Chapter 130: 1 thorn

The November schedule is favorable for the Celtics. After the three consecutive away seasons at the beginning of the season, most of their games will stay in their own homes. The benefits of playing at home are obvious. Familiar venues, full court support, no rushing toil, and more importantly, players can get more rest and continuous continuous training time.
This is still very important for Leon and the Celtics. This young team still needs a lot of training to produce a more abundant chemical reaction. Their performance in the first few games was excellent enough, powerful firepower, precise three-pointers, and excellent cooperation, not only helped the Celtics win the victory, but also shattered many doubts about Leon. Now Boston fans have slowly begun to accept this young, little-known new head coach.
Especially in the November 7th defeat of the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers, Leon’s rumors about the sidelines and Ko were quickly stabbed in the media. For a while, many reporters focused on this news point that could be tapped. Of course, they The goal is not Leon but Kobe.
After the 7th game, Kobe kept being asked this question by reporters, but Kobe kept avoiding it. This undoubtedly gave reporters plenty of imagination to describe the story that happened in the last few minutes of the game, including Leon's use of trash. Interfering with Kobe's offense, Leon has the ability to be an unknown prophet, and Leon uses psychological warfare to deal with Kobe, causing him to lose accuracy and so on. However, no one seems to be willing to ask another party, Leon, although he did not want to answer questions from the media. He left Boston with the team on the 8th. Head to Minnesota and start one of the few away games.
The plane arrived in Minneapolis on the afternoon of the 8th. Upon arriving at the airport, Leon felt the deep malice from Minneapolis fans towards him. In the reception hall of the airport, he saw some Timberwolves fans holding a large portrait of Leon in their hands. Draw a big cross with green paint, and write "? No-way! (Get Garnett? No way!"
When Leon passed by these few who looked like Timberwolves and Garnett fans, they unexpectedly yelled some dirty words at Leon, and then someone threw a morning at Leon. Just prepared eggs.
"Pop!" The egg did not hit Leon, but Leon smashed it in the air with a left fist. His hands were stained with eggshells and egg whites. He didn't even turn his head back, but hit the target with a punch.
"Thank you for your hospitality." Leon didn't say much nonsense, said a word to them and walked away. Celtic players are like nothing happened. Those who should listen to songs wear big earphones to listen to songs, those who should text messages play with mobile phones and send text messages. Several assistant coaches gather to discuss tomorrow's training. No one cares about Leon being harassed by a few radical fans.
After all, when the team is training, any player trying to hit Leon with a ball is a waste of time. Others include peanuts, mini golf, table tennis, etc., like peanuts, small golf, table tennis, etc. Possible tasks. Many times, without turning his head back, he would bounce these things away with his hands, and then look at the young people who want to prank like a fool.
People always have self-esteem. He was always treated like this by Leon and even by everyone as a fool, and no one could stand it. So no one would joke with Leon anymore with this kind of trick. Today the players saw these fans targeting Leon and knew that their head coach did not need protection at all. Everyone did their own things and waited to go to the hotel to rest. .
So there were only a few fanatical Timberwolves fans left in the lobby of the airport and the broken egg shells and egg whites and yolks on the ground, standing there blankly, not knowing what to do next.
"I thought they would smash me together..." After arriving on the team bus. Malik Siri sat down next to Leon and said worriedly. Ciri should have the most complicated mood among the players in the whole car. After all, he spent the peak and best time of his career in Minneapolis. He loves the fans here, the teammates here, the basketball atmosphere here, if Instead of succumbing to injuries and money, he will choose to stay here until he retires.
"You are not wrong. I want the pride of Minnesota. Everyone knows this. Those kids just love the Timberwolves and Garnett too much, I can understand." Leon said lightly, not seeming to care too much. .
Siri just nodded when he heard the words. He knew that as early as two years ago, Leon started the work of digging Garnett when he was a scout, and all this work was done in public. Whether as a scout, assistant coach or head coach, Leon has never concealed his desire to get Garnett, so much so that many people across the United States heard the name "Fox Leon" and were told
When he was the NBA head coach, people's first reaction was to connect him and Garnett.
