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On April 14, 1995, in an ordinary school in a city in southern China, it was the middle of the lunch break, and primary school students were playing and chasing. One of the children stood stunned, looking out of place.

"I'm alive! Moreover, this environment is so familiar...... Is this my alma mater? I'm still an elementary school student and haven't studied abroad in Houston yet! Stunned, Yuanfei slowly realized his situation, and his surprise slowly turned to ecstasy. I can go to watch Yao Ming's games again, I can re-experience life, I can make up for all kinds of regrets over the years, and I can even ...... It could change my whole life! ”

Yuan Fei quickly calmed down, silently returned to the classroom, and carefully analyzed himself.

In the past 30 years of life, he has accumulated a lot of knowledge, it is easy to go back to university to study and start a business, and more importantly, information resources. You can go to Facebook earlier than Zuckerberg and predict the stock market crash more accurately than Warren Buffett. There are simpler ones, if you go to gamble, you can make a lot of money, and you are simply invincible. Thinking of this, he smiled, what has accompanied him the most over the years is the NBA game. Making money is not a problem, the question is how to make your life meaningful and worthy of this period of youth.

Soon he decided that not as a thirty-year-old adult, but as a teenager under the age of ten, decided his future path.

"I'm going to lead the Houston Rockets to great glory and create a dynasty that is more brilliant than the Celtics, Lakers and Bulls!"

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Over the years, the struggle at home and abroad has created Wang Yuanfei's calm and tenacious character. Even for basketball, he is no longer the little fan who drools enthusiastically over Jordan and Big Dream, but a calm basketball observer. Being able to calmly put aside his feelings to watch basketball is one of the assets he is proud of. Since he had made up his mind, he seriously set about his work in two aspects.

One of them is, of course, basketball knowledge: do old fans know everything in the field of basketball? Of course not! People's memory is always limited, in 95 years Yuanfei was still young, watching football was not professional, and the league at this time was not well understood, and there would be some memory confusion. He first copied the parts that he remembered deeply to ensure that they were correct, and then found a lot of information and did a special analysis and research on the entire NBA league and the Houston Rockets in particular.

This period was the most glorious period for the Houston Rockets. In 1994, the Houston Rockets won the game in superstar "Big Dream" Hakim. Olajuwon won his first NBA championship under the leadership. The following year, the Rockets finished sixth in the West in the regular season. On June 14, 1995, just two months after the long flight, the Rockets defeated the Magic at home and successfully won the championship, becoming the lowest-ranked regular season champion in NBA history.

Another job Wang Yuanfei has set out to do is to make money. If you want to participate in the decision-making of the Rockets, it will be difficult without financial support. Yuanfei's father, Wang Changming, was a small businessman, and his family was quite well-off. Wang Changming's educational philosophy is relatively avant-garde, and he has always advocated cultivating his son's independence and self-determination, and is ready to send his son to study abroad in the future. So when Wang Yuanfei proposed to dispose of a large amount of money in his family, Wang Changming was only surprised, not afraid. After carefully confirming his son's investment idea and making sure that it was not being used by others, he first affirmed his son's independent spirit. Then he immediately mobilized his contacts to investigate his son's investment direction, and felt that it was indeed feasible.

From May 18 to May 22, 1995, a short period of three days, it constituted the most famous stock market bull market in China's history. Affected by the CSRC's announcement of the closure of treasury bond futures, the stock index rose from 582 points to 926 points in three days. And when the bear market came on the 22nd, Wang Changming had already sold stocks and counted the money.

Wang Yuanfei is extremely grateful to his father at this moment, not only for the investment support given by Wang Changming, but also for the fact that in his previous life, Wang Changming saw that Yuanfei wanted his son to inherit his father's business and enter business, and strongly recommended that he choose a second degree in finance. It was precisely because of the accumulation of knowledge in the past that he was able to dig this first pot of gold.

With the first pot of gold, Wang Yuanfei then bought a batch of old buildings to be demolished with the support of his father, and received a large amount of demolition compensation just one year later. This profit was so smooth that the local land and resources department once thought that an insider had leaked the demolition information, but after investigation, it was not resolved.

Due to the family's rich savings, Wang Changming's business is getting bigger and bigger. After receiving this huge amount of compensation for demolition, he took advantage of the rapid economic development of the motherland and invested in the real estate industry. Yuanfei also quickly bought the bottom in the bear market, and then started a long-term and short-term operation in the stock market, long-term investment in Sichuan Changhong and other high-performing stocks, and the short-term with some experience and memory fragments continue to harvest, and the assets have also turned over and over for a period of time. In 1997, when another big bear market came, Yuanfei successfully withdrew its capital and invested the funds in some real industries. At this time, no one except the father and son knew that Wang Yuanfei, who was only 11 years old, was already a local tyrant with a net worth of tens of millions.

Finally, in 1998, when fate turned, Yuanfei was about to cross the ocean and go to the distant United States to study in middle school.

"Son, you have been sensible and housekeeper since you were a child. Now that the family's financial conditions are better, you don't have to worry about expenses. Choose your favorite place, even if you're going to Manhattan to attend an aristocratic school, your parents can afford it. Yuanfei's mother, Chen Yueqing, didn't know that her son's personal assets were not as good as his father's, and he would not worry about tuition fees and living expenses at all.

