Recently, the NBA has been the most lively in addition to the Lakers' infighting incident not long ago, is the Timberwolves' interaction with Paul Allen before the game with the Trail Blazers, everyone knows that Zhuang Fei and Paul Allen did not have any intersection before this, and it can even be said that the two do not know each other at all, but just overnight, the two seem to have become the closest friends, hugging each other before the game, and after the game, Mark Allen, the owner of the Trailblazers who lost the game, did not do anything because of the loss, but praised Zhuang Fei at all, even Zhuang Fei, who has always been extremely venomous, has changed his poisonous tongue and admires Paul Allen very much.

Who is Zhuang Fei? That's one of the most watched head coaches in the NBA right now, and has been rumored with the Lakers recently, and now it's on the Trail Blazers, it's obvious that Zhuang Fei and Paul Allen definitely have some secret stuff from the current point of view, and the media should have reported the outcome of the game after this game, but now it's okay. It has completely become a big investigation of Zhuang Fei's whereabouts.

"It has been confirmed: Zhuang Fei will go to the Trail Blazers after the end of this season"

"Zhuang Fei is tired of the life of the Timberwolves, he needs a different environment"

"McHale and Zhuang Fei are full of contradictions, Zhuang Fei will leave the Timberwolves"

"Lakers owner Buss has started contacting Coach Z, maybe within a week there will be a law"

"Paul Allen Says: Coach Z Will Take the Helm of the Trail Blazers a Little Time"

Zhuang Fei has issued a news silence within the team since the team entered the playoffs, not only restricting the introduction and access of Timberwolves players, but also restricting Timberwolves players from trying not to pay attention to outside news, but even so, this recent hyped news still affected the Timberwolves players, and the second day after returning to Minnesota, the team practiced. Obviously, the Timberwolves players are a little absent-minded, if the scandal between Zhuang Fei and the Lakers last season was just groundless, then now. Zhuang Fei and Paul Allen came directly in front of them, originally they didn't know that the one who hugged Zhuang Fei was the owner of the Trail Blazers, but after seeing the news the next day, these young players of the Timberwolves were a little complicated. When Zhuang Fei came to the team's training gym the next day, he found that something was wrong with the Timberwolves players. It wasn't until Zhuang Fei explained to these players for a long time that they let go of this matter, and for the NBA, the players were too affected by the outside world.

"Zhuang, I heard that you recently found an agent? And used to be Paul Allen's secretary."

Just when Zhuang Fei returned to his office after solving this matter and continued to drink coffee and read the newspaper, Timberwolves boss Glenn Taylor came in with a smile on his face.

"Mr. Glenn, you don't need to say it, I know the purpose of your coming, I have no intention of leaving the Timberwolves, you don't have to doubt the authenticity of my words" Zhuang Fei glanced up at the boss lightly and continued to look down at the newspaper.

"Huh. I know, I have other things to discuss with you besides this" Glenn Taylor was also a little embarrassed, he was really going to open his mouth like this just now, but when he saw Zhuang Fei like this, he didn't ask again, this time in addition to the question of determining Zhuang Fei's stay. He also needs to discuss the team's future strategy with Zhuang Fei. Next season, the NBA will begin to implement a new collective bargaining agreement, and for the Timberwolves, many things must be resolved before the playoffs, the most important of which is naturally about the contract extension of the 1998 rookie team, the Timberwolves have Pierce, Mobley, Jackson. Lewis's four rookies in the 1998 world will have to prepare for contract extensions with these four after the end of the season. If it was placed last season, Glenn Taylor would not have vented to Zhuang Fei about this matter at all, when the Timberwolves entered the playoffs last season, Glenn Taylor was excited and made a big promise to Zhuang Fei that Zhuang Fei only needs to see what player he wants, and he will pay for everything, but now Glenn Taylor really regrets it, you must know that last season he didn't know that the league would make a luxury tax system in the future, if there was no luxury tax, he could really meet the promise given to Zhuang Fei, but this luxury tax system came, Glenn Taylor was in a dilemma. …,

"Oh, what else is there to do with Mr. Glenn" Zhuang Fei put down the newspaper and looked at Glenn Taylor with a puzzled expression, and Glenn Taylor cleared his throat a little

looked at Zhuang Fei cautiously and said, "Zhuang, now we can prepare for the renewal of the 1998 rookie."

