NBA: Back to 97, to be the Jagged Bishop

Chapter 91 Into the Shape of Old Thomas

After hanging up Ernie's phone, Combe thought maliciously, should he call Van Gundy Jr. and tell him that he can replace him as the Knicks coach at any time.

He didn't question Old Thomas, because he knew very well that even if he asked, Old Thomas would never admit it.

This Lao Deng's face is thicker than the Great Wall.

On January 1998, 1, the Raptors' first game after the New Year was against the Chicago Bulls.

Originally, this game was highly anticipated by the fans. In the last matchup, the Bulls were instantly defeated by the magical Tracy McGrady.

As a result, the Raptors were suspended until there were only five single seedlings left, and the game was completely out of suspense.

It cannot be denied that the Raptors still have good combat power, but they are facing the Chicago Bulls. In such a high-intensity matchup, all five players on the field have to play for 48 minutes, and it is impossible to maintain efficiency all the time.

"Just take it easy."

"Play whatever you want, it doesn't matter if you lose, you must not fight too hard, and don't get yourself hurt."

"If you can't run anymore, let's start walking."

Kong Bu first enlightened the crowd to prevent them from playing too hard and getting injured.

Almost 100% of the games that will be lost, if there is another injury, it is really not worthwhile.

At eight o'clock in the evening, players from both sides appeared on the field.

Jordan's face was full of relief. There was really no reason for him to tense up against such a remnant Raptors.

Zen Master Jackson stood on the sidelines and nodded to Kongbu, saying hello.

Kong Bu also nodded with a smile.

After the game started, Kumbu looked at the situation on the field and was in a good mood.

The situation was not as bad as he thought, and the Raptors even had a big advantage after the opening.

The Bulls missed Pippen from the outside, and the Raptors are not much better here. The starting small forward is McCain.

What really gave the Raptors an advantage was Big Zhi.

The last game against the Knicks was Da Zhi's first match after his physical fitness skyrocketed, because the opponent was too weak to see how much he had improved.

In this game, you can intuitively feel the changes in Da Zhi.

Transformative changes.

In the face-to-face dialogue with Luke Longley, Big Zhi suppressed all aspects, whether it was offense, defense, or rebounding.

At the end of the first half, the Raptors were only five points behind.

It's a pity that they failed to collapse in the second half. After their physical fitness was exhausted, their offensive and defensive strength dropped significantly.

In the end, the Raptors lost the game without accident and got their ninth loss of the season.

On the night the Raptors lost, the Knicks also experienced a fiasco.

They are much worse than the Raptors, at least the Raptors lost to the Bulls, and the Knicks lost to the Clippers.

During the team training the next afternoon, Van Gundy Jr. called the generals to his side.

"Guys, there's something I really hate to say, but I have to say it."

"The higher-ups decided to settle with the Raptors and ask one of our players to apologize to the Raptors on behalf of the Knicks."

Little Van Gundy couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

He wanted to reconcile, but definitely not in such a humiliating way.

"What? Why should we apologize?"

"Those damned brats, shouldn't they apologize to us?"

Ewing's anger welled up, and he roared at little Van Gundy.

Little Van Gundy shrugged, his face full of innocence, "This is not my decision, but Ernie's decision."

"Besides, if we continue to play like this, we will almost 100% fail to make the playoffs."

"Old man, you should know how ugly it would be to hold $2200 million and not lead a team to the playoffs."

Ewing was stunned and stopped talking.

There are already many Knicks fans who think his salary is too high and boo him wildly during the game.

If there is really no way to make it to the playoffs this season, he will definitely not be guaranteed at the end of the season, and it will not be as simple as being booed by then.

"Since it's Ernie's decision, I won't say anything."

"But don't expect me to apologize as a representative."

With Ewing's status in the alliance, how could he lower his face and apologize to people like Daben.

"It doesn't matter if you don't go, as long as we have a core player to be a representative."

Little Van Gundy could understand Ewing's difficulties and did not embarrass him.

"I'm not going either, sorry? Don't even think about it." Oakley couldn't hold back that face either.

Besides, he didn't want to reconcile with the Raptors at all. He suffered the most in these two wars.

The first time he was stunned by Wu Sheng's flying elbow, and the second time he was treated as a punching bag by Ma Hong.

"Whoever wants to go, it's not me anyway." Aunt Johnson also shook her head.

"Huh? What the hell are you all watching me do?"

"The thing was caused by you, and now you want me to wipe your ass? Let me go to embarrassment?!"

When Alan Houston saw that everyone was looking at him, he went into a rage.

