As the Cleveland plane slowly stopped at the airport in Indianapolis, the Cavaliers were already in Indiana, and it was time for the countdown to the battle for the top spot that the media had been expecting.

When Mike Brown arrived outside the airport in Indianapolis, he and his players were surrounded by countless media outlets, all kinds of long guns and short guns in front of him, trying to ask him what he thought about the game.

"The Pacers are not a threat in front of me, because we have only one goal! Overall Winner! With Mike Brown's words, the players behind the Cavaliers roared together, and the media got excited when they heard this.

"The Cavaliers will be united and will surely regain the honor of the top spot!" 》

"The airport is violent, the Cavaliers coach doesn't take the Pacers in his eyes, only the championship in his eyes! 》

"Mike Brown's persistence, except for the champion, everything else is a floating cloud"

All of a sudden, all the reporters thought about what headline to come up with tomorrow, and everyone knew that Mike Brown was playing psychological warfare, like a few old ghosts in the league, Phil Jackson, Jerry Sloan, and the semi-retired Pat Riley, all of whom were masters of psychological warfare, and now Mike Brown just threw out the white gloves of his duel, how to deal with it is a matter on the Pacers' side, and the media will never be wrong about this explosive news! Sure enough, the day before the game, the Pacers, who had just flown back to Indianapolis, encountered the same problem, and the major media were like sharks smelling blood, stirring the waves, and quickly swam to the Pacers to start interviewing, but Jim O'Brien on the Pacers' side.

The experience is definitely higher than that of Mai Brown, who directly declined all interviews, claiming that the player had just finished the game and needed to rest.

At 7 p.m. on Nov. 20, the battle for the top spot between the Pacers and Cavaliers will be staged at the Conseco Center.

There was almost an hour to go before the game began, but there was already a long queue at the entrance of the Conseco Centre, with people on both sides clamoring for some colours to be given tonight.

These fans have been addicted, no matter who will win here tonight, at least they still have to watch the opening, see the long queue downstairs, the marketing manager of the stadium is called an excitement, you must know that Indiana's ball market is not the best in the league, the attendance rate of the Conseco Arena in the past few years, the average is about seventy percent, the income from tickets and the income from the team's peripheral products is not even enough to pay the salaries of half of the team's players, most of the money is still from advertisers, This season is different, because the team's record is quite strong, coupled with Zhang Kong's block and the fan market he has driven, only ten games have been played in the regular season (counting this one), and six of them have actually been played at the Conseco Center.

In these six games, the number of full games has reached as many as five, and the only one that is not full has an attendance rate of more than 9 into 7, 18,345 tickets, which have been snapped up by fans long before the war.

When there were about forty minutes left before the start of the game, the bus on the Cavaliers' side slowly arrived at the parking lot of the Conceco Arena surrounded by guards, James wore sunglasses and a big ear on his ear, and was the first to get out of the bus, completely ignoring the microphones and recorders that kept being stuffed next to him, and walked straight into the away team locker room with his men, and the rest of the Cavaliers did the same, ignoring the media, and all walked into the locker room.

After changing and getting dressed, I ran to the stadium for a warm-up training session before the opening.

After the warm-up, the Cavaliers all gathered together and danced a 'morale-boosting' dance led by James.

At 19 o'clock in the evening of November 20, 2009, US time, the battle for the top spot in the NBA East, which the whole United States and even the world are paying attention to, is finally about to begin! The Cavaliers have fielded their strongest lineup! Center Zajunas Ilgoskas (Big Z), power forward J.J. Hickson, small forward LeBron James, scoring guard Anthony Parker, point guard Morris Williams, there are still quite strong players sitting on the bench, Anderson Vallejo, Daniel Gibson, Gamario Moon, the big sharks who were in Phoenix last year, and Shaquey O'Neal did not play due to injury, which is also an opportunity for the Pacers.

But because of the height of the inside, the Cavaliers, who were trampled by the Magic, learned from the pain, this season they introduced O'Neal, and also introduced Parker, who is tall among the guards, and once the surname made up for the height of their team.

has become one of the top two teams in the league, but this has little to do with Zhang Kong.

