Chapter 582: I Feel Regretful
But the cooperation between Li Liang and James was not too compatible from the beginning.
It is not a question of whether two people get along well or not, but a lot of objective factors.
Leaving Los Angeles and coming to Cleveland, the first thing Li Liang thought about was not how to play, but how to live here.
After two years in Los Angeles, I was honestly reluctant to leave there.
Li Liang still kept the house and did not sell it, and when he arrived in Cleveland, Zhu Shu and Li Liang paid attention to the real estate in the Cleveland area together.
Because he wanted to experience rural American life, and the Cavaliers' training hall was also in the countryside, Li Liang decided to buy a house in a high-end villa area near Highway 77 in the suburbs of Cleveland.
Not a luxury villa, just an ordinary detached two-storey house with a large garage and a garden.
For people like Li Liang, who do not have particularly high requirements for the quality of life, it is enough.
Like the luxury cars, yachts, airplanes, and big gold chains that black stars like, Li Liang has no interest.
Li Liang is very satisfied if he has money to eat the best food and can buy what he needs to buy at any time.
He is not a player who got rich overnight, he is a rich second generation, and he doesn't have much interest in spending money, and he can't spend it anyway.
As for Zhu Shu, the network is good, as long as you can play games, anyway, Zhu Shu will buy all kinds of new game masterpieces.
Once you have a place to live, it's time to plan your life in Cleveland.
It's really convenient to live in Los Angeles, the location is good, there are maids and cooks at home, and all kinds of services are just a phone call away.
When I arrived in Cleveland, I found that I had to start all over again.
It is impossible for cooks and maids to follow, and it is very inconvenient to start from scratch in all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Zhu Shu worked hard for a week before she could barely handle everything.
Including transporting Li Liang's two cars from Los Angeles to Cleveland.
Li Liang watched Zhu Shu busy and kept calling every day, and he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
Because of my own decision, I have to cause a lot of trouble.
Not to mention anything else, Wei Dazhi's work in Los Angeles is definitely not as good as before.
Li Liang suddenly understood why the vast majority of players wanted to stay in one place for a long time to play.
People always want to settle down.
And can Cleveland settle him?
The answer, of course, is no, because this is not his home.
The Cavaliers' team welcomed Li Liang's arrival very much.
But this welcome cannot be compared to the arrival of James.
Even if Li Liang defeated James in the Finals for two consecutive years, in the eyes of Cleveland fans, James is the son of Cleveland and the pride of Ohio.
Just like Yao Ming, no matter how powerful your other stars are, Yao Ming is also the pride of the Chinese, and when you come to play in China, you will definitely cheer for Yao Ming a lot.
Li Liang can't go back to China now, and the national team doesn't want him.
After signing with the Cavaliers, the Cavaliers held signing press conferences for Li Liang and James respectively.
Needless to say, this was Nike's idea again.
Because Li Liang is Under Armour's player, Nike just doesn't want Li Liang and James to be on the same stage.
James also complained about this, and also communicated with Li Liang on the phone.
But there is no way, in the sports league, these big sporting goods companies are real dads.
Two superstars, two press conferences.
Li Liang's press conference was very lively, but it was nothing compared to James's.
James' signing press conference was overwhelming, and it felt like the entire Cleveland fans were coming.
Compared with the two, the media immediately took advantage of this incident to make a fuss about the signing scene of Li Liang and James.
For a while, news about Li Liang and James not being able to coexist was flying all over the sky.
This made Li Liang very unhappy.
Li Liang's displeasure is not whether he can coexist with James, but why should I coexist with him?
Obviously I'm more powerful, I'm supposed to be the boss, I'll come first, you come to hug my thigh.
That's true, but the media's pen is in the hands of James' team, or in the hands of Nike.
How could Nike sit back and watch its top star play for Under Armour's top card?
First of all, in terms of public opinion, it is necessary to cut off the possibility of such remarks.
Then keep making, Li Liang is hoping to cooperate with James, so come to the knight's remarks.
