privileged player for the Celtics, he was not criticized by Stevens, but Stevens did not intend to keep him on the court.

After Stevens re-emphasized discipline and tactical play, Smart took the court in place of Irving.

On the other hand, when Roy, the Knicks' privileged player, went off the court, he won a lot of praise.

"Well done, Roy, you've slapped Irving's face green, I've watched the NBA for so long, and it's the first time I've seen someone beat Irving like this."

"Roy, keep scolding him, Irving is almost dead, defeat Irving, and the Celtics will be almost there."

"Roy, have you met a fairy in the past two days, you haven't taken drugs, this physical fitness is simply not like you."

Teammates competed to high-five Roy, but Roy still had no smile on his face, after the violent collision with Horford just now, a sense of fatigue was slowly eroding his body, and he knew very well that the "price" of invincibility was coming.

At this time, Hornacek was watching Roy from afar, and his heart was also mixed, he wanted to criticize Roy's individual singles behavior of ignoring the team's discipline, but he couldn't say anything, how can you say "no singles" to a player who has a shooting percentage of more than 80%?

Besides, Roy's style of play has proven to be quite efficient, he defeated Celtics' ace player Irving, and received unanimous applause from the crowd, so will he listen to his own suggestions to change his style of play?

But Hornacek was clearly overly worried, because Roy actually took the initiative to ask to be taken off.

"Jeff [Hornacek], if the other side replaces Irving, then allow me to rest."

It is also the right of privileged players to take a break at any time, Hornacek nodded in acquiescence, but why did Roy have to rest after only 5 minutes of play? What happened to Roy's body? What exactly did he go through?

What exactly did Roy go through? Or exactly, what has Roy been through in the last two days?

Two days ago, when Roy confirmed that he had been selected for the All-Star Game, was demoralized, and was ready to paralyze himself with endless training, he suddenly received a special invitation, one from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the ball god.

"Roy, rush to Los Angeles as fast as you can, this is the final test for you."

The final trial? Roy didn't understand what the Final Trial was, but he chose to believe it.

The old man gave an order, Roy naturally would not slack off, and it happened that Phil Jackson, who came to appease Roy that day, revealed that he would take the private jet of team owner James Dolan to Los Angeles, so Roy was also able to take the opportunity to take Dolan's special plane.

Of course, Roy didn't reveal much information about Phil Jackson on the plane, and his statement was that he wanted to go to Los Angeles to relax and relax, and that's it.

So, no one knows the real reason why Roy has changed drastically in these two days, and no one knows what Roy has experienced in the past two days.

Except for the great god Jabbar.

This is not so much the final test of Roy as it is the hope of basketball fans all over the world to help Roy and help Roy overcome difficulties and all kinds of injustice.

This is not so much Abdul-Jabbar's final test for Roy, but it is Jabbar's desire to teach Roy his life's learning, he knows that time is running out, and the only player in this world who can absorb his own mastery with such a good talent is probably Roy.

Abdul-Jabbar's final trial is probably the most rigorous training Roy has received so far, in Abdul-Jabbar's "Infinite Training Ground", Roy conducts special training day and night, he has to learn almost everything, footwork, technique, confrontation, and positioning. Fortunately, with the help of the ball god, Roy's physical consumption rate was reduced to one-tenth, so he was able to complete this ultimate trial by overdrawing his physical strength. In the "Infinite Training Ground", as long as your physical strength is not exhausted, you can train continuously without eating, drinking, sleeping, or lazing.

In the end, Roy trained in this independent space for 30 days, 720 hours, 43,200 minutes, and 2,592,000 seconds. Through the hand-in-hand teaching of the Great God Abdul-Jabbar, Roy's various abilities have made a qualitative leap: his already strong and abnormal physical ability has been improved again, his steel-like mental ability has been greatly strengthened, and his internal offensive ability, which was previously regarded as a weakness by others, has also undergone an essential leap under the training of the Great God Abdul-Jabbar.

However, if you want something, you will lose something.

Roy's strength has a price, and the price Roy pays for breaking out of the cocoon into a butterfly is physical strength.

Due to the continuous training in the "Infinite Training Ground" for 30 days and the exhaustion of 30 days' physical fitness, Roy's physical fitness at this stage is still in an empty state, and the fighting style between him and Owen just now seems to be easy, but in fact, it is all the technical actions completed through gritted teeth. Although he seems to be casual now, in fact, his body has entered a "fatigue state" (all abilities can only be used at 90%), so while Owen is gone, he also has to replenish his strength with all his strength.

It would be nice if there was a "physical strength bag" now, Roy now misses the prop that he scoffed at in the first place, if he had this thing on his body now, it would definitely be able to leave these nasty guys on the Celtics without even scum in seconds.

It's a pity, it's a pity, Roy sighed, and poured the second bottle of energy drink down.

"Derrick [Rose], can we try to slow down the pace of the game? It would be nice to be able to make a little foul, I need time to recover. ”

This is Roy's request to Rose before the end of the timeout, and Ross really understands that Roy has indeed gone to special training in the past two days, which explains why Roy is now as fierce as LeBron James after not seeing Roy for two days.

But slow-paced offense and defense are really not what the Knicks are good at, and after Roy and Irving both went off the court, the initiative of the game returned to the Celtics' side.

Although their offense is average, they are valuable in their ability to create damage, and they have maintained their usual solidity on the defensive end.

At the end of the first quarter, the score was 26:28, and the Knicks won first and then lost by 2 points.

All the focus of the first quarter was almost on Roy and Irving, and the heads-up of these two privileged players was so impressive that after the two went off the court, the fans' emotions dropped all at once.

"I don't understand why Hornacek replaced Roy, and if Irving's end was the reason why he had been completely defeated by Roy, then why did Roy as the victor go down?"

"We don't know if there's something wrong with Roy's body, he was like Jordan and James in the first quarter of the game, and there is no doubt that if Roy doesn't play, then the Knicks are definitely leading now."

"I think our enthusiastic photographers have already given us the answer, and we count, how many bottles of energy drink has Roy drunk? Could it be that Roy's fitness is wrong? But he only played 5 minutes of the game. ”

There are different opinions about Roy's condition in the live broadcast room, and the audience is also looking forward to Roy's early appearance.

But after the start of the second quarter, Roy still sat on the sidelines.

As the minutes passed, the fans in New York were also a little anxious, could it be that Roy was in a hurry? What's wrong with the Muffies? Could it be ......

Fortunately, Roy didn't make everyone nervous for long, and after three minutes of the second quarter, the audience was lively again, as Irving and Roy finally stood on the sidelines at the same time, and their second round was about to begin......