NBA: This Center Is So Stable

The new situation is not good.

Chapter 179 Carnival in New York City

The violence in Madison Garden will not affect the progress of the entire league, and the last few games of the regular season will proceed as scheduled.

The Knicks ushered in their last two opponents of this season.

Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves!

When talking about the Celtics, most people’s impression is still stuck in the devil’s home court in the last century, but after entering the 21st century, the decline of the Green Army is faster than expected.

Before the formation of the Celtics Big Three, this Green Army can be said to have officially become an unknown team in the league.

From a giant to an ordinary team, it may be ten years, or it may be a player.

Vice versa.

The Celtics, now with only Pierce, have not made much of a splash this season, and now enter the playoffs in a standard manner with a sixth place in the Eastern Conference.

This ranking is as mediocre as their performance in the regular season.

When facing a weak team, they become stronger, and when facing a strong team, they show weakness!

These eight words can accurately cover the performance of the Celtics this season. When facing a strong team, the Celtics can hardly perform at their average level!

In the middle of the season, Ricky Davis of the Cavaliers was traded to Boston, which gave the Green Army, which was originally short of firepower and almost fell out of the playoffs, a chance to breathe.

It’s funny to say that Ricky Davis was competing with James for the position of the team leader in the Cavaliers, but as soon as he arrived in Boston, he immediately became like a well-behaved kitten.

Not only did he not continue to cause trouble in the locker room, but he also became Pierce’s number one loyal dog.

But even so, Ricky Davis did not fulfill his wish, and even failed to keep his original starting position in the Cavaliers. This Cavaliers thorn won the Celtics’ best sixth man position with Pierce’s “recognition”.

It should be said that Ricky Davis, who entered the substitute lineup, was indeed like a dimensionality reduction attack. His butterfly-like offense was like a fish in water in the substitute lineup, and his personal scoring ability was fully demonstrated. However, it was the plus-minus value that was gradually drifting away from the opponent on the court that made the Green Army coaching staff unable to recognize this guy.

Game day with the Knicks!

The roar of the fans in the North Shore Garden seemed extremely weak on this day.

The pale record was hanging high, and Boston’s decline was a fact.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, the Knicks won the game with 107:97.

On the Green Army side.

Pierce scored 21 points and 7 rebounds, but he was alone. Ricky Davis, the second-in-command of the Celtics in the second half of this season, played extremely poorly and only scored 9 points.

Mark Blount, the starting center who just signed a 4-year 25 million contract with the Celtics, performed very hard today.

Although it was a bit futile, the attitude of signing a new 25 million contract was still placed in front of the Celtics executives.

But fundamentally, the gap in personal strength is still difficult to make up.

Combined with the previous impression, Mark Blount has always been a role player in Wang Song’s mind. There is no highlight in his entire career. After defrauding the Celtics, his short career began to fall rapidly.

In the face of absolute dominance, this contract fraudster exposed his true appearance.

In the absence of Kurt Thomas, Wang Song took on more Knicks rebounds and scored 24 points, 21 rebounds and 6 blocks in the game.

Five of them were caused by Mark Blount.

Blount wanted to prove to the Celtics executives that they made the right choice to re-sign him at a high price, but in this game, his shortcomings were exposed to the Boston fans.

Rebounds!

Rim protection!

Attack under the basket!

Nothing.

This inside player who got a big contract under the Celtics’ skin played extremely badly in this game.

However, Blount himself was not worried about what the fans or management would think of him. For him, whether he won or lost today’s game, whether he was beaten or tied against Wang Song, it was no big deal.

Because the opponent was an All-Star center, and he was just a small role player.

He had a clear understanding of his own positioning. He could do as much as he was paid. To compete with star players, he had to use star players.

After winning the Celtics, D’Antoni breathed a sigh of relief.

I was a little worried about whether Kurt’s absence from so many games would affect the team’s morale. Now it seems that only

If the Chinese rookie hadn’t left the court, this problem wouldn’t have existed.

The post-match interview ended.

Herb Sendek walked up to D’Antoni, smiling: “I told you, Mr. Mike, Kurt Thomas’s existence is to help out. As for the game, you can always leave it to Wang!”

D’Antoni shook his head helplessly. He wanted to find some words to refute the other party, but the fact was indeed so.

With Wang Song, the stabilizing force, on the field, it wouldn’t take much effort to deal with ordinary teams.

The most important thing is that he is a magic weapon for adjusting the atmosphere in the locker room.

Even if Kurt was suspended, the low atmosphere of the Knicks did not disappear overnight.

When Wang Song promised to help Kurt Thomas pay all the fines and pay all the lost salary due to the suspension, Kurt Thomas, who was originally very angry about the penalty, suddenly smiled.

The dissatisfaction with the league’s penalty standards disappeared in that instant!

Before officially taking action against Ben, Kurt Thomas had not considered it so far, and he did not expect to receive such a severe punishment.

Over the years, he has participated in countless conflicts and is quite experienced, so when the league’s punishment results came out, he was dumbfounded. He thought that he would be suspended for two games at most and fined 50,000 yuan at most, but he did not expect the punishment to be so severe.

The cost of 10 games suspension + 200,000 is nearly one million US dollars, which is also a painful amount for Kurt.

So Kurt’s first reaction after learning about the punishment was a little regretful, but when he thought about standing up for Wang Song, he gritted his teeth and accepted it.

As for Wang Song bearing all the fines for him and paying the salary for not playing, he had never thought about it.

When he learned about this news in the locker room, you can imagine how surprised he was.

The way that the Asian rookie spent a lot of money in the locker room was fascinated not only by Kurt, but also by all his teammates.

A group of teammates turned to Kurt Thomas and told them to come next time something like this happens.

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73 wins!

When the Knicks beat the Celtics, their record had reached 73 wins and 8 losses. With one game left, they broke the best regular season record of 72 wins and 10 losses set by the 96 Bulls.

This news once occupied the headlines of major news, and the previous fight was instantly drowned out by this news.

If the historical record loses its uniqueness, the attention it receives will naturally decrease sharply, so when the Pistons defeated the Bulls to tie the record, American fans were not excited for too long.

But when this record was broken, all the fans went crazy.

New York City started the carnival directly!

(End of this chapter)