267. Reason
"Welcome to watch the live broadcast of Cleveland Sports One in the Quick Loan Center, with the Cleveland Cavaliers playing against the New York Knicks at home! I am your good friend Carlson! I will tell you another legendary story belonging to Wu Dawei tonight! Although this guy has staged countless legends this season, legend is a legend! Every game of his will be a legend..."
"Hey, Carlson, stop talking nonsense! The players of both teams have entered the court to warm up!"
"Yes, I saw it, Tom! I'm not blind yet!"
Carlson, a famous local sports commentator in Cleveland, will still serve as the person sitting in front of the commentary seat tonight's game. He is very dissatisfied with the situation when he was interrupted by his partner when he was talking about his opening remarks that he had been planning for a long time.
"Hey, Anthony shows up! He has no expression on his face and looks very heavy!"
"Oh, God! Tom, anyone who has a premonition that he will be covered by his opponent with six caps will be in a bad mood!"
"Wow, Carlson, I love hearing this! So let Mr. Anthony calmly think about it yourself, how to accept such an upcoming reality!"
Two Cleveland commentators teased Cameron Anthony on the sidelines, and when the New Yorker's current favorite superstar became a laughing stock, Wu Dawei also came to the court for the final warm-up before the game.
But tonight he was destined to be unable to warm up quietly, play quietly, and play quietly. Because Spike Li really came to Cleveland as promised and appeared on the sidelines of the Quick Loan Center tonight.
Although people all know that Spike Lee has the habit of going away with the New York Knicks. However, he rarely runs too far from New York, usually in Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Boston, a city closer to the New York Knicks.
Unless it is an extremely important game for the New York Knicks, he will be tired and sit on this long-distance flight for more than ten hours. It is like tonight's game. Although the Cleveland Cavaliers have never had any intersection with the New York Knicks, even in the LeBron James era, the slightest relationship was derived from the New Yorkers' endless fantasies about LeBron James.
However, after LeBron James left Miami, the origins of these two teams suddenly became closer! Of course, this is not because they were both teams that were disappointed when they failed to get LeBron James favored last summer, but because this season, New Yorkers believe that Wu Dawei performed too rampantly in their previous two matches!
Wu Dawei, a general, provoked the Holy Land of Mecca, which made New Yorkers intolerable.
Of course, this game was valued by many New Yorkers. Especially after they got the little melon Anthony from the Denver Plateau trade, the New Yorkers believed that their team had the strength to teach Wu Dawei a lesson!
Although Anthony may be slightly inferior to LeBron James in all aspects, it is only a little bit of a gap!
"Hey, Mr. Li, long time no see! How are you doing recently?"
Wu Dawei saw the old acquaintance on the sidelines. Spike Lee, with his big frame, could not cover it. He always stared at Wu Dawei's cursed expression. So, instead of being shouted by this guy on the court, Wu Dawei might as well take the initiative to come forward and say hello to the great director.
"At least better than you!" Spike Lee never gave him a good look when he met Wu Dawei. He is not a very small part of New York who wants to try to introduce Wu Dawei from Cleveland to New York. Spike Lee's hatred for Wu Dawei and his second only to lightning strike Miller.
"Did you also break the All-Star Game steal record!?"
Wu Dawei would not make concessions when he was verbal, especially the old but disrespectful old guy in front of him.
"Bah!" Spike Lee looked at Wu Dawei with contempt and said sarcastically: "Wu, you are not thinking about your little trouble every day, right? This is why the Cavaliers have recently encountered who lost to whom?!"
Wu Dawei curled his lips and did not feel angry about Spike and Lee's ridicule, because Wu Dawei had already had many experiences in "confrontation" of Spike and Lee. Naturally, his emotions would not be affected too much.
"Anyway, this won't happen tonight!"
However, Wu Dawei still answered unwillingly.
“What’s the situation?”
Spike Lee was a little confused about Wu Dawei's answer, and he asked back. Wu Dawei made his face darker: "Whoever loses! Anyway, no matter who loses the Cleveland Cavaliers will lose to the New York Knicks! Have you forgotten the record of the last two matches?"
"Bah!" What Spike Li annoyed the most was Wu Dawei's shameless look and he looked like he was distracted from the topic without any trace.
"Let's see, boy! Your good luck will run out tonight!"
"That doesn't mean bad luck will come!"
Wu Dawei continued to talk to Spike Li. Spike Li no longer planned to pay attention to this Chinese player because he saw Changxi Billups, who was also warming up on the court, and waved to the court, "Hey, Changxi!"
Since others were unwilling to pay attention to him, Wu Dawei would certainly not stand there like a fool. He walked away tactfully, walked into the three-point line and started the pre-match warm-up training again.
"What did you just say to him? He seems to have a deep hatred with you..."
Not long after, Changxi Billups walked back to Wu Dawei from the sidelines and pointed at Spike Lee on the sidelines, asking with confusion.
"I didn't say anything, I just talked about family matters with my old friends."
"When he talks about family matters, he wishes he could pull your skin?" Bilups was very surprised by Wu Dawei's topic. He continued: "He gritted his teeth when he just mentioned your name, just like a perverted murderer..."
"It seems that he is really a movie-making industry!" Wu Dawei laughed: "The good show has not been staged yet. You will only know how crazy this old man is after the competition begins..."
The Cavaliers' home game against the New York Knicks started at 7 p.m. local time. The Speed Loan Center is still as crowded as usual. This is quite incredible for Spike Lee, who visited Cleveland for the first time this season and came to the Speed Loan Center to watch the game on site.
