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December 22, 2002, the date of the second game of the Boston Celtics' back-to-back tour, will take on the Nets in New Jersey.

Zhuang Fei and the Boston Celtics players rushed from Cleveland to New Jersey in the starry night after the game against the Cavaliers, and the latest series of games is the most tiring part of the Boston Celtics' entire regular season season, after which Zhuang Fei and his team will get two days of rest, and then rush to Los Angeles to face the Los Angeles Lakers on December 25.

The New Jersey Nets are very strong, especially after Kidd's return this season, this team's record has been in the top five in the entire East, Kidd, Jefferson, Martin and Mutombo plus Kidders' five starters are all above the league level, in the last game between the Nets and the Celtics a month ago, Zhuang Fei used several other points of the Boston Celtics and the Nets to strangle the other four points of the Nets and released Kidd, and finally in that game, although Kidd scored a lot, also performed well, but the final winner was the Boston Celtics, but the Boston Celtics, who played at home in that game, also narrowly won.

Kidd's performance this season has been outstanding, and it can be said that so far, in the MVP rankings, in addition to Carter's unbeatable appearance, Jordan and Kidd, Maddie and Webb and even Garnett Duncan are not far behind, and it can be said that Kidd is one of the best players so far this season. At the same time, the Nets have also rested at home for three days to rest against the Boston Celtics.

This game is a tough battle for the Boston Celtics in the absolute sense, and it can even be called a bad battle, before this game, the Boston Celtics have lost two in a row, but with the advantage of losing one less than the Wizards, the Boston Celtics are still beating the Wizards to become the first in the league and the first in the East, but if this game is lost, the Boston Celtics will lose their first position.

Zhuang Fei attached great importance to this game, and the Boston Celtics players also played with all their spirit at the beginning. Although these players look a little tired right now, they also know what this game means to them, this game is a game that the league first and the East number one cannot lose.

Although the Boston Celtics players are working hard to show their full strength. But with their current physical condition, it is difficult to meet this requirement, so the Boston Celtics and Nets have been anxious in this game.

In fact, the tactics of the Boston Celtics in this game have been following the tactics of the Boston Celtics and Nets in the last game, although the Boston Celtics lacked a defensive strength like Jackson in this game. But Prince, who replaced Jackson, did a good job of defending Kidels, and while the rookie couldn't really stick Kidders to death like Jackson did, he was able to do it to make him uncomfortable.

With Jackson's ban, Prince has slowly grown up in recent times, in fact, even when Jackson was still there, Zhuang Fei has been deliberately cultivating this Boston Celtics rookie, and compared with Barnes and Haslem, this small forward is more adaptable, and he also entered the rhythm of the NBA very early, which is why Zhuang Fei is willing to let him replace Jackson instead of using Kirilenko, Kirilenko's help defense is very good. But if you talk about this kind of individual defense, the current Prince is slightly better, especially in the defense of the second position, Prince is better than Kirilenko.

Of course, even if Zhuang Fei and the Boston Celtics attach great importance to this game, the process of this game is extremely entangled. From the beginning of the game to the end of the game, the Boston Celtics never had a maximum lead of more than 5 points, and the New Jersey Nets also did the same, in this game the two teams alternated leads 28 times, and even in the fourth quarter the two teams remained in the alternation until the final moments of the game. Arenas forced a layup to score a crucial two points after breaking through Kidd, and finally Kidd failed to score a three-point shot, and the Boston Celtics beat the Nets 107-105 on the road.

And the overall shooting rate of the Boston Celtics in this game is not too high, and the shooting rate of the Nets is also not too high, the reason why the two teams can play such a big score is mainly because the offensive and defensive rhythm of both teams is very fast, and the most points in this game are still Kidd of the Nets, the guard scored 36 points plus 13 rebounds and 7 assists, and almost had a triple-double, this season the guard and Carter are the players with the most triple-doubles in the league, so far 9, The Boston Celtics are in third place on the triple-double list, with six triple-doubles this season, and today he scored 19 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, with the Boston Celtics scoring the most with 24 points from backup guard Arenas.

