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Although it was only a small media in Dallas who mocked the Sonics, thanks to the developed Internet, it was seen by many people. Once the title of "Three Traitors from Texas" came out, it was immediately recognized. The fans in Texas don’t care about yours. Although the fans in San Antonio and Houston will not take the initiative to attack Stephen or Yao Ming, if someone takes the lead in booing, it’s okay for them to follow suit.

In this way, this title is officially worn on the heads of the three of Stephen and the others. Although Kevin Durant feels that he is a bit wronged, people don’t care about you. Who told you that you are one of the Big Three of the Seattle Supersonics? And who told you that you could just have a relationship with Texas, but the benefit of this incident is that it makes the three of them have a sense of commonality. Influence.

After the arrival of Yao Ming, the original insider core Coppard was naturally downgraded to become a backup candidate. As long as Yao Ming can maintain his health, it is natural that Yao Ming is the main player. Coupard has no opinion on this. It is reasonable to say that this year is his contract year, and he should perform well to increase his persuasiveness for next season's contract renewal negotiations, so that he can get a big contract, and as a young man, who would not want to show his face, when publicizing, Stephen's left is Durant, with Coupard on the right, naturally has no place for him now.

Coupard looked a bit optimistic. When he was a ruffian, he looked a little fierce, but now he looks like an honest person. Of course, this is under the condition that no one shows any malice towards Stephen, but Now everyone knows that Stephen is not easy to mess with. In addition, his reputation as a bodyguard is well known in the league, and no one dares to provoke Stephen. The notoriety is slowly being forgotten, but he has become the most popular in the team one.

It turned out that in the team, Chris Wilcox was one of the Big Three in the locker room, but in the eyes of the team's management and publicity, Coupard was one of the Big Three. After Yao Ming arrived, Chris Wilcox Wilcox has gone, so his position in the locker room is naturally gone, and in the eyes of the team, the importance of Coupard has naturally declined. After all, whether it is performance on the court or commercial value, he They cannot be compared with Yao Ming.

Due to Stephen's relationship and his familiarity with Yao Ming, Coupard naturally didn't show much. Although some people in the team have been secretly persuading him to fight for his own status, otherwise the contract will be affected. and so on, but Coupard never cared about this, and Yao Ming was well aware of this, and within a few days he had a better relationship with Coupard than Stephen.

Although he is a newcomer and famous, but because of his personality, Yao Mingxian is very easy-going and easy to approach, and he was quickly accepted by the team. In addition, Coupard, who was directly affected, did not show much. Naturally, no one dared to say anything. Yao Ming quickly established his status as the team's second player, higher than Kevin Durant.

After all, even if there is already a Stephen on the outside, Durant's performance is equally good, but it is still very inconspicuous, but the inside is different. In any case, it is impossible for a team that only has outside Great development, so after Yao Ming came to the Sonics, although the statistics were slightly reduced due to the impact of playing time, his performance was not bad. In terms of efficiency, he was even better than before. The main reason was that Stephen provided him with enough players. Advantage shells.

In this way, Kevin Durant is inferior to Yao's name no matter on the court or in external publicity. Even in the locker room, his status has been obviously affected, because the players gathered around him Except for one Russell Westbrook who is still hardcore, the others are basically good guys, or they are two-faced.

Although it is said that his introverted and rational character will not break out into conflicts, but the estrangement obviously exists, but Kevin Durant also knows that with his current strength and ability, it is impossible to threaten the team. Since I have provided a higher status, Stephen's position in the team is very solid and the foundation is very deep. I can't regret his position at all, and Durant thinks it is not right to simply compete with Yao Ming for the second position of the team. It's worth tearing your face apart for that.

And if you are looking for a new deal, you may not be able to trade to the right team, you need to take a lot of career risks, and Durant does not want to leave Seattle, although he was born in Washington, D.C. and Washington here. The state is separated from east to west, and there is even nothing in common, but he just feels very comfortable staying here, and the team is obviously on the rise. Although this achievement does not belong entirely to him, he also plays a huge role in it , Durant is also a little reluctant to leave, but in general, it still makes him more depressed.

But after this incident happened, it caused him a great psychological change. Yes, no matter how his status changes, he is still a part of the team, and his shots and statistics have not been greatly affected. Why bother about those unnecessary things, the current team is gradually improving, and every player needs to contribute their own strength, what do you think about so much, even if you really feel oppressed and want to leave, you have to wait until you get it Leave after achieving certain achievements, just like Stephen.

Durant, who had changed his mind, changed his previous serious style of talking and laughing. When he came to the training ground early, he greeted Yao Ming with a smile. Although Yao Ming felt strange, he still smiled. The level of diligence in training can be described as the team's No. 1. Of course, this is after Yao Ming cut down his own training time, and Stephen seldom comes to the team's training. He has his own unique training method , It can also be done at home, and although Yao Ming and Durant can also train at home, the conditions are not as good as the team's.

