Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 59 Coach, I want to play basketball!

When he first received the call, Jamie didn't even react. He finally remembered after being prompted by the other party.

It was the interior designer who helped him design the penthouse in Hampshire House.

Because the minimalist style concept required by Jamie was too advanced, he found drawings from several designers but could not satisfy him, and finally found Anne Tausi.

The two met only once, and they were contacted by real estate agents behind them.

This is probably why the other party has Jamie's phone number.

During the phone call, Anne Tausi explained that her family moved to New York from Tennessee six months ago, and Jamie happened to be the first client she received.

Inspired by Jamie's penthouse renovation plan, she began trying to persuade more clients to adopt this minimalist decoration style.

At first, most customers didn't like it, but it wasn't until "Percy Jackson" suddenly became popular, and driven by the celebrity effect, this design became popular.

Anne Tousi also became famous and recently became a senior partner of a design firm.

It was during this time that the Taosi family moved into the new home they bought in New York and were preparing to hold a celebration party.

When drawing up the guest list, Anne saw news about Jamie and Jordan's family in the newspaper, so she came up with the idea of ​​inviting Jamie to the party.

Jamie knew that the other party's purpose of inviting him to the party must be more than just gratitude, and he instinctively wanted to refuse.

Anne obviously knew this, so she spoke first and admitted that she did have another purpose.

It turns out that Anne has a daughter who is 15 years old this year.

Anne and her husband struggled a lot to get their daughter to transfer from her original school to Constance High School.

It happened that Annie also knew that Jamie also attended Constance High School.

"Mrs. Taosi, if you just want to know something about Constance High School, I can recommend a blog to you-"

Before Jamie could say his refusal, Annie explained on the opposite side:
"No, no, you misunderstood me. In fact, I have adopted a child. He is a black man. He is 16 years old, 6 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 110 kilograms."

Jamie was confused at first. When a normal person introduces his adopted son, shouldn't he first introduce the other person's life experience?
Although you can guess without an introduction, the vast majority of adopted children will have a tragic life experience. They are either orphans, abandoned by their parents or unable to raise them.

Let me first introduce what is the height and weight?

But after Annie reported the height and weight data of the adopted son, Jamie immediately reacted.

Isn't this kind of physical fitness a natural athlete template?

Jamie immediately asked on the phone:
"Mrs. Taosi, does your adopted son like to play ball?"

Anne was waiting for this sentence and immediately replied happily:
"of course."

Now Jamie finally remembered.

No wonder he had always felt that the name Anne Tausi was familiar to him. It turned out to be the "plot" of that movie.

To further confirm this, Jamie asked again.

"Is it rugby he likes to play?"

Anne's answer was somewhat surprising.

"We thought that was the case at first, but when our family came to New York and we were preparing to choose a new school for him, he suddenly confessed to us that his favorite sport was actually basketball."

This time it was Jamie's turn to not be calm.

Come on, that's Michael Oher.

A very influential star in the NFL.

Now you tell me, he wants to play basketball?Seemingly guessing Jamie's doubts, Anne on the other end of the phone immediately explained:

"Michael is a poor child. His mother is an addict and his father is missing. Before we met him, he had been in more than a dozen host families. He often lived on the streets and rummaged through trash cans to fill his stomach. .”

"Generally, black children from this kind of family will have serious violent crime tendencies, but Michael is an exception. He is introverted and very kind. I can assure you that he has never done anything illegal."

"In fact, you can probably guess from his name that his idol is Jordan, and the reason why he chose football before is very simple, because this is the most common choice for all poor black children, isn't it?"

Of the four major professional sports leagues, rugby is the most popular.

The annual Super Bowl halftime show is also known as the American Spring Festival Gala.

However, this is not the main reason why poor black kids like Michael choose the NFL according to Annie.

The real reason is that the first team of football has 11 players, the first team of baseball has 9 players, the first team of ice hockey has 6 players, and the first team of basketball has only 5 players.

For poor black kids, football is the safest choice.

After all, each team needs more people, and the probability of being selected is also high.

The biggest risk for the poor is to remain poor for the rest of their lives
The cost of trial and error for the poor is always the highest.

"Mrs. Taosi, so you also support Michael's decision to play basketball, right?"

Jamie asked tentatively.

The subtext in the words is actually that if Michael follows his original trajectory and plays football, he will at least be able to achieve the status of a top left tackle in the NFL in the future.

If I play basketball, no one knows what the future will be like.

At least in Jamie's view, if Michael can reach a team's blue-collar position in the NBA in the future, then this decision will not be considered a loss.

The NFL is indeed more influential and more profitable than the NBA, but that is only at the league and team level.

Specific to players, NFL players are not as good as NBA players in terms of career length and salary level.

It’s still the simplest principle. There are 5 people in basketball and 11 people in football. The total salary is only that much, so the average amount of money distributed to each person will naturally be less.

Coupled with the greater intensity of confrontation in the NFL, athletes are more likely to be injured and their careers will be shorter.

Therefore, as far as individual players are concerned, being able to excel in the NBA will definitely bring greater benefits than being in the NFL.

But that's not the real reason why Jamie asked Annie this question.

Because Jamie knows something beyond the "plot", to be precise, the continuation of the story.

Compared with the tender story of the Taosi family adopting Michael and training him to become an NFL superstar, what happened next was not so tender.

Years later, Michael accused the Taosi family of cheating on him and of being a blood-sucking worm lying on his body.

The Taosi family said they had not made much money from Michael and they had always considered him family.

For Jamie, it doesn't matter what is right or wrong.

It is so common for the Tausi family to regard adopting Michael as an "investment".

Now it's time to test the Taosi family's investment vision.

Annie's answer will determine whether Jamie goes to the Tousys' party.

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