"Renewing the contract?" Zhuang Fei looked at Glenn Taylor and frowned, and then said with a calm face: "What do you think and ask Mr. Glenn?"

On the issue of contract renewal, Zhuang Fei also knows, in the NBA, the owner generally does not participate in the renewal of the player's contract, the renewal of the team's players is generally discussed by the general manager and the head coach, and the boss will only put forward a long-term goal for the salary range, for example, the current owner generally has only two requirements, one is to require the team's salary to be controlled below a certain number, just like the previous Timberwolves, Glenn Taylor has a range, within this range, McHale can play whatever he wants, There is also a requirement that there is no salary requirement, only a merit requirement, such as teams such as the Lakers and the Knicks, as long as the results are good, there is no limit to the salary space.

"Personally, I hope to renew Pierce's contract anyway, and then keep the other three if conditions allow" Glenn Taylor kept observing Zhuang Fei's face after speaking, but Zhuang Fei's face didn't seem to change. It was also a relief to Glenn Taylor.

"I don't know what the conditions allowed by the boss" Zhuang Fei's tone was still not salty, which also made Glenn Taylor, who had just put his mind at ease, hang his heart again.

"Well, I hope the team can not exceed the luxury tax bottom line" It took a long time for Glenn Taylor to say his request, but in an instant he felt that Zhuang Fei's face became ugly, and then the big boss of the Timberwolves hurriedly explained.

"Zhuang, I know I made a promise to you before, but I didn't know that the damn alliance was going to get the luxury tax thing last summer. Zhuang, I really can't afford to pay the high luxury tax now, but I can guarantee it. As long as the team can make money in the future, I will relax the salary limit"

"Hehe, increase investment after making money?" Zhuang Fei looked at the sweaty Glenn Taylor and shook his head with a wry smile, and after Zhuang Fei said this, a trace of embarrassment appeared on Glenn Taylor's face.

"Hmm. I know what to do, if Mr. Glenn has nothing else to do, I still have something to do" Zhuang Fei said lightly again, and directly gave the order to send off the guest. Seeing this, Glenn Taylor could only leave in a huff.

Zhuang Fei has the right to sign and renew the contract of the team, and on July 1, the renewal will be officially launched, according to Zhuang Fei's previous style of big-money, there will definitely be a lot of high-priced contracts, Glenn Taylor is really afraid that Zhuang Fei will be big-hearted, and now to ventilate to Zhuang Fei, it is just right in time, and the Timberwolves are too good this year. The outside world has always believed that the Timberwolves will be the championship favorite, if the Timberwolves win this year's championship, Glenn Taylor can no longer say to Zhuang Fei to reduce his salary, which will also greatly damage his reputation, there has been such an iron law in the NBA: no owner will lose the championship for money. If Glenn Taylor did do such a thing, he would have been spurned like the current Bulls boss. It would turn him from a hero in Minnesota to a sinner, which was definitely not what he wanted.

"Hehe, I want to set up an archway after I do it" Zhuang Fei looked at Glenn Taylor's back and felt a burst of contempt, the Timberwolves earned more than 20 million last season, and this owner actually said that he would only consider paying luxury tax for Zhuang Fei when he made more money in the future, the Timberwolves are not a big city. Even if there are Zhuang Fei and Wang Zhizhi and many All-Stars, the Timberwolves can't make too much money a year, in Zhuang Fei's view, even if the team exceeds the luxury tax trigger bottom line of 10 million, the owner doesn't need to pay a penny by himself, the team itself can be self-sufficient, but the owner obviously hopes to turn the team's money into his own private property. …,

