After a five-game winning streak, the Trail Blazers lost 99-104 to the Mavericks in Dallas, but the defeat didn't dampen his good mood as he will travel with the team to Oklahoma City in the next game, where his good brother Westbrook at UCLA is located. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 InfoDue to the tight schedule, Ye Feng doesn't plan to take the time to visit this small city, but Westbrook also doesn't plan to take his buddies around - he is not familiar with this place himself!

Objectively speaking, Oklahoma City and Seattle are really not on the same level. Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, also known as the "Emerald City", is the largest city in Washington state, it brings together many star companies on the West Coast of the United States, including Starbucks, Microsoft and Nintendo America, in 1995, Seattle was named "the best place to live in the United States" by Money magazine, in 1996 by Fortune magazine "Best City to Live and Work", in 1998 it was recognized as the city with the highest quality of life in the United States. The economy of the Russian city is dominated by agriculture (sideline), construction, health care, manufacturing and mining, and the only thing worthy of praise is health care and education, and the players must be a little aggrieved.

And the size of the market is largely related to the strength of the team, and since the beginning of the 21st century, there may be only one team in the Spurs that has achieved great success in the NBA, thanks to their excellent draft vision and team building within the team.

Don't think this is alarmist, from 2000 to 2008, the Lakers three times, the Celtics once, the Heat once, the Spurs twice, the Pistons once, these eight championships only the Spurs are the team of the small ball city, the Pistons can only be counted as half, after all, Detroit's skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and it is still an important town in the map of the American automobile industry, and the other three cities, Los Angeles, Boston and Miami are all out-and-out big ball cities. Even back in the 90s, Chicago and Houston combined for eight championships, and who's to say they're not big ball markets?

The size of the market is closely related to the team's revenue, and in this increasingly commercialized league, the only way to retain or bring in superstars is the attractiveness of the city and the big contracts offered by the team, in addition to the great coach and team. From this point of view, Oklahoma City can't catch up with Seattle. But fortunately, there are a lot of talents in the Thunder team now, and the management's vision in the draft has been fully proven, and they have only just relocated, and some of the deeper hidden problems have not yet exploded.

Rao is so, Westbrook is still a little depressed when he sees his former friend, although he is now the starting point guard of the iron fight, but the team's record makes him unhappy, especially after comparing with Ye Feng's Trail Blazers. The team in the rebuilding period will inevitably have to pay tuition, this truth is not unclear Westbrook, but he is used to being a winner, he is still a little unhappy with the current situation of the team, when the Trail Blazers are all the way to the fourth place in the West, the Thunder only played 11-38, properly at the bottom of the West. Compared to the two, he even doubted that Ye Feng would laugh at him as soon as they met, even if it was very likely to happen based on their friendship.

But Ye Feng was obviously not as heartless as he imagined, but comforted him. It's not pretending, and he does understand where the Thunder are right now, because the Trail Blazers were like that last season, and it's a surefire path to maturity for a young team that no team can avoid. Especially in a small ball market like the Thunder, it may only be possible to slowly build up its own roster by continuing the draft, and to put it mildly, if you want to recruit stars with the current conditions, it is really not qualified.

Westbrook was depressed for a while, but soon regained his optimist appearance, and began to ask with interest about Ye Feng's recent situation in Portland. Ye Feng talked about some of his things in the team, including the care of old players such as Roy, Ade and Blake, and also talked about his best friend Oden in Portland. Suddenly, Westbrook came to me without a clue: "And how old is he this year?" Ye Feng was stunned for a moment, and said helplessly: "Why are you also interested in this guy's age?" Ask yourself during the All-Star Rookie Challenge, and I'll introduce you to each other. ”

Quickly shifting the topic away from Oden's age, Ye Feng asked, "What do you think of your team?" I'm quite envious of your ...... "Let's not say if it's really envious, this interview still has to be said, do you want Ye Feng to say "Your team is so rubbish hahahahaha"? Westbrook scratched his head and said: "The atmosphere of the team is still quite good, after all, everyone is still young, but this is also our biggest shortcoming, it is easier to play, and occasionally on impulsive, you will lose all the advantages that you have just established." ”

This is also the truth, Ye Feng knows too well the character of his good friend, and going forward is definitely not a compliment for him, many times you will even think that this is a supercar without brakes, and the driver also likes to step on the accelerator to the end. Ye Feng asked, "Isn't your team planning to bring in a few veterans to take you?" Westbrook nodded and said, "I also think it's necessary, but the management hasn't moved much yet, and I'm still a rookie, so it's useless to talk to the general manager directly, and it may have some effect if I replace Kevin." Kevin here is certainly not Kevin Love, their shared alumnus and friend, but Kevin Durant, the current promising team boss of the Thunder.

Ye Feng smiled secretly: "Even if Durant goes to tell the general manager himself, I'm afraid it won't have any effect, right?" Maybe people's plan is to hoard a batch of high-ranking small fresh meat and cultivate it slowly? However, he did not debunk it, but began to ask Westbrook curiously: "Is this guy easy to get along with?" Did he look like a good baby during the training session? With you two guys together, is one ball enough......"

Well, in addition to the gossip in the first two questions, the latter is Ye Feng's ridicule, but it's a pity that Westbrook is quite upright, he thought about it very seriously, and whispered: "He, he's like this on weekdays......"