After entering March, if the schedule in the second half of January is torture and the February schedule is purgatory, then the Eagles' March schedule is eighteen levels of hell.

No matter how difficult the January schedule is, it only lasts for the second half of the month. The February schedule is difficult, but there is an All-Star Weekend in the middle of the season.

But in March...the beginning is directly connected to the last day of February.

On March 1st, the Hawks, who had just beaten the Magic, were about to face the challenge of the Knicks back-to-back at home.

The Knicks, like the Wizards, both have a record of 27 wins and 30 losses, tied for tenth in the Eastern Conference.

The Knicks are good, and they can't even play badly. As a team from the richest big city in the world, James Dolan, the rich second generation who took over the Knicks in 1999, was asked by reporters in mid-January,

With no hope of making the playoffs this season, the Knicks will choose to completely suck in order to win James. James Dolan said: They can suck, but they are not allowed to suck.

This logic is very interesting, it can be broken, but it is not allowed to be broken.

Dolan actually wanted to marry James. Look at the art of speaking, how skillful he is, but he just couldn't save face and just said that he was going to show off.

Dolan just wants to retain the "dignity" of the holy land of basketball. The bad thing is not because they don't work hard, but because they lack strength.

Then the Knicks players and coaching staff took it seriously!

The Knicks players and coaching staff feel the sense of self-identity and pride they should have as a "rich team"!

The Knicks players all worked hard. They felt that their dignity had been maintained, and they had the impulse to "die for a confidant" towards Dolan. Then, in the past month or so, they had a record of 11 wins and 6 losses. It was a surprise.

Caught up with the Wizards.

This outbreak gave Dolan a hard time to talk about.

Why did it suddenly break out?

Aren’t you all ready to head towards the second-to-last place in the Eastern Conference?

The team has directly climbed from a 10-win team to nearly 30 wins, and may even hit 40 wins by the end of the season. This makes Dolan so desperate.

There is a chance to win 40 games. Even if we win 40 games, we still won’t make it to the playoffs!

But no matter how desperate you are, even if you break your teeth, you have to swallow them in your stomach.

No, the Knicks are going to beat the Hawks. Originally, Dolan has not been interviewed recently, but due to the exclusive interview with a Chinese reporter, in order to open up the Chinese market... It is too easy for the Knicks to open up the North American market, even if the record is last.

1. Ticket revenue ranks first in the NBA. The Knicks’ ticket prices are close to those of NFL teams. Of course, the NFL only has 16 regular season games a year, so tickets are naturally expensive, but football is played in the open air.

On average, about 40,000 to 50,000 people watch each game. For example, the NCAA football Rose Bowl in Los Angeles and the NFL's annual Super Bowl can have up to 100,000 spectators. Plus the NFL has more teams, it is definitely still more profitable than the NBA.

The Knicks are one of only two teams in the NBA that can rival NFL teams in ticket revenue.

In terms of live streaming revenue in North America, the Knicks’ revenue ranks among the highest among all NBA teams.

Since he has become one of the best teams in the NBA market so easily, Dolan has the ambition to open up overseas markets. The Chinese market is undoubtedly the NBA's largest overseas market candidate. I don't see the NBA spending a lot of promotional resources on it.

Have they all been put into the Chinese market? Dolan also wants a share of the pie.

So, I couldn't control my mouth again when I was being interviewed.

In an exclusive interview with Chaotingdai, Xinhua News Agency's Xu Jicheng asked the Knicks if they would want to compete with the Hawks for a playoff spot this year. Theoretically, the Knicks still have a chance. After all, they are only close to the Hawks.

Four wins.

In order to leave the impression in the minds of Chinese fans that the Knicks are a tough team that never gives up, Dolan replied: "No, our goal is not the playoffs, but the championship, no matter how difficult it is, no matter how difficult it is,

We failed in the end. Our goal is also the championship. As a professional team, if we don’t fight for the championship, we should simply disband.”

Dolan responded by quoting the connotation of a famous quote by Kobe Bryant, who was still a substitute at the time, after he was eliminated by the Jazz in the playoffs of his rookie season by making consecutive hollow shots outside the basket.

As a substitute, Kobe's style of play was similar to that of Jordan's, and the Los Angeles market was huge. Part of his ability to be selected as an All-Star in his second year was his talent. What was more important was his courage to take the winning shot in the playoffs during his rookie season, and his ability to lose.

Be brave enough to take responsibility.

These words are quite a boost to morale. The Knicks have been playing for more than a month, and the morale they mentioned last time has almost been exhausted. They could have been put to good use. If the season ends with just over 30 wins, the top three picks will not be big.

Maybe, the top five picks can still compete. The record in the Eastern Conference this year is very average. It is difficult for the first place in the Eastern Conference to win 50 games, so the records of the weak teams are also good.

But after hearing the president's words, the players felt a "sense of mission." Even if they couldn't even make the playoffs in the end, as the famous coach Tomjanovich said, they can't live without a championship heart!

So, Dolan was expecting the Knicks to start their losing streak soon, but he went berserk during the away game against the Hawks.

On March 1st, the Hawks, who had just played 7 games in the past 11 days and had to play back-to-back games, faced the Knicks with a tired team. They were stunned by a team that had been in excellent form since mid-January.

Originally, the Knicks players hated the Hawks, and Alan Houston hated Liu Mang so much that they broke out today!

Alan Houston felt like he was "returning to glory" this year. He actually had the strongest season of his career, averaging 22 3 2 per game, a career high in points. If it weren't for the fact that nearly half of the Knicks' 97 million salary was spent on retirement.

, the "former star" who was waived, DNP, and even if the Knicks' record is better, this year will be Alan Houston's career masterpiece.

