Chapter 205 - Let's Go!

The game had finally ended. We won by five points and I didn't have to play a single minute. Everybody that I came to see me play was a little bit disappointed as they wanted to see me shoot the lights out but after they had gotten word that I trained with the legendary Dr j and the professor from and1 they understood why the coach decided to rest me.

I'm sure the coach would have put me in again if we were losing but that was not the case. The 76ers were too scared to do anything and McGee was conquering them on the boards.

I didn't hear the end of it from Nick Young, he said" yeah we won this game without you bro and it's all thanks to me shooting extraordinaire". 

I laughed when I heard this and said "yeah you're right next time we'll definitely depend on you so keep shooting the ball like you did today even though you were 4 for 10 from the 3-point line I'd say it's one step backwards and another step backwards".

Everybody there started laughing. I looked at McGee and said good job man you surely cleaned up after Nick Young's mess out there. Nick Young got mad when he heard that and said" yeah thanks a lot next time I got your back", McGee could only nod his head as he wasn't much of a talker.

That night I had finally heard from Momba, we were going to be playing against his team in 2 days. I was shocked as I said "oh I didn't see you on draft night so I forgot to even check up on you my bad". 

Momba laughed and said" that's fine my agent said sometimes the unnoticed get the best results so I'm fitting in well. The coaches like me because I'm big and tall and I move pretty fast and play well on defense. I won't get much playing time because I have other legendary centers playing before me but I can play as a power forward to see how I match up with their star players. But overall I get to play with LeBron James at least". 

I was shocked by this and I was a little bit jealous because I wanted to play with the Cleveland Cavaliers. They had Shaquille O'Neal and Illgauskas starting over Momba so of course his playing time will be less than others but if he hustles hard he would be able to make it to the starting lineup sooner or later and I could also give in a word for him asking LeBron to have him play more minutes with him. That shouldn't be a problem if he finds out that he used to be my teammate and we won a couple of cups with each other and he would definitely agree to it.

We talked for a few more minutes before I told him I had to go rest because I was still sore, he told me that he hopes that I won't play in our game. I laughed at this and said "since you're playing I'm definitely going to be on the court with you but don't worry I won't take it easy on you as a matter of fact I'll pretty much go harder on you. Be prepared for the trash talk that I'm going to be giving to you and your teammates".

He cursed me out before hanging up, I laid back in my bed and decided to call Sandra and Rihanna on a three-way as we all chatted happily until I fell asleep.

The next day was training again this time I practiced with the whole team. We did squats and jogged around the gym, my soreness was a little bit better but due to training I couldn't feel it as the ability had kicked in as soon as I started running making all the pain disappear.

Coach was surprised by this as they saw me running and keeping up with everybody else matter of fact I was even going harder than everybody else but I knew deep down inside I had to slow down otherwise my injuries would not heal as fast.

We played a few games 5 on 5 and then got massages after practice which was very comfortable, before I went back to my hotel to relax and prepare for the next game as we're going to be playing against Cleveland cavaliers.

The day had finally arrived, I saw Momba around the court and I quickly went to shake his hand and hug him. We haven't seen each other in a while so it was definitely nice to see each other. Everybody on the Cleveland team the rookies and the sophomores were surprised that Momba came to greet me, even the cameras were flashing as they remembered that I had played with Momba in my high school years and in my college so this was definitely going to be a game to watch.

I was shooting from the three-point line over and over again and didn't miss. I then went in for a thunderous dunk as everybody in the gym had admirations in their eyes. I flew up and glided in the air for a few seconds before dunking it and hanging on the rim.

When I got back down I ran back to the three-point line and continued to take shots. The horn finally blew and the start of the game began. Momba and McGee met up to do the jump ball, as soon as the referee tossed up the ball they both hopped up, they both evenly matched up but Mombo was able to win the jumper as he passed it to his teammate the point guard Mike who saw Momba sprinting towards the hoop he tossed it up for alley-oop as Momba came down with the ball hard while staring at me.

I laughed and said" oh you want to play like that", I started to get excited. 

Momba didn't shriek back either as he said "let's go!".