After the Timberwolves-Bulls game, the team was out of action for the next few days.

On December 31, there was only one regular season game in the league, and that was the game between the Raptors and the Wizards, and after this game, 1997, quietly passed.

It is often said that there is no time in the mountains.

But when people focus on one thing and work hard for it, they will not feel the passage of time.

Wu Dao doesn't have any "sense" yet, he is already 19 years old.

Early January 1998.

The Timberwolves arrived in Boston.

On January 2, they will play away against the Boston Celtics.

This is a team led by super-rookie Antoine Walker (6th pick in the first round in 1996), and this time last year, the Celtics were planning to make up for Tim Duncan, and Rick Pitino, who had left the NCAA's top powerhouse to coach Duncan, came here at the University of Kentucky.

But it's a pity that God doesn't favor them for the Green Army, and Rick Pitino has no mentorship with Duncan after all, and Duncan was finally selected by the Spurs.

Originally.

With the University of Kentucky's top coach Rick Pitino on board, if the Green Army can pick Duncan, then they will get the inside and outside combination of Duncan and Antoine Walker.

Rick Pitino is thrilled just thinking about what this pair can do on the court, but unfortunately he doesn't have the opportunity.

According to the established plan, the Timberwolves will check into the hotel in the morning after arriving in Boston on the 1st, and after a short break at noon, their Timberwolves players will go to the North Shore Garden Arena for training early.

But in the afternoon, after everyone in the Timberwolves had already boarded the bus to the arena, the team leader received a notice from the Celtics, meaning that they should postpone their practice for an hour, and their Celtics made an appointment to play practice games with other teams.

The Timberwolves players have already taken the bus, of course, it is impossible to return to the hotel like this, and it is only an hour delayed, which is still delayed, so after communicating with the Celtics, the Timberwolves still went to the North Shore Garden Arena as originally planned.

"It's going to play us tomorrow evening, but I didn't expect Celtic to still have a practice match with someone else today."

"We're really underestimated~"

The Timberwolves bus stopped in the parking lot, and the players stepped off the bus one after another with their bags on their backs, looking at the North Shore Garden Arena not far away, Garnett touched the back of his head and sighed softly.

Since the Timberwolves' win over the Bulls, the players' form has changed a lot. Garnett's players are obviously a lot more confident, and Wu Dao doesn't know whether this change is a good thing or a bad thing, he only hopes that such a psychological change in the players will not affect the future games.

Sometimes the enemy of a player is not the opponent, but the arrogant self.

"People value us."

"The last game the Celtics played was against the Suns on December 30 of last year."

"There was a two-day gap between the game against us."

"Like us, these two days have passed, they. I'm afraid I've been preparing for war all along. ”

"After all, playing at home, Celtic must be very serious about playing against us."

Phillip's view is very different from Garnett's, and the Celtics will still find a team to play practice games when the game is approaching, which is obviously to value their Timberwolves performance.

"Won't it?"

"Play practice matches against other teams!"

"The Celtics are an NBA-caliber team, what kind of team has a practice effect when they play practice games?"

"Unless the opponent is also an NBA-level team, otherwise, it is better to play a practice game on your own team."

"I think it's a business competition, it's normal."

NBA teams are restricted by the league if they play commercial games, but that doesn't mean they won't play in other games.

It's just that games are different from competitions, and players from some teams will also participate in some "friendly matches" in order to make some extra money. But if he wants to be "commercial" in a friendly match, he can actually be commercial.

This kind of thing, everyone actually knows it.

"If you play a practice match in such a stadium, you must have spent a lot of money on your opponent~"

Garnett looked at the arena in front of him, whistled, and said a little frivolously. And his words were also quite recognized, and several team members let out incomprehensible laughter.

"Really."

Coach Philip was persuaded by Garnett, shook his head a little speechlessly, waited for the players to get out of the car, and led the players towards the arena.

