Butler "turns from a cow into a wolf", allowing gray wolf to rise to its strength by a higher level. (USA Today)
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started to pay attention to the Gray Wolves, which happened 28 years ago.
1989, my family immigrated to Minnesota when I was playing basketball together in high school. At that time, I had no idea that there was such a place in the United States. However, that year, a new team appeared in the American Professional Basketball Game (NBA), which turned out to be the Minnesota Gray Wolves. In order to think of friends frequently, I decided to follow this team.
The Grey Wolves' first few years of the NBA have a terrible record, which makes people feel embarrassed to say that they are their fans. In 1995, they selected Garnett with the fifth pick in the first round at the draft, opening the "Wolf King era".
Gray Wolves made the playoffs for eight consecutive seasons from 1997 to 2004, and in the 2003-04 season, he achieved his best performance with Garnett, "Madman" Spreville and "Alien" Kassel , and reached the West Coast finals. What is heartbreaking is that the Gray Wolves not only did not go further after the game, but instead entered a low period, missing the playoffs for 13 consecutive years, and began a long road of reconstruction.
This summer, the management of Gray Wolf seemed to be tired of the embarrassment of repeated defeats and accelerated the pace of reconstruction. First, they traded "Bul King" Butler from the Chicago Bulls , and then introduced all-star point guard Teague, inside player Gibson and the top sixth man in the NBA Crawford , which made people see the dawn at the end of the darkness.
Among them, only LaVian and Dunn exchanged for Butler, which in my opinion was simply a fight. Butler is a very outstanding team player. He averaged 23 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists in the Bulls last season. I personally believe that he will become the new generation of "Wolf King" and lead his teammates to revive his "Wolf Power".
The starting lineup of the Gray Wolves now has two all-star players, Butler and Teague, as well as two draft picks, Wiggins and Towns . With Gibson who is willing to compete and win, the configuration is complete and full of vitality.
Wiggins averaged 23 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists last season, while Towns had 25 points, 12 rebounds and 2 assists. Combined with Butler, he averaged up to 71 points per game. What's more, with the help of Teague, the experienced backcourt commander, all three of them are expected to go to the next level.
Gray Wolves are currently ranked seventh in the NBA championship odds list for the new season. Among these seven teams, five are from the West Coast. In my opinion, in addition to the last championship Golden State Warriors , the Gray Wolves have a good capital against Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder .
The long 13 years of waiting is about to end, and the Gray Wolf is bound to set off a youth storm in the new season, which is full of expectations.
