The rest is just noise

On April 5, 1989, Sports Illustrated wrote a feature article specifically for the upcoming NBA playoffs.

The title of this article is "Who is the Public Enemy?".

From the perspective of strength and record, this article ranks the teams most likely to win the championship, starting from the first place.

Before the author revealed his suspense, anyone who paid attention to professional basketball knew that the Knicks were the number one favorite.

So the author wrote a paragraph in advance before giving the ranking: "Is it possible that the New York Knicks will be defeated? Not likely. How could they lose? The only one who can beat the Knicks is the Knicks themselves. Ralph and Larry

Bird's injury made Boston lose its competitiveness. There was no second team in the entire division that could compete with New York.

Therefore, the only one ranked first in the championship potential list is the New York Knicks.

Chuck Daly said he thinks the Knicks will win the Eastern Conference championship. But this is just a reasonable prediction based on strength. We have to see more games before we can draw a conclusion. The Knicks have the league's second center Patrick Yoe

Because, Benj Wilson, the 'conqueror' who is expected to succeed Larry Bird, John Stockton, the best point guard in the league, and Kevin Mack, the best fourth-place scorer in the league

Hale, Dennis Rodman, the best defensive wing player in the league, Reggie Miller, a promising marksman in the future, and a group of substitutes John Hornacek and John Salley who are comparable to most team lineups.

Dan Mulley, Joe Klein, Alex Stevens, and even China Song, who is rarely on the active list, and Brad Rohaus, who is loved by everyone, are all very capable.

bench players.

For most coaches, having a team with more than 10 players who can play is both a blessing and a worry, because it means they will encounter problems with formation. But Little used it

The incredible long rotation broke the doubts of the outside world.

So far this season, you haven't heard any Knicks players complain about their playing time.

Now they are about to enter the fifth year of the Little Dew era. They won the third championship in team history last year. They are hungry for more, as Dave Anderson of the New York Times shouted for them, "Pursue excellence,

again and again"!"

There is no doubt that the Knicks have been blown to the sky.

In the April 5th issue of Sports Illustrated, their entire team appeared on the cover of the magazine.

The difference is that Louis is holding a glass of red wine (actually Coke) in his hand, and the players behind him are smiling toothily.

This is reminiscent of the classic poster left in the locker room of the 1970 Knicks.

Judging from their record, the Knicks fully deserve the praise they have received so far.

On April 4, they defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in overtime.

Improved his record to 65 wins and 8 losses.

With nine regular season games left, they have a chance to break the best record in history (72 wins and 10 losses) set by Louis in 1984 when he led the Boston Celtics.

That night, reporters asked Louis if he was interested in breaking the record.

Louis said with a smile: "I am only interested in winning, just like pregnancy in many cases, it is just a giveaway in the physical game of love."

Louis is really not that obsessed with breaking records.

After all, the record is already his. It is his record anyway. Does it matter whether it is broken or not?

He admits he's a bit Versailles on the matter, but it's true.

Whether the record is broken or not is only a matter of his thoughts, and as a time traveler, he knows very well that a certain team that desperately wanted to break the record lost the championship in the playoffs.

Based on this matter, Louis will not let the team act too aggressively in order to break the record.

Two days later, the Knicks withstood Illustrated's epic poisonous tactics and defeated the Bucks 114-94.

Reggie Miller hit six three-pointers in this game and scored the highest score on the team.

66 wins

After that, they played back-to-back games against the New Jersey Nets. This was the only game that Louis explicitly asked to win.

Everyone on the team knew that Louie had an affair with Nets general manager Harry Weltman.

At this time, it becomes obvious who is Coach Lu's most loyal dog.

Like Ewing, he is not a licker, he just plays normally.

Wilson was different, his bloodshot eyes seemed as if the person opposite him had a grudge against him for killing his father. Oh no, it should be, as if there was someone opposite him who happened to be the Minotaur who made him a father when he was in high school.

Tonight, Wilson was killer, scoring 40 points and 5 steals in 30 minutes.

Wilson's improvement on the defensive end and his improvement in running without the ball surprised Louis.

If the defensive competition were not fierce, Louis felt that Wilson could have competed for the second defense.

And his off-ball movement coexisted harmoniously with Miller's, creating a 1+1>2 chemical reaction, which once again secured the fetters that allowed them to win the championship together at UCLA.

"Coach Lu, what's the secret to your scoring 140 points in regular time?"

Louis said nonsense seriously: "The secret is that we hit 66% of our shots."

"Some people say that you have a personal grudge against certain people in New Jersey. Is this true?"

"I can't agree." Louis said proudly, "I'm not bragging, but you can go and ask around. Who doesn't know that I am a loyal person? How can I have personal grudges with others? If there are, they are also narrow-minded.

People hate me."

The Knicks won 67 games.

After that, they met the Washington Bullets, who challenged the Knicks' bloodline suppression.

Why the Knicks won't play in front of bullets is a mystery.

No matter how big the lineup gap between the two sides is, the Bullets will always have a way to compete with the Knicks.

