The rest is just noise

On April 20, five days before the end of the NBA regular season, a basketball book "When the Garden Was Yinden Garden", which claimed to reveal the unknown secrets of the Knicks dynasty, was released.

This book almost immediately became a hit across the United States.

""Resurrection Season" will let you know why the Knicks have risen. And "When the Garden is Yinden Garden" will tell you that the dynasty is not always smooth sailing and victory is not taken for granted. There are also crises within the glamorous Knicks, just like us.

Never knew Coach Lu was a racist." New York Times.

In the future, many writers will release a more eye-catching excerpt from a new book for the public to see, in order to increase their interest in reading.

The Times also adopted this approach in order to promote this book.

They chose to insert an excerpt from "When the Garden Was the Garden of Paradise" in the latest issue of the newspaper.

This section mainly tells a series of stories about Wilson briefly becoming the highest-paid player in the league after signing a big contract in 1990.

Judging from this excerpt, the author of this book, William Rodon, did not gain anything from his one-year stay with the Knicks last year.

At least the story he tells incorporates both Ewing's gut-wrenching reaction and Wilson's subsequent rise to becoming the league's highest-paid man.

Just like what the person involved wrote, every sentence in this excerpt really happened. It can be seen that Roden is very confident in this paragraph, so he released this part of the content to attract the audience.

As the defending champion, the Knicks have a lot of halo around them.

Even if you are not a fan of them, you will still buy this book.

Just the gossip involved in it is worth reading.

Although this book caused a huge impact as soon as it was released, the Knicks did not pay too much attention to this matter.

Just like when "Resurrection Season" was released, no matter how well the book sold, no one bought it.

For the players, they are the witnesses of that season and they know what happened during the season, so they don't need this book to help them recall.

There are two games left before the end of the regular season. Although the Knicks have lost 13 games, the Trail Blazers have "come from behind" and have lost 15 games so far.

Therefore, even if the Knicks lose all the remaining two games, the Trail Blazers will not be able to surpass them in the rankings.

The Knicks are no longer pursuing leading the Trail Blazers, this is an established fact. Their goal is to maintain their ranking first in the league.

If they win all the remaining two games, they can secure the first place in the league.

If you lose a game, it will be hard to say.

The Heat's current record is the same as that of the Knicks, and the Heat lead based on the relationship between wins and losses.

Therefore, the outcome of one game is enough to affect the overall situation.

The opponents in the finale and final game of the regular season are the Spurs and Kings respectively.

Both teams are from the Western Conference, but one is a strong team on the edge of the playoffs, and the other is a weak team that is about to send a lottery pick to the Knicks.

The Knicks are confident of getting two wins.

The only bad news is that both games are away games.

They are going to San Antonio first and then to Sacramento.

When the Knicks came out of the airport, Spurs fans spontaneously held up banners to mess with the players' mentality.

"Cheapskate!" "Promiscuous maniac"; "narrow-minded Jamaican bastard" Ewing.

"The Whistleblower", "Duplicity", "Louie's Dog" Wilson.

"Racist", "Smiling Tiger", "Dirty Talker", "Dictator" Louis.

"What are you doing?" Ewing was extremely unhappy when he saw the so-called label forcibly attached to him on the banner.

McHale said with a smile: "It seems to be the contents of a new book that was just released recently. It was written by the writer who was on our team last year. It's called Yin Tianyuan..."

If it was about other things, Ewing wouldn't care about it.

But it says "promiscuous" on it, a label he absolutely cannot accept.

If the fans really came to this conclusion after reading the book, then there are only two possibilities. The first possibility is that the writer made it up. The other possibility is what Ewing wants to confirm most now.

Did one of his teammates betray him and say something to the writer that he shouldn't have said?

Louis didn't take those people seriously.

After arriving at the hotel, the Knicks disbanded on the spot, eating when they needed to eat and catching up on sleep when they needed to.

For someone as energetic as Ewing, he doesn't need to catch up on sleep.

He just wanted someone to buy a copy of "When the Garden Was Yintian Garden" and he wanted to see for himself what was written in it.

The Knicks currently don't have a full staff.

After Rodman returned to the team, he was suspended by Louis until the end of the regular season.

Although Rodman cried bitterly in front of Louis that night, claiming that he wanted to change his past.

But Louis doesn't believe he will change.

Therefore, those who deserve to be punished should still be punished. If he makes a mistake in the future, he will be punished. If he is not punished because he admits his mistakes well, others will learn from him and make the same mistakes.

