From sparring to superstar

Chapter 108 106. After all, I was riding on the head
The fastest response was from the White House, which urgently held a press conference to denounce Sterling's remarks, and the federal government will investigate the incident.

The NBA also immediately declared that it would suspend Sterling indefinitely, and immediately launched an emergency plan to deprive Sterling of the qualification to own an NBA team, and the Clippers entered the auction process.

All walks of life also reacted quickly, denouncing and criticizing.

Sterling offended not just blacks, but everyone, including people of his own ethnicity.

Let cool immediately.

For a while, it seemed that the whole eagle sauce was the most anti-discrimination country.

But Sterling's remarks are not only influential on Ying Jiang, the eyes of the whole world are focused on Ying Jiang. While condemning, they are also watching Ying Jiang and the good show of the NBA.

The NBA wanted to quickly draw a line with Sterling, but things didn't go so smoothly.

Originally, at the beginning of August, because Li Ao officially completed the contract with the Clippers and had a high probability of being able to play in the summer league due to his amazing performance, florists and other Asian countries and regions have increased their investment in the Clippers. The market value of the Clippers skyrocketed, from 8 million to 1.8 million, and the Clippers became the team with the most potential to make money for a while.

At that time, passers-by in Yingjiang’s house were all surprised. Isn’t a certain eastern country still under the reign of terror of slash-and-burn cultivation?How does it feel like a lot of money.

But after this incident broke out, all the sponsors withdrew their funds one after another. They just signed the agreement, and they announced that they would not pay any money before they paid a penny, and they would sue Sterling.

As a result, the Clippers not only lost the more than 20 sponsors they had just signed, but even the original 9 sponsors ran away.

The Clippers billboards at the Staples Center were also taken down overnight.

Not only that, the Clippers players headed by Li Ao shouted to the NBA one after another, demanding that they terminate their contracts with the Clippers and become free agents.

This is okay, Stern will not agree to this, which is tantamount to disbanding the Clippers.

The most important thing is the NCAA's show operation. They gave Li Ao the green light to allow Li Ao to return to the NCAA arena, as if the event of participating in the draft had never happened, and they were considering licensing Li Ao to accept the endorsement, and the sponsors also changed. Goals, start engaging with the NCAA.

This made Stern want to ascend to heaven in place, and the one who stabbed the knife in the back in a critical moment turned out to be an ally!
As a result, the market value of the Clippers fell to the bottom.

In this year when all walks of life are frugal because of the prosperity of Internet stocks, the auction of selling 87% of Sterling's shares at a starting price of [-] million US dollars has passed!

The second auction, with a starting price of US$1.5 million, failed again.

Some people who participated in the auction complained to the media, spending $1.5 million to buy the Clippers in this situation, why not buy the Grizzlies?

The Grizzlies owner is now also hesitating between selling the team to stop losses and moving.

And the current NBA franchise fee is less than 1.5 million US dollars.

Sterling is still the owner of the Clippers for a day, and public opinion cannot be calmed down for a day.

For a while, it seemed that the only solution in front of David Stern was to disband the Clippers?
The NBA teams these days are not like they will be worth more than a billion dollars more than ten years later. Anyway, there is already an NBA team in Los Angeles. At worst, they will disband and then accept another team to join them.

Just when Stern was about to grit his teeth and cut off his tail to survive, Sterling's wife who had been separated for many years appeared on the scene and forced Sterling to go to a psychiatric hospital for an examination. An authoritative Israeli psychiatrist gave the examination report, Sterling was diagnosed with hypochondria and lost his capacity for civil conduct.

According to the law of Yingjiang's family, Sterling's wife, Shelly, has the right to separately handle the joint property of the couple.

Seeing that NBA officials have revealed that they want to disqualify the Clippers, Shelley Sterling went to find a buyer and disqualified the team. It has to pay the arena usage fees that have already been leased, pay the salaries of players that other teams are unwilling to take over, etc., and it becomes negative equity in situ.

