Chapter 315: Harvest season

Kevin Garnett was born in Greenville, South Carolina, a little-known town. Like most black stars, his mother Shirley is a single mother. His father Lewis was a well-known local athlete, and Garnett also inherited his father's sports gene, but no one would have thought that he would become a super basketball superstar.
As a single mother raising a child by herself is very hard and difficult. In the end Shirley married a man named Ernest. Garnett reached the age of high school, and both believed that Kevin should be in school. Instead of choosing a basketball career that has been a multitude of troops. Garnett did not stubbornly stubbornly his mother and stepfather, went to a local high school, Malding High School.
But Garnett’s talent in basketball cannot be concealed. Once he entered Malding High School, he became the main player of the school’s basketball team, and in his rookie season, he turned in 12 points, 15 rebounds and 7 blocks. Superman data. In the Greenville area, ordinary school-level basketball games can no longer satisfy Garnett's desire to win. He chose to go to the streets to fight against the adult street masters.
It was the basketball experience on the street that shaped his unrestrained and wild style of play, but he was famous on the street, leaving the street court, leaving the campus, leaving Greenville, he is still an unknown black boy. So in his senior year of high school, he chose to transfer and left South Carolina, which is relatively unknown in the national sports field, to the basketball holy land in the central part of the country, the most popular city in American basketball in the 1990s, where the of basketball lived. , Chicago.
Because he transferred to Farragut High School in Chicago, in 1995 Kevin Garnett began to enter the vision of the professional basketball circle in the United States. The stage here is even broader. Every year, due to the national NBA rookie training camp, a large number of agents, Scouts gathered here. At the same time, Chicago is also one of the major street basketball mecca in the United States. In his spare time, Garnett has the opportunity to play with the best streetball players in the United States.
Finally, in the summer of 1995, he made a decision. He refused the invitation to come to a number of prestigious schools, crossed the university and NCAA, and entered the NBA directly. This young and immature boy entered the world of adult basketball. The fourth high school player in NBA history, and the initiator of the entry of high school students into the NBA was Moses Malone from Virginia.
In the interview before the start of the first round of the 2004 Eastern Conference playoffs, Kevin Garnett faced reporters’ questions, facing the camera, lights, and microphone. Moses Malone emerged in his mind. This He often hears it and compares it with his old predecessors. He once met him in an All-Star game, a guy who looked round and round-headed, with droopy eyelids and a little hunchback. Edge of Doom
He always seemed silent, he was confused when he spoke, and he seemed to have a throat lozenge in his mouth. Garnett felt that he and such a person were not in the same dimension. Indeed, apart from the status of a high school student in the NBA, the two have no similarities in other aspects. Moses is a short center, Garnett is a thin and tall power forward, Moses is good at offense, and Garnett is better at defense. Moses specializes in offensive rebounds, Garnett's backboard protection is unmatched, Moses is an offensive black hole, and Garnett is an all-around forward.
Regardless of the status of high school students, no one would associate Garnett with Moses Malone before April 17, 2004.
Garnett thought of Moses Malone in his mind, of Fox-Leon’s fishing for a big tuna like San Diego two days ago, and of the time when the silent Moses faced similar issues in the media before the start of the 1983 playoffs. Answers made.
"Fo, Fo, Fo." Malone, who was born in Florida, had a strong southern accent, which made him speak in a strange tone. When uttering these three words, he lowered his head with a dull expression. What kind of rhetoric--this is Garnett's psychological feeling when he looks back at that video.
And now, it was his turn. With great confidence in the strength of the team, unlimited trust in coach Fox Leon, determination of his hard work and sweat this season, and imitating the southern accent of Moses Malone-he is also a guy from the South. In the end they all fought for the northern team, saying "Fo, Fo, Fo, Fo."
It’s 2004, and the Eastern Conference’s first place will no longer qualify for a bye, so if you want to complete the playoffs, you must add another sweep.
Everyone thought Kevin Garnett was crazy, but their head coach Fox Leon said that Garnett was telling the truth.
Then on the night of April 17, the Boston Celtics slaughtered the visiting New York Knicks at 119:81, 38 points at home. On the 1-16 numbers on the sidelines of the technical stage, Garnett crossed 1 with a spray can, and the Celtics took a solid first step.
On April 20th, in the second game, 120:95, the Celtics once again told the Knicks with a 25-point difference that you will win if you lose less than 20 points.
On April 23rd, in the third game, the two sides came to New York. This time Leon and his Celtics were madly attacked by the New York media. In such a playoff matchup, regardless of the New York media and Leon’s How good the relationship is, it is impossible to wave the flag for him. But at this time Leon didn't need these media friends to say anything good for him. He knew that if the media's mouthpieces could represent the strength of a city team, the New York Knicks would have won the O'Brien Cup ten consecutive times. Color, flavor
In the third game, the Knicks made some resistance in the first half. Steven Marbury felt hot in the first quarter and made four of four three-pointers to help the Knicks lead in the first quarter. The end of the festival is only one point behind the Celtics.
In the second half, the Celtics didn't give the Knicks a chance to resist. They used a wave of 5 minutes of super defense, allowing the Knicks to get 1 point from free throws in 5 minutes. Relying on this wave of strong defense, the Celtics successfully opened the point difference to 15 points again, and finally cut the Knicks three times with a 101:81, 20 point advantage.
After this game is over, no one thinks that the Knicks can cause any trouble to the Celtics. Even the New York media with big mouths only hopes that the Knicks can help themselves in the fourth game. New York saves a bit of face. It is a pity that the Celtics, who have already issued four sweeping oaths, will not give the Knicks any face. On April 25, at Madison Square Garden, the Celtics used a 115:70 45-point difference. New York City’s victory was a bloodbath, and this game did not appear to be published by the "New Yorker" stating that ~EbookFREE.me~ will be the worst and darkest day in the history of the New York Knicks playoffs."
And Leon and the Celtics who made this darkness left without leaving a trace of clouds, Marbury’s Crossover, Alan Houston’s CIC, Anfenni Hardaway’s remaining aura, These things appear to them as a passing glance, without the slightest trace. Leon did not even make special preparations before the game, he handed all the preparations for the Knicks to Rick Carlisle.
Because Leon must focus more of his own energy on the springboard semifinals, because regardless of whether the opponent is the New Jersey Nets or the Miami Heat, wanting to run through like the Knicks is not that simple-of course, also Not very difficult.
On April 30th, the Celtics' opponents in the second round came out. The New Jersey Nets defeated the newly promoted playoff team Miami Heat 4:2 in the first round and faced Kyle in the playoffs for three consecutive years. Special people, this time is in the semifinals.
And on May 3, the night of the first game between the two sides, Kevin Garnett, a guy who has been in the league for 9 years, witnessed more than 20,000 spectators at the North Shore Garden Arena from David S Turn’s hands took over the 2003-2004 regular season MVP trophy, becoming another regular season MVP after Larry Bird in 1986, and also the first regular season MVP in Celtics history. Five players who won this honor.
This is an undisputed award, and Kevin Garnett finally ushered in his own harvest season. (To be continued.)