When the Spurs defeated the Knicks on the road, they left for Cleveland, and faced the Cavaliers away on December 10, this season's Cavaliers performed very well, the Cavaliers selected rookie Andre Miller with the 8th pick in the first round last season, broke out strongly this season, and so far can contribute 16 points, 9 assists, 5 rebounds per game First-class point guard data, and the Cavaliers have also changed their true colors last season, and have achieved a 10-6 record at the beginning of the regular season this season. At present, it is in third place in the East.

Facing Andre Miller, a rookie in the same class as him, Meng Xu did not have the slightest softness, under Meng Xu's defense, Andre Miller also sent 8 assists in this game, but there were 7 turnovers, and the shooting rate was only 20%, 2 of 10 shots in the game, contributing 5 points and 8 assists, and the Cavaliers finally lost to the Spurs 83-95. When the game ended, looking at Andre Miller's resentful expression, Meng Xu was also reflecting on whether he had gone too far, in order to make up a 5*5 data in this game, in the 4th quarter of the game, Meng Xu also grabbed Andre Miller and gave Andre Miller 4 blocks in a single quarter, and also interrupted the ball from Andre Miller's hand 3 times, and in the end, Meng Xu also played 17 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists, 7 steals, and 6 blocks in this game. And now Meng Xu has also become the player who has played the most 5*5 data in the history of the league after Olajuwon.

When this game ended, Meng Xu also had a new title, and the hat of the king of 5*5, who had been wearing Olajuwang for N years, was deducted on Meng Xu's head by almost all the media.

After this round of road trips, the Spurs returned to San Antonio, and then the Spurs won consecutive home games against the Bulls, Suns, Wizards and Hornets to achieve the longest 10-game winning streak since the start of the season, and with this series of wins, the Spurs' overall record has also risen to 17-4, second only to the Trail Blazers' 18-2 and the Kings' 18-3, ranking third in the Western Conference.

On December 20th, the Spurs will leave for Los Angeles, and will play against the Los Angeles Lakers for the second time this season, like the Spurs, this season's Lakers are also quickly catching up after a short run-in at the beginning of the season, after playing a wave of 9 consecutive wins, the Lakers are currently with a 16-5 record, ranking behind the Spurs, ranking fourth in the West, and it is foreseeable that with the deepening of the regular season, the Lakers' ranking will further improve.

And this game with the Lakers, Meng Xu has been looking forward to it for a long time, there have always been two holy places in the NBA league, one is the Madison Garden Plaza, the home of the Knicks, and the other is the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, the former Great Western Forum Arena, and now the Staples Center. As long as it is a slightly ambitious player, after arriving in these two places, he will perform himself desperately, and at the same time do everything he can to make a big news here, and Meng Xu is the same now, for today's game, Meng Xu has been holding back his big move, due to the fact that he took a lot of rest at the beginning of the season, Meng Xu has only played a total of 476 minutes so far, and he still needs 24 minutes of game time to refresh his big move, if nothing else, this game with the Lakers, As long as the Lakers don't collapse in the first three quarters of the game, then Meng Xu's second pretending moment in his career will be given to the Lakers and left at the Staples Center.

Just when Meng Xu wants to make a big news in Staples, this season's All-Star voting will start after the Christmas War, although Meng Xu is now playing organizational guard, but Meng Xu's official registered position has always been a small forward, and at present, the entire West can be said to be full of talents in the forward position, needless to say, the "four big forwards" are all in the West, and in the small forward position, the current West also has Peja Stojakovic, Jamal Mashburn, Ramar Odom, Antoine Jamison and other powerful stars, in addition to former supergiants and balloon stars such as Scottie Pippen and Anfernee Hardaway, so the voting for the Western All-Stars this season must be very fierce, so in order to be able to realize the rhetoric of meeting Brand in the All-Star Game this season, Meng Xu can't let go of any opportunity to increase his popularity and attention for himself.