The Boston Celtics have not performed well in recent times, and they have lost two of the last three games, especially this one almost suffered three consecutive defeats, so after Zhuang Fei returned to Boston with the team, the outside media also had a lot of complaints about this team.

After all, the Boston Celtics started with all the wins in the first 16 games, and the current record has become 25-3, which means that they have lost three of the last 12 games, although this record is extremely unfavorable for many teams, because this season can win 9 of 12 games, and the team with more than 75% of the victories is only the Wizards and Grizzlies, the Kings and the Timberwolves, and even the Spurs, who are third in the West, are still a little behind.

It's just because of the strength of the previous game, it's obvious that the rest of the league has great requirements for the Celtics this season, even if this team can't break the Timberwolves' regular season record, but it should also be able to break the Boston Celtics all-time record, but according to the current trend, it is not so easy for the Boston Celtics to reach more than 69 wins this season.

When Zhuang Fei returned to Boston, he gave the whole team a holiday, originally according to the rules of the league, the time of the player's holiday began on December 24th, which is also the legal holiday date of the league, and even the teams that need to participate in the Christmas war on December 25th are also on holiday according to this date, but the situation of the Boston Celtics players in the recent period of time makes Zhuang Fei very worried, so he also gave these people a holiday in advance, and there are still many teams that need to play on the night of December 23.

In the five years since Zhuang Fei entered the NBA, except for the first year when the Timberwolves did not play the Christmas War because of the shutdown of the league, he has played the Christmas War for four consecutive years, and what makes Zhuang Fei very depressed is that it seems that the league is determined to let him fight the Lakers in the Christmas War, Zhuang Fei still remembers that last year's Christmas War was against the Lakers at home, but this year's Christmas War was replaced by the Lakers' home court.

In addition to the Lakers and Boston Celtics, there are two other games in this year's Christmas game, the first game is the Timberwolves and the Kings that kick off at 3 p.m., Zhuang Fei's Boston Celtics and Lakers game starts at 6 p.m., and the Grizzlies and Wizards game, that is, the showdown between Carter and Jordan is the finale.

Last year, David Stern used the Boston Celtics and Lakers matchup and the battle between Jordan and Carter to earn all the eyeballs, in last year, the NBA was historic and overwhelmed the football league in terms of ratings at the same time, although the Christmas game is not the most important for the football league, for them the Thanksgiving game is the most concerned, but even so, the NBA can beat the NFL at the same time still makes David Stern extremely excited.

So this year's Christmas game except for the addition of a Timberwolves and Kings mat game, the other two games and last year have not changed at all, the four teams in these two games are all David Stern's trump cards, if this year's NBA ratings in the Christmas game can still beat the NFL, then it can prove that last year's miracle is definitely not a miracle, and it is still possible to normalize, which is extremely important for improving the influence of the NBA in the United States.

After the development of the past ten years, the NBA's global influence is not the NFL and several other leagues, but for the NBA, the market with the strongest purchasing power is still in the United States, in recent years, because of Jordan's Bulls dynasty and the rise of Wake Forest players or coaches, the NBA has maintained a brilliant and upward momentum for more than ten years, and now the NBA's influence in the United States has surpassed ice hockey and baseball in the second place. Apparently for David Stern, the second position is not what he wants.

Of course, for David Stern, this year's Christmas war is very special, in fact, it is the same for Zhuang Fei personally, this year Zhuang Fei and Scarlett are separated for the first time, in September this year, Scarlett has already gone to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts to report, in the United States high school is very leisurely, but college is definitely very painful, which is the opposite of China, so although this year's Christmas war is held in Los Angeles, Zhuang Fei is able to go to Los Angeles and Scarlett to spend Christmas together.

So Zhuang Fei took the lead in going to Los Angeles on December 23, as for his little nephew Zhuang Lin, Zhuang Fei directly threw him to the Stephen Green family to take care of, and after Scarlett went to college in Los Angeles, Zhuang Lin followed the Green family most of the time. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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