Healing Basketball

  Chapter 1085 1085. Darkness Returns! (season finale)

   Beating the Mavericks, Spurs, and Heat consecutively to win the championship was a difficult process, and the mighty victory in the end made people give this finals the evaluation of "the most legendary championship journey".

  Brother Dong enjoyed the joy of winning, and Bosh became the focus of the spotlight he dreamed of.

  For the NBA, the ratings and income of this year's playoffs have set new highs in NBA history!

Trail Blazers VS Mavericks, Spurs VS Timberwolves, Trail Blazers VS Spurs, Knicks VS Celtics, Pistons VS Knicks, Trail Blazers VS Heat... Each of these series It's explosive!

  Especially the tiebreaker between the Trail Blazers and the Spurs, with more than 42 million paid viewers, setting a record for the single-game viewership of the NBA playoffs.

  The NBA playoffs take as much as half of the league's cut, and it's a hard score that doesn't count the cost. The league made a lot of money this time.

   But as the saying goes, prosperity must decline. The NBA's single-season revenue has just hit a record high, and this league has encountered the biggest crisis in more than ten years.

  On June 30, 2011, negotiations between NBA officials and the players union failed, and the two sides announced a lockout!

   During the last lockout, Michael Jordan rushed to the front line and did not make any concessions for his own interests.

This time, it was Michael Jordan who rushed to the forefront, still for his own benefit, and did not make any concessions. Instead, he kept proposing terms that were unacceptable to the other party, trying to plunder nearly 20% of the other party's vested interests, which the other party could not accept. Go on strike in anger.

This is the first time for Michael Jordan to officially participate in league activities as the owner of a team. At the end of last year, he officially acquired all the shares in the hands of the former black media boss. From 2004 to the present, nearly 7 years, accumulated Invested 275 million U.S. dollars, and accumulated 97% of the team's shares.

   This is regarded as the most cost-effective investment in the contemporary basketball era.

   On the New Orleans side, the Hornets, which has a poor market and unstable attendance, the league spent $300 million when the league bought the team from George Sheen to exercise the terms of trusteeship.

  Jordan fought on the front line, but unlike 13 years ago when he was praised by fans, this time, he became the target of criticism.

  But regarding the lockout, the owners of NBA teams have different opinions.

   Nearly half of the teams are unwilling to stop, including even the Spurs, a team that has been complaining a lot in previous years.

  Because the Spurs have the combination of Kobe + Duncan, the popularity has skyrocketed further, and the game ratings are extremely high. Time Warner, which has a good relationship with Kobe, even plans to spend more than 100 million dollars in three years to buy the right to broadcast the entire Spurs game.

  The Knicks, Trail Blazers, Pistons, Heat, Mavericks... and other teams are also unwilling to stop. Some of them are not short of money, and some have lineups that make money.

  But the teams trying to get more benefits are the majority, and the players are unwilling to accept too much concession...In the end, they can only stop.

  Liu Xiu thought that the matter of butterfly wings would become uncertain, but seeing the current situation, she knew it was inevitable.

  In 1998, the NBA was suspended for the first time, and it was initiated by the players.

At that time, the teams invested too much money in the mid-1990s, and the owners didn't want to procrastinate. Finally, they signed a labor agreement that gave the players 55% revenue sharing, as well as a contract of up to 7 years, designated veteran regulations...etc. Player priority terms.

  This time, the owners of each team have experience and have been making money in recent years. The so-called 'loss', they use the cumulative method.

  Like the Rockets, they even count the income and expenses since the establishment of the team, as long as they spend more, they are considered losses.

  Including the construction of arenas, tax expenses, and the team's investment in the team itself...all counted as expenses.

   Now that they know that NBA operations will become more and more profitable, they naturally want to adjust the income ratio to be beneficial to them as the boss. An extra 1 percentage point is all net profit.

  And now the income of the players is much higher than in 1998, and the bosses feel that the players will not sit still.

