The way of the center

Chapter 377 The Eve of the Great War
"Pooh, it's full of reporters outside, are you sure you want to go out now?" A blond, blue-eyed, fat woman was washing the dishes, generally asking her husband whose long hair was about to reach his shoulders.

"No way honey, I don't want to leave home now, but I have to go to LAX. The team should be there soon, and as a coach, I don't want to be late." Pooh DeNagro, Los Angeles Express The captain of the fleet smiled kindly at his wife.Although the regular season ended yesterday, but today, De Nagro must leave home and go to a not-so-good place with his team.And that place is the first stop of their playoff journey!
"I'll watch your game at home."

"Well, I will come back here with excellent grades too! Don't worry, I have already found the security guards. They will ensure that those reporters and people with malicious intentions stay away from you in the past few days." De Nagro After speaking, he looked at his child who was still lying in the crib.

"Okay, I really have to go. You know, the traffic in Los Angeles is always a headache." De Nagro picked up the luggage, kissed his wife and children, and pushed the door out.

Seeing Denagro walk out of the house, a bunch of reporters immediately surrounded him.Although the Los Angeles Lakers have always been the darling of the media, the strong performance of the Clippers this season has also made De Nagro a key target of reporters.After all, two teams in a city have reached the playoffs at the same time, which is a very remarkable achievement.

"I heard your goal is to reach the Western Conference Finals! Can you do it?"

"How is Chris Paul? What role do you think he will play in the playoffs?"

"Hey Coach! Tell us about Portland!"

De Nagro didn't want to answer the reporters' questions because he was really going to be late.However, he seemed to hear the word Portland in his ears.So De Nagro turned around and looked for the reporter who asked him the question.

"Mr. Coach, tell us about the Clippers' opponent in the playoffs, the Portland Trail Blazers!" A tall, thin black reporter pushed through the crowd and walked up to De Nagro. He knew that De Nagro heard own voice.

"The Trail Blazers are very strong. Although they dropped one place in the last month of the regular season and became the fourth in the Western Conference. But I think their strength is comparable to the San Antonio Spurs who are the number one in the Western Conference. But." After that, Denagro showed his white teeth. "However, we will still enter the next round with victory!"

The reporters were all excited, don't look at De Nagro's temper is not as hot as George Karl and Popovich.But what he said just now is definitely enough for the reporters to take advantage of it!

West No. [-] against West No. [-], the closest matchup in rankings.The Clippers' opponent is the Portland Trail Blazers.And Denagro is about to fly to the city of tearing!

"Brother, you are so tall! I know, you are the pork butcher on TV." On the Portland Trail Blazers' training ground, everyone gathered around an "uninvited guest".And this outsider looked up at An Jie in a slow tone and said something that made everyone present laugh out loud.

"Who told you that I'm a butcher who sells pork?" An Jie asked back dumbfounded.

"It's that fat, bald uncle who often appears on TV." The immature voice resounded through the audience again, and she must have said Charles Barkley.

"Don't listen to his nonsense, my brother is not a pork butcher, my name is An Jie, what about you?" After finishing speaking, An Jie squatted down, but even so, he was still much taller than the guy standing in front of him.

"My name is Abigail Ricard." The little girl in front of her said her name solemnly, and the tall and burly man beside her didn't scare her at all.No way, who let her be that man's child?George Ricard, is a guy who is not afraid of anything.

"Abigail! Why did you come here!" Ricard's voice penetrated the crowd from the gate of the training ground. When the little girl heard it, she ran towards her father immediately.

"Mom is missing, so I'll come here to look for it."

"Your mother just went to the toilet, and she explained well that you were waiting for her at the toilet door." Ricard hugged his sweetheart, it was his wife and this little guy, and gave him The tense and boring life is painted with color.

"Hey." Seeing that her lie had been exposed, the little girl didn't know how to explain herself, so she stuck out her tongue with a smile.

"Little guy, you can't come here in the future! This is where the uncles and dad work." Afterwards, Ricard's wife also rushed into the training ground.She took the daughter in Rickard's arms. In fact, she didn't go to the toilet just now, she just hid it, hoping to see how this naughty little guy would react.Unexpectedly, her keen sense of smell led her to find the basketball court.Maybe this little girl, like her father, has the blood of basketball!
"Okay, say goodbye to everyone, we have to go out and wait for Dad."

"Good-bye, uncles, good-bye, father. Good-bye, pork butcher."

"Hahaha, Ann, I think she's been watching your show a lot!" Aldridge has been petrified by Abigail, but Anjie is thinking, if this little girl has the same character as Ricard in the future, that's worth it
The first female head coach in NBA history?Hmm. It's not impossible.