"Oh!? Are there so many Clevelanders watching the Cavaliers' game now? I thought it would be nice to have one-fifth of this stadium tonight!"
Spike Lee muttered to his friend next to him, obviously, he was really amazed at such a packed attendance.
Although he hates Wu Dawei very much, facing such a scene, many fans wearing the Cleveland Cavaliers No. 0 jerseys around him made Spike Li somewhat clear about why this is.
Obviously, Wu Dawei, who has risen and shined this season, is why Cleveland comes to the Quick Loan Center every night to pay for the game.
After a series of tedious rituals such as the player introduction ceremony and the national anthem performance, the players of both sides returned to their own players' seats. Everyone stood beside their respective head coaches and listened to Byron Scott and Mike D'Anthony's final advice and arrangements for the game.
"Hey, great, ready?!"
Wu Dawei stood aside and took off his coat. Then assistant coach Wright Tibbets walked to him with a lewd smile and asked Wu Dawei in a low voice.
“What are you ready?”
Wu Dawei was a little confused about the meaning implicit in Tibets's words and asked in confusion.
"Be ready to block Cameron Anthony with six more shots!"
Tibbets widened his eyes and looked a little surprised, obviously because he was surprised that Wu Dawei couldn't understand what he was saying.
"Why should I give him six more big hats? Wright, I just want to win the game! I never block for blocking!"
Wu Dawei's righteous words were interrupted by Wright Tibbets' wave of his hand. The assistant coach looked disdainful. When he looked at Wu Dawei, he was just saying, "Don't think I don't know which guy you are. What are you holding back? I can even tell the color clearly when I open my eyes...
"You must build that fat man six! Five are OK!"
Tibbets spoke very eagerly, as if he was assembling a task that must be completed for Wu Dawei in this game.
"Why?"
Wright Tibbets whispered: "I made a bet with someone, $100! You have to make some fun for me! Boy!"
Tibbets's reason shocked Wu Dawei... "Oh my God! Wright. You are not such a person!"
"Now all of Cleveland are betting, I'm just following the trend!"
Tibbets curled his lips, and Wu Dawei said nothing because head coach Byron Scott was waving to him.
The importance of this game to the Cavaliers is self-evident, and it has a lot of significance. The most important thing is whether the Cavaliers can stabilize the current decline. At the same time, whether the newly-joined point guard Changxi Billups can integrate into the team.
Therefore, head coach Scott attaches great importance to the cooperation between Wu Dawei and Chauncey Billups. After all, Wu Dawei has undoubtedly become the core figure of Byron Scott's tactics, and after Billups joins, his tactical status in the team will obviously not be low.
Naturally, Scott didn't want any chemical reaction between Wu Dawei and Changxi Billups.
"Great! Listen carefully to me."
When Wu Dawei ran to Scott, Byron Scott solemnly said to Wu Dawei, Billups and others, "Try to complete the pick-and-roll with Chauncey as much as possible in the high position, just like you did in the past with Ramon and Williams! Pay more attention to Chauncey's movement on the court and try to keep in touch with him as much as possible. I hope you two can play outstanding cooperation in the game! And I also believe you can do it! What you did a few hours ago was great!"
"no problem!"
Facing the head coach's expected gaze, Wu Dawei nodded confidently. He knew that Scott needed his own support now. Because the trough the team has faced recently is also the biggest difficulty that Byron Scott has faced since coaching the Cavaliers this season.
"Ok!"
Seeing Wu Dawei agreeing, Scott clapped his hands and said to all the players around him: "Everyone knows that our team is in a very embarrassing and difficult situation now! Our current ranking is in jeopardy, and the 76ers, ranked ninth, have the same record as us. Maybe we will be squeezed out of the playoffs at any time! But fortunately, the initiative is still in our hands! As long as we can win the next game, the Phillies can only watch us helpless!"
"So! I hope everyone can go all out tonight! To win this game, the New York Knicks are not a difficult opponent. They have lost to us twice this season, and this time, no exception!"
Scott took the lead in lifting his hand, so all the players put their hands together.
"For Cleveland!"
For Cleveland, this is the first time Chauncey Billups played for the Cavaliers in his career, and it is also the first time he shouted such a slogan with his new teammates. In his career, Billups and wandered to too many places, and he is now in his later years.
For Billups, who has won the championship and the MVP honors in the finals, what expectations do he have for the late stage of his career? Entering the playoffs? Scoring king, assist king or some other honors, Billups is not sure about this.
But one thing he is still very sure of is that he wants to win the championship again.
Although choosing the Cavaliers seems to have made Billups gradually move away from such a goal, Billups feels that things may turn around! At the press conference for joining the Cavaliers, a reporter asked Billups why he chose to join the Cavaliers.
Billups knew that there was indeed a reason Wu Dawei. His remarks to himself at a fast food restaurant in Los Angeles were indeed one of the reasons why he was willing to consider and eventually chose to join the Cavaliers.
He saw a miracle in Wu Dawei! A person who was sitting on the bench last season and did not get a point per night could lead a team that was extremely unpopular with people at the beginning of the season and turned into a strong contender for the playoffs.
And more importantly, his performance data has made a qualitative leap!
Although Billups hopes to have another Golden Cup, he doesn't want to hold one on the bench like some veterans. He hopes he can get reused and lead the team to compete for the championship.
In the league, there are not many teams with such potential and sincerely willing to give themselves a chance. The Cavaliers are one of them, and in their lineup, there is a young man Billups is very optimistic about.
That's all the factors that made him choose to join the Cavaliers.
Chapter completed!