Four Hundred and Thirty Eight: Christmas Phobia

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Countless Knicks fans and Thunder fans wrote a lot of Blacklink articles on the day the All-Star voting results came out on the 14th.

But after the Grizzlies-Nuggets game, these articles were basically scrapped. In the words of Charles Barkley, "In this game, Link has no black spots at all."

40 points, 11 assists, 8 rebounds, 55.4% shooting, only 2 turnovers... You can hardly ask a player to do better than that.

While scoring excellent data, Link also led the team to a comeback victory. Seriously, even Knicks fans and Thunder fans don't know how to deny Link's performance in this game.

There's nothing cooler than using hard power to shut up Kuroko.

After the game with the Nuggets, Memphis began to snow. This reminds Link that winter has come. Christmas is getting closer.

Although Christmas is still a few days away, the Christmas atmosphere in the city of Memphis is already strong in advance.

When Link went to the training hall the next day, he found that a huge Christmas tree had been erected outside the FedEx Arena.

It is full of colorful lights, and with the light snow that just fell last night, it is not too beautiful.

Driving on the street after the training, Link also found that all major shopping malls have started Christmas sales. Every door is hung with socks or Christmas trees. In short, it is as lively as the Chinese Spring Festival.

Although this is Link's third season as a professional player, Link actually hasn't had a good Christmas yet.

In the first year, as a marginal person with a ten-day short contract, Link was all thinking about how to survive in the league, and he was not in the mood for a holiday at all.

And last season because it was a shortened season, the league decided to Christmas as the first day of the new season. The season opener is the Christmas battle. Therefore, during the Christmas period, all Grizzlies are preparing for the battle, and there is no feeling of holiday.

This year, Link is experiencing the festive atmosphere of Christmas for the first time. In the face of this "foreign festival" that he hardly cared about in China before, Link seemed a little overwhelmed.

To him, nothing seemed to have changed. After returning home, I still faced the empty room alone, and I was still sweating on the basketball court the next day. This festival with the participation of the whole people seems to have nothing to do with Link.

Over the next few days, the Grizzlies played a few more games.

On Dec. 16, the Grizzlies beat the Jazz by 13 points in Salt Lake City. Link had 25 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists, scoring a double-double for the third consecutive game.

On the 17th, the Bulls played back-to-back at home. In this game, Thibodeau and Stevens played a defensive battle frantically. The overall shooting rate of both teams was less than 40%, the score was extremely low, and the rhythm was extremely slow. I don't know, I thought it was back ten years ago.

However, in the end, the Grizzlies held on to the victory with a deeper lineup. 80 to 71, this bizarre duel ended under the sleepy eyes of the commentator. Link scored 20 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, and the Grizzlies won seven straight!

I thought that the continuous competition would dilute the festive atmosphere. It turns out, however, that Link has taken Christmas too simply.

"Go to the Children's Hospital to see the child tomorrow?" When Link received the notice, he was very surprised. It's not that Link doesn't often do charity activities. In fact, even if Link doesn't want to, Grizzlies and Jeff Austin will arrange various charity activities for Link.

What's more, Link does not reject charity.

What surprised Link was that there was a special note on the notice - all players must appear in front of children in Santa Claus clothes.

Well, co-authoring the back-to-back competition can't hide the enthusiasm for Christmas.

So on the afternoon of December 18, Link and his teammates dressed up as Santa Claus,

Appeared at St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis.

Link sent Barbie dolls to a little girl and toys and his own signed jersey to a little boy.

Finally, I played a magic card game with a boy with congenital leukemia.

It was a meaningful day for Link, and it was gratifying to be able to do what he could for these children.

With great power comes great responsibility.

But after coming out of the Children's Hospital, Link, who took off his Santa Claus clothes, always felt that something was missing.

So he went on with his life. Go home alone every day and sweat on the training ground every day. By the way, also won some games.

On December 19, the Grizzlies slaughtered the Bucks by 20 points at home. "The King" Brandon Jennings hit 15 irons and took the Bucks with a 34.6% hit rate. Not to be outdone, Monta Ellis struck out 13 times in 14 shots, and finally defeated Jennings with a 7.1% hit rate, taking away the title of Iron King.

On December 21, the Grizzlies defeated the already declining Dallas Mavericks at home and won their second nine-game winning streak this season!

But on Dec. 22, in back-to-back games in Houston, the Grizzlies' streak ended at nine.

Perhaps in order to report the revenge that they lost to the Grizzlies at the beginning of the season, the Rockets are in great shape today! Seven people on the team scored in double figures, of which Harden also scored 31 points and 8 assists, made 3 of 3 three-pointers, and a total shooting rate of 69.2%.

And the Grizzlies today may be because of back-to-back battles, the three-point shooting encountered Waterloo. The Grizzlies hit 2 3-pointers in the whole game, 2 of which came from Link. Others' shots from beyond the three-point line all ended in strikes.

111 to 100, just like that, the Grizzlies lost the game at the Toyota Center by 11 points.

After the game, Link was in a low mood, and the thing he was most afraid of still came.

Link is not afraid of losing. After all, the Grizzlies played very abnormally in this game. It does not mean that the Grizzlies must be weaker than the Rockets. Besides, even if they lose this game, the Grizzlies still have the best record in the league, so there is nothing to worry about.

Everyone believed that as long as the Grizzlies adjusted their form and won another wave of consecutive victories, there would be no pressure at all.

What scares Link is that after this game, his first Christmas break since turning pro is about to begin.

Because the Grizzlies are in a small market, even if they reached the Western Conference finals last season, they still have no part in this year's Christmas game.

This is actually quite normal. The Christmas battle is naturally about finding the most gimmicky and box-office showdown. Even the Spurs and Mavericks were left out of the Christmas fight this year, let alone the Grizzlies.

So, after today's game against the Rockets, the Grizzlies have no game to play until November 27th! Stevens has announced that the team will not have to train for three days on the 23rd, 24th and 25th, and will be completely off! Players won't be back to report until Dec. 26, the day after Christmas, to practice and prepare for the No. 27 game against the Philadelphia 76ers.

For others, getting such a small holiday during the season is simply a luxury. After all, the NBA is not like European football, and there is a winter break. Not all NBA players have the luck to get the Christmas break.

But for Link, it was an annoyance. What should he do after so many days?

Hang out with teammates? Of course, teammates have to accompany their families on a holiday like Christmas.

Reuniting with your family? Link's feelings for his current parents are not that deep, and at most one meal a day with them will be over.

Running to train yourself? On a day like Christmas, it seems a bit too miserable to do so...

Christmas phobia, which seems to be a problem that modern medicine cannot solve.

Link then sent a text message to his manager, Jeff Austin, and asked him to arrange something for himself.

Who knows, Austin actually has an arrangement...