Chapter 365: Champion Celebration
After Li Wei, Luo Wei, Xia Cuirong and the mayor took a group photo, Mike Brin invited the district mayor to the front desk again!
Manhattan Borough Mayor C. Virginia Fields also gave an enthusiastic speech, congratulating the Knicks on winning the championship and thanking the Knicks for their contributions to the community.
Then, Mike Brin fondly reminisced about the glorious history of the Knicks and introduced the famous players who participated in the celebration one by one, Dave Debusschel, Earl Monroe and others all greeted the audience at Park Square!
The dense Knicks fans at the scene rejoiced and applauded!
Then, another host appeared, and he was Mav Albert of the New York Voice!
In '97, Mav Albert was fired due to a sex scandal and returned in a low-key manner at the start of the season, mainly responsible for the radio broadcast. On this day of celebration all over the world, fans don't bother to pay attention to the case of the old woman Ju Shihua who forcibly engaged in it, who hasn't been impulsive?
Although Marv Albert is old, he is also a person in half the sports circle after all, and it is normal for him to be enthusiastic sometimes!
After the appearance, Marv Albert introduced the Knicks' coaching staff.
Herb Williams, Scott Brooks, Tom Hiberdeau...... The Knicks' assistant team has a very large number of people, such as the West German-born Chich van Dewy, who was invited by Li Wei to coach Nowitzki, can only be regarded as staff members and have not been introduced separately as assistant coaches.
The last three assistant coaches to appear are Mike D'Antoni, Byron Scott, and Chuck Daley!
Veteran coach Chuck Daley was discharged from the hospital, his face still pale, smiling and waving to the fans!
"Chuck!" Li Wei went up and gave him a hug!
Mav Albert pointed at Li Wei and said: "I talked to Mike Ben, I introduced the coach, he introduced the players, but it is really difficult to divide who will introduce David." So be it, Mike, David is yours! ”
Mike Brin took the microphone and said, "Okay, this is the most marginal player on our team, I believe you don't need me to introduce you, David Lee!" ”
The fans laughed and cheered in unison!
Li Wei waved his hand to greet everyone.
Mike Brin continued: "David Lee is not only our base-paid player at the end of the bench, but also our head coach, the backbone of the team, and now the championship coach, bringing a championship to our Knicks! ”
Keep cheering!
Li Wei found a chair and sat down, and the players began to appear.
First up were the three who didn't make the 12-man squad: Jeff Hornacek, Tracy McGrady, and Rashad Lewis!
If there are no injuries, the first two will definitely play a considerable role in the playoffs, but the world is always unpredictable, if the two of them are not injured, Li Wei and Bowen will not be in the 12-man squad, Duncan will not be injured in Bowen's hands, and Li Wei is unlikely to shoot a decisive goal to determine the ownership of the championship!
If that's the case, it's not certain who will win this year!
Now, although they failed to enter the Knicks' playoff roster, they picked up a championship ring for nothing, which can be regarded as a lost corner and a mulberry elm.
Then, Nesterovich, Bruce Bowen, Da Yao, Nowitzki, Nash, Big Ben, Dabo, Charlie Ward and others appeared one by one, and the last three on the court were Stephen Jackson, the MVP of the Finals, Kevin Garnett, the team's offensive and defensive core, and Alan Houston, the team's top scorer!
After introducing the players, Mike Brin came to Lowe to interview the team owner.
Luo Wei cherished words like gold, and only said more when talking about Li Wei: "I originally wanted to fire him, since he won the championship, let him work for another two years!" ”
The fans laughed in unison.
Mike Brin said: "Ms. Lowe, what else do you want to say to Knicks fans? ”
Luo Wei thought for a moment and said, "Thank you to all the fans, it's gone." ”
Compared with Luo Wei, Xia Cuirong, as the second largest shareholder of the team and the president of basketball operations, talked a lot, and she even wrote a manuscript and read it for a long time.
After interviewing the team's property owner, Marv Albert took the microphone again and ceremoniously invited General Manager Dennis Johnson to the front desk!
Dennis Johnson said he was happy to win the championship as a player and now he is winning the championship as a general manager. He also told many small stories about the team's championship and made the fans laugh.
After Dennis Johnson's speech, a third host appeared!
The presenter came straight from the row of celebrities, and he was Mike Brin's partner, now the commentator of Madison Garden, and Walter Fraser, the Knicks' all-time total assist leader!
"Let's have the team's championship coach, David Lee!" Fraser shouted.
Li Wei walked to the front desk amid the screams of the audience and said loudly: "Thank you to every fan and friend at the scene, thank you to every fan and friend in front of the TV and radio, the Knicks can win the championship, and you have the greatest credit!" ”
The audience applauded thunderously.
Li Wei continued: "I want to thank the team's decorated head coach, Mr. Reid Holzman, when I took over the team, I promised him that I would bring a championship trophy to the Knicks, and now I have done it, but he can't see it.
I want to thank Chuck Daley, as we all know, is the actual coach of this Knicks, without him there would be no championship Knicks, I was just a student of his, and I want to thank Jeff Nick, who, despite his age, is the treasure of our town team and my mentor.
Thanks to Mike D'Antoni, who has designed a lot of the team's brilliant tactics, I've never seen anyone so talented, and to Byron Scott, who not only made our team's defensive system more rational, but also brought us championship experience......"
After thanking the people in the team one by one, Li Wei said: "I also want to thank Larry Bird, I wanted to ask him to be the head coach of the Knicks, if he agreed at that time, it would definitely not be me who is standing here now to give a championship speech!" ”
"Hahaha!" The Knicks fans let out a maliciously laugh in unison.
Walter Fraser quipped: "If it had been Larry Bird, we wouldn't have had this championship and everyone knew his team was eliminated!" ”
The fans laughed.
"I would also like to thank Larry Brown, who was our other head coach after Bird turned down our offer, but unfortunately he didn't stay! ”
Fraser said: "The result is that Brown's team is also eliminated!" ”
"Hahaha!" The fans in the square continued to laugh.
Li Weidao: "Looking back on this way, it was really not easy for us to win the championship, we met a strong Heat in the first round, Pat Riley's level is very clear to everyone, give him Abdul-Jabbar and Magic, he can win the championship!" ”
"Hahaha!" The fans burst into laughter, Li Wei was sarcastically ridiculing Riley who couldn't win the championship without Abdul-Jabbar and Magic!
Li Wei said: "Pat Riley looks down on the Knicks, and he looks down on me because we don't have Abdul-Jabbar, we don't have Magic, and even Ewing was traded. But we've got Kevin, we've got Allan, we've got Dirk, we've got a lot of players who are together, who are willing to work hard, who are willing to work hard. What about the Heat's first place in the East? We still let them go fishing in the first round! ”
"Good!" The fans applauded!