Chapter 127 is from Seattle

With only one game left in the eighth place in the West, the young lads of the Timberwolves have never been so hungry for the eighth spot in the West.

There are some things that are only precious when they are lost!

At the beginning of the season, the Timberwolves have been firmly in the top eight in the West, and naturally they have not felt the feelings of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Durant has been the focus of the media since he entered the league, and his background has made him much higher than the starting point of the rookie in the same class.

He copied the path of LeBron James and signed a 7-year, 6000W contract with sports giant Nike, the huge amount of this contract undoubtedly attracted countless attention, the second-largest rookie shoe contract in NBA history, and pushed the young Durant to the forefront all of a sudden.

Everyone wants to know if Durant, who has high hopes from Nike, can replicate the path of LeBron James and quickly complete the transformation from rookie player to superstar.

Carrying the pressure, but also carrying the heavy national gaze, is a big reason why Durant has always maintained his aggressiveness.

More pressure can give him a farther goal, and more exposure will give him more motivation to move forward!

However, at the beginning of the season, everything changed.

The western one replaced them as the focus of the national media.

From last season's status as a fish belly team to this season's gorgeous transformation of the playoff team, such a fantastic story still takes place in the fiercely competitive West, facing a hostile environment surrounded by enemies, and Durant who came from his rookie season understands how difficult it is to do it all.

This is the West, not the weak East!

It's really not funny at all, it's cruel, and Durant understands this deeply!

This year's West is too strong, the entire West is expected to compete for playoff spots The teams have exploded this season, showing a strong state, and now the schedule is about halfway through, but the brutal West competition has not weakened, but has become more and more fierce as the season deepens.

ESPN's columnists have released season predictions, and at the end of the season, the teams that reach 50 wins will definitely have a big explosion, and in the West alone, I am afraid that there will be six or seven teams that will win more than 50 games.

This season's western region has ushered in a big blowout era, the stronger the strong team, the weaker the team, the disparity between strength and weakness is obvious, and the entire western region is in a polarized state.

Durant understands that the Timberwolves' dark horse road is not easy, and he also admires the magical power of the Chinese rookie in Minnesota, which is definitely not just accidental.

After two seasons in the league, Durant has fully realized the brutality of the NBA as a business league, where the winners survive and the inferiors survive, and those who can't adapt to the league will eventually be marginalized.

The path that Chinese kid Li Shihao has led the Timberwolves this season has always been full of thorns, bumps and mud, but even so, the outside world has never lacked criticism of him.

The United States has democracy and freedom, but also inequality and racial discrimination, and Durant, who grew up in the United States, naturally understands the discrimination and inequality suffered by Asians in the United States.

In this free country, foreign players, especially those of Chinese descent, need to pay three to four times as much to succeed as ordinary players.

Changing to a black or white player born in the United States has long been regarded as a future superstar, and in his rookie season, he hopes to lead the team to the playoffs.

Needless to say, in the highly competitive West, even in the generally weak East, players who can lead the team to the playoffs alone in their rookie season are the darlings of the media.

Before the game, a group of long-gun and short-gun reporters gathered in the hotel where the Thunder players stayed, and Durant and Westbrook, who are the team's duo, were interviewed by many media outlets.

"Kevin, you're going to have a big game with the Timberwolves tonight, and the winner will take more initiative in the fight for a playoff spot, do you have anything to say about tonight's game?" Durant is the star of the Thunder, and he is naturally the sweetheart in the eyes of media reporters, and a large number of media reporters handed the microphone in front of Durant after they were in place, wanting to get more breaking news from this shy young star.

Tonight's game has long been played by ESPN and TNT, the two North American sports media giants, and this year's Western competition is so big, the Thunder and Timberwolves are both young guards rising in the league, and the strong collision of the two young teams is full of natural topic.

NBA Vice President Adam Shaw has been smiling from ear to ear in recent days, and tonight's game has been temporarily broadcast live in the United States.

Obviously, the raging battle between the two teams for eighth place in the West has successfully aroused the gossip desire of millions of families in the United States, and the attention about this game is already in full swing before the game has even started.

The discussion about the game on the Internet has completely exploded, and fans of both teams have begun to cheer for the home team from the standpoint of their own teams, and the battle has even become so fierce that they greet each other's female relatives in American slang.

Durant's face pretended to be relaxed, he also understood the importance of tonight's game, but as the leader of the team, he must be calm and calm in front of the media, "The Timberwolves are a strong opponent, they have a team of young and powerful players such as Bruce Lee and Kevin Love, tonight's game will not be easy, but we are very confident in the victory, our team's outside line is beyond the limits of the Timberwolves!" ”

Hearing this, the eyes of the media reporters who were waiting for it lit up instantly, and they seemed to have found the topic of the news, Durant, who is very likely to win the scoring title this season, publicly declared that the Timberwolves could not limit the outside line of their own team, and by extension, it was not an exaggeration to say that they could not limit Durant himself.

Just as many media reporters were scrambling to take pictures and records, a hand stretched out from the bustling crowd below, and a middle-aged man with a hooked nose and a deep face stood up, and the press sign on his chest clearly showed that he was a media reporter from Seattle.

The situation was not good, Durant's heart sank suddenly, and when his eyes touched the corner of the middle-aged man's mouth with a hooked nose, the bad feeling became more and more obvious.