Chapter 221: War (1)

On the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, the annual Louis Vuitton America’s Cup Series is going on on the river. Dozens of catamarans with high sails follow the wind on the wide river. Glide quickly across the water. On both sides of the river race track, there are many small cruise ships at anchor to enjoy this grand fast sailing race.
Fox Leon is on one of the yachts, watching a sailing race with his good friend Woj. Today’s weather is very good, with huge white clouds floating in the blue sky, filtering the originally dazzling sunlight into soft light, and sprinkling it on the shimmering river and the white hull. The wind is neither too big nor too small, and it makes the yacht sway with the waves.
Together with Leon are some famous basketball circle reporters in New York, such as Mark Bellman and Frank Isola. They are both Woj's opponents and friends, so naturally they are also familiar with Leon. They are NBDL in Leon. They helped a lot when doing scout work. Of course, in the past six months or so, they have often penalized Leon and the Celtics in their columns and special topics. Leon didn’t mind this. With their help, the Celtics seemed to have renewed Changed back to the evil green empire more than 20 years ago, the only thing they lack is victory.
"I bet that the green sailing boat will win out in the end." Leon faced the dazzling sunlight and pointed to the two sailing boats ahead - one, one white, and the white one ahead, the green one. Body position.
"Is it because green is the color of the Celtics? Can I choose the blue?" Isola said to Leon. He is a reporter for the New York Daily News and is known for his viper. Never show mercy to Leon and Celtics in the article. The blue sailboat is now in the last position.
"I'm not sure if green can get the first place, but blue... I guess he's got the last one." Leon is not welcome, he knows Isola is a big fan of the New York Knicks, even in the big He would not save him face in Apple City.
Isola smiled awkwardly. In any case, the speed of the New York Knicks' depravity in the past two years can be described as steady and steady. From the 1999 season, miraculously reached the finals as eighth, and then lost the Eastern Finals in 2000. In the first round of 2001, they bid farewell to the playoffs in 2002, and this year, they missed the playoffs for the second consecutive year. The previous finals coach Jeff Van Gundy also dropped from class and selected Patrick Ewing from 1985. In the beginning, the Knicks' more than ten-year road to a strong team has come to an end, and they will begin their road of reconstruction.
Of course, the New Yorkers at this time have not realized how long and tortuous this road of reconstruction will be.
Just as the New Yorkers bid farewell to the playoffs, on the other side of the Hudson River, the New Jerseys have reached the Eastern Conference Finals for two consecutive years and are making strides towards their second finals.
Logically speaking, the Boston Celtics defeated the 76ers and the Pistons in the Eastern Conference playoffs in two 4:1, already showing a strong combat effectiveness, especially in the semifinals, in the case of the first loss, four combos. The victory over the Pistons exceeded many people's expectations. We must know that when the Pistons won their first game, public opinion was unanimously optimistic that the Pistons in the East could avenge the Celtics. I didn’t know that the second game was defeated. After the third game, the Pistons seemed to have lost their souls. In the fourth and fifth games, they barely made decent resistance, they were run over by the Celtics, and they were sullied out. Out.
As a result, the Celtics repeated their playoffs last season and once again encountered the Nets in the Eastern Conference Finals. However, the Nets' performance in the first two rounds is obviously more impressive. They first killed the Bucks 4:1, and then shaved a bald head for the Hornets in the semifinals 4:0. Their strong defense showed an overwhelming performance in the East. The power of sex. They were the best defensive team in the regular season last season. This season they continue to rank first in defensive efficiency and do better than last year.
After being swept by the Sharks at 0:4 last year, the Nets sent away their white and soft insides, such as McLoch, Van Horn, and Mutombo, although the African Mountains were trapped by injuries. And age performance is far worse than 01 years, at least a qualified substitute. Now their starting lineup has become Kidd, Kittles, Martin, Collins plus Jefferson, a fast, tough, and reasonably structured strong lineup.
Because of this, the Celtics were not favored for the third time before the series began. Those experts and reporters who have vowed to lose the Celtics in the first two rounds, this time brazenly said that the Celtics will definitely fall in the Eastern Conference finals because their opponents are too strong in the Eastern Conference.
Leon himself realized this. Before the start of the first game on May 18, he and his team arrived in New York two days in advance. They rented a complete indoor stadium for training, in order to reduce the start of the game. The fatigue of the previous journey, in order to achieve a good performance in the away game. Leon knows that the first game will be a trial period for both sides. If they can steal the next game, it will have a great impact on the trend of the entire series.
This year’s Nets are indeed stronger than last year’s. Last year, the Boston Celtics even led the Nets 2:1. They once saw the dawn of advancement to the Finals. Unfortunately, Antoine Walker played abnormally afterwards, and Kenyon- Martin has become the iron king, coach Carroll has no choice but to face the changes in the Nets' strategy. In the end, he can only watch the team lose hope of reaching the finals.
And now Leon can be sure that if last year's Celtics met this year's Nets, they would definitely be eliminated by 0:4 seconds. It's just that this year's Celtics are no longer the Celtics of last year. Anyone who ignores the power of the Celtics will be punished.
In the semifinals, their offense has been released, Arenas finally found the feeling of offense. The first and fourth minor play made Carlisle helpless, but Leon is not sure yet, facing the league's best defense team. Can the Celtics play that kind of offense, and can they show their anger against the Nets during the regular season.
But Leon didn't seem to be nervous at all. After coming to New York, after training, he not only accompanied Khomeinis to Broadway to watch the opera, but also went to major luxury brand stores to buy jewelry and jewelry. Today is the last day before the race. After training in the morning, Leon gave the players a vacation, and then went to the Hudson River with Woj to watch the sailing race.
All New York media people were invited on the boat. It seemed that Leon didn't care that his relaxed appearance was known to the outside world, or he hoped that the outside world would see his relaxed or even relaxed appearance to let his opponent relax his vigilance. In any case, unlike the 76ers and the Pistons, the Nets are the only opponent in the East that deserves Leon's attention. Although the West has a stronger team, in the end they can only play a team in the finals.
The sailing race is gradually coming to an end. Standing on the bow, Leon can see that the white sailing boat is still one position ahead of the green boat. Others have picked up their telescopes and looked towards the key line.
The northwest wind blowing on the river ~EbookFREE.me~ suddenly changed its direction and turned into a northeasterly wind. The sailboat that had been traveling downwind suddenly became headwind, and they had to adjust the direction of the sail from straight downwind to Sail against the wind to transform the headwind into the driving force for progress.
At this time, the green boat, which had been behind and unable to catch up, adjusted its sails more quickly than the white boat. They quickly adjusted and quickly changed the course of travel. The boat began to move forward in a zigzag course, and was still far from the end. A few hundred meters away surpassed the white boat in one fell swoop!
"Oh!! Look, the green boat is over! It's over! Come on!" Leon Shi was the only one who didn't need a telescope. His eyesight was amazing.
In the end, the green boat surpassed the white boat and reached the finish line first, becoming the champion of the America's Cup New York station. Seeing his bet on the boat won the race, Leon was excited and raised champagne for himself.
"Hey, Fox, how did you know that the green boat will surpass the white boat from the beginning? Don't tell you that the wind direction is expected to change. Did you graduate with a meteorology major?" Woj asked jokingly. He was actually curious, Lai As long as this guy involves betting, he rarely loses.
Leon took a sip of champagne and replied, "Because he is green." (To be continued.)