On the afternoon of December 30, aboard a noisy bus traversing Manhattan Island in New York.
Last year, when they visited New York for an away game, Zhang Yang thought it was the excitement of his first time playing at the basketball mecca that led him to chant slogans with his teammates.
However, today, after leaving New York International Airport and boarding the bus to Madison Square Garden, Muhammad and Rodney White, two veterans who know how to stir up the atmosphere, started leading chants of "Take down New York," "Refuse the 11th loss," "Eastern number one," with the whole team joining in, and even throwing in a couple of songs as they chanted.
