Chapter 657: Thank You, Seattle! (End of Volume III)
It's back, yes and the Seattle warriors are back! ”
"Champion, our champion, is coming back!"
Early in the morning of June 13, 2008, several Seattle games were already surrounded by water, and people were moving.
In fact, it's not just outside the Seattle airport, it's already full of people on both sides of the road leading from the Seattle airport to downtown.
Seattle Airport is 60 kilometers from downtown Seattle, and more than 500,000 people have already stood on this 60-kilometer journey.
In Seattle today, there are a large number of fans not only from all over Washington State, but also from all over the world.
Most of these people are here for Yes, for hypersonics!
And now, they can finally see the perfect ending they want to see!
Outside the Seattle airport now, hundreds of thousands of people are waiting nervously and excitedly.
And inside the Seattle airport, the members of Garfield High School, who were one of the pick-up personnel, were even more excited than the others.
As the head coach of Garfield High School and the mentor of Yes, Coach Floyd's eyes have always been red.
And the players from Garfield High School such as Avery Bradley, Kawhi Leonard, and Tony Roten around him are now even more nervous and excited!
"If it weren't for the lack of money, I would have gone to Boston a long time ago!"
"I really envy Stephen that guy has a good father!"
Leonard listened to the words of the two teammates around him, and his face was paralyzed with a slight frown.
It's cheesy to talk about money.
But, money is a good thing.
In Seattle, it's as if the whole city is waiting for the hero's return.
And on the plane, the Seattle SuperSonics players are telling the world in their own way that they are now a world champion.
At the current Seattle SuperSonics, there are a total of 14 players, among which Malikroos and Milicic are champions.
Marikroos won the 1999 and 2003 championships with the Spurs, while Milicic won the championship in 2004.
In addition, the other 12 players, all of whom won the championship for the first time.
Yese, Rose, Millsap, Quentin Richardson, Wilkins, David Lee, Tucker, Barria, Sessions, Nick Collisson, Kwame Brown and now Durant in the hospital, all for the first time.
For these first-time champions, the trophy with the pillar and the ball is particularly attractive.
Not to mention these players who have won the championship for the first time, even Milicic is a player who has won the championship for the second time, and now they are completely conquered by this trophy.
Watching these supersonic players on the plane now put the championship trophy in various shapes to take pictures and show off, Marik Cross felt quite incredible.
Or do these young people know how to play!
Although he and Duncan were also young people in 1999, there was no comparison to these kids now.
"Darko, it's my turn again, it's not the first time for you, you're more obsessed than we are!"
"Hehe......"
Not the championship trophy in the hands of David Lee, Milicic smirked.
Obsession, of course!
Although this is not his first time.
However, his first time was no different from feeding the dog.
The championship that took him away for the first time never belonged to him.
That championship belongs to the demon and the five people he carried.
And now!
Looking at David Lee, who is now wearing an elegant suit, holding red wine in his right hand, and holding the championship trophy in his left hand, Milicic has a smile on his face.
This is his champion!
"Short Li, Nima's is okay, let you put on a show, you're really ready to drink, I still have to use that glass of red wine!"
"I didn't drink it, I just sniffed it!"
It's a muscle stick!
I don't know any cultural cultivation, I haven't seen your son!
Even if you are asked to wear a suit and serve red wine, you are still bandits!
Nima's, really TM spoiled this cup of 82-year-old Lafite!
David Lee had MMP in mind, but on the surface he still smiled and handed over the championship trophy to the bandit-like Tucker.
"Short Li, what do you think of my look?"
"One word, handsome!"
"Hahahaha, I knew that in the whole of Seattle, except for Yes, I was the most handsome!"
What about Handsome Nima!
On the Seattle SuperSonics, everyone is now showing their personality in their own way.
On the Internet, various possessions of Seattle superSonics players taking photos with the championship trophy also appeared in front of the world.
Today, the day after the Finals, this is the moment of glory for the Seattle SuperSonics.
In fact, not only today, but from today until the new season, they will be the most glorious group in the world.
They are the biggest winners in this world!
The amount of attention they received for a group of people who won one of the most watched games in the history of American professional sports was enormous.
Yesterday's fourth Finals game between the SuperSonics and the Boston Celtics reached a terrifying 49.4% of the nationwide ratings!
In one fell swoop, it broke the NFL's 49.1% ratings record.
This time, the carnival in the United States, the lively show watched by the American audience was perfectly ended.
When he got the ratings record for this game, David Stern even laughed for more than an hour in his office.
If it weren't for the fact that his mouth was smiling, he would have been able to laugh forever.
"Yes!"
On the Internet, on Twitter, any Seattle SuperSonics player posts a news, and it gets thousands of comments.
On the Internet now, on Twitter, every supersonic player is a big star, a superstar.
Now these Seattle SuperSonics players are treated completely differently on the Internet than when they first came to the NBA!
And that's all they have with this championship in their hands!
In the NBA, many people have their own ideas and pursuits.
Some are for money, some are for personal value, and some are burdened with the glory of the whole city and the whole race.
But whether it's for money, for people to realize their personal value, or for people who are burdened with many people's expectations, the championship is their dream!
At the very least, when they are asked what your biggest goal and dream is in the NBA, everyone will say: championship!
It's not about how much money you make, it's not how many MVP trophies you get, it's not about letting a certain group shine in the world, they'll all say, championship!
And the NBA championship trophy, one of the highest pursuits of all basketball players in the world, is now a plaything in their hands!
And they themselves have realized their own value!
And the one who makes them all happen......