He played soy sauce in the first battle, and he didn't even do anything in the second war, and because he didn't do anything, he stayed and became the background board of the four sons of the Raptors.

He was full of anger and had no place to vent.

During the offseason of last season, for a seven-year $7 million contract, plus Ernie’s promise to succeed Ewing as the boss of New York, he betrayed the Pistons who trained him for three years and became a member of the Knicks .

Fans of the Motor City have always hoped that Hill and Houston can replicate the combination of Jordan Pippen and lead the Pistons back to the top.

Faced with Houston's betrayal, their disappointment can be imagined. Every time Houston goes to the Palace of Auburn Hills to play, he will encounter a lot of scolding.

He bears the infamy of a traitor, and he came to New York to be the boss, and definitely not to be the backer!

"Even if I return to the Pistons, I will never do such a shameful thing for you."

"If it doesn't work, just trade me to the Raptors as an apology for your apology."

Houston sneered.

Little Van Gundy smiled bitterly, traded to the Raptors?That still depends on the Raptors being able to want you, and their forward and defensive line configuration, you can only play as a substitute if you go.

The players who can be regarded as the core of the Knicks are the point guard Starks and the new madman.

When the madman saw little Van Gundy looking at him, his eyes suddenly became unfriendly.

Little Van Gundy shrank his neck and didn't dare to continue speaking, for fear of repeating the mistakes of Carlesimo and Combe.

Starks was speechless. Losing the draft has no human rights. In the end, this kind of responsibility was still assigned to him.

In the long history of the NBA, Starks, Big Ben and Brad Miller are known as the best three undrafted picks, because they are the only three undrafted picks selected to the All-Star.

It's a pity that there are too many big-name old ghosts in the Knicks lineup, and Starks, who is the least well-known, can only pinch his nose and admit his bad luck.

That afternoon, the Knicks held a press conference, which was nominally a pre-game press conference against the Bucks, but was actually an apology meeting.

One of the reporters, a Toddler hired by the Knicks, brought up the issue of the fight with the Raptors.

"We are sorry for not being able to deal with our personal emotions. As a veteran player, this should not be done."

"Here, we sincerely apologize to the fans on both sides, as well as Coach Comb and the Raptors players."

"I hope all this will become history, and there will be no more conflicts between our two teams in the future."

The reporters were all dumbfounded, what happened?The New York old ghost bowed to Combe? !
How can this be?

Even with Pat Riley's status and status, he couldn't make the old ghosts bow their heads and admit their mistakes. Kumbu did it?
The key is that everyone can see that the old ghosts have suffered a great loss, and they can still admit their mistakes and apologize when they suffer a great loss. This is incredible.

What kind of magical power does he have, why does anything related to him immediately become shocking?
If it wasn't for the fact that his skin color didn't match, the reporters even doubted whether Comb would be Stern's illegitimate son.

After the reporter spread the news of the Knicks' apology, the basketball world was shocked again, and some people began to wonder whether Combe had kidnapped Dolan's son in order to coerce the old ghost of New York to apologize.

Comb, who once again hit the headlines, is worrying about what to do with the next schedule.

Bowen and others were suspended for one game, and the next game against the Pacers can come back.

It's a pity that just Bowen and a few substitutes came back, and it didn't quench his thirst at all. The Raptors still lacked a large part of their combat power.

The Pacers are currently third in the Eastern Conference, not much behind the top two Bulls and Raptors.

Their style of play belongs to the kind that Kumbu is quite afraid of. They are extremely good at shooting. After all, they are the team trained by Larry Bird.

On the night of the game, Bird didn't have too much contact with Kumbu, just nodded to each other in a scene.

Kong Bu didn't have a hot face to stick to other people's cold ass.

It's not that Byrd has any opinion on Combe, but that there is a long-standing enmity between Bird and old Thomas.

During the playoffs in 87, rookie Rodman didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth. He said to the media that Bird was overrated and took advantage of his white identity. If he was black, he was just an ordinary player.

Immediately afterwards, the brainless old Thomas jumped out and praised Rodman's words, almost driving Bird to death.

In the final round of the playoffs, Bird almost single-handedly overturned the Pistons.

Later, in the event that the dream team squeezed out old Thomas, Bird was also the main force.

Comb has been labeled as the Pistons lineage and has become the shape of old Thomas. Of course, Bird can't give him a good face.

Needless to say, Combe and Thomas Sr. really explained what it meant to be congenial.

The ability of the two to offend people is definitely the strongest in NBA history.

(End of this chapter)