   Liu Xiu has also participated in the internal discussions of the players union many times this year. On July 1, after the official lockout, he participated in telephone conferences and video conferences more frequently.

He has always firmly supported the players in safeguarding their own interests, insisting on the retention of the 'maximum salary clause', the 'designated veteran clause', 'bird rights' and other clauses, and the income sharing cannot be reduced... etc., the maximum salary clause, It is to protect the interests of these highly paid players, and the income share cannot be reduced, which is to protect the interests of the bottom players.

  Although he did not participate in the negotiations, his attitude is one of the solid backing behind the head of the players union.

   But when the time came to the end of July, Liu Xiu withdrew from the "negotiation team" of the players union. The chairman of the players union, Fisher, and the vice chairman, Chris Pao, were at a loss.

  Although there is a strike, their goal is to get the new labor agreement in the offseason, and they don't want the new season to really stop.

   At this time, Liu Xiu, the strongest player in active service, the superstar who can compete with Jordan for the best superstar in history, and the face of basketball, suddenly stopped participating in the negotiation?

   Not long after, an even more explosive news stunned the players union.

  The team bosses are also confused!

  Liu Xiu revealed to Charles Barkley, who followed him for an interview, that he chose to retire!

   As soon as this news came out, it shocked the entire sports world!

  29 years old, in his prime, just won the 5th championship of his career, the team is fully capable of helping him hit the first place in history, but he suddenly retired!

  …

   On August 3, 2011, NBA officials confirmed at a regular press conference that Liu Xiu had submitted an application for retirement to the league, and the Trail Blazers management had agreed to the application.

  It also revealed that in late July, due to the recurrence of Paul Allen's cancer, Liu Xiu and the management of the Trail Blazers jointly applied, and the league agreed that Liu Xiu would go to the hospital to meet with Paul Allen...

  Liu Xiu and the vice president only submitted an application to the league according to the rules. After Paul Allen was sent to the intensive care unit, Liu Xiu, who was in Los Angeles, took Anne-Hathaway to the hospital. Submitting the application was just a process.

  If the league fines them, they admit it, and they can spray Stern in the face with a backhand.

  However, when the league announced this matter, people still didn’t understand why Liu Xiu retired. Instead, Microsoft was lying on the ground. Bill Gates and Ballmer saw the news and scolded the public. Microsoft’s stock price plummeted that afternoon...

  Microsoft's development, in addition to Ballmer's product control and Bill Gates' business operations, Paul Allen's communication skills are equally important.

  Paul Allen has always been responsible for the relationship with major partners, upstream and downstream leaders, and dignitaries.

    Ballmer and Bill - Gates are begging Paul - Allen to spend money everywhere.

  Paul Allen's cancer recurrence is a big blow to Microsoft.

   This has nothing to do with the NBA and Liu Xiu.

   Liu Xiu's sudden retirement and his relationship with Paul Allen's serious illness attracted a lot of media attention.

   It happened that Liu Xiu was in Los Angeles again, and there were many paparazzi. Soon, some information that was not deliberately kept secret was unearthed and released.

  Liu Xiu is raising cash, sold some local bars and real estate in Portland, borrowed money from Rahim’s fund, raised money from Flying Squirrel’s food company, and received financial support from the local clothing and flower industry in Portland…

  After these news came out, some people have already guessed what Liu Xiu was doing.

  For a while, the fans' attention focused on Liu Xiu, who had already retired, from when the NBA lockout would end.

  By mid-August, NBA Vice President Joke said in an interview that for the sake of fairness in the game, players are not allowed to invest in NBA teams in principle.

  By the end of August, news broke that Paul Allen planned to disband the Portland Trail Blazers.

  As soon as the news came out, a group of people from the NBA headquarters rushed to Los Angeles, wanting to meet with Paul Allen, but Paul Allen refused on the grounds that he did not want to be disturbed.

   On September 1st, another event that shocked the sports world happened!

  The NBA officially announced that Liu Xiu bought 92% of the shares of the Trail Blazers owned by Paul Allen at a price of 500 million US dollars, and entered the voting stage for the owners of each team.