NBA officials do not want to auction the Clippers at a price below $1.5 million because they are worried about affecting the overall value of the NBA team. The market value of the Grizzlies is $1.5 million, and a buyer has offered an offer, but the owner of the Grizzlies Still debating whether to sell or move.

David Stern's idea is that he would rather have one less team in the NBA than sell it cheaply.

But Shelley Sterling doesn't care about this. Even if it's not worth 3 million dollars, more than 1 million dollars is a huge amount of money. David Stern wants to cut off his tail to survive. It's not the tail of the NBA, but her arm .

When Shelley Sterling lowered the price, soon, the Los Angeles Sports Investment Group led the way...

...

The time came to September 9st, USC had already started school, and the old man came to the school to find Li Ao who was in school.

"McHale, that is to say, you have become my boss?"

"No, the sports management company under the Los Angeles Sports Investment Group is responsible for managing the Clippers. Our group now holds a minority of the Clippers. Shelley Sterling only needs cash. Our group initially wanted to use property, She disagrees with real estate management rights and equity replacement. We can’t come up with 1.3 million in cash at once, and the NBA needs salary reserves. We need time to raise money, and we are worried that others will buy it first. The cash guys bought the team together.

The new big boss of the Clippers is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. He signed a total investment plan of [-] million yuan with our group, entrusted us to establish an independent subsidiary, and then entrusted this company to our group manage.

Buy the Clippers for 1.3 million, our group paid 4000 million, your teacher paid 1000 million, and the remaining 8000 million was paid by Ballmer with other money, that is, he privately holds the Clippers 53 % of the shares, our group only has 36% of the shares, and the rest of the shares are in the hands of others. Ballmer owns the management rights of the Clippers, and then entrusts the management rights to the sports management company, which will be managed by our group Manage the team on behalf of.

He just wants to own an NBA team at the moment, and he took advantage of the cheap price, but he has no time to manage it. If he wants to, he can change agents at any time. "

"What kind of matryoshka operation is this, wait, let me figure it out."

Li Ao rationalized his thoughts and said: "Last Christmas, I seem to have seen the news that Bill Gates congratulated Ballmer on becoming the CEO of Microsoft. He wanted the team and bought it at a low price. He didn't have time to care about it. Now Your group is in charge of management, that’s what it is, right? Then you have become my boss?”

"The actual situation is like this, how about it, Leo, have you decided whether to play in college for two more years or stay on the team? I discussed it with Caesar, who is my youngest son. He is temporarily in charge of managing the team. He Respect your decision, you have to play two more years in college, and the team can wait for you to join when that time comes."

Li Ao is confused now.

Half a month had passed since this happened, and it happened so suddenly that he was completely unprepared.

When he saw that video, he was angry at the first time, and immediately asked Schwartz to find the media to announce that he would quit the Clippers, and he and his teammates jointly submitted an application for termination of the contract to the NBA.

The NCAA also threw out an olive branch at this time, agreeing that he would return to college to participate in the competition.

As Yingjiang intervened in this matter, after beating Sterling hard, he calmed down, and when he watched that video again... he found that Sterling really tastes good!

I didn't look at it carefully at the time, but looking at it now, he almost regarded it as two men doing something indescribable.

The female secretary named Tia was more masculine than Sterling. After a few glances, she thought that the female secretary would be bigger than Sterling when she took out the big dick.

Sterling is cold, or cold on his sting.

After he got tired of playing with the female secretary, he wanted to drive her away, but the female secretary took out the video and demanded $500 million.

Unexpectedly, Sterling thought of no other way, but bargained with the female secretary, and he really cut the price to $50.

Here comes the most embarrassing operation. After Sterling paid 20 dollars in advance to get the video, he turned his face and refused to pay the final payment. He also hired a private detective to install a pinhole camera in the rental house of the female secretary to monitor female secretary.

But I didn't expect that people had already prepared it, and what they gave Sterling was just a backup of the video. After not receiving the final payment, they sold the video to ABC TV for $50...

Looking back now, Li Ao feels that Yingjiang’s TV station is really wild. From the foreplay of Sterling’s nonsensical words to the 5-minute scene of putting on pants, all of them were released in the live news without coding.