"Mom, I've already thought about it, so I'll go to Houston." Yuanfei chose without hesitation: "I will live in Houston for a long time, and even work for a period of time after graduation in the future." But I will definitely come back when I am successful and pay tribute to your second elder. ”

After Chen Yueqing went to the side alone to wipe away his tears, Wang Changming secretly asked, "Son, do you want to invest most of the funds in your father's company?" ”

"Well, I believe that the situation of the domestic real estate industry in recent years is very good, except for the few assets I told you, don't move. I used the rest of the money to invest in the U.S. stock market. By the way, there is a distant relative in my mother's family who seems to be going to open a company this year. Dad injected him with more money, and we will be the majority shareholder of this company. ”

"Which distant relative?"

"That cousin in Guangdong, Chen Yidan."

(Note: Chen Yidan co-founded a company called Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd. in November 1998 with four other partners.) ）

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Another two years have passed in a flash, and Yuan Fei is in the United States, and he still focuses on investment, after all, his studies at this age are really pediatric for him.

Wang Yuanfei is not a fan of money, and he does not have high requirements for material life. But the NBA is a business empire, and it really needs a barrier to entry. In 1993 businessman Leslie. Alexander bought the Rockets for $85 million, and Alexander was still a poor owner at the NBA level at this time, and he didn't get rich until Yao Ming's arrival helped him open up overseas markets. With Yuanfei's net worth 2 years ago, there is still a long way to go from the figure of 85 million dollars.

It has been a painful time for Houston fans in the past few years. After two consecutive championships in 1995, many fans thought that Houston basketball would continue to be brilliant, but the Rockets were hit hard. On May 12, 1996, the Rockets were swept out of the game 4-0 by the Western Conference upstart SuperSonics led by Payton "Glove" Payton. The 97 and 98 Rockets lost to the Western Conference champions Jazz for the second year in a row. Michael, the god of basketball. Jordan completed his second three-game winning streak in three years, and Olajuwon failed to meet him in the Finals.

The 98-99 season after Jordan's retirement was a famous shrinking season in league history, and it was also the first time that a new generation of superstars stepped onto the Finals stage. Duncan and senior "Admiral" David. Robinson's Spurs twin towers led the Spurs to their first-ever championship. In the next 15 years of his previous life, Duncan will lead the team to another four championships. The Houston Rockets have not achieved anything in the past 15 years. They are in a terrible situation at the moment, and in the 98-99 season the team bought Jordan's chief bodyguard, Pippen, and if Olajuwon, Barkley, Pippen, and all three superstars were at their peak, the championship would basically be in their pocket. But in 99, the three plus all 104 years old, and the youngest Pippen is already 33 years old. And Pippen and Big Dream's high salaries fill the salary cap, making it difficult for them to make up for it. After finishing fifth in the West that season, the first round of the playoffs was eliminated by the Lakers, led by O'Neal, the ruler of the league for years to come. Olajuwon, who can still fight, can still get 13.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, while O'Neal, who has just reached his peak, averages 29.5 points, 10.3 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game, completely bursting the big dream and avenging the 95 finals.

After spending a lot of money and not achieving good results, the Rocket management was of course very dissatisfied, and it became a top priority to tear down and rebuild, but too much rush for quick success led to difficulties in the future construction of the rocket. On August 27, '99, Francis expressed his reluctance to play for the Grizzlies, and the Grizzlies were forced to sell him. The Rockets managed to take over at the cost of four regular rotation players, but unfortunately paid for the first-round pick in 2003, the famous year of the Golden Generation draft. On October 2, a big deal was born, the Rockets sent Pippen, the youngest and most valuable trade-in among the three olds, to the Trail Blazers for 1 for 6 (Cato and other 6 ordinary players), and 2 days later renewed Barkley's contract with a high salary of 9 million for 1 year, giving the veteran a decent old age.

Outwardly, the construction of the rocket could not have been better. Bringing in Francis is a robbery, and the four players who paid are available, but none of them are stars. When the second old man retires, he will make room for salary, sign a big-name center, and pair with Xiaofu, which is another strong team.

But Wang Yuanfei knew that this was not a good idea for building a team. Boss Fu (the affectionate name given to him by Chinese fans) started high and low in his career, and he was not popular in the past few years, but he declined rapidly, and soon he couldn't even play in the CBA. 03 The first round of the golden generation can pick out several stars who are no less than him. And the rocket's rotten swing is not complete, which also leads to the average draft order in the next few years, if it weren't for God to draw a champion to get Yao Ming, I don't know how many years it will be rotten.

There are two major factors for the Rockets' failure to take off in the coming years: First, the draft was not effective: the Rockets' general manager at the time, Carol Brown. Dawson is known for his poor draft pick (only one of his years of work is commendable, which is the pride of the country, Da Yao), and his successor, Morey, has a very high draft pick; The second is that the camp is full of wounded soldiers: Yao Ming and Maddie are overused, and the playing time and round possession are too high, resulting in Yao Mai's basic rotation injury in the late stage;

Yuanfei also has a rational judgment on its own value. The draft is a piece of cake for him, which newcomer is a parallel import, which is a rising star, he can keep it all in his mind. Increasing the depth of the team's bench through drafts and trades can also help the team's core stars get more time off, improve their health, and reduce injury concerns.

But his value is not just information, but also basketball philosophy. Which is stronger, 20th century old-school basketball or 21st-century new-school basketball? The topic of Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong is always inconclusive, but Yuanfei must really fight a war of the times with basketball concepts.

To win this battle, you must first have a career orientation. As a boss? Coach? Team manager? Scouts? CEO? After thinking about it, Yuanfei decided to jump out of these conventional positions, and he gave a unique answer of his own.

After years of accumulation, data analyst Wang Yuanfei is finally ready to take the first step towards the NBA