The Way of the Center

"Hey! Ann! If you don't change clothes, we will miss the plane!" Thunder assistant coach Farmer Alton yelled at An Jie who was still shooting on the training ground. Since there will be an away game tomorrow, February 1, the Thunder will have to rush to another city immediately after today's regular training.

However, everyone has packed their bags and is ready to leave the airport directly from the Chesapeake Energy Arena, while Anjie is still training on the basketball court.

"There's still an hour to leave the airport, don't worry." An Jie smiled at Alton, and continued to run on his own.

"Is an hour enough time for you to prepare things?"

"There's nothing to prepare. I'll leave half an hour later to sweat it out. Russell has all the daily necessities. If I don't have enough clothes over there, I can borrow Nick's clothes first. His wife always prepares for him. Three sets of clothes." At the beginning, An Jie had a lot of luggage for the away game, but after getting used to running around, he needed less and less time and things to prepare.

Alton shook his head helplessly. The entire Thunder team knew why Anjie was so excited, because the place they were going to was Sacramento!

Although he is doing well in the Thunder now, Anjie will not forget the feeling of being abandoned.

"We really don't need you now." The words of the general manager of the Kings can be said to have stabbed An Jie's chest deeply. Even though more than half a year has passed, An Jie still remembers it.

Divac had already talked with An Jie on the phone in the morning, and the old devil was even more excited than An Jie. Although his glory of the century is inseparable from the Kings, but the general manager of the Kings made a lot of hype at the beginning. In fact, he didn't want Anjie's actions at all, which made Divac feel that this was simply a deception!

As a hero of the team, the damn manager turned a blind eye to the person Divac recommended to the Kings. With a small lineup and a fast pace, the general manager of the Kings is following the trend of the times, and Jeff Green, who can play the third and fourth positions of the Thunder at the same time, has become the only reason for the Kings to choose Anjie.

"Now the league is all messed up! Do they think the center is useless!? In our era, dubious people couldn't play at all! Look now, the manager of the Kings must be out of his mind! Ann , you give me a hard lesson to teach them, tell Kevin and Russell to reduce some of their wild shots, and tell them to give you the ball!" This is what Divac said to An Jie, of course An Jie did not It may be due to personal reasons to destroy the team system and increase his number of shots, but his already flaming emotions were ignited by Divac.

"Ann, go back to the locker room!" After another ten minutes of practice, Jeff Van Gundy also came out to urge An Jie. However, Van Gundy's reason was not that he couldn't catch the plane, but that Anjie had to meet his new teammates for the atmosphere in the team.

The team is too young, and there is no veteran to stabilize the morale at critical moments. This is one of the problems that the Thunder must solve. After struggling to find and contact for two months, Presti finally made the second deal of the Thunder this season. The first deal he brought Anjie to the Thunder, and the second deal he brought for the Thunder. The Thunder brought in a seasoned 35-year-old point guard Chucky Atkins.

After Anjie performed better and better, the Frenchman Johan Petro was almost useless, so Presti traded Petro and the 2009 second-round pick with the Nuggets for Chucky A Tekins, the Nuggets' o9 round pick and some cash.

Although the old Atkins has limited ability, his experience is undoubtedly one of Presti's most fancy places.

As soon as Atkins arrived in the locker room, he was greeted by the whole team, and it was precisely because of this that Anjie was called back by Van Gundy.

It was tough to say, Atkins had just joined the team, and was taken to Sacramento by Jeff Van Gundy, without a chance to breathe.

An Jie is full of energy here, and Jeff Green, who swapped clubs with An Jie, is also preparing to show his strength.

In his year with the Thunder, the forward line he formed with Durant was once hailed as one of the most threatening offensive combinations in the nba in the future. As a rookie selected with the fifth overall pick, he played in the team for only one season before being waived and put on the shelf by the Thunder for a rookie center who was only selected with the twelfth overall pick.

Could it be that in Presti's eyes, he is not as good as a Chinese?

After transferring to the Kings this season, Jeff Green also performed well, becoming the Kings' second scoring point after Kevin Martin. In the battle of revenge, the hearts of these two young people have long been burning.

Sleep Train Arena, the slightly oddly named stadium, is the home of the Sacramento Kings.

Kings coach Kenny Wright nervously urged the players to warm up. Like the Thunder, the Kings suffered a losing streak at the beginning of the season, so they also experienced a coaching change. Kenny Wright is now the second head coach of the Kings this season.

Unlike the Thunder, after Jeff Van Gundy took over the team, the Thunder have since been on the right track. And Kenny Wright's appointment did not improve the Kings' record much. Just before this game, the Kings' losing streak had accumulated to 8 games!

"Hey, Ann, the game is about to start. You should feel a little different when facing the Kings." During An Jie's warm-up, a live reporter from ESPN found An Jie.

"They're just ordinary opponents, there's nothing different." An Jie replied dutifully. After all, he didn't want to publicly admit that he was very unhappy with the Kings abandoning him.

