After the game against the Hawks, the Knicks had a rare three-day recuperation period.

The next day, Li Wei sat in the conference room of the training hall, watched the video clips of the next few opponents with a few assistant coaches, and then chatted with Chuck Daley alone.

"Chuck, do you think the team can continue to win streaks?"

Daley took a sip of coffee, shook his head and said, "It's difficult!" ”

"Why?" Li Wei asked.

Daley said: "People are emotional animals, easy to win and arrogant, easy to lose. You can look at the team, everyone is more or less underestimated now, isn't that a good sign, even when you break down the enemy's tactics, you don't take it as seriously as you used to? ”

Li Wei smiled: "You can see it?" Looks like I should be serious. ”

"Actually, you don't have to put too much energy into the regular season, we just have to go with the flow," Daley said. A 21-game winning streak isn't what the team can achieve right now, so don't take it too seriously. Of course, we can't say that to the outside world, especially in front of the players, the slogan has to be shouted to the end! ”

"Hmm." Li Wei nodded, "Which game do you think we will lose?" ”

Daley said: "The next game will definitely be more difficult than one game, even the Raptors at the bottom of the league may make us capsize in the gutter, the Pacers, the Pistons, the Heat, these are all hard bones, and Rick Pitino is not a fuel-efficient lamp!" ”

Li Wei glanced at the schedule and said, "No matter what, this game against the Pacers has to be won!" ”

"Hahaha!" Chuck Daley laughed, "Bird is unlucky to meet an opponent like you!" ”

In the middle of North America, there are the Great Lakes, the world's largest group of freshwater lakes, which are also the natural dividing line between the United States and Canada.

On the northwest shore of Lake Ontario in the Great Lakes, there is Toronto, the second largest city in North America after New York.

That's right, in terms of population alone, Toronto is bigger than Los Angeles and Chicago in the United States, and as for Mexico City - come on, North America and North America are not the same concept, is Mexico a Latin American region?

In '95, as part of the NBA's overseas expansion plan, two teams were established in Canada. One is located in Toronto, the country's largest city, and the other is located in Vancouver, the country's third-largest city.

As for why not build a team in Canada's second largest city, the reason is also very simple - Montreal, Canada's second largest city, is a French-speaking city, how to market if you don't understand the language?

Three years have passed, the Grizzlies and Raptors have dismal records, the stadium attendance rate is even worse, and the owner has to pay tens of millions of dollars every year. No way, Canadians don't watch basketball, they only focus on ice hockey, and they also do curling, skiing, skating and other activities at other times.

The Raptors are struggling right now, and the smaller Vancouver Grizzlies are trying to hang themselves.

Of course, all this has nothing to do with Li Wei. New York is the largest market in the United States, and it is also the largest ball market in the United States, Madison Square Garden is known as the mecca of basketball in the world, and even if the Knicks have the first record from the bottom, they will not worry about selling tickets.

As for income? Lakers, you should be the second brother of 10,000 years, you will never understand the realm of the big brother!

On January 16, Li Wei took Xia Cuirong's hand and came to Niagara Falls on the border between Canada and the United States.

Niagara Falls is one of the three largest waterfalls in the world, and it is winter, and it has just snowed two days ago, and the huge waterfall has turned into a world of ice and snow, which is very spectacular.

It's a wonder of nature, breathtaking and beautiful.

"Is it pretty?" Li Wei asked.

"It's so beautiful, how can you say there is such a beautiful place in the world?" Xia Cuirong said.

"Haha, no matter how beautiful a place is, it's not as beautiful as you." Li Weidao.

Xia Cuirong blushed and said softly, "You also praised her like this in front of Sister Weiwei?" ”

Li Wei said: "Yes, I like her very much, and I like you very much." ”

Xia Cuirong said: "I don't understand how you like me, you are so rich, what kind of girl can't get it?" ”

Li Weidao: "Do you believe in your past life? I dreamed that I was an orphan in my past life, adopted by you, and I want to pay it back in this life. But you're so old, I can't adopt you, so I can only raise ten. ”

Xia Cuirong lightly slapped Li Wei: "Nonsense! Husband, you can bring Sister Weiwei here if you are fine, how beautiful it is, if she knew that you only brought me, she would be angry. ”

Li Weidao: "I called yesterday, but she refused to come." Actually, I brought her here before, and she kept pouting, and said that it was just a river falling, so what was there to see. ”

"A river falling? Ha ha. Xia Cuirong chuckled.

The two were chatting happily when two Chinese girls passed by. The girl on the left seemed to be very cheerful, and said loudly in Chinese: "Chinese? ”

"Yes." Li Wei waved his hand.

The girl smiled and said to Xia Cuirong: "Auntie, is this your son?" You are so young, how can you have such a big son? ”

Xia Cuirong's smile suddenly froze on her face.

Li Wei said angrily: "This is my wife, you two little ghosts are playing at the same time, don't delay the two of us." ”

"Huh?" The two girls were stunned.

Xia Cuirong hurriedly said: "Don't call me my wife in front of others, Sister Weiwei knows that she will be angry." ”

Li Wei said: "It's okay, we don't know them." ”

Niagara Falls is very close to Toronto, and the view is perfect, so the two of them came to the presidential suite where they stayed and started their busy work. Well, I'm really busy at work, and I don't even have time to put on clothes.

The next day, the Knicks went to the Toronto Sky Dome Stadium for training, and the game started in the evening!

The Raptors are now 6-31, which is not as good as the 2-34 Nuggets, but they are also at the bottom of the league.

The team's star flying squirrel, Damon Stoudemire, was the No. 7 pick in '95, entered the league in the same year as Garnett, and handed in a gorgeous report card of 19 points and 9.3 assists in his rookie year, and was undisputed as the rookie of the year.

Last year, Stoudemire broke through the 20-point mark in average points per game, and was about to talk to the team about an early contract extension, when a big news broke next door.

Garnett renewed his contract, 128 million for 6 years!

Stoudemire threw away the contract the team gave him at the time - the 17 points per game is 128 million, who are you giving me this?

The Raptors owner is wronged!

The Knicks have money, so of course they can give as much as they want. But the Raptors are poor, I will lose as much as I give you, don't you understand?

Even if Stoudemire understood, he would not sympathize with the boss. He plays basketball to support his family, not to give love!

The Raptors are rotten like this, and they refuse to pay for it, so what is there to talk about on both sides?

In this era, as soon as the rookie contract expires, it is a free agent, not a restricted player. If Stoudemire refuses to renew his contract, then he will definitely not be able to keep it at the end of the season.

Now the management of the Raptors has only one thought, and that is to trade Stoudemire!

Trade rumors were rampant, and the players naturally had no intention of fighting, and the Knicks won 103-82 without a surprise!

16 wins in a row!