The Whip of the God of Basketball

The November schedule favors the Celtics, who will be playing most of their games at home after a three-game start to the season. The advantages of playing at home are obvious. Familiar venues, support from the audience, no rush and hard work, and more importantly, players can get more adequate rest and continuous training time.

This is still very important to Leon and the Celtics. This young team still needs a lot of training and running-in to produce a more vigorous chemical reaction. Their performance in the first few games was good enough, strong 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, unknown new head coach.

Especially in the game against the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers on November 7, the rumors that Leon was on the sidelines and Kobe were very competitive were quickly spread to the media. For a while, many reporters focused on this piece of news that could be tapped. Of course they The target is not Leon but Kobe.

Kobe was constantly asked this question by reporters after the 7th game, but Kobe has been avoiding talking about it. This undoubtedly gave reporters enough imagination to describe the story that happened in the last few minutes of that game, including Leon's use of trash talk Interfering with Kobe's offense, Leon has the ability to predict the prophet, Leon used psychological warfare to deal with Kobe and caused him to be inaccurate and so on. But no one seems to be willing to ask Leon, another client. Although he didn't want to answer the media's questions, he left Boston with the team on the 8th and went to Minnesota to start one of the few away games .

The plane arrived in Minneapolis on the afternoon of the 8th. As soon as he arrived at the airport, Leon felt the deep malice from the Minneapolis fans towards him. In the reception hall of the airport, he saw some Timberwolves fans holding up a large portrait card of Leon, drawing a big cross with green paint, and writing "Garnett? No-way!" Garnett? No way!"

When Leon passed by these few fans who seemed to be die-hard fans of Timberwolves and Garnett, it was no surprise that they yelled at Leon with their painted cards and said some dirty words, and then someone threw a morning call at Leon. Just ready eggs.

"Crack!" The egg didn't hit Leon, but was smashed into the air by Leon's left fist. Some eggshells and egg whites were stained on his hands. He didn't turn his head, but he hit the target with his punch.

"Thank you for your hospitality." Leon didn't say much nonsense, and walked away after saying something to them. The Celtics players acted as if nothing had happened. Those who should listen to music were listening to music with big headphones, and those who should be texting were texting on their mobile phones. Several assistant coaches gathered together to discuss tomorrow's training. Nothing happened at all. People are concerned about Leon being harassed by several aggressive fans.

After all, it is a waste of time for any player to try to hit Leon with a ball during team training. Others include throwing peanuts, small golf balls, table tennis balls, etc. at Leon to tease him. possible tasks. Most of the time, without turning his head, he would flick these things away with his hands, and then look at the young people who want to play pranks like idiots.

People always have self-esteem, and they are always treated like a fool by Leon and even everyone, and no one can stand it. So no one joked with Leon with this kind of trick anymore. Today, the players saw these fans targeting Leon and knew that their head coach didn’t need protection at all. Everyone was doing their own things, and they were waiting to go to the hotel to rest. .

So in the lobby of the airport, there were only a few fanatical Timberwolves fans 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 too..." After arriving on the team bus, Malik Siri said worriedly as he sat next to Leon. Sealy should be the one with the most complicated emotions among the players in the car. After all, he spent the best and best time of his career in Minneapolis. He loves the fans, teammates, and basketball atmosphere here. Instead of succumbing to injuries and money, he will choose to stay here until he retires.

"You are not wrong. I want to be proud of Minnesota. Everyone knows this. Those kids just love the Timberwolves and Garnett too much. I can understand." Leon said lightly, and he didn't seem 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 the work was done in public. Whether as a scout, assistant coach or head coach, Leon has never hidden his desire to get Garnett, so much so that many people in the United States heard the name "Fox Leon" and were told

When he was an NBA head coach, people's first reaction was to associate him with Garnett for everything.

This is undoubtedly a clever 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 showed that Let Kobe show that he will not go anywhere except the Lakers, which directly caused many teams to dare not choose Kobe. In fact, Kobe would not belong to any team before the draft, not to mention that the Lakers did not have a draft pick, but West used this method of "telling a lie ten thousand times and it becomes the truth" to make some timid team managers After a while, the supernova was finally traded with the 13th overall pick.

Although Garnett is no longer a rookie and has the largest contract in the league, digging him will be an extremely difficult project. It is precisely because of this that Leon will take a multi-pronged approach and start psychological warfare early, creating a kind of "Garnett if If you are not in the Timberwolves, you can only go to the Celtics". Although this feeling is logically absurd, it will actually have a subtle impact on other teams and Garnett himself.

Even Malik Siri asked Leon on the bus, "Do you want me to catch up with Kevin and talk about my plans to play with the Celtics in the future?" The reason for a contract with an annual salary of 4 million is that he has a good relationship with Garnett.

"No, you can catch up with Kevin, but don't talk to him about anything related to the future transfer, especially to the Celtics. Remember, your conversation is only about the past, your time 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, keep them in your heart, I think you will understand what I mean.” Leon specially told Siri that the game will be held tomorrow, Celtic players who arrive one day earlier will have more than half a day of activity time. Siri will definitely meet old friends when he returns to his old place.

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On the night of the 8th, Malik Seely attended a small party in Ed Town, a suburb of Minneapolis, and Garnett drove him there. Since the car accident two years ago, Malik Seely I will never drive by myself again.

Sealy lived with his family in an apartment in Ed Town during his Timberwolves days, and he has many memories here. Siri and Garnett played very late. Leon specially approved Siri to stay out at night tonight, and it doesn't matter if he comes back tomorrow morning. However, Sealy 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 is in the west. They have a lot of topics to recall and talk about. What makes Garnett feel comfortable is that Sealy never said a word about letting him play in Boston from the beginning to the end, nor did he talk about his current situation in Boston or the situation in the Celtics team, just chatting about the past matter.

This saved Garnett from the embarrassment of expressing his loyalty to the Timberwolves in front of Xili. Although deep down in his heart he still had a little yearning for Boston and was also very curious about Leon, but a kind of paranoia in his heart still persisted. Makes him want to stay with the Timberwolves, even if it looks hopeless.

Until saying goodbye at the entrance of the hotel, the two were laughing and talking about some fun things in the past, but Garnett didn't expect that the photo of him and Sealy had been taken by a sports paparazzi of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis.

The next day, when Garnett participated in the team training, he saw something strange in the eyes of his teammates, and the team's head coach Flip Saunders pulled Garnett aside to show him today's game. A Star Tribune, one of the page headlines is a photo of Garnett sending Siri back to the hotel. He acted as a lobbyist to persuade Garnett to join the Celtics, and now Siri has taken advantage of the away game to poach the wall.

"Sili never talked to me about letting me join the Celtics! We just catch up with each other and talk about the past. We chatted for a long time. Why do these guys use a photo to make random guesses!" Ganesh Tate was obviously angry, and in his heart he felt that his loyalty and dignity had been hurt, as had his friendship with Siri.

Phyllis Sanders tried to persuade Garnett, and said that this is just the words of the media, and does not represent the thoughts of most people, let alone the thoughts 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. That night the Star Tribune received an anonymous call informing them that they would get some unexpected press material at the hotel where the Celtics were staying.

Leon's conspiracy continues.