Aurélien CANOT, Media365, published on Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 9:24 a.m.
Author of a first of madness with the Knicks, Wednesday during the success of his new team against Boston at Madison Square Garden after two extensions, Evan Fournier was struggling to realize what he had just experienced afterwards.
Even King LeBron James found it hard to believe his eyes. “This game is wild. The Garden is on fire! No one will be able to get out of bed tomorrow morning!” Tweeted the Lakers superstar overnight, who did not lose a crumb of the epic clash on Wednesday night between New York and Boston on the floor of the mythical Madison Square Garden. Thanks to Evan Fournier’s sixth long-distance shoot followed by a perfect conclusion from his teammate Derrick Rose, less prominent throughout the match (9 points, 4 assists and 5 rebounds off the bench nevertheless) but just as valuable that the Frenchman in the money time, the Knicks ended up having the last word (138-134) at home vis-a-vis Boston. But it took two extra times. Dazzling, Fournier could hardly imagine that he would experience such beginnings in his new colors. After this incredible outcome as well as the meeting itself, the former Orlando player, who will probably remember the scenario of this crazy first night for life and could only agree with “King James”, seemed to elsewhere still find it difficult to achieve.
A first record for Fournier
“It was crazy!”, Did not hide hot the recent silver medalist of the Olympic tournament in Tokyo with the Blues, without forgetting to thank the supporters of the Knicks for their support in an incandescent room. “Thank you for the strength that the fans gave us. Madison Square Garden was in a trance”, also noted “Fourmizz”, became Wednesday the first player to register as many points (32, personal best for him) for his first with the New York franchise. A record in the form of icing on the cake for the native of Saint-Maurice, for whom Wednesday’s forceps victory for the Knicks was decided above all in the head. “It was mental”, thus estimated hot on the floor the hero of this first New York evening. The fans have already adopted it.
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