Rodman, who was suspended, stayed in New York.

In the past few days, there have been many tabloids reporting that Rodman was doing something like this in a bar... He was doing something in a strip club... He was doing something at home... He was doing something in the middle of the night... In short, Rodman, this evil star,

He is either doing something or other, or on the way to something.

Most of the tabloid reports are unreliable.

But the most unreliable thing about Rodman is that the unreliable reports about him will eventually be proven to be reliable by various channels.

On away game days, the Knicks usually start training sessions at 2:30.

This way you will have enough time to rest after training.

Because the regular season is coming to an end and tonight's opponent is not strong, Louis shortened the training session by one hour to give the players more time to rest.

In the afternoon, because the training time was cut off by an hour, there will be no intra-team competition today. Players only need to complete their individual training before getting out of class.

Since there is only individual training, they don't even need to come to the training hall together.

Some people simply don't come to the training.

An old man like McHale lied about staying in the hotel and masturbating. He might be masturbating other things, but no one cared what he was masturbating. It was just a cover-up.

As each season comes to an end, this situation will increase.

Tomjanovich was angry about this.

He wanted to catch an example to teach him a lesson, but Louis told him: "Don't push the players too much. We rarely paint the situation."

Today, the only players who came to training were Wilson, Miller, Yu Tiancan, Christie, Kemp, Selley, Stockton, and Rauf.

"Patrick isn't here?" Tomjanovich asked disappointedly.

"He was reading a book in the hotel room and said he would be there later," Kemp said.

"He still reads?"

Louis was as imaginative as when Hanamichi Sakuragi heard that Takenori Akagi was good at studying.

Louis watched the training and found nothing new except for Ewing's rare absence.

He is a person who lacks patience and enthusiasm for training. He soon loses interest and wants to go back to the office, but this is an away game and there is no office for him.

So he could only choose a good seat to sit down.

Ten minutes later, Zhao Yuanzheng ran over in a hurry.

"Lao Lu, something happened!"

Zhao Yuanzheng rarely felt nervous, so when he saw his expression, Louis didn't dare to neglect him.

"What happened?"

"That damn book contains a lot of inside stories that are not conducive to us!" Zhao Yuanzheng held a brand new copy of "When the Garden is Yinden Garden" in his hand. "If these things are allowed to ferment, the consequences will be disastrous."

Louis took the book and Zhao Yuanzheng had just turned to page 255.

Through the narration, Louis learned that this paragraph was about Ewing's private life.

Ewing's personal life?

Isn’t that the well-known corruption?

Then, he looked down and saw an interview with Wilson.

"Patrick is a very charming man, so the rumors (of promiscuity and double-digit illegitimate children) don't surprise me."

"Do you think these things are true?"

"Maybe, I wouldn't be surprised if it were true."]

There are many interpretations of Wilson's words.

Maybe he felt he was a legitimate guest, but in the eyes of others, he was indirectly admitting Ewing's corrupt private life.

As Zhao Yuanzheng said, once these contents are exposed, Ewing's image and his family will be affected.

The negative impact on Ewing personally is immeasurable, but what about the Knicks internally?

Louis recalled that Ewing had said that if the person spreading rumors about his chaotic private life was Wilson, he would never let him go.

At this moment, Ewing appeared at the training ground.

He grabbed the half-read copy of "When the Garden Was Yinden Garden" in his hand and rushed to Wilson who was practicing shooting.

Although Wilson noticed that his face was not friendly, he didn't think much about it.

"Patrick?"

The smile on his face lasted only a few seconds.

Ewing angrily threw the book in his hand at Wilson's body, and then slapped him with his right hand, hitting the other person's cheek.

"I'm going to fucking kill you, you gibbering bastard!"

After saying that, Ewing rushed forward irrationally.

That moment was so sudden that no one could react or stop it.

It's unclear exactly why Ewing was angry, and Wilson also lost his mind.

Because he was hit twice in the face by Ewing.

First it was the book, and then it was the slap that spared no effort.

What man doesn't hit back after being slapped?

Everyone who is familiar with Wilson knows that he is inherently a strong person with a self-esteem so strong that it cannot be violated. Over the years, for the sake of internal stability, he has chosen to retreat in the face of various annoying provocations from Ewing.

But today, he couldn't avoid it.

He was slapped by Ewing without warning.

He had no choice but to fight back.

Before the garden became the Garden of Yin, the training ground became the Shura Field.