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Bizarre! Four of the top-salary superstars are invisible throughout the whole process. The Timberwolves third young master burys the Warrior Dynasty with 66 points

11:26am, 18 May 2025【Basketball】

At the moment of the final whistle, there was a dull sound of a mineral water bottle smashing the wall from the visiting team's locker room of the Datong Central Arena. At the Minneapolis Target Center on May 15, the four Warriors, worth 170 million yuan, were torn apart by the Timberwolves youth team. The 1-4 score allowed Curry to cover his face with a towel on the bench - this scene was similar to the replay of Clay when he was seriously injured in the 2019 Finals.

Dialize the clock back to the last three minutes of the last quarter, and the Warriors, who are 15 points behind, execute the last tactical timeout. Assistant Atkinson's hand was shaking while holding the tactical board, the champion coach was chewing gum as the camera swept across Cole. The most fighting force on the field was Moody with a basic salary. The 22-year-old player still tried to steal Edwards during garbage time, but was sentenced to a foul and hit the floor in annoyance. The breath of death in the

game began to spread from 6 minutes and 12 seconds in the third quarter. When Gobert completed a dunk of 2+1 through the dream chase, the Timberwolves bench collectively made a "good night" celebration gesture - this action Curry invented has now become the opponent's heart-killing sword. What's even more ironic is that Curry himself was just substituted in this round. He bent down and tied his shoelaces lasted for two minutes, as if he was avoiding the massacre on the court.

If you want to talk about a fatal turning point, you have to look at the round that was scolded by fans at 7 minutes and 33 seconds in the second quarter. When Kumingga broke through and passed the ball, Zhu Mengmeng in the bottom corner actually had no guarding two meters outside the three-point line. This tough guy with a 28% three-point shooting percentage chose to take action with confidence, but the basketball hit the rebound and bounced out of bounds. The broadcast footage captured the Timberwolves coach Finch's smile-smile expression, and this mistake directly triggered the opponent's 14-0 offensive frenzy. The collective loss of the core players is astonishing. Butler, who had a maximum salary of 215 million yuan in four years, made 4 of 11 shots under McDaniels' defense in this game. In the most critical third quarter, he didn't touch the ball for 8 minutes. When Edwards finished his tomahawk buckle through him, the six-time All-Star chose to tie his wrist guards with his back to the court, a move described by the Warriors with the team reporter as a "prelude to surrender".

The dressing room story is more cruel than the score. Curry, who was photographed leaving the stadium after the game, rushed in the shower for a full half hour. According to people familiar with the matter, the 34-year-old super giant sat quietly in a corner of the locker room with a towel covering her face for 20 minutes, and no teammate dared to come forward to comfort her. Zhuang Meng, who had a contract of 109 million, pushed the responsibility for losing at the post-match press conference, and said that he was so angry that he threw his pen and left the seat with the team reporter on the spot.

When the Timberwolves generals were caring with tickets to the Western Conference Finals, the Warriors' team bus left the stadium 40 minutes in advance. In the car window, Kumingga stared at the animation picture of Edwards falling down in the third section on his phone. This new star, once called the "dream-chasing successor", finally tasted the collapse of the dynasty. Outside the stadium, a young fan wearing a No. 30 jersey asked his mother crying: "Can we see Curry next year?" Perhaps even the Warriors boss Lacob can't give an answer to this question.