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Chapter 99 The Timberwolves Regaining Focus
Chapter 1 The Timberwolves regaining the focus
After the Timberwolves defeated the Memphis Grizzlies in the away game, they won a wave of four consecutive victories and won all four consecutive away games.

Next, they will return home to Minnesota, ready to meet the challenge of the Philadelphia 76ers.

Minnesota's local sports media praised the Timberwolves' recent four-game winning streak, and several local nightly talk show hosts talked about this topic.

When the funny host talked about the Timberwolves, the audience always cheered and responded enthusiastically.

Even on nightly shows with less attention, those talk shows that talked about the Timberwolves still won considerable ratings and gained a lot of points.

Minnesota local fans love the Timberwolves for the home team is unimaginable in other cities.

Many players are envious of going to big cities, where there is a better economic environment, more exposure, and they can get valuable big contracts. These fame or fortune are irresistible to many NBA players.

But small cities also have the benefits of small cities. Many players would rather stay in small cities and dedicate their entire careers to the team that selected him. There are such players, and Reggie Miller is one of the best. .

Big cities certainly have the benefits of big cities, but they also have a lot of competitors. The NBA is not the only professional sports league in the United States, and there are three other powerful opponents in the four major leagues with the United States.

Whether it is NFL, MLB or NHL, they are all sports events with great influence in the United States. Among them, NFL is the most influential league in the United States, which is much more attractive than the NBA.

According to the latest data released by the authoritative financial magazine "Forbes", the Super Bowl, the highlight of NFL events, is valued at 4 million US dollars, and continues to sit firmly on the throne of the most commercially valuable sports event.

This value is far more expensive than a round of the NBA Finals. A round of the Finals can only have seven games at most. In the case of the dialogue between the Spurs and the Pistons in the Finals a few years ago, the business of the Super Bowl attracts money. The ability is definitely more than ten times higher.

We must know that the value of an ordinary NBA team is only a few hundred million dollars, and the value of a round of the Super Bowl is almost equivalent to that of an NBA team, which shows how attractive it is.

According to those financial people, the interstitial advertisements in the Super Bowl are absolutely a waste of money. The value of a 30-second advertisement is even as expensive as 300 million US dollars. Compared with this, the news broadcast advertisements on the other side of the ocean are almost unwatchable Now, you must know that CCTV’s bidding advertisements are tied together for several months, and the Super Bowl, but if you come here at the beginning of each year, the value of the latter is definitely higher!
According to Forbes statistics, the Super Bowl is worth more than the Olympics ($2 million) and the World Cup ($3 million) combined.

Even in the list of Forbes global clubs, the lowest value of a single team in the NFL league has reached a sky-high price of 11 billion US dollars.

It is no exaggeration to say that the NFL is already the most expensive sports league in the world!

Fortunately, although Minneapolis in Minnesota also has competing teams, the Timberwolves have a good fan base. Although Minneapolis is a small city, it is not as prosperous as Los Angeles and New York, and it is not even as warm as Miami. Pleasant, but the economic level here is not bad at all.

Among the Fortune Global 500 companies, 31 have their headquarters here, which shows that although Minnesota is a small city, it does not lack economic strength at all!

This is also one of the reasons why Timberwolves owner Glenn Taylor dared to speak loudly and build a championship lineup for Li Shihao!

It is true that Glen Taylor is a businessman. It is his nature to focus on profit, but it is undeniable that Glen Taylor is also an entrepreneur who loves basketball. He will not be stingy in the field of basketball.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have thrown a huge contract of [-] million yuan to Garnett, who was just a high school student. You know, Garnett at that time was just a high school rookie who had never played in the NCAA.

Facts have proved that Glenn Taylor's vision is true. The commercial value behind Garnett has completely made the Timberwolves earn back. This epoch-making all-round insider is a money-absorbing weapon. The potential advantage of high popularity makes the commercial value of insiders low. It failed on him.

Glen Taylor, who had tasted the sweetness, lost Garnett a 03-year contract of 5 million yuan again in [-]. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is rich and powerful.

But the boss's personal preferences obviously can't solve everything. Garnett's high contract greatly reduced the salary space of the Timberwolves signings later, and it was even difficult to recruit suitable championship helpers. "Garnett left Boston for the dream of a championship and went to another city team, even if it is a wealthy team in the NBA!

The departure of "Wolf King" Garnett undoubtedly hurt Glenn Taylor. In the dead of night, the Timberwolves owner, who has been behind the scenes for many years, will rarely show the disappointment that a shrewd entrepreneur does not often have.

The excellent record of the Timberwolves this year has undoubtedly alarmed the Timberwolves owner who is becoming less rational. Glenn Taylor was originally disheartened and planned to sell the team, but this year's Timberwolves really gave him a big surprise!

At the beginning of the season, he rushed to the forefront of the Western Conference. Although he fell to the seventh position in the Western Conference later, and now he even fell out of the playoffs, but in the long regular season, what accidents did not happen?

As a team owner, Glenn Taylor's biggest advantage is nothing else. He at least knows a little bit about the ball. This owner will not understand how precious a player can lead the team to the Western Conference playoffs, especially if this player is A Chinese rookie, the value has almost doubled several times, okay?

The Timberwolves recently won another wave of four consecutive victories, which attracted the attention of many fans in Minnesota. On the contrary, the Minnesota Vikings, who settled in Minneapolis, suffered a tragic defeat recently.

This season was a year for the Vikings to be full of ambitions. After months of planning, they introduced the legendary Packers quarterback Brett Favre in an attempt to hit the championship!
This news once shocked the entire United States. The sports media that cooperated with the NFL even promoted the Minnesota Vikings to one of the favorites to win the championship. Such attention has made many Minnesota fans full of pride .

Unfortunately, in the recent National League Finals, the Vikings lost to the New Orleans Saints in overtime. They were shot from 40 yards by their opponents and kicked out directly, which disappointed many Minnesota fans for another season.

However, the Timberwolves, who once fell out of the center of the focus circle, won four consecutive victories in a difficult back-to-back away game, regaining a lot of wins, and approaching the eighth position in the West step by step.

This makes the Timberwolves once again become the darling of Minnesota!

(End of this chapter)