  …

  In the summer of 2010, according to Forbes Sports' valuation of NBA teams, the market value of the Trail Blazers was $820 million.

  Based on the acquisition of non-full shares and the lockout, the price Liu Xiu paid for the Trail Blazers is not too surprising.

  Plus the Trail Blazers are a money-burning team. When the time for the NBA to resume operations is uncertain and the income of the new season is unknown, it is already very bold for someone to spend 500 million dollars to buy a team.

  The market value of the Trail Blazers is not as high as that of the Bulls, because they earn more and spend more.

Due to the fact that the NBA’s labor negotiations have not been smooth in the past few years, the Hornets have been on the shelves for several years, but they have not been sold. The black owner of the Bobcats sold all the remaining shares to Jordan before the end of last season. After that, the value of the team plummeted. When the former owner of the Wizards sold the team, it was pure anger, and the price was equivalent to a cheap sale...

   But that's not the point. The point is that Liu Xiu retired, so he wanted to buy the Trail Blazers!

  Some people have speculated about this possibility before, but I didn't expect it to be true.

   With the announcement of this news, various inside stories were unearthed.

Paul Allen's cancer recurrence this time, although he relied on money to carry it over again, his body is not as good as before. He is almost 60 years old, and he is not too depressed about it. He was seriously ill when he was very young. So he never married and did not want to leave offspring, he was afraid that his children would inherit the same disease as him.

  He has a legendary life and has done many great things, so death is scary to him, but he is not afraid.

  He has no regrets in his life, and he has tried everything he wants to do.

  Including dating an actress he had a crush on in elementary school when he was 30 years old, and even though the actress was over 50 years old by then, it is still one of his fondest memories.

   But he still can't let go of one thing - the Trail Blazers has become a legendary team.

  He has no offspring, but has a younger sister who has been helping him with business matters.

   But his sister, unlike him, is not interested in sports at all.

  Although the cancer didn’t kill him, his financial ability is still very strong, but he feels that he doesn’t have the energy to continue managing the team, and he is worried about giving the team to his sister.

  When Liu Xiu and Anne Hathaway went to the hospital to visit Paul Allen, the latter had a flash of inspiration and decided to sell the team to Liu Xiu.

  So there was a scene where Liu Xiu retired later, and the joke repeatedly emphasized in front of the media that the league regulations did not allow players to invest in the team.

  According to news from the gossip media in New York, some executives headed by Joke clearly opposed Liu Xiu's acquisition of the Trail Blazers.

  But Stern was already busy, negotiating with the players union, facing pressure from broadcasters and sponsors, and clearing up the contract disputes between the teams and the owner of the leased arena...

   As a result, Paul Allen planned to disband the team because of the objections of Joke and others!

   The former owner of the Wizards, Abby Pollin, is very willful, and the Trail Blazers is even more willful!

  Stern believes that Paul Allen can really do this.

  The key is that he can understand Paul Allen making such a choice...

  So he withstood the pressure from Joke and his team and agreed to the acquisition application, but whether it can be done or not depends on the owners of the teams.

  In his opinion, other teams will not let a player become the owner of his team.

  He saw that the joke group didn't care much about whether he agreed or not, but clearly resisted it.

  Anyway, he is here, let’s ignore this matter, there are still things that need him to be busy.

   Contrary to the official expectations of the NBA, on September 20th, the owners of each team voted for Liu Xiu’s acquisition of the Trail Blazers through a video conference call. The owners of 29 teams unanimously approved the acquisition!

  In October, when the official training camp started in previous years, Liu Xiu completed all the relevant procedures and officially bought the Trail Blazers from Paul Allen, becoming the first Chinese owner in the NBA!

  When the transaction was officially completed, it caused a sensation again!

  The most crazy thing is Michael Jordan, the first retired player owner.

  It took him so many years, painstaking efforts, ups and downs, busy work...before he became the owner of an NBA team.

