Basketball: The Chosen Victim

Chapter 60 The Godfather and the Great Wisdom
“46分14助攻12篮板2抢断1盖帽，你特么管这叫水平一般？”

American Airlines Center Arena, Heat president's office, Pat Riley pointed at James Jones' nose and yelled.

Jones, however, looked innocent. When Riley wanted to put Wu Di in the deal, he did ask him for his opinion symbolically.

But the transaction is not the transaction, and the decision-making power does not belong to him.

To put it bluntly, he just recognized Riley's intention to send Wu Di away, and said something that made Riley feel better.

"Tonight's opening game, if you perform worse than average, you just wait to be fired!"

Riley scolded harder and harder, Mad, he is so annoying!
But it's not that he regretted trading Wu Di, but that he made the deal too early and lost money!
As the president of the Heat, most of the money he gets comes from the team's profit and dividends.

So when the deal between Bosh and James was finally negotiated, he packed away No. [-] Michael Beasley and No. [-] Wu Di, thereby reducing the team's luxury tax expenditure.

The Cavaliers did not take the initiative to ask to introduce Wu Di at that time, he almost sent Wu Di away for nothing!
He should wait. If he can wait until today to trade, at least he can get a large amount of cash, at least the kind that starts with $500 million.

And now there are local newspapers criticizing him for not doing a perfect deal.

Simply ridiculous!
Riley even has a perfect nickname, and the stupid media simply don't know what to say!
Jones is also depressed, but he is not afraid that Riley will cut him off.

As a well-known player with three highs in the NBA (high IQ, high EQ, and tall), he deeply understands that the reason why he can enter Riley's office and be appreciated by Riley is definitely not because of his athletic ability.

So what Riley said just now was actually just venting his emotions, and he didn't refute at all.

In fact, don't say that Riley scolded him, even if Riley wanted to slap him a few times, he would stretch his face.

The reason why he was depressed was because Wu Di was a damn bastard.

Especially when he thought that he had lost to Wu Di with ten boxes of Lafite before, and letting Wu Di go to Cleveland was a change of direction that contributed to Wu Di's rise as a starter.

He rolled his eyes and said:

"Godfather, at the Cavaliers press conference yesterday, some reporters asked questions about doping, which may really exist."

Riley waved his hands upon hearing this, with an impatient look on his face:

"How is it possible, you are a pitcher yourself, you don't know the truth of Scott's words?"

Jones shook his head, spread his hands and explained:

"It's not stimulants, but growth hormones."

"Dynamic talents such as strength and speed cannot be improved as fast as Wu Di, unless medication is used."

"Think about it, this is just Wu Di's rookie season, he can barely match Anthony in terms of strength, a player who just finished his freshman season, and he is Asian..."

Riley narrowed his eyes. He was also an athlete. He understood as soon as Jones said it.

And he thought about it a little bit deeper. A while ago, the Cavaliers heated up the topic of revenge, and even found a new medical consultant for Wu Di.

Accelerating Wu Di's growth with banned drugs to complete revenge is completely logically logical. As long as it logically makes sense, then no matter whether it is true or not, it will be endless:

"As expected of you, I will let the alliance send a drug testing team to investigate!"

But Jones stopped him:
"There's no need to dirty the godfather's hands. Although the godfather has great influence in the alliance, there are always villains with ulterior motives who don't see the godfather's goodness. If they look for traces and trace back, it may be bad for the godfather."

Riley took a deep look at him, he was impatient just now, but Jones's little mouth is really sweet enough, so he flattered him by saying he was stupid:
"Well, let our ABC resident reporter question Wu Di about the ban, and make this topic hot."

"The godfather is really wise, so that the media can still gain popularity, and I will only be more grateful to the godfather!"

Jones paused, then continued:

"However, the alliance's punishment for banned drugs is not serious. After Wu Di is punished, he may still not repent... I suggest that the godfather describe the previous transaction as the Cavaliers wanting Wu by name. The Cavaliers will take care of Wu's emotions, and there is a high probability that they will not Deny, so that the Godfather can remain invincible..."

"Damn it, you think Godfather, I can't think of this?"

The corner of Riley's mouth twitched, and he waved his hand to signal Jones, a smart man, to get out of here.

He sat down on the large boss chair, called his assistant in and arranged things, then looked down at the densely packed monitors on the computer screen.

As rumored outside, the huge arena at the American Airlines Center has long been equipped with monitoring without dead ends, and the place where these monitoring gather is his office.

He opened one screen after another, the Big Three are training and warming up on the court, Haslem is teaching Joel Anthony to practice footwork, Spoelstra is preparing tactical materials in the office...

He can even see the cleaner dozing off in the workplace...

Suddenly, he noticed several players chatting in the corner on the screen of the player tunnel. He immediately zoomed in on the screen, and then put on the monitor headphones...

……

Nike Headquarters, Portland, USA
"Gino! We can't wait any longer, we can't wait any longer! Didn't you read today's news, Wu Di has become a phenomenal supernova..."

Pierre said anxiously to Nike Global Marketing Director Gino Fisanotti that he has been lobbying Fisanotti for Wu Di to increase his contract offer for the past few days, but his words are almost worn out. Still not let go.

"Even Griffin's rookie season only had a one-year contract of 40 dollars. Why should a prospect be given so much? Pierre, show the confidence of the TOP 1 brand!"

Fisanoti pinched his fingers and said that when Dayao renewed his contract in 03, it was the four-year, $4 million contract he quoted.

You must know that in the same year, Nike paid James $7 million for seven years.

"Wu is now a man who has set a new record, which is different from before..."

"It's just a rookie record. The Cavaliers' hot lineup is so popular with Scott. If you're lucky, it's not easy to get a stat! The price of 900 million is already very good. The poor guy who can't even afford an agent, Has he seen so much money?"

Pierre gritted his teeth and looked at the unmoved Fesanoti, so he had to take out two more printed photos and said:
"I spent a lot of money to get this. Adi has prepared to offer Wu 5 million in five years, and Under Armor is even higher, 2500 million in five years!"

Fesanoti frowned all of a sudden, he looked at the photo in Pierre's hand, and finally realized the seriousness of the problem:
"Damn it, does the money come from the wind? How come these two scumbags have more money than our budget!"

Seeing him like this, Pierre complained:

"If you had agreed to my offer of 4 million knives for four years, maybe Wu would already be ours..."

Fezanotti snorted, and finally recalled the accountability he suffered after the Dayao incident.

Although that incident did not affect his position in the company in the end, it was still quite uncomfortable to be scolded by the boss.

He stroked his beard and said:
"5 million in 3000 years, exclusive signature shoe contract, no more! If you can't sign it, it's your responsibility!"

Pierre was overjoyed, thought for a while and asked again:

"Can you sign Air Jordan? Wu Junlang's style is very suitable for Air Jordan's style."

Fessanoti leaned on his elbow and thought for a while before saying:

"That has to be discussed with Mr. Jordan. He didn't agree with non-All-Star players wearing AJ..."

Seeing this, Pierre tried again:

"But he broke Chamberlain's record, and it's only a matter of time before he makes it to the All-Stars. I suggest you seek Mr. Jordan's opinion immediately..."

"I'll try, but it might not work..."

(End of this chapter)