Bishop of the Abyss

Chapter 2 2. Stabhead Asylum
At the end of July, the details of the contract between the Timberwolves and the new head coach Luke were made public by the media.

According to local authoritative media reports in Minnesota, Luke signed a four-year $1500 million contract with the Timberwolves.

And there are some special clauses in the contract, the specific content of the contract is only clear to Timberwolves and Luke himself.

After the news broke, apart from arousing some attention locally in Minnesota, it didn't make much waves in the entire league.

After all, it is very normal for NBA teams to experience coaching changes every year. Not to mention European coaches, it is very common for the development league or NCAA coaches.

It's just that most European coaches are unwilling to come to the NBA to take the lead, because the European league focuses on teamwork, and the coach has more authority in the team than the NBA.

However, the European League has also provided the NBA with many high-quality players in recent years, so the European League has been recognized by the world as the NBA's player delivery pool.

And they are all high-quality players.

In addition, although Luke missed the draft at the end of June this year, the Timberwolves had the No. [-] record in the Western Conference last season.

In this year's draft conference, there is only one pick with the 29th overall pick in the second round, so this year's draft conference has little connection with the Timberwolves, especially in this position, it is basically difficult to select outstanding young players. players.

According to gossip, the first thing Luke did after taking office was to negotiate with McHale, intending to sign the 36-year-old veteran Divac in the free market.

Because head coach Luke is very dissatisfied with the current inside configuration of the Timberwolves, the only candidate the Timberwolves can use at the center position is "Sugar Man" Olowokandi.

That's right, before Kwame Brown entered the league, he was known as the worst parallel importer in NBA history.

Last season, although Olowokandi contributed 21 points, 6 rebounds and 5 blocks in an average of 1.6 minutes per game, the "sugar man" was too weak in the paint and couldn't support it at all. A team's interior barrier.

So it's no wonder Luke has a headache about the team's interior configuration.

And Divac averaged 10 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 block per game for the Kings last season.

Although Garnett and Webber were pushed on the ground by Garnett in the playoffs and frantically rubbed against each other, Divas' excellent court experience and his unique high-post support still made Luke feel greedy.

The most important thing is that the current salary space of the Timberwolves has basically been locked, because this summer the Timberwolves need to renew Garnett with a five-year, [-] million contract, so there are only a few free agents for Luke to choose from. indivual.

In addition to the Timberwolves, it is currently rumored that the teams interested in Divas include the Lakers, Clippers, and the Knicks in the West.

Considering that Divac can only get a basic salary at most at this age, from this perspective, the Timberwolves are likely to become Divac's next home.

After all, the Big Four of the Lakers have fallen apart after losing to the Pistons in the Finals last season.

The Knicks and the Clippers are the two bottom teams for thousands of years, so the Timberwolves, who just played first in the Western Conference last season, will be the best place for Divac.

It is worth mentioning that after Luke took office, when the assistant coach Raymond gave Luke the lineup list for the new season, even Luke, who was indifferent and ruthless, felt the pressure.

Because this Timberwolves is like a "stab head shelter", the team's core lineup of three-headed monsters naturally needless to say, "Wolf King" Garnett, "Alien" Cassel and "Madman" Stalin None of this is good for Preville.

Especially the "madman" Sprewell, even staged the famous "throat lock" incident in the 97-98 season.

During a training session of the team, because Sprewell was dissatisfied with Carlesimo's accusations, the former strangled his neck severely, causing Carlesimo to suffocate and almost left this world.

Even though the league banned the "madman" Sprewell for one year afterwards, the reputation of "madman" has completely spread in the NBA since then.

In addition, speeding off the court and fights are commonplace in "madmen", which also makes "madman" Sprewell one of the players NBA coaches least like to coach.

In terms of other people, the team also has the league's famous defensive villain Trenton Hassell, and the talented insider Eddie Griffin who was accompanied by drugs all day long and died young at the age of 25.

Luke started to get a little excited after seeing all the names, and even thought that what he was here to coach was not an NBA team, but a prison team!

As a coach who is famous in Europe and full of crimes, Luke has a natural love for this kind of prickly player.

Luke enjoyed conquering them, Luke enjoyed being in their company.

Even though it could be called dangerous, Luke couldn't help but get excited looking at the lineup list in his hand.

Especially when Luke's eyes stayed on his broken left ring finger, Luke couldn't help but licked his lips, ready to enjoy his unique crazy feast!
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Time entered mid-August, and various teams stepped into the free market one after another, and began to woo their favorite players.

And a large number of transactions have been reported between each other, which has once again faced a reshuffle of the entire league.

At the same time, the Timberwolves, who are preparing to make a comeback in the new season, appear to be very quiet. Except for signing Divac as soon as the free market opened, the Timberwolves seem to be a little fussy.

Just some minor reinforcements to the corners.

It's not that Luke doesn't want to reinforce, but that the Timberwolves' current salary space no longer allows them to spend a lot in the free market.

So what Luke can do is to polish the Timberwolves' existing lineup, and then wait for the opportunity as an outsider to see if there is a chance to make a fortune in the middle of the season.

In addition, not long after Luke took office, a rumor broke out inside the Timberwolves.

It is said that the head coach Luke had a relatively fierce verbal conflict with the "madman" Sprewell, and it even rose to the point of doing it.

In order to prevent the news from spreading, the Timberwolves have imposed internal punishment on "Madman" Sprewell.

But when the melon-eaters were still trying to eat melons, the media photographed that on the third day of the physical conflict between the two, the "madman" and the head coach Luke came out of the bar together.

And the attitude of "Madman" Sprewell has undergone a huge change. From the surface, it is completely impossible to see that the two had just clashed not long ago.

Those who don't know may think that the relationship between the two is very close, which also makes everyone feel confused.

Since then, the media has often photographed head coach Luke going in and out of bars with players Garnett, Sprewell and others, and even Luke was verbally warned by Timberwolves general manager McHale because of image problems.

For this scene, NBA fans only felt their scalps tingling, because they had seen a lot of tough head coach fans, but this was the first time they saw a young coach like Luke who was full of evil forces.

However, this scene looked very normal to the fans in Europe, and some people even started to mutter in their hearts, "The troubles of other teams in the league are finally coming..."

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