The 2015-16 NBA Playoff Eastern Conference Finals tiebreak is about to start at the Quick Loan Center Stadium in Cleveland. Yang Cheng hesitated for a while and still went with the team. Don’t mention the sourness in his heart.

It's like knowing the tragic finale of the TV series, you still have to see from the beginning and end, and you're tortured with enjoyment on your face.

No matter what, this is the last game of the Nets this season. As the team owner, you should spend this tragic moment with the team on the spot, whether it is reasonable.

Conrad, who also knew the ending in advance, was not so patient and did not even show his face, so Yang Cheng was fully represented.

As Ohio's largest industrial city and lake port.

Cleveland is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. It has emerged with industry and shipping, but it has now become the poorest city in the United States.

Why did James, the spiritual leader who was highly anticipated by Cleveland resolutely choose to leave the Cavaliers? In addition to his yearning for the championship and Miami Beach, the conditions of the city of Cleveland are also a major reason.

It is not without reason that Cleveland has been rated as the poorest city in the United States for many years. The proportion of black people in this city is large, accounting for almost 50%. Geographical and environmental factors determine that Cleveland basically cannot find its own specialty. Because there are too many black people and are not favored by large companies, the unemployment and crime rates have always remained high.

Although this is also an invisible racial discrimination, after all, it is the pot made by the Clevelanders themselves, so the bitter fruit naturally has to be swallowed by themselves.

The season is still good now, the temperature is less than 20 degrees, and the breeze blows the shade of green trees, which looks no different from other American cities, at least on the surface.

But if you live in Cleveland in winter, you will feel the biggest malice in the world - cold, so cold that it makes people feel heart-wrenching!

Since it is even northerly in latitude than Indiana, Cleveland can be described as cold and cold in winter.

As one of the northernmost cities in the United States, the temperature in winter is comparable to Detroit. However, the once glorious and unlimited car city is no different from a ghost city. Anyone with some ability has long moved out of the city where there is no trace of people in broad daylight.

Not only is the temperature like this, Cleveland's urban structure is also similar to Detroit - the city center is a famous "black gathering area". No matter how cheap the rent is, it cannot attract people to live in. Houses are sold in double-digit or triple-digit numbers.

If it happens to snow, it is really a purgatory on earth. In the morning, cars with a layer of "ice shell" can be seen everywhere. If you don't have an ice shovel in your hand, your car will definitely not be able to drive on the road!

In short, Yang Cheng’s biggest impression of Cleveland comes from the Cleveland Consortium. Although none of these lives in this ghost place, their reputation is still very famous.

The Cleveland Cavaliers' home fast loan center is located in the city center. Like major cities across the United States, the city center is often a gathering area for blacks and homeless people.

Occasionally, a few black men in rags walked by the streets. They looked like homeless people. They reached out and shouted, "e out?" (Can you help me?), which was almost their fixed line, forming a muscle memory. They said when they saw people, and didn't care after being rejected, and continued to lower their heads and walked forward.

Yang Cheng sat in a temporary rented Mercedes-Benz car, looking at the black people begging on the roadside, and compared them with the homeless people in Los Angeles in his heart, and found that the homeless people in Los Angeles looked much richer than the homeless people in Cleveland.

I don’t know if this is a gap between the rich and the poor. At least the white vagabonds in Los Angeles are much more diligent. Yes, Yang Cheng refers to the behavior when he goes out to beg. The vagabonds in Los Angeles at least know how to use guitars and puppies as tools. The black vagabonds in Cleveland are too lazy to even put on a hat and just reach out to ask for it.

I passed by a convenience store and glanced at it and found that it was almost all black people, including those who bought things, collected money, and supplied goods. Note that this is not a supermarket specifically targeted at black people. This is the city of Cleveland.

There is a big river in downtown Cleveland, which is different from other rivers that beautify the city. The river in front of you is a canal, a big river carrying transportation functions. Various freighters are quite spectacular.

Walking along the river, I saw a huge James poster with the words "You and I are both witnesses." This is a slogan tailor-made by Nike for him, meaning that if you don't watch James play, you will lose the opportunity to witness miracles.

However, Yang Cheng estimated that this advertisement should have been posted later. After James made the "decision" that year, he felt that the Cleveland fans were fooled and angrily burned all the things related to James, including this advertisement.

But time has passed and James came back again, which also comforted the injured hearts of Clevelanders, and Nike's billboard was able to hang again on the streets and alleys of Cleveland.

Seeing the billboard means that the Quick Loan Center Arena is about to appear in front of you.

The predecessor of this stadium was called Gander Stadium. As the little emperor arrived in Cleveland, the Quick Loan Company bought it and changed it to the Quick Loan Center.