This is undoubtedly a smart psychological warfare. The most recent person who has successfully used this tactic in history is Jerry West. Before the 1996 draft, he began to declare that he would choose Kobe and stated that Let Kobe show that he would not go anywhere except the Lakers, which directly caused many teams to dare not choose Kobe. In fact, Kobe will not belong to any team before the draft. What's more, the Lakers don’t have the right to draft, but West uses this method of "telling a lie ten thousand times to become truth" to make some timid team managers. Looking ahead, he finally got the superstar with the 13th overall pick.
Although Garnett is no longer a rookie and has the largest contract in the league, it would be an extremely difficult project to dig him. It is precisely because of this that Leon will take a multi-pronged approach and start psychological warfare early, creating a kind of "If Garnett Without the Timberwolves, you can only go to the Celtics. Although this feeling is logically absurd, it actually has a subtle impact on other teams and on Garnett himself.
Even Malik Siri asked Leon on the bus, "Would you like me to talk to Kevin and talk about my future plans to play with the Celtics?" Obviously Siri knew that he could play in the Celtics. The reason for a contract with an annual salary of 4 million is that he and Garnett have a good relationship.
"No, you can go and talk to Kevin, but don’t talk to him about any future transfers, especially to the Celtics. Remember, your topic is only focused on the past, your days in Minnesota, You have a happy life playing in the Timberwolves. As for how you are in Boston now and what will happen in the future, don’t talk about them, put them in your heart, I think you will understand what I mean.
Leon specifically told Ciri that the game will be played tomorrow. Celtic players who arrive one day early will have more than half a day of activity time. Siri will definitely meet old friends when he returns to the old place.
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On the night of the 8th, Malik Siri attended a small party in Edtown, a suburb of Minneapolis. Garnett drove him along. Since the car accident two years ago, Malik Siri Never drive by yourself again.
During the days when the Timberwolves played basketball, Xili lived with his family in an apartment in Ed Town, where he has many memories. Siri and Garnett played late. Leon specially approved Siri to stay overnight. It doesn't matter if he comes back tomorrow morning. However, Ciri decided to rush back to his Minneapolis residence overnight, so Garnett drove him back to the hotel in the early hours of the morning.
The two old friends used to work together in the Timberwolves and had a happy basketball time, but now one is in the east and the other in the west. They have a lot of topics that can be recalled and recounted. What makes Garnett feel comfortable is that Ciri didn’t say a word from beginning to end that he would come to Boston to play, nor did he say what his current situation in Boston was, what was the situation in the Celtics, just a pure chat. thing.
This allows Garnett to avoid the embarrassment of expressing his loyalty to the Timberwolves in front of the west. Although deep down he still has a longing for Boston, and he is also very curious about Leon, but his inner paranoia is still Make him want to stay in Timberwolves, even if it looks hopeless here.
Until they said goodbye at the hotel entrance, the two were still talking about some fun things in the past, but Garnett did not expect that the photos of him and Ciri had been taken by a sports paparazzi from the Star Tribune in Minneapolis.
The next day, when Garnett participated in the team training, he saw a strange look in the eyes of his teammates, and the team’s head coach Philip Sanders took Garnetra aside and showed him today’s A Star Tribune ~EbookFREE.me~ One of the pages of the page is a photo of Garnett sending Xili back to the hotel. This report is chasing after the wind, pointing out that the Celtics used an unreasonable price to sign. Going to Siri was to make him a lobbyist to convince Garnett to join the Celtics. Now Siri has used the opportunity of an away game to dig into the wall.
"Ciri never talked to me about letting me join the Celtics! We just recounted the old together, talked about the past, we talked for a long time, why these guys use a photo to speculate!" Garnet Te was obviously angry. In his heart, he felt that his loyalty and dignity had been hurt. Also hurt was his friendship with Siri.
Phyllis Sanders persuaded Garnett somehow, and said that this is just a statement from the media and does not represent the ideas of most people, let alone the ideas of the team.
However, Garnett calmed down on the surface, but a small thorn was inserted into his heart.
Of course he didn't know that this thorn was made by Fox Leon. The Star Tribune received an anonymous call that night, telling them that they would get some unexpected news materials at the hotel where the Celtics lived.
Leon's conspiracy continued. (To be continued.)