Chapter 47: Garnett's height, All-Star starters confirmed
After playing the Bullets, the Bulls players flew to Minnesota, which was so cold. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info Liu Ming once again fought the passionate big man, Kevin Garnett, and the two did not fight last time because of Garnett's injury.
This time, Liu Ming and Garnett appeared on the same court for the first time, competing together. Liu Ming wanted to see how much strength the current "Wolf King" had.
The Timberwolves are now focusing on two rookies, a sophomore Kevin Garnett and a first-year Stephen Marbury. Of course, the team's "big brother" is still Tom Gugliotta, who was seen as the "next big bird" Larry Bird when he was in college. Tom Gugliotta has reached the peak of his career this year, averaging 20.6 points, 8.7 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.1 blocks per game so far. It's simply a weakened version of the pinnacle "Wolf King" Garnett. However, because his popularity has not been high, his name has not been in the top few All-Star ballots. But a player like him has always been what every coach wants, so he's still hopeful of making the All-Star bench this year.
With the presence of these three people, the Timberwolves are still very tenacious.
After the first quarter, the Bulls took the lead, and in the first quarter, Liu Ming saw Garnett's awesomeness, this big man with a bouncing pervert and a perverted arm span made Rodman suffer, and Garnett's turnaround and backward jumper made Rodman feel a little helpless.
Liu Ming was also surprised when he saw Garnett singled Rodman with a turnaround and backward jumper on the bench, the last time he saw Garnett, Garnett was injured and did not play, Liu Ming did not directly appreciate Garnett's "2.11 meters".
Now Liu Ming also wants to know how tall the chattering Garnett is that later generations discussed.
Liu Ming remembered that he had read a story in later generations.
It is said that after entering the NBA, although Garnett weighs only 99 kilograms, because Garnett reaches 2.08 meters tall, he has to fight some superstars on the court on the inside. Malone, Kemp, Webb, Ewing and Olajuwon have all made him suffer, but he was afraid to face O'Neill at the time. At that time, there were two lines drawn on the wall of the Timberwolves' general manager's office, one at a distance of 2.10 meters from the ground and the other at a distance of 2.14 meters from the ground. The purpose of these two lines is to measure Garnett's height, and the idea of the Timberwolves is to move Garnett's position on the court from small forward to power forward when he grows to 2.10 meters, and use Garnett as a center if he grows to 2.14 meters. So since Garnett is over 2.10 meters tall, Garnett has never straightened up during his weekly height measurement, and his explanation is: "Hey, you know I'm going to have to defend O'Neal if I get taller!" God, stop letting my body grow up. ”
In the second quarter, after 3 minutes of play, Liu Ming came on the court.
"Hi Kevin, how tall are you?" Liu Ming couldn't help but wonder about this "eternal mystery".
"Uh, about 6 feet 11 inches," Garnett touched his head, looking a little embarrassed. It doesn't look like the bloody and passionate "wolf king" of the later generations. It's more like the nickname "DA. KID”。
Liu Ming thought about it and felt that maybe Garnett was indeed 2.11 meters. But now Garnett is only 20 years old, and he must be longer, and Liu Ming doesn't know how long he will be.
In the second quarter of the game, after most of the main team of the Timberwolves went down, it showed a "one-sided" trend, and there is no way that there are few teams in the NBA that have stronger benches than the Bulls.
Liu Ming also used the running position to "secretly" score 6 points.
At halftime, the Timberwolves were already behind by almost 20 points, but this was "reasonable", but although they lost a lot of points, Garnett performed very well in the half, shooting 7 of 10 two-pointers, and there was an and.one "2+1".
Rodman was disgraced. In the third quarter of the game, although the Timberwolves were fighting hard, relying on Rodman's rebounds, the Bulls still firmly seized the initiative in the game.
"Drop!" The whistle remembered that the game was over, and there was no doubt that the Timberwolves lost, except for the two freshmen, first-year Marbury and second-year Garnett, who were slightly unwilling to be surprised, the other players of the Timberwolves all had a deserved, relieved expression.
On the 17th, before the Bulls' home game against the Milwaukee Bucks, the league announced the starters for the grand NBA "50" anniversary All-Star Game held in Cleveland.
The starting All-Stars in the East, Hardaway and Jordan in the backcourt, Grant Hill and Pippen in the frontcourt, and Ewing "Gorilla" in the center. (Ewing was injured later, and David Stern let Uncle Mu get on it)
Western starting All-Stars, Stockton, "Glove" Payton, Barkley, "Rain Man" Kemp, center "Big Dream" Olajuwon. (Barkley was also injured in the back, replaced by "Postman" Carl Malone)
Looking at the lineup, Liu Ming also had to sigh that this all-star is really starry, and several people are in this position and can be ranked in the top ten in history.
The most surprising thing is that Jordan was elected as the "All-Star Vote King" this time, and he received 2.45 million votes, far breaking the previous vote record. (How terrible this number is, to tell you that in the 2016 Toronto All-Star this year, Kobe Bryant retired with only 1.89 million votes, which is terrible to think about.) How many more people are watching football now than there were then)
When Liu Ming saw this ballot, he sometimes couldn't help but joke that if China was allowed to vote now, he would not be unpopular. But at least wait until '02, and everything will be fine.
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