In this game, Li Wei felt that he was in good shape, so he played a little longer, playing a whopping 30 minutes, Nash himself only played 15 minutes, and the remaining 3 minutes were Cole's.

Nash himself has no opinion on the reduction of playing time, this is five days and four games, and tomorrow there will be back-to-back games against the Warriors, and I want to rest a little more.

At the final whistle, the Knicks won 101-96 on the road, with Garnett 16 points and 10 rebounds, Houston 17 and Maddy 14.

As for Li Wei, he had 17 points, 10 assists and 3 steals, scoring a double-double for the first time in his career, and he was also one of the highest scoring players on the team!

For the Suns, Kidd had 16 points, 10 assists, 7 boards, 2 steals and 2 blocks, and his performance was very comprehensive, but the media in New York laughed when they saw his statistics.

The next day, the major media invariably used a headline: Knicks played away to Phoenix, and Coach Lee came off the bench to beat Kidd and lead the team to victory!

That's right, all the media are promoting Li Wei's strength over Kidd, because Li Wei's data is 17 points and 10 assists, and Kidd's data is only 16 points and 10 assists, a full point difference, isn't it a force pressure?

As for the Suns' highest scorer, it was actually Todd Daye who came off the bench, who usually didn't have much presence, and scored a season-high 25 points in the game, and the media didn't pay attention to it at all.

They can't report on Todd Daye, and if your report is that Li Wei and Todd Daye blow up each other, then who else will read the news?

Dogs bite people is not news, people bite dogs are, it is too normal for Coach Li to be beaten by other people's substitutes, so they must say that Li Wei beat Kidd!

The league's No. 1 point guard scored only 16 points against Li Wei, and let the opponent take the victory at home!

Only in this way can the news catch fire!

As for the fact that Li Wei never dared to defend Kidd during the game, that's another topic, isn't it also explosive for his teammates to help defend? In short, Kidd was blown up by Li Wei, whether it was an individual or a team, he was defeated by Li Wei, and that was enough!

As soon as the media reported this, the number of people who paid attention to it really increased.

On the streets and alleys of New York, there are often crowds talking about Li Wei!

In the New York subway, a young man put down the newspaper and said suspiciously: "The head coach of the Knicks is so powerful now, can even a point guard with a burst of defense explode?" ”

His girlfriend asked, "What is a burst of defense?" ”

"Every year, the NBA selects the best five players to form the best team, which is usually called the best team, and they also select the five best defensive players to form the best defensive first team. Kidd has one team and one defense, that is, he belongs to both the first team of the best team and the first team of the best defense, and he is the most powerful point guard in the league! ”

Girlfriend said: "Then this surnamed Li has blown up the most powerful point guard, won't he become the new and most powerful point guard?" ”

"Haha!" The young man smiled.

He didn't watch the game yesterday, but he understood that it was not enough to play well to become the best point guard in the league, and Li Wei's level was still too far from Kidd!

Then again, he was really curious about how Li Wei could defend against Kidd, with Li Wei's defensive ability, this was really an impossible task!

"I ask you, is he the best?" Girlfriend shouted.

This woman doesn't really care about who is great, she just wants to find a topic to talk about, young people are together, there must be a topic to talk about, right?

The young man didn't answer, because he felt that this question was not easy to explain, but a middle-aged man next to him interjected: "Of course Coach Li is the best, he even won three doubles a few days ago!" ”

Another middle-aged man said: "Well, there is another one that scored more than 30 points, I saw that report!" ”

An aunt said: "It is said that he has also broken several records of the team!" ”

The young man smiled, he knew that these passengers around him must not have watched basketball much, let alone fans of the Knicks, and they were just talking nonsense based on their impressions. After all, recent newspapers have been reporting on the Knicks' short coach.

In fact, Li Wei did not score a triple-double, only a quasi-triple-double, nor did he score more than 30 points, the best game was 27 points, and he did not break several records, but he tied the single-game steal record in team history.

However, it is unrealistic to expect the masses to completely remember every report in the media, and they can only say according to a vague impression that everyone is chatting together anyway, and talking about Li Wei's affairs can also show that they are well-informed and pay attention to social hot spots!

The young man did not puncture the impression of the masses on Li Wei, because he is a fan of the Knicks, and he is also half a Li Wei fan, and he will not prevent others from blowing Li Wei.

New Yorkers think Li Wei is amazing, and that's a good thing!

"Wow, he's so good, let's go watch the Knicks game!" The young man's girlfriend said.

The two are either watching movies or listening to concerts together, and they are a little tired, and it is not bad to watch a ball. Since the Knicks are so violent, let's check it out!

"That's great!" Young man.

He really wanted to watch the game live, but his girlfriend didn't like it, so in order to accommodate his girlfriend, he didn't buy much tickets for the Knicks. Now that my girlfriend finally wants to watch the game, of course it is not to be missed.

Like young people, there are many people who suddenly want to buy Knicks tickets, after all, Li Wei has become a hot topic.

Many people were very angry about this, and crooked their mouths said: "It's just that the league makes stars, but you should blow Carter and Kobe, they are the ones who are most like Jordan!" The head coach of the Knicks does not have the strength to become an NBA starter at all, and only knows how to brush the data, what is there to brag about? ”

Another part of the people said: "This is David Stern's conspiracy, he knows to support New York, because New York is a big ball city and makes a lot of money!" ”

"What's more, he's still a Knicks fan!"

There are always some people in this world who think that the whole world is a conspiracy, and only he can see through everything. In fact, Li Wei is popular now, and it has nothing to do with the alliance's star-making, nor is it a conspiracy of David Stern, Stern wants Li Wei to be more low-key than anyone else.

Li Wei will be popular, it is purely the media that is speculating, the media wants to make a big news and attract the attention of readers, Li Wei was naturally pushed to the forefront!

Because he did hit the hype-worthy stats!

As a result, every day there will be more Li Wei fans in the world who are attracted by media reports, and every day there will be some people who are pretentious, envious and jealous, or disdainful of the media, hate Li Wei so much that they grit their teeth, and then hack him everywhere.

In fact, Li Wei has nothing to do with these sunspots, but this world is fair, the more people who love you, the more people will hate you!

Of course, it doesn't matter, beauty and ugliness always need to be contrasted to show up, if there are no low-level sunspots, how can the beauty of the world be brought out?

For Li Wei, the most important thing is that the Knicks' box office has become popular. Those who were attracted to the Lee Guardian report and wanted to watch the game immediately found a very helpless fact after rushing to Madison Square Garden, the Knicks' ticket prices have gone up!

"Why is it going up again? I remember going up at the beginning of the season! ”

"Don't buy it, there are a lot of queues behind!"

"Yes, the tickets for the next home game have been sold out, and there are still tickets for the next home game, do you buy it or not?"

Some people gritted their teeth and said, "Buy!" ”

You have to buy it if it goes up, because if you don't buy it, others will buy it, and there are less than 20,000 tickets in total for the entire Madison Gardens, and no matter how you sell them, they are all best-sellers!