How should I put it, once this person's mind changes, what he sees will naturally be another expression. In the past, because Yao Ming took away the team's status, Durant naturally thought Yao Ming was not pleasing to the eye, Although it can’t be said that it’s not easy to come there, but it’s just not pleasing to the eye, but looking at it now, I feel that Yao Ming is easy-going and easy-to-accept, hard-working and motivated, and after being seriously injured, under the doctor’s order, he must not over-train , The training intensity is only a little worse than myself, which is really admirable.

After training for a while, both of them were a little hungry, so they asked the staff to help them order some takeaways, then sat together and ate big mouthfuls. While chatting, Kevin Durant learned that after he stabilized, Yao Ming plans to open another Yao restaurant in Seattle. After Yao Ming left Houston, the business of Yao restaurant has naturally declined. The original sufficient manpower is a bit redundant, and Yao Ming's parents also want to come with their son for a while. Now that I live in Seattle, I plan to open another Yao restaurant here.

Relatively speaking, Western-style Chinese restaurants like Yao Restaurant are not suitable for opening in a multi-racial city like Seattle, but in Texas, because there are fewer Asians, the corresponding Chinese restaurants are also more The business is pretty good, like Stephen’s parents opened in San Antonio, and the business is getting better and better. They also prefer the weather and environment there, and they don’t want to come to the colder Seattle.

Now that this topic has been brought up, Durant obediently asked Yao Ming for advice on investment and financial management. Apart from a sneaker endorsement, Durant only has two endorsements from small merchants, even if it is a rookie contract. , this amount of money is still relatively important to him. It is naturally incomparable with Yao Ming and Stephen, who are not too dependent on player contracts. With a reputation for being good at financial management, Durant naturally believes in Yao Ming's vision.

Of course, Stephen is better at making money, but because of his family's ancestral motto of "making a fortune in silence", his situation is rarely disclosed to the public. In addition, his endorsement income mainly comes from domestic sources. The United States doesn’t know much about it, and Stephen’s investment income is strictly kept secret, lest he be targeted by the US tax authorities. Once you have signs of tax evasion, then you will be strictly guarded against death. Object, when the time comes, it will not be so easy to avoid tax through property transfer.

Yao Ming is naturally very experienced in this regard, and he told Durant in detail that investing is very easy for players, because they have money in their hands, but if they want to invest, they will not be able to invest. It is not so easy to be cheated. The income earned by most players is either squandered endlessly by themselves, or cheated by their own brokers or financial advisors, or cheated by relatives, classmates, and friends. of.

So for people like them, there is no problem with investment, the key is whether there is any profit. Yao Ming thought about it, and most of the investment methods he is familiar with are not suitable for Kevin Durant, and some are for long-term considerations. Of course, Te can't accept it. Some people use their own connections and reputation, and Durant naturally can't refer to it. After thinking about it, investment in the catering industry is more suitable for a novice like Durant.

The investment is small and the results are quick without too much legal risk, and it does not require too much time to take care of it. Therefore, investing in catering is very suitable for players. This is not the choice of Yao Ming alone. Many players have done this, including The famous Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Olajuwon have all opened restaurants. Other players like Chris Webber, Tony Parker, and Luke Walton have one or several restaurants. Among them, Divac and Luke Walton are more successful.

Yao Ming solemnly warned Durant that if he really wanted to open a restaurant, in addition to choosing a good location, determining the main style and other detailed business conditions, the most important thing was not to be a shopkeeper and not to care about anything, even if No matter how reassuring the person takes care of it, I have to pay attention to it often, but I don’t want to attract customers by relying on my own fame alone. The most important thing for a restaurant is the attractiveness of the dishes. It is not a long-term solution, and secondly, it has no lasting effect.

For Yao Ming's suggestion, Durant attached great importance to it, and even took out his mobile phone to write it down, which made Yao Ming very ashamed. Then Durant told Yao Ming that he wanted to open a Spanish barbecue restaurant, because he I like Spanish barbecue very much. What's more, it turns out that his favorite place to eat is a Spanish barbecue restaurant in Waco, north of the University of Texas. When he was in Dallas a few days ago, he made a special trip. As a result, the business there was deserted and bleak. When talking about business, the boss said that due to the competition from Argentinian barbecue, the business has been so bad for more than a year. He even planned to stop doing it, but he has no skills. , so I plan to go to a big city to work for another Spanish barbecue restaurant.

