In the interview before the Christmas game, Kevin Garnett, who had always been active before, shrunk. He refused all interviews and questions and remained completely silent and did not speak.
"KG knows that he made a very serious mistake in last season's Eastern Conference Finals. He will become the focus of this game. Of course, it is the kind of focus that is spurned. He obviously does not want to be such a focus, especially in this game.
The Christmas War was still held in Madison, so he chose to keep a low profile, but does being low-key work?"
Bill Simmons was very concerned about this Christmas war. He began to post intensively on the homepage of his social networking site. The first one was related to Garnett.
As Bill Simmons wrote, Garnett's low profile has no effect at all.
Before the game, Knicks fans were already clamoring. Director Spike Lee shouted to the camera: "The opportunity for revenge has come. If I were Lionel Hollins, I would let Nazil or
Kwame, kill KG in a matchup, yes, that’s right, I’m talking about that kind of kill!”
Rapper Fat Joe said more bluntly: "If the Knicks can't take action, I will let my people do it."
So, Bill Simmons posted another post to watch the excitement: "If I were KG, I would hide in Boston and not come out."
But Garnett has no choice because he is already in New York.
Garnett was completely silent, and the Celtics who spoke the most before the game, their new coach Tom Thibodeau, also announced that he would not answer questions about going to the Eastern Conference Finals.
On the contrary, like a resentful woman, she has been complaining about the setting and arrangement of this game:
"We often have some highlight games of the season with the Knicks, but almost all of our focus games are away from home, which is so unfair to us."
"Madison is the focus, and North Shore Garden should be even more the focus, because there are 16 championship flags hanging in the sky above North Shore Garden! The league should not ignore this!"
Throughout Tom Thibodeau's pregame interview, he kept dwelling on this question, avoiding all other questions.
Bill Simmons also posted a message expressing his views.
"As we all know, the NBA is a business league, and the Celtics particularly agree with this. Regarding Lin Yu's transaction, they once expressed their view: Business is business. Therefore, when the league arranges a focus battle such as the Christmas game, it also considers
It should be beauty and popularity, and competition should come second.”
However, no one will reply to Bill Simmons, because the purpose of the Celtics is just to open up the topic, and they don't want to have too many arguments on a meaningless topic.
Finally, it was Laga Rondo who answered the question about predicting the outcome of this game in a somewhat brainless way:
"There's no doubt we're going to win this game because the Knicks are the loser."
Although the fans are a little angry, the Knicks are still very quiet. Being in New York, they are very popular and don't need to rely on pre-game wars of words to attract attention.
But Rondo's speech in front of media reporters really made the Knicks angry.
Kyle Lowry couldn't help but stand up and hit back: "The Celtics who win by dirty means are not really winners!"
And Nazr Muhammad: "It should be a shame for the Celtics to go to the Eastern Conference finals, but Rondo still shamelessly thinks they are the winners. I feel sick and can't wait to beat them.
Already."
Wilson Chandler mentioned Lin Yu directly: "They just beat the Knicks without Lin, and now that Lin is back, Lin will tell the Celtics that the Celtics will never win with the Knicks."
Lin’s Knicks.”
Bill Simmons also posted: "I don't like to talk about the outcome of a game before the game, but for Rondo, what I want to say is that the Knicks will not be the Celtics in any way.
Wilson Chandler was right when he said that he was defeated. The Celtics only defeated the Knicks without Lin Yu, but when facing Lin Yu, the Celtics did not win even a playoff series.
Even in the regular season, most of them were defeated.”
Before the game, Lin Yu also accepted an interview and answered several focus questions.
"KG's killing foul? Yes, I still remember it, but I will not retaliate in kind, because of a simple reason, if a dog bites you, will you bite it back?"
"For this game, I just want to say that I can always beat the Celtics. Facing them, I have some psychological advantages. We will win this game."
"Raga Rondo? I have said it many times. He is a problematic player. A point guard who cannot shoot is no longer in line with the trend of this era. He is the Celtics' weakness and we can exploit him.
, easily win this game.”
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"Amanda, are the gifts ready?"
The Christmas War was naturally celebrated together with Christmas, so of course Lin Yu had to prepare some gifts.
The task of preparing gifts was handed over to Amanda Grey.
Lin Yu's request was for a gift that was creative, not cliché, and not too low in value. Amanda Gray quickly found a suitable choice.
She found a fruit company to customize more than 30 of the latest fruit laptops. In addition to all the top-of-the-line hardware, the colorful Knicks team logo and each Knicks logo were printed on the back cover and panel.
The jersey numbers and names of Sri Lankan players are very memorable.
"Approximately how much did it cost?"
"Each computer costs about $1,500."
The price of the original version is about US$1,000, which means it is US$500 more expensive. It just adds a few patterns, and the fruit company is quite dark.
Lin Yu just thought about it, it was a bit expensive, and he didn't take the money to heart yet.
"Pack it for me and send it to Madison."
"Are you planning to give out the gifts before the game?"
Amanda Gray was a little curious.
Lin Yu nodded: "Of course, I will not only send them out before the game, I will also tell my teammates that if we can succeed this season, I will take back these computers and let the fruit company
Plus an O’Brien Trophy.”
Because the opponent was the Celtics and there were some old friends in the Celtics team, Lin Yu also prepared several regular versions of Fruit Notebooks.
Carrying some cumbersome gifts, Lin Yu could not take the subway, so he chose to set off early.
The Christmas game has all the eyes of the United States on it, but the battle between the Knicks and Celtics is just one of the five games that day.
In addition to the Knicks and Celtics, there are also the Lakers and Cavaliers, Hornets and Magic, Spurs and Suns, and Rockets and Bucks.
The Lakers vs. Cavaliers are naturally 23 vs 24. The Hornets and Magic are considered the duel between the top players of the 2004 generation and the top players of the 2005 generation. The Spurs and Suns are old rivals, with countless grievances and grudges.
As for the Rockets and Bucks, it's just that the league was swayed by the Bucks.
The league originally wanted to create a China Derby showdown, but the Bucks sent away the UAE and the China Derby was gone. The biggest gimmick of this Christmas game turned into a showdown between No. 1 center Yao Yao and Andrew Bogut.
Already.
"Dayao, you have to work harder to kill the Boggart!"