Minnesota is the northernmost state of the continental United States, and the extreme north of the continental United States is here, so Minnesota also has another nickname called the North Star State.

Minnesota's temperatures can be quite extreme, especially since it is famous for its cold winters. On February 2, 1996, the lowest temperature recorded in the city of Tawa, reaching -51 degrees Celsius.

Summers in Minnesota tend to be hot, with temperatures of 45.5 degrees Celsius measured in the summer of 1936.

The people of the entire state live in this environment of ice and fire, and the annual temperature range in some extreme years can even reach 60 or 70 degrees, and it was selected by the "Voice of America" magazine as the most unsuitable state for human life in the United States.

And the first team of our little white shoes career, the Timberwolves, is located in Minneapolis, the largest city in Minnesota.

The metro areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the state capital, are home to more than half of Minnesota, and the most recreational thing to do is head to the Timberwolves' home stadium at Target Arena at the end of the day.

So despite Minnesota's sparse population, the Timberwolves' home target center is one of the hottest in the league.

The day after Bai Xiaonian was drafted by the Timberwolves, the Minnesota Herald, a local media outlet in Minnesota, ran the news on its front page.

All Timberwolves fans are expecting this white elf who has been blown into the sky by the media to bring some different changes to the team and lead the team on the road to revival.

In July 2011, in the middle of the summer heat, all the fans in Minneapolis were eagerly awaiting the arrival of their new year.

Bai Xiaonian had just stepped off the plane, and the hot weather in Minneapolis gave him a dismount, and the oncoming heat wave almost didn't stuff him back into the cool cabin of the plane.

This time he flew alone, and Emma flew back to the UK before he was after the draft to prepare her new work.

Because Bai Xiaonian did not notify the Timberwolves of the official news of his arrival in Minneapolis in advance, no one here knows that the elf they have been waiting for has arrived quietly.

After leaving the airport, Bai Xiaonian did not report to the team for the first time, but walked around the city of Minneapolis alone, after all, this will be the place where he will live in the future, and he wants to know if the environment here is as unbearable as the legend.

It turned out that the comments on the Internet were not credible, this place was much more prosperous than he had imagined, whether it was commerce, transportation or culture in this remote corner of the northern city are unusually developed, if it weren't for the unfriendly temperature here to remind Bai Xiaonian all the time, he would have thought that he was in the downtown area of Los Angeles.

"Oh my God! Are you Wood White? ”

Just when Bai Xiaonian finished his day trip to Minneapolis with satisfaction, a young man finally recognized our little white children's shoes.

"If you're talking about Timberwolves rookie Wood White, then I think you're talking about me."

Bai Xiaonian smiled at him and said in a friendly manner.

"We all thought you were in Los Angeles! It was such a surprise to me that I was here all of a sudden..."

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After satisfying the autographs and group photo requirements of several Timberwolves fans, Bai Xiaonian walked to the target center court with satisfaction.

Not only is there a coach who is willing to train himself to be the core of the team, but also a group of cute fans who support him, which makes the originally dazed little white children's shoes re-motivated.

The exterior of the Minnesota Timberwolves' home target center arena has always been white, and together with the home uniforms, it vividly interprets the cold of the northern winter.

And it just so happens that our favorite color for the little white children's shoes is white, so that Timberwolves fans can see the flowing white No. 11 jersey that once dominated California speeding around the arena at the Target Center.

The Targeting Center is located in downtown Minneapolis and is sponsored by Targeting. Officially opened on October 13, 1990, the entire arena cost nearly $104 million, took 27 months to build, and was the first fully smoke-free main arena in the United States.

The management of the Timberwolves showed great enthusiasm for Bai's arrival, not only helping him prepare a small two-story apartment just a five-minute walk from the team's training center, but also holding a personal press conference for him.

At this press conference, the Timberwolves' official showed Bai Xiaonian's No. 11 home and away jersey on the Timberwolves to more than 30 media present, as well as their rhetoric about Bai Xiaonian's future development, as if Bai Xiaonian was being built as the next Kevin Garnett.

On the first day after the release of Bai Xiaonian's jerseys, the Timberwolves souvenir store located in the target center arena was crowded with fans from all walks of life, and the 2000 thousand jerseys that the store originally planned to prepare were quickly snapped up by crazy fans, which made the Timberwolves official have to hurry up and let the manufacturers who made the jerseys hurry up to produce a batch of Bai Xiaonian's jerseys, which solved the embarrassment that the store had no clothes to sell.

And the city of Minneapolis doesn't know when a large poster of Bai Xiaonian wearing the No. 11 jersey of the Timberwolves has been hung everywhere, you must know that it has not been so lively in the entire Minnesota area for a long time.

Timberwolves owner Glenn Taylor sits in his office in downtown Minneapolis with a smile on his face, looking down at the city's new look, and can't help but be secretly proud of the decisions he has made, and at the same time shocked by Bai Xiaonian's huge influence.

After graduating from Harvard University, he is a famous entrepreneur in the United States, and his Taylor company has been a leading company in the production of professional printers, glass and plastic products in the United States, with more than 15,000 direct employees, which is one of the largest private enterprises in the United States, and he is currently worth $1.8 billion.

He also served as a senator from Minnesota in the decade from 1980 to 1990, and can be said to be a figure in both political and business circles.

He believes that unlike running a private business, the company is a career, and basketball is his lifelong passion.

From hanging the basket in the backyard when he was a child, to taking over the Timberwolves when they were in trouble, to now being active on the front line of the team even though he is nearly seventy years old, this love has never changed.

So after experiencing the soul of the team, Kevin Garnett left Boston, Glenn Taylor felt the influence of a superstar on the team, so this time he decided to train Bai Xiaonian to become the next wolf king of Minnesota!