On one side is the truth, on the other side is the answer, the former champion and runner-up showdown in the East, Pierce s Celtics!

November 10, 1998, Boston Garden Arena. Pierce, 19, received a pass from Billups on the left wing. Facing the Raptors' save, his knees bent and his wrists trembled. The basketball fell into the net against the tip of his opponent's fingers - this was his first three-pointer in his career. That season, he averaged 1.8 goals per game with a 40.9% three-point shooting percentage. When Iverson and Kobe used breakthroughs to define their youth, this rookie with an explosive head had laid the foreshadowing of "truth" outside the three-point line.

But the real response is hidden in the playoffs. In the 2002 Eastern Conference Semi-Finals G5, facing the 76ers led by Iverson, he used three bottom corner three points to tear the defense in the first quarter. When the game entered overtime, he held the ball at the top of the arc, watching the timer jump to "0:03", and suddenly a Buddha worship action deceived Fei Snow, and took a step back and hit a buzzer--the whole game 46 points and 8 three-pointers. The cheers from the North Shore Garden overturned the dome, but he pointed to the "110-106" on the scoreboard, with the words "This is the truth" in his eyes.

2007 Eastern Conference Semi-Finals G4, 23-year-old James scored 45 points, and Pierce, 31, responded with 41 points. In the last attack, he hit Valaijo on his back. When he turned around, the jersey rubbed and made a "sharp" sound. The Golden Rooster hit a sure-fire final shot, and then made a "3" gesture to the camera - that was his 37th key goal victory in his career.

Finals G1 played against the Lakers. He left the court in a wheelchair due to a knee injury, but told Rivers between ice applying his knees in the locker room: "Give me the ball, I can shoot it." After returning, he scored two consecutive three-pointers to destroy the Lakers' counterattack. The sneakers were still stained with the smell of disinfectant water from the medical room.

In the summer of 2007, when Garnett and Ray Allen's jerseys rose in TD Garden, Pierce quietly moved his locker to the corner. In the regular season, he averaged 19.6 points per game and shot 43.2%. He seemed to have shrunk data, but he turned into a "tactical terminator" at a critical moment. In the Eastern Conference Finals against the Pistons, he shot as high as 58.3% in the last 5 minutes, an increase of 12 percentage points from the regular season.

2008 Finals G4, he made 9 of 19 shots under Kobe's close defense, with Gasol making three consecutive back-to-back singles in the third quarter, and patting the shamrock logo on the jersey after each goal. Throughout the finals, he averaged 21.8 points, 6.3 rebounds, 4.5 assists, plus and minus + 8.2, and when the award presenter read "FMVP - Paul Pierce" he lowered his head and kissed the base of the trophy, which was engraved with "Trust The Process" - this is his.

Pearce's career is like a late autumn oil painting in Boston: at first glance it is a three-minute arc with thick ink and heavy colors, and in detail it is a iron-blooded mark hidden in the folds. He does not have the elegant style of the four major points guards, but he uses his back-to-body singles and bottom corner three-pointers for 20 years to define the ultimate form of "Mr. Key". When the Curries rewrite history with the three-point range of "Ku Ritian", Pierce's story still echoes under the dome of the North Shore Garden - some truths will never be diluted by the waves of the times, and will only shine with a tough light in the precipitation of the years.