Because it was still early, I looked around and saw that Cleveland, which was not much lively than Detroit, had nothing to visit, so I simply went to the stadium with the team to warm up.

Of course, Yang Cheng did not end up, but sat on the sidelines, watching the players conduct warm-up training diligently like a supervisor. However, because of his arrival, today's training ground is rare. In addition to the creaking sound of the soles of the shoes and the floor, the "bang" sound of basketball, which will make people numb after listening for a long time.

Yang Cheng was stunned for a while on the sidelines, and saw Sean Marx and a group of people walking through the player passage. One of the bearded men was recognized at a glance. He was Daniel Gilbert, the owner of the Cavaliers and the chairman of Quick Loan Company.

"Hey, Daniel, long time no see~"

"I should say this jason, this is my territory~" Gilbert smiled and shook hands with Yang Cheng. This sentence sounded a bit provocative and aggressive at first glance.

But Yang Cheng seemed to not hear it and shrugged slightly, "You are still so energetic."

"Thank you, I'm still young~"

The two big bosses sat on the sidelines, and their subordinates, including Sean Marx, could only be separated by a little distance and gathered together to chat.

Daniel looked at the warm-up situation of the Nets players without hesitation and said, "It seems that you have prepared a lot for tonight's game."

Yang Cheng glanced at him squintly and whispered, "What's the use of that? Everything is already destined."

Daniel smiled but didn't say anything. He was still good at taking advantage of it. He would be jealous of others. He would take advantage of it. Why would Yang Cheng not be able to enjoy his mouth?

After sitting on the sidelines for a while, I found that the Nets had started tactical training, which was not suitable for continuing to watch, so as not to be misunderstood and peep at the enemy's situation. In front of the boss, I should not be too much.

So he stood up and said, "Let's go, go to my office and sit down. I collected a bottle of good wine a while ago and tasted it together?"

Yang Cheng stood up, "Of course, my honor."

Gilbert's office is much smaller than Yang Cheng's office in Barclays Center, but it is even more luxurious.

A brief tour of the modern style decoration and said casually, "The office is great~"

Gilbert stood in front of the wine cabinet, and said with his back to Yang Cheng, "I invested $30 million in renovations after I bought the stadium, and it's absolutely right to spend money."

I quickly chose the wine, came over with two empty cups, and seemed to be preparing to open the wine in person. This was a bottle of whiskey. The silver net hollowed-shaped outer packaging was covered with a bottle. The charming color of peach wood suddenly aroused the wine bugs in Yang Cheng's stomach.

Although Yang Cheng is not addicted to alcohol, it is difficult for him to control his desire to drink when facing good wine.

If Yang Cheng couldn't recognize the unique shape and unique color of the bottle, he would have no face to taste the wine. "Plateau Knight, this should be the first 50-year-old one? It was distilled in 1960 and bottled in 2010. The alcohol content was close to 45 degrees and the capacity was 700 ml. The distillery used a total of 5 barrels of whiskey to bottle 275 bottles. I remember the price at that time seemed to be 10,000 pounds?"

If a bottle of wine wants to be a luxury product, in addition to the brand value, product quality and time cost, it is difficult to support such a high unit price without additional value. For example, the first edition of the Plateau Knight in 50 years is such a Scottish single malt whiskey with extremely high added value and high collection value.

Gilbert was not surprised that Yang Cheng was able to tell the origin of this wine in one word. For people like them, learning wine culture is just a basic operation.

"Everything is right, but I bought this bottle from a collector at a high price. Now there is not much left in the world. One bottle is less than one bottle."

Yang Cheng nodded and quietly watched Gilbert start the wine. After waking up for a while, he poured it into a crystal wine glass and handed it to Yang Cheng, "Try it~"

"Thank you~" After thanking me, she took the wine glass, Yang Cheng turned gently, and the clear and bright body flowed in the crystal cup. This is the heaviness that only aged wine has, like a canal that has been flowing for a hundred years in the center of Cleveland.

Put it on the tip of my nose and took a breath. The rich and changeable aroma and the strong alcohol that had not yet dissipated after opening the bottle rushed straight to the top of my head. I couldn't wait to take a sip. It had a spicy and rich taste, with an excellent tannin and brown sugar flavor, and the aftertaste was long. It was like being in the African savanna, where wild animals were galloping by in groups, and the shocking scene could not be forgotten for a long time. This is the wild charm from nature.

After swallowing it, he closed his eyes and sighed, "What a great wine~"

Gilbert was also very satisfied with his consumption. "It seems that I will send someone to collect a few more bottles. How can one bottle of such wine be able to be?"

Yang Cheng played with the wine glass and joked, "We'd better reach an agreement to avoid competing, and it will make the seller cheaper."
Chapter completed!