Chapter 50: Mr. Despair

The next day, the night.

Madison Square Garden was packed.

Don't doubt it, this time it's a real pack-out.

Of course, don't think that the New York fans are here to cheer on their home team. In fact, since the New York Knicks' twelfth consecutive loss this season, you can only hear New York fans booing the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. They're here today purely to see the superstars, LeBron James and Zhang Kong.

Speaking of which, fans in New York are the most inclusive group in the NBA, and if you're a star, you don't get boos when you score high in Madison. Bryant, O'Neal, and even James have scored high scores at Madison Square Garden on more than one occasion.

As for how much of what they did out of hatred for their own team, no one knows.

Before the start of the game, in the home team's locker room, Knicks head coach Isaiah Thomas was making the final pregame mobilization. To be honest, looking at this gang of uncles, Isaiah Thomas is also helpless and dissatisfied. He's been having a hard time lately, Dolan is tired of wiping his ass endlessly, and his love for Isaiah is gradually draining along with patience.

The endless rotten contracts and the mess Isaiah himself made James Dolan more and more dissatisfied and impatient.

This season, Dolan kicked Isaiah Thomas from the general manager position to the head coach position. Letting him personally lead this Knicks team that he personally assembled is arguably the best proof of this.

Isaiah Thomas also knows that this is his last chance. In fact, now he already knows what he is wrong, he has a group of talented young people, and he wants to rebuild an invincible army like the 'bad boy army' in the 80s, and he has indeed got a group of talented young people.

But he didn't build a good core.

Stephen Marbury is a very good player, but he doesn't have the courage and ability to dominate an entire team, and he can't handle all kinds of conflicts in the locker room, and even he is the source of some of them.

It would be a mistake to choose Stephen Marbury as the heart of the team.

Isaiah Thomas still had to try, though.

Otherwise, at most by the end of the season, he will inevitably get out of New York. It's not a good end for Isaiah Thomas.

At this moment, a series of cheers came from outside, and words like James and Zhang Kong could be faintly heard.

Isaiah Thomas's face became more and more ugly, no matter who it was, on the territory of his own team, his own fans cheered for the stars of other teams, this kind of thing is really too slap in the face, it is simply a naked slap in the face.

"Did you all hear that, our fans are cheering for our opponents! Because you bastards are so useless! Look at the games you guys played, my grandma played better than you. ”

The Knicks' players were doing their own thing, no one was taking what Isaiah Thomas was saying, and Randolph was wearing tuba headphones and shaking his head and singing RAP. Marbury was tidying up his carrying, but judging by his distraction, he was probably still thinking about his business ventures.

Eddie Curry sat in his seat, his eyes half-closed and he didn't wake up, and it is conceivable that he must have enjoyed it last night.

Crawford and David Lee looked like they were listening attentively, but they were a little absent-minded no matter how they looked at it. And little potato Robinson, he looks eager to play.

"This is the team I built on top of the luxury tax?" Isaiah Thomas was in despair.

Malik Rose, a cheerleader who barely plays with a $72 million contract, and Jeffries, a five-year, $30 million water cooler keeper. Jerome James, who got $12 million this season but barely played......

Thinking about it, Isaiah Thomas only felt infinitely desolate.

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ABC TV chose to broadcast the game nationally and sent Van Gundy and Mike Brin to narrate the game, with Knicks legend and famous iron man Charles Oakley as a special guest.

"To be honest, I really don't know what it's like for you to come here to explain, and you invited me for five hundred dollars." As soon as he came up, Charles Oakley fired directly: "I don't even watch the Knicks games now, my God, watching their games, and thinking about my time, it's just torture, it just makes me feel pain." ”

Throughout his career, Charles Oakley has always been a cold and vicious iron man, and is even known as the champion of boxing in the NBA, and his fists are definitely fresh in the memory of many NBA players at the time. After retiring, the villain started a charity business, occasionally making guest appearances, but also with a great sense of humor. The end is a subversive image change.