As they walked through the players' tunnel into the infield, Takemichi and Garnett heard a roar of cheers from the room.

“F**K？ There are still audiences! ”

Garnett couldn't help but scold in shock after hearing this movement. If you play with others in private, there is actually no problem, and in the name of training matches, the league does not say anything.

But if the game still sells tickets

The nature is completely different, and the NBA league will never allow such a thing to happen.

"Let's go check it out, it doesn't sound like that."

Although the cheers in the passage were enthusiastic, in the martial arts, there were only the cheers of a hundred or so people, and the scale of the cheers was somewhat different from the cheers of tens of thousands of people.

Hearing Wu Dao's words, everyone couldn't help but speed up their pace, and soon entered the infield.

In the middle of the pitch at this time, the Celtics in the green jersey were playing against a team in the white jersey.

In the corner of the stands where the players' tunnel went out, there were nearly 100 spectators, who were not scattered in all corners of the stadium stands, but only occupied a corner of the stands, which seemed to be "organized" and "disciplined".

Martial arts: They heard loud voices in the players' tunnel, simply because these spectators were sitting closer to the tunnel and were densely populated.

"Huh?"

"It really just looks like it's just a practice match."

"That team is Boston University's basketball team?"

"Uh-huh???"

The Timberwolves walked out of the aisle, and Garnett's eyes swept over the spectators on the side before focusing on the court.

The Celtics' opponents, the players in the white jerseys, were players from the Boston University basketball team, as you can tell from the logos on the jerseys of those players.

After recognizing the Boston University basketball team, Garnett was even more puzzled.

If the Celtics' opponent today was the University of Kentucky, or the Duke basketball team, he wouldn't have been as surprised as he is now.

Because the teams of the University of Kentucky and Duke University are both top schools in the NCAA, their collegiate basketball system and the NBA professional team are actually not going in the same direction, even the Celtics must take it seriously in the face of teams like Duke University and the University of Kentucky.

If you play against this kind of school, it can really have the effect of practice.

And, according to some information Garnett knows, Coach Rick Pitino, the coach of the Celtics, is himself a coach from the University of Kentucky, and it will not be difficult to use Rick Pitino's connections to ask the Celtics to play practice games with an NCAA powerhouse.

Just Boston University.

Well.

This school is quite strong in the academic field.

Although it is a private school, Boston University is well-known in journalism, biomedicine, business, and law in the United States.

But basketball is a field.

After Wu Dao heard the name Boston University from Garnett's mouth, he searched for the stars in his impression, and when he thought about it, it seemed that no NBA star player came out of Boston University.

Even at Harvard University, which focuses on academics, there seem to have been a few NBA stars, the most famous. Lin?

Boston University's basketball team also deserves to play a practice game against the Green Army, which is full of historical honors? TM stuffed money, right?

Martial Arts' eyes looked towards the field, on the Celtic side, Martial Arts except for a little impression of Walker, the others. Well? That's Bowen (Bruce Bowen, 201cm/84kg, non-draft player, 3 second defenses, 5 first defenses, "superb footwork"), right?

And Chauncey Billups, who was the third pick in the first round in 1997, who was higher than him in last year's draft

Except for these three players, none of the other team members were very impressed.

As for Boston University, Wu Dao swept away at a glance, and they were all fresh faces, but among those black and white athletes, Wu Dao suddenly saw a familiar figure, although the other party's body shape had changed slightly, but Wu Dao still recognized the other party at a glance.

It was a young man wearing the number 8 jersey with broken hair.

Of course, it wasn't the hairstyle that made Takeshi familiar, but the hair color, and his wheat-colored skin.

"Shinomiya Field?!"

"That guy is at Boston University?!"

In the middle of the court, the black-haired young man wearing the No. 8 jersey was none other than Shinomiya Fieldo, the strongest opponent he had faced when Takedo was still playing in Asia.

Lingnan High School, led by Tian Ye, was once the biggest stumbling block on their way to winning the championship in northern Xiangbei.

