From sparring to superstar

Chapter 103
Figueroa Street in Los Angeles, one of the most expensive commercial office areas in the city, Building 333, a commercial office building with 33 floors.

In the 70s, the area above the 20th floor of the building was jointly owned by current Lakers owner Jerry Buss and Clippers owner Donald Sterling.

In 1979, Jerry Buss sold the real estate he owned in the building to Sterling for $6750 million to buy the Los Angeles Lakers.

More than ten years have passed, and the building has all belonged to Sterling.

Sterling's office, law firm, and real estate company headquarters are all here.

He enjoyed sitting in this building, which proved his brilliance.

Especially proving he's better than Jerry Buss!
Back then, he watched Jerry Buss invest [-]% of his net worth in buying an NBA team. At that time, the NBA was still synonymous with negative images such as brawls, illegal drugs, and sex violence. He was happy to see Jerry Buss' miserable ending.

Unexpectedly, less than a year after Jerry Buss spent more than 6000 million U.S. dollars, it became 1.5 million U.S. dollars. The Lakers selected Magician and won the championship that season. The market value skyrocketed and more than doubled. .

At the suggestion of Jerry Buss, Sterling quickly bought a team, bought the San Diego Clippers for $1981 million in 1250, and moved to Los Angeles in 1984.

As a result, more than ten years have passed. After the Lakers won the championship this year, their market value has exceeded 5 million US dollars again, becoming one of the only two teams in the NBA with a market value of more than 5 million US dollars.

After the Lakers reached the Finals in 1991, their market value had exceeded $5 million. However, the Magician was infected with AIDS and retired in place. The Lakers were implicated, and their market value plummeted by [-] million overnight.

The Clippers currently have a market value of 1.8 million US dollars, which is not as good as the 1982 million market value after the Lakers won the championship in [-] and won the No. [-] pick after James Worthy was selected.

In terms of running the team, Sterling lost as badly as he could.

However, he is in the real estate business, and his vision is much better than that of Jerry Buss. Taking advantage of the low tide of real estate prices, he bought all the buildings little by little, and now he owns a building. , Much richer than Jerry Buss!

Today, an unexpected visitor came to Sterling's office.

The Elgin Baylor he hates is at it again.

Baylor denounced Li Ao's evil deeds, and then said: "We send him away! Don't the Lakers want him? Send him there!
After being selected, he never came to report. On the first day he came, he beat his teammates and sent them to the hospital. How can such a player be kept! "

Sterling impatiently took out a stack of documents and threw them on the desk: "Look at this first."

Baylor picked up the documents with a question mark in his head, flipping through them one by one.

Flower Planters Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Flower Planters Construction Group, Flower Planters Tobacco Group, Flower Planters, Baldy Chip Manufacturing Company, Baldy Fruit United... more than a dozen sponsorship contracts, more than the previous sponsors of the Clippers combined.

Although the sponsorship fee for each contract is not high, and it is only for one year.

However, what does this mean, no matter how unlucky Lord Baylor is, he also understands the meaning.

No wonder the one said that his former boss had been drunk for several days and was sent to the hospital.

Sterling took the sponsorship contracts back in his hand, counted them one by one, and there was no shortage, so he was relieved and said:
"In this matter, whoever did it first is at fault, Leo and his teammates got into a fight, and this summer league was suspended for 5 games.

Olowokandi splashed water on the coach and teammates, this behavior cannot be forgiven.

Did that parallel importer play well last season?Send him away while he is valuable.

You can ask Leo if there is any center you want to cooperate with, we can sign or trade... The salary should not be too high, it is better to trade, use Olowokandi to exchange for the center in the rookie contract... The salary should not be too high! "

Baylor was pleasantly surprised when he heard who made the first move and who was wrong, thinking that the road had turned around.

But hearing Sterling use 'fighting' to define the matter, he felt something was wrong.

Hearing how they were treated, he thought he was blind.

Seeing Baylor's sad face getting more exciting, Sterling snorted coldly and continued, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. Is there anything else? If you don't, go quickly. There are clients coming soon."

Baylor left the office bewildered, now in disarray.

When he went downstairs and walked out of the building, a gust of warm wind blew in, and he thought about turning a corner—our Clippers actually have a ball bully today?Or a balloon star whose commercial value is bursting to be held by the management?

