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The owner of the Magic, Richard DeVos, is one of the two founders of the Amway Group, a well-known direct selling business organization. In 500, he bought the Magic for $[-] million. As for the naming rights of the Amway Arena , can be interpreted as du li's business behavior, and has nothing to do with this matter.

The bosses of the [-] teams in the league are different. Some of them invest in the team as a business. For example, Holt of the Spurs and Alexander, the owner of the Rockets, belong to this situation. There is business, but the team's revenue is also very important to them, so they always operate on a small budget and dare not waste money.

Some regard the team as part of their own industry, just like the New York Knicks for the Dolan family, the Los Angeles Lakers for the Bass family, and the Chicago Bulls for Jerry Reinsdorf, the team is just a part of their industry , like the Lakers, due to the attention of the Bass family and their good management, they operate relatively well.

The New York Knicks are only an insignificant part of the Dolan family's industry. James Dolan alone manages four professional teams and the sports section of the TV network, so the operation of the New York Knicks is chaotic. Understood.

The owner of the Bulls, Jerry Reinsdorf, also owns the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball, and he himself likes baseball very much. Although the Bulls have won him six national championships, the White Sox only He got one, but the Bulls still looked like bastards. He once publicly declared: "Basketball is just a game. Baseball is people's belief, and baseball is the sport Americans love."

There are also some team owners who buy a team in order to improve their social status and squeeze into the upper class after they are developed. There are many such owners in the league, such as Paul Allen, the owner of the Portland Trail Blazers. This is the case with Len, the owner of the Magic, Richard DeVos, the former owner of the Sonics, Schultz, and many others. Among them are the founders of Microsoft, the founder of Amway Group, and the founder of Starbucks. , After becoming a billionaire through their own efforts, they spend part of the money to buy a team. For them, the team is just a tool and a toy, so they usually don't seriously manage the team.

Others regard the team as a supplement to their own industry. For example, Stetson, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, originally owned the Clippers to better rent or sell his own house. Promote your own loan company well.

Of course, the purpose of many people owning the team may be multiple. For example, the Maruf Brothers, who run the casino business, bought the Sacramento Kings for the purpose of not only improving their social status, but also planning to manage it well.Few team owners really like the sport of basketball and buy teams, Bobcats owner Jordan, Spurs owner Holt, and Mavericks owner Mark Cuban may be exceptions.

Even Mark Cuban may not be true, his favorite sport in college was football, and his acquisition of the Mavericks after getting rich is more like a third type, of course his love and devotion to the Mavericks is real Yes, but not necessarily for the sport.

Richard DeVos is like this. He doesn't like basketball, and he rarely appears in the boxes of the Amway Arena. Except when entertaining guests to show off that he has a team, Richard DeVos doesn't care about this team. Don't ask too many questions, it stands to reason that this should be a good boss, just like Holt, the owner of the Spurs.

"Professional matters are handled by professionals", this is a sentence that American bosses usually like to hang on their lips. Richard DeVos also does the same. He rarely interferes with the management of the team, but he The investment in the team is not continuous.

Sometimes, he also has a strong desire for a championship, and then he will ask the management to forge ahead and strengthen the team's strength, such as this offseason. Encouraged by the Magic's playoffs last season, He issued a request to the team's management to increase its strength rapidly.

The management dares to ignore his opinion. They are not like the relationship between Vicki and Holt. If they cannot satisfy the boss, then the boss will make you dissatisfied. There are many people who want to be the general manager these days , That's why the Magic signed Lewis so eagerly.

Lewis is powerful and famous. Although they also know that Stephen is more capable and has more potential, Stephen is not very enthusiastic about their recruitment. At the same time, when they consulted Richard DeVos, DeVos had nothing to do. Obviously, when they heard Lewis' salary request, they said there was no problem, so the management of the Magic team quickly signed Lewis.