Now on the plane of the Seattle SuperSonics players, it is clear to everyone why they got all this!
From a bunch of smelly garbage to the most glorious people in the world!
This is the quintessential Cinderella story!
Every single one of them is a Cinderella.
And Yes is the prince of each of them!
"Yes!"
Is this what it's like to help your players achieve their dreams?
Looking at these supersonic fans on the plane now, the expression on the old Nelson's face is now full of surprise.
Nelson Sr. has been in the NBA for many, many years.
He has won more than one championship trophy in the NBA.
But as a manager, this is the first time.
The first time I won the championship in the position of head coach, I had to wait until now.
In 2008, it was exactly 30 years since he picked up the coaching whip of the Bucks in the 77-78 season!
It took 30 years to win the first championship trophy of his coaching career, something he had never imagined.
After all, he is a disciple of the cardinal, and he is the most beloved disciple of the cardinal!
A noble son in the NBA coaching world like him, success, in the eyes of many people, is a thing that comes easily.
But in the end, he went from a young man to a gray-haired old man before he won his first coaching championship.
Is this a pity?
Nelson Sr. never felt sorry for it.
Because before coming to Seattle SuperSonics, he never aimed for a championship.
Speaking of which, it may feel like a lack of beating.
As a disciple of the Cardinals and a former Celtics player, the elder Nelson looks down on the championship trophy that others are striving for.
The championship really doesn't have any special attraction for him.
When he was a player at Celtic, he was already soft.
It was the most dreamy thing for his old rivals, Lord Baylor and Jerry West, who were so commonplace.
So even if he stopped being a player and became a head coach, Nelson Sr. didn't change that thinking.
He is a coach, and the championship is not his pursuit, what he pursues is his own pleasure, and it is basketball itself!
This is how he has been for the past thirty years!
And his pursuit of this kind of has also let him down many, many people.
Marquis Johnson, Monccliffe, Chris Mullin, Tim Hardaway, Derknowski...... And, of course, Chris Webb.
They are all great players, but because of him, these great players are missing out on the championship.
The championship is a mustard for him, but for them......
Nelson Sr. had always felt that he was a stubborn person, and he had never felt that his stubbornness was wrong before.
But coming to Seattle, coming to the Supersonics, Yes made him change all that.
He came to Seattle and came to the SuperSonics with no secret, which was to use Yes as a new plaything to realize his basketball fun and pursuit.
Yes is amazing!
Such an amazing Yes is a gem of the sport of basketball!
In Yes, he can achieve a lot of pleasure and pleasure that he wanted to achieve before.
But in the end, his stubbornness was influenced by Yes's persistence.
The fairy-tale color of Yes has smashed his seemingly lofty dream of pursuing his own basketball fun into powder, and after shattering the coat of basketball dreams and fun wrapped in him, what is exposed is selfishness, the most disgusting selfishness, the selfishness of sacrificing everyone for himself.
"The joy of basketball is really more than just the joy and fun of self-realization......
Seeing the children now wandering, Old Nelson was satisfied, and it was a pleasure and pleasure that he had never had before.
"Yes!"
This is the old Nelson's heartfelt thanks.
"Yes, this time to welcome you, the hero of Seattle, home with glory, the whole of Seattle is dispatched!"
Rick Sander, the president of the Seattle SuperSonics, who sat next to Yes, who brought Yees back from Toronto, is now excited.
Overall Winner!
In two years, Yes has brought the most gorgeous new life to this city, this team!
What a dream!
The teenager sitting next to him made him go from being the biggest laughing stock in NBA history to being one of the greatest general managers in NBA history!
Now the whole world is singing the greatness of Yes.
But in addition to singing Yes's greatness, there is also admiration for him, the former supersonic general manager, who paid everything to keep Yes in Seattle, and it was he who paid everything to start the glorious beginning of the Seattle supersonics!
"Yes, right now, everyone in Seattle is watching what we're doing!"
Looking out the window, Yes's face was full of memories.
"Ye, don't be frustrated, no matter whether you succeed or fail, you are all Seattle heroes, and now, everyone in Seattle is paying attention to you on the plane, and you are the most important thing compared to that championship trophy."
Seven years ago, it was dark outside.
And now, it's bright outside.
"Yes, here's Seattle, and before you feel the passion for Seattle, I would like to thank the city of Seattle for everything you've done for it, great champions, great MVPs!"
Thank me on behalf of Seattle......
Ye Si closed his eyes slightly.
When the plane stops at the airport, when the plane ladder is built, when Yes results from Rick Sand's hands the championship and the FMVP trophy,
When the cabin was opened, when the sun shone on Yes's face......
“Yes!”
“Yes!”
“Yes!”
Looking at the smiling face of the teacher under the plane, and listening to the cheers of the whole city that seemed to come from all directions, Ye Si raised the two trophies in his hands high!
"Yes, say a few words!"
After Rick Sander shouted loudly, everyone looked at Ye Si quietly, their faces full of excitement.
In all this, as long as there is a big screen in every corner of Seattle, even the slightest expression on Yes's face can be seen.
Not only in Seattle, but all over the United States and the world!
This glorious return of the Seattle SuperSonics is a nationally streamed event!
"Thank you, Seattle!"
“This is for you!”
Boom for life!
The whole city seemed to explode at this moment!
Looking at the smiling face on the TV, James forced the most complicated emotions in his heart.
This is the picture of how many years in his dream......
In the end, Yes made it happen......
And he is about to say goodbye......
Thank you for your support, the third volume of Baili Steel City is over, and a new volume of a century-old legend is online!!
(End of chapter)