Chapter 209 - Demolished

Halftime was over, the game continued. Momba saw me and smiled, I hope he wasn't thinking that he was actually keeping me at bay. 

"All right it's time to turn it up, I'm sorry Momba but I'm going to start playing for real".

He had a serious face on him as he looked at me and nodded his head and said "I knew you weren't playing seriously this whole time, well it was still definitely nice playing against you and I hope to never play against you again".

I said" yeah yeah yeah". 

Nick passed the ball to me, I looked at him and said it's time to end this, give me the ball every time".

All he could do was nod his head, nothing else he could do about the star player asking for the ball every time. Momba was waiting for me at the half court line, I slowly walked the ball towards him and stopped 5 ft away from him and took the shot. Everybody there started cheering as they knew I was going to make it.

Splash 

Three points 

Momba asked for the ball since he was already half court he dribbled it down and I was the only one there to check him so he quickly brushed past me knocking me down in the process and went in and dunked it hard and looked at me saying" I guess it's time for me to get serious too".

I got up and asked Nick to pass me the ball as soon as he passed it I took the shot way beyond shocking everybody there that had not seen me make that move, but Momba had already seen me make that move several times in the years so this did not shock him as the ball went into the basket.

He had to play a full court press from now on defense.

Momba got the ball once again and I was back on the defense. I had McGee come back as soon as possible so he was checking him while Momba's teammates were running back on the offense but we double-teamed Momba and stole the ball from him and quickly ran up the court.

The guy defending me was trying to keep up with me as I ran a full speed, I quickly stepped on the brakes and did a step back losing him in the process as he couldn't stop fast enough as he went tumbling forward and slid on the floor and I took the shot from the three-point line, swish, another basket.

Momba was getting a little aggravated but he knew this was going to be the outcome facing off against me. They were going to take their first loss.

Time freeze! 

I stole the ball Momba was right there with me so he was able to stop me from getting the easy bucket as I was dribbling around. I quickly drove past him knocking his hand away that was outstretched and trying to block my way and made a floater for easy two points.

Time freeze! 

Once again I stole the ball, I dribbled back a little bit to the three-point line where Momba knew I was going to shoot it so he jumped up but I faked him out and ran past him, their power forward was right there to defend against me but I didn't care. 

Time freeze! 

I jumped off his knees and straight dunked it on him. My legs were in the air and accidentally slammed him in his face. He got mad and was about to punch me when his teammate stopped him.

I jumped back down and shrugged saying sorry I can't help my greatness.

The guy got even more pissed but I didn't care as the game continued, we kept going back and forth until we were up by 30 points in the 4th quarter. Momba had gone to the bench so I decided to do the same and let the others play the rest of the game without me.

In the 4th quarter Nick had his time to shine as he was taking all kinds of shots now that I wasn't in the game. He was enjoying it because they were already in the lead so there was no way Cleveland was going to come back and the Cavaliers bench seemed like they were also fired up as they had gotten the chance to play more. 

Their starters were on the bench just relaxing. Surprisingly they didn't look too depressed but whenever they saw me looking at them they had fear in their eyes unlike Momba who would smile at me every time. Momba never smiled at anyone but me, which I thought was strange.

The buzzer finally went off signaling the end of the game, we went to go greet each other. I asked Momba whether he wanted to hang out but he declined and said "I have to go practice after this game. It seems like the coach has now discovered my talents so I would have to work hard to uphold them and to not get blown out by you".

"Come on Momba we haven't seen each other in so long we should definitely catch up". I finally got him to open up and hang out with me. We just went out to a restaurant to eat, he was telling me about the college team we were playing with and after I had left none of the other teams respected them and were all out for revenge against them since I beat them so badly. Some people got injured and because of that they weren't able to go to the playoffs.

Jealousy is a terrible thing I told him but in the NBA if you get caught doing that you would be fined and suspended and on top of that you earn no respect among the other players and you might just get hurt yourself so we shouldn't even worry about things like that now.

We laughed and talked about old times. I asked him whether he was signing any contracts and he showed me a text from his agent saying that after today's game he has received several contracts from different brands. I smiled at him and said "that's good I'm glad you're able to come out that little shell of yours".

He patted my back and said" it's thanks to you, you're such a showboat everywhere you go you're able to light your opponents up with your crazy shots. After hanging out for a while I went back to my hotel room to relax.