Chapter 32: The regular season premiere,

The smoke of the preseason in 2007 had not yet dissipated, and the regular season war had already ignited. On the first day of November 2007, the Cleveland Cavaliers were at home, and welcomed the Texas Cowboys and the Dallas Mavericks.

Dallas Mavericks had the first record in the league last season. They scored the sixth best in the league history with 67 wins and 15 losses in the first four consecutive losses, and created the best record in the team's history. The star Nowitzki was also crowned the regular season MVP, not only becoming the first regular season MVP in the history of the Mavericks, but also the first regular season MVP among European and international players. The Mavericks were in the limelight for a while.

But no one expected that the Dallas Mavericks, who had the highest record in the Western Conference, entered the first round of the playoffs, faced the Golden State Warriors, who had only caught the last train of the playoffs at the last minute, suffered a 4-2 defeat, becoming another team that was knocked down by the Miami Heat in eight years after the Miami Heat.

Old Nelson completed his revenge, and the Golden State Warriors also created his own Black Eight Miracle. The media reporting on the game were even more laughing. The leader of the Golden State Warriors Byron Davis was even more accused of the gods in one battle, and his commercial value increased by countless people. The only ones who were depressed and hated were probably the Mavericks and their fans. Nowitzki's MVP also added a bit of sarcasm.

As the only regular season most valuable player in history who won the regular season MVP but was black eight, Nowitzki has been remembered by many people.

The Cavaliers have been regular visitors in the playoffs in these seasons. The first game of the two sides in the regular season was this battle between Mars and Earth, which naturally attracted a lot of attention.

At the same time, this game was once again Zhang Kong's "revenge battle". After all, it was the Mavericks, not the Magic who signed Zhang Kong in the first place.

Before the game started, the Mavericks' owner, "Big Mouth", Kuban, once again stood up and made his bold statement: "Zhang Kong, who is he? I have no regrets about giving up him. We have Nowitzki, we have Danpier, our inside line is already overcrowded, different from the Cavaliers. We don't need a rookie to strengthen our inside line."

The main center of the Mavericks, the "second" center in the West, the "no.com center in the universe" and the strongest center on the ground, Danpier also stood up and expressed his opinion: "Every season, you always talk about some rookies, saying that they are the second Olajuwon, the second Jabbar, the second Jordan, the second Russell, the second O'Neal, etc. But look, now they are all gone, I was known as the second Chamberlain at the time. Today I will teach him a good lesson. As long as he dares to hang out in the penalty area, I will definitely let him know how powerful I am."

The bold statements of Cuban and Danpier became the condiment for this game, increasing the circulation of those newspapers, and also pushing the game to the forefront.

On the Cavaliers, Zhang Kong just shrugged and said nothing about Danpier and Cuban's bold statement. The double-kill magic did not give him any special feeling. Now he has no feeling about the so-called "Revenge Battle", so he is naturally too lazy to comment. As for Kuban and Danpier, he doesn't mind on the field to let them know that it is amazing.

In the first game of the regular season, Mike Brown finally decided to straighten Gibson after discussing with James and let him play as the starting point guard. Damon Jones naturally fell to become a substitute.

Drew Gooden has been on the bench since the push incident in the training game. He has requested a trade to the team. After having Zhang Kong, especially after watching Zhang Kong's superior performance in the preseason, Cavaliers general manager Danny Ferry also seemed to feel that it was meaningless to keep Drew Gooden. He has already made a trade intention and wants to make some reinforcements in the position of small forwards or shooting guards in order to share James' pressure.

Last season, LeBron James averaged 38 minutes of playing time, which was more out of helplessness. The Cavaliers really had no substitute player in the small forward position.

Drew Gooden is still very valuable for trading. He often gets double-double, and he is increasingly scarce in the league with excellent inside. His three-year contract of 23 million is not long or big, and he doesn't have to spend too much effort if he needs to trade.

But in this way, the team's substitute in the power forward position had to find another way. The contract with Anderson Valaijo was too late, which made Danny Ferry's hair whiter a few times.

"Welcome to watch the regular season first match of Dallas Mavericks VS Cleveland Cavaliers brought to you by TNT TV. I am the commentator Sir Charles, and by my side is my old partner Kenny." TNT chose to broadcast the game again in this game, and the gold medal commentary partners Barkley and Smith also appeared in the commentary seat again.

