The November schedule has been in Celtic's favor, and after surviving three consecutive road trips at the start of the season, most of their games will be played in their own homes. The benefits of playing at home are obvious, familiar with the field, full support, no running and toil, and more importantly, players can get more adequate rest and continuous training time.

It's still important for Leon and Celtic, a young team that needs a lot of training to develop more chemistry. Their performance in the first few games was good enough, with strong firepower, accurate three-pointers, and excellent cooperation, which not only helped Celtic win the victory, but also shattered many doubts about Leon. Now Boston fans are slowly coming to terms with the young, little-known new head coach.

Especially in the victory over the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers on November 7, the rumors that Leon was fighting with Kobe on the sidelines were quickly stabbed in the media, and for a while many reporters were eyeing this news point that could be mined, of course, their target was not Leon but Kobe.

Kobe Bryant was constantly asked this question by reporters after Game 7, and Kobe Bryant has been avoiding it, which undoubtedly gave reporters enough imagination space to describe the story that happened in the last minutes of that game, including Leon's interference with Kobe's offense with trash talk, Leon's ability to predict the future, Leon's use of psychological warfare against Kobe Bryant caused him to be inaccurate, etc. However, no one seemed to want to ask Leon, another client, and although he didn't want to answer questions from the media, he left Boston with the team on the 8th for Minnesota for one of the few away games.

The plane arrived in Minneapolis on the afternoon of the 8th, and as soon as he arrived at the airport, Leon felt the deep malice from Minneapolis fans towards him. In the airport's pick-up lobby, he saw some Timberwolves fans holding large portrait signs of Leon in their hands, drawing a large cross in green paint, and then writing "Garnett? No-way！ (Get Garnett?) No way! ”

As Leon passed by the few fans who seemed to be die-hard Timberwolves and Garnett. Unsurprisingly, they shouted some dirty words at Leon with their drawing cards, and then someone threw an egg at Leon that had been prepared long ago.

"Smack!" The egg didn't hit Leon, but it was shattered in the air by Leon with a punch from his left fist, and his hands were stained with some eggshells and egg whites, and he didn't even have a head back, but he hit the target with one punch.

"Thank you for your hospitality." Leon didn't talk much nonsense, said a word to them and walked away. The Celtics players are listening to music as if nothing is happening, listening to music with big headphones, texting on their phones, and a few assistant coaches gathering to discuss tomorrow's practice. No one cared at all that Leon was being harassed by several radical fans.

After all, it would be a waste of time for any player to try to smash Leon with a ball during team training, and other things such as peanuts, small golf, table tennis, etc., would be impossible to tease Leon. Many times he would bounce these things away with his hands without having to turn his head back, and then look at the young people who wanted to play pranks like a fool.

People always have self-esteem, and they are always treated as fools by Leon and even everyone like this, and no one can stand it. So no one jokes with Leon about this little trick anymore. Today, the players saw these fans targeting León, knowing that their manager didn't need protection at all, everyone was doing their own thing, and they were waiting to go to the hotel to rest.

As a result, only a few avid Timberwolves fans and egg whites and yolks on the ground were left in the lobby of the airport. Stood there dumbfounded, not knowing what to do next.

"I thought they were going to smash ...... with me," Malik Ciri said with some concern as he sat next to León after arriving on the team bus. Ciri was probably the most complicated of the players, after all, he spent the best years of his career in Minneapolis. He loves the fans, his teammates, the basketball atmosphere. If it weren't for succumbing to injuries and money, he would have chosen to stay here until he retired.

"You're not wrong, it's that I want to be the pride of Minnesota, everybody knows that, those kids just love the Timberwolves and Garnett too much, and I can understand that." Leon said lightly, not looking particularly concerned.

Ciri only nodded, he knew that Leon had started digging up Garnett as early as two years ago when he was a scout, and all the work was done in public. Whether as a scout, assistant coach or head coach, Leon has never hidden his desire to get Garnett, so much so that many people across the country have heard the name "Fox Leon" and been told

When he was the head coach of the NBA, people's first reaction was to associate him with Garnett.

