"What?"
"Does he think I will give in? No way, I will never compromise. I am the league's top center, why would I compromise for an old guy?"
After Dwight Howard learned the news, he showed only resistance.
His identity was originally there, and even though his career has begun to decline, many teams are still willing to give him a chance.
Therefore, Dwight Howard, who has never suffered a "reality blow", is certainly unconvinced.
However, he didn't expect that within two days, the team's new general manager Sam Mitchell would directly come to him. Sam Mitchell was also responsible for signing Dwight Howard. He had a pretty good relationship with the latter. Therefore, after the two met, Sam Mitchell told the truth.
"Dwight, you have offended someone you shouldn't have offended this time. Listen to my advice and reconcile with Coach Norman! He is not someone you can offend..."
Dwight Howard was very unhappy when he heard this.
"What? He's just an old guy. Could it be that the team can do without me but not him? Why does he reprimand me as soon as he takes office?"
"I won't compromise. Either the team trades me, or sends this old guy away... Only one of us can stay..."
Dwight Howard also took the initiative and said this to express his dissatisfaction.
But soon, the words of team general manager Sam Mitchell shocked him.
"If you really think so, then the team will put you on the shelf... However, we estimate that no club will choose to match your contract. If that is the case, the team will most likely Follow Coach Norman's arrangements..."
"And you must know very well what he will do. At that time, you may face being hidden, and you may not be able to do anything this season... Are you willing to just get paid and not play? I miss you. You don’t have many years left in your career. If you don’t play for one season, can you guarantee your status for the next season?”
"Coach Norman is supported by Mr. Philip and the team's top management. At that time, the team will lose money at most, and you will lose your career. Are you really willing to see all this?"
Dwight Howard was silent.
General Manager Sam Mitchell's words made him think deeply.
In fact, Dwight Howard did not just do it for money when it came to signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves. In a way, he doesn't have a particularly good place to go.
Some places where he wants to go won't offer too high a price. After all, his age is there, especially since his form has declined rapidly in the past two seasons.
Most of the places with high prices are not very competitive. After all, you are just dawdling there.
And these places also attach great importance to Dwight Howard's age. It can be said that age has become a key node that he cannot get around.
Among his choices, the Minnesota Timberwolves are indeed the only team with a sufficiently sincere offer and a certain ability within the team to reach the Western Conference Finals.
Taking these two points into consideration, Dwight Howard chose this team.
After a long time, Dwight Howard seemed to have figured it out, and finally sighed, and then said in front of general manager Sam Mitchell, "I can compromise, but I can't accept punishment. What I can guarantee is that in every training from now on All arrived on time..."
Seeing Dwight Howard's concession, general manager Sam Mitchell quickly conveyed his words to new head coach Norman Thomas.
I thought Norman Thomas would take a step back and resolve the matter, but I didn't expect that Norman Thomas's answer was still very tough.
"no."
"You must accept the punishment you agreed upon. He is a man. Doesn't he even understand this?"
After the news got back to Dwight Howard, after much consideration, he finally decided to give in.
After all, the price offered by the Minnesota Timberwolves is too high. If such a price were to be matched, no team in the entire league would be able to accept it.
But if the team buys him out, that would be very unrealistic.
If he continues to stalemate, the Minnesota Timberwolves may not block his career. This is even more frustrating for Dwight Howard, who was originally worried about how to go in the second half of his career.
Therefore, for a period of time after that, Dwight Howard followed the instructions of head coach Norman Thomas and entered the gym an hour early every day to train.
This is a pain for Dwight Howard.
He was not that keen on training to begin with. In order to achieve the goal stated by head coach Norman Thomas, he had to give up all kinds of entertainment activities at night every day, fall asleep early, and then get up early the next morning to get there. training hall.
However, it was precisely this arrangement that made Dwight Howard discover Zhao Feiyang and others in the training hall.
Especially when he saw substitute Adrian Ennis, Dwight Howard was somewhat shocked.
He really couldn't understand why a small substitute worked so hard?
In his opinion, if you don't have enough talent, it's impossible to fight anymore. And the opponent is an undrafted player, which to some extent has proven that their talent is average, but this guy named Adrian Ennis refuses at all. The spirit of giving up is somewhat touching.
As time goes by, the NBA preseason games that the Minnesota Timberwolves will participate in have finally arrived.
The entire league has started the preseason, and many teams have been assigned various goals. Some are going to Europe, some are going to Africa, and many teams are going to Asia.
Among them, Kimchi Country and Island Country are also areas of focus for the NBA. This time both countries have NBA teams participating.
As for China, it is the home court of the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Los Angeles Lakers.
After communicating with China, the Minnesota Timberwolves also officially flew to China. This time, in order to make the game full of gimmicks, NBA officials also communicated with the Chinese CBA club team.
In order to make the game between the two sides more attractive to fans, this time, the CBA sent the Liaoning team, which won the runner-up last season, to attack as one of the teams to face the Minnesota Timberwolves.
This game was held at the Liaoning Stadium in Shenyang, the home stadium of the Liaoning team.
Before the game started, the tickets for this game were sold out, and many fans who couldn't buy tickets were waiting outside the arena, looking forward to watching this two-league playoff team on the big screen. Duel battle.
