"It's been three months since he joined the Cleveland Cavaliers -- the team he once referred to as "the enemy" -- but there are still times when Antawn Jamison enters Quicken Loans Arena and has to stop himself before walking into the visitors' locker room. Sometimes, when he watches game film, Jamison sees this guy wearing No. 4 in "different colors" and doesn't realize it's him until he sees one of his "junk shots" floating through the air. Even his younger brother, Albert, has joked with him that he looks strange in a uniform that Jamison's family, friends and former Washington Wizards teammates had become conditioned to hate.

"Once it happened, it was like, 'Wow!' " said Jamison, who spent 5 1/2 seasons in Washington before his Feb. 17 trade to Cleveland. "It's kind of awkward, seeing my name in the wine and gold and Cleveland."

Jamison could not beat LeBron James and the Cavaliers in three first-round playoff battles from 2006 to 2008, but now he has joined forces with him, and Shaquille O'Neal, in a mutual pursuit of a championship ring. With Cleveland tied 2-2 in its best-of-seven series against the Boston Celtics, Jamison is two wins from reaching the conference finals for the first time in his 12-season career. But he made his ultimate goal known before this season, when he framed a picture of the Larry O'Brien Trophy and placed it in his locker room stall at Verizon Center.

"I believed it, whether it was a possibility [with the Wizards] or not," Jamison, 33, said. "That's the only thing left for me to accomplish. That was the only thing I wanted to accomplish." "