How much did I drink? I thought that No. 1 pick James was here to assist him? Ricky s peak 20+3

October 29, 2003, in the player channel of the Cleveland Speed ​​Loan Center, 18-year-old James looked at Ricky Davis's back in front of him, holding a bunch of training equipment. The latter suddenly turned around and threw the backpack into his arms: "Rookie, help me get it." The metal buckle of the leather backpack hit James' forearm. He looked up and met Davis's joking eyes, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised - this detail was captured by the camera and became a classic picture of the "bag carrying incident" in the future.

Davis' "Boss Dream" began in January 2003 against the Jazz. When the game entered garbage time, he deliberately threw the ball towards his rebound, jumped up and took it off and made a comeback - this "triple double" made him a laughing stock in the league, but made him more immersed in the "core" hallucination. In the training hall, he often patted James on the shoulder and said, "Boy, look at my back and play well. This is the art of winning. "

In a fast break, James carried the ball and advanced. Davis reached out to ask for the ball from outside the three-point line, but saw the former accelerated and scored a layup. During the pause, Davis slapped the tactical board: "Give the ball to me next time!" The spit was splashing on James' wrist guards, and the latter looked over the wear marks on Davis' shoes when he lowered his head to wipe it - it was his medal averaged 15.3 points per game last season, but it was also the last highlight of his career.

22 regular season games, Davis weaves false authority with data: 15.6 points, 4.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists per game, but he shouted to James when he missed a defensive end: "Hey, go and make up my position!" Whenever he showed off his new sneakers in the locker room, James always sat quietly in the corner, repeatedly watching game videos, and his notebook was full of "Davis' back play was used to opening the way with his left elbow " " Passing error rate at critical moments was 32%.

On November 21, 2003, Cavaliers General Manager Jim Paxson fell into deep thought as he looked at the technical statistics: When James and Davis were on the court at the same time, the team lost 112.3 points in a hundred rounds, with a net score of - 6.8. In his office at 3 a.m., he called his boss: "We must send Ricky away, now." On the trading deadline, Davis hummed a song in the locker room to pack his luggage when he suddenly heard the news that he was being traded to the Celtics on the radio. The hair spray bottle in his hand fell to the ground, watching James walk in through the door, with no hostility in his eyes, only a hint of pity. As Davis walked through the player passage, fans' boos mixed with the "Joker" shouts, he suddenly remembered James' fast break layup in the preseason - it turned out that the answer had been revealed since day one.

"I thought the Cavaliers chose James to assist me. " As the sentence rang in the interview area of ​​Boston's North Shore Garden, the camera swept through Davis' trembling fingertips. At this time, James was practicing three points in the Speed ​​Loan Center. The sound of the basketball hitting the basket formed a wonderful resonance with the booing in the distance.