His gaze returned to Sterling's office.

His secretary was arranging the sponsorship contract, and his hands were arranging the secretary's skirt, and he started messing with the newcomer Xiaomi again.

He feels that he has a particularly high personality today. Before Baylor came, he had already started directly, ready to show his glory.

This secretary came at the end of last month, and her name is Tia. He fell in love with her right away. It was his good mouth. He had a good figure, but he looked... very heroic.

He drank some wine at noon today, and planned to do it.

But as soon as he started, Baylor's unlucky guy came and disturbed his sexuality.

But he felt that he was extraordinarily high today, looking at Tia who was bent over and raised her buttocks, he stood up again.

"Boss, you can't do this, I have a boyfriend... Boss' hands are so powerful..."

"I have something even better."

"Boss, you hate it... Is this the harvest after choosing Leo? His commercial value is so high!"

Sterling became proud when he heard the words, and said: "This is the beginning. If we can successfully sign the contract with him, as long as he performs well enough, the next sponsorship fee we get will be much higher than this!

Olowokandi, this nigger, is not obedient at all, he has long wanted to kick him away, damn parallel importer, I was scolded for two years.

Leo, hum, dare to look down on my team, but it doesn't matter, as long as he can help me make money, he beat Olowokandi, I just send Olowokandi away to please the flower planters fans.

But whether it's the nigger Olowokandi or the yellow skin Leo, they're just tools for me to make money!If they didn't help me make money, I wouldn't have let them into my arena. Seeing them would give me goosebumps and disgust me. "

The more he talked, the more excited Sterling became: "The Yankees like Bass are really stupid, what basketball dream, what sportsmanship, they know nothing, money is the most important thing, but if they weren't so stupid, the Yingjiang family would be so stupid. It will not be controlled by us Jews."

Tia was stunned when she heard that, is this something that can be said?
No, the work is not over yet, she twisted her body and said softly, "Boss, you can just do it, why are you still taking off my clothes, I have a boyfriend!"

That's right, before taking off his clothes, Sterling quickly took off Tia's clothes, and said with a wretched smile, "I just like those who have boyfriends, come on, compare me and your boyfriend who is better..."

…A few minutes later…

Tia said with a satisfied face: "The boss is still amazing..."

Satisfied with the new secretary's reaction, Sterling put on his trousers and said, "I have business to discuss, so clean up the office."

After speaking, Sterling walked away with a feeling of desperation, unable to stand up.

After Tia confirmed that Sterling had left, she pissed off at first, and didn't even give a tip. It's not as generous as the people who ate fast food when she went to work part-time.

But that's okay!

She took out the camera hidden in the bookshelf and looked at it. The picture and sound were very clear, so she quickly put it in her bag and cleaned it up.

She is so excited right now!In a hurry when cleaning.

She didn't expect the aromatherapy from Brother Ah San's house to be so powerful!
This Grandet was so aroused that he was so outspoken!

Originally, she just wanted to use this to blackmail the other party for a sum of money, but she didn't expect to record such explosive content!

There are long-term meal tickets!

...

On the first day Li Ao returned to the team, he went to the training hall in the morning and was notified of the suspension at noon.

Schwartz was numb, and he applied for a deal directly after knowing that he was selected.

He didn't expect Leo's temper to be so irritable. He felt that his career as a manager was coming to an end...

However, at night, a rumor surfaced that the Clippers parallel importer Olowokandi wanted to bully the rookie, and Li Ao, the new talent scout, fought back angrily. The two fought in the locker room, and both were banned from participating in the next summer league .

When Schwartz first received the news, his world view exploded.

I wipe it, can it still be like this?

Early the next morning, he came to Li Ao's apartment and saw that the door of Li Ao's small apartment was open, so he walked over to have a look...

On the sofa, a man as big as Li Ao was resting his head on the shoulder of the beautiful teacher with grievances, and said with grievances:

"That guy provoked me and splashed me with dirty water. I couldn't hold back and fought with him. He was too strong. Fortunately, I was rich in fighting experience, so I narrowly defeated him. Aunt Vivian, look, my hands are too strong. injured."

