This year's NBA Finals are played against the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks, two of the most popular teams in the NBA, and it can be said that in the whole of the United States, the influence of these two NBA teams is definitely more than one notch higher than other teams.

In this case, just relying on the two cities of New York and Los Angeles, the confrontation between these two teams can create the greatest spark, not to mention that this game is not just an ordinary confrontation but a confrontation in the NBA Finals, such a game can be said to make the whole United States boil, just like this season's Christmas war.

And now the enthusiasm of the United States is indeed driven by these two teams, Los Angeles Lakers, it can be said that when Zhuang Fei accompanied Scarlett in the hospital, these people outside are hyping this round of matchups, there is no doubt that the New York team and the Los Angeles team meet in the finals, which is the biggest topic that can create economic benefits.

At least David Stern, as the president of the NBA, will not let go of the hype of this series, just like the president of the NBA said, when the Boston Celtics and Lakers met in the Finals last year, he said that the Finals were the most watched Finals in history, and this year, he once again put the most watched Finals hat in history on this matchup, anyway, for David Stern, these things are whatever he says, and he doesn't want money anyway.

It's just that even if David Stern is suspected of exaggeration, there are some things that can clearly support David Stern's words, such as in June, which is not the peak month of vacation, all the hotel rooms around the Staples Arena, the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, showed that they were full, and the Los Angeles City government announced it three days before the Finals. Los Angeles saw a sudden 10 percent increase in foot traffic. And it's still growing. At this time, the tickets for the first four games of Staples Arena and Madison Square Square have long been sold out, which can also show the popularity of this Finals, at least there was no such crazy scene when the Boston Celtics played the Los Angeles Lakers last year.

And for the Finals, the popularity is just one factor, and what really makes people pay attention to what the quality of this round of matchups will be, not to mention the Lakers, the team that once again sat on the title of the strongest team in history after beating the Spurs has a lot of enthusiasm to see what the strongest team will perform in the Finals.

As for the New York Knicks on the other side, this team has been called a strengthened version of the Lakers last year by many media. The center is still at the end of his prime, O'Neal, the big forward is Odom, one of the league's most versatile players, and the small forward is one of the best young players in the league and the former Magic boss Butler, the scoring guard is the team's legendary player Alan Houston, who has the title of mid-range shooting king, and the playmaking guard is the team's second-in-command Marbury, as for the Super Sixth Man and the recent period of time because of his outstanding performance in defeating the Boston Celtics, Van Exel, who has been praised by experts as the older the three-pointer, the more demonic Van Axel, of course, In addition to these players. and Phil Jackson, known as the NBA's No. 2 coach.

All of this points to a very exciting matchup, which is why it is the way it is now.

And in addition to the fact that the players and coaches on both sides are among the best in the league. The recent state of the two teams is also the absolute top Lakers side beat the Spurs in two consecutive games, winning the Spurs by an average of more than 25 points per game, which is simply crazy for everyone, and the New York Knicks on the other side are even more so, if it weren't for the Boston Celtics because of Maddy's miracle stubbornly held on to the victory of a game, it is estimated that this team would have beaten the defending champion 4-1.

In this case, before the start of this series, almost all the experts in the United States predicted that the series would be decided after six games, of course, most media pundits still put more trust in the Los Angeles Lakers, who are known as the strongest team in history, but even so, most of these people believe that the Lakers can beat the New York Knicks at least 4-2, and even 4-3 is not less likely than 4-2.

Of course, this is just the comments of experts, in addition to the comments of experts, there are naturally some other people's comments, such as Xiao Daolan, who has been extremely excited recently, the team reached the finals again this year, which is a reward for his big money last summer, and the fans are also very satisfied, and he has been waiting for this day for a long time to meet his most hated Zhuang Fei in the finals.

It can be said that before defeating the Celtics, the general manager of the New York Knicks has been talking freely in an interview that he hopes to meet the Lakers in the Finals, when the division finals on both sides were in full swing, the words of the New York general manager naturally caused dissatisfaction among the Spurs and many Celtics fans, and even the head coaches of the Spurs and Celtics Brown and Popovich had a war of words with him, and after New York really entered the Finals, The New York general manager did not forget to belittle the revenge of Popovich and Brown, who had just been eliminated, and even bluntly said that the New York Knicks could sweep the Lakers to win the championship in the finals.

