The conversation with Thibodeau greatly satisfied Zheng Ke, and similarly, Thibodeau also greatly admired Zheng Ke, who is faintly known as the first small forward in the legend, although the two met for the first time, they chatted for most of the day like old friends who had not seen each other for many years, until McHale reminded him that it was time for dinner, and the two stopped this unfinished exchange.

"I'm the east, I must invite our new handsome!" Zheng Ke was very happy, and the local tyrant was angry, "Tom, the restaurants here are very good, you can choose whichever one you want!" ”

"Let's go, take a good look at this guy who is worth tens of millions." McHale was very keen on fighting local tyrants.

Zheng Ke touched his nose, 10 million? I don't know how many assets Lu Dao has now, but the market value of Kongcheng Entertainment Company is probably more than 10 million, and the wealth that Taylor and himself have created together is an astonishing number.

In the restaurant, McHale and Thibodeau exchanged ideas on the future development of the Timberwolves, and also had preliminary ideas for the summer reinforcements and trades, the Timberwolves are currently a 12-man roster, but there is still some room for hard salary space, after all, the Timberwolves are basically full of players with rookie contracts, and only Zheng Ke and Billups have salaries of more than 10 million. The Timberwolves boss is afraid that Zheng Ke will be dissatisfied with the Timberwolves, and he has always claimed that he is willing to pay a certain luxury tax for the Timberwolves, which makes McHale's operation space and flexibility very large.

As for Pekovic, Zheng Ke himself thinks that this guy still has great potential, at least the tonnage and strength are there, even if he can't become the Dinghai Divine Needle as Thibodeau said. Being a super meat shield is more than enough, so Zheng Ke does not support a hands-on trade with Pekovic, and he hopes that McHale and Thibodeau will think about it. Give him a little time to grow, and give the Timberwolves a little time to grow.

The next day, ESPN sources said that the Timberwolves had finalized the coach for next season and had preliminarily agreed on a contract and other matters.

As soon as this news came out, it couldn't help but attract the attention of a large number of Timberwolves fans.

"Tom Thibodeau?"

"Who is this? Haven't heard of it? ”

Most fans are unfamiliar with this name. It wasn't until the Timberwolves officially announced the news that people checked the online information and found out who it was.

"An assistant coach for 18 years? Will this work? ”

"Whitman can't even control Zheng Ke. Can this obscure Tom Thibodeau work well with Zheng Ke? ”

"Regardless of ability, as long as we can handle the Timberwolves' locker room relationship, I think we can make a big difference next season."

Unknowingly, Zheng Ke turned into a ball-like image. Although this does not prevent his fans from liking him as always. But it also made Zheng Ke, who saw these doubts, cry and laugh.

Unexpectedly, when Thibodeau appeared at the press conference, Zheng Ke and McHale attended in person.

It's a great feat, and it's rare for an NBA star to appear at a new coach's press conference, let alone Zheng Ke coming to support Thibodeau.

As soon as Zheng Ke came, the attention of the reporters at the press conference was immediately focused on him.

"Mr. Zheng, I heard that you have already had dinner with the new coach of the team, can you tell us what you think?"

Zheng Ke sneered when he heard this. said: "This is true. I went to a restaurant with Kevin and Tom for dinner. I have a lot of admiration for Coach Tom. He's a man with dreams, ideas and ability and I'm looking forward to working with him in the new season." ”

"Can you talk about the changes that the new coach will bring? What are the prospects for the new season? ”

Most of the people who came to the on-site press conference today were local Minnesota reporters, because most of the media had not heard that Zheng Ke was also going to attend, so when Zheng Ke appeared, the questions of this group of local reporters were still not sharp, Zheng Ke only thought about it for a moment, and then blurted out.

"Coach Tom has a lot of expertise in tuning defense, and I think the Timberwolves will go from being a defensive counter-attacking team that is good at fast break-up to a more balanced team on offense and defense. To be honest, I don't really have much to look forward to the number of wins in the new season, because I haven't thought about it at all. But I think it should be a little higher than last season! ”

"Wow~"

The audience was in an uproar, although Zheng Ke said this sentence very blandly, but in the ears of reporters, it was tantamount to a thunderbolt. How many wins did the Timberwolves win last season? 57 games! This is already the third win in the league, if the Timberwolves have improved one or two more this season, then it will be nearly 60 games, or more than 60 wins, this winning rate is too exaggerated, if the Timberwolves can reach the absolute first record in the league.

All the reporters recorded in their notebooks - Zheng Kefang said proudly, the new season is aiming for 60 wins!

