Chapter 124: The Timberwolves who regained focus

After beating the Memphis Grizzlies on the road, the Timberwolves won a wave of four straight wins, winning all four consecutive road trips, and this back-to-back road trip can be regarded as a thrill and achieved the expected goal.

Next, they will return to Minnesota at home to take on the Philadelphia 76ers.

The local sports media in Minnesota have praised the Timberwolves' recent four-game winning streak, and several of the city's hottest nightly talk show hosts have touched on the topic.

When the funny host talked about the topic of the Timberwolves, the audience always cheered and responded enthusiastically.

Even in nightly shows that have lost traction, talk shows that talk about the Timberwolves have won considerable ratings, rising by a number of points.

Minnesota fans love the home team, the Timberwolves, in a way that is hard to imagine in other cities.

Many players envy going to big cities, where there is a better economy, more exposure, and the ability to get big, valuable contracts, which many NBA players can't resist.

But small cities also have the benefits of small cities, and many players would rather stay in small cities and dedicate their entire careers to the team that selected him, such as Reggie Miller.

Big cities have the benefits of big cities, but they also have a lot of competitors, and the NBA is not the only professional sports league in the United States, but there are three other strong opponents in the big four leagues along with the United States.

Whether it is the NFL, MLB or NHL, it is a sports event with great influence in the United States, and the NFL is the most influential league in the United States, which is much more attractive than the NBA.

According to the latest data released by the authoritative financial magazine Forbes, the Super Bowl, the highlight of the NFL game, is estimated at 4. US$200 million, continuing to hold the throne of the most commercially valuable sports event.

This value is far more expensive than a round of the NBA Finals, and the Finals are only seven games at most, and when it comes to the Finals conversation between the Spurs and Pistons in previous years, the Super Bowl's commercial ability to attract money is definitely more than ten times greater.

You must know that the value of an ordinary team in the NBA is only hundreds of millions of dollars, and the value of such a round as the Super Bowl is almost comparable to that of an NBA team, which shows how attractive it is.

According to those financial people, the interstitial advertising in the Super Bowl event is definitely an act of burning money to the extreme, and the value of 30 seconds of advertising is even expensive to 300W dollars, compared to this, the news network advertisements on the other side of the ocean are simply unwatchable, you must know that CCTV bidding advertisements are tied together for several months, and events like the Super Bowl, but at the beginning of each year, the value is definitely higher than the latter!

According to Forbes, the Super Bowl is worth more than the Olympics (2. $300 million) and the World Cup (1. $200 million).

Even in the Forbes Global Club rankings, the lowest value of a single team in the NFL league is 11. A sky-high price of $500 million.

It's no exaggeration to say that the NFL is already the most expensive sporting league in the world!

Fortunately, Minneapolis, Minnesota, has a competitive team, but the Timberwolves have a good fan base, and although Minneapolis is a small city, not as prosperous as Los Angeles and New York, or even as warm and pleasant as Miami, the economy here is not bad at all.

31 of the world's top 500 companies listed by Fortune magazine have their headquarters here, which shows that although Nigeria is a small city, it has no shortage of economic strength!

This is also one of the confidence of Timberwolves owner Glenn Taylor to dare to speak out and build a championship lineup for Li Shihao!

Glenn Taylor is a businessman, which is not false at all, it is his nature to pay attention to profits, but it is undeniable that Glenn Taylor is also an entrepreneur who loves basketball, and he will not be stingy in the field of basketball.

Otherwise, he would not have spent a large contract of 100 million yuan on Garnett, who was just a high school student, you know, Garnett was just a high school rookie who had never played in the NCAA.

Facts have proved that Glenn Taylor's vision is not false, and the commercial value behind Garnett has completely made the Timberwolves earn back, this epoch-making all-round interior player is a money-absorbing weapon, and the potential advantage of high popularity makes the law of low commercial value of interior players invalidate on him.

Glenn Taylor, who tasted the sweetness, once again lost a 5-year 100 million yuan contract to Garnett in 03, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he has a lot of money.

But the owner's personal preference obviously can't solve everything, Garnett's high contract made the salary space for the later Timberwolves to be greatly tightened, and it was even difficult to recruit a suitable championship helper, and finally Garnett, the "wolf king" who had been sticking to the city for many years, left Boston for the championship dream and went to another city team, even if it was a giant team in the NBA!

The departure of the "Wolf King" Garnett undoubtedly hurt Glenn Taylor, and in the dead of night, the owner of the Timberwolves, who has been living behind the scenes all year round, will rarely show the loss that a shrewd entrepreneur does not often have.

This year's excellent record of the Timberwolves undoubtedly alarmed the Timberwolves owner, who is gradually becoming less and less governed, Glenn Taylor was originally disheartened and planned to sell the team, but this year's Timberwolves really gave him a big surprise!

At the beginning of the season, he rushed to the top of the West, although he dropped to seventh in the West in the later stage, and now he even fell out of the playoff queue, but in the long regular season, what surprises were there?

As a team owner, Glenn Taylor's biggest advantage is nothing else, he at least knows a little bit about the ball, this owner won't understand how precious a player who can lead the team to the Western Conference playoffs is, especially if this player is still a Chinese rookie, the value has simply doubled several times, okay?

The Timberwolves recently won four straight games to attract the attention of many Minnesota fans, but the Minnesota Vikings, who are also based in Minneapolis, have suffered a heavy defeat recently.

This season was supposed to be a year of great excitement for the Vikings, who, after months of planning, brought in legendary packer quarterback Brett Favre in an attempt to challenge for the title!

The news also shocked the whole United States for a time, and the sports media that cooperated with the NFL even promoted the Minnesota Vikings to one of the favorites to win the championship, and this kind of attention made many Minnesota fans full of pride.

Unfortunately, in the recent Nations League final, the Vikings lost to the New Orleans Saints in overtime, and were kicked out of the game by the opponent's 40-yard shot, disappointing many Minnesota fans for another season.

The Timberwolves, who once fell out of the center of the focus circle, won four consecutive games in a difficult back-to-back road schedule, recovering a lot of victories, and gradually approached the eighth place in the West.

This makes the Timberwolves the darlings of Minnesota again!