Su Wan returned to Indiana at the sa ti LeBron Jas returned to Cleveland.
Descending from the airport, looking at the huge poster of himself across the airport, he felt none of the excitent he used to feel.
This was his second trip to the All-Star ga in his professional career.
But still as an All-Star reserve. —— Last season’s All-Star reserve, Wade, had beco an All-Star starter, and Carlo Anthony, who hadn’t made the All-Star ga last season, also entered the Western Conference All-Star as a reserve this season.
He wanted to widen the gap with his peers again, and this ti at the All-Star ga, he also harbored the idea of snatching the All-Star MVP.
And he felt this was an opportunity!
McGrady wanted the All-Star MVP, others would surely let their guard down, and he could ’steal a chicken’ so to speak.
But in the end, Su Wan confronted McGrady head-on and took ho the All-Star MVP from Houston.
In his second season in his professional career, with four MVP trophies, the only one remaining was the Regular Season MVP, which he had a good chance to get this season.
At the age of 20, to beco a "grand slamr of the four MVPs," LeBron couldn’t imagine how glorious Su Wan would be with Nike’s support.
So at this mont, as he looked at his poster, he felt not only a lack of excitent but also a dragging feeling.
If he had been traded to Indiana back then, standing next to him now would be the two All-Stars, little O’Neal and Artest, along with the two big surprises, Calderon and Dior, as well as Foster and Tinsley to assist.
What ga couldn’t be won with that lineup!
Then all the glory that Su Wan had would be his!
Yes, just like that!
Thinking this, LeBron Jas suddenly felt a sense of disgust at this conspicuous poster.
Don’t get him wrong, he didn’t dislike the domineering self portrayed on the poster, he just felt...
This poster shouldn’t be hanging in Cleveland, but in Miami, in Dallas, on so other better teams!
If he were on those teams, he might have already won the championship, already been the MVP!
Instead of like now, having money deducted by Nike for not starting in the All-Star ga.
How much did Cleveland owe him without him realizing it?
But even so, he still had to accept that damn responsibility!
He was very aware that when he faced the reporters again tomorrow, he would definitely be asked:
Can the Cavaliers make the playoffs this season?
That was actually the question he wanted to ask Danny Ferry as well, do you still want the Cavaliers to make the playoffs?
If you do, why don’t I see you making any big trades in the free market?
Why don’t I see any strong reinforcents joining?
His heart was so tired!
But he had no choice but to confront reality; if he didn’t lead the Cavaliers into the playoffs, then he would face Nike deducting a large sum of money from him again due to contractual obligations, and even more intense dia questioning.
Perhaps they all think the "Chosen One" should "take on 5 alone"!
But do these damn people really not see his statistics?
He was averaging 31.4 points, 6 rebounds, and 4.8 assists per ga this season; wasn’t that enough?
If the team’s strength was insufficient, was it really my fault?
And while he was incessantly grumbling to himself, Richie Paul called him: "LeBron, Danny Ferry wants to et with you; he wants to talk about renewing your contract."
"Renewal?" LeBron didn’t understand why Danny Ferry would suddenly want to talk about this matter.
Although he was indeed in the third year of his rookie contract, it was only respectful for the team to talk about renewal beforehand.
But...
Why was it at this particular mont?
Richie Paul shared his guess with LeBron: "I think Danny wants to let us know that the Cavaliers still have a lot of confidence and expectations for you..."
"Is this pitying ?" LeBron suddenly got angry, didn’t even listen to what Richie Paul had to say next, and directly had him refuse, "Tell him, right now I’m only focused on getting the team into the playoffs!"
Richie Paul was a bit surprised. He didn’t quite understand why LeBron was angry.
He had no idea that LeBron was already convinced that Cleveland was holding him back.
And at this mont, Danny Ferry thought that LeBron, having suffered consecutive setbacks, might be losing confidence and so brought a contract that was half respectful and half motivating, this...
To put it simply, a woman who thinks she deserves a better boyfriend was asked by her current one if she wanted to marry him, and half of his sentint was out of concern that she would be upset from hearing gossip about her.
No wonder he was infuriated!
LeBron Jas found himself at a crossroads of the "three-year itch" and beca even "itchier" due to an untily renewal contract.
On the other side, the Pacers had also restarted their regular-season journey, now they were three wins behind the Eastern Conference’s first-place Pistons, they hoped to close this gap or even surpass it by the end of the season; to Rick Carlisle, the two gas against the Pistons in mid-March and early April would beco crucial "deciding gas."
But the Pacers had their own issues...
They wanted to take the first place in the Eastern Conference, but they were reluctant to take the first place in the whole league.
Last year’s experience in the Finals taught them: first to plump doesn’t an victory.
If they were the side with the worse record, they would have the chance to lift the Championship Trophy on their ho court.
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