Don't talk trash to him.

Chapter 13: Cleveland's Mutation

After the game with the Magic, Suwan's popularity in Las Vegas reached its peak.

Bill Duffy even hooked him up with a local commercial.

After one hour on the platform, $5 can easily go into your pocket.

This is the good side, and the bad side:

It has become more difficult for him to turn on "The zone" mode.

After the last game, he mocked the rookie of the next game as usual, but the opponent did not respond at all, ignored his "trash talk" during the game, did not make eye contact with him, and focused on playing his own game.

Fortunately, Su Wan turned his gun around in time and ran to provoke the other members of their team.

Finally, he found someone with a bad temper and retorted to him, which enabled him to successfully enter the "The zone" mode.

只是这场比赛结束，看着23分6篮板7助攻2抢断1盖帽的数据，苏万多了几分意兴阑珊。

In the previous three games, he turned on "The zone" mode as soon as he came on the court. So it was not so obvious. In this game, in the few minutes when "The zone" mode was not turned on, he felt like a waste. It was difficult for him to even get the ball when he was on the court, let alone perform well.

This feeling made him unhappy.

At 4 o'clock the next morning, he got up from his bed and ran to the temporary gym for extra practice. He wanted to shorten the gap between his real strength and his strength in "The Zone" mode as soon as possible. Otherwise, such a huge gap would drive him crazy.

This is his character.

What Su Wan didn't expect was that an ESPN reporter would secretly take photos of him in the hotel. Seeing him coming out of the hotel before dawn, he thought he would get a big piece of gossip. But when he found out that Su Wan's destination was the gym, he was in awe and wrote a report praising him highly.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reprinted the article.

The Cavaliers fans who were initially worried that the team had selected a "troublemaker" have changed their impression of him. Some Cleveland residents even asked the Cavaliers' sales department when Suwan's Cavaliers jersey would be available for pre-sale.

At this time, Su Wan received a call from the national team leader Zhang, asking him when he could arrive in Greece to join the team.

Su Wan recalled the original owner's memory and found that it was indeed the case.

Over the past year, he has been playing warm-up games with the national team to prepare for this year's Olympics. Born in the Sharks, he was only able to stay in the United States after the draft and participate in the Cavaliers' summer league because of Yao Ming's endorsement.

During this period, the original owner had been communicating with Team Leader Zhang to avoid the "Wang Zhizhi Incident". However, they lost contact during the days when Su Wan traveled through time, which made Team Leader Zhang nervous and unable to sleep all night.

Su Wan had no objection to wearing the national team uniform: "The summer league is about to end, and I will fly directly to Greece then."

Hearing him say this, Team Leader Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, and the misunderstanding was resolved.

"By the way, Xiao Wan, I heard that you performed well in the summer league. You've been all over the news lately!"

"It's okay...Captain Zhang, I have something else to do, so I won't talk about it for now."

With the weight of the stone hanging in his heart put down, Team Leader Zhang expressed that he had been paying attention to Su Wan these days and gave him verbal praise. If these words were said at the beginning of the call, Su Wan might still feel something, but now, after a few simple polite words, he hung up the phone.

In the next few days, Su Wan's life was like this:
Hotels, temporary arenas, and Las Vegas arenas.

最后两场夏季联赛，尽管遭遇了一些波折，但他也都顺利开启了“The zone”模式。6场比赛下来，他场均可以拿到24.5分6篮板5.5助攻1.5抢断1.5盖帽。每场比赛只有3次犯规以及2.5次失误。

In "The zone" mode, he is in full swing and his thinking on the court is exceptionally clear, so he rarely makes mistakes.

The gap between Jamal Nelson's actual strength and his performance on the court is not as big as it seems. But his experience and the decisions he made on the court are extremely immature. This is also a very important reason why he dominated the summer league. With his dominating performance in the summer league, the Cavaliers ended their Las Vegas Summer League with a record of 6 wins and 0 losses. Unfortunately, as the final champion, he did not get any trophy, and even the Summer League MVP award would not appear until 2006.

But his performance definitely exceeded everyone's expectations.

However, Cleveland residents had no time to rejoice over this incident.

A piece of news came from Salt Lake City:

The Utah Jazz offered Carlos Boozer a six-year, $6 million contract.

They knew that Boozer had opted out of his rookie contract with the Cavaliers, which happened just two days ago. But didn't ESPN say that Danny Ferry gave up the last year of his rookie contract because Boozer agreed to sign a new contract?

How come Boozer has signed a new contract with the Jazz now?

They need an explanation!
Danny Ferry also needed an explanation. He frantically called Boozer's agent, but the other party's phone was turned off.

"fxxk!"

Only then did he realize that he had been fooled.

I'm afraid Boozer has already wanted to leave, which is why he made such a request.

But he still has no way to deal with Boozer. Boozer has only played for the Cavaliers for two years, which is not enough to trigger the "Bird Clause". He can only watch Boozer, the "traitor", join another team.

Once he was thinking about the players, what he got in return was a "clown mask".

Unwilling to accept the result, he chose to blast Boozer's betrayal through the media.

Boozer responded directly: "We have never promised to renew our contract with the Cavaliers."

Danny Ferry was stabbed in the chest again.

Su Wan saw the relevant news at the first time. He was not surprised as he had known about this incident for a long time.

Boozer's departure was a "breach of trust."

But the source of this lies in the Cavaliers themselves:
They value LeBron James a little too much!

They can give up anyone else on the Cavaliers for LeBron.

Although every team has its own "not for sale", the Cavaliers still went too far:
In order to "play badly" in 02 and ensure they got the No. 02 pick and LeBron James, they sold Andre Miller, whom they had personally selected and trained and who had just become the league's "assist king", to the Nuggets.

In 03, in order to ensure the growth space for LeBron James, they hurriedly sent away Ricky Davis, who averaged 20 points per game.

With these two "previous lessons", even if Suwan didn't know about this matter, he would not be surprised that Boozer, who was dissatisfied with LeBron's arrival, which reduced his number of shots and caused his statistics to decline, tricked him into leaving.

And it is just as the saying goes:

Licking the dog, licking the dog, licking until the end, there is nothing left.

LeBron, who was held in the palm of the Cavaliers' hands, later abandoned Cleveland without any hesitation and even held a "national live broadcast" with great fanfare.

These are also the retributions for what the Cavaliers have done in the past two years!

(End of this chapter)