As expected of Eagle Sauce, it's perverted enough.

The choice before Li Ao is quite simple. Whether he chooses to continue playing in the NCAA or play in the NBA, it is very beneficial to him.

Playing NCAA, he has an easier environment for basic skills polishing and technical development, and the NCAA seems likely to allow him to play games with endorsement fees. This is the first time the NCAA has such an operation. He wants to be a stick for Sterling Incense, the kind that costs three sticks for one dollar.

However, after playing with Odom and O'Neal, he is more eager to play at a higher level.

Constantly challenging to become stronger in the basketball world is his longing for life.

The old man gave Li Ao time to think about it.

In the afternoon, Li Ao finally made a decision and shook the old man over.

"How about it, Leo, have you made a choice? It doesn't matter, no matter what you choose, the position of the star of the team is reserved for you. It's useless when God comes, I said!"

"Hieite, you don't believe in God! Take God as an example, can you show more sincerity?"

"Isn't this a business? Which businessman have you ever seen talk to death?"

"It's true...McHale, I've decided to play in the NBA!"

"Oh! That's great. We are all prepared to lose money for two years. If you join, we will definitely make a profit!"

"But I have one condition."

"What conditions did you say, except salary increase."

"Change the general manager! Now! Immediately! Immediately! Find a general manager with a normal IQ!
I want to strangle him. How many people has he given away to other teams for free over the years?
Maurice Taylor, Ramond Murray, Isaac Austin, Rodney Rogers, Brent Barry, Lloyd Ott... In the past three summers, whoever played well will be sent away Who, there is nothing in return, free gift, this should be my teammate in the first place!
I don't ask for an excellent general manager, but I have to have a normal mind.

By the way, McHale, your group manages the team, you won't pick it like Sterling, right? "

After hearing this, the old man also spewed out "Fake".

He has heard all these names. When he left the Clippers, he seemed to have just hit a new career high. Either he averaged 15+ per game, or he averaged a double-double per game, or he just showed his talent and entered a stage of rapid growth.

Because there are only one or two every year, he doesn't pay much attention to the Clippers, and he has no idea.

But put those names together, and he's all bad.

"Change! I'll ask Caesar to fire him right away. You don't have to worry about the team's investment. The big boss is from Microsoft. He's the big boss. We're just minority shareholders.

By the way, Leo, I'm just in charge of talking to you about continuing to play in college or joining the team immediately. Changing the general manager is your request to return to the team, but I have no right to intervene in the matter between you and the Clippers. At most Help you convey your opinion. "

"McHale, I didn't expect you, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, to be such a scumbag. You were worried that I would not play well after entering the NBA. I would be worthless and kicked me. I can't blame you?"

"How can you think so? We are friends... But business, business is like this... Hey, the main thing is that I am getting old, maybe one day you will bow to my black and white photo Otherwise, I will be my own boss."

"You turtle spirit, you can't hang up for the time being."

"thank you for your good wishes."

Li Ao and the old man exchanged a few words, but they didn't pay much attention to it.

In this regard, he still has a certain understanding of the old man, who was originally a businessman.

Suddenly, Li Ao thought of something, and the phrase "屮艸芔茻" spewed out.

The old man asked cautiously: "What's the matter? What else do you want? Tell me, I may not be able to satisfy you. I'm not the boss."

"Vacco! Why didn't you tell me sooner that you wanted to buy the team? I'll beat Sterling first! If you beat him now, you might be arrested."

Grandpa: (￣┏＿┓￣)
Yingjiang has a very interesting law. A fight between colleagues is less punishing than a fight between two passers-by. As long as there is no accident, even if the other party wants to sue or go to court, it will be a long time later, and at most you will lose money .

But now it is no longer an employment relationship, not a colleague, and the punishment from the court will be more severe.

Looking at the annoyed Li Ao, the old man had a wonderful expression on his face.

He was sure that this guy was really regretting the lost opportunity to beat Sterling without criminal responsibility.

What a big heart!

...