It wasn't until Sakuragi and Rukawa Kaede gradually grew up that Martial Arts was able to lead Xiangbei to easily overcome such an opponent.

Unexpectedly, after not seeing each other for a while, the other party has already left the neon basketball desert and come to the United States, and he is still in college here.

It's just that this guy in the field seems to be average! Didn't you get into the elite basketball school in the United States?

Spend time at a school like Boston University.

Wu Dao thought in his heart, and his eyes also fell on Tian Ye, who was wearing the No. 8 jersey in the middle of the court. After a while, he seems to have grown a little taller, and the worst thing is that this guy's figure looks more solid.

At this time, it was the offensive round of Boston University, and after several passes, the basketball came to the hands of the field, and the place where he took the ball, one step inside the three-point line.

Defending the field is Celtic's Bruce Bowen, who is 201cm tall and weighs 84kg, standing in front of Shinomiya Field, and his stature is obviously two sizes smaller.

Yes, you read that right, it's not number one, it's number two.

This strong body contrast is like the body comparison between Yao Ming and Wembanyama when they were athletes, and the physical gap is too big.

Today's Sinomiya Field is 202cm tall, but his weight has come to 126kg

Of course, there is no way for Martial Arts to judge the weight of the field today by visual inspection, but don't forget, it is a man with a "hanging", and it should not be wrong if it is directly displayed on the system panel.

And

Wu Dao looked at Tian Ye's arm circumference the size of Bowen's head, and fell into silence for a while.

"What kind of monster is this?"

"I thought this guy was a low-profile James, but it turned out that this guy was a high-profile fat tiger?!"

In the middle of the court, the big hand of the field grabbed the basketball in his hand like a chicken, and with a slight pinch, Wu Dao could even clearly see that the basketball was deformed.

I saw Tian Ye holding the ball with both hands and sweeping the ball frame, and while sweeping the ball, his shoulder "gently" rubbed against Bowen, who was close to the defense, and directly took Bowen a step back.

In the next moment, Tian Ye directly exploded the ball and started, and the moment the basketball landed, his biceps directly bulged and hit Bowen's body, and the huge force directly lifted Bowen away, and after quickly getting rid of Bowen, Tian Ye quickly took the ball to the basket.

However, a strange scene happened.

The Celtics' white center Andrew De Klerk (208cm/104kg, fifth pick in the second round in 1995) didn't mean to step forward to make up for the defense at all, but ran away from the basket in a puff of smoke.

Take the initiative to put the gap under the basket to the opponent.

Tian Ye took a step in front of the free throw line and jumped up, but he didn't see how he exerted his strength, his solid body soared directly into the air, and then grabbed the ball with both hands and smashed the ball into the basket.

"Oh-"

The moment the slam dunk was scored, the young people watching the game in the stands cheered, and the scoreboard on the court also jumped, and the score came to 27:41, even after the goal, Boston University was still 14 points behind.

But the young people watching the game on the sidelines didn't seem to care about how much the score lost, and they cheered happily when they saw the field dunk.

These spectators are actually Boston University students, and you think they came to see the Boston University basketball team play against the Celtics?

Thinking too much, people are fans and top students, even if it is not in the field of basketball, they know that Boston University cannot be the opponent of the Celtics.

They came to the arena to see the field abusing NBA players.

What happened to the NBA? They also need to get used to the intensity of their aces.

“？？？”

On the side of the court, Garnett and the others saw that Tian Ye's stocky body passed the opponent in one step, and he could jump in front of the free throw line with both hands, and their faces showed an inexplicable look.

When Garnett asks them a question mark, it's not that they have a problem, it's that they think you have a problem.

The biggest problem at the moment is the white No. 8 in the field.

"Holy Shit!!"

"What kind of monster is that?!"

Even Coach Philip was shocked and couldn't help but burst into foul language.

(End of chapter)