And Los Angeles is undoubtedly such a place where you can increase your attention and popularity, because Hollywood is in Los Angeles, Staples has always been the center of the American entertainment industry, and the media throughout the United States, whether it is newspapers or magazines, are paying attention to it all the time, and the Lakers have 33 live broadcasts in the United States this season, which is also the most in the entire league.

On the evening of December 20, 2000, Meng Xu, who was waiting in the players' tunnel, was already very excited at the moment, and there was less than an hour left before the opening of the game with the Lakers. And this game is also the most important and eye-catching game of this round, the Lakers and Spurs, although the current records of both teams are not the best, but in the eyes of most bricks, this season's championship will still be produced from these two teams. At the same time, whether it is O'Neal and Kobe, or Duncan and Meng Xu, they are the two pairs that are now hyped in the league, O'Neal and Duncan, the two strongest superstars in the league at present, Kobe and Meng Xu are also the new stars that the league is currently pushing.

Originally, according to the league's vision at the beginning of this season, the "Big Four Shooting Guards" and "Big Four Small Forwards" would be launched at the end of the season, but with the reimbursement of Hardaway and Hill's both seasons, the "Big Four Small Forwards" have been put on hold indefinitely. And the "Big Four Scoring Guards" have basically been determined on Kobe, Maddy, Carter, Iverson and Ray Allen, as for which one will be eliminated in the end, it depends on their performance this season. So the league has been building momentum for them since the beginning of the season, but after the Spurs-Magic game, Stern seems to have changed his mind, and it is said that Stern is now ready to push for the final selection of the "Big Four Shooting Guards".

Although the leading stars of the two teams were very restrained before the game, and there was no war of words between each other, but such a game of national attention, coupled with some artificial fueling, led to the fact that this game has not yet started, it has already attracted a lot of attention, what "the duel between the strongest interior lines", "the preview of the battle of the best defenders in the future", all kinds of non-shocking headlines appeared in one newspaper after another, but the more this is the case, the better the sales of these newspapers, It is said that the sales of the Los Angeles Sports Newspaper have increased several times compared to usual.

The hotter the media argues, the more attention this game attracts, and before the game, a number of Hollywood superstars said that they would take a little time out of their busy schedules to go to Stamps to rub a little heat and attention, so the tickets for this game and the Lakers' usual games have more than doubled, with an average ticket price of an astonishing $500, and the first row of seats on the side of the court has been fried to $20,000 a piece, although it is much worse than the ticket price when Jordan went to Madison, but it's enough to outperform the remaining 27 teams in the league.

When the Spurs players led by Meng Xu walked out of the players' tunnel, the entire Stapleston resounded with boos, especially when Duncan was the last to come out, Staples's boos reached its peak. In the past, it was rare to hear boos in Staples, even if they won the Lakers away team in the game, these self-proclaimed noble Lakers fans rarely booed them, and sometimes when they met those teams and stars who performed really well, the Lakers fans would give them a little applause, which can also be seen how much these Lakers fans hate the Spurs.

For many Lakers fans, they really don't have a good impression of the Spurs that eliminated the strongest Lakers in recent decades last season, after retiring from the Magic, the Lakers have waited too long, for this Lakers who have reached the Finals 24 times in 40 years and won 11 championships, it is simply unimaginable that they can't touch the championship for more than 10 years, and they can't even touch the floor of the Finals. And last season was undoubtedly the best time for the Lakers to regain the top, but the strongest Lakers after Magic Abdul-Jabbar fell at the feet of the Spurs, and they were reversed with a 3-2 advantage.

Then when all the Spurs walked out of the aisle, when the Lakers' rookie Mark Madson led the Lakers players to start playing, the entire Staples fans were shouting frantically, expressing their support to the Lakers players, when Kobe and O'Neal as the finale, and finally walked out of the players' tunnel, the entire Staples Center was completely crazy, and even the Hollywood stars sitting on the sidelines stood up and applauded O'Neal and Kobe.

When O'Neal came out and waved to the audience, O'Neal stared directly at Duncan who was already preparing to warm up in the distance, in order to prepare for this game, in order to defeat the Spurs in this game and defeat Tim Duncan, O'Neal has rested for a week.