Christmas War has been an annual repertoire of the NBA, and just like the NFL's Thanksgiving War, the NBA's Christmas War can be seen as a collection of the NBA's most anticipated games of the year. Therefore, the league will definitely arrange for the strongest team in the league of the year, or the most talked-about team, to play on this day.

Just like the Chicago Bulls in the Jordan era must be the protagonist of the Christmas war, and in the post-Jordan era, Kobe's Los Angeles Lakers, James's Cleveland Cavaliers, and Miami Heat must also appear every Christmas, which team is the hottest team in the league in the past two years? It has to be the Golden State Warriors.

This year's Christmas War, the most eye-catching game is undoubtedly a copy of last year's Finals, Golden State Warriors VS Cleveland Cavaliers, the Warriors' Big Four (Curry, Thompson, Durant, Green) vs. the Cavaliers Four Kings (James, Love, Anthony, Thomas Jr.), just looking at the starting lineups of the two teams can make people drool.

In addition, the league also arranged 4 other games, which are also full of topics, namely:

Los Angeles Clippers vs. Los Angeles Lakers Los Angeles Derby (Los Angeles Boss Battle), Minnesota Timberwolves vs. Oklahoma City Thunder True and False Lone Wolves vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (Wolves vs. Willis), Chicago Bulls vs. San Antonio Spurs New Edition Bull Horse Battle (Old Champion Battle), and, of course, Boston Celtics vs. New York Knicks Super Guard Battle (Irving vs. Roy).

Originally, in terms of the degree of attention in these five games, the Golden State Warriors vs Cleveland Cavaliers naturally ranked first, not only because this is a contest between last year's championship and runner-up teams, but also because the strength of both teams has been explosively strengthened this year, the Warriors have brought in Durant, and the Cavaliers have brought Anthony and Thomas Jr., and this person happens to be a one-to-one pair, which can be described as a needle-to-needle.

But unfortunately, two days before the start of the Christmas War, Roy's failure to be selected for the All-Star shortlist suddenly broke out, instantly occupying the homepage of major websites, forums, and social media, and the whole world was discussing Roy, and the whole world was full of Roy's figure, and the headlines that originally belonged to Curry and James were instantly snatched away by Roy.

After Roy's failure to be selected for the All-Star list, the Knicks' attention has also skyrocketed, and now looking at the "Your Most Anticipated Christmas War" poll on the NBA homepage, the Boston Celtics vs. New York Knicks game has left the other four games far behind with 50.12% support.

In just two days, the media and fans have almost taken over the online world with all kinds of long and short stories.

Some people are emotional, some are complaining, some are fighting, some are going berserk, and the fierce quarrels about Roy have spread to almost every battlefield involving sports and basketball, just like Roy's sentence "I want to challenge the whole league", Roy's fans are now also doing things to challenge the fans of the whole league.

Roy is a hero, Roy is a bastard.

Roy is the uncrowned king, and Roy is a liar.

Roy is a future superstar, and Roy isn't even an All-Star right now.

The fans of the two factions competed against each other without giving in, and the flames of war became more and more intense, from the field of sports to various fields such as society, culture, and politics, and fans of good deeds even used various elements such as Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi, cultural differences, Sino-US relations, racism, and the status of the Chinese as weapons of verbal warfare.

In the end, the flames of war inevitably burned on the two teams of this Christmas war.

The members of the Knicks were of course firmly on Roy's side, and head coach Hornacek responded with an unusually high-profile response, saying that "the Knicks will use their strength to fight back against those guys who question Roy."

Rose indignantly said, "It's a shame for the NBA that this kind of thing (not being selected for the All-Star list) would not be good for any player who averages 26.1 points per game." ”

Noah squirted contemptuously: "Just those pseudo-fans who selected Dimitrius Jackson (the Celtics' No. 45 rookie this year, the water cooler keeper who averaged 3 minutes per game) into the All-Star Game, anyway, the league doesn't want the best players to appear in All-Star Weekend." ”

The Knicks, on their side, were impassioned and angry at the league, and in stark contrast to the Knicks' attitude was of course their Christmas rivals, the Celtics. They suffered a shock home loss to the Knicks in the first round of this year's matchup, and naturally did not have much of a good impression of Roy and the Knicks.