"Why didn't you tell me yesterday, if you were bullied, tell me! I hired someone to beat him...it doesn't hurt, Auntie blows it up for you, it hurts so much...is there any other injuries..."

"Cough cough."

Schwartz couldn't stand it anymore, and interrupted the two of them.

Only then did Li Ao and Vivian notice that someone was coming, and Li Ao raised his head, as if nothing happened just now.

As long as he doesn't feel embarrassed, it's not embarrassing.

After a while, the three sat in the living room of Vivian's house and had breakfast.

Li Ao scratched the skin on his hands, and he was slow to recover after being exposed to water for a long time, so he cooked three bowls of macaroni and ate one meal.

For him, it was enough, but for Schwartz, this was the best macaroni he had ever eaten, as if someone was going to grab it from him, he ate it in two or three bites, and even drank the soup Be clean.

Wiping his mouth, Schwartz said, "Leo, why were you so impulsive yesterday?"

He wanted to ask this question yesterday, but he didn't dare.

The scene when Li Ao beat Olowokandi was too scary.

But today seeing that Li Ao's face is still invulnerable, and his cooking is still amazingly delicious, Li Ao's image in his mind has been reversed again, he dares to ask.

Li Ao responded: "As the saying goes, open with one punch, so as not to be bullied for the first time, if you don't give them something strong, they will think that I am really easy to bully."

Vivian echoed, "That's right."

Schwartz: (￣┏Д┓￣°*)
He actually thinks it makes sense!
Forget it, let's go step by step.

Schwartz said: "I finally know why Sterling so readily agreed to you to ask for tickets and 120% salary. Many companies in the florist announced last night that they will start commercial cooperation with the Clippers."

"I've heard of it too, but I've guessed it would be like this."

"Oh, so you know that the Clippers will favor you, so you hit that parallel importer Liwei, and I said, why are you so calm." Schwartz felt that this made sense.

"No, I didn't think that much at the time, it was just a habitual counterattack."

"..."

Schwartz covered his face in pain.

Forget it, it's on the stall, what else can I do?

He said: "When I was going out just now, Elgin Baylor called me and asked if you had a center that you wanted to cooperate with. They planned to send Olowokandi away."

"I want Duncan."

"You want to eat farts, but on the 1st, I received news that the Clippers really offered Duncan a maximum salary offer, but Banks didn't even give the Clippers a chance to meet, and directly refused, just... I didn't expect that Jew to be willing to spend such a large amount of money." Schwartz felt that since he became Li Ao's manager, his worldview had been refreshed.

"Sterling is picky, but not stupid. No matter what team gets Duncan, it will immediately become a popular team. The income from ticket price increases is higher than Duncan's salary... No kidding, I really have a candidate... ..."

...

The summer league was suspended for 5 games, about two weeks.

Li Ao is also happy to train on his own, to improve the three-pointer and mid-range shot, and to show stronger abilities at that time in order to strive for a higher tactical status.

Regarding the fact that he beat Olowokandi, the paper cannot contain the fire, and the original situation of the matter was still exposed.

However, Sterling first used media resources and released rumors to give people the impression of "fighting each other". Even if it was later revealed that Li Ao beat Olowokandi unilaterally, it would only turn the matter into a reality. 'Unsolved case'.

And this matter did not have much impact on Li Ao's reputation.

People's focus on this matter is whether the Clippers will keep Li Ao?

Recently, there have been two news about Li Ao that have been very popular. One is that the Grizzlies management revealed that they had planned to help the Lakers choose Li Ao.

The authenticity of this news was originally doubted in people's minds.

But later it was exposed that the Lakers had already negotiated with the Magic to trade the No. 5 pick for Li Ao, but they were intercepted by the Clippers with the No. 3 pick.

The news was confirmed by Magic insiders upset about the deal failure.

Will the Clippers send this thorny prospect away?

Even if he doesn't send him away, how should Li Ao get along with his teammates?
Wouldn't it be embarrassing for Li Ao and Olowokandi to play in the same jersey?

Just as the media and fans were discussing more and more lively, the Clippers officially announced the deal!
The Clippers sent Olowokandi and Derek Blunt, and exchanged from the Trail Blazers for Jermaine O'Neal, Greg Anthony, and a highly protected first-round pick with the top 2001 pick in 25!

(End of this chapter)