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Chapter 89 The Christmas Battle and the Knights
Although the Warriors won the championship last season, in the eyes of many people, luck accounted for a large proportion.

The opponents of the finals, the Cavaliers, are almost full of injuries. James, Irving, and Love are the only one left in the Big Three combination. Although the Warriors won the championship, they are somewhat invincible.

After the end of the season, the Warriors did not make any reinforcements on the current lineup, but only renewed the players whose contracts were about to expire, and traded away All-Star power forward David Lee in order to make room for salary.

Although during the 14-15 season, David Lee has gradually reduced from an All-Star insider to a substitute role player, but he can still provide the Warriors with 8 points and 5 rebounds per game.

David. Lee left the team without a replacement player, which made the work of the Warriors management summer before the start of the new season criticized.

Before the start of the preseason, the Warriors only ranked third in the championship odds list, followed by the Cleveland Cavaliers and the San Antonio Spurs.

The vast majority of people, including multiple ESPN commentators, are not particularly optimistic about the Warriors' ability to defend their title in the new season.

Now the performance of the Warriors has left everyone speechless.

The game has been unbeaten since the start of the game, and the 27-game winning streak tied the second-longest winning streak in league history.

What this team has shown is an unbelievable level of toughness!

And no one doubts that in the next game, the Warriors will surpass the Heat's 27-game winning streak and launch an impact towards the first winning streak in history!

On December 12, the Warriors played away against the Utah Jazz.

109:85 Easy win.

The team's winning streak has officially reached 28 consecutive victories!

Successfully breaking the second consecutive winning record in history made all members of the Warriors happy, but at the same time, the real challenge finally arrived.

In Game 29 of the regular season, the Warriors faced the Cleveland Cavaliers at home.

If there is anyone who can stop the 28-game winning streak of the Warriors, the vast majority of fans will give an answer-the Cavaliers.

The loss to the Warriors in the finals last season made the two teams directly rivals. Both the players and fans of the Cavaliers were quite dissatisfied with the results of last season.

"If Kyrie and Kevin were both there last season, what is the Warriors? The championship should belong to us!"

"Kill the Warriors! Break their winning streak and let them know who is the real king of the league!"

"Hehe, laughing to death, I really thought it would be fine if you didn't have any injuries? The Warriors are now 28 wins and 0 losses. How many games have you Cavaliers won now? The winning percentage is less than 70%, and even the second-best Spurs in the Western Conference can't compare. Dare to touch the porcelain warrior?"

"Come on, come on, it just happened that James' 27-game winning streak has been surpassed, and now James will personally send the Warriors to a further step. This stepping stone must be very exciting!"

Before the game started, the fans of the two teams were already arguing before the game.

It must be admitted that the NBA is really good at playing. The game between the Warriors and the Cavaliers is the Christmas game on December 12.

The Christmas game can be regarded as one of the traditional arts of the NBA. Every time, more controversial rival teams will be arranged to play against each other, such as the Heat and the Spurs, the Heat and the Lakers, the Lakers and the Clippers, and the Celtics in the past few years.

Now, it's the turn of the brave battle to come into people's sight.

The Christmas game + the reappearance of last season's finals + the Warriors' continued winning streak have brought unprecedented attention to this game.

Both teams also attach great importance to this game.

Before the game, in the locker room, Cole looked around at the players, and said in a deep voice: "This game is very important to us! It is just to maintain the winning streak, and it is our battle to rectify our name! I believe everyone understands, How many people in the outside world think that our championship last season was due to the opponent's injury, can you accept such a result?"

"Of course not! We want to use this game to prove that we should be the champions of last season, and we deserve it!"

The same situation also happened to the Cavaliers.

Neither the Warriors nor the Cavaliers want to lose this focus game!
Wang Feng knew that according to the original historical process of this game, the Warriors had the last laugh, but the current situation is slightly different.

The Warriors of another time and space had a record of 27 wins and 1 loss before this game, but now they are 28 wins and 0 losses.

Wang Feng was a little worried about whether the butterfly effect would bring many variables to this game, but his worries proved to be correct.

As soon as the much-anticipated Christmas game started, the Warriors immediately fell into a passive state.

The team's offensive core, the Splash Brothers, performed abnormally. In the first quarter, Curry was 5 for 1 and Thompson was 4 for 1.

The double stars played abnormally, the team's offense was blocked in the first quarter, and they immediately fell behind. Fortunately, Wang Feng and Green felt pretty good, so the point difference did not widen quickly.

"Sure enough, is this the legendary Murphy's Law? Is it the psychological burden caused by the winning streak, or is it the eagerness to prove last season's championship that caused some urgency?"

Wang Feng doesn't know the reason why Curry and Thompson's hands are out of alignment, but if they sit back and watch, they will definitely lose this game.

With the same idea as him, there is also Warriors coach Cole.

Switching to last season, when the Splash Brothers felt cold at the same time, the Warriors would definitely lose in all likelihood.

But this season, things are slightly different.

Seeing that the situation on the court could not be opened for a long time, Cole simply called a timeout to make tactical adjustments.

"Wang Feng, you will be the main attack later!"

Cole said to Wang Feng: "In the rest of this game, you don't need to do the work of defense and defense. James will hand it over to Drummond (Green) and Andre (Iguodala). Just focus on the offense, the team needs your scoring to open the situation!"

Hearing Cole's words, Wang Feng immediately nodded in response without thinking. "No problem! Coach!"

It is the first time for Wang Feng to play as the team's first scoring point and main attacker. There is no doubt that Wang Feng's efficient and stable scoring has won Cole's approval during this period of time, even with the Bucks before. The team's coming forward during the game played a key role.

Wang Feng has never thought about being a role player all the time, so this opportunity must be grasped, not to mention the opportunity is really rare!Because the player Wang Feng is facing at this time is JR Smith.

The Cavaliers really prepared a lot for this game. They deliberately let Dellavedova, who successfully restricted Curry, start in the finals last season, replaced Irving at the shooting guard position, JR Smith played small forward, and James moved to power forward. Position, Love goes to the top center position.

Perhaps it is precisely because this targeted starting lineup successfully limited the performance of the Splash Brothers, but the opponent JR Smith is the best solution for Wang Feng, after all, the opponent is not a defensive champion.

(End of this chapter)