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Chapter 176: The championship parade, the promise of a wealthy family!

On June 6, the Seattle SuperSonics’ championship celebration was held as scheduled.

The club and the city government arranged the celebration activities from 11 am to 3 pm, and the route was determined to be about two kilometers.

The starting point is the team's home arena, passing the Space Needle, Pike Place Market, and ending at the Olympic Sculpture Park.

They will give talks at the Olympic Sculpture Park, where tens of thousands of fans will be in attendance.

The celebration is not long and the journey is not far, but it can increase the team's sense of identification with the city, increase the fans' sense of identification with the team, and further promote the team's culture and promote the city's brand image.

Kill four birds with one stone.

Therefore, no matter what league or team, they will hold such a celebration after winning the championship.

Double-decker buses, ribbons, salutes, power supply equipment, microphones, etc., the club has prepared all these things.

By then, there would be not only hundreds of thousands but millions of people present, as well as hundreds or thousands of staff and police to maintain order.

Therefore, even though it is only a short journey and activity time, the actual cost and expenses are not small at all.

Even if it was the 80s, it would probably be over $10.

In history, the most expensive celebration event for an NBA championship team belonged to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2010, with a total cost of nearly $350 million.

The Lakers paid 200 million out of their own pockets, and the government provided the remaining funds.

Although the Dallas Mavericks won the championship in 2011, their celebrations only cost 34.

The difference between wealthy clubs and ordinary teams can be seen from this point alone.

When Su Wen went out in the morning, Su Junjie and others were eager to attend the celebration as family members.

But after thinking about it, they felt that having so many people together was too public, so they gave up the plan.

"go."

Su Wen was about to get in the car when Lan Jieying suddenly pushed Zeng Huaqian and said, "We're not going, but you can go. Don't let Wenzi go alone."

"No."

Zeng Huaqian was very resistant.

On the one hand, he thought that he was really not Su Wen's family member and was embarrassed to follow him.

On the other side, she followed alone, and she was a little timid.

Su Wen looked at her, then looked at the others, and found that no one was following him. He didn't bother to talk nonsense, picked up his Lamborghini, and left with a 'boom' and flying dust.

"Look, he's gone, and it's too late for you to regret it now."

Lan Jieying looked at the rear of the car that had disappeared and glanced at Zeng Huaqian angrily.

"I don't want it."

Zeng Huaqian's face was completely red, and although she was a little happy inside, she still couldn't bear to get into Su Wen's car.

"Hey."

Lan Jieying simply stopped talking, turned around and left the garage, with an air of 'this child is hopeless' and left disappointed.

When Su Wen drove to the club headquarters, almost all his teammates, coaching staff, and club executives were already waiting.

He put the car away, put on a championship jersey and a championship hat, merged into the team, and began to gather, preparing to get on the bus in front.

"Su! Su! Su!"

Thousands of people around him crowded on both sides of the road, shouting at him. The enthusiasm was similar to the atmosphere at the airport when he returned from winning the championship.

Many people were holding cameras and snapping pictures. Their excitement was beyond words.

Su Wen waved to them, which immediately aroused even louder cheers.

Seeing that he was so loved, Wood on the side chirped and said with envy: "Su, in Seattle, I am more popular than the president."

"You're too ridiculous, Al." Brad Davis on the side said with great disgust: "What is the status of the president? Can he be with Soapy?"

"Yeah."

Wood immediately nodded in agreement, "Even the president doesn't have as much prestige as Su here."

The two of them answered and answered like they were having a cross talk, successfully making the people around them laugh.

Standing in the middle of the crowd, coach Lenny Wilkens, who still had his old spirit, laughed heartily and said: "If you lead the team to win three consecutive championships or four consecutive championships, I'm sure you will even be ranked among the best in the United States. More popular than the president."

"really?"

Wood's eyes shone, looking quite fascinated.

"Yes."

Wilkens replied firmly.

Seeing them unscrupulously making fun of the current American president, Su Wen did not participate in the whole process and just smiled silently.

As soon as 11 o'clock in the morning arrived, everyone boarded the bus one after another under the arrangement of the management and walked to the top floor.

The top floor of the bus has no roof and is completely open. It has a wide open-air view and can easily face the surrounding people.

As soon as everyone got on the bus, the crowd burst into loud cheers again, which meant that the championship parade had begun.

The parade bus crawled forward at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour.

Everywhere you go, you will be greeted by cheers and screams from the onlookers.

This scene continues until near the Space Needle.

There are more people there.

Almost tens of thousands of people stood in the square in darkness, looking forward to it.

As soon as their buses, police cars, and the management team arrived, even louder cheers erupted.

Su Wen and others waved their hands in front of such excited and enthusiastic people.

Wood, the live treasure, waved in response, his eyes searching for attractions in the crowd. He pointed at a girl with almost topless breasts, with the words "Su Wen, I love you" written in red watercolor pen inside! 'The female fan said to Su Wen: "Look, Su, you have another mistress."

"roll!"

