The NBA started with helping Iverson win the championship

The draft has ended, and Li Xun was a little disappointed that Bird failed to get Hiro in the list of two rookies he gave Bird, but only got Poole.

The main reason is that Hiro is a lottery pick, and there is really no way for the Pacers to trade for a lottery pick.

However, Poole's pick is very low. The Pacers used their own 30th pick plus 200 million cash to trade up for a 25th pick in the first round, and successfully signed Poole. .

In fact, it's not very useful to sign it. Poole's early combat power is simply useless.

Li Xun's template generator opportunity this year was used on Zhai Xiaochuan when he played in the Men's Basketball World Cup.

There is really no suitable candidate.

Zhai Xiaochuan is now 26 years old, and he is not considered a young player.

But Li Xun can only choose one of the Tianchao men's basketball team's World Cup roster, and he can't get in touch with other young players in China.

Zhai Xiaochuan is already the youngest in the men's basketball roster.

After the World Cup ended, Li Xun returned to the Pacers home court, ready to welcome the arrival of the new season.

He just finished a season with the Pacers, and he plans to give the Pacers two more championships in the next two seasons.

The introduction of Leonard this year has made the championship no longer suspenseful, and the NBA has entered the finale.

Li Xun also knows that in the next two years, because Leonard will stay with the Pacers, winning the championship is not a problem for them at all.

On the contrary, Nongmei's contract ends next season, and he is likely to pursue a super maximum salary.

Now the annual salary of the thick eyebrow is only 2700 million US dollars. This is the maximum salary contract he signed when his rookie contract ended.

Next, if he signs the maximum salary, the annual salary will be at least 4000 million as a base.

The Pacers obviously can't afford such a large amount, so the thick eyebrows will probably leave the team next season.

Li Xun is not worried about Nongmei leaving the team at all. After he leaves, Li Xun must find someone else to fill the vacancy of Nongmei.

In the Pacers team, no one is actually indispensable.

If there is one, Li Xun is the only one.

Now Li Xun has actually started to think about his life after retirement.

This is already the No. 12 season of his career, and of course he can still play for many years.

With Li Xun's current state, to say the least, he can fight for at least five or six years.

This is the case when he is confident in maintaining his full offensive and defensive state. If he only considers offense and does not consider defense, Li Xun feels that he will play until he is 40 years old. There is no problem at all.

As the saying goes, an old man's butt is loose, and he can't hit anything. After the players get older, among other things, there will really be problems on the defensive end.

Although he has enough defensive experience, defense consumes a lot of energy.

What the old man lacks most is physical fitness. If he really defends with all his strength, it will definitely affect the offense.

Li Xun's current plan is to play as long as he can for a few more years, and when his defensive efficiency drops drastically, he will simply announce his retirement.

Anyway, I have already thought about my future.

When the virtual currency was at its lowest price before, he hoarded a large amount of currency.

It happened that the next two years ushered in a period of great leap in value, when Li Xun made all his moves, it was enough to make him a super rich man of tens of billions.

In fact, even without this virtual currency, Li Xun's entire career, including salary and off-site income, can still scrape together a billion dollars in his hands.

According to Li Xun's plan, he wanted to buy a team.

Like Jordan, become the big owner of an NBA team.

Right now there is no Chinese owner in the NBA.

In the following season, that is, the second half of the 2019-2020 season, Tsai Chongxin entered the NBA.

But in Li Xun's view, Cai Chongxin was really cheated.

He spends more money than anyone else, but the team is a mess and has become a joke around the world.

The main reason is that Cai Chongxin is a layman, and he takes it for granted in running the team.

And if Li Xun runs the team, there will definitely not be such a problem.

The first is the players. Because of the template generator, even if Li Xun can't select a decent player in the draft, he can get at least one strong player every year by relying on the template generator.

For newcomers, there is a four-year period of part-time jobs.

It is equivalent to saying that Li Xun has always ensured that the team has four strong rookies who are working for nothing.

Li Xun had to spend the rest of the salary cap because of the poor ghost line, and he could use it to sign the two super giants.

