Minnesota Timberwolves, as a team with a strange pedigree, the Timberwolves have done nothing more than signing a black and gold contract with Joe Smith, the specific story is as follows:

Joe Smith became a free agent in the summer of 1998, and the Timberwolves agreed to a "yin-yang contract" with Joe Smith in order to evade the luxury tax. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The original of the contract was a written copy for the league office, and it was signed three times, with an annual salary of 1.75 million meters in 1998-99, 2.17 million meters in 1999-2000, and 2.25 million meters in 2000-01.

Timberwolves boss McHale conspired with Joe Smith that as long as Smith is willing to join for the first three seasons with a low salary, he will receive a seven-year contract with a minimum contract amount of $40 million and a maximum of $86 million (which was a super contract at the time), and the copy of the contract is signed by Timberwolves owners Glen Taylor, Joe Smith and his agent (this agent is Allen's agent - Dan Fagan).

In October 2000, the scandal of black-box operations was revealed, and the Timberwolves were severely sanctioned by the league office.

They were stripped of their first-round picks for the next five years (and later returned to the Timberwolves by the league in 2003 and 2005) plus a $3.5 million fine, and Joe Smith was forced to transition to free agency and sign with the Pistons for a year later.

In fact, there were many such verbal agreements when NBA teams were to avoid the luxury tax, but this is the only example of a verbal agreement that was actually put on paper and caught by the league.

The Timberwolves, which were founded less than 10 years ago in 1989, have been nailed to the pillar of shame in history forever.

When talking about this Minnesota husky, the black gold incident is a story that has to be told.

However, the Timberwolves are not without merit, at least they have amassed young talents like Marbury and Garnett (just for their skills), and they have assembled a formidable trio of monsters: Garnett, Sprewell and Cassel.

However, they haven't made the playoffs since the 03-04 season formed a three-headed monster and Lakers F4 in the Western Conference finals, and their current record this season is 17-30, and they are looking to say goodbye to the playoffs again.

In the past five years, the Timberwolves have completely evolved into huskies, and they are getting happier and happier on the road of infinite death.

This season, they could have had a chance to turn around, but they still traded in an interior player with OJ Mayo in the case of Al Jefferson on the team, and Kevin Love, a college alumnus of Erniu.

Such a strange choice is undoubtedly challenging the patience of the current "wolf king" Al Jefferson.

What do you mean?

Before the labor and management decided whether to leave or not, you found me a spare tire?

Jefferson never wanted to come to Minnesota, and now that management has come to do so, he's even more upset.

Despite this, Jefferson faithfully performed his duties as the "Wolf King", averaging 23.1 points + 11.0 rebounds per game this season.

Relatively speaking, Kevin Love, who is a rookie and a spare tire, has obviously not fully adapted to the rhythm of the NBA, which is probably related to his position on the team, and this season Love is averaging 11.1 points + 9.1 rebounds per game.

This data looks good on the surface, but you must know that before Lefu entered the league, he was known as the "White Kraft" produced by UCLA, and compared with the superhuman data of 29+20+5 in Ruan Erniu's rookie season, Lefou's performance was obviously not brilliant enough.

But at the beginning of the season, Lefou's mood was not very good, after all, from the main force of UCLA, from warm California to cold Minnesota, and from the pride of the sky, to Al Jefferson's little brother, it is no wonder that he can be happy.

He also called alumnus Ruan Erniu to ask for experience, and Erniu told him, "The most important thing is to relax and enjoy the competition!"

At the moment, Kevin Love (Lefou=LOVE=LOVE) has a good mentality, at least he can face the game very positively.

Anyway, the Timberwolves are also competing for the playoffs early, and Kevin Love can certainly rest assured that he can boldly brush up the data here.

Feb. 4, 2009, Targeting Center, Minnesota.

Before the game, Ruan Erniu and his junior Kevin Ai talked about the current situation of the UCLA gang in the league.

Don't talk about not knowing, but be shocked when you say it, needless to say, the older generation like Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Wharton, and Reggie Miller.

There are still many people active in the league now, such as Byron Davis, Jordan Farmar, Jason Capono, Matt Barnes, Trevor Ariza, Aaron Afflaro and others.

Of course, there are also Kevin Ai, Wei Shao and Erniu.

Kevin Ai complained, "I'm probably the worst UCLA alumnus. ”

Ruan Erniu hurriedly said: "Shhh, don't be heard by my former captain, Aaron Afflaro, if you hear you say this, maybe he will directly take a knife and run from Detroit to Minnesota to find you desperately." ”

Erniu's exaggerated tone and body language made Kevin Ai overjoyed, and I have to say that although he has never played with the people of the Celestial Empire, Kevin Ai knows very well that he has no way to compare with Kraft Nguyen in terms of leadership charisma and physical talent.

With only a year to go, Ruan Erniu's historical status has been steadily promoted to the superstar sequence, while Kevin Ai is still struggling for a solid starting position.

Before the start of the game, the two teams announced their starting lineups, and the Hawks still did not change, while the Timberwolves' lineup was:

C Kevin Love

PF Al Jefferson

SF Ryan Gomez

SG Randy Foye

PG Sebastian Telfil

Kevin Ai, who is registered to be 6 feet 10 inches tall, is only 205CM naked in height, and Erniu doesn't feel shorter than the other party when he stands next to him.

The two jumped the ball in the middle circle, and Erniu easily dialed the ball to the lunar eclipse by virtue of the advantage of bullet speed.

The Eagles possessed the ball, and Bibby held the ball through half the court.

Bibby watched the Timberwolves' defense while thinking about how to pass the ball to the opponent.

After some careful consideration, he finally decided to hold the ball directly to the Huskies' inside.

When the speed of the white devil was not as fast as before, he actually inserted a pin, and with the help of the block and dismantling of the lunar eclipse, he connected three people, and finally easily completed the layup and scored.

Jefferson and Kevin Ai's help defense and turnaround speed were so slow that an old guy like Bibby, who had basically lost his speed advantage, could find an opportunity to make such a sneak attack.

However, this is a challenge for Ruan Erniu.

This challenge is on the offensive end, but not on scoring, because Ruan Erniu can also use his speed advantage to eat Kevin Ai or Jefferson alone, and what really worries him is the Hawks' frontcourt rebounding problem.

Ruan Erniu has averaged 21+ rebounds per game this season, of which at least 5.8 rebounds have come from the frontcourt, but when Kevin Ai and Jefferson, two strong men, stay inside, Erniu obviously has no advantage in the frontcourt rebounding struggle.

Two fat wolves, one black and one white, occupy the inner line, and just by their tonnage and size, they can squeeze others out of the forbidden area.

Even Erniu is only slightly better in strength, which is far from enough for Erniu to establish a frontcourt rebounding advantage.

The first stop in early February seemed to be very easy, but for Ruan Erniu personally, it was a big test.