Chapter 782: Long 2 Is Getting Cocky and the Heat's Amazing Changes!
In the dark passage, the silence seemed to allow people in the passage to hear each other's heartbeats.
Looking at the figure in front of him who was once high-spirited and now seemed to be left with only loneliness and despair, Wade's eyes were heartbroken.
That Christmas game did change too many things.
And the man who seemed like a god in that game also changed too many people.
At the moment when the game ended, he almost doubted whether LeBron had really betrayed him, betrayed their team, and betrayed their dreams and pursuits together.
At that time, he really couldn't understand why LeBron was scored nine three-pointers in a row by Yes in just five minutes when facing Yes.
After all, after LeBron left the court, he defended Yes in the next two minutes of the game. Under his defense, Yes missed five shots.
In the end, Yes's four points were all scored by free throws.
In that game, Yes's touch was really, really bad.
And he knew LeBron's defensive ability. In the entire Heat, no one was better at defense than LeBron.
He could defend Yes like this, there was no reason why LeBron could let Yes explode like that during the game.
He was indeed impulsive at the time, and he was indeed filled with resentment and anger.
Because LeBron was his brother, the best brother, a better brother than Cameron and Chris.
He couldn't accept such a brother, who betrayed him and stood by their enemy just for the team's boss and the team's ball rights.
At that time, the whole world felt that LeBron had betrayed him and his team, and he felt the same way.
In the end, he looked at LeBron with his most angry and resentful eyes, wanting to get an answer from LeBron.
But at that time, he didn't consider at all that LeBron had been abandoned by the whole world.
Including Heat fans and people all over the world, at that time LeBron had been abandoned, ridiculed and teased by the whole world. In LeBron's heart, his trust might be LeBron's only lifeline.
But in the end, he also doubted LeBron...
How big of a blow and impact did his eyes have on LeBron at that time?
He, Dwyane Wade, actually did something to doubt LeBron!
He, Dwyane Wade, actually became the same person as those annoying people!
Very guilty!
Wade really really blamed himself.
He used to say that the trust between him and LeBron was beyond friendship and teammates.
But in the end, he did something that disappointed LeBron.
LeBron was his best brother.
But in the end, he did become the last straw that broke LeBron's back.
These days, he has been trying to talk to LeBron properly, and he has been trying to express his apologies properly.
The whole team was very sad about the loss of the Christmas game, and he was also very sad. The loss of the game might really be LeBron's fault, but LeBron's fault in the game had nothing to do with undercover and backstabbing.
LeBron also wants to defeat Yes!
Even now, LeBron still wants to defeat Yes more than anyone else!
Compared to getting the ball from him and becoming the team leader, both LeBron and he are more willing to defeat Yes!
When he figured it out,
when he wanted to apologize to LeBron, LeBron had already wrapped himself up completely.
He didn't even want to talk to others.
Every time Wade saw LeBron slowly sinking like this, he felt very sad.
There are really not many people in this world who feel sorry for LeBron.
Even the Heat's teammates now look at LeBron with anger sometimes.
So much so that Stephen Marbury directly said in the team that he would not play even one game for the Heat if there was LeBron James.
Wade knew that this was Marbury's opportunity to make trouble, because Marbury had very little playing time after coming to the Heat, and he had long been dissatisfied with the team, and now he just found an outlet to vent.
But...
If the team was not really full of resentment against LeBron, how could Marbury's trouble be caused?
Such a LeBron needs his trust and support the most, but at that time, he did something that made LeBron so desperate.
"LeBron, I'm sorry about what happened that day. I shouldn't have doubted you. Even if I doubt the whole world and the existence of God, I shouldn't have doubted the relationship between LeBron and me."
Wade's voice was sincere and anxious.
This was his sincere apology. At the same time, he didn't know when James would ignore him and leave again. He wanted to finish what he wanted to say in his heart as soon as possible so that LeBron would know.
No matter whether LeBron could accept his apology immediately or whether such an apology could make up for the damage caused to LeBron, he now needed to let the desperate LeBron know that he was not sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss. There was always a hand above his head that wanted to pull him up.
Even if he couldn't pull LeBron down, he was willing to fall into the abyss with LeBron!
"LeBron..."
"It has nothing to do with you."
Wade wanted to say something, but before he could open his mouth, he was stopped by James's cold voice.
"It has nothing to do with you."
James did not look back, but Wade behind James looked at James's tightly clenched fists. The blue veins on his fists looked a little hideous under the huge grip, which also represented how excited the owner of these fists was now.