Naturally, not many people believe the New York general manager's full mouth of running trains, but there is no doubt that the words of the New York general manager can indeed make many people hate, if it weren't for Zhuang Fei who has been accompanying Scarlett, it is estimated that he would not be able to help jumping up and debating with the New York general manager. Of course, because of this, in the end, this debate did not get debated.

But anyway, on June 9, on the day of the game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks, at the pre-game press conference, when Zhuang Fei and Popovich walked into the press conference hall, the public opinion that had been raised in front of them reached its peak.

Because this is the first time that the Lakers and Knicks have been confirmed as Finals opponents, and it is also the first appearance of Zhuang Fei after leaving San Antonio and returning to Los Angeles, such a moment is naturally extremely capable of driving these reporters crazy.

"Fei'er, this is the second meeting between you and Coach Z in the finals, and the second meeting in a row, do you have anything to say about this year's competition?"

Just after Zhuang Fei and Phil Jackson came to the scene and were about to sit down, these reporters began to get straight to the point, obviously these people couldn't wait.

"I'm very excited, I'm very happy" today's Phil Jackson feels very good to Zhuang Fei, although this is his away game, but whether it is Staples Arena or Los Angeles, or these reporters in Los Angeles He is no stranger, after leaving the Lakers, he came to the New York Knicks, and took the New York Knicks to the Finals in the first year, such an achievement is naturally a great success, and with success to the place where he once stayed, this kind of ' 'Coming home' or other sensations are naturally enough to make the former Lakers head coach happy, after all, his achievement is like telling all Angelenos that his failure is not that he can't do it, but that the city of Los Angeles can't do it.

"This old boy seems to want to come back to demonstrate," when he thought of this, he looked at the smiling and excited Philip Jackson Zhuang Fei next to him, and he also thought with a smile.

And just like Zhuang Fei thought, the former head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers was demonstrative, and after returning to the previous question, the New York Knicks coach quickly made his own explanation for the previous problem, and his explanation caused an uproar in the audience.

"I'm excited because it's going to make all of us excited to be able to take the team to the Finals, and we're happy for that glory, and I'm happy because we can beat the Lakers or Mr. Zhuang in the Finals, so that the opportunity to get revenge makes us happy, just like Coach Z said when he left the Celtics, if he comes back to Boston in the future, he wants the Celtics fans to boo him, and I'm the same, I hope that when I go back to Staples Arena, the Lakers fans can boo me, I want to be booed from them, and my team and I want to beat the Lakers and lift the championship trophy in a crowd of boos from the Lakers. ”

is very arrogant, Phil Jackson's words are equivalent to a battle book before the start of the game, and he handed this battle book to Zhuang Fei in front of Zhuang Fei, so these reporters who reacted after being a little stunned and even Phil Jackson looked at Zhuang Fei who was smiling at this time.

Like Phil Jackson, the New York Knicks coach has a reason to be in a happy mood, and he also has such a reason to be happy, or that Zhuang Fei has been very excited since he came back from the Spurs, but these reporters don't know, Zhuang Fei doesn't want these guys to disturb Scarlett, who needs to recuperate now, if these guys know how crazy it would be if he was about to get married and be a father, every time he thought about it, Zhuang Fei had a little headache.

"I can understand what Mr. Jackson said, in fact, after I came to the NBA, Mr. Jackson has not won a championship, which is a shameful thing, this is an opportunity, and it is understandable that Mr. Jackson does not want to miss such an opportunity."

Zhuang Fei looked at these eyes that looked at him and said with a smile, and after Zhuang Fei said this, Phil Jackson's face was a little unpleasant, this was obviously Zhuang Fei's sarcasm to him, Zhuang Fei said back then, as long as he was there, Phil Jackson would never win the championship in the Lakers, Zhuang Fei's words made him hurt all the time, it can be said that it was forever painful, but Zhuang Fei did not give Phil Jackson and others a relief at this time, but immediately went on to say something that made these reporters even crazier.

"Yesterday, just yesterday, I gave Mitch an order, I told him that the Lakers can build a championship ring in advance, and I've given Mitch the blueprints, and I think he's already working on it now."

Creating a championship ring ahead of time? At this time, Phil Jackson and this group of reporters looked at Zhuang Fei with a smile on his face, his mouth was wide open, and he could almost put down two eggs.

Phil Jackson is crazy, and he's even crazier than Phil Jackson! (To be continued......)