  This guy, at the young age of 29, has become the owner of an NBA team. There is no reason!

   But when the boss voted, he still voted for it.

  Now, Liu Xiu has officially become the owner of the Trail Blazers. Jordan expressed his congratulations in an interview, and then emphasized explicitly and secretly-players cannot invest in the team.

  The bosses unanimously approved Liu Xiu to become the NBA boss. The fans were also very surprised at the beginning.

  Because the media propagated that the bosses would not allow a player in the league who was in his prime to become the team owner.

  Boss Joe repeatedly emphasized this matter, and the fans finally understood what these bosses were thinking—they wanted to use this to weaken the Trail Blazers!

  Especially Jordan, I don’t want his record to be surpassed by Liu Xiu!

  …

  The opportunity to buy a team is something that any player dreams of.

  Although it is extremely regrettable, no one thinks that Liu Xiu's choice is wrong.

  Liu Xiu personally felt the same way. When the big dog raised this matter, he immediately agreed.

   Moreover, buying the Trail Blazers, although he sold some properties, in fact he did not consume much money personally.

  The purchase of the Trail Blazers this time said a total of 500 million U.S. dollars, but in fact only need to pay 260 million U.S. dollars up front, and the remaining 240 million U.S. dollars will be paid in 7 years.

   Basically the leftover money from his endorsement contract with Hook.

   And of the $260 million that has been paid, only $55 million of that was paid by him personally.

  Other money, a large part comes from Raheem's fund, totaling 120 million, which belongs to his personal loan and has nothing to do with the Trail Blazers. Raheem's foundation cannot intervene in the operation of the Trail Blazers due to debt issues.

  Liu Xiu originally thought that after the financial crisis, Raheem's foundation would be short of cash, but he didn't expect that Raheem's side would make money in the financial crisis!

  After chatting with Rahim, he realized that all major foundations made money in the subprime mortgage crisis. The so-called crisis is the crisis of the government and the working class.

  The remaining 85 million US dollars came from the farmers led by Little Flying Squirrel, the local clothing industry association where Liu Xiu's aunt works, and the local flower association that Liu Xiu often cooperates with.

  The 85 million US dollars belong to private loans.

  All loans with low interest rate belong to Zhi Leng.

  The contacts accumulated over the years came in handy at this time.

  Personally, he sold nearly 200 million in cash from the physical properties he acquired during the subprime mortgage crisis, and the remaining 100 million is the "salary reserve fund" to ensure that he can pay his salary.

   Liu Xiu still owes money to Paul Allen's sports company, which does not prevent him from completing the team acquisition on the NBA official side.

  He now understands why some people say that the one who owes money is the uncle.

  He can imagine that although the people who lent him money are very generous, they are afraid that something will happen to him now, and all the money will be wasted.

  But he bought the Trail Blazers, the team level is the acquisition is complete, but his deal with Paul Allen is not over yet.

  What he bought was only the Trail Blazers. Paul Allen also owns the Rose Garden Arena, museum, and Willamette Garden Training Center, three physical industries, as well as a large number of local bars, hotels, and hotels in Portland.

   There are no discounts for these. Paul Allen said that as long as he is not dead and Liu Xiu has money, he is willing to sell these high-quality assets to him at market prices.

  During this period, the arena and training hall were almost free for Liu Xiu to use until he could buy them.

  If he died, his sister would not have such a good heart.

  The biggest obstacle for Liu Xiu to buy the Trail Blazers is not the league officials and the team owners, but Paul Allen's sister.

  However, because Paul Allen still has a lot of assets that need to be taken over by his sister, the Trail Blazers' total assets are less than one billion dollars, and his sister probably won't be able to take care of them in three to five years.

Liu Xiu is not greedy, he can buy as much as he can, and let it go if he can't buy it. NBA teams will increase in value in the future. The existing assets, with his lifestyle, can't be spent in a lifetime.

   Just said that the opportunity to buy the Trail Blazers and a large number of high-quality assets is in front of him, and he doesn't want to miss it.

