Chapter 206: The Great Traitor Pat Riley
"The physique of this group of NBA players is truly remarkable!" Li Wei glanced at the data of Oakley and Mutombo, and sighed secretly.
Thinking about the Lakers' away game against the Knicks that day, the appearance of the big shark O'Neal, Li Wei couldn't help but think: How many did he deal with at the beginning?
Well, it doesn't matter how many you have, you have to be Oakley, you can't be O'Neill, you have to get 15, and the next day it's still in the same state!
Or like Uncle Mu, 7, the next day will be brave!
Li Wei found that he had found the direction of his efforts!
After winning against the Hawks, the Knicks' record became 39-38, surpassing the 38-38 Magic team and ranking ninth in the East!
Ahead, it's the Washington Wizards, who have been in good form lately, with 39 wins and 37 losses!
'We're ninth, we have five games left, so we're very close. As long as you keep winning, you're sure to get a playoff spot! Li Wei said.
"But if we lose one or two of them, it's very dangerous and it could cause us to miss out on the playoffs." Chuck Daley Dao.
Li Wei nodded and said, "Well, so we can't lose!" ”
Daley pointed to the schedule: "It's not easy to play, double against the Heat, and the Wizards and Bulls, four of the five tough battles!" ”
Li Wei frowned.
The Bulls, Pacers, and Heat are the three giants in the East this year, and the Heat, who have the third record, still want to surpass the Pacers and compete for the home-court advantage in the playoffs, so these two games must be fought hard!
The Wizards are competing with the Knicks for eighth place, and they also have to work hard!
The Bulls are now the league leader, but the Jazz are in hot pursuit, and in order to get home-court advantage in the Finals, they will definitely not be able to let go of the Knicks!
Let's fight, at the moment of grabbing the ranking in the end, no one can coax it!
On April 8, the Knicks, who had just returned from Atlanta, faced the Heat back-to-back.
Knicks fans stole out tickets for this game early, because they were going to boo the Heat, boo Riley!
Now the team that Knicks fans hate the most is the Heat, and the person they hate the most is Pat Riley!
Back in the day, when Pat Riley came to New York, everyone saw him as the hope of New York's revival. Great center Ewing plus great coach Riley, this can definitely build a dynasty!
A year passed, the Knicks lost to the Bulls, and two years later, the Knicks lost to the Bulls again. In the third year, Jordan retired, and Knicks fans were shocked: Who else can stop us?
As a result, Riley lost to Tomjanovich!
In the fourth year, Riley suffered a shocking defeat to Larry Brown in the Eastern Conference semifinals!
Just when everyone was thinking about whether the famous coach could still lead the team to win the championship, something even more surprising happened, Riley defected!
Before his contract expired, he defected directly to the Miami Heat!
Heat owner Allison poached Riley, and he also made a bloody investment, not only giving a high salary, but also giving shares to the team, in addition, Riley is also the president of the team, and is fully responsible for all the affairs of the Heat team!
Seriously, no famous coach can resist Alison's conditions, rights, money, and even a part of the team's boss has given you to be a small boss, can you ask for more?
If Alison is the NBA's Qi Huan, then Riley is Guan Zhong, he only needs to be the shopkeeper, one is the middle father, the other is the middle father, and the hegemony is successful!
Riley, who is in power, really made a drastic transformation of the team, so that this fish belly team was reborn in the blink of an eye and became a strong man!
But the Knicks are hard, how many coaching contracts in the NBA have not expired, so they put down the team and go to someone else's house to be the head?
You can't dig into the corners of the wall so ugly, right?
Later, after mediation by the league, Riley gave the Knicks a first-round pick and millions of cash as compensation, which was reluctantly revealed. That draft pick selected McCarty, who was later traded for Big Z by Li Wei.
But there is a deep thorn in the hearts of all Knicks fans, and that feeling is like your wife who didn't give birth to a son and a half daughter, but ran away with someone else, and the person who snatched your wife is a short and poor man!
Yes, Miami is poorer than New York, at least so do New Yorkers themselves!
However, the story is not over yet.
Last season, the Heat and Knicks finished second and third in the East, and when they met in the semifinals, the winner could compete with the Bulls for the championship!
The Knicks were clearly leading 3-1 and were about to advance, but the Heat fought with them. In the end, only one PJ Brown with little impact was banned, and on the Knicks' side, Ewing, Houston, Aunt Larry Johnson, Starks, and Charlie Ward were all banned!
Then, Riley triumphantly led the Heat to turn the tables and step on the Knicks' bones to reach the Eastern Conference Finals!
This feeling is like your wife running away with a short poor man, you don't care about her, and you are ready to start a new life, and the result?
As a result, she came back with the adulterer and beat you up hard!
What's more, her ** husband couldn't beat one of you, but people used a trick, which made you never overborn!
This loss is really aggrieved to the home!
"Pat Riley!"
Now, almost all New York fans will grit their teeth when they mention this name, a bit like the mood of Cavaliers fans at that time when James jumped to the Heat, and then took the Heat to play the Cavaliers!
A teenage fan holds a sign that reads: Riley, you're a dog, you can't win anything without a magician!
A middle-aged man held a sign that read: Riley is a scumbag, and Coach Li is ten thousand times stronger than you!
An elderly fan holds up a sign that reads: Riley must be hanged!
Pat Riley, dressed in a neat Armani suit and with a shiny back, walked majestically into Madison Square Garden, and then saw the fans' signs and heard the home crowd booing!
Boo and shhh!
The boos shook the sky!
"Haha, I haven't been here for two months, and the fans in New York are still the same!" Riley chuckled.
Riley is followed by the Heat's team of assistant coaches: Jeff Bouzdrick, Tony Fiorentina, Bob McAdoo, Stan Van Gundy, and Eric Spoelstra, who has just risen from the role of video coordinator!
"Pat, aren't you angry that these fans booed you so much?" Tony Florence asked.
He is the only veteran of the Heat coaching staff, and has been working on the team since the establishment of the Heat team in 88, with average ability, but skilled in business, and he was the first to surrender when Riley was airborne, so he won deep faith.
"Tony, I really enjoy the boos of the enemy when I play on the road, just like when I was coaching the Lakers, every time I was on the road, there would be a shout of 'kill the Lakers', because the stronger you are, the more your enemies will hate you!"
"But New York is the city you've coached, and the fans have cheered for you." Jeff Bouzdrick said.
Pat Riley frowned, Bouzdrick was a talent he poached from the bullet (Wizards) team back then, and his ability is not to be said, but this mouth is a little choking!
"Jeff, that's all in the past, I'm the president and head coach of the Heat now, and the only thing I have to do is lead the Heat to win! We have to win today, and if we win two more games, we can overtake the Pacers and have home-court advantage in the playoffs! ”
Stan Van Gundy said: "Pat is right, in this year's Eastern Conference semifinals, we will definitely play the Pacers. Only by eliminating the Pacers can we talk about how to take out the Bulls and how to win the championship! ”