"Do you think the Kings will regret missing you?" Anjie's performance is obvious to all. The Kings are very lucky to pick Anjie at the twelfth pick. If he could do it again, Anjie's second pick would be taken away by Pat Riley.

"Jeff's performance is also good. Every team needs different players. The Kings don't need me, but the Thunder just happens to have a place for me." It's useless to make noise in front of reporters, Anjie just wants to express his feelings on the court. Express his dissatisfaction with the Kings.

"Hey, Jeff, stay safe." Before the start of the game, Durant and Jeff Green greeted cordially, but Green was just doing routine work, and now he was eager to tear the Thunder team apart.

Divac turned off his phone and temporarily handed everything over to his secretary. At this moment, he is sitting leisurely in his home in Serbia, and the game between the Kings and the Thunder is playing live on TV!

Because of the relationship between Anjie and Divac, Serbian TV stations have always paid close attention to Anjie. Serbia's sports channel will naturally not let go of this dramatic game.

"Old club, you really went astray." Divac looked at the Kings with some regret while holding the red wine. He raised his hand to raise the wine glass, and poured a sip of wine into his mouth. The referee threw the basketball up, and Anjie and Kings center Spencer Hawes jumped with all their strength, kicking off the prelude to the battle of revenge!

Hawes, who is 2.16 meters tall, is still slightly inferior to Anjie, and the Kings lost the opportunity to attack first.

An Jie was very active in this game, and his pick-and-roll was in place very quickly. Westbrook also knew how his Chinese buddy felt, so he decided to do his best to assist An Jie in this game.

Westbrook made a breakthrough, and Kings point guard John Salmons' defensive ability was not weak, but he still couldn't get around Anjie's perfect screen.

Seeing Westbrook get rid of his matchup and go to the basket, Hawes chased back without hesitation.

"Come on Ann!" Westbrook glanced at An Jie out of the corner of his eye, and he followed up!

Holding the ball with both hands and adjusting his footsteps, Westbrook's actions made everyone think he was going to layup by himself.

Westbrook jumped up after taking two steps and tossed the ball to the basket, but the ball seemed to be a little too far.

"This is not a shot!" Kevin Martin was the first to react. He yelled at his teammates, but there was nothing left to do.

An Jie, who cut in, jumped with all his strength, caught the basketball in the air with both hands, and then smashed the basketball into the frame under the astonished eyes of everyone!

"Alley oop! Beautiful matchup from Westbrook and Anjie! Westbrook throws the ball high, this is a pass tailored for Anjie!"

In an instant, the entire Sleep Train Arena was full of boos. Some of them were booing An Jie, while others were booing the general manager who let An Jie go.

Jeff Green is now pushed to the power forward position, but his style of play is more biased towards small forwards. He received a pass from Martin on the three-point line, and Joe Smith didn't dare to neglect, and immediately blocked it.

Joe Smith may have a lot of experience in interior defense, but when he followed the defense to the outside, he seemed a little at a loss.

Jeff Green suddenly started, and Joe Smith, a slightly older and pure fourth position, couldn't keep up with the rhythm at all. With a straightforward breakthrough, Jeff Green easily passed Joe Smith by half a body.

Kings center Hawes is also a space-type fifth position, and his three-pointers are also one of the main offensive methods. After he pulled to the perimeter, the Thunder's penalty area was empty!

Anjie scored the first point with an alley-oop, and Jeff Green also planned to respond with a dunk.

Smith saw Green take off and gave up blocking directly. He knew what he could do. If he forced himself to block the shot at this time, it would only give Jeff Green a chance to hit a three-pointer.

Gathering enough energy in the air, Jeff Green is ready to dunk!

suddenly! The basketball that Jeff Green was holding tightly with both hands was slapped away by a huge force. He still made a dunk action, but the basketball was knocked away one step ahead of time, bounced to the backboard and made a three-pointer outside the line.

"Ann! Chasing and taking a big risk! Jeff Green thought the restricted area was already safe? No! An Jie has been staring at the prey who dares to invade his territory!" Mike Brin would always be emotional when he saw An Jie's wonderful blocks .

After landing, Westbrook had already rushed to the frontcourt to fight back, and there was no need for Anjie and Jeff Green to participate in the return run.

At the moment when Westbrook counterattacked and made a successful layup, the boos in the Sleep Train Arena continued to increase, which was twice as loud as before!

But at this moment, An Jie turned to face the auditorium, facing the luxury box, he knew that the guy who gave up on him was probably sitting there.

An Jie raised his right hand, stretched out his index finger and put it on his lips, and made a shut up gesture to the fans of the Kings, and even to the general manager of the Kings.

"Damn it!" The general manager of the Kings team was really watching the game in the luxury box. Seeing An Jie made such an impolite gesture, the general manager of the Kings team was furious.

"This is my fucking villain center, as expected of my student!" Divac admired Anjie's actions very much.

One offense and one defense, Anjie has given a serious warning to the Sacramento people! (To be continued.) 8