In the daily operation of a boss, the investment in the team is mainly the salaries of the players and the coaching staff. If he wants to save money, he can find new coaches or head coaches who don't have much reputation or record. The dollar can be spent, and the expenditure of the entire coaching staff is not much. A coach with a little bit of fame will spend 300 to 800 U.S. dollars that year. Jeff Van Gundy belongs to this level, and those big-name coaches go up. For Nelson Sr., Larry Brown, and Phil Jackson, the starting salary is more than [-] million, which is almost the price of a star player.

In terms of player salary expenditure, it is a kind of extravagant behavior to dare to exceed the luxury tax incentive line and pay the luxury tax, and like the Spurs, allowing the salary cap to be exceeded without exceeding the luxury tax incentive line is a kind of good. Xing and aggressive management methods, no matter this method requires high skills and techniques, because you rarely give players a one-year or two-year contract, and the general contract is mostly an increase, if you don’t pay attention, you will Beyond the luxury tax trigger line.

All the teams that want to save money will simply limit their work to the salary cap, so that if they accidentally exceed the incentive line, they will have to spend more money, and between the salary cap and the minimum salary standard , This is the room for this type of team to operate.

If a team's salary expenditure is only a little higher than the league's minimum wage expenditure, it means that the owner is extremely stingy, like the owner of the Clippers, Sterling. The results are a bit bad, and I don’t have to worry about no one watching the game. After all, although Los Angeles still has a competing team, the ticket price of the Lakers has always been at the forefront of the league. After all, few can enjoy it. It is in this environment, Created the Clippers' lack of progress.

As for the Magic, they have been in the third tier. Signing Lewis means that they have entered the second tier. If Dwight Howard can continue his current performance, he will definitely have another maximum salary by then. Two top-salary players, and one with a starting salary of nearly 2000 million, will inevitably lead the Magic to enter the grade.

Because it is difficult to trade a contract like Lewis's in the last one or two years, which brings great difficulty to the team's operations. This is the reason why the Spurs rarely give long-term and fat contracts. Once a player's performance is not satisfactory, it is tantamount to throwing it in his hands, and you can't even send out the money.

However, DeVos was able to achieve such a big career, and he was also a very decisive person. The regret was only fleeting, and he continued to focus on the court. Although this guy performed well, the game does not depend on one person He can win it, he still understands this truth.

At the beginning of the second half, because Stephen played the entire first half, he did not appear on the court, and the Magic took advantage of this opportunity to launch a fierce attack. Even if they were sitting in the box, they could still hear Stan Van Gundy's roar. Weiss couldn't help shaking his head, he was too temperamental. He admired a head coach like Phil Jackson who could sit on the sidelines calmly and command the team to victory. It's a pity that such coaches are relatively rare, and all are more expensive.

The Magic team quickly closed the gap to four points by relying on the three-pointers raining from outside. At this time, the third quarter was only halfway through. At this time, Stephen returned to the field and assisted Wilkin as soon as he came on the field Si hit a three-pointer, and then completed a steal from Turkoglu, assisting Watson to score a fast break.

Stephen just came on the court, and in just 38 seconds, the score gap that the Magic took half a quarter to close was widened to nine. Stan Van Gundy continued to roar on the sidelines, but no matter how loud his voice was, Impossible to blow the ball into the hoop.

However, under the control of Turkoglu, the Magic have kept the rhythm of the game at an unhurried pace. Even if Stephen changed the situation in a short period of time, they still played unhurriedly. In addition to the three-pointers they have already shot, the Sonics have not been able to continue to widen the gap.

At the end of the third quarter, the Sonics led the Magic by six points 77 to 71. However, as soon as the fourth quarter began, the situation on the field changed suddenly. Stephen first assisted Cooper and forced Howard to foul , and then assisted Durant to hit a mid-range shot.

Turkoglu was extremely calm, and continued to hit three-pointers from the outside like a killer, but the game had already entered Stephen's control, and Stephen scored twelve points in a row in the next three and a half minutes, dividing the two sides. The point difference widened to fourteen points.

When Stephen made a three-pointer from the three-point line again, he raised his own score to 86 points and at the same time completely broke the confidence of the Magic team. As the Magic team replaced all the players in advance The main lineup, the Sonics also replaced all the substitutes, and finally won the game with [-] to [-] points.