It's been a cold night in Minnesota in December, but fortunately the blizzard hasn't hit the city yet, and although the temperature has already dropped below freezing, the city's fans are still heading to the Target Center to watch another NBA regular season game. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info And tonight's game is a little special, Timberwolves fans will meet a familiar friend at home, Kevin Garnett.

It was Garnett's first return to Minnesota since being traded to Boston, and after arriving at the arena on the team bus, he was chased by reporters in the hallway, and Garnett remained silent and walked into the team locker room in the arena without a smile.

It was the first time in eight years that Garnett had been in the away dressing room at the target centre for pre-match preparation, and he looked a little dull, unlike he usually does. Garnett used to be a rhythm guru in the Celtic locker room, dancing with big headphones, joking with youngsters, and giggling. It's just that tonight he can't do it, in the center of the target, as an enemy.

Garnett's silence seemed to affect the others, everyone was silent, and the manager was not there, so everyone had no bottom in their hearts. Although Rick Carlisle is also a good coach, his overly straightforward and unskilled personality is difficult to convince, and he scribbles on the tactical whiteboard with a grease pen to give pre-match tactical advice, and everyone listens attentively, but there is no discussion.

Carlisle also wanted to say something like Leon to encourage everyone, but the words came to his lips but he couldn't say it, he still didn't learn to say those inspiring words in the two years of the Detroit Pistons, he felt that it was okay to tell the players what they should do, and the players just follow his instructions to do it.

"Let's do the good stuff and hope we get off to a good start." Finally, Carlisle said nonchalantly. With less than an hour to go before the start of the game, the players are ready to take to the pitch for warm-up preparations.

"Will Fox come back tonight? I don't know what happened to the trial. Dave Cowens asked Rick Carlisle, who shook his head and said, "I don't know, he said he would come over as soon as possible, but who knows how long the trial will last." And when I appeared in court for two days in a row, I must have a big head in the face of these messy questions. Let's hope he can rest well. “

Indeed, being a head coach is a very draining job, Carlisle and Cowens have been head coaches, and they know the pressure and hardship, and they don't believe that Leon will rush to Minnesota in the face of such a high pressure of public opinion after attending the court for two consecutive days. Besides, the game is about to start and the players are already in the warm-up.

When Kevin Garnett appeared on the floor at the target center in a green and gray Celtics tracksuit, there was a flurry of cheers, with a large number of fans standing up and clapping and shouting at Garnett, with only sporadic boos mixed in.

Garnett was expressionless, as if he hadn't heard anything, and just went about his warm-up practice on the court as normal.

Then, when the scene began to enter the player introduction, the Celtics adjusted the order of the players, allowing Garnett to appear last of the five. When the DJ at the scene shouted "Kevin Garnett from South Carolina" in the tone of introducing the home players, the cheers of the audience reached a peak in an instant, drowning out everything.

Garnett pursed his lips vigorously and waved his hand slightly, then lowered his head deeply. The cheers went on for a long time, a minute or two, and for Garnett, a year, two years, until eight years. The applause and cheers encapsulated the Minnesota fans and his eight years of affection, the first true superstar here, the pride of the place, the hope of the place. He should have brought more warmth and glory with this cold city, but in the end he had to succumb to reality, fate and desires that were colder than ice and snow.

Garnett's heart at this time contains repentance and happiness, vacillation and firmness, and is as complicated as the dotted lakes in Minnesotto.

That's not good news for Celtic, although Garnett is a very dedicated player who will never let his old club go down against him, instead playing harder. But for a high-level athlete, mentality is very important, and in a basketball game, the player must maintain a hunger for victory, even with a little hatred for the opponent.

Now Garnett has a hard time feeling hatred for his opponents, his inexhaustible passion in the game was from the desire to win and his hatred, now he is wearing a green jersey and he can't beat his chest in the center of the target, he can't sprinkle magnesium powder on the edge of the technical table, he has changed from a wolf to a man, from a monster to a poet.

On the contrary, in the Timberwolves' formation, someone is burning with a raging fire of revenge.

Compared with last season, after adding Kassel and Sprewell and trading Garnett to get a bunch of chips, the Timberwolves who lost Garnett have risen in strength, and they have successfully assembled a very talented and powerful roster.

Darko Milicic, the young man from Serbia who has become Minnesota's new favorite, has been given plenty of playing time, he has the opportunity to shape his style of play the way he wants, and he wants to be an all-around fighter like Tony Kukoc. In this regard, Sanders was a forgiving mentor, and he treated the young man who had come to a foreign country as he had done with Garnett.

But it doesn't seem like Milicic is ready to forgive the Celtics who picked him up and sent him away, young people are like this, they all think about the future for those who don't look down on them, to prove that you were blind in the past. Milicic is no exception.

Antoine Walker, who became a sacrifice for the Celtics to become stronger, was considered the second Cedric Maxwell, who was traded for better chips when the team no longer needed it - Maxwell was sent to the Clippers that year and got the No. 5 that year, Bill Walton. But Maxwell has two championships and one Finals MVP, while Walker has nothing.

Walker doesn't hate Celtic, he doesn't hate Leon, he doesn't hate anyone, he doesn't rely on hatred and the desire to win to play, these are just small emotions that come with it. However, in the face of the old master, he also wants to prove that the Celtics' choice is wrong, even if 10,000 people say that the deal is good, he will stand up and say no.

With such emotions, a big war began between the two sides. The Celtics currently sit first in the league with a 19-5 record, while the Timberwolves have a similarly impressive record with a 14-9 record in the stronger West, behind the Lakers and Kings in the West and second in the West for division rule reasons.

It's certainly a strong conversation, and it's been a spark that has been stirred up by the summer deal between the two sides.

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At the same time, Leon and Ayatollah Khomeenez arrived at Minneapolis International Airport on a plane at 8 p.m., and as soon as they got off the plane, the two didn't even go to find a hotel to settle down first, but took a taxi directly from the airport to the target center.

In the car, Leon wanted to make a call to the Celtic staff, but found that his phone was dead, and the same was true of Khomeinis, and the two didn't even have time to charge their phones after a long day's travel.

In the taxi, Leon asked the driver to turn on the radio, he wanted to hear the results of the night's race.

"Milicic hit a three-pointer! Incredible, how many threes did he make tonight? He's showing people what he's capable of...... Kevin Garnett, Garnett rolls over with the ball and jumpers! The ball went in...... It's still that precise, it's still the signature shoulder shake, and the fans at the target center miss you......" The radio came a live broadcast from the local radio station, from which Leon knew that the game had reached the second quarter, the game was quite intense, the players on the Timberwolves' side were in excellent condition, and Milicic felt hot.

The Celtics are not defensively strong, relying on Pierce, Reid and Arenas to ensure that they are not pulled away by the Timberwolves.

Leon only felt anxious, urging the driver to speed up the throttle, he knew that the team needed him, and he needed him as the head coach to stabilize the morale of the army and formulate targeted plan measures.

As long as you arrive before the end of the third quarter, it's never too late. (To be continued.) )