Chapter 464 The Wolf King is on the Shelves

The preseason training camp is going on normally.

Single training, confrontation, media day.

Especially on Media Day, the Pacers announced plans for the new season.

Defending the title is naturally the primary goal, and Rick Claire also revealed the news that confirmed one night: "We will retire Reggie Miller's No. 31 jersey at home opener."

The Pacers are the defending champions. They play at home, raise flags, and send rings at the opening game. With the retired Miller jersey, they are considered to be double happiness.

In fact, in terms of Miller's contribution to the Pacers, not retiring his jersey immediately last season has made many fans very dissatisfied. Even if the Pacers official explanation is useless.

1 The official explanation here is that I forgot as I wrote it. Well, I am guilty. I couldn't think of the official explanation in the book for a long time to explain how to reasonably explain the Pacers didn't retire Miller's jersey as soon as possible. Please give me some advice.

This is great news. Miller has played for the Pacers for many years. His jersey, which did not retire last year, has been roughly translated by Pacers fans through vulgar words. If he does not retire this quarter, the only reasonable explanation is that he has a conflict with the team.

Claire confirmed the news, and Pacers fans were excited and looked forward to the opening match.

The season has not started yet, and I haven't even played a regular season game, but there is a strong smell of gunpowder between the teams.

Few champion teams do not retreat after winning the championship.

The difficulty of defending the title lies in this. Your desire for a championship has faded, and your overall strength has declined. In order to build on you, other teams are the difficulty of defending the title.

Since winning the championship in 2004, the Pacers seem to have maintained a high level. Their stability is inseparable from Xie Hou's continuous progress.

This summer, there are no big fish in the market, so there is no super team that will influence the league structure.

But from Minnesota in the West, Kevin Garnett showed dissatisfaction with the team's situation.

In fact, just this offseason, the Timberwolves had discussed the possibility of trading Garnett with other teams.

What a character Garnett? As long as you don't expect him to "give me the ball and I'll take you home" at critical moments like Jordans, you can expect him to do anything on the court.

The first person to show covet Garnett was the Celtics in the East.

The Celtics have considerable advantages in recruiting Garnett.

The general managers of the two teams, Danny Angie and Kevin McHale, were friends who worked together when they were young. They had no friendship in the mall, but the Celtics were located in the east and could not threaten the Timberwolves. There was no grudge between the two teams. As long as the price was right, McHale was willing to be a beauty of adulthood.

However, the content of the conversation between the Timberwolves and the Celtics was exposed by the media. The person who was most excited about the reaction was not others, but Garnett, who couldn't live up to his life and didn't want to add some green to himself.

Garnett put his loyalty to the Timberwolves and the team and the boss on the table: "I love Minnesota so much and I'm willing to give my all to the city!"

After learning that Angie and McHale were about to trade themselves to the haunted place in Boston, he spoke through his agent: "kg will not go to Boston. If the transaction is completed, he will jump out of the contract after a season and will never renew the contract with the Celtics."

With God's perspective, we can find similar things from some later players.

For example, before applying for a deal, George and Wei Zimei said, "If I don't send me to las, I won't renew my contract with the next company."

Even Cousins ​​had threatened such a threat before his Achilles tendon (before leaving the Kings) those teams that covet him, "Who dares to trade? I will definitely not renew your contract with you after a free agent next year."

Cousins ​​had a magical brain circuit, no one knew what he was thinking, and Garnett might have initially been for loyalty and, a little bit of control.

Moreover, the Celtics core Pierce led Green Kaihao to 18 consecutive losses last season, ranking at the bottom of the Eastern Conference with 24 wins. Let's take a look at their list: except for Pierce who averaged 18 shots and scored 25 points and 3.2 turnovers per game, this team is almost all under 25 years old. West looks bad, the short and fat guy who likes to circle around the basket, what the hell is that red-haired guy, there is also a short poker with no neck, and a thin defender who can't even make a layup in the inside, and a thin defender who only knows how to pass the ball likes to play four-piece chess.

Wow, there is actually Ratliff, who has not yet retired, and the residue from the last century!

Michael Olovokandi...Isn't this a good thing that has just been out of me for less than two years?

Well, so, this team is old, weak, sick and disabled, all. Why are there any disabled people? There is a person with 9 fingers playing basketball.