"I am not angry with you. Even if I was desperate not to get Dwyane's trust at that time, I am still not angry with you. I know that I was not qualified to get all of Dwyane's trust in that game. No, even I don't trust myself after that game..."
"No, LeBron, it's not like that!"
Listening to the weakness and despair in James' words, Wade shook his head excitedly.
"LeBron, I trust you more than you do!"
"I don't know what LeBron is thinking now, and I don't know what LeBron's position in my heart is, but for me, I am definitely the person who trusts LeBron the most in the world, and I trust LeBron more than LeBron himself!"
After Wade finished speaking excitedly, James, who had been facing away from Wade, finally turned around.
Looking at Wade who was serious and excited at this time, James' face was stunned.
Trust me more than myself?
I don't trust myself anymore, and Dwyane still has confidence in me?
"LeBron, I'm not very good at speaking, and my IQ is not as high as you and Chris, but I know that in this world, LeBron is the only one I can trust wholeheartedly, and in this world, LeBron is the only one I can trust regardless of everything, because LeBron is the most powerful partner in my mind. As long as LeBron is still my partner, even if our world is destroyed, I believe we can be reborn one day. What's important is that LeBron is my partner, even if our ship capsizes, I believe our ship will start again!"
"In my mind, no one can surpass LeBron's character and LeBron's talent!"
"Which I'm afraid it's Yes!"
"Yes is indeed the stronger one now, but LeBron, this doesn't mean you don't have a chance. You are still young, and you haven't found the basketball path that suits you, while Yes is already on the road. When you and Yes embark on your own basketball path, I believe that your path will definitely go farther and farther than Yes's path!"
"LeBron, believe in the past, believe in your future, you are the most perfect unpolished gem in the history of basketball, and you will definitely be the most powerful player in the history of basketball!"
"LeBron, I have confidence in you!"
Looking more and more excited, even a little incoherent, James' face was full of shock.
How could such a person still get such trust from Dwyane?
You know, he has been training so hard and playing so hard in the past three years, and finally made up for his weakest shooting and offensive links. If he follows the plan, he will not be able to reach his current level on the offensive end until at least 2016.
2016, that was 7 years later, when he was 31 years old, and at that time he had reached the limit and ceiling of his world.
His offensive strength has reached the upper limit, his physical talent is at the peak of his youth, and his defense is also at the peak. It can be said that before the Christmas game, he was really confident.
Just like Kobe said that the battle with Yes was the strongest moment of his career.
This Christmas game with Yes is also the strongest moment of his career!
He wanted to get everything in this game with Yes.
But in the end, he seemed to have no resistance in front of Yes's strength!
The most powerful offense was suffocated by Yes's defense.
He felt that Yes could see through any action he made on the offensive end!
In the end, he didn't even dare to attack when facing a useless defense like Ibaka.
On the defensive end, facing Yes with a very poor touch, Yes scored 30 points in five minutes, nine out of nine!
This is still Yes with the worst touch. What if Yes has a good touch?
One game really made him desperate.
He was originally trying to defeat Yes, but this game shattered all his confidence and pursuit.
In this game, he was so embarrassed in front of Yes on both offense and defense. How confident he was before the game, and how desperate he was after the game.
What kind of despair?
The kind of despair that made him doubt himself!
He was already the strongest, the strongest, but he was ravaged by Yes. This blow to his confidence and the darkness shrouded by Yes's hands really suffocated him!
It also made him not know how to continue his career.
There was even a time when he even considered retiring.
In his career, his biggest pursuit and biggest goal was to surpass Yes.
But that game made all his hopes and desires to surpass Yes seem like bubbles.
If he was not even more afraid that retiring like this would make his future even more miserable, he really doubted that he really retired.
If he really retires, he will always have a black spot on him, and he will never be able to prove himself.
He will always have the label of being inferior to Yes and being beaten by Yes.
He will also always have the label of being the most failed Chosen Son in history.
He will always have the label of being an undercover agent for the team and not being the champion of the MVP.
And his Cleveland Kingdom, his Cavaliers Kingdom, will always be controlled and ravaged by that fat guy O'Neal! ,
And he will always be a loser under the glory of Yes and O'Neal!
He can neither advance nor retreat, and even the higher his IQ, the more things he thinks about, the more painful it is!
This kind of torture, this kind of pain, this kind of despair, how helpless it is.