Head coach Stevens was the first to counter Hornacek, saying that "if we want to compete with the Celtics, our Celtics players are not afraid of a challenge at all, Roy's anger is completely unreasonable, he should first think about how he got into the league (referring to the incident of misreporting his age)." ”

Irving, the new team boss, then began to follow suit, saying: "The noise between the media and the fans in the past two days has been distracting, crying and crying for help from the media and fans will not solve any problems, and if Roy wants to enter the All-Star Game through the complaints of the media and fans, it is simply a joke." ”

In addition, Bradley, a defensive fierce player who was a little embarrassed by Roy in the first round, also said, "We are ready to beat the Knicks, if Roy wants to rely on the media and fans to put pressure on us, then he must be mistaken, we have long been different, and the current Boston Celtics are extremely strong." ”

Bradley's words sound a bit overbearing, but they also reflect the Celtics' recent morale surge. In fact, since the Celtics acquired Kyrie Irving, they've won 12 of the 18 games Irving has played in, and Irving is averaging a perfect 24.8 points, 3.1 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game.

Irving may have a different understanding of Roy than the rest of the Celtics, and he and Roy played Roy in the NBA's opener, when the Cavaliers defeated the Knicks in a bloody way.

Although Roy has several eye-catching performances on the court, in Irving's eyes, his strength is still a lot more tender. Since then, although Roy has also repeatedly performed amazingly, often appeared on the TV screen, and broke a number of records, but preconceived, in Owen's mind, he is still the stunned young man who can only shoot by hand, and Owen naturally didn't pay attention to Roy.

He not only spoke contempt for Roy in an interview with the media, but even mocked Roy on Twitter. Come to think of it, the signing of a sky-high endorsement contract between Roy and Adidas alone can attract the jealousy of many NBA stars, let alone other aspects. So this time, Roy was not selected for the NBA All-Star shortlist, and the happiest thing was actually those old NBA All-Stars represented by Irving.

Their mentality is "let you sign a sky-high contract, make you popular with fans, let you break the league record, let you be beautiful, and now you can't play the All-Star Game, I can finally mock you." ”

Like Irving, there are not a few NBA stars who have angrily criticized Roy on Twitter, including Andrew Wiggins, DeMarcus Cousins, Gordon Hayward, etc., who have been married before.

The big war is imminent, but Roy, as the person concerned, has never shown up, he has not appeared in the Knicks' training hall, nor in the places he frequents, and even in the face of those malicious taunts, he has not responded.

Roy is gone? By the time everyone realizes that Roy, the protagonist of the event, has disappeared, the time has come to December 25th, the day of the Christmas war.

Persevering media reporters squatted outside the Knicks' training gym almost early in the morning, but none of them saw Roy.

Is Roy really missing? He didn't even participate in the team's training?

Where the hell did Roy go? Journalists are keen to find answers from the coaching staff and players, but their anxieties have answered everything.

The wait lasted until 17:30 p.m., with only two hours left before the game, and Roy was still slow to show up. Hornacek couldn't help but be anxious, and again he asked his assistant to call Roy's mobile phone for the fifth time in a day, and the reply was still turned off, and then called Roy's agent, Bill Duffy, and he also replied for the third time that he didn't know where Roy went.

"Where the hell did Roy go?" While the players were warming up, Hornacek discussed countermeasures with Stockton and Malone.

"Thankfully, I just hope Roy doesn't have an accident. If Roy misses today's game, then I'll have to start with Conteney Lee, Roy is fine, I think I'm going to call the New York police to the police? ”

"Hey, Jeff (Hornacek), calm down, Roy is an adult, he's definitely coming, I don't believe he's going to miss this game, of course, the punishment for his absence from training will definitely be given." The intimate Stockton tried to persuade his old partner, while Malone on the other side was a little ill-intentioned and cheerful.

"Hey, Jeff, I think Roy's whereabouts should be asked about your daughter, I noticed that there was something wrong with her eyes when she interviewed Roy, maybe the two of them went out for Christmas together, hehehehe......"

"Shut up, Carl (Malone), are you making trouble?" Before Hornacek could respond, Stockton jumped out first, and a sharp look from his eyes scared Malone into hiding in a corner and shivering.

"Roy, Roy is here."

"Hey, it's really Roy."

"Come on, come on, Roy is here."

With a rush of soldiers, the door of the Madison Garden Plaza Arena suddenly moved, and under the flashing lights, the man who appeared was Roy......