"Is your foul on purpose? You know, it reminds me of McHale's foul on Rambis in the 1984 Finals. The result was similar to today. The Celtics reversed the game... шщш.㈦㈨ⅹ.сом update So fast. Any deliberate meaning?"

"No, no, I don’t know what happened in 1984. I was only six years old. I didn’t even watch TV because I didn’t have a TV at home.. Uh, I just wanted to stop Kobe and prevent him from getting inside to score easily. , It’s just that he was too fast, I didn’t expect the impact would be so great, I’m sorry.”

"Did the coach Leon ask you to do that? Do you know why he lit his cigar at the end of the game?"

"Cigar? I don't know, haha, if it's really cool, no wonder he went back to the locker room so early. He just told me to be tough, nothing more."

In the player interviews after the game, Chris Anderson became the focus of many reporters. His malicious foul could not help people think of the clothesline in 1984. And the Celtics finally won the game, this foul will undoubtedly be mentioned frequently in the future, becoming another legend of Hu Kai confrontation.

But Anderson categorically denied the suspicion of deliberate fouling and took all the reasons to himself.

But this does not mean that Fox Leon can get rid of the suspicion of deliberately instructing players to maliciously foul. On the contrary, his act of lighting a cigar at the end of the game caused him to be bombarded by reporters at the press conference after the game.

"Is it one of your strategies to light a cigar before the game is over?" "Is Anderson's fouling you instructed?" "Are many plans already prepared before the game? The confidence to let the main players rest?". . .

A series of questions fought towards Leon like a cannon, and Leon appeared quite calm. While denying all the suspicions and speculations, he said: "Maybe I didn’t know that we could win this game before the game. , But when I lit the cigar, I knew we were going to win. I knew the NBA was a miracle, but it won’t happen today, it won’t happen when the Lakers play against the Celtics."

After that, Leon and the players left the Staples Center and Los Angeles, but the aftermath of this game was far from over.

First, on the morning of the second day after the game, the NBA officially held a press conference, and Stern personally announced multiple penalties for the Celtics.

The first is the Celtics' violation of the rotation player, was fined 200,000 US dollars, which is also the biggest fine this season. Then, Fox Leon was personally fined $10,000 for smoking on the court, and Anderson, who was expelled for a second-degree malicious foul, was not only fined $15,000 but also suspended for one game.

For such consecutive punishments, the local media of Boston, Boston Tribune, gave the attitude of Boston people. The headline of the newspaper the next day was "Who-care, we-have- won! (Who cares, we won anyway!"

If the Celtics have won other teams, perhaps the developed'Boston sports media' will have some different voices, but the Celtics defeated the Lakers, the golden'color', invincible. Old enemy.

The Celtics defeated them in the most Celtic way, and still used pure substitutes. It can be said that apart from the championship, no victory this season is more exciting and precious than this one.

The Celtics who returned to "Boston" were welcomed by many loyal fans at the airport. They held banners and slogans, as if the Celtics had won the championship. There are many old football fans in the ball'fans' group. They are all guys who have experienced the glory of the Celtics in the 1980s. When they see such a game, they will inevitably think of the iron-blooded green. 'Color' Legion.

In the dark age of more than ten years, the old football fans were disappointed and always full of hope. In the Eastern Conference finals last year, they were a little bit short. The Celtics' change of coach this year caused many football fans to question. How can a rookie like Fox Leon lead the Celtics to rebuild their glory? As the season draws to a close, everything is slowly disappearing in the tough victories and the changes in the team. At this moment of defeating the Lakers with the bench lineup, in Boston, the voice of supporting Fox Leon finally Overwhelmed the opposition.

Those media who have repeatedly criticized the Celtics' play all turned their guns and began to criticize the injustice of the alliance, punished the Celtics too severely, and Stern’s discrimination against Boston, including Some old accounts in the past have been turned over. From the Larry Bird clause to the 1997 draft, the Bostonians have regained the feeling of being an enemy of the world.

For the people of the smart, proud, kind, narrow, gentle, and rude New England area, a peaceful and stable team will never be what they want, and a gorgeous and dazzling team can’t meet their needs. . Only by uniting close to selfishness, pursuing glory but close to cruelty, in order to win the contradictory team that is at the mercy of the world, can it ignite the ancestors of New England immigrants who opened up wasteland three hundred years ago The blood in the body, the kind of irrational'sexual', anti-civilization fanatical emotion.