Because of the second bet between Barkley and Kenny Smith, the two pushed Zhang Kong to the forefront and also put themselves in the penalty area. If there were no accidents, the pair of Barkley and Smith would have many commentary on the Cavaliers' games this season. Although Smith protested several times, for the sake of ratings, the director did not care whether Smith ran naked or died naked. Well, everything was for the ratings.

"Hi Kenny, how are you doing? Are you ready to run naked?" Before the game started, the bored Charles teased his partner directly: "I think you should start preparing. For your image, I suggest you spend more time to exercise, otherwise your body full of fat will definitely make the audience feel disgusted."

"Hmph, the regular season only begins, and the best rookie will not be released until the end of the season."

"Oh, but Zhang Kong has won the preseason best rookie. Eighty percent of all the people in history who won the preseason best rookie have become the best rookie of the year."

"Isn't there 20%?"

"That's all because of injuries. Kenny, you don't think that Zhang Kong will also suffer a major injury and will be reimbursed for the season. Hi, the Portlanders have lost an Oden this year. Do you think the Clevelanders will also lose their super rookies?"

"Only God knows this." Kenny Smith secretly prayed in his heart that Zhang Kong's injury was sick early in the morning, because if Zhang Kong was not injured, with his strength and condition shown in the preseason, winning the best rookie this season can be said to be a foregone conclusion.

Just as Barkley and Kenny Smith were having a verbal confrontation, the game had already begun.

When he jumped the ball, as always, Zhang Kong easily drove the basketball to the first place. With his five fingers, he pushed the basketball towards the half-court.

Ilgoskas won the basketball with his height advantage and then passed it to Gibson. When Gibson saw that there was no chance of a fast break, he honestly advanced to the three-point line and then handed the basketball over to LeBron James.

Zhang Kong plunged into the inside and got entangled with Nowitzki. Several strong physical contacts immediately changed Nowitzki's face. He is the skillful inside player, and long-range shooting is his specialty. Like Bagyani, the inside that Zhang Kong hates most, because if he wants to defend them, he must stay away from the basket. Once he is away from the basket, the emptiness of the penalty area will immediately become a stage for breakthrough players to show themselves freely.

The inside line that can withdraw the opponent's inside defense is always so powerful. So Zhang Kong made up his mind to consume Nowitzki's physical strength as soon as possible and use tough physical contact to prevent his hands from feeling hot.

So for the first time, after Zhang Kong stuck Nowitzki, he reached out to ask for the ball.

After the Cavaliers' organizers set James as the core at the beginning, LeBron James was organizing the team's offense, and the ball rights were firmly in James' hands. Therefore, the Cavaliers' organizational guards were mostly similar to fixed-point pitchers, except for a person who dribbled the ball to the frontcourt.

James held the ball and observed the three-point line. Seeing Zhang Kong asking for the ball, he hesitated and passed the ball over. He didn't find a good opportunity just now, and the Mavericks' defensive position was very tight.

He held Nowitzki back with the ball and felt Nowitzki's defense that had almost no oppression on him. Zhang Kong sneered secretly. He felt that he had at least a hundred ways to put the basketball in the basket. However, in order to consume Nowitzki's physical strength as much as possible so that he would not cause trouble to himself in the next game, he still had to choose the most direct one.

Zhang Yun transported the ball and then suddenly hit his body backwards!

bump!

The collision between the bodies was so violent that the audience near the basket could hear clearly through the loudspeaker on the basket.

The moment of the collision, Nowitzki felt a huge force hitting his body, as if he was hit by a truck. Nowitzki's face turned pale and his body involuntarily retreated back. Before he could stand firm, Zhang Kongqiang's powerful back hit him again.

Then, everyone opened their eyes wide and looked at the incredible scene. Zhang Kong carried his back, stumbled into the inside line all the way, and then turned around and knocked Nowitzki away completely in front of Nowitzki, who had lost all the center of gravity. He hugged the basketball tightly and received it from behind, then swung his arms and smashed it towards the basket!

boom!

Through the increase of the loudspeaker, the sound of bombarding the basket spread throughout the basketball court like an explosion. At this time, Nowitzki, who was once again shocked, stumbled out of the court and fell head-on into the press room. It took him a long time to get up.

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Chapter completed!