In this way, no matter whether they can win the championship or not, at least Li Xun's team will always maintain a strong competitiveness.

Because Chaoju can't sign if he wants to sign, so it doesn't mean that he will definitely win the championship.

But there are at least four strong rookies in the team, and even if the rookie contracts of these rookies are over, Li Xun still has the priority to match.

Li Xun's team will last forever.

This is what it means to do big things with little money.

Even Li Xun doesn't need to buy teams in big markets, he can just buy a small team and run it slowly.

As long as the team has a good record, the team's market value can definitely soar several times.

Like the Bucks before.

When Li Xun first entered the league, the market value of the Bucks was actually only [-] million US dollars.

Under normal circumstances, because Antetokounmpo led the Bucks to a record, by 2022, the market value of the Bucks soared to 18 billion US dollars.

The soaring market value is still secondary. As long as the team has a good record, it can make blood every year.

With such a comprehensive consideration, Li Xun would feel sorry for himself if he didn't buy a team by then.

And recently there have been rumors that the NBA will expand its military from the original 30 teams to 32. Li Xun feels that he must not miss this kind of thing.

A completely new team, not branded by anyone, definitely worth owning.

The NBA's military expansion is not news, because such rumors have been circulating since 2017.

However, military expansion is not a child's play, and requires a long preparation time, so it will definitely not be carried out in the short term.

Li Xun is now waiting for the news of the military expansion. If the military expansion is really done in recent years, he may even retire early.

On October 10, the Pacers finished all their preseason games.

First-line stars like Li Xun and Leonard just went up to show their faces in the preseason and didn't play much at all.

Just after the game ended, Li Xun received a call from a stranger.

After connecting, Li Xun heard that the other person reported his family name, so don't be dazed.

It was Cai Chongxin who called.

He officially acquired the Nets in February 2020.

In other words, they may already be negotiating with the Nets boss to discuss a transaction plan.

Such a large-scale transaction cannot be negotiated in three or two days, and it will take at least a few months.

"Li Xun, this call to you is really abrupt."

"Maybe you haven't heard my name before."

Cai Chongxin said to Li Xun with a smile after reporting himself.

Li Xun was speechless, if he hadn't relived his life, maybe he really didn't know who Cai Chongxin was now.

In fact, most fans didn't know who this person was before he bought the Nets.

"What's the matter? Mr. Cai."

Li Xun wondered why he called himself when he bought the Nets.

"To tell you the truth, I am discussing the acquisition with the Nets owner."

"It's almost done now. As long as the NBA management committee agrees, I will become the first Chinese owner in the NBA."

"This industry is an unfamiliar field to me after all, so I want to learn from you and see what suggestions you have."

Cai Chongxin's posture is very low.

After all, this is not a small business, it is literally billions of dollars.

In fact, in 18 years, Cai Chongxin had already acquired 49% of the shares of the Nets. At that time, he was not the big boss of the team and had no right to speak.

This time he is planning to take over the remaining 51% of the shares and become the only owner of the Nets.

Li Xun was speechless. He really wanted to tell Cai Chongxin that it was best for him not to come in the muddy waters of the NBA.

If it is not done well, it will really become a joke.

But these words are too unlucky, they have already negotiated the acquisition, and let him give up on my side.

"I have no suggestion, Mr. Cai."

"I only know how to win on the field, I don't know anything else."

Li Xun said very modestly.

"No, Li Xun, I think you know more than anyone else in this alliance."

"You don't just know how to win on the court, you are also the best in all aspects off the court."

"I didn't know that after you left the Pacers, you were not interested in coming to our Nets."

"If you are willing to come, I will definitely give you the best conditions."

"In addition, after you retire, the Nets will also provide you with a job as president. I assure you that the annual salary will definitely not be less than 2000 million US dollars."

Boss Cai finally told the truth about the phone call.

He was planning to let Li Xun join the Nets.

The Nets have a unique geographical location, just like the Los Angeles Clippers.

Now the Nets have been unable to increase their market value because their record is too rubbish.

At present, the total market value of the Nets is about 20 billion US dollars.