Zheng Ke attended Thibodeau's inauguration press conference, supporting the new coach while aiming for 60 wins, which immediately made headlines in USA Today, the NBA Finals came to an end, and the World Cup was in full swing, such news immediately swept the basketball world and even the sports world.

But it didn't take long for Zheng Ke's limelight to be overshadowed by one person.

LeBron James!

On July 8, James announced on ESPN's TV station that he would join the Heat and form the Miami Big Three with "Dragon King" Bosh and "Flash" Wade!

This is bombshell news. If Bosh's joining the Heat on July 6 was a bomb explosion, James' joining the Heat was a nuclear bomb explosion in the basketball world. The magnitude of the influence, the light of the scope, and the depth of the magnitude are staggering, and countless reporters flock to Cleveland and to Miami.

Cavaliers fans are the saddest, their proud Son of Heaven personally announced on TV that he was leaving them, just like a child he grew up watching suddenly say that he was going to someone else's house to pass someone else's step. But they couldn't keep the Emperor anymore, even if they ran out of gasoline, even if they burned the number 23 jersey.

The aftermath of the Celtics' triumvirate winning the championship was exposed, and the league set off a wave of giants, and everyone wanted to build a supership in one step by joining forces with three powerful superstars.

Zheng Ke was not surprised by James's departure, but he was a little scoffed at James' practice of giving up the No. 23 jersey and calling on the whole league to retire the No. 23 jersey.

How is this possible?

Like the Trail Blazers, like the Jazz, they lost the championship because of Jordan, where is the reason to retire the enemy's jersey.

And he himself has never thought about changing the jersey, what he thinks about is to carry forward his No. 17 jersey, and it is best to become a symbol of the NBA, just like the first to think of Jordan when talking about No. 23, and the first to think of Kobe Bryant when talking about No. 24, he also wants future generations to always remember that the representative of No. 17 is him.

Anyway, Zheng Ke made up his mind to use No. 17 for the rest of his life, in exchange for it, why bother.

"The Celtics re-signed Pierce, the Celtics re-signed Ray Allen, Guy re-signed the Grizzlies with the highest salary, Durant re-signed the Thunder with the highest salary, the Suns re-signed Channing Frye for 5 years, Boozer signed with the Bulls, and the Hawks signed Joe Johnson Tsk, what day is this July 9th, so many people sign big contracts?"

Zheng Ke took yesterday's newspaper and looked at it with relish, and he found that there were a lot of people who signed NBA contracts yesterday.

"Oops!" Zheng Ke patted his head, suddenly remembered, and said with a smile: "Isn't it yesterday that this NBA free agent was officially signed, no wonder they are all squeezed into signing on this day, it is estimated that they were all negotiated in advance, waiting for the signature." ”

These days are the hottest time for the free market, and all kinds of fat contracts are flying all over the sky. Some people make money, some people lose money, some people just find their next job, and some people can cause an earthquake.

"I'm still reading the newspaper, hurry up, be careful that you don't have time to get to the airport." Taylor spun down the stairs, wearing a huge pair of sunglasses on his little head, lugging a small suitcase, and wearing a simple white short-sleeved T-shirt; The lower body is a pair of denim hot pants, revealing two white and slender legs; Wearing athletic Adi casual shoes on her feet, she looks young and beautiful, not like a woman who has given birth.

Zheng Ke turned his head to look, and his eyes lit up, he threw away the newspaper and ran over to pick up Taylor's suitcase.

"We're just putting little Taylor in your parents? Oh my God, I feel so irresponsible, I feel so guilty. Zheng Kelu said with some concern.

"That's no way, he's still young, and it's too hurtful to fly for a long time, and I can't bear to put him with my parents." Taylor pouted, a little unhappy.

"It's okay, just leave it there. Your parents' farm is very good, quiet and eco-friendly, much better than staying in the city. Zheng Ke saw that Taylor was unhappy and comforted her in turn.

"Alas, trouble, this time it's two months again, one month of intensive training, one month of competition." Zheng Ke counted the days with his fingers, "It's mid-September when I come back from the World Championships, and it's training time for the Timberwolves. ”

"Ha Luha, you also frowned, I thought you had an iron body!" Taylor clapped his hands and smiled, and it was also an extremely happy thing to see Zheng Ke depressed.

"Wow, I'm starting to play again when I get out of the gate! I know that I can't punish you with family law, right? Zheng Ke laughed.

"Phew! Dirty! Taylor's face turned red, his eyes were erratic, obviously he "hated" Zheng Ke's family law very much, pursed his lips and stopped talking.

On July 10, Zheng Ke and Taylor took a flight from Minneapolis to Beijing. (To be continued......)