  …

  The player group lost a superstar and the number one player in active service. Liu Xiu suddenly changed from a player to an owner, from a laborer to an employer, which did not affect the conflict of demands between labor and management.

  In the end, all training camps were canceled, all preseason games were canceled, and the first month of competition was canceled... By mid-December, the two sides finally reached an agreement.

   The biggest contradictions have reached a balance point, and the income distribution has become between 47% and 53%, both sides.

   The maximum salary period for players has been shortened from 6 years to 5 years, and no longer can be obtained with or without bird rights.

  The salary increases every year, and it is further reduced on the basis of 2006, and the bird rights are only increased by 10%.

   Overall, Jordan led the owners to a small victory.

   There is another clause released—the Arenas Clause.

  Strictly speaking, the name of this clause is the amnesty clause.

  The same as the Houston clause, you can buy out a contract signed before this clause takes effect, and the amount of the buyout is not included in the salary cap.

   On December 12th, the new labor agreement was formally signed. Next, each team will get a week of preparation time, and then start two preseason games, and start the new season on Christmas Day.

   At this time, people were eagerly looking forward to Liu Xiu's comeback, but the vice president of the league repeatedly emphasized the rule of "players cannot invest in the team" in jokes, expressing their rejection.

   Time came to December 25th, Christmas. Liu Xiu, who didn't participate in the training camp and didn't play in the preseason, came to the scene in a suit to receive the championship ring.

  The fans at the scene are going crazy, but they can only accept this matter.

   Their strongest player in history retired at his peak!

  Before the official start of the regular season, Liu Xiu himself terminated his contract with the team, reducing luxury tax expenses, and avoiding such weird things as paying his own salary and having to pay taxes.

  However, the reason why Paul Allen chose to sell the team to Liu Xiu has been dug out more clearly after a few months. Some things were said by Paul Allen himself in an interview.

  The doctor once said that his cancer recurrence was related to too much mood swings.

  As soon as his team won the championship, the NBA was shut down, which delayed him from continuing to lead the team to win the championship. Can you not be angry?

  So fans of the Trail Blazers generally accept Liu Xiu's retirement as the owner-God knows when Paul Allen will be gone, and then the team will be tossed around by his sister who loves money more than his brother.

   They can only comfort themselves-the warden is invincible throughout his career, with 5 championships in 8 years.

That’s right, Liu Xiu is only one championship away from Jordan, only two regular season MVPs away from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and only a few times away from Kobe Bryant with 40+ in a single game, and even 40+ triple-doubles from 0 , and there is only a single-digit difference...

  Too many regrets remain in the hearts of Trail Blazers fans.

   It is Paul Allen who exercises the power of the boss, raises the flag to give speeches, and presents championship rings.

   This is what Liu Xiu agreed when he bought the team. As long as Paul Allen can still come to the scene and show off in front of the media, he will still be the team's honorary owner and face.

   After this appearance, Liu Xiu did not show her face in public for a long time.

The new season suddenly started after a suspension of several months. There are a lot of chores to be busy, but he basically handed over these chores to John Nash and the vice president. He just arranged the work, made a deal, and then, rest!

   It was an accident when I started playing, and I started my basketball career with Dong Ge.

  Now when his basketball career ends, his teammate is also Dong Ge, and it ends very suddenly, which is also an accident.

   As far as the team is concerned, without Liu Xiu, the team has fallen sharply. It is conceivable that the entire style of play will have to be restructured.

  The strength of the Trail Blazers has slipped from the strongest level to the middle of the league.

   But fortunately, they have frontcourt cores like Anthony, Bosh, and Gasol Jr., and they have a lot of room for improvement.

Birdman performed well in the team. Hill is old and strong, because Dior was traded away by Liu Xiu immediately after the lockout. Hill got more opportunities than last season. As a 39-year-old veteran, Hope After the start of the new season, Hall can contribute 9 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists per game, and his performance is staggering.