With the Clippers changing hands, the turmoil has calmed down.

The new boss has a new atmosphere, and the Clippers announced that they will relocate the training venue back to the Memorial Stadium, which is only 20 minutes walk from the Staples Center.

This operation made all the Clippers players very happy.

Although the urban area is a bit congested, it is not necessary to drive for an hour to go to training.

After Li Ao learned that the Memorial Stadium still charged the Clippers' training venue rental fee, he felt that the old man's family just wanted to make more money.

It is cheaper to rent a warehouse in an old industrial area, but you still have to pay rent.

But renting the Memorial Stadium not only reduces the vacancy rate of large training grounds, but the money is still in the left hand.

But he is also very happy, the distance to school, to the competition venue, and home is all closer.

And it wasn't his money that was spent. Ballmer didn't have any objections, so he didn't feel bad.

That's it...

"Leo, call the boss to listen."

"I don't want it, Aunt Vivian, you are not the big boss."

"I want to be the big boss too! I've put all my money into it, that's all, but the Clippers are so expensive, I can't even afford it if you sell me...Quickly, call the boss."

"I do not!"

Seeing Li Ao's aggrieved and stubborn expression, Wei Wei couldn't be happier.

Li Ao didn't expect that he was still being ridden on the head by the hospital assistant's aunt.

no!He has to work hard!To struggle!He wants to turn over and ride on the head of the boss!

The turmoil of Sterling did not have much impact on his training. The NCAA made a decisive move and offered him an olive branch almost immediately, with the idea of ​​using him to open up the Chinese market.

His way of resolving his anger during that time was to train, train hard, and ignore foreign affairs, so as not to hold back the Sterling knife.

If you really did that, it would be too bad. The people in Washington are the most angry. Those people can't wait to come out and kill Sterling alone.

There is still some time before the training camp, and Li Ao has now entered a three-point and one-line life of attending classes at school, going to the Memorial Stadium for training, and returning to the apartment.

Occasionally, I need to shoot an advertisement, but it doesn’t waste much time. USC has an art college, so it’s very convenient to shoot an advertisement there.

As he made the decision to play in the NBA, sponsors continued to re-negotiate cooperation with the Clippers.

The two brands endorsed by Li Ao also resumed their endorsement contracts.

Originally, because he might return to the NCAA to play, the two brands planned to postpone the endorsement until the end of his college career. I don't know how the NCAA will deal with it. Now we can continue to shoot commercials.

When the team's training venue was moved to the Memorial Stadium, Li Ao had more contact with his teammates.

The veterans are returning one after another, and their attitude towards Li Ao... is more fearful than the younger ones.

The older the world, the less courageous they are. They are really afraid of Li Ao, who is a stunned young man. The key point is that this stunned young man is not only ruthless in fighting, but also a genius, with extremely high commercial value.

Be safe and be safe.

In Li Ao's current training, there is an extra job as a sparring partner, who takes the initiative to be a sparring partner.

Defending against Odom, Kenyon Dooling, and Maggette... Occasionally, he couldn't think about it and took the initiative to ask O'Neal to be a sparring partner.

At first, the teammates were afraid, for fear that they would be blown up after killing Li Ao.

But after trying a few times and discovering that even if Li Ao was blown up, he would go to practice his defensive steps furiously, they became more courageous.

Usually they dare not speak loudly, but when they are one-on-one with Li Ao, they dare to use force boldly!He began to actively invite Li Ao to be a training partner.

Seeing this, the veterans also began to move around. McGinnis, Brian Jenkins, and Tyron Nesby, three veterans with the ability to hold the ball, joined the ranks of looking for Li Ao as a training partner.

Gradually, the teammates felt that getting along with Li Ao is actually not difficult, as long as the psychological endurance is strong enough, it would be better if there is a mouth worse than this guy who has an extra mouth...

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Last night I was working and socializing, and I didn’t get home until after 1 o’clock. I wrote Jiageng until more than 3 o’clock. I didn’t get up in the morning, crying and crying... The update is late, Xiaofeng’s fault.

(End of this chapter)