Takemichi's tryout with the Timberwolves lasted almost a week, and it was said to be a tryout, but in fact, he was more often just visiting the team.

Aside from the daily training matches and simple team practice, Wudo has not actually been exposed to other things like the Timberwolves.

The management of the Timberwolves may be too satisfied with the conditions of the Timberwolves, and during the time that the Timberwolves are in the Timberwolves, they are more often called to chat, eat, and sightseeing in the city, or they are taken by Glenn Taylor to learn about the "team history" of the Timberwolves.

Although Martial Arts doesn't know what so-called "team history" this team without a championship and no historical legend has.

But Glenn Taylor obviously doesn't think so, the Minnesota-born Timberwolves team owner has a lot of affection for his hometown, and in the process of talking with martial arts, he always promotes the goodness of his hometown.

Even his hometown of Minnesota doesn't have much prosperity in the eyes of martial arts.

In the eyes of the martial arts, Minnesota is more like one of the industrial towns in the country that have exhausted their resources and have been once prosperous.

After the resources are exhausted, more townspeople are left with small town dwellers who are content to live.

The vast majority of people do not have great dreams, and the prosperity of the United States has little to do with the vast majority of Minnesotans.

Favorite activities here are actually hunting and ice fishing, and almost everyone in Minnesota has a treehouse for the weekend in the central or northern part of the state, either in the forest or on the edge of a lake.

Being content with the status quo and enjoying life is the state of the vast majority of people here.

After a week-long trial for Martial Arts, Glenn Taylor personally took Martial Arts to his manor for a relaxing vacation, Glenn Tyler's manor was on the banks of the Mississippi River, with beautiful scenery, and Glenn Tyler even told Takeshi that if he liked, he could come here for a vacation at any time.

For Glenn Taylor's kindness, Takeshi "shyly" expressed his refusal.

The other party's sincerity has been deeply felt during this period of play, and his impression of Glenn Taylor is not bad, this is a boss who is willing to spend money, and he is very willing to pay for the Timberwolves.

In Wu Dao's view, if Glenn Taylor does not compromise in the future and overdraws the future of his team for Garnett, it will not be so difficult to attract those outstanding players to form a strong team with the owner's financial resources and character.

It's normal for the vast majority of superstars not to want to come to Minnesota this winter at minus 50 degrees, but as long as the boss has a good personality and is willing to spend money, many people can overcome this difficulty.

For example, martial arts.

Until no other NBA team throws an olive branch to him, Takeshi is not averse to joining the Timberwolves. Even if a team in a big city invites him, if the opponent doesn't pay enough attention to it, and there is no way to give him a high rank or ensure his playing time, Wudao will not consider other places.

After these days of temptation, Glenn Taylor has somewhat understood the demands of martial arts.

Wu Dao's requirements are actually very simple, he doesn't actually have any requirements for salary at this stage, he just needs the team to give him a contract that matches his ability in the future.

What Wu Dao is most concerned about is actually his tactical position in the team, his playing time, and training conditions after entering the team in the future. After Wu Dao realized the importance that the Timberwolves attached to him, he didn't hide his request at all.

Salary aside, it is necessary to have a core tactical position, but also to ensure an average of more than 25 minutes per game, as well as an excellent team of trainers and nutritionists.

According to Budo, if he grows well after entering the NBA in the future, he even hopes that the team can build a championship team around him. Of course, this martial arts was said in a joking tone, after all, he was a high school student, and a little look into the future would not cause Glenn Taylor to be disgusted.

On the contrary, the ambition of martial arts made Glenn Taylor very happy.

In his opinion, if Wudao officially joins the Timberwolves and also shows the potential of a superstar, he will also build a championship team around Wudao without saying martial arts.

This kind of thing is not a problem at all for Glenn Taylor, who will offer a $14 million salary to Garnett in the fourth year in the future.

You know, at that time, the Timberwolves were still the team that was in the first round of the playoffs, and although Garnett played an average of 20+10 per game in the regular season, that level could not support his salary of 14 million.

O'Neal, who averaged 26+11 per game that year, was only $15 million.

For example, the elderly Olajuwon, Barkley, these top interior players are not as good as Garnett, and David Robinson is only a few hundred thousand dollars higher than Garnett.

These people have been in the NBA for so many years and have played countless games to prove their worth, and Garnett, a team leader in the first round of the playoffs, is actually not worthy of his $14 million.

The most controversial person about the shutdown that year was not O'Neal, but Garnett.

However, one yard is one yard, and Wudao still has a good impression of Glenn Taylor, who is willing to spend money. And Wu Dao can see that if this old brother sees the hope of winning the championship, he should not refuse to pay the luxury tax

Tryout plus travel, Wudao played in Minnesota for nearly half a month before stepping on the plane back.

When he returned to Oak Hill High School, he told Coach Smith about his experience. I heard that Wu Dao seamlessly connected their team's practice games during the Timberwolves tryout, and also averaged 30+ points per game in the training games.

Yes, the Timberwolves participate in the practice game every morning, and after a few days of simple run-ins with teammates, Garnett's "death entanglement" can play a relatively small role.

It is not easy to prevent a person from not receiving the ball, and it is simply impossible for Garnett to guard against the martial arts who can't catch the ball.

And in the face of martial arts who attack with the ball, people like Garnett can only be trained by the military. Although his physique and lateral movement are fast enough, once a player like Takeshi throws away, he is simply unable to resist.

In Wu Dao's view, Garnett's defense is already very good, and he can suppress his average points per game at 30+, if he is a different person, in the face of his own crazy mode, it is impossible to achieve such defensive results.

Coach Smith, who knew the news, was shocked at first, and then happily asked an acquaintance to help promote it.