   After the lockout, Liu Xiu sent Diao to the Mavericks for a second-round pick and a trade exception worth $9 million. At that time, everyone thought Liu Xiu was crazy.

   But in the preseason, I saw Dior's bloated body. After playing for two months in the regular season, Dior was still too fat, and was finally cut by the Mavericks... It was only then that people realized that the deal was done right!

  Liu Xiu is actually very interested in Fei Diao, but it took Popovich two years to train the fat Diaw to become a tactical core player again.

   Not really saying that Dior 'got fat and got stronger'.

   Unsurprisingly, after Diaw was waived in December and February, the Spurs who "picked up junk" signed him back.

   Gasol Jr. has truly become the backbone of the inside line, Bosh attacks, Gasol Jr. takes charge of defense, and the inside line becomes stronger...

   And without Liu Xiu, it is an opportunity for many people.

   Dragic was forced to be the starting point guard, with Avery Bradley taking on the heavy lifting off the bench.

   There are also those who have fallen, and the outlaws have no gate guards, so they are not happy.

  Ray Allen lost Liu Xiu, and the decline is quite obvious. His shooting percentage has dropped from a career-high 49% last season to 45%...

  …

  The time came to March 20, 2012. The warden, who had disappeared from the public for several months, suddenly appeared at the New York Unlimited MMA event!

   Not as a guest or commentator, but as a participating athlete!

   At 3:00 p.m., basketball fans saw Liu Xiu hit and hook an uppercut in a professional boxing arena and directly KO the opposite opponent with pimples... The fans felt that their whole body was not good!

  The warden stopped playing! Go hit someone!

  Don't say it, it's really exciting to watch!

   After being idle for a few months, Liu Xiu usually has her own training and simulated training.

  He doesn’t know how to run a team. He only knows who should be traded away and how to pick up treasures during the draft. He really doesn’t know anything else.

   Even who the team should introduce, he is not as good as the vice president and John Nash.

  It is good to be able to bring in strong players. If you cannot sign big names, then the most important thing is to be suitable. How to call it suitable is a lot to consider.

  So he chose to do simpler things like a big dog, without worrying so much, and just look at the results of small things.

  Retirement life is very cool, but after a long time, I still feel that I want to find something to do.

   At this time he saw a promotional poster for New York Unrestricted MMA...

  Anne Hathaway didn't allow him to compete. He said it well, and Anne Hathaway reluctantly agreed with him to go for fun, but if he got injured, he would immediately 'quit boxing'.

   Then, there was this scene where he directly KOs the opponent when he comes on the field.

   His boxing career got off to a perfect start!

   Among unrestricted combat athletes, Liu Xiu can be regarded as a perfect athlete with all physical conditions including height, weight, speed, strength, flexibility, explosive power...etc.

   Moreover, he has good street fighting ability, and he also has nearly perfect fighting skills that have been honed for many years!

  For the next 3 months, he fought every week. After a total of 13 games, Liu Xiu lifted his first gold belt in his boxing career!

  Although this is not a top-level boxing match, it is still a professional match, but in all matches, Liu Xiu faces all opponents and fights according to the opponent! All kinds of KO!

   Of the 13 opponents he played against, 10 were taken to the hospital lying down, two woke up after being carried off the field, and one...surrendered.

  In the past, Liu Xiu helped the NBA steal the limelight of the NCAA. This time, Liu Xiu went to boxing and stole the limelight of the NBA!

  A large number of fans went to pay attention to the middle and upper level boxing match. Even the Chinese Imperial TV Station broadcast several Liu Xiu's boxing matches live.

   This made Stern very angry.

  Every time Liu Xiu has a boxing match, the ratings of the NBA game on that day fluctuate greatly!

  Those TV stations also didn’t give the NBA face. After the live broadcast of Liu Xiu’s boxing debut, the ratings were gratifying. Almost all of Liu Xiu’s 12 games were broadcast live, setting a record for this event.

  The live broadcast of boxing matches may only take a few minutes, but the cost of paid live broadcast is much more expensive than NBA games.

