Since the Christmas game between the Nets and the Lakers ushered in the first meeting of the season, the two sides met again in January, and this time the Purple and Gold Army, which once again gathered the big three, also lost the nets of Durant and Irving 106 to 96. It is worth mentioning that this game was held at the Barclays Center, the home of the Nets, after the goal of its own star Harden, the whole field was silent, but after the lakers players of the visiting team scored, the Nets fans did not hesitate to cheer their own cheers, directly making the stadium applause thunderous, especially the Lakers core James, in this game 21 shots 14 shots bombed the team's highest 33 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks, but also became the focus of the Nets fans to take care of the cheer object.
After the game, James was asked by the media how he felt about being able to get so many cheers from the fans on the road in the twilight of his career, and he also said: "I just love to play, I have a passion for this sport, because I missed the first battle of New York this season, the city of New York loves basketball, they have witnessed all the great players who have played in this sport, and I hope that every time I come to New York to play, I can make them proud." ”
In fact, this is not the first time that Nets fans have defected, in the previous game with the Warriors, when Curry scored, the Nets fans present also welcomed him with more enthusiastic cheers than home players, and this also made everyone inevitably begin to wonder, these fans may not be Nets fans, more like Knicks fans. Because in the minds of New Yorkers, the Knicks are their home team, and the Nets are more like an outsider and don't have much emotion.
Not long ago, there was a valuation ranking of NBA teams in 2021, when the Knicks ranked first among all teams in the league with a total price of 6.12 billion, while the other team in the same city was only 3.61 billion, 2 billion worse than the Lakers in third place, let alone the big brother Knicks in the same city. To know that this is still their case with Harden, Durant, Irving these three superstars, if you want to put in the previous years of the Nets that did not have superstars, the market value is likely to not even enter the top five, in the first big city in the United States like New York, the Nets are indeed some embarrassing existence.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Barclays Center is estimated to be the worst atmosphere in the league, and even to describe it as the home of all the away teams is no exaggeration, this season the Nets to the visiting players to shout MVP has not been once or twice, including Curry, Morant have been subjected to such "special treatment", and today's lakers and nets game, is more obvious, the first half Harden desperately broke through, in the scoring organization of a catch, the result of the end of the cheers, Not as much as lakers veteran Anthony a back-to-back jump shot, it is no wonder that Harden recently revealed that he wanted to leave the Nets, laborious and unflattering, turned against by home fans, who can stand such a nest.
If you really want the Nets home fans to change their bias towards the visiting team, the team may really have to come up with practical action, sitting on the big three of them, plus the bench is also particularly deep, and now Irving can also return to play away games, as long as they can win the first championship in team history this season, it should be able to change the dilemma of home fans not paying attention to their own players now!