Chapter 133 Eat the Microphone

The Knicks and his entourage arrived at the home court of the Timberwolves, and all the people were in the hotel and did not come out, even Sprewell, who liked to hang around the most, honestly stayed in the room and talked to Liang Xiao, because the weather has reached November, Minnesota in the United States is in the central zone, and the cold current of the Arctic Ocean can directly blow throughout the central part of the United States, and the Timberwolves are in this area, and the cold air drives straight in, so that people can only choose to be indoors.

The Knicks rested for a while after arriving in Minneapolis City in the morning, and trained in the rented arena after noon, fortunately it was a stadium with a better environment, otherwise all the players would have gone on strike, Liang Xiao was on the court and mainly sorted out his talent system in front of him, and immediately carried out basic training,

and Sprewell had a team-to-team bullfight, the two had a lot of fun, and finally had a team match, Liang Xiao was assigned to the small man lineup, Van Gundy mainly learned from the experience of the Jazz team, carried out a small lineup of rapid offense, and raised the speed, this game faced the Timberwolves, also has the best power forward in the league, in terms of interior strength, Garnett of the Timberwolves can dominate the entire three-second zone alone, Van Gundy has to find a feasible way to make up for the shortcomings in this regard,

Because it was a back-to-back game, Van Gundy didn't do too much physical exhaustion training, and the match was also a recovery training after half an hour, Liang Xiao's expectations for this game are relatively large, and being able to compete with Garnett is a relatively exciting thing, Liang Xiao is now very eager to compete with some superstars in the NBA, because in his previous life, Liang Xiao always liked to collect all the superstars together, just like many people's hobbies, It's a very cool thing to put superstars together for a game,

After a very comfortable dinner, all the Knicks players entered the home court of the Timberwolves: the Target Center, which has been a symbol of the bad team since Garnett's arrival, and has only begun to turn around since he got high school student Garnett in 1995, and entered the playoffs for the first time in 1997.

The Timberwolves are definitely a superb team, adhering to the expectations of all fans, after the Lakers are far away, they have been hoping to get a championship with this treasure land, but the continuous change of head coaches and recruitment of players have not received good results, because the introduction of players has also occurred in the most notorious "salary cap scandal" in the history of the league, in 1998 the Warriors were bewitched by the agent Fagan and sent the 95-year-old champion Joe Smith to Philadelphia, After that, it was operated to the Timberwolves.

At that time, Fagan signed a pseudo-contract with the Timberwolves that was far lower than Smith's market price of 2 years and $1.75 million, and then secretly asked the Timberwolves to promise Smith a long-term 7-year $86 million max salary contract in two years, so as to collect a huge amount of labor fees, but the matter was officially discovered by the NBA, and the Timberwolves were heavily fined, deprived of the first round picks for the next 5 seasons plus a high fine, and Joe Smith was also ordered to suspend the contract and become a free agent, both sides lost,

So far, Joe Smith's career has been ruined beyond recognition, and then he has become a ronin in the league, adrift among various teams, the champion who won the best rookie in 96 is supposed to have a long-term development in the league, but he was drummed around, and finally became a waste.

He averted 15.7 points, 8.7 rebounds, 1.6 blocks and 46 percent shooting from the field in his rookie season, and was named to the league's rookie first team, where he averaged 18.7 points and finished his second year. With 8.5 rebounds and 1.1 hot pots, Smith's continuous growth in the past two years made the Warriors offer him a four-year contract extension with a total price of $36 million, however, Smith's agent at the time, Fleischer clearly rejected the Warriors' request for a contract extension, tested the free market, tested his worth, and the result was the later salary cap scandal.

The salary cap scandal was a serious blow to the Timberwolves, and a five-year first-round pick was definitely a big blow to a team, and the Timberwolves regrouped after a series of events in the 00-01 season, which made the Timberwolves' relatively complete roster look exhausted and had to face a good situation and never return.

But none of this stumped Garnett, the leader of the Timberwolves, the Wolves still led the league with a good performance, plus in 1999 selected the Spanish-born small forward Szczebiak, this white man who has grown up after his rookie season has a good three-point shot, is a good shooter, and is very competent as Garnett's deputy.