   Fans have a lot of money. After watching Liu Xiu’s boxing live broadcast, the live broadcast of the next two or three expected NBA games may be gone.

   On July 11, 2012, the NBA 2011-2012 season ended. The Spurs defeated the Pistons 4-2 in the finals to win the championship. Kobe won the first finals MVP of his career. This shrinking season is over.

The Trail Blazers got 52 wins and 30 losses this season. It started badly, but the final record was not bad, ranking fifth in the West, and led by Dong Ge in the first round, and lost to the Thunder in the second round. Rose led the Thunder The team won the first place in the Western Conference.

  The regular season MVP was won by James, and Chandler joined the Knicks, but the Knicks did not perform as well as last year.

For Liu Xiu, after winning the boxing championship in mid-June and seeing his team eliminated in the second round, he returned to China and joined the Chinese men's basketball training team. Although he hadn't played for a season, he went to play. I took up boxing and lost weight.

  When Liu Xiu was recruited, Yinhu and Yunus were worried about Liu Xiu's state, but on the first day of training, they found that Liu Xiu seemed to be stronger than two years ago...

  Liu Xiu has been maintaining training and simulation training, participating in boxing matches, and he has also obtained the healing value of the system's extra rewards by virtue of his consecutive victories.

  Although there is no condition for him to continue to break through the upper limit of talent, he still has the healing value to guarantee the basic training, and there are more reserves for the playoffs in the 10-11 season.

   Not surprisingly, Liu Xiu was selected for the 12-man squad for the Olympic Games. Originally, he went to the Olympic Committee and wanted to apply for a few boxing events by the way.

  The Olympic Committee is very excited. I really have this idea. The warden joins in. They are going to be popular in China!

   But unfortunately, even if someone is willing to give up his position, the International Olympic Games refused Liu Xiu to participate.

  Because Liu Xiu is a professional boxer, only amateurs are allowed to participate in the Olympic boxing competition.

  From July 27th to August 10th, he represented the Chinese men's basketball team in the London Olympic men's basketball competition.

  After 8 games, at 4:22 pm on August 10th, the Chinese men's basketball team narrowly defeated the Spanish team 112 to 105, defending the Olympic men's basketball gold medal!

  The US team was defeated by the Spanish team in the semifinals.

  In this Olympic Games, the US men's basketball team has changed its head coach again, and replaced it with Popovich.

  After Popovich came to power, Kobe and Duncan joined the team without warning. In the end, the US team narrowly beat Argentina in the bronze medal match and won the bronze medal.

  Liu Xiu once again led the Chinese men's basketball team to win the gold medal in the Olympic men's basketball event, and the voices calling for him to come back and lead the prison team to achieve greater glory are getting louder and louder.

   At this time, a team owner said—since players are not allowed to invest in the team, why did Michael Jordan come back to play as a shareholder + executive vice president of the Wizards in 2001?

The 2012-2013 season started on time. This time, the NBA extended the length of the season a little bit. The teams used to start the training camp earlier in late September. The NBA officially moved the training camp forward by one week...and then the teams started on September 15th. Start camp.

  However, the NBA preseason is not over yet, that man is here to steal the limelight again...

   On November 20, 2012, the heavyweight mixed martial arts event held in Los Angeles opened!

  Liu Xiu once again participated in the opening ceremony as a contestant!

  This competition is different from the competition he participated in last time. Although the competition last time was also professional, there were not many regulations. There were also players weighing 60 to 70 kilograms.

  For this event, contestants must weigh over 200 pounds, which is 90.8 kilograms!

  So, as soon as the new NBA season started, the attention was robbed by the boxing match...

Stern, the owners of NBA teams, they never dreamed that the one who beat them, stole their attention, stole their live broadcast revenue, stole their ticket revenue, not the NCAA, not other ball sports... What the hell? It's boxing!

  Other top boxers may participate in one event a year, or even only a few games.

   But Liu Xiu is different!