This feeling for basketball was first discovered by Auerbach. Now Auerbach is playing bridge at the Wood ‘Mont’ Club in Washington, where he has been running to the club for three consecutive days. As he grows older, his living area is shrinking. This has become the last post ‘flower’ garden in his life—and of course the North Shore ‘Flower’ Garden Arena, if they can reach the conference finals again.

After eating a simple breakfast, Auerbach began to kill time at the poker table. During this time, Rob Eze tried to remind Auerbach to read the morning newspaper and see what Fox-Leon did yesterday. What great feats have been made.

But the old man’s brand was very popular. Eze tried to'cut in' a few times to cause a topic. Auerbach didn’t give him a chance. It was until the lunch point that Eze found a chance and said to Auerbach, “Ann Di Miller should have settled there. Leon seems to have negotiated terms with him, but I don’t know what it is... Anyway, Miller seems to be using his media relations to discredit Leon and the Celtics. "

Auerbach didn't say anything. He picked up a piece of Mapo Tofu with his chopsticks and brought it to his mouth. This was a lunch from the Chinese Doll Restaurant. After chewing with rice, Auerbach said, “I have improved my chopsticks skills and can hold tofu... Leon’s boy uses chopsticks very well, as if he would use them when he was born, and I didn’t. Why do you see him eating Chinese food? Anyway, he keeps saying that American Chinese food is not good...huh, as if he had been in China."

Eze heard that Auerbach had something to say, so he didn’t answer the question and brought the topic to yesterday’s game. He said: "Fox was fined again, so is the Celtics, and then Chris Anderson was suspended. It's..."

Eze thought Auerbach would ask what happened, but he didn't expect Auerbach just nodded and continued to use his chopsticks to clamp Mapo tofu.

Eze finally couldn't help it. He said bluntly: "Yesterday, the Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers with a pure reserve lineup! At Staples! And Fox-Leon lit a cigar in the final stage of the game. I watched live TV at the time, and the Lakers fans’ faces turned green! Even the referee’s mouth grew up, and the Celtics players were stunned. You didn’t know the TV station The camera cuts to Leon, and he looks so airy with his'legs' lighted on his cigar! It is said that Stern is also there, so I really want to see his expression."

Eze said a lot of excitement, but Auerbach still had no response. He knew to stare at Eze, as if saying, "I have never seen anything before, and you need to tell me this."

Now Eze finally gave up and ate honestly, preparing for the bridge in the afternoon. Auerbach had finished eating. He wiped his mouth and said, "I am a little tired. I have to go back to the lounge and rest for a while. We will start at 2 o'clock in the afternoon."

After speaking, he left the chess and card room. As soon as he left the'door', he called the waiter from the club, pushed him and said, "Quickly, bring me all the newspapers from yesterday and today! And, Turn on the TV in the lounge and switch to the paid recording channel of the NBA. Yesterday’s Celtics vs. Lakers game... Do you have any videos? It’s best to have videos... No? Damn, hurry up!"

After talking about Auerbach, he hurriedly entered the lounge ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ waiting for the waiter to find a newspaper space, he was excited about in the lounge. And when he saw the detailed report of yesterday's game and the photos of Fox Leon lighting his cigar at the Lakers' home court, he even flushed with excitement, and then giggled.

He used the words in the reports to study repeatedly, imagining the scene at the time, and he wished that the game that night would be there, and then accompanied Leon to light his cigar.

Closing the newspaper, Auerbach stopped smiling. He took out a cigar that had not been'smoked' and lit it, and lightly'smoked' it in the lounge. His body and mind are relaxed. For nearly a month, he did not listen to news about Leon, nor did he pay attention to the Celtics, because he was waiting, waiting for Leon to pass the set of heavy The test, the almost harsh and cruel test, the test of killing without seeing blood, is enough to make a freshman coach lose confidence in the basketball world forever.

He had to do this. He didn't have the patience and time, nor did he have the cost to train the next Bill Russell, Tom Heinthorne, KC Jones, he could only use this method to give birth to the next himself.

At least so far, Fox Leon is embarking on the path of becoming another Auerbach, but Auerbach doesn't know what he is really thinking.