In the days without Dwyane, he was really helpless.
And now, he actually saw Dwyane's outstretched hands again...
Looking at the familiar figure standing not far from him, with the most concerned face and the most worried eyes.
Surrounded by despair, helplessness, heartbreak, and darkness, James finally saw a glimmer of light in front of his eyes.
Perhaps it was because he felt that James' eyes, which had lost their luster and focus, had a little bit of light, which made Wade very excited.
"LeBron, try again, let's try again!"
"Try again?"
"It doesn't matter if you failed last time, that was just the first failure. As an NBA player, we can't completely doubt and deny ourselves because of the failure of a game. LeBron, give yourself another chance, and challenge Yes again with your three years of hard work and talent!"
"Challenge again..."
Looking at Wade who was cheering for himself, James clenched his fists tightly.
Challenge Yes again!
Use his 2016 offense, young defense, young body, and strongest strength to challenge Yes again!
"LeBron, this time, no matter what the result is, even if the whole world stands against you, I will still stand by your side!"
"Even if you really fail again this time, the worst thing is to start over and continue to find the most suitable path for you. LeBron, I will always be with you, always be with you, until we reach the end together. No, even if I can't accompany you to the end, I will be behind you, cheering and cheering for you to keep moving forward!"
"Dwyane..."
Looking at the emotional Wade, James was shocked. The little light had slowly dispersed, as if the darkness surrounding the light had been broken by a powerful force.
Seeing such a scene, Wade was really happy.
"Of course, if LeBron is walking and dislikes my legs and feet and walks slowly, and wants to leave me behind, I will also bless LeBron!"
"I, LeBron James, will never leave Dwyane Wade!"
James was very serious and his voice was very firm.
Hearing such words, Wade was also very happy.
"LeBron, please don't say that. I won't be a burden to LeBron's climb to the top. I want to see how high LeBron's future will be more than LeBron."
"Dwyane..."
"So, when LeBron doesn't need me one day, just tell me in advance. I will disappear from LeBron's side by myself. Don't be polite, and don't leave without saying goodbye, otherwise, I will be really sad."
Looking at the sunny smile that was already within reach, James gritted his teeth and nodded heavily.
This is a promise, this is the most important promise between him and Dwyane!
"LeBron, I'm going to tell you a decision I've made a long time ago."
"A decision that has been made a long time ago?"
James was a little confused.
The expression on Wade's face was very serious.
When Wade finished talking about his decision that he had made a long time ago, James was shocked and stunned.
After playing the last game of 2008 with the Warriors on December 31, 2008, the Seattle SuperSonics, who had been playing a devil's schedule for the previous half a month, finally got a very, very good home rest schedule.
The next game of the Seattle SuperSonics will be on January 4, 2009, at home against the Denver Nuggets, who are currently ranked third in the Western Conference.
From December 31, 2008 to January 4, 2009, there were four days of rest. This period of rest was a life-saving rest period for the SuperSonics, who had been playing away from home against strong opponents.
So during this period of rest, the head coach of the SuperSonics, Nelson, did not arrange any high-intensity training, but focused on the team's recovery training.
Therefore, in the training hall of the Seattle SuperSonics, many people can see that the training conditions of these SuperSonics players in the SuperSonics training hall are quite loose, which is completely different from the conditions of the SuperSonics players at ordinary times.
And the loose state of the SuperSonics players is also what Nelson wants to see and what the team allows.
"Have you noticed that Rajon's mouth has become more and more upturned these days?"
"Of course I noticed it. When I came to greet him this morning, he looked at me three centimeters higher. He has learned to look up at people!"
"Haha, after all, Rajon is about to become the fourth All-Star of our team, and he is also the All-Star starter. Now he is only 10,000 votes away from Kobe. Many experts say that Rondo has a great chance of eventually overtaking Kobe."
"After all, it is an average triple-double. Although Big O has been saying in interviews every day recently that Rajon's triple-double is completely different from his triple-double, asking everyone not to confuse them, Rajon's popularity is rising and Big O's status is declining sharply. This is also a fact."
"I never thought that the president of our garbage club, who was the worst, would have a day in the NBA where he averaged a triple-double and had a day when he was so arrogant."
After the league announced the results of the All-Star starter voting on January 2, on January 3, when the Seattle Supersonics were training, all the topics were about Rondo.
The player who was the first on the garbage list can actually get a triple-double in the NBA regular season and will surpass Kobe in the All-Star voting. This is indeed a big news.