This heavyweight mixed martial arts competition can only play a maximum of 7 games, and the 7th game is the championship and runner-up battle, and the interval between each game is very long, so he participated in competitions everywhere during this period, as long as time can be moved open.

   From November to May, in six months and half a year, he participated in a total of 40 games, plus the 13 games last year, he achieved an epic score of 53 wins and 0 losses without a loss!

  Although he has never met any of the top boxers, and it is impossible for those people to participate in these competitions, it is still shocking enough!

   Feedback to income, in the past six months, his cumulative box office share has reached 160 million US dollars!

   But in a match in late May, he was hit in the face and the corner of his mouth was opened. According to the agreement between him and Anne Hathaway, his boxing career was over.

Originally, he was looking forward to a fight with those strongest boxers, but after half a year, he provoked countless times, and those people just responded with a few words, and no one stood up to fight him. With a record of 53 wins and no losses in professional boxing, he can quit boxing.

   However, after quitting the boxing world, he is not idle.

   Instead, the job he was most familiar with found him again!

   On June 30, 2013, in the regular meeting of NBA owners, 30 owners passed the proposal to allow Liu Xiu to come back to participate in the game by 27 to 3!

  Many owners don’t want to, but this time, except for Mavericks owner Cuban, Knicks owner James Dolan, and Spurs owner Pete Holt, the owners of the other 26 teams agreed to Liu Xiu’s return to play.

  No one will have trouble with money, Liu Xiu retired to boxing, the NBA's attention and income have declined...even the game ratings have declined!

  The contracts between major TV stations and the NBA will expire, and the renewal price negotiated earlier is very gratifying, so the owners of each team will firmly lower the players' income sharing ratio after the end of the 10-11 season.

   But now, major TV stations are lowering their prices, and the latest offer is half as low as the original offer!

  The reason is precisely because Liu Xiu retired!

   It's not that Liu Xiu retired and went to boxing, and the NBA's ratings dropped by half, so the NBA would have gone crazy.

   Instead, the major TV stations are putting pressure on the NBA. Liu Xiu announced his retirement from boxing. The major TV stations don't want to lose him, the most popular athlete in the world.

   At this time, the bosses of each team are no longer standing with jokes.

   There are rumors that Joke doesn't like Liu Xiu.

  The reason is that Liu Xiu doesn't like to talk to him very much, and seems to despise him very much.

   Joke felt insulted because of this, and opposed Liu Xiu everywhere.

The joke was that when Liu Xiu bought the Trail Blazers, the teams 'blocked' Liu Xiu and prevented Liu Xiu from continuing to play. The teams felt that this was beneficial to them, and they liked the fact that jokes could help them make money, so it helped. .

   But now, Joke still wants to prevent Liu Xiu from returning to the NBA, and the team owners are starting to hate Joke.

   This is cutting off their money!

  Except for Cuban and Dolan, who don’t care about the little money, and Peter Holt, who thinks Liu Xiu is an obstacle to defending the title, the other bosses strongly support Liu Xiu’s comeback to play!

  NBA officially formulated an exclusive clause for Liu Xiu—no salary clause!

   Liu Xiu played as the owner of the Trail Blazers. It is too much to ask him to sign a contract and get a salary.

  It is tantamount to giving money to the tax bureau for nothing.

  After a bit of arguing, the owners of each team agreed that Liu Xiu could play games without pay, but he was not allowed to play in other teams. In terms of salary calculation, Liu Xiu will always occupy 25% of the current salary cap.

  On September 11, 2013, Liu Xiu officially announced his comeback after completing the "Kobe Bryant Training Camp" with Kobe, Anthony, Bosh, Dragic, Gasol Jr. and others!

  The headline given by ESPN Sports - "Darkness Returns".

  …

  …

  The book is finished.

  Thanks to my friends for their support in the past 15 months, the story has come to an end.

   In the next two days, I will write a postscript to explain the follow-up story.

  New book visual inspection at the end of the month.

Thanks! I am really grateful to my friends for their support all the time, thank you!

  (end of this chapter)