Chapter 025: Lost Supersonic

Three days passed quickly, although Liang Xiao signed with the Knicks on a base salary contract, it does not mean that Van Gundy does not favor him, as a rookie who did not participate in the draft, there is a bounce, a soft touch, and the courage to kill under the basket, all of which are reasons why Liang Xiao will not fall from Van Gundy's eyes.

Preseason, the first stop of the SuperSonics. Liang Xiao appeared in Van Gundy's squad.

SuperSonic, a team located in Seattle on the Pacific coast of the United States, was the city's oldest professional sports club and became one of the city's icons back in 1967. What Seattle people didn't know in 2002 was that in the summer of 2008, SuperSonics, who had been in the city for 41 years, left Oklahoma City and changed their name to the Thunder. If they now knew that the team that had carried the dream of basketball fans for decades would leave, they would be saddened.

For this city, Liang Xiao only knows two things, because he likes basketball, so he knows that there is an NBA basketball team here, and the other is Silicon Valley, Liang Xiao didn't know which city Silicon Valley was in, only knew Silicon Valley in the United States, but there was one person who made him remember, that was Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, who let him know that Silicon Valley existed in Seattle.

Seattle is a typical oceanic climate affected by the city, humid and rainy all year round, so the city is called "rain city", and because it is the hometown of Boeing aircraft, also known as "aircraft city", when Boeing was developing and manufacturing supersonic passenger aircraft, the team founded with the help of Boeing also chose the name "supersound", but its real nickname is "Emerald City", which is also the official nickname.

Liang smiled as soon as he felt the air wet and wrapped around, and after more than two hours of airplane, he didn't feel tired at all, but was extremely excited, because he knew that tonight was the beginning of his real NBA road, and he talked and laughed with Sprewell along the way, and couldn't hold back the uneasiness in his heart.

Mixed with an old guy like Sprewell, there is no generation gap, and there is no newcomer consciousness when he gets off the plane, and these old guys carry luggage, Liang Xiao will never do it, in his opinion, who do you love, and I have nothing to do with it.

The Knicks have been in the league since the seventies, and have twice won the championship in 1979.

The 90s were the peak of supersonic in the history of supersound. In 1994, legendary coach George Carr led Gary Payton "The Glove", "Rain Man" Sean Kemp and veteran Kent Keele to a league-best record of 63-19, but they were invincible in the regular season, but they were swept out by the Denver Nuggets, the eighth seed, and became the first No. 1 seed team in NBA history to go out in the first round of the playoffs.

In 1995, he also reached the playoffs but was defeated by the Lakers. The following year, they entered the playoffs with an astonishing 64-18 record, and this time they made it to the finals, but they met the invincible team at the time, the Chicago Bulls, led by the Flyers.

The supersonic in 2002, like the Knicks, was in a hurry.

"Rain Man" and "Gloves", this combination of the 90s, the rapid attack of the storm, the thunderous air relay, but unfortunately everything disappeared so quickly.

Former All-Star player Wen Baker and "The Gloves" are also classic PG+PF combinations, but he has gradually embarked on the old path of "Rain Man", addicted to alcohol and unable to extricate himself, and was sent to the Celtics last season.

Brent Barry, who came to the SuperSonics in the 99-00 season, a veteran who retired from the Rockets in later generations, became the third person to jump from the free throw line for a slam dunk in the 96 slam dunk contest, becoming the third person to jump from the free throw line after "Dr. J" and Jordan, proving that white people can fly, but they can still only be a blue-collar role.

Desmond Mason, the 2001 slam dunk champion, except for the gorgeous dunk, only has a dim star road, which is embarrassing.

At this time, the Bucks' "three musketeers" have not had time to disperse, and the legendary shooter Ray Allen did not come to the supersounds, and with the "gloves" of the 8-time All-Defensive Team and the 7-time All-Star team, they have also begun to become old, although he has not averaged 20+ results per game, but the day when he will leave the Supersonic is not far away.

The only thing that can be gratifying is that Rashad Lewis, who cried bitterly in the small green house in 98, steady growth, dedication, and later played 20+10 million yuan, and gave the Houston Rockets in his hometown a slap.

Supersonic, Key Arena.

Free preseason games, screams from the crowd, cheerleaders, scouts of the bears, all of it lit up the sleepless nights in Seattle.

Hearing the voice of the elder on the radio, the blood in Liang Xiao's body began to burn, and the players of the two teams rushed into the stadium, watching the crowds of people around them, like sparks falling into gasoline.

After getting familiar with the court, Liang Xiao and Frank Williams sat next to the water cooler, although they didn't want to guard the water cooler, but they still had the awareness to be a substitute.

The supersonic commentator sitting behind the technical statistician was constantly teasing the Knicks' McDyce, and Harrington in the center circle was preparing to jump the ball with a player whose name Liang Xiao didn't know.

"The Knicks are estimated to be choking enough this season, McDyes's season has been crippled before the season has started, and the Knicks are unlikely to have a win here today." One of the supersonic commentators said to another commentator next to him.

"I think the Knicks' are still a 'double gun' that shouldn't be underestimated, and they also played well last year when their power forward Marcus Camby was injured."

"I still don't think it's possible, oh, Payton got the ball, he's still nonchalant, I think Easley is going to have a hard time today."

Gary Payton looked at Easley casually with the ball, but Easley didn't dare to get too close or too far, because Gary Payton was a very well-rounded player. Gary Payton began his signature move, spewing trash talk out of his mouth, and walked to the top three-pointer, where he suddenly pulled the ball into the basket.

The long voice of a DJ rang out over the arena, three points, and the supersonic opened the record.

When Van Gundy saw this, he immediately lit up his signature voice, asking everyone to cheer up, not to relax, and to be optimistic about their own people.