bigabreads Chapter 178 Christmas Battle
Chapter 178 Christmas Battle
Chapter 178 Christmas Battle
On December 2009, 12, at 25 o'clock in the afternoon, Denver's Pepsi Center Arena, the Christmas game between the Nuggets and the Kings at home was only half an hour away.
Although the game between the Nuggets and the Kings was the third of all five Christmas games, it received far less attention than the two games between the Lakers and the Magic and the Cavaliers and the Celtics. Due to the high rate, the game time of each Christmas game is staggered, so the game between the Nuggets and the Kings is still a game that is watched by the whole United States and even the whole world.
However, as the parties involved in this game, the Kings and the Nuggets did not have any war of words before the game. Whether it was the Nuggets boss Carmelo Anthony or the Kings boss Yan Hua, both of them were quite restrained. , but in such a game, how could they keep a low profile if they wanted to.
The Christmas game, coupled with the grievances between the Kings and the Nuggets in the playoffs last season, made the local media in Denver start to report on the game a few days before the game started. As for supporting the Nuggets King's fans, it's even crazier. From the time the Kings arrived in Denver, the Nuggets' fans began to welcome their opponents in their own way.
Especially before the start of the game, when the visiting Kings took the lead, the boos from the Pepsi Center Arena were more violent than any previous team's visit to Denver, and even many Nuggets fans from other places, I drove hundreds of kilometers to the Pepsi Center Arena, in order to be able to send my own boos and insults to the visiting Kings players on the spot, because from the beginning of the series last season, the Nuggets and the Kings have been the same. An out-and-out mortal enemy relationship.For the king who stepped on his own body to complete the miracle of the black seven, all fans who support the Nuggets, even the whole of Denver and the whole of Colorado, don't have any good feelings.
Although compared to last season, the Kings have undoubtedly become stronger, but after being blacked out, Carmelo Anthony has obviously evolved stronger, and the overall strength of the Nuggets is also in the same position as Carmelo Anthony. Driven by it, there has been a lot of growth, so today's Christmas game, for the Nuggets and the fans who support the Nuggets, is undoubtedly a game of revenge and revenge.
"Obviously, the Denver fans are still brooding over what happened last season!" Kenny Smith, who was on the sidelines, said with a smile as he watched the almost crazy audience at the Pepsi Center.
"Kenny, if someone did something to your team last season, I think you will never forget it, so don't criticize these fans at the scene. Their current performance is just a normal reaction." There are two games that TNT TV network arranges to be broadcast live in the United States, so Kenny Smith and his old partner Charles Barkley are separated. Alex English, the scoring leader in the history of the Nuggets and one of the greatest stars in the history of the Nuggets, came to explain this Christmas game with Kenny Smith.
As a famous Nuggets legend, Alex English is naturally on the side of the Nuggets, not to mention the Nuggets fans at the scene, even Alex English himself is right for the Nuggets. The king who completed the black seven on Jin didn't like it very much, so Alex English also supported the behavior of the Nuggets fans on the scene booing the Kings players.
"Alex, do you think the Nuggets can beat the Kings at home today?" Although what Alex English said just now made Kenny Smith almost unable to step down, as a professional commentator, Kenny -Smith quickly adjusted his mentality and began to discuss the game with Alex English.
"Of course, Cameron is one of the best players in the league, and the Nuggets are also one of the strongest teams in the league. In addition, the Nuggets are playing, so in today's game, the Nuggets are absolutely You can get revenge on the King." After Kenny Smith asked, Alex English gave his answer without any consideration. In today's game, if the Nuggets can't do anything If they beat the king, I am afraid that the Nuggets fans at the scene will not agree.
"Well, it's useless to ask." After listening to Alex English's answer, Kenny Smith shook his head with a smile. If his old partner Charles Barker is sitting here now, Li, he would definitely not answer like that, because Alex English's answer was equivalent to knocking Kenny Smith's next words to death with a straight stick.
Unlike Alex English who believes that the Nuggets must win, although Kenny Smith supports Yan Hua and the Nuggets, Kenny Smith does not think that the Kings will definitely win. Similarly, although the Nuggets Sitting on the advantage of the home field, but their chances of winning are not too great.
The strength of the Nuggets is the perimeter, while the strength of the Kings is the interior. This kind of game with their own advantages is the most difficult to play, because he is not like the kind where the strengths of both sides are both inside or outside. In such a game, as long as the strengths of both sides face each other, whoever has the upper hand will win the game. This kind of game where you suppress my outside line and I suppress your inside line is difficult to separate in a short time. win or lose.
"Yan, the winner of today's game must be me!"
After the Kings player finished his appearance amidst boos, the Nuggets player of the home team walked out of the player channel amid the cheers of the audience, and Carmelo Anthony, the core of the Nuggets, walked out of the player channel , came directly to the side of the king's bench, and calmly declared to Yan Hua that he must win.
Unlike last season when Yan Hua was regarded as a younger brother and junior, the King and Yan Hua are now the biggest opponents in Carmelo Anthony's mind, even more so than Kobe's Lakers and LeBron James' Cavaliers. An important opponent, because the king has engraved a shame that can never be washed away on him and on his team.
"Carmelo, that's exactly what I want to tell you!" After Carmelo Anthony finished speaking, Yan Hua responded to Anthony with a firm face. Today's game, for Yan Hua, It is also a game that cannot be lost.
(End of this chapter)