The Knicks seemed to have regained the iron-blooded defense of the Pat Riley era today, with strong physical confrontation and accurate mid-range shooting. They beat the Hawks to a 45-34 halftime lead.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Most of the Eagles' players are very weak. This is not because they don't want to work hard, but because they are really tired.

In the third quarter, Liu Mang led Prince, Chris Crawford, Nubel, and Boozer, who were all in good physical condition, to try to overtake the score.

It is true that the third quarter was the best quarter of the game for the Eagles. They scored 28 points in a single quarter. Liu Mang scored 13 points and 5 assists in a single quarter, but the Knicks scored 31 points!

The Hawks' lineup had a good offense, but except for the two guards, the three frontcourt players were completely eliminated. Instead of narrowing the gap, the Knicks led the team to 14 points, trailing 62 to 76 in the third quarter.

At the end of the quarter, Liu Mang brought Jason Terry, Prince, Boozer, and Muhammad to continue to play and fight for three quarters. Jason Terry and Muhammad also recovered, and they were exhausted.

Not as big as Raheem and Ratliff, the Eagles' overall condition began to pick up in the final quarter.

But the Knicks were not careless. They had a rare chance to beat the Hawks. How could they be careless? Alan Houston, who had scored 20 points in the first three quarters, exploded in the last quarter, scoring 22 points in a single quarter. Even Liu Mang almost stabbed Alan with his finger when he came up.

-Houston’s eyes were filled with surprise. Alan Houston didn’t flinch today and stood up bravely. When the Hawks found the feeling to counterattack in the last quarter, Alan Houston had a personal scoring shock wave, relying on 22 points in a single quarter.

In addition to the 35-point performance of the entire Hawks in a single quarter, plus the 6 points scored by others after Alan Houston attracted the defense, the Knicks withstood the Hawks' late counterattack!

Liu Mang scored 36 points and 8 assists today, but lost to Alan Houston's explosive 42 points.

In the end, the Knicks defeated the Hawks 104-97 in an away game, giving Knicks owner Dolan a "breath of victory" for his belief in "never say never"!

Knicks owner Dorland came to the away game to watch the game. When he saw the Knicks playing like a championship player today, he almost spit out his blood.

Why didn't I see you guys being so stubborn at the beginning of the season? The only possibility left was the playoffs, or was it an extremely low possibility, and you guys exploded?

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With 30 wins and 26 losses, the Eagles suffered a defeat in the second game of back-to-back games.

This kind of thing is within the expectation of the Eagles' coaching staff, so in the games in late January and February, the Eagles want to win so much in order to accumulate a few wins in case this happens.

Seven games were played in the last 11 days of February. The schedule was very cruel, and March has basically always been this kind of schedule, so the Eagles must have a certain number of wins as a buffer when they have to lose.

For example, after playing the Knicks, the Hawks only have one day of rest on the 2nd, and then starting on the 3rd, there will be another 5 games in 7 days, first three consecutive home games, playing the Celtics on the 3rd, and then playing the Celtics on the 5th.

On the 6th, they will face the Warriors and Hornets back-to-back at home, and then on the 8th and 9th, they will face the Hornets and Heat back-to-back away from home.

Fortunately, they are all playing at home or against teams from the East, West and South divisions, and it is less than an hour away from Atlanta. But even so, the Hawks players want to take Gatling to New York to bomb the NBA headquarters.

NBA officials said they were also helpless!

Yes, in order to open up the Chinese market, they treated the Hawks like animals, but in November and December and the first half of January, they gave the Hawks a very loose schedule, which can be said to be the entire NBA.

An easier start than ever before in history.

But the Eagles couldn't stand it and committed suicide. The schedule of only 28 games in the first two months was wasted.

Originally, David Stern thought that the Hawks had the best record in the league in the first two and a half months. Based on the Hawks' record last season and the fact that the players are all young people, there will definitely be improvement this year.

It is not difficult to win the first half of the regular season, and then as the half champion of the NBA regular season, we will warm up for the playoffs during the Chinese New Year and more than a month after the Spring Festival.

The plan was perfect, but things often didn't go as planned. The Eagles actually arrived in March and were still struggling for a playoff spot.

David Stern is also feeling miserable!

If something happens to the Hawks and they fail to make the playoffs, David Stern will probably vomit blood. If both the Hawks and Rockets fail to make the playoffs, he will probably want to commit suicide. The market in China is going to be hot this year.

, especially Chaotingtai has a "championship heart", and even predicts the finals between the Hawks and Rockets... There are already domestic "experts who understand football" who have begun to analyze the probability of a black eight, the word black eight

It has become extremely popular in domestic basketball circles recently.

Although David Stern knew that it was something he couldn't even dream about, the fact that both teams made it to the playoffs gave Chinese fans some hope. No matter how miserable it was, at least one team had to make it to the playoffs.

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But now, the Rockets and Hawks are both precariously in eighth place in their respective divisions, and David Stern is worried every time he sees the Hawks and Rockets losing.

But now that the matter has come to this point, the Eagles players can only complain privately, but publicly they still have to say that they don't care about the schedule and just want to win.

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March 2nd is a day off. What can you do in one day?

Enough to go to the supermarket.

In such a difficult time, after Liu Mang got up in the morning and finished training, he did not continue to focus on basketball in the afternoon. At this time, the more he thought about the schedule and worries about the future, the more he became entangled in his emotions and the worse he became.

After training in the morning, after Dinah finished her homework at noon, Liu Mang took Little Loli to the supermarket to buy some wooden boards, screws, mini electric drills, and plastic baffles with high transparency close to the transparency of glass.

After buying the things, I went home in the afternoon and made my own honor display cabinet.

In the past, Dinah used his plastic storage boxes, cardboard boxes and other things to store the trophies. Dinah always felt that it was too "dignified", so she wanted to make her own honorary display cabinet.

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