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Chapter 101 From Seattle

Chapter 1 Twenty Seven From Seattle

There is only one game left before the eighth spot in the West, and the Timberwolves' young lads have never been so eager for the eighth spot in the West.

Some things are precious only when they are lost!
At the beginning of the season, the Timberwolves have been firmly occupying the top eight in the Western Conference, and naturally they did not feel the feelings of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Durant has been the focus of the media since he entered the league. His background as the No. [-] overall pick put him at a much higher starting point than the rookies of the same class. Apart from Oden, who was the No. [-] pick at the time, is there anyone else who is more famous than him?
He copied the path of LeBron James and signed a 7-year 6000 million W sky-high contract with sports giant Nike. The huge amount of this contract undoubtedly attracted countless attentions. This is the second largest rookie sneaker contract in NBA history. , Pushing the young Durant to the forefront all of a sudden.

Everyone wants to know whether Durant, who has high hopes from Nike, can copy LeBron James' path and quickly complete the transformation from rookie player to superstar.

Bearing the pressure and also carrying the heavy all-American gaze is one of the reasons why Durant has always maintained his aggressiveness.

More pressure can give him a farther goal, and more exposure can give him more motivation to move forward!
However, at the beginning of this season, everything changed.

A team in the West replaced them as the focus of national media attention.

From the status of the weak team last season to the magnificent transformation of the team in the playoffs this season, such a dreamy story still happened in the fiercely competitive West, facing the harsh environment surrounded by enemies, from the rookie season. Durant understands how difficult it is to do all of this.

This is the west, not the weak east!
These words are really not funny at all, very cruel, Durant deeply understands this!
This year's Western Conference is too strong. The entire Western Conference is expected to compete for the playoffs. The teams have exploded this season, showing a strong state. Now the schedule is about halfway through, but the cruel competition in the Western Conference has not decayed. On the contrary, it became more and more intense as the season progressed.

ESPN's columnist commentator has released the season prediction. After the end of this season, the team that reaches 50 wins will definitely usher in a big explosion. In the West alone, there may be six or seven teams that will reach 50 wins. above the field.

This season's Western Conference has ushered in the era of a big blowout. The strong teams get stronger and the weak teams get weaker.

Durant understands that the Timberwolves' dark horse road is not easy, and he also admires the magical power of the Chinese rookie in Minnesota. These are definitely not just accidental.

After two seasons of experience in the league, Durant has fully realized the cruelty of the NBA as a commercial league. The winners survive and the worst get eliminated. Those who cannot adapt to this league will eventually be gradually marginalized.

The road that the Chinese boy Li Shihao led the Timberwolves this season is full of thorns, bumps and muddy all the time, but even so, there is still no lack of criticism of him from the outside world.

The United States has democracy and freedom, but also inequality and racial discrimination. Durant, who grew up in the United States, naturally understands the discrimination and inequality that Asians suffer in the United States.

In this free country, foreign players, especially Chinese players, need to pay three to four times as much as ordinary players if they want to succeed.

Switching to a black or white player produced in the United States has long been regarded as a future superstar. In the rookie season, there is hope to lead the team to the playoffs. Such ability is a future superstar.

Needless to say, in the fiercely competitive West, even in the generally weak East, players who can lead a team to the playoffs alone in their rookie season are the darlings of the media.

Before the game, a group of journalists gathered in the hotel where the Thunder players stayed. Durant and Westbrook, who are the team's dual-core players, were interviewed by many media.

"Kevin, tonight you will have a big battle with the Timberwolves. The winner will take more initiative in competing for the playoffs. Do you have anything to say about tonight's game?" Durant He is the star of the Thunder team, so he is naturally the favorite in the eyes of the media reporters. After a large number of media reporters took their positions, they all handed the microphones in front of Durant, wanting to learn from this shy young star. Get more breaking news.

Tonight's battle has long been played up by the two North American sports media giants ESPN and TNT. This year's competition in the Western Conference is so big. The Thunder and Timberwolves are young guards emerging in the league. Two young teams The strong collision of the two has a natural sense of topic.

The vice president of the NBA, Adam Silver, has been grinning from ear to ear in recent days. Tonight's game has temporarily been broadcast live across the United States. According to statistics, the Western Conference game tonight is very likely to explode in viewership. , to achieve an effect close to the Christmas war that just passed.

Obviously, the fierce battle between the two teams for the eighth place in the Western Conference has successfully aroused the gossip desire of millions of families in the United States.

Discussions about this game on the Internet have completely exploded. Fans of the two teams stand on their own teams and start to cheer for the home team.

Durant pretended to be relaxed, and he also understood the importance of tonight's game, but as the team leader, he had to be calm and calm in front of the media, "The Timberwolves are a very strong opponent. There are many young and capable players in the team, such as Bruce Lee, Kevin Love, etc. Tonight's game will not be easy, but we are very confident in the victory, our team's perimeter is beyond the limits of the Timberwolves!"

Hearing this, the eyes of the media reporters who were waiting so hard instantly lit up. They seemed to have found the topic of the news. Durant, who is very likely to win this season's scoring champion, publicly declared that the Timberwolves could not limit his own team. The outside line, by extension, it is not an exaggeration to say that Durant himself cannot be restricted.

While many media reporters were busy taking pictures and recording, a hand was stretched out from the bustling crowd below, a middle-aged man with a hooked nose stood up, and the reporter badge logo on his chest was clearly displayed. is a media reporter from Seattle.

The situation was not good, and Durant's heart sank suddenly. When his eyes touched the half-smile expression on the corner of the hook-nose middle-aged man's mouth, the bad feeling became more and more obvious.

(End of this chapter)