Boss Cai is sure that if the Nets can win three consecutive championships, their market value will at least double to $40 billion.

This is absolutely no joke.

Sitting in the super prosperous city of New York, the market value of 40 billion US dollars is not a dream.

The conditions he made for Li Xun were actually a kind of black box operation.

Careful fans should be able to find that many NBA players have taken up idle jobs in their respective home teams after retiring.

It's the kind that basically doesn't use much to go to work, and then the team pays.

This idle position may be a teaching assistant, or it may be a position in other management departments.

This is very likely to be a black box operation. The player's salary was cut or other reasons when he was active. After he retires, the team will compensate him.

Such an operation is indeed illegal, but it is not easy to check.

Take Li Xun as an example, it is quite normal for a team to hire him as the president of the team's basketball affairs.

As for Li Xun's salary, that is entirely the team owner's business, and no one else can control it.

Li Xun immediately understood what Boss Cai meant.

"It's too early to tell about this kind of thing."

"I'm only 30 years old now, and I can still play for many years. Let's talk about it when I'm about to retire."

Li Xun didn't express his opinion, because he really didn't want to go to a team like the Nets who took advantage of him.

Seems like New York teams are toxic.

The Knicks are the team that harms the players, and the Nets are the players that harm the team. Anyway, there is no such thing as a plausible one.

Moreover, Li Xun plans to become his own boss in the future, but he has no interest in working for others.

After chatting with Boss Cai for a while, he hung up the phone.

This small talk also strengthened Li Xun's idea of ​​having a team of his own.

Running a team can really make a lot of money.

In the opening game of the new season, the Pacers still played away against the Knicks.

For the Knicks last season, the speed of their decline was a bit beyond people's imagination.

When Li Xun was in the Knicks, they were the king's division, and they were invincible all over the league.

As a result, after Li Xun left, with little change in the lineup, they only played fifth in the Eastern Conference last season.

The record is not even as good as that of Lukai.

Even they lost to Lukai in the playoffs.

This also made the Knicks fans go crazy collectively, cursing at any player on the court during the preseason.

The Knicks claim to be the player's grave, that's really not nonsense.

When Li Xun was around, he could suppress the situation and make the players have no courage to mess around.

When Li Xun left, it immediately became a mess.

All kinds of going to nightclubs, all kinds of drinking and making troubles, almost turned into a prison team.

Even the chubby Jokic was photographed in and out of New York nightclubs several times last season.

It's not that the Zen master doesn't want to take care of it, but he can't do it at all.

Now who would like an old guy like him, these powerful young people are convinced that they can still play well without the Knicks.

"Li Xun!"

"Li Xun!"

Li Xun appeared at Madison Stadium, and the fans gave the warmest cheers.

As for the Knicks generals, they booed.

The Knicks of last season disappointed them too much.

Even if Li Xun is gone, not to mention winning the championship, at least entering the Eastern Conference finals is not a high requirement, right?
After Li Xun left, the Mavericks entered the finals for three consecutive years.

It's good now, the Knicks haven't even played a green card, how could the fans stand it.

After seeing Li Xun again, everyone in Nix felt ashamed.

"You guys are completely wasting your talent."

"I didn't bring you to the Knicks to be corpses in players' graves."

"If it doesn't work, I think you all should apply for a deal."

Li Xun said bitterly.

These are young people, facing all kinds of colorful temptations in the New York metropolis, no one is in charge, and they simply cannot resist these temptations.

Instead, escape from New York.

The Knicks were even more ashamed to tell Li Xun.

After a while, the game on the court began.

The Pacers' starting lineup is Thick Eyebrow, Li Xun, Leonard, Audi and Doncic.

In the new season, Doncic was directly placed in the No. [-] position by Li Xun.

A point forward like Doncic, to put it bluntly, is a big point guard, and he is no different from a point guard.

The only difference is that he struggles defensively against smaller point guards.

But the Pacers have Audi on their side. When they encounter a small point guard, they simply let Audi defend.

So there is no problem at all for Doncic to play point guard.