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In May 1998, New York City was once again surrounded by basketball, the New York Knicks are arguably one of the favorite professional teams of New Yorkers, they have won championships, it is also known as one of the temples of basketball, and Madison Garden Square is the mecca of basketball, and they have been the top team in the league since Patrick Ewing joined.

Despite being in the East, being suppressed by Jordan, and having not tasted a championship for a long time, it still has the greatest arena and one of the greatest teams.

They have reached glory at the hands of Pat Riley, losing seven games to the Rockets in the 1994 Finals, Patrick Ewing was beaten by Olajuwon still vividly, and after Pat Riley left, his apprentice Van Gundy Jr. took over the coach, although he failed to reach the Finals again, but he has always kept the Knicks competitive in the East.

However, in this season's playoffs, they once again encountered Reggie Miller's Pacers, and the famous "throat lock incident" in 1994 made these two teams rivals, enemies of life and death, but the Knicks have fallen behind 1-2 in the first three games of the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs this year, and they will be eliminated if they are not careful, which is not very acceptable to fans in New York, they can tolerate the team losing, but they cannot tolerate the team not improving every year, or even regressing. Hope is the greatest, expectations are the most, but often these expectations and hopes turn into extreme despair.

In the fourth Eastern Conference semifinals held at Madison Square Square today, the Knicks must not lose at home, if there is no improvement, I am afraid that the Knicks will have no chance in the future, the team's boss Patrick Ewing is getting older, his condition is getting worse and worse, and there are more and more injuries, and everything in the future is full of uncertainties. Judging by this season, he has started a serious downslide.

So fans are desperate for a savior-like coach or owner to break such a lock and hit the league's top honors while Patrick Ewing is still fighting.

It is because of this demand of fans, hoping that the team can achieve results as soon as possible, James Dowran, the owner of CNN, the new owner of the New York Knicks last year, is ready to act, he is ready to take Van Gundy Jr., and this time he invited Zhuang Fei of Wake Forest, the most popular head coach in the United States in recent years. Van Gundy is a very good manager, and if you give him a little bit of quality, he can bring you a certain amount of results, but he is not a coach who can bring out the best in his players, and he lacks championship genes.

"This position is really good" Zhuang Fei sat in the front row of the middle stands of Madison Square Garden, the home of the New York Knicks, and could clearly see everything that happened on the court. And sitting next to Zhuang Fei are the owner of the New York Knicks, James Dolan, and his son Dolan Jr.

At the end of this season's NCAA, Zhuang Fei announced that he would not renew his contract with Wake Forest and would enter the NBA, and many teams in the NBA expressed interest in the legendary head coach who won the NCAA championship three times in three years, among which the matter between the New York Knicks and Zhuang Fei is an open secret. As soon as Zhuang Fei sat down in Madison Garden Plaza today, the TV camera swept over, and all fans in New York knew about Zhuang Fei's arrival.

"It would be nice if we could really invite the Demon King, and we Knicks will have a chance to revive."

"Yes, he's a recognized champion coach"

"Don't be so optimistic, in fact, Van Gundy has done well, and no one in our team can win the championship"

"What nonsense are you talking about, we have Patrick and Alain, how can it be impossible to win the championship, it's Van Gundy who is too second"

It is also a good choice for Zhuang Fei to be able to enter New York, New York has some good players, and the strength is also very good, and the most important thing is that this place is not bad for money, Zhuang Fei can not think about money, and transform the team according to his own ideas. It's a great place for a manager.

The game was a veritable tight game, with the two teams tied at 102 in regular time, and finally passed overtime, the Pacers won 118-107, and the entire overtime Knicks allowed the opponent to score 16 points and only scored 5 points themselves, completely collapsed. Reggie Miller scored 38 points alone.

James Dolan was disappointed after the game, he is not a professional fan, and he also knows that the Knicks will not be able to beat the Pacers again in the following games after the team's home loss, and New York has stopped again this year.

Zhuang Fei and James Dolan left the arena and went to the team owner's office.

"Zhuang, what do you think of this New York?" James Dolan asked Zhuang Fei.

"It's bad, I personally don't like it" Zhuang Fei pondered for a while and said, seeing James Doran nodded, he continued: "Patrick Ewing is performing badly, but considering his 36-year-old age this is also normal, his rebounding, scoring, defense is declining in all aspects, it is obviously not suitable to be the first core of a team, and there is Alan Houston, the shooting is beautiful, Biszzerbiak is beautiful, but the stability is lacking, However, several corner players of the New York Knicks performed well, which is why the Knicks were able to hold on to the end of this game."

"If the team can solve the problems of Alan Houston and Patrick Ewing, the Knicks can still challenge for the championship, of course, for these two people is not necessarily to ask them to leave, but to reposition their role in the team."

Zhuang Fei is very optimistic about the two big men of the Knicks through this game, and they are not the type he likes. Zhuang Fei's favorite team leader and big boss is a stable player with aggression and tenacity, like Duncan, who can be trusted when it comes to critical times, will not have ups and downs, and will not have very emotional play, and can reassure his teammates when standing on the court. Obviously, the two bosses of the Knicks are not this type right now, and if they just stay competitive, these two are enough, but it's not enough for the championship.

After listening to Zhuang Fei's words, James Doran frowned, he believed that Zhuang Fei's professional judgment would not be wrong, but this thing was too difficult to do, he only moved into the Knicks last year, and he will operate on Ewing this year, although it may not necessarily get him away, but it will definitely have friction with Ewing, with Ewing's status in the hearts of Knicks fans, what should Knicks fans do? Zhuang Fei also said that he would take Houston, which is even more impossible, Dolan loves Houston very much, the two are inseparable friends, how can they bear to take it?

"Zhuang, if these two people stay the same, I am willing to find the players you want for you, the question of salary is not a problem, with him as the core and some strong players, do you think New York can win the championship?" Doran asked cautiously after thinking twice. But after seeing Zhuang Fei shaking his head, he could only sigh. That's the biggest disagreement between the two.

Zhuang Fei left Dolan's office with a very heavy heart, the boss was unwilling to give up the player, and he had no choice, although he wanted to stay in the Knicks, but there were too many contradictions within the Knicks, although James Doran liked him very much, but his son didn't seem to like Zhuang Fei very much.

"Dad, why are you begging this stinky kid in a low voice, isn't it just that he won a few championships in college, his nose is up to the sky, and he just contacted him and asked for the team's trading rights and signing rights, did he think he was Phil Jackson? Even Phil Jackson doesn't have him like him, if it's really coming, I, the general manager, will still do a fart" Xiao Dolan was very dissatisfied with Zhuang Fei, thinking that Zhuang Fei simply didn't know how to advance or retreat, and a giant like the New York Knicks invited him to look up to him, and he actually picked and choose.

The status of coaches in the NBA is generally not high, everyone knows that in the hearts of the owner, the star is the first, the coach is at the bottom, as long as Jordan speaks, Phil Jackson has to blame the class, unless a coach can do the cardinal, become a symbol of a team. This is the biggest difference between the NBA and the NCAA.

After hearing his son say this, Daolan wanted to scold him angrily, but he couldn't open his mouth, so he could only sigh by himself, it seemed that he and Zhuang Fei could only be fated to be inseparable.

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