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For Zhuang Fei, North Carolina is a very special place, this is where his basketball career began, he once reached the first peak of his life in Windsor, and he left a lot of legends for fans here.

The legend is memorable, but also nostalgic, for fans in other parts of the United States, the Timberwolves playing the Hornets is not a particularly worthwhile game, the Hornets are the middle of the East, and there are no popular stars in the team, and at the beginning of the season, because of the team's several cores, the team's results are not very good, according to the media's opinion according to the current state of the Timberwolves, it is not difficult to beat them.

But for North Carolina fans, this is the first time Coach Z has returned to his parents' home, and this is also the first time they have watched Zhuang Fei's NBA game up close, and it is also the first time they have seen Zhuang Fei live in the arena after a year. It's a game of great significance for North Carolina fans.

So Charlotte, who is not a good market this season, sold out all the tickets in this game, and it was sold out at the beginning of the season, and now the ticket price of this game has been 3 to 5 times higher by scalpers. Such an anomaly in the ball market once made the Hornets owner want to invite another coach K in North Carolina to coach the Charlotte Hornets, but was directly rejected by Coach K, if Coach K can really coach the Hornets, then the Timberwolves will face the Hornets in Charlotte, not to mention the rest of the United States, at least North Carolina is estimated to be empty.

"I heard that the coach is very popular in North Carolina," Pierce exclaimed with some curiosity and suspicion on the plane. In the last day or two, many sports newspapers in the United States have been doing a special feature on Zhuang Fei back to North Carolina. In fact, in Pierce's opinion, this should be a bit exaggerated, the University of Kansas where he used to be located is the place where basketball was invented, and in order to reach the newspaper description in Kansas, at least the founder of basketball, the first head coach of the University of Kansas, James Naismith, needs to be reborn, but can Zhuang Fei compare to Naismith? Although Zhuang Fei won the Naismith Best Coach Award three times in a row, in Pierce's heart, Zhuang Fei was still not as good as their legendary coach in Kansas.

Hearing Pierce say this, the other Timberwolves players don't have a specific concept, and they don't know it very well, but they, like Pierce, also maintain a certain degree of skepticism, but Garnett raised his eyebrows after hearing Pierce's words, and wanted to say something, but in the end he held back, Garnett is different from them, Garnett has been to North Carolina and has been to Windsor City, Zhuang Fei's home base.

"Coach, we're back again" Stephen Green said excitedly to Zhuang Fei next to him, the plane was already preparing to land, Stephen Green's excitement Zhuang Fei could understand, he was also very excited, this was his first time here as an NBA head coach.

"I've heard James and Raga say they're both coming to see us today," Stephen Green added happily at the end.

"What are they doing here? Now their performance is not very good, Crazy March is about to start, you should hurry up the training and adjustment" Zhuang Fei frowned, this season after Zhuang Fei left, Wake Forest lost the first game of the regular season, which also made Zhuang Fei in Wake Forest maintain a three-year unbeaten regular season unbeaten record, 132 consecutive wins record in the past, and finally Wake Forest is currently ranked second in the regular season, and was pressed by Duke University.

Although Zhuang Fei has left Wake Forest, he has always paid close attention to Wake Forest, which is the regular season sprint stage and the playoffs preparation stage, and now running to watch his game will make Zhuang Fei very happy, but it also makes Zhuang Fei very worried.

When the plane that Zhuang Fei and his players were riding was parked on the tarmac, and when Zhuang Fei walked out of the airport, everyone in the Timberwolves was stunned by this scene.

"Welcome back the Demon King"

"Demon King, we need you"

"Demon King, Windsor City can't live without you"

When Zhuang Fei was seen, thousands of fans in the airport passage shouted more enthusiastically, and the waving signs were faster.

Most of these people are wearing Wake Forest Gujin sè jerseys, and many are wearing North Carolina and Duke jerseys, and there is even a Duke fan who actually wore a hood from Coach K and played a sign like "Zhuang, you are not in the rìzi, I am so lonely" in the tone of Coach K.

"Dad, raise it a little higher, I can't even see it, the sign in front is really hateful"

"Chris, I said why don't you look tall, you're 14 years old, why are you less than 1.6 meters, and you still fantasize about becoming Vince Carter every day"

"You don't care, it's not your fault that I'm not tall, Coach Z said that if I can become a superstar, I will definitely become a superstar" Little Paul didn't forget to kick his dad angrily after speaking.

This kid has also reached the rebellious period, old Chris thought with a wry smile.

There are a lot of fans like Chris Paul who came from Windsor City today, and even many people have been here for several days, just to welcome Zhuang Fei's return today.

Seeing such a scene, Zhuang Fei's eyes moistened a little, this is the best reward and encouragement for his three years in North Carolina, which makes Zhuang Fei know that no matter what happens or at any time, North Carolina fans will firmly support him, Windsor City will also support him, and Wake Forest fans will also support him from afar.

"Oh my God, is the coach Michael Jackson" Pierce looked at Zhuang Fei who shook hands with the fans on both sides of the tunnel one by one, and then looked at the crazy fans on both sides of the tunnel, where is this head coach? Which head coach in NBA history, or basketball history, has this treatment? Even if Jordan and MJ come, it is estimated that it will be this pomp, this time he completely agreed with the reports of those media in the United States, and Zhuang Fei cannot be looked at from a general perspective, in North Carolina, he is indeed a figure close to mythology, at least here his popularity is not lower than that of MJ and Jordan.

"If you go to Windsor City, you won't be surprised by this scene here, Windsor City is the real home base of the coach," Garnett said with emotion.

In this place, Timberwolves assistant coach Stephen Green is more popular than them, in fact, Garnett and Pierce are also household names, but in this place they are not cared about at all, Stephen Green is constantly waving to the fans, and people who don't know still think that Green is the superstar of the Timberwolves.

"Is basketball here and ours the same kind of basketball?" Nash asked, a little puzzled

"Absolutely not," the other Timberwolves players shook their heads violently.

In fact, Nash also inadvertently said the current situation and future of the basketball community in North Carolina, the Charlotte Hornets and the future Charlotte Bobcats can't take root here, just because there is a special basketball environment here, the league here is too strong, the college team here is too strong, since Jordan was born, from 1981 to the present 1998, the league team has won a total of 8 NCAA championships in the past seventeen years, don't forget that NCAA has a total of six major leagues, dozens of minor leagues, If a place had such brilliant college basketball, would they pay special attention to the so-called NBA? Fans here never think of NBA teams as their home teams, here, Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest is everything, NBA? What is that? North Carolina is a basketball paradise and a basketball hell.

After the fans made it a few minutes to get through the airport, the Timberwolves walked for 2 hours, until Jǐng received complaints from other passengers and barely dispersed more and more fans who gathered here.

In the Timberwolves' hotel, Zhuang Fei was convening the players for a pre-game meeting, and the players looked at Zhuang Fei very silently and expectantly, really as the media said.

People who haven't been to North Carolina can't really get to know Coach Z, and they now have a new understanding of their manager.

"This fight, we have to win, and we have to win beautifully, this is not an ordinary game for me, I think you have also seen it, maybe some of you will think that I am selfish and vain, but today I hope you can satisfy this little bit of selfishness and vanity of mine"

"Guys, give your best performance to beat the Charlotte Hornets, I think the Charlotte Sports Center will be your home field tonight like the Target Center."

The players nodded fiercely to Zhuang Fei, who was a little excited, they would not doubt what Zhuang Fei said now, Charlotte would definitely change flags for Zhuang Fei tonight.

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