The rest is just noise

The group fight filled with resentment and anger between the Knicks and Trail Blazers took place just ten meters in front of Stern.

Before today, Stern had also heard about the impact of violent fights on professional basketball.

Before witnessing this scene with his own eyes, Stern's punishment for fights had only been verbal criticism.

But now, he saw with his own eyes a group of the tallest and strongest athletes on earth fighting each other, trying to hurt each other, and he began to reflect on his mistakes.

How did professional basketball get to this point?

Louis era? Apparently Louis is not to blame.

Earlier, there have been incidents in the NBA, such as Kermit Washington punching Tomjanovich out of his brains, and ML Carr rushing into the audience and beating fans during a nationally broadcast game with the Pistons 30 years ahead of schedule.

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Stern found that he couldn't blame anyone for the growing phenomenon.

It is the NBA officials who really need to be held accountable.

Decades of inaction have made on-court violence commonplace, giving unlearned enforcers a place in the league.

This situation must be curbed!

We can’t let the audience think that NBA players are just a bunch of thugs with big limbs!

Even the president of the league cannot use his power to punish those involved in the fight on the spot.

What's more, if punishment is really needed, both sides may not even be able to put together a playing lineup.

In addition to the players on the field, bench players from both sides also joined in.

Except for a few who broke up fights and were beaten, there were basically no innocent people.

After the fight subsided, the losses on both sides were as follows:

Miller was unable to get up. His waist and legs were injured and he was unable to continue playing.

Yu Tiancan was punched while trying to break up a fight and had a nosebleed. He also needed to go to the infirmary for treatment.

Toni Kukoc accidentally hit the referee with a black punch in the name of breaking up a fight, and was seized of power on the spot.

This is the Knicks' loss.

The Trail Blazers also fell short.

The instigator of the conflict, Isiah Thomas, was pushed from behind by the Knicks' unsung hero and received countless punches.

Nance was beaten into panda eyes.

Jordan and Wilson locked horns with each other, but the former's lip was broken.

Judging from the results, the Trail Blazers lost face, and almost everyone lost face, but they won face, they killed Miller in a conflict, Kukoc was expelled, and it is unknown whether Yu Tiancan can return.

The Trail Blazers had no personnel losses, including Thomas who was beaten the hardest, and it looked like it was just a superficial injury.

Laimbeer vividly said: "The Knicks have suffered from their youth. I'm not saying that they are not good at fighting. What I mean is that the young people in their team have made a lot of mistakes in the process. These mistakes are mainly due to experience. After all,

In a few years they will be more mature in dealing with it."

Bob Costas doesn't think now is the time to discuss this kind of thing.

"Uh... In principle, we hope there won't be any conflicts, and Bill means the same."

Ranbir: "Ah, yes, yes, that's what I mean."

The Blazers did take advantage of the conflict.

But things didn't turn out in the Trail Blazers' favor.

The Knicks were outraged.

Although they lost Miller, their main framework is still intact.

Without Miller, there is no absolutely stable and reliable three-point threat, but this does not mean that the Knicks cannot attack.

The Blazers' intention to use violent basketball to inflict personal losses on the Knicks and reverse the situation has been fully exposed.

The Knicks decided to fight back harder.

For the first time, Louis felt that it was a mistake not to go to watch the game live.

If he were there, he would at least remind the players to calm down.

Now, no one can stay calm.

They were all on top.

This situation is extremely dangerous, and you are very likely to be swayed by anger and do some irrational things.

The first Knicks player to overreact was Kemp.

Jordan burst in for a layup, and he knocked him down with a Bynum-style chokehold.

The referee awarded a first-level flagrant foul on the spot.

Jordan was as solid as iron. Without speaking, he could give his teammates confidence and courage just by relying on his body language.

Camp's villains don't seem to have any effect on him.

Made both free throws.

Then, the Blazers still have the ball.

Jordan held the ball from the outside and called Barkley to pick and roll. Kemp decisively stepped forward to double-team.

Unexpectedly, Jordan would ignore Barkley's open space, pretend to break through, suddenly stop, and step back from the three-point line. Everyone thought of the shot Wilson hit on his head in the last two seconds of Game 7 of the Finals last year.

A three-point step back was a sure-shot winner. Before Wilson and Kemp had time to react, Jordan's ball had already been released.

"Whoosh!"

Jordan's heroic performance has the Trail Blazers now only 6 points behind the Knicks.

Kemp's typical over-emotional reaction from a Georgetown insider continued to spread.

Tomjanovich didn't seem to know what to do at all, he just let the players play freely on the court.

He's like Louie in Game 6 last year.

But Louis was waiting for Ewing to wake up and the team to wake up.

Who knows what Tomjanovich is waiting for?

Louis was distraught, and of course he would not blame Rudy for his lack of experience and slow response on the spot, but like everyone who cared about the Knicks, he hoped that Rudy could appease Kemp and calm him down.

But Rudy didn't do that.

When Kemp picked up his fifth foul, Rudy was ready to take him off to calm down, something he should have done a long time ago.

This process was interrupted by Ewing.

Ewing grabbed Kemp's clothes like he was disciplining his own child and shouted: "What the hell are you doing? Calm down!"

Kemp yelled out of control: "I want to help Reggie fight back!! I want to kill those bastards!"

