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"Okay, stop thinking about those things. It's all in the past! We have to look forward." Stern still looked at Lin Tian with a smile. Stern was waiting for him to make a request.

According to Stern's understanding of Lin Tian, ​​this kid will definitely find a way to get back at someone after suffering a loss, and he will definitely ask for some interest from him.

But contrary to Stern's expectations, Lin Tian did not make any requests this time, as if nothing had happened. He happily took the trophy, held it high, and showed it to the fans.

Finally, it was the usual speaking session.

Lin Tian took the microphone and said in a relaxed tone: "Many people say that I am too arrogant, many people say that I am too crazy and too self-righteous. To this, I want to say that young people must be full of energy! If you are not full of energy, are you still a young person?"

As Lin Tian spoke, he turned around and looked at the 20 or so stars behind him and said, "I also want to say this to the young people present here and those who were unable to come to the scene."

"As for those who say I don't respect others, am self-righteous, and always put other people's face and dignity on the ground."

"What I want to say is that respect and face are not something you beg for, nor are they given to you by others. You have to earn them yourself! When you meet those seniors in the future, you don't need to give them face, beat them to death! Pin them to the ground and hammer them! Then they will respect you. Anyway, that's how I gained respect back then."

"You can ask those older guys who are older than me, have they all been beaten up by me? I'm talking about on the basketball court, not in private."

"So, young men, charge forward bravely! Put away your humility, courtesy, and respect! These things are not important at all!"

"Just do it!"

Lin Tian's acceptance speech made Stern's mouth twitch.

That's enough! Come on down!

It’s not over, right?
Lin Tian’s words really made Stern feel uncomfortable.

This kid, really is.

I have worked hard to create a healthy and positive image for the league, where everyone loves each other and there is only peace and no disputes. I sincerely hope that the league can surpass football and baseball to become the most popular project among the middle class and wealthy people.

But if you do this, my efforts will be wasted in a minute.

I don't want the league to return to the era of constant fights and negative news.

Now Stern is also sure.

This is the boy's revenge on himself.

The heart is so dirty!

These top students studying psychology have such dirty hearts!

Thousands of thoughts surged in Stern's mind!

He turned his mind again and again, thought and guessed again and again, and finally he sorted out his thoughts.

As for Mr. Lin, who has killed who knows how many brain cells of Stern?

He is having fun.

I had so much fun at this All-Star Game!

He won the AMVP and successfully planted the seeds for the dismantling of the Spurs.

He angrily slapped the face of the Western player who tried to challenge him.

What a happy thing!
Although it seemed that he didn't get any benefit, Lin Tian was happy.

There is no way to explain the joy that comes from the heart.

As for the twists and turns in Stern's mind?

Mr. Lin said: Old man, you have so many worries, be careful not to die young.

Well, this time, Lin Tian didn’t think much about it at all.

He was simply immersed in happiness.

The All-Star Game is over!
After the All-Star Game, the league had another relatively quiet trade deadline. None of the teams made any large-scale trades at this time. They were all minor adjustments. There were no major trades or earthquake-level swaps that could change the fate of a team.

After all, the five-party trade last summer was shocking and scary enough. After a trade of this level occurs, the league will have to take a break for at least two years before the next big one comes along.

Who makes it so that there are only a few excellent players on the move?

Can you keep changing back and forth, running around, and continuing to be a nomad?
Which serious player would play like that?
Although there were no major waves or big deals on the trade deadline, the Knicks immediately got back on track after the pain of Stoudemire and Anthony's return and the rest and recovery during the All-Star Game!

Before the All-Star Game, they had a record of 2 wins and 4 losses in their first eight games in February, but when the All-Star Game ended, the Knicks immediately made great progress and achieved a record of 4 wins and 2 loss in the remaining games in February.

When February ended, their record had reached 2 wins and 45 losses, still firmly ranking second in the Eastern Conference.

And it’s still the situation where those below can’t get up and those above can’t catch up.

