Beep.
The timer ends and the live competition officially ends.
The score between the two sides was 109 to 105. At the last moment, Zhao Feiyang was double-teamed and threw in a key three-pointer. Unfortunately, the team still lost to the Philadelphia 76ers by 4 points.
At the end of the game, the 76ers players cheered and celebrated together.
Joel Embiid had disliked Jimmy Butler before, but after the two sides won the game together, Embiid took the initiative to high-five Butler in celebration.
At this point, Ben Simmons obviously didn't have the same attitude as Embiid. He didn't seem happy about winning. He just briefly greeted his teammates to celebrate, and then quickly left the arena.
On the Knicks side, Zhao Feiyang led the players out of the infield as soon as the game ended. After everyone returned to the locker room, the room that used to be so lively became extremely silent.
DeMarcus Cousins walked in the last position. After he entered the goal, many teammates' eyes fell on him.
Most people did not choose to speak, but Dwight Howard took this opportunity to take the initiative to attack him.
"DeMarcus, what were you doing just now?"
"Man! That's not how that ball was played..."
When Howard said this, Cousins immediately yelled at him, "Dwight, what do you want to say? Do you want to blame me?"
"Losing the game is not my responsibility alone! Why should you blame all this on me?"
Cousins appeared to be in denial.
His attitude also made head coach Norman Thomas very dissatisfied.
"DeMarcus, I know everyone makes mistakes sometimes! But I can't understand, how on earth did you defend Embiid at the last moment?"
"This is not your normal level of defense..."
Seeing that Coach Thomas also expressed dissatisfaction with him, Cousins became even more angry!
"Why do you blame me for losing? If you think someone can restrain Embiid better, why did you replace me?"
"I didn't ask you to do this..."
Seeing that the situation was getting worse, Zhao Feiyang, the leader of the team, quickly stood up to dissuade everyone. He first glanced at Coach Thomas, then shook his head at Howard. After doing all this, he went up to comfort Cousins.
"DeMarcus, calm down!"
"Don't think too much, everyone. Winning and losing are really normal things. We just lost a regular season game! It's enough to win this game back next time! This is nothing special... ..”
"We even won the Warriors before..."
After Zhao Feiyang said this, Howard wisely stopped arguing. Although Cousins was still unhappy, he didn't say anything further.
The team's conflicts were temporarily suppressed.
For the Knicks, losing a game is really nothing. But for New York fans, the perfect start they were looking forward to was interrupted, which undoubtedly made many fans who had too high expectations very dissatisfied.
Under the media's deliberate exaggeration, fans also pointed their guns at Cousins . For a time, Cousins , who had a poor reputation, became the target of fans' attack.
"Trade this guy!"
"Now that the team has enough strength inside, why do we have to put such an unstable factor here?"
"Please! I'm so convinced! This guy DeMarcus will ruin the team..."
"The team could beat the Warriors and the Lakers, but lost to the 76ers! This makes me wonder! If it weren't for DeMarcus's mistakes at the last moment, would we still have lost? Of course, mistakes are not The most exaggerated thing, the most exaggerated thing is that this guy didn't pass the ball to the defender and dribbled the ball through half the court by himself? More than once! God! What was he thinking?"
While the fans are dissatisfied, the Knicks management is also aware of this problem.
Team general manager Scott Perry personally came forward, hoping to communicate with Cousins. However, Cousins rejected this attitude.
Such behavior also made the always patient manager Scott a little dissatisfied.
But even in this situation, he still has no intention of trading Cousins.
At the same time, after finishing the game with the 76ers, the Knicks returned to New York. Just the day after returning to New York, another piece of bad news came from the team.
DeAndre Jordan, another core striker on the team, suffered a recurrence of his back injury after finishing the game. After testing by the team doctor, the team doctor finally concluded that Jordan needs to rest for at least a month.
This sudden situation also confused the Knicks management. After all, before officially signing DeAndre Jordan, DeAndre Jordan's management team had never revealed the news.
Although the news of Jordan's back injury has been reported by the media before, that was last season. No one knew that such a back injury would cause twists and turns!
Dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction. The Knicks management still has an overall view of the situation and knows that all the team's decisions are to pave the way for the playoffs, so they immediately allowed Jordan to recuperate.
Something went wrong for Jordan here, and Porzingis, who should have recovered, also has a new situation.
During the few days of rest, Porzingis' ankle was fine.
But unexpectedly, one day before he was ready to come back, Porzingis sprained again during confrontation training. This time the sprain was no worse than before. After inspection by the team's medical team, Porzingis' ankle condition was much worse than before.
Finally, after strict consideration, the medical team recommended that the management allow Porzingis to continue to recuperate, and it is best to relax the recovery time to 7 to 8 weeks.
General Manager Scott was very troubled by these two things.
But things have happened. For the future of the team, he can only choose to let Porzingis continue to recover from his injury.
However, as a result, the team's two starting insiders have rested, and there are suddenly fewer people available.
Cousins and Howard will inevitably become the team's new starting inside combination!
Taking into account the impact of the lack of players in the lineup, the Knicks management also temporarily signed two substitute forward players from the affiliated Development League to supplement the team's lineup.
Amid the worries of the Knicks management, they ushered in their next game.
The Knicks host the Milwaukee Bucks in this game.
The Bucks started the season well. They started the season with a record of 6 wins and 2 losses and were ranked second in the Eastern Conference.
Compared with the Knicks, who are ranked first in the Eastern Conference, the Bucks' financial strength does not seem to be much different, not to mention there are all-star players like Antetokounmpo Giannis Antetokounmpo.