"Oh Charles, Charles, you're not Barkley, why are you commenting so much about your parent team." Brin, the famous ABC TV host, smiled and said, "Do you want to learn Barkley's commentary style?" Well, even though you're both called Charles, I'm sure that's definitely not for you. ”

"Don't mention me to that Humpty Dumpty." Oakley clearly remembers Barkley well, and they still have several talked-about fights inside the Circle.

"Okay, so let's focus on the field, we can see that both players are already playing, so Jeff, what do you think the outcome of this game will be?"

"In terms of strength and record, it's clear that the Cavaliers have the advantage." Van Gundy touched his head, saying that his hair had grown a lot since he became a commentator in the industry, and he was no longer the bald man he used to be. "But anything can happen in basketball, and I can't tell right now, but I think if I'm a gambler, I'm going to beat the Knicks."

"May I ask why?"

Van Gundy shrugged: "Because if I hit it, I'll make a lot of money." Except for me, the whole world will crush the Cleveland Cavaliers. ”

On the court, Madison's special atmosphere surprised Zhang Kong.

"What's wrong?" James saw Zhang Kong's strange expression and walked over and asked.

Zhang Kong shook his head and said, "It's nothing, it's just that I feel like we're playing at home." ”

James couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "New York has always been like this. ”

"Then they are so pitiful, they don't even have a home field." Zhang Kong really felt that the Knicks were a little pitiful.

Of course, he definitely didn't admit that his steps were a little vain at the moment had something to do with it, it was definitely the woman from last night...... Anyway, how many times, five, six times did it last night? I'm afraid it's more than that...... It's crazy.

Speaking of which, Zhang Kong now has some doubts about whether the woman was sent by the Knicks to drain his physical strength, if so...... Ronaldo in the 98 World Cup, before the World Cup final, seems to have suffered such calculations.

"Despair!"

"Despair!"

"Despair!"

"Despair!"

The long-lost familiar voice awakened the memory of Zhang Kong's burial, and he couldn't help but look up, only to see the backmost position on the west side of Madison, where familiar people shouted the long-lost nickname loudly. The tallest one standing at the front is clearly a small point.

Zhang Kong raised his hand, pointing there with a straight palm, as if the leader was inspecting his army.

"Ulla~~~"

At the moment when Zhang Kong responded, the small group of people erupted in cheers that covered the entire Madison. The fans next to them looked at this strange group of people with some strange feelings, they were not wearing uniform jerseys, but they were wearing different bells and whistles, and some were wearing jerseys, but they were neither New York Knicks nor Cleveland Cavaliers.

But there are also people who recognize it, and they seem to be New York natives, people who often hang out on the streets of Queens, yes, people from Rock Park.

A reporter obviously sensed that something was wrong, and immediately leaned over and asked Xiao Budian: "Hey, you all seem to know him, the No. 24 of the Cavaliers?" ”

"Of course!" Xiao Bu said proudly: "He is our king, the ruler of Rock Park, and the name of despair don't tell me that you haven't heard of it." ”

"Despair?" The reporter's eyes flashed with excitement and inexplicable brilliance, and the surrounding fans also heard Xiao Budian's words, and immediately couldn't help but talk.

"He's the one who is desperate, why didn't I see it?"

"Stupid, despair is a yellow race, and he is also a yellow race."

"So he's from our New York?"

"Well, probably, I'm not sure, but he must have played in New York."

"Then he's a son of New York."

"Maybe......"

"Shall we cheer for him, then?"

"Didn't we just cheer for him?"

"Charles, do you hear me, those cheers?" Brin pricked up his ears: "The cheers of the fans at the scene seem to be 'despair', oh, this is not the despair, is it the legend of Rock Park?" ”

"Should it be?" Oakley also pricked up his ears in surprise: "Who are they calling?" ”

"It seems to be that No. 24 of the Cavaliers, is he desperate? Impossible! ”