All I can say is that the Knicks can really lay low now.

In the following season, they had almost no pressure to achieve results.

The most I can do is to look at the rankings in the West from a distance, calculate who is likely to play with me in the finals, and then study whether I should win a few more games to maintain the home-court advantage in the finals.

Apart from these things, the Knicks really have nothing to do in the remaining schedule.

Well, that’s not right, there are still some!

Lin Tian’s data!
在经过12月和1月的疯狂之后，林天的场均数据一度达到过43.2分9.4助攻11.5篮板。

A statistic so exaggerated that it seems like it was played in NBA Live.

But throughout February, especially in the eight games before the All-Star Game, Nelson significantly reduced Lin Tian's playing time to only around 8 minutes. In the second half of the month, although he increased Lin Tian's playing time again, it was still far from the previous two months when he played 30-44 minutes at a time!

His playing time rarely exceeds 40 minutes, basically hovering around 36-7 minutes.

Old Nelson is already thinking about his playoff opponents!
The drastic reduction in playing time naturally led to a significant reduction in Lin Tian’s statistics.

After the end of February, his average statistics have dropped to 2 points, 40.3 assists and 8.8 assists!

Although he was still performing like a monster, Lin Tian’s fans already smelled a bad smell.

If they continue to play like this, even though our Mr. Lin will still be the scoring champion, I’m afraid he won’t be able to maintain his epic performance of 40 points per game!
Sooner or later, he will drop to a 'mediocre' level of 30 points per game.

unacceptable!

Absolutely unacceptable!

So, starting in March, the entire city of New York was filled with parading fans, and the T-shirts they wore all had the same message on them.

"Don't commit a crime, let Lin play!"

Or some other similar slogan.

Like "Old Nelson should be sentenced to life in prison."

"Let's show old Nelson what averaging 40 points a game means."

"Get a few more points, Lin!"

The fans, one after another, were afraid that Lin Tian would not see their requests and hopes, and that Lin Tian would be like old Nelson, turning a blind eye to such epic super data and refusing to impact and break it.

In fact, the fans still misunderstood old Nelson.

The old man is much more looking forward to the average of 40 points per game than Lin Tian!

Although he limited Lin Tian's playing time, he would always give Lin Tian a heartwarming word every time he played.

"Lin, play harder, be more unique. The more unique the better. It would be best if you were so unique that your teammates hated you! You only have one goal for the regular season this season—"

"40 points per game!"

Lin Tian chose to completely ignore old Nelson's request and didn't take it to heart at all.

He still passed the ball selflessly, played beautiful tactics time and time again, and constantly demonstrated his qualities in all aspects!
3月17日，林天在一场比赛之中只登场29分钟，出手8次，拿到11分21篮板14助攻的大号三双。

This triple-double was not worthy of the fans' joy at all.

Because it was after this game that Lin Tian's average statistics dropped again, and his average statistics became 39.9 points, 9.3 assists and 11.3 rebounds.

Below 40 points!

Lin Tian and the Knicks fans were wailing in pain and everyone was sad.

How could such a good season, such a perfect season, end up like this?

How come the average score is not even 40 points per game?

How come you, Lin Tian, ​​haven’t scored 50 points in any of the recent games?
If it was because Lin Tian's own condition declined and he was unable to maintain his output despite his crazy shots, then the fans would just let it go, they could tolerate it.

After all, everyone has ups and downs, and everyone has periods of extremely bad lows.

It doesn’t matter if you really can’t get it.

But it’s not the case with you, Mr. Lin!

You, Mr. Lin, are not in bad shape. In the 2 days of games from February to March, his average field goal percentage reached the best state of his career.

Averaging 54%, 46% and 98% shooting percentages, his efficiency is off the charts! He's almost in the 200+ club, and he's still saying he's not in good shape?
It was simply that Lin Tian was slacking off, and old Nelson indulged him in slacking off. These master and disciple were both very bad, neither of them was a good person!
What a bad conscience!

