After the victory over the Mavericks, the Knicks won five in a row and finished 14-1 overall, continuing to lead the league!

On November 30, the Knicks came to Philadelphia, which is not far away, to challenge the 76ers back-to-back away.

Bruce Bowen was arguably the most frustrated player on last year's championship Knicks, and after all other free agents were offered big contracts, Bowen was given a tryout with the 76ers, and ended up signing one of the worst non-guaranteed two-year contracts at all, and the 76ers could cut him at any time without having to pay the rest of the salary.

Li Wei led the team to the 76ers' home court, the First Union Bank Arena, and happened to meet Bowen.

"Bruce!" The Knicks' head coach waved his hand, walked over and struck up a passionate conversation.

Bowen had a terrible season last season and said goodbye in the summer, but Li Wei won't take it seriously. In fact, what he should be most grateful for is Bowen, if it weren't for Bowen injuring Duncan, the Knicks would not have won the championship at all!

As some extreme fans say, Bowen is the real Finals MVP!

Moreover, from the perspective of his previous life, Bowen still has the potential to become an excellent defender, he can offend a gentleman and not a villain.

"Coach Li ......" Bowen was ashamed to see Li Wei so polite to him.

When he played for the Knicks, he always felt that Li Wei was too strict with him, so strict that he couldn't stand it, so he didn't think about staying there at all in the summer.

Now that he is on the 76ers, Bowen finds that Larry Brown's requirements for players are as strict as Li Wei's, and what is even more excessive is that Brown is strict and does not give him playing time, the old coach trusts the original team of the 76ers last season!

Then again, the 76ers' main players and benches played well last season, and Brown has no reason not to trust those people, and the new Bowen is bound to be left out in the cold!

"Alas!" Looking back on the past, Bowen sighed.

A lot of things are not comparable, I don't know whether it's good or bad. Thinking back to when he was in the Knicks, every time Li Wei scolded him, he would send him on the court soon after, and then compared to the 76ers' cold bench and the playing time that could never wait, Bowen actually missed his time in the Knicks!

"Why am I so discouraged? In fact, Coach Li's requirements for me at that time were not high at all! ”

"Coach Li has always been a good person, why did I not know how to be in the blessing before?"

Bao Wenzheng felt sorry for himself, and suddenly saw Li Wei, and the other party was very enthusiastic, don't mention the uncomfortable energy in his heart!

But his mood can't be expressed at all, he can only be like cooking dumplings in a teapot, holding it all the time!

"Coach Lee......"

Li Wei saw that Bowen kept calling "Coach Li, Coach Li", but he couldn't say anything else, and said with a smile: "Bruce, although you have left the team, I still feel that you are a member of the Knicks family, don't be so polite, just call me David as before!" ”

Bruce Bowen nodded hurriedly: "Okay, David!" ”

Li Wei chatted for a few more words, and finally said: "Bruce, I think you can be an excellent player, although you are no longer in the Knicks, I am still optimistic about you, work hard!" ”

Bowen said with some uncertainty: "David, do you really think I can be a good player?" ”

Li Weidao: "To be a good player, the most important thing is not talent, but to have a strong heart, and I think you can find that strong mentality. In the past, when you were in the Knicks, I may have been too strict with you and limited your play, but it doesn't matter, the world is very big, the sea is wide, the sky is high, and the birds can fly, you can finally find a place that suits you! ”

Bowen listened to Li Wei's words in a daze, and after a few minutes, he realized that Li Wei was no longer by his side, but had entered the hall.

"Coach Li ...... "For some reason, the corners of his eyes were a little wet.

The next moment, he came to the bathroom lonely and cried with his head in his hands.

At 8 p.m. Philadelphia time, the Knicks' game against the 76ers officially began.

The game was intense, there was no garbage time, so Bruce Bowen sat on the bench the whole time, without any chance to play.

When the Knicks trailed by the score, and Li Wei replaced last season's water cooler, Rashad Lewis, Bowen sighed heavily.

When Lewis made two defensive mistakes in a row, Li Wei replaced him and scolded him fiercely, but soon after he replaced him, Bowen sighed again!

In the third quarter, Lewis made two more defensive mistakes, and Bowen muttered: "It's really a dou who can't be helped, the same mistake is made three times a time, if it were me, I wouldn't make it once!" ”

Bowen envies Lewis and envies Lewis, but there is nothing he can do, now he is a member of the 76ers, and the Knicks are their opponents!

Speaking from the heart, Li Wei is indeed the most willful guy in the NBA, even if the situation is extremely urgent, he doesn't mind replacing Garnett and others, and letting Lewis and others play a wave.

In addition, after Charlie Ward left, the Knicks lost a big lock on the guard line, and now this Knicks team has no one who can limit Iverson!

The star of the 76ers, the champion of the 96-year, the scoring champion last season, the first-team guard, shot inside and outside, and easily scored 37 points!

Because Iverson played well, and the Knicks were back-to-back games, the players were a little tired, Li Wei made substitutions and waves, and the final score was 110:119, and the 76ers who were fighting at home won!

Larry Brown was happy with the result, he was so ashamed of being swept by the Knicks last season that he vowed to beat the Knicks this season!

And now he did!

Li Wei was unimpressed. Now the Knicks' goal is to win the championship, not to win or lose one city and one pool, and if they lose this one, the Knicks are still the first in the league!

The first month of the new season came to an end, with the Knicks topping the league with a 14-2 record, followed by the Spurs and Trail Blazers, both of whom competed in the Western Conference Finals last season, with 13-3.

The Miami Heat are fourth, 11-3, followed by the Lakers, who are 11-4.

It is worth mentioning that in the preseason game against the Wizards, Kobe Bryant accidentally injured his right hand, so he was out for six weeks. So the Lakers' 11-4 record was achieved without Kobe.

O'Neal has become the absolute core of Phil Jackson's system, averaging 26 points per game last season, and in November he scored 28.7 points, 13.4 rebounds, and 3.36 blocks, and was elected Player of the Month!

November's Rookie of the Month award was given to both Lamar Odom and Adrian Griffin.

This year's No. 4 pick, the pride of the sky, Ramar Odom's first month with the Clippers, averaged 18.6 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.2 blocks per game, the highest scoring among all rookies, second in rebounds (second only to Brand), third in assists (behind Francis and Andre Miller), and also in the top five in steals and blocks, no wonder everyone thinks he can be the successor to Magic.

Adrian Griffin was an undrafted pick in '96, signed by the Celtics, and made his first appearance in the NBA this season, with no one available at Rick Pitino's disposal, which directly turned him into the Celtics' starting point guard.

This is a player who is used as a defensive leader, averaging 11.4 points, 7.9 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 2.4 steals per game, giving fans a lot of surprises, and also because he played well, the Celtics, who finished fourth from the bottom of the Eastern Conference last season, did not start badly, 7-7, less than the above, more than the bottom.