And there is good news on the Pacers' side today, that is, Troy Murphy, who has been out of injury for a long time, is finally getting better, but in order to observe his injury situation, he did not send him directly to the court, but first sat on the court as a substitute and observed the game.

Today, the Pacers' lineup is similar to usual, center Roy Hibbert, and the power forward is replaced by Danny Granger, although he is said to be a power forward, but in the game, his running on the offensive end is more like a small forward.

The position of small forward has made some changes today, and Zhang Kong appeared in this position, which is understandable with a lot of words.

Now in the entire Pacers lineup, the only player who can compete with James is Zhang Kong! Especially in the case of defending him, Zhang Kong's task today is very heavy, and he needs to organize the attack well while also defending well.

The scoring guard is Dundee Jones, who has been performing extremely eye-catching recently, and this guy is also one of the members of the 03 Golden Generation, his career began with the Grizzlies, and when he was a grizzlies, this kid was a dunk player, and the deepest impression on fans was the one that was dunked on Yao Ming's head, and the rest of the time he was just a tough player with very rough skills.

In the 08-09 season, he moved to the Denver-Nuggets, because his defense is extremely tough, so he served as the team's starting point guard, in the playoffs, he was extremely undesirable, and in the Western Conference finals, he defended Kobe Bryant very depressed.

After the end of the winter season, he won a four-year, $10.6 million contract with the Pacers.

Originally, he had always been a substitute in the team, but because Mike Dunleavy was hanging, there was no way to do it.

In the position of point guard, it is TJ Ford, and in the face of Xiao Mo, a little bean sprout, TJ Ford is much thicker.

At seven o'clock in the evening local time in the United States, with the whistle of the referee NBA famous whistle Bavita, the game officially began!

Because he had things in his heart, James didn't throw any magnesium powder at the beginning, and the game really began.

As all fans expected, the match was destined to be an unusually tragic battle from the start.

Jumping on both sides, Hibbert was not too big in height, plus he was young and vigorous, and he slapped the ball directly to his side.

After Deng Tai Jones received the ball, he did not rush to attack, but handed the ball into the hands of Zhang Kong, who played small forward today.

Now Zhang Kong has faintly become the offensive starting point of the Pacers, no, not faintly, but just!

Just like Tekoglu did last year at Magic, Zhang Kong is a playmaker for the team's offense, plus a defensive core.

While receiving the ball, Zhang Kong observed the running position of his teammates, and found that Hibbert, who had just jumped the ball, had already cated to the vicinity of the opponent's penalty area.

Zhang Kong's pass was not very beautiful, but it was very accurate, and after the basketball passed the three opposing players, it fell into the hands of Hibbert, who stopped the basketball from the air with a wave of his hand.

Looking back, there is only one big Z of the defensive players, and the rest of the players are still hanging out outside the three-point line.

You must know that at this time, the game was only five seconds before Bavita blew the whistle for the opening game, and when the Cavaliers players were still dangling on the court to find a feeling, who would have thought that the Pacers, who had been playing positional battles, would be so shameless.

actually quietly came to a tactic that would only appear when he ran and bombed, and when he reacted, the basketball was already in Hibbert's hands.

Da Z, who was originally going to grab a position with Hibbert, was rambling for two trash words, and instantly threw the true colors of the veteran who took care of children to Mars, and immediately the cat bent down and seriously defended Roy Hibbert in front of him!

Originally, Hibbert looked at Big Z, and he was ready to play with him, but he didn't want to think about it, did he have that skill? He remembered that Garnett hit himself at the beginning, and he also learned Garnett's movements, leaning on the big Z, after squeezing twice, he suddenly used the opponent's countershock to turn around and jump back! If he eats the big Z, it is estimated that there are not many ways to eat the big Z.

Who knew that this kid was crazy, and he wanted to play a backward jump shot, so Big Z wouldn't be polite to him, and it would be a big blood cap to go up! Fortunately, Roy Hibbert's small bullet jumped outstandingly, and although it was fanned, it actually allowed him to pick it up again.

Then there was another jump shot, and it was predictable that this kid's jump shot was outrageous! James, who was returned to the defense, directly snatched the rebound, and then rushed all the way to the Pacers' halfcourt!

(To be continued)