It is not only a major public opinion in the Supersonics team, but also in the public opinion circles of the United States and even the world.
Why do media experts around the world think that Rondo can eventually surpass Kobe?
Is Kobe not popular enough?
Of course not!
Just like this year, all white people in the United States hope that David Lee can start.
Those who once criticized Rondo and scolded Rondo are now launching a campaign on the Internet: "We owe Rondo an apology, we owe Rondo a vote!"
Those who criticized Rondo more harshly and scolded Rondo more miserably now feel more guilty, as if they would go to hell if they did not send Rondo to the All-Star starting lineup.
"Is Rondo trash? Yes, he is trash. When we scolded him and blackened him, he was trash. Even now, his poor shooting percentage and poor offensive ability can still show his good foundation as a trash player in the past. However, he is now one of the most important helpers around Yes. He averaged a triple-double beside Yes. Even if you all say that he got the triple-double by living on Yes, even if you say that the only effect of his triple-double is to lower Oscar Robertson's historical status, but you can't deny it, and we can't deny it either. Rondo won the championship with Yes, and Rondo succeeded with Yes!"
"So, even if he is still trash, he is a successful trash. Besides, no one thinks Rajon is trash now!"
"That's right, we will use our votes to justify Rajon Rondo. We admit that he is qualified to play the starting point guard next to Yes!"
"His All-Star starting position is the certificate we give him. Rondo's starting position is contracted by us Coconut fans!"
Rondo's starting position is contracted by us Coconut fans!
This is the most popular and domineering passage on Twitter in recent times.
Quite arrogant, actually contracted a starting position in the NBA All-Star Game.
And when the competitors were Kobe and Roy, he said such words.
No one thought there was anything wrong with the domineering and overbearing words of coconut fans.
"Because, they are coconut fans, because they have 6 billion."
This is the helpless expression of many Kobe fans on the Internet.
What can be done about it?
Six billion coconut fans contracted Rondo's starting position. It was already amazing that Kobe could make it to the second round without being squeezed out by Rondo. If there hadn't been that amazing scoring battle, I'm afraid Kobe would have been counterattacked by Rondo.
Six billion coconut fans, when did Kobe fans have 6 billion? They can be so arrogant!
Six billion coconut fans are of course a joke, but it can also be seen that the fan structure of the entire NBA is now.
With the support of coconut fans all over the world, the arrogance of coconut fans is Rondo's arrogance.
Although the voting for the All-Star starting lineup has not yet ended, Rondo is already celebrating in advance.
Now the other players of the Seattle Supersonics are concentrating on discussing this year's All-Star Game.
After all, the Seattle SuperSonics have many players who may appear in the All-Star Game this year.
In addition to Yes and Rondo, two players who seem to be certain to play, Milicic, who is the backup center, also has the ability to compete with Oden and Stoudemire.
After the Seattle SuperSonics won the championship last year, these former players of the Seattle SuperSonics all carried the aura of champion players. Such an aura may not be so useful when voting, but it is still useful for those coaches who hold the substitute votes.
Therefore, Milicic is likely to enter the All-Star Game as a substitute.
As for the topic of the All-Star Game that the team is discussing now, Yes is certainly not so interested.
He is still trying to figure out how to complete the task of assisting teammates to score 100 points as soon as possible.
So in order to complete this task as soon as possible, Yes has been trying his best to train the key task of this task, Harden.
Why not Milicic and Rondo?
Milicic doesn't need him to train now.
And Rondo...
Well, Yes is desperate.
But after focusing on training James Harden for a week, Yes is also a little desperate.
"James, can't you just not dribble?"
"I want to, too..."
Looking at Yes who was using Ibaka's training to adjust his mentality in the training field, James Harden was also helpless.
He really couldn't control his hands!
If Ibaka can't control his legs and likes to jump.
Then he can't control his hands and likes to play.
He doesn't know if Ibaka's jumping is subconscious. His hands play on other people's bodies. When he sees the basketball, he wants to dribble a few times. That's really subconscious!
It's as if his body is telling him not to shoot, be more cautious, be careful, dribble a little, there are opportunities ahead!
In the eyes of others, he is wasting opportunities, but in the eyes of his body, he is looking for loopholes in the opponent's defense. Those loopholes are all free throws, no, all opportunities to score!
He really didn't expect his body to be so sensitive to scoring and free throws. Since being stabbed by Artest, the mechanism of his body seems to be opened by Artest, no, it seems to be opened by charity-world-peace.