Garnett and Szzebiak, the handsome boys, the two held up the Timberwolves,

This Timberwolves home game against the Knicks, the United States TNT TV broadcast live, for the Timberwolves' situation this year, the situation in the West is very good, in the team's ranking prediction, the strength of the Timberwolves can be ranked fifth in the West, is an important team in the playoffs, plus Garnett, a popular superstar in the league, the live broadcast popularity of this game will definitely not be weak,

The Knicks players are making final preparations in the locker room, Liang Xiao is watching the video of the Timberwolves' game, Sprewell is fiddling with his locker closet, Sprewell still doesn't know that he came to this team in the later life, and combined with Garnett and alien Sam Cassel to form the "Minnesota Three-Headed Monster", which once caused a whirlwind in Minnesota,

The game will start soon, and the game was broadcast on many local TV stations in China, but it was not broadcast on the Imperial Court Channel 5 because of the time, so it was not broadcast, but it did not affect the domestic fans to enjoy the game.

Before the team started, the TNT TV commentators Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith who commented on the game made fun of the game, and the big-mouthed Barkley couldn't hold it back, and made a mockery of the Timberwolves' Joe Smith, for such a player who would have hoped to get more honor in the league, but because of his quick success, he was cheated by his agent, Barkley said that Joe Smith must have stuffed a hamburger in his head, otherwise he would not have made such a choice, As a result, the Warriors were also sneered at by the way, saying that the Warriors' top brass were guys who thought about things with their asses, and the madman Sprewell was not let go, because Sprewell also came to the Knicks from the Warriors, and Barkley also stood up and said that he admired Sprewell's actions, which is also the same as Buckley's big grinning character, not afraid of anything,

Kenny Smith talked about these things to Barkley with a smile, he knew Buckley's character very well, and the two had worked together for so long knowing that Barkley's mouth couldn't be controlled.

After the players of the Knicks entered the court at home, they began to enter the court one after another, Liang Xiao is now in the low position of the Knicks higher and higher, it can be seen from the order of appearance, Liang Xiao is in the sixth appearance from the bottom, now Liang Xiao can be said to be the sixth man of the Knicks, or a candidate for the sixth man who is now hot in the league, Liang Xiao can get considerable data due to many consecutive games, and more and more people in the league are beginning to pay attention to him and study him, Opponents are studying Liang Xiao's ability to lead the Knicks' bench lineup to score more points after he plays, and now the Knicks' bench score per game has risen to more than 30 points, and sometimes even getting 40 points is not a problem, with Liang Xiao, a player who is stable at about 15 points per game, can the bench score not come up,

Liang Xiao's appearance was immediately seen by TNT's commentator, and when Kenny Smith saw Liang Xiao, he began to think of Barkley's statement some time ago that he was going to have a microphone eating show, but after a long time without commenting on the Knicks, this matter gradually faded into oblivion, "Charles, did you see that Chinese young man, did you remember one thing?" ”

Barkley smiled evilly at Kenny Smith and said, "Hehe, Kenny, I'm ready for the Knicks game today, I know you're not going to let me go, right?" ”

"Charles, as long as you say that you are a person who doesn't talk much, I can forgive you, because you don't have any brain cells, all your cells grow on your mouth, otherwise how could your mouth be so thick." Kenny Smith teased Buckley's big thick lips, and at the same time teased Buckley's open-mouthed character,

"You guy doesn't have brain cells, I don't know, how you got a championship ring with your stature at that time." As he spoke, Barkley mentioned the championship again, which was an indissoluble knot in his heart.

"Okay, okay, Charles, let's see how you solve it, you said that if you want to finish five backs in that Chinese boy, you will not hesitate to eat the microphone, now let's start, I don't think the fans in front of the TV can wait." Kenny Smith diverted the conversation, otherwise the topic of the championship would be annoyed by Barkley,

"Okay, look, I'll eat it for you." Barkley said as he pulled out a box under the commentary booth and said with a wicked smile, "Kenny, I'll eat it now, don't stop me." ”