His agent's statement "I'm definitely not going to Boston" left Angie and McHale dead in the womb. Of course, Garnett might not have thought about anything. He just wanted to tell Minnesota fans that he never thought about leaving here, just like Howard/James/Irving/Davis/future Zion in another time and space tells fans to live their lives on the team.

So, why did Garnett choose to stay for loyalty before, but now he is in a bad mood?

It's still a matter of money.

The attitude of the boss Taylor made him feel desperate. People around Garnett revealed that he had a cordial exchange with his boss, and the boss's spirit of speech was about this: "Hey, kg? We are not going to renew your contract with you now because I am not willing to give you a hundred million dollars. We will not continue to strengthen, we are not going to do anything... We just want to reduce our salary and rebuild. What do you think?"

Judging from this sentence, maybe he didn't want to leave Garnett anymore at that time, so he said such a statement like a young employee who was determined to resign, holding on to "Fuck me, I'm going to quit anyway, I won't bear with you anymore"?

But the problem is, I am the boss, what is this operation?

No matter what Taylor said in what he said, Garnett sounded like that at that time. For him, this is the reward for him after he stayed in the Timberwolves for 11 years (the best 11 years of his career). Isn’t the boss’s conscience hurt?

It sounds incredible because no team will use this method to deal with their own stars.

There are many things in the league that look like Indian news. It sounds like jokes. If you look carefully, it’s really true.

Garnett did not reveal the conversation with his boss, he only felt that the words were like a heavy punch in the face.

Therefore, he could no longer bear it, expressed his dissatisfaction, and revealed his idea of ​​being traded.

Especially when he saw Xie Hou, who was competing with him for MVP a few years ago, now he has MVP and has both champions, and has led the team to continue to rank at the top of the league. It is also a small city, why can he do it?

Garnett's desire to be traded was heard from the Timberwolves.

For him, it would be fine if he went to the Celtics at this time. After all, it was about dignity, a feeling of being betrayed, and a sense of powerlessness of loyalty and being trampled on. Garnett was to the Timberwolves, just as Yao Xun was to the Red Team, and he said to the reporter: "It was me who helped these stinky girls increase the market value of Timberwolves by 80 million to 400 million!"

In this regard, the Timberwolves' once priceless treasure, the superstar who helped the team achieve ascension, began the countdown to leave the team.

The trading market has not yet opened, but this does not prevent people from exploring each other.

Garnett may not be able to make those bad teams immediately a champion team, but he can at least give them the ability to enter the playoffs.

Winning the championship is never a matter of one person.

Garnett is one of the best inside cornerstones, so even the Pacers who are stable in line and don’t need Garnett so much, have made McHale’s phone call.

Bird and McHale were teammates who fought side by side like Angie, but their relationship was not very good.

Things turned bad when McHale proposed to exchange Sherhou and Garnett for one.

It’s not that there is no need to talk about it, but that there is no need to talk about it again. People have no sincerity to talk to you about a deal, so why bother with a warm face?

The Timberwolves placing Garnett on a tradable list, and the league flocked.

Celtics, Bulls, Cavaliers, Suns, Lakers... only two teams gave up and never had any idea about Garnett.

One is the Pacers who ended at the beginning, and the other is the Spurs.

Other teams start quotations from you and me.

Then, the offer proposed by Isaiah Thomas, the trading partner that all traders want to meet the most set a standard for this fierce competition.

The Knicks made the offer like this: Banyani, Randolph and 2 first-round picks.

Under normal circumstances, no one would agree to this offer.

This offer is OK, but not enough.

The Timberwolves will not accept this offer, but they can use this offer as a way-stone. Teams that are lower than this offer should not join in the fun.

Before the trading market opened, the phone number from the Timberwolves manager's office was blown up.

Old teammates are making friends, big cities are making ruthless prices, and some teams are losing money, but the Timberwolves don't like it.

The Pacers held a preseason training camp as planned for one month. During this period, Bird only asked about Garnett's market conditions. He heard that the Timberwolves wanted to thank him, so they ended without even revealing their intention to trade.

On October 15, the Pacers ended the preseason training camp, and the players will go home for the time being, rest for a day and concentrate again. They will go to Las Vegas to play the preseason.

The war for Garnett has begun. No matter which team gets Garnett, it will become a strong team.
Chapter completed!