This is undoubtedly a clever psychological warfare, and the most recent person who has successfully used this tactic in history is Jerry West, who began to declare that he wanted to choose Kobe Bryant early before the 1996 draft, and made it clear that Kobe Bryant would not go anywhere except the Lakers, which directly led to many teams not daring to choose Kobe. In fact, Kobe Bryant would not belong to any team before the draft, not to mention that the Lakers did not have draft picks, but West used this method of "a lie told 10,000 times to become the truth", which made some timid team managers look away, and finally traded the 13th pick for the superstar.

Although Garnett is no longer a rookie and has the biggest contract in the league, poaching him will be an extremely difficult project, which is why Leon will take a multi-pronged approach and start psychological warfare early, creating a feeling that "if Garnett is not in the Timberwolves, then he can only go to the Celtics". Although this feeling is logically absurd, it can actually have a subtle impact on other teams and on Garnett himself.

Even Malik Ciri asked Leon on the bus, "Do you want me to catch up with Kevin and talk about my plans to play for the Celtics in the future?" Apparently Ciri is well aware of the reason why he was able to get a $4 million contract with the Celtics, and that is because he has a good relationship with Garnett.

"No, you can go catch up with Kevin, but don't talk to him about any future transfers, especially coming to Celtic. Remember, your conversation is only focused on the past, your days in Minnesota, your happy life playing for the Timberwolves. As for how you are in Boston now, how the future is, don't talk about them, keep them in your heart, and I think you'll understand what I mean. Leon specifically instructed Ciri that the game would be played tomorrow, and the Celtics players who arrived a day early would have most of the day's activities, and Ciri would definitely see his old friends when he returned to his old place.

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On the night of the 8th, Malik Sealey attended a small party in the Minneapolis suburb of Ed, and Garnett drove him with him, having not driven himself since the crash two years ago.

During his days playing for the Timberwolves, Ciri lived with his family in an apartment in Ed Town, where he has a lot of memories. Siri and Garnett played late, and Leon specially approved that Siri could stay up all night tonight, and it didn't matter if he came back tomorrow morning. Still, Siri decided to rush back to his Minneapolis lodgings overnight, so Garnett drove him back to the hotel in the wee hours of the morning.

The two old friends who used to work together and had a fun basketball time together are now one in the east and the other in the west, and they have a lot to remember and reminisce about. What made Garnett feel comfortable was that Ciri didn't say a word from beginning to end that asked him to come to Boston to play, nor did he say what his current situation was in Boston or what the situation was within the Celtics, just talking about the past.

This saved Garnett from the embarrassment of expressing his loyalty to the Timberwolves in front of West, although deep down he still had a trace of yearning for Boston, and at the same time he was curious about Leon, but a kind of paranoia in his heart still made him want to stay with the Timberwolves, even if it seemed hopeless here.

Until they said goodbye at the door of the hotel, the two were still giggling and talking about some funny things in the past, but Garnett didn't expect that the photo of him and Ciri had been taken by a sports paparazzi from the Star Tribune in Minneapolis.

The next day, when Garnett participated in the team's training, he saw a hint of strangeness in the eyes of his teammates, and the team's head coach Philip Sanders took Garnetra aside to show him a star tribune today, one of the pages was a photo of Garnett sending Ciri back to the hotel, this report was chasing wind and shadows throughout, pointing out that the Celtics signed Ciri at an unreasonable price in order to let him act as a lobbyist to persuade Garnett to join the Celtics, Now Ciri has taken the opportunity of the away game to dig into the wall.

"Ciri never talked to me about letting me join Celtic! We just reminisce together, talk about the past, we talk for a long time, why do these guys use a photo to speculate! Garnett was visibly angry, feeling in his heart that his loyalty and dignity had been hurt, as well as his friendship with Siri.

Phyllis Sanders persuaded Garnett with his words, saying that this is just the opinion of the media and does not represent what most people think, let alone what the team thinks.

However, Garnett was ostensibly calmed down, but a small thorn was inserted into his heart.

Unbeknownst to him, of course, the thorn was made by Fox Leon. That night, the Star Tribune received an anonymous phone call informing them that they would be getting some unexpected press material at the hotel where the Celts were staying.

Leon's machinations continue. (To be continued.) )