If they want to chase the best record in history, the Knicks can only lose one more game at most, but they don't want to give this precious "one" to the Bullets.

The Bullets carried their bloodline suppression power and fought the Knicks until the last round.

100 to 100

Ewing's key offensive rebound preserved the Knicks' chance to win.

Louis asked for a timeout and suddenly deployed a five-out tactic.

The five-out tactic, as the name suggests, means that all five players stay on the outside. This is very common in the small ball era, in order to help the ball holder create the ultimate offensive space.

But Louis' five-out strategy concentrated five players at the top of the key.

Stockton dribbled the ball to stall for time. Suddenly, the players at the top of the key scattered and Ewing ran towards the penalty area. Only then did everyone realize.

This is the starburst tactic wrapped in the shell of the five foreign tactics!

Louis used this tactic to beat the Celtics away from home.

That was also the beginning of the all-out confrontation between the Knicks and Celtics in the mid-to-late 1980s.

No one on the Bullets could stop Ewing from flying to the basket.

Stockton's perfect pass led to Ewing's alley-oop dunk, the winning bullet.

When Ewing landed, he was really beating his chest like a gorilla.

With 23 points, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks, Ewing was the most influential player in this game.

The Bullets were convinced of their defeat.

Unseld lamented to reporters: "I do feel something similar to the Knicks in 1970. The biggest similarity between these two teams is that they have people standing up to end the game every night.

This makes it impossible for his opponents to conduct targeted defense before the game because you don't know who will break out today."

That’s 68 wins.

The record is still 4 games away.

There are still 6 regular season games left, and in the eyes of the outside world, the Knicks will at least tie the record.

Because it's hard to imagine the Knicks losing three of their next six games.

No, even if they lose two games, it feels like the national table tennis team was forced to tie five in the team competition, which is incredible.

After that, the Knicks easily defeated the Hornets and won their 69th victory.

Coming to the Detroit Pistons, the opponent is currently ranked second in the Eastern Conference, with only 55 wins.

The Pistons, who have Parish, Dumars and Aguirre, want to be in trouble. They don't think they can compete with the Knicks.

But their first-round pick this year was in the hands of the Knicks, so they "reluctantly" managed to finish second in the Eastern Conference.

Daley hopes to stop the Knicks and end their winning streak.

But the outbreak of Ewing and Wilson frustrated the Pistons' wishes.

With 19 points, 14 rebounds, 8 assists and 10 blocks, Ewing suppressed the Pistons' paint area shooting percentage to 20%.

Wilson shot over 70% from the field and scored 52 points.

The young inside and outside, Louis' two most trusted superstars, powerfully defeated the Detroit Legion, bringing the Knicks' record to 70 wins, tying the best record in team history set in the 1986-87 season.

The Knicks broke the best record in team history against the Philadelphia 76ers who had no desire to win.

On April 17, the Knicks played the Chicago Bulls back-to-back, and CBS decided to broadcast the game live.

Because the Knicks are very likely to tie the league record in this game.

Although the Bulls want to beat the Knicks, they don't have the strength.

The Knicks defeated the Bulls without any blood and tied the league record. However, this victory did not make the headlines the next day.

On the night of the Knicks game, a murder occurred in New York's Central Park that shocked the United States.

A young woman named Trisha Meili was attacked while jogging in Central Park. She was raped and brutally tortured by unknown persons to the point of dying. It was only 4 hours after the incident that she was discovered by passers-by and called the police.

Send to hospital.

The method of committing the crime was so brutal that the victim was almost beaten to death, her internal organs were bleeding, and her entire left eyeball had to be removed because of the beating. The victim's head was damaged due to the strong blow. The doctor believed that even if she survived,

, may also become a vegetative state. The impact of this incident was so great that Louis recalled the level of discussion and national attention when various similar cases occurred in the country.

What is disgusting is that the "Chicago Tribune" also used this incident to throw dirty water on the Knicks: "A place that can breed such criminals can give birth to such a cruel professional basketball team."

Tying the record is a good thing, but being exposed to these things is really disgusting.

Louis asked all players to keep a low profile for some time to come and not accept any media interviews unless necessary.

The tragedy in Central Park drew attention away from professional sports.

As a result, even if the Knicks later bloodbathed the Pacers and Cavaliers with full fury, improving their record by 2 games with a record of 74 wins and 8 losses, they only attracted attention in New York and some areas.

Now Louie knows what it's like to have the Warriors win 73 games only to have the L.A. man's 60 points steal the headlines.

But being grabbed the headlines by an old man from Los Angeles, you can definitely say that this is God's will. At most, you are a little helpless, and then complain a few words, "I scored 60 points in the retirement game, but 73 wins in the season is not even better?"

, Louis like Knicks is really just disgusting.

He just hopes that the playoffs will start soon, and his team will be beaten by any team. They have too much frustration that needs to be vented.

At this time, the Milwaukee Bucks, who were advancing to the playoffs as the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference, had no idea that disaster was coming.