NBA: This Center Is So Stable

The new coach of the Knicks

Chapter 96 New Knicks Coach

“High tops, the heel of the shoes should have a pinyin W or a Chinese character Wang, white as the main tone with the Knicks’ orange as the auxiliary, add a little Chinese element, no dragon…”

After a precise command, the Anta designer also roughly got the requirements.

It has to be said that although Anta is the first time to contact the field of basketball shoes, the chief designer who is on a business trip abroad is still online, and the sketch was quickly restored.

It is roughly the same as the idea in Wang Song’s mind. This pair of shoes is a bit like Ning Zi’s Yushuai 11. The streamlined feeling looks very smooth, but as a center shoe, it will be heavier overall.

Wang Song also accurately expressed to the Anta team that they needed to make a pair of low-top versions of the basic sneakers, which could be made lighter, so that outside players could also have the opportunity to wear them.

After a whole day of communication, after Wang Song made the decision, the Anta design team collected the requirements.

The huge project of designing sneakers kicked off, and Wang Song began a long wait.

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Knicks senior office.

Don Cheney, who had just won the Coach of the Month award, was packing up his things and preparing to move out of this office where he had a little affection.

The end of November was the last deadline given to him by the Knicks executives. Although the team is still in a winning streak, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain.

During this period, not only Don Cheney was looking for a new team, but the Knicks executives were also not lazy.

Their new coach had arrived in New York last night and was ready to take up his post at any time.

After Don Cheney and his assistant had completely packed up, they wanted to say hello to the Knicks management when they left the office.

After all, he has been in New York for nearly two and a half years. Apart from not bringing the Knicks any good results, his relationship with the management is not so stiff.

Besides, doesn’t this season’s 12 consecutive wins prove his coaching level?

Don Cheney has always believed that the Knicks can be what they are today, and it is inseparable from the foundation he laid for those young people in the past two years.

But when he knocked on the door and opened the Knicks president’s office, he realized how redundant he was.

In the president’s office.

Scott Layden and the new Knicks coach were talking and laughing.

Having a new love, he didn’t forget the old love. Scott Layden waved to Don Cheney and asked him to come in and sit down.

The new Knicks coach next to him also smiled at him like a spring breeze.

Don Cheney decisively declined and left the door with an embarrassed smile.

“Damn Layden, he would rather have a useless coach from the European system than me!”

After closing the door, a cursing voice sounded.

“Boss… isn’t it inappropriate to curse in front of someone’s door?”

The assistant on the side looked at Don Cheney’s trembling body and wanted to ask the head coach to speak softly.

Don Cheney didn’t care about his advice at all, but wanted to give this expensive-looking door a hard kick.

But after thinking carefully, is it really necessary?

Is there really a future for following this mentor who was kicked out together?

The assistant suddenly felt a little confused!

After a while, the movement outside the door disappeared.

Scott Layden, who sent Mrs. Niu away, smiled at the new coach.

“Mr. Mike, I’m sorry to make you laugh!”

D’Antoni didn’t care and smiled it off.

As a coach who started his bumpy coaching career in the NBA in 1997, D’Antoni has seen many storms.

It is common for people to lose their balance after being laid off.

Mike D’Antoni, who has just entered the NBA for three years, has been an assistant coach, a head coach, and even a scout in order to stay in the NBA.

Before he came to the Knicks, he was a small assistant coach of the Portland Trail Blazers.

Now he has turned back to the position of head coach, and is still the top team in the league. D’Antoni, who was hired, did not show too much surprise.

His expressionless face seemed to show his confidence!

This coach who returned from Italy and Europe has a certain understanding of the tactical system in his mind and the potential of players.

This is also an important reason why the Knicks are willing to promote D’Antoni. Of course, the most important thing is that this coach who has been wandering in Europe for many years often has some bold ideas.

Obviously, compared with the old-fashioned coach like Don Cheney.

The current Knicks need a young coach with ideas and changes to complete the integration of the team before the playoffs.

The two met in the office

What a pleasant conversation!

Not long after Don Cheney left, Scott Layden had his office emptied out and vacated it for the new coach of the team.

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And this news also made the league, which had been silent for a long time before the Christmas game, agitated again.

Even though there had been news that the Knicks coaching staff was in turmoil.

But when D’Antoni took that position, it still caused an uproar.

An article titled “The transformation of a small figure! The assistant coach abandoned by the Spurs, Nuggets, and Trail Blazers turned into a top player in the league?” quickly topped the headlines of major sports media.

After a long period of fermentation, local netizens in the United States launched heated discussions.

——【Mike D’Antoni? Isn’t that guy an Italian who was disliked by the Spurs as a scout? 】

——【Don’t talk nonsense, he won all kinds of trophies in Europe, and he came to the NBA just to prove himself! 】

——【D’Antoni was a very strong player, with 6 league scoring titles and 8 league assist titles. This ability alone is more than enough for him to stay in the NBA as an assistant coach, but as for the head coach, it is still to be studied…】

——【What to study! The current Knicks coaching bench can win the game even if they tie a dog. Does anyone really think that Don Cheney’s coaching level has been epically improved after one offseason?】

——【D’Antoni, like old Nelson, is a coach with his own system in his mind. I wonder if he will have the chance to inherit the mantle of a mad scientist!】

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Under such public opinion, D’Antoni has not publicly responded to the outside world’s comments.

The time is tight and the task is heavy. The December game is coming soon. The current Knicks are no different from other teams. They just need to keep their playoff spot.

They also have the burden of 12 consecutive wins to break the historical record. Don’t look at the Knicks’ record as if there is no pressure.

But in fact, the pressure on the team is very high.

And it just happened that the coaching change happened, even the confident D’Antoni had to work overtime to get familiar with the team.

Although the record of the winning streak ending will most likely appear in his hands, D’Antoni still wants that day to come later.

He simply looked at the schedule for the future and couldn’t help but take a breath.

“Pistons, Raptors, Trail Blazers, Celtics, Rockets, Grizzlies, Mavericks…”

The opponent in the third game is his old team, the Portland Trail Blazers.

Then it’s the All-Star Game!

(End of this chapter)