"Okay guys, the entertainment time is over, let's talk about business!" Watching the mother and daughter walk out of the gate of the training ground, Ricard clapped his hands and shouted.

Just now, Ricard was a gentle father and husband.But now, his identity has become that fiery coach who is full of swear words and insults.

"Do you know our opponent in the playoffs?" Ricard asked knowingly.

"Los Angeles Rafts!" The Blazers answered in unison.

"That's right! Fuck the L.A. Clippers! We just took a nap and fell to fourth in the West. These guys think they are a team with us. What a joke! I hope In the past few days when they came to Portland, you can prove that who the hell is the top team!" Ricard immediately entered the state, swearing one after another.

Ricard was right, dropping to fourth in the West in the last month.It's hard to tell whether Ricard did it on purpose.If the Trail Blazers finish third, they will meet the Grizzlies, who are super defensive.

Thinking about the consequences of Anjie's shopping with the Grizzlies during the regular season, Ricard absolutely does not want to meet the Grizzlies prematurely.And the Los Angeles Clippers.Although they have Chris Paul, compared to the Grizzlies, this is an opponent with greater confidence for Ricard!

"Starting today, everything has changed guys. Every opponent will attack us without any effort. Everyone hopes that we can get out early. Why? Because they are afraid, afraid that we will mess up their good things! We What I have to do is to show a fiercer and better performance than the regular season! Now, everyone is fully warming up! Don’t think that I will continue to reduce the intensity of training before the key game! Prepare well, today we will run tactics !” Ricard knew that as a team-based team, the tactical movement of the Trail Blazers players is very proficient, which is the top priority.

As for another focus, Ricard set his sights on the training ground.The figure of that guy can always attract your attention at once, because his height of 2 meters 19 is really outstanding.

Back then, wasn’t Ricard discovering this genius in the field because of this?
Another focus of the Trail Blazers besides tactics is Anjie.But Rickard is not worried about Anjie's performance and state at all.He knew An Jie well, so he knew that he could rely on An Jie.

Why is he so confident in defeating the Clippers, because he has a player who is enough for him to defeat a strong enemy!

"The situation in the West is still tense. The Spurs have achieved an excellent result of 50 wins and 16 losses in this shrinking season. This result is even better than that of the Heat!"

"Don't be Spurs and Spurs all day Kenny, let's see how about the fourth in the West? 46 wins and 20 losses, as long as they win one more game, they can surpass the Lakers and become the third in the West. For the Trail Blazers, this is Definitely a horrible result. Why? Because last year, the Trail Blazers played 82 games and only won 48! This year they only played 66 games and achieved 46 wins. The biggest change for the Trail Blazers, It is the addition of Ann and Ricard. This kind of team that has improved the most can usually kill all quarters in the playoffs! This kind of team can do anything!" Charles Barkley has been I haven't seen Anjie in the playoffs in [-]. Seeing that Kenny Smith was about to bring the topic to the matchup between the Spurs and the Mavericks, Barkley immediately regained control of the topic.

"The Spurs played against the Mavericks, the Lakers played against the Grizzlies, and the Thunder played against the Nuggets. My God, these games are boring enough just to watch the two sides. But the Trail Blazers played against the Clippers. How about Kenny, do you feel that? What's the difference?"

"I think you're quite boring Charles." Kenny Smith gave Buckley a blank look, speechless.

"Hey, you can't say that."

The TV was turned on by An Jie, but An Jie didn't watch the show of Buckley and Kenny Smith at all.He just hung up the call with Catherine. He was about to play in the playoffs, and Catherine was about to appear on the stage of a large fashion show.

Although the phone call is over, An Jie still can't focus on the TV.Because in front of his eyes, on the table in front of the sofa, was a beautifully packaged paper box that had just been sent to An Jie's house.

This carton is colorful and has a lot of basketball patterns on it.On the top of the box, a simple groove is drawn, which is the logo of Nike.On both sides of the box, there is a piece of simple English written: "Way, of, Center, I.".The translation is, the generation of the center forward!
The chief designer of An Jie's signature shoes did not fool him. These guys really made An Jie's exclusive sneakers before the playoffs!
Tomorrow, Nike will release this shoe following the Dongfeng playoffs.And An Jie, as the first person in the world to get this pair of shoes, will also wear them in the playoffs and compete everywhere!

The real war is about to start across the United States!
Starting tomorrow, the NBA will be full of smoke and blood.But for Anjie, this is not terrible at all, on the contrary, he will enjoy the "good times" of the playoffs very much
A quiet night like this does not herald peace, but a bigger storm is coming!
(End of this chapter)