Su Wen was very dissatisfied with him for using such a vulgar adjective to describe his female fan. He gestured to the female fan with a smile and said angrily: "The women in your family are the concubines."

"hey-hey."

Wood didn't care at all that the other party arranged for all the women in his family to be included. He kept grinning and said: "I am happy to tell you that there are no women in my family."

"Huh?" Su Wen looked at him inexplicably. Does this guy also have a 'superstar standard'?

In the future, fans will describe some stars who come from single-parent families as "standard superstars."

Generally, superstars come from single-parent families and come from poor backgrounds.

It seems that the poorer one's background is, the greater the celebrity status of the superstar is. It has become standard.

Allen Iverson is like that, James Harden is like that, Kevin Garnett is like that, Kevin Durant is like that, and LeBron James is like that.

It can be said that there are almost no rich second generation NBA superstars, and even very few come from middle-class families.

There are very few children from middle-class families like Jordan, Kobe, and Ray Allen who grow up to be super giants.

Not to mention a second-generation superstar like Stephen Curry.

And their children later proved that they could only have the status of a wealthy second generation, but did not have the physical talent of their father.

This further reduces the number of rich second-generation super giants in the league.

Wood smiled lightly and did not mind at all that he was born in a single-parent family. He said: "My mother ran away because she disliked the family's poverty. My father raised me alone."

"I haven't even seen my mother since I was a kid."

"Okay." Su Wen didn't expect that the other person was from another kind of single-parent family and was an abandoned person, so he immediately apologized to the other person.

Wood said nonchalantly: "It's nothing, I'm used to it anyway."

Su Wen just smiled silently, thinking, no wonder you sold off all the women in the family so generously, it seems you still have hatred for your mother.

"Do not be sad."

He gently patted the other person's shoulder and comforted: "If you know that someone is worse off than you, you will be very happy."

"Who?"

Wood's eyes widened and he asked.

He really couldn't think of anyone who would be worse off than himself, who had been abandoned by his mother since he was a child and left to be raised by his father alone.

Danzi’s illegitimate son, Jimmy Butler.

Su Wen said secretly.

But of course he would not tell the other person like this, this person who was not yet born but whose life experience was quite miserable.

How miserable is Jimmy Butler?

Su Wen said with a smile: "I can't tell you his name, but he is so miserable that it is unbelievable."

"How miserable is it?" Wood's curiosity was quickly aroused when he heard what Su Wen said was true.

"His mother was so miserable that she didn't dislike his family for being poor and running away, but she disliked him for being ugly and unsightly, so she abandoned him directly and didn't even want to raise him." Su Wen shook his head and said with a smile: "You said, Is this miserable?”

"Oh my God." Wood's eyes widened when he heard this, and he wished he could carve a big word 'miserable' on the forehead of the brother Su Wen spoke of.

"A mother abandons her son because she thinks he is ugly. There is such a woman."

Wood really couldn't imagine what that man was going through when his mother abandoned him for such a reason.

"That's right." Su Wen was also speechless by this kind of thing.

People say that a son does not think his mother is ugly, and a dog does not think his family is poor.

Good guy, Butler's mother did the exact opposite and abandoned her son because she disliked him for being ugly.

You know, Butler is nicknamed 'Jordan's illegitimate son' by fans.

It's not that Butler's skills and talents are like those of Joe, but that he looks very similar, as if he was carved from the same mold.

He currently thinks Butler is ugly. Doesn't that mean he thinks Gang Leader Qiao is ugly?

Is Danzi ugly?

Ugly?

丑.

"What about his father?" Wood asked curiously.

"His father?"

Su Wen couldn't bear to talk anymore, but seeing Wood's eyes full of curiosity, he still shook his head and smiled bitterly: "His father abandoned him before his mother abandoned him."

"WTF?"

Wood was immediately shocked!

It simply shattered his outlook on life.

He opened his mouth wide and was completely speechless.

He really couldn't figure out what kind of guy could be so ugly that his parents disliked him one after another and he was abandoned for adoption?

How ugly is this, earth-shattering?

"What are you whispering about?"

Just when Wood was completely immersed in imagining Butler's life, Chambers suddenly came over with interest.

"nothing."

Su Wen replied lightly.

The championship parade continues.

The bus passed the Space Needle all the way and continued to the destination, still traveling at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour, crawling slowly like a turtle.

Along the way, they also met countless enthusiastic fans and saw excited smiling faces, all the way to the final stop, the Olympic Sculpture Park.

In the park, all Sonics players, coaching staff, and management headed by Les Haberg gave speeches on the huge lawn with no barriers.

When it was Su Wen's turn, he didn't say much. He just summarized his efforts in the past season and looked forward to the future.

"In the future, we will never have just one championship trophy, we will win more!"

"I believe that our SuperSonics will definitely become a wealthy club like the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics!"

As his words landed loudly, tens of thousands of fans at the scene instantly burst into loud cheers.

Powerful teams like the Lakers and Celtics?

When Su Wen spoke of such a vision with great confidence, no one was not excited and inspired.

Because, this is so cool!

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(End of this chapter)