Coach Smith is the coach of martial arts, and he and martial arts are a community of interests in the matter of martial arts impacting the NBA.

Of course, Coach Smith's publicity is not a loudspeaker shouting, but a more subtle way to tell others about the excellence of his players.

"Kevin Garnett, you know what?"

"That's right, it's that kid from the Timberwolves, that guy is in front of our team's martial arts, and he is the one who will be blown up!"

In the same way, Coach Smith doesn't know how many coaches he knows well, but the vast majority of people think that Smith is "funny".

Of course, there are also some coaches who are interested in martial arts and come to Oak Hill Academy to observe training and investigate, but when they see that martial arts is a yellow race, their interest immediately decreases.

And when they watched the game, most of the coaches didn't like the style of martial arts, and felt that martial arts was too unstable to play, and his data was also based on his high shooting power.

Obviously, quite a few college teams have no interest in martial arts.

Of course, there are many college teams that are interested in martial arts, and there are many tryout invitations for martial arts, but martial arts did not go to those teams for trials during the rest of the holiday.

After the Timberwolves trial, he was not in a hurry at all.

Autumn 1995.

In August, Oak Hill High School officially started the school season.

This semester, the team has also had quite a lot of training matches, after all, it is the state champion, and the number of teams that hope to practice with Oak Hill can't be counted.

Martial Arts still maintained its strong performance in these games.

In November, this year's NFHS league also officially began, and the game lasted from November to March 1996, and the third-year martial arts played an all-round stat of 42.5 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 4.5 per game, helping Oak Hill High School win the state championship for the second consecutive year.

Martial arts, which showed great dominance in Virginia's high school competitions, also gained a small reputation thanks to two consecutive championships and ESPN, and they placed the martial arts rank in second place in the national high school rankings.

As for the first place, it is Kobe Bryant.

Kobe Bryant has announced that he will participate in the NBA Draft in '96, and at the beginning of the year, Kobe Bryant also accepted the invitation of some of these teams to go to tryouts.

When talking about the trial with Wu Dao on the phone, Kobe Bryant was very happy, and some teams released kindness to him during the trial, which made Kobe very happy.

This kid also told Wu Dao unashamedly that his draft pick would definitely be higher than last year's Garnett.

Yes, Kobe Bryant knew Garnett.

After all, Garnett is also a high school student who participates in the draft, and in Kobe's heart, Garnett has already been silently marked as a guy who needs to be surpassed.

Although Wu Dao felt that Kobe Bryant was a little too optimistic, he didn't hit him.

In the 96 draft, there were a lot of outstanding players, which were not comparable to 95 at all, and in 95, the player who attracted the most attention in the NBA was not Joe Smith, the champion of the year, but Tim Duncan, who was a sophomore at the time and attracted much attention.

Last year, Tim Duncan scored 25 points against Wallace and was "crowned" by Jerry West, but it didn't work out, Tim Duncan didn't choose to end his college career, but continued his education.

Now in '96, the eyes of the vast majority of NBA teams are projected on mature college players.

For example, Keith Van Horne, who is known as the inevitable "Bird No. 2" at the University of Utah, is also in the spotlight, although at the beginning of the year he announced that he could not participate in the '96 draft due to "family problems".

So in fact, Kobe Bryant's draft prospects are not as "rosy" as he imagined.

Mid-1996.

The NBA Draft, known as the 96 Golden Generation, was officially held.

As the same martial arts remembers, this year's champion, without any accidents, was picked up by college player Aaron Iverson. The lucky one who took Iverson was none other than the Philadelphia 76ers.

96 list eye, is Marcus Camby, who was selected by the Toronto Raptors, is a 211-height forward player, this buddy has a career NBA Defensive Player of the Year, two first-defense, two-time second-defense, and four-time block king.

Although the scoring ability is not very strong, but the defensive ability is a horse, that is, there are more injuries, otherwise the career will be more brilliant.

Tanhua is Sharif Abdul Rahim, a 206cm tall power forward. After this guy was selected by the Grizzlies, he was used as a core development, and he was able to play 18.7+7 in his rookie season. In the years after that, he averaged 20+ per game every year.

But the Grizzlies, you know, aren't even eligible to go to the playoffs.

Sharif Abdul Rahim has also been injured after moving to several teams, and he has not played any dazzling results in his entire career.

The entire '96 draft. Marbury, the fourth pick, Ray Allen, the fifth pick, and Antoine Walker are all familiar figures, and when Wu Dao was paying attention to this year's draft, he also had a sense of nostalgia when he saw these familiar characters appear on TV.

Originally, he witnessed the most glorious history of these players in the NBA, and now he is witnessing them in and out of the league.

Kobe Bryant, as he has done in history, became a No. 13 pick and was drafted by the Hornets.

Seeing Kobe's "mourning" and then forced laughter on the TV, Wu Dao couldn't help but let out a hearty laugh in front of the TV.

Kobe Bryant is very angry, what kind of "hanging thing" is a wasp? Worthy of him?

After Kobe, the 15th pick also has a son of the wind, Steve Nash.

Unlike Kobe, the smile on Nash's face was obviously much more sincere.

However, as history has developed, Kobe Bryant's hat has not yet been hot, and he was traded to the Lakers.

At this time, Kobe Bryant called Wu Dao with a smile on his face and reported the fact that he successfully entered the Los Angeles Lakers in the draft.

Los Angeles Lakers!

Even in this 90s, it is a brilliant team, and this Lakers in 96 is very strong!!

The excitement of the draft obviously has nothing to do with martial arts, he is just a bystander, a high school player who dreams of entering the NBA.

After the draft, Budo returned to his own rhythm, continued his training, and played his high school game.

A year, a year later, the one standing over there may be himself!

(End of chapter)