After opening, even he can't close it...
He also knows that Yes values him very much, and knows that Yes wants to promote him to the starting position, but the style of play caused by his body is really not suitable for starting next to Yes!
No!
It's not that I'm not suitable to start next to Yes, but it's not suitable to start next to Rondo!
Yes's dribbling world, but he doesn't dribble, it's Rondo who dribbles and passes the ball. Yes doesn't conflict with him, doesn't conflict with anyone, it's Rondo who conflicts with him!
I can't change my sensitive body, and I can't change myself, but...
I can change the world!
If Rondo is pulled down from the starting position by me, can't I be in the starting position? !
Thinking of this, James Harden's ignorant, honest and simple eyes looked at the Sonics No. 2 who was not far away.
Stare~
Look at you!
He just glanced at Rondo and was discovered.
Haha.
James Harden smiled silly and retracted his gaze.
Isn't this a bit bad?
I am an upright person. Isn't it a bit bad to think about stealing the position of teammates behind their backs?
But when James Harden thought of this, he found that his sensitive body seemed to be excited, which made James Harden's eyes widen.
"Rajon, this is not what I meant. I didn't mean it. This is all my body wants to do. I am really an upright person!"
Feeling his body suddenly excited, James Harden felt that he was really wronged.
How much has he been misunderstood because he can't control his evil body?
His body likes big butt, and finally the whole world misunderstands that he likes it.
His body likes to commit fouls, and finally Yes misunderstands that he is not enterprising.
His body wants to pit Rondo, and in the future, his teammates will definitely misunderstand that he wants to pit Rondo!
Why do I, such an upright person, have such a sensitive and uncontrollable evil body!
Isn't Benha too difficult?
"..."
"..."
James has too many dramas, right?
I really didn't see it before.
Gasol and Ingles next to them looked at each other and communicated silently in their hearts.
"Hmph, a sneaky little jerk, you dare to look at me with envy!"
"I'm an All-Star, the assist king, the triple-double king, who the hell are you?!"
"Is my identity and status something you can envy?!"
Thinking of the innocent and ignorant look in James Harden's eyes when he looked at him just now, Rondo was quite disdainful.
I used to think that this coquettish slut was a threat, but now, they are no longer people from the same world!
Do you know what the assist king is, what the All-Star is, and what a triple-double is?
This kid will never see the shadow of the assist king, the All-Star, or the triple-double in his life!
Yess wanted to try to change James Harden's sensitive body of "seeking benefits and avoiding harm", but in the end he found that he failed.
Yess felt that he really underestimated James Harden's attribute or talent level.
He used to overestimate it, but he found that he still underestimated it.
James Harden's physical talent is good, but his physical talents are not very outstanding, at least there is no place to support him to become a five-star player.
James's technical talent is also very good, but it also cannot support his potential as a five-star player.
So, how did James Harden, who is not as strong and domineering as Durant in physical and technical talent, become a five-star player?
Yess felt that he had discovered a blind spot.
After learning about James Harden's attribute and the super high level of talent, Yess gave up the idea of correcting James Harden's physical talent.
There is no way to change the playing style chosen by James Harden's physical sensitivity, and there is no way to change Rondo's shooting. If he wants to complete the task of 50 assists in a single game, he can only find another way.
On the evening of January 3, 2009, in Yess's villa, Yess was watching the big TV in the living room, concentrating.
What is being played on TV now is a game between the Heat and the Nets.
The Heat, who had lost five games in a row before, are now beating the Nets on TV.
With the Nets' strength, there is no problem for the Heat to beat the Nets.
Even if the Heat is not in good shape and has been torn apart internally, the Nets are not the opponent of the Heat, which is not worth Yess's surprise.
What surprised Yesi now was that James recovered so quickly!
Having played with James for more than 2,000 games, he certainly knew that James would not fall down so easily.
However, he was still surprised by such a quick recovery.
What was even more surprising was that the Heat's solution to the contradiction he created, that James pitted Wade, was actually...
"Wade actually took the initiative to give up the ball..."
When the whole world was criticizing James, Wade took the initiative to give up the team leader and the ball to James...
What level of brotherly love is this?
Watching the Wade on TV who took the initiative to give the center to James, with a happy and honest smile on his big cheeks, Yesi's solemn and deep frown slowly opened, and his eyes changed from surprise to respect.
Of course, the only one he respected was the Heat's No. 3...