Aren't you talking nonsense, Li Liang is here to help the poor, why do you have to cooperate with James?
In the face of Nike's single-handed cover in the NBA, all kinds of articles and columns bombarded indiscriminately, Wei Dazhi was the first to stand it and stand up and use his Twitter to speak out.
He felt the need to inform everyone that Li Liang came to the knight purely out of whim, and he went wherever he liked.
Of course, Li Liang's fans are also a lot, and the number is extremely large, but there is no organization.
A leader came out and raised his arms, and he responded at once.
Not to mention anything else, hundreds of billions of Chinese fans on the other side of the Pacific have stood on Li Liang's side and launched a fierce counterattack against the irresponsible claims of some lackey media in the United States.
Throughout July, all sports forums in the United States and China were full of discussions and scolding battles about the issue of Li Liang and James.
As the parties, Li Liang and James are quite helpless.
James has a good relationship with Li Liang in private, but the problem is that James can't help himself.
When he decided to return to the Knight, he had withstood a lot of pressure, because Nike didn't want him to return to the Knight.
James not only returned, but also made a compromise and signed a two-year contract with a team option.
Because of this return time, Nike's stock price fell sharply that day.
The reason is very simple, because shareholders, including Nike itself, do not believe that James can overtake Li Liang in the Cavaliers and win the team's first honor.
Kobe Bryant and Paul can't do it, you James can't beat you as an opponent, and if you are a teammate, can you press it?
So in the face of the chaos of public opinion, he could only remain silent.
Li Liang also did not speak, he was still training with his head bored, but obviously he was also reflecting on whether his decision was too hasty and capricious.
Before he came, he didn't have any field trips and personal contact with the Cavaliers, and he didn't know anything about Cleveland or the local fans.
Although the Clippers and Lakers are different teams, after all, they are in the same city, and the situation is different.
Just because of the sentence "I want to see the stars", romance is very romantic, but when the romance is over, do you want to play the ball?
The training in the system also did not go well.
Sima System directly assigned Anthony Mason to him in the back card position practice.
Is this something he can resist with 40 stats?
Even Olajuwon can carry it in the finals, you let me carry it? Let me practice?
And what disappointed Li Liang the most was the management and boss of the knights.
When the Nike lackey media frantically attacked Li Liang, the Knight management did not stand up to help Li Liang say a word.
On the contrary, they feel that the contract is signed, they just need to play, and nothing else matters.
There is one more thing that Li Liang cannot accept the most.
That's when the Cavaliers owner turned down Mike Brown as the head coach of the Cavaliers!
The Cavaliers have a good reason, as they have previously signed David Blatter as the team's coach.
At that time, the knight did not realize that the two great gods Li Liang and James would come.
So signing Blatter is ready to rebuild the team.
Who knows, two big pies suddenly fell from the sky, and the knight was stunned at once.
It's signed, but the coach ...... Blatter is also a handsome, so make do with it.
But Li Liang is not happy, if you want to say that there is an important factor for him to go to the Cavaliers, that is, he hopes that Mike Brown can prove himself again in the Cavaliers.
In the end, Brown couldn't be the head coach, and the Cavaliers had to promise him an assistant coach position.
Brown has already wronged him a little when he goes to the Clippers as an assistant coach, and he still wants him to be an assistant coach?
Lao Tzu deigned to come to the Cavaliers and let you pick up an MVP casually, you can't arrange the coach I like?
And this coach is your former meritorious coach!
Li Liang was completely angry, very, very angry.
It's not for nothing that the garbage knight is garbage.
Just like some impoverished counties, poverty is not unjustified.
There are even some impoverished counties, and the main content of the work is to keep the title of impoverished county!
From this point of view, the knight was well defended, quite well.
Li Liang thought to himself, I have already made several bold decisions, so what about another one?
At this moment, Sima System seemed to realize something and sent Li Liang a task:
[Quest, the only way for a superstar, quest requirements: make a deal to your team, quest reward: get special items, keys to the deep sea library. 】