Shifting Gears and Accelerating!

Westbrook faced Curry, the second option on a back-to-back championship team, his eyes blazing with fighting spirit.

He desperately wanted to defeat Curry.

He desperately wanted to become a championship team's second option.

He wanted to be the player lifting the O'Brien Trophy—not Curry, and not Su Yan.

The Knicks' young players could do it.

So why couldn't the Thunder team?!

The team had strengthened its roster this year, adding Cousins, who had the potential to become a superstar center.

They had an even better shot this year.

As long as the Thunder team avoided injuries, stayed healthy, avoided internal conflict, and maintained a good locker room atmosphere—

If they steadily played every game according to their own rhythm, their hopes of winning the championship would be extremely high.

But if they wanted to win it all, they had to earn some victories to prove they were a team capable of contending for the title.

On the night of the Christmas Day Games, that night was the night.

Defeating the defending champion Knicks would be their best opportunity to prove themselves.

No one wanted to miss an opportunity like that.

The Thunder team desperately wanted to defeat the Knicks and prove that they were currently the strongest team in the league.

A Knicks three-peat?

A New York Dynasty?

No, no, no.

There was no way they could achieve it.

The Thunder team would definitely crush them.

Every Oklahoma player entered that Christmas Day Games matchup carrying that fantasy and an astonishing fighting spirit.

The instant Westbrook saw Curry, he glared fiercely at him. If looks could devour people, Curry would already have been swallowed whole.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Facing Curry, Westbrook scanned the area with his peripheral vision and saw that no one was coming over to help defend.

No