Knicks "Donkey" Josh Hart walked to the sidelines and said to the man sitting in the comment seat, "Brother! Are you listening? The whole stadium is scolding you. ”
Fans of Madison Garden Plaza never scolded nobodies, and after so many years, as long as he appeared at the Madison Garden Plaza Arena, New York fans would send cordial greetings, he was New York's number one public enemy, the first mayor of New York, Reggie Miller.
What exactly did he do to make New Yorkers hate him so much?
Things started in 1993, until the end of the regular season, the Indiana Pacers, who did not catch the last train of the playoffs, had to face the New York Knicks, who were the first in the East, in the first round.
It's just that Reggie Miller was in the game, in order to break the mentality of Starks, the main point guard in New York, and kept spewing trash talk to him from the beginning of the game.
"Can you play the main force at your level?"
"Hold on, I'm ready to score."
"I'm guarding it again", "At your level, you have to go home and practice and come back." ”
Starks didn't care at first, as the game progressed, the physical confrontation gradually intensified, Miller took the opportunity to greet Starks frequently with his elbows, head, face, chest, back, I don't know how many elbows Starks took Miller, at this time I couldn't help it anymore, rushed up and tore the guy with a mouth full of feces, without any suspense, Starks was expelled by the referee.
Without the organization of the main point guard, New York also lost the only game of the series.
When the reporter asked Miller after the game, did the game use trash talk to change the final trend? Miller pretended not to understand the reporter, "What trash? I never trash talk. ”
Regarding Starks' eoff, Miller joked, "Maybe last night's hotel room service didn't make him happy, so he was angry." ”
Miller's cheap and obedient performance made New York fans hate him so much that they gritted their teeth from then on.
Then came the 93-94 season, the two teams met in the Eastern Conference Finals this time, before the series began, the fans of the two teams had already started the mode of spraying each other, the reason was that Spike Lee, the number one fan in New York, said that Miller could not win the series, and if Miller won, the heroine of his next movie would be played by Miller's wife. If he loses, let Miller go to Indiana to visit Mike Tyson, who is serving his sentence.
In addition to being a die-hard Knicks fan, Spike Lee is also a very famous director in Hollywood, he has long held a season ticket to the first row of the Knicks' courtside, and he also likes to watch the game while visiting other players in New York.
In this round of the series, Miller became the target of his frenzy, and fans in New York shouted Miller's sister's name during the game in order to stimulate Miller, mocking Miller for playing ball, and even his sister couldn't beat him.
Speaking of Miller's sister Sheryl Miller in the women's basketball world, it is a Jordan-like existence, once scored 105 points in a single game, the first person to dunk in the women's game, Miller, who was abused by her sister since she was a child, and she had to call her sister when she saw herry.
The ridicule of the New York fans directly inspired Miller's fighting spirit, and in the battle of Tianwang Mountain in the series, Miller angrily yelled at his teammates: "You guys blocked people for me, pass me the damn ball, and I'll take care of everything." Millery made a jumper and scored 25 points in the fourth quarter of the decisive break, and the Pacers also won the battle of Kings Mountain.
After the final shot, Miller made a chokew-lock motion at the crowd, meaning that his offense suffocated the New Yorkers.
After the game, Reggie Miller became New York's number one public enemy and received a cordial greeting from fans every time he visited Madison.
In the following 94-95 season, the two teams met again in the Eastern Conference semifinals, and in the first game, the New York Knicks, who were originally in control, were scored 8 points by Miller in the last 9 seconds, which also achieved the highest moment of Miller's career, he celebrated unscrupulously, spraying at the fans, "You were almost suffocated when you were nervous just now."
This is undoubtedly a hard shot in the chest of the New York fans, the fans of Madison Square Square hate this arrogant and unkillable guy, compared to the horror that Mike Jordan suppressed from the beginning of the game, Reggie Miller is the kind of person you think you will win, and then give you a fatal blow and turn the game around. The fans have also gone from joy to frustration and even affected your good mood for the day.
However, in 2004, when Miller, who was already forty years old, visited Madison Square for the last time, those tsunami greetings turned into applause again and again, and the fans offered their sincerest respect for this guy they once hated.
The fans scolded him because he won and roared like a villain's provocation. The fans applauded him because he was a real powerhouse, sticking to the glory of one person and one city from beginning to end.
After so many years, the fans of Madison Square Square still see who is upset, and they will spray trash talk to him and send their kindest greetings.
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