One limits the playing time and prevents his top disciple from inflating his stats.

A person who just gets by without any progress, who can't wait to go downstairs to rest, change clothes and apply ice after playing a game for 35 minutes.

New York fans, hate it!
Although averaging 40 points per game is not a historical record, Chamberlain alone has achieved this achievement many times, and he even had a season in which he averaged 50 points per game.

But you, Mr. Lin, are so confused!

In short, over the past month or so, no matter whether the Knicks win or lose, no matter how they play, you can always hear the fans' lamentations here.

This lament usually occurs 5-6 minutes before the end of the game, sometimes even earlier.

In fact, old Nelson not only let Lin Tian go down early in the game when they were leading, but also in the game when they were behind, he would let his disciple go down early to rest and give up the chance to comeback.

There is only one reason for all these lamentations: Are they going to stop fighting? Are they going to stop fighting?
The fans are really going crazy.

If you don't brush the leading game, good! We recognize it!

You are noble, you are great, you are awesome!

You won't play even if you're behind? You don't even care about winning? You don't even care about your dignity?
Normally, this situation will never happen, after all, every team has to work hard for the playoff ranking.

But the same thing goes: the Knicks' record is so comfortable that they can just sit back and relax.

Their position as the second-highest in the Eastern Conference is more secure than that of President Stern.

Who can reason with this?
Even as the season progresses, the situation in the Western Conference is similar.

Because the strength of the Western Conference teams is too close and the internal friction is extremely serious, the records and rankings of each team are changing rapidly. You may be first in the Western Conference today, but if you lose a game the next day, you may drop directly to fifth in the Western Conference.

What if you dare to have a losing streak?
Sorry! It is possible that they will drop directly to eighth place or even be eliminated from the playoffs!
This kind of crazy, back-and-forth battle where neither side gives in makes the Knicks quite comfortable.

The Western Conference cannot widen the gap, which means that each of their teams has a good record, but none of them stands out.

The teams in the Western Conference are fighting like crazy, with hand-to-hand combat and positioning battles every day. Under such circumstances, the gap between the teams has not only not widened, but has become smaller and smaller without anyone noticing!

For example, the Suns, who are now first in the Western Conference, are only 1.5 games ahead of the Lakers, who are fourth in the Western Conference, only 2.5 games ahead of the Nuggets, who are sixth in the Western Conference, and 3.5 games ahead of the Clippers, who are eighth in the Western Conference.

This year, the Western Conference was once again called the year with the smallest gap in history!
All the teams in the Western Conference are in a killing spree this year!
In this situation, although the Knicks, who are second in the Eastern Conference, cannot catch up with the Celtics at all, what if their record is transferred to the Western Conference?
First in the West!

They easily ranked first in the Western Conference and were two games ahead of the Suns! This was achieved without any pressure and in a relaxed state!
I can only say that the gap between the East and the West is really too big now!
It has become so big that many people want to kick the Knicks directly to the West and let them experience the crazy stranglehold of hell!
I don’t believe that in that kind of environment, you, Lin Tian, ​​won’t play hard and improve your statistics!
Of course, the reporters also asked Lin Tian this question, asking him what he thought about this situation and whether he thought it would be interesting for the Knicks to go to the West.

"Oh, I want to go too. I also want to feel the meat grinder feeling. I haven't felt nervous in a long time. It's always been easy. We haven't encountered too much resistance or trouble in the past two years."

"So I actually envy that feeling. I long for and miss that intense feeling."

"But unfortunately, I can't go. The rules don't allow it. What a pity! Oh, what a pity!"

Seeing Lin Tian's behavior that deserved a beating, the reporters below couldn't help but want to beat him up.

At the very least, I wanted to throw a few mineral water bottles at him to vent my anger.

What kind of bastard is he to be so arrogant and full of sarcastic remarks?

Lin Tian: Excuse me! Looking at the entire alliance, there is only one like this one, no other!