At that time, Durant had plans to open a restaurant, because he was always troubled by not being able to find an authentic Spanish barbecue restaurant in Seattle. He believed that he was not the only one who had this trouble, because people in Seattle There are also a lot of Spaniards, but since there is no fixed settlement, there is no restaurant with a more authentic style. I believe that if I open one here, the business will be very good. Durant believes in the craftsmanship of the boss. As long as you recruit him and give him a part of the shares, it is at least better than him working for someone else, and after all, Seattle is also a big city, which has more potential for development than there.

If the business is good, Durant is still interested in opening one in Portland, because LaMarcus Aldridge also likes to eat Spanish barbecue. When the two chatted, he was also troubled by this problem. I can open a joint venture with Aldridge in Portland and borrow the other party's reputation. I have to say that Durant is very long-term.

Through this incident, the two quickly got close. During the team practice in the afternoon, Yao Ming and Durant cooperated several times, and the effect was surprisingly good. After coming here, Yao Ming had already told Stephen about the situation. Well, Stephen was not surprised, but everyone else was very surprised. Seeing that Yao Ming and Durant were on the same multi-core during the interruption of training, the others were very surprised. When did these two people get so good?

Whether it is Yao Ming's Yao restaurant or Durant's Spanish barbecue, Stephen is not too interested. If he is asked to taste it, he will be very interested. After all, no one can resist the temptation of delicious food, but let him enter the catering industry again. He is not very interested in business. First, he needs someone to take care of it, and he has no manpower to take care of it now. Second, less investment and quick results are an advantage for others, but a disadvantage for himself.

Unless it is to open an international chain restaurant giant, such as McDonald's, KFC, and Pizza Hut, but it takes time to accumulate, and it requires very professional management and work processes. This cannot be established overnight, so for this kind of There is no industry with much potential for development, and Stephen has no interest. If he wants to buy a restaurant to accumulate funds to buy a team, it will have to wait until the year of the monkey.

However, although his professional career still has more than ten years to go, Stephen has already made a plan. Once his condition declines, he will retire immediately without hesitation. He can't let those young people bully him and linger on the court It is active, and for this body, Stephen is really a little unsure. How long can he last, Stephen doesn't know, and it is said that this growth potion is overdrafting the growth potential of the human body, which is likely to affect the lifespan, so Stephen I set my own retirement time earlier, and if I really can't do it, I will retire.

But in this way, my big plan to make money has to be carried out as soon as possible, and I can't waste time. In case I retire, without the player contract and advertising endorsement income, my income will not be fixed, so Stephen is very good at making money. urgent need.

Right now, for Stephen, there is a business that has been placed in front of Stephen. As the matter of the Huang family is gradually resolved, Huang Dongkai can't even think about his grandson when his son's position may not be guaranteed. After all, the position of the son is the most important, representing the status of the family. As for the grandson, it is not a big deal to live in a prison in China, let alone in a foreign country.

Instead, they asked someone to send a message to ease the relationship. Stephen would never forgive those who had threatened their own lives and caused economic losses to themselves, so Stephen ignored them at all.

Since this incident was caused by Stephen, many people used Stephen as the reason when attacking the Huang family, so if Stephen does not spit on this side, the attack on the other side will not stop. Of course, even if Stephen spits After all, the position of a governor is still very important, but in that case, Huang Dongkai can go to the old leader to talk about it, unlike now, he has no face at all.

At this time, the main force who attacked the Huang family also came over, wanting to cooperate with Stephen in business, but their influence is not in the state-owned enterprises, but in the domestic cultural media and publicity fields, although they can't give Stephen any endorsement The contract, but it can make the domestic media say more good things when reporting on Stephen. Stephen doesn’t care about it. The more biased the media is, the more annoying the fans are. It’s better to let them report normally. Anyway, it’s biased enough now .

Rejecting the good intentions in this regard, the other party proposed a new cooperation. What made Stephen more tempted was that, first, the other party took out a theater license, which still owns no less than fifty theaters in major and medium cities. It is relatively old, but the location and scale are quite considerable. Stephen can invest in it, and even get a controlling stake. As a student of the University of Southern California, even if he has not done professional understanding, he can know the status of the theater just by hearing about it. value, not to mention having a CAA behind them.

In addition to this, the other party also wants to promote the exchange of artists from both sides through Stephen's influence in the creative artist agency. You can also use the stars here to increase popularity. This cooperation is also all-round. After all, on the one hand is Hollywood, which is the leader in global film and television program production, and on the other hand, it has the largest market in the world.

However, this cooperation is a bit too big. For the time being, Stephen is still hesitating. This is not like an ordinary investment, but the other party proposed that the two parties can co-produce a movie, use their respective resources, and then use the box office share to test the effect of the cooperation. This Stephen thinks he can try it.