"Do you think Reggie would forgive you if you got yourself kicked out of the game out of fucking revenge against them? If you were kicked out, he would never go around looking for people to fight like a crazy monkey like you. He would

Just shoot three-pointers and then fuck their mother!"

After Ewing's education, Rudy also changed his mind.

He didn't replace Kemp.

Ewing walked to Wilson and said, "It's time for you to exert your strength."

"How's Sean feeling?" Wilson asked.

"I said a few words to him, but I don't know if it was of any use. If that person was here, Sean would be scolded, right?" Ewing couldn't help but express his longing for someone.

Wilson said no more.

He's done a lot to confirm Ewing's dominance, and Ewing has done his job.

The Trail Blazers are a formidable enemy that cannot be defeated easily if they have a good leader.

Ewing needs Wilson's strength.

Wilson, who averaged 37 points per game in last year's Finals and scored 66 points in the game of the century, averaged only 28 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists in this year's four games with the Trail Blazers. He did less offense and passed the ball.

More, than ever, a team.

If Ewing is a great leader, then Wilson is a great second-in-command.

But everyone has seen his strength before, and he should not be anyone's second in command.

Ewing asked him to exert force, and Wilson did as he wished, taking the ball and starting an endless roll call that terrified Portlanders.

Last year, Wilson scored 66 points by calling names. Now the Knicks still have a lead, and the Trail Blazers still have problems on the defensive end. As long as Wilson wants to call names, he can do it.

Wilson, who had only scored 16 points before, scored 24 points and 5 assists in the next 10 minutes, allowing the Knicks to maintain a 13-point lead with 6 minutes before the end of the game.

The Trail Blazers relied on Jordan and Barkley to resist.

They looked teetering on the verge of repeating the same mistake and dying again at Wilson's hands.

Isiah Thomas dribbled in from the crowd and hit a layup after a confrontation.

The 33-year-old Thomas turned on his personal offensive mode in this desperate situation.

He was undefendable in those few minutes.

However, he obviously forgot that he was the Knicks' most hated opponent. Miller was injured by him, and everyone will remember that incident.

When he performed unstoppably, some people in the Knicks naturally thought about how he dealt with Miller.

"We're going to fight tooth for tooth!"

Rodman thought.

So when Thomas came in again, targeting Ewing, trying to cause the latter's fifth foul.

Rodman pulled him down from the air with sinister intentions.

That heavy fall made everyone who saw it sweat for Thomas.

Rodman was assessed a second-degree flagrant foul and ejected on the spot.

And Thomas, like a classic car, looks like it's on the verge of being scrapped.

He stood up with the help of his teammates and completed the extra penalty alone.

Subsequently, Thomas rejected the attention of his teammates and coaching staff and expressed his unshakable will to fight with the team until the last minute.

Anyone can feel the extremely tragic atmosphere, as Thomas is playing the last game in his life.

Even though his knee was already injured, he persisted in playing and scored consecutively. With some help, the team equalized at the last minute and the game entered overtime.

In overtime, Ewing left the game with six fouls.

Before the Portlanders could breathe a sigh of relief, they were shocked by Yu Tiancan's insider presence.

In terms of basic post-up skills, he is not much worse than Ewing. He also has a mid-range shot that can cope with the situation. His height, wingspan and athletic ability make him a natural barrier to the paint area.

Doug Christie and Alan Houston, two new-generation Knicks players, performed well in overtime.

Wilson was double-teamed by the Trail Blazers. The Knicks needed someone to step up and hit open shots, and they stepped up.

It was their performance that gave the Knicks a 3-point lead at the last minute.

Then, Thomas, who could only use one foot, passed the ball to Jordan in a desperate situation, and the latter threw a negative angle three-pointer from the left wing three-point line.

"Whoosh!"

The game entered the second overtime.

Thomas could no longer hold on, and he became another player to leave the game due to injury.

Portlanders are determined to fight the Knicks for those who can't return.

In the third overtime, Jordan and Barkley became the dominant players. For the Knicks, with Miller and several big insiders leaving the court one after another, Wilson was left alone, and everyone else also failed under the terrible intensity and pressure.

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In the end, this cruel game came to a cruel result.

127 to 124

After a bloody battle in three overtimes, the Trail Blazers won with difficulty, completing a major reversal just like the Knicks last year and dragging the series to Game 7.

For three consecutive years, the Knicks and Trail Blazers have reached Game 7 of the Finals, but none has been as brutal as this one.

In terms of intensity, Louis doesn't think there will be any other game that can compare with the intensity of this one.

The intensity has reached a level that makes people feel uncomfortable.

Fortunately, not many fans can feel this, because even the live audience is focused on the chase scene between Simpson and the police on the big screen, and not many people really care about the game.

This is also the fans' misfortune.

Their attention is diverted by gossip, and they miss out on the depth of the experience of a game that will never happen again.

Louis turned off the TV and came out of the small room.

Lorraine told him that the Los Angeles police were surprisingly honest this time and did not use force against Simpson throughout the whole process. They just followed him until he returned to his home and finished what he had to do, and then followed the police to the police station.

The entire process was broadcast live.

But Louis doesn’t think this live broadcast is 1/1000 as good as the game that just ended.

"Really, that's really surprising."

He responded to his wife in this way, and then walked outside, letting the evening wind blow by, the scene of the game still echoing in his mind.