Although Lin Tian spoke arrogantly and asked for a beating, especially the stars in the Western Conference, after hearing what Lin Tian said, they all wanted to rush over to give him a good fight, but unfortunately, by the end of the season, these away games across the East and West had almost been played.

In the last half month of the schedule, both teams basically played in their respective half of the zone.

If you want to beat Lin Tian, ​​you have to wait until the finals.

However, there is also good news for Lin Tian and Knicks fans.

That means Lin Tian’s scoring data has increased again!

In the last week of March, Lin Tian averaged 3 points in four games, bringing his average points per game to over 45 points once again!
When March ended, Lin Tian's average points per game once again increased to 3 points!
In April, with the Knicks still having seven games left, Lin Tian had already scored 4 points!
In the last seven games left in April, if he plays in all seven games, he only needs to average at least 4 points per game, or get more than 7 points, so that his average score can be maintained above 31.4!

In this regard, Lin Tian’s fans were quite confident and completely relaxed.

31 points, too easy!

Judging from Lin Tian’s condition this season and even recently, he can score this much with his eyes closed!

Unless old Nelson doesn't let him brush, doesn't give him playing time, or Lin Tian himself is too lazy to brush.

……

……

silence.

Almost all Knicks and Lin Tian fans chose to remain silent when they thought of this. They looked at each other, their thoughts surging.

They felt uneasy.

Because if this "unless" happens to other teams or other players, it can really be completely ignored.

But when it comes to Old Nelson and Lin Tian, ​​it feels like these two bastards would really do something like this.

These two people have no moral integrity and no bottom line.

They will definitely do things like teasing fans! Absolutely!
Then?

On April 4, the Knicks' first home game in April, all the fans began their roar in unison, unity, and tacit understanding.

"Take a break, Lin!"

"Lin! Take your turn to rest!"

"Tang, let Lin take a break!"

"Don't go on the court anymore! We want the playoffs!"

"Give the young guys a chance, I want to see Shannon!"

"Ariza! Give us Ariza!"

"Let the main forces go down and rest!"

"Stop letting them play ball!"

"What if you get hurt? We can take turns to rest!"

The fans' shouts contained an undisguised conspiracy.

As long as Lin Tian doesn't play, as long as he doesn't play any of the last 7 games, hey, he can steadily maintain his current average data!

You guys have to rest anyway, so instead of disgusting us fans with your stats, why not just not play! Just rest until the playoffs!

In addition to the uniform roars, there were of course various slogans advising Lin Tian to take care of his health.

Someone told him to take a rest and stop playing!

Someone held up a sign saying that the mysterious shaman power told him that if Lin Tian continued to fight, he would be injured.

The most outrageous slogans were not written directly to Lin Tian, ​​but to Hilton.

They asked Hilton to help "drain" Lin Tian's energy so that he would have no strength and energy to play the rest of the game.

In response, Hilton said: Even if I am gifted, I can't do this alone.

Need help!
In short, since the establishment of the Knicks and even the NBA, this is the first time that fans have sincerely begged their top star to stop playing and rest.

As for the fans’ kindness and arrangements, Lin Tian said: Everyone supports me so much, so I absolutely cannot let them down, I have to fulfill their dreams!

Then?

Then Lin Tian played for only 24 minutes in this game and went off to rest when the outcome was already decided. He only scored 20 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists in this game!

It's absolute paddling, without any concealment or hiding anything.

Regarding Lin Tian's behavior, some local fans in New York have even discussed killing or kidnapping him to prevent him from doing such things that make fans despair.

Then two days later, the Knicks moved to Detroit. Facing this old rival of the past two years, the Knicks rested Stoudemire and Anthony, and the team played somewhat lazily.

Then the Knicks were behind by 16 points in the first half!
Then halfway through the third quarter, when the score difference widened to 25 points, Lin Tian went to rest.

No more fighting! Surrender and give up the game 16 minutes in advance!

Lin Tian only scored 24 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists tonight.

He is still paddling! (End of this chapter)