"Hmph, don't you promote the luxury tax floor?" Zhuang Fei snorted coldly in his heart, according to the current salary cap of the league, the bottom line of the luxury tax trigger in 2001 was about 50 million, and now Garnett is 20 million, Nash is 5 million, O'Neal Jr. is 6 million, and the Timberwolves account for 31 million, and according to the 6-year 70 million contract signed by Kobe Bryant and the Lakers last summer, if Pierce does not renew his contract with the Timberwolves, at least he can get a contract of more than 12 million in other teams, and Glenn Taylor will definitely keep PierceIn this way, at least Pierce must be given a contract of 10 million, so that Garnett, Nash, Pierce and O'Neal Jr. will occupy 41 million space, and the other Timberwolves players will only have 9 million left, for Zhuang Fei, these four people must stay, so the 41 million Zhuang Fei must also pay, but Zhuang Fei knows that for Glenn Taylor, Wang Zhizhi must also stay, so Zhuang Fei must also prepare a minimum contract of 5 million for Wang Zhizhi, In this way, Zhuang Fei's chips are actually less than 4 million, and these four million Zhuang Fei must be used for the renewal of Lewis, Mobley, Jackson and even Ginobili, Bruce Bowen and others.

This is an impossible task, and now Glenn Taylor's meaning is obvious, that is, I hope that Zhuang Fei can get some low-cost substitutes from the free market as before, isn't Zhuang Fei doing a good job in the past two seasons, if Zhuang Fei is really unwilling to do this, he can also choose to trade O'Neal Jr., so that Wang Zhizhi can be completely corrected, which is also what Glenn Taylor wants.

"Hehe, it seems really right, in the NBA, money is not everything, no money is everything" Zhuang Fei finally sighed with a wry smile, Glenn Taylor does not withdraw money from the club, he is fully able to use the team's profits to pay the luxury tax, as long as the Timberwolves can have another 10 million space Zhuang Fei can keep the players he wants. Now it's only 4 million, and it's not enough for Mobley to make money in a row. Now Mobley, the best sixth man, is at least 4.5 million or more. Glenn Taylor forced Zhuang Fei to dismiss the team directly, and then rebuild directly after leaving the core players.

"It would be nice if Garnett's contract was a little smaller, damn Glenn Taylor, he opened the contract indiscriminately and now let me bear the consequences" Zhuang Fei could only curse the opportunist boss helplessly at this time...... On the 14th of the month, Minnesota reached the target center, this is the fifth game between the Timberwolves and the Trail Blazers, the first four games of the Timberwolves have led 3-1, for the Timberwolves to win this game is to be able to qualify, and now all media experts in the United States believe that the Timberwolves will definitely have no problem in this home battle, and it can be said that the Timberwolves can easily advance in this game. Because the Trailblazers now have no way to deal with the Timberwolves' three-inside formation, as long as Zhuang Fei insists on using this tactic, the Timberwolves can play normally.

In fact, this game is as everyone expected, the Timberwolves did win very easily, but this game is not as everyone estimated before the game Zhuang Fei will use the 'inverted triangle offense' to crush the Trail Blazers, this game Zhuang Fei gave up the first four games of the positional offense and big ball tactics, but sacrificed the same small ball tactics as last season, the lineup is exactly the same as the Timberwolves last season, center: Garnett, big forward Lewis, small forward Pierce, scoring guard Jackson, organizational guard Nash. According to Zhuang Fei's explanation of the Timberwolves players in the locker room.

"We fell in the Western Conference Finals last season, and this season we still use the same tactics and the same lineup to get to the Western Conference Finals, and then show everyone that we are different from last year and that we are determined to surpass last year's results."

Obviously, Trail Blazers head coach Dunleavy was a little caught off guard by this change between Zhuang Fei and the Timberwolves, they didn't expect Zhuang Fei to be like this suddenly, which made the Timberwolves run crazy at the beginning, especially Rashad Lewis, the Timberwolves forward played the playoffs for the first time this season, it can be said that he has been holding back for a long time now, he thinks he has improved a lot, and recently he also feels that he can't play his full strength in the bench lineup, Zhuang Fei's change of formation made him extremely excited in this game.

The Timberwolves ran frantically, and Dunleavy was going to use the delay tactic to delay the speed of the Timberwolves, but found that there was no delay at all, and the Timberwolves who removed O'Neal Jr. were even faster, and they were also very tacit, without a sense of jerkiness, although the defense of the Timberwolves' lineup was very poor, but the Trail Blazers finally found that they still failed to score more points than the Timberwolves. The final result of this game was 122-107, and the Timberwolves won again, also eliminating the Trail Blazers by a score of 4-1.

The Timberwolves are once again the first team to advance to the third round. rq