With the start of salary negotiations, the players' contract renewals or transfers and other matters must also be in vain, and they will have to wait until the new labor and salary agreement is introduced before they can renew or transfer......

But the summer league started normally, and in early July, Zhang Weiping and Stevens went to participate in the summer league in Southern California with five rookies and a group of invited draft picks.

In the summer league of '96, the Chinese team participated, and in the following '97 and this year, the Chinese team also sent players to participate, and they all participated in the summer league in Southern California.

Richard originally wanted to personally lead the team to participate in the summer league this time, just to meet the legends of the Chinese national team, but he received another job and couldn't be separated.

Previously, Paul Allen contacted the boss of Magic, who is DeVos, the founder of Amway, because of Richard's matter.

At that time, DeVos wanted Richard to be their spokesperson for the Chinese market, and Paul Allen agreed.

Later, when Richard found out about this, he definitely wouldn't say anything, and took an endorsement for nothing, which is completely a pie-in-the-sky thing......

Of course, Richard still has to pull Dazhi in this matter, and DeVos must think that the double endorsement effect is better.

Richard's contract is $2 million for five years, and Dazhi's contract is higher, $4 million for five years......

Speaking of which, in fact, Richard is really too lazy to accept this endorsement, and he really doesn't care about it for just two million dollars.

The two investments made by Richard before are now in the harvest season, and according to the calculation of the Golden Dragon, these two investments have brought more than eighty percent of Richard's income......

That is, the investment of 40 million US dollars, the income is more than 36 million!

Soros has already closed the net, Richard simply withdrew all the funds, and the funds of Blizzard's parent company were also all withdrawn, plus the salary he earned over the years, as well as the income from the college paper of "Violent Black", he made up a whole 100 million dollars!

On the Golden Dragon's side, Richard directly asked him to resign from Soros, fired him from his annual salary of 500,000 US dollars, and was in charge of his own finances, which can be regarded as Richard's personal financial manager.

The reason why he had to scrape together so many chips was because Richard knew that this 98 years was the best time for him to enter the stock market.

Apple, when it went public in 1980, caused a huge sensation and created a lot of billionaires and millionaires.

But with the removal of Steve Jobs from the board of directors, Apple has been in a period of decline in the past ten years, especially in the last year, Apple has basically been in a state of internal and external troubles......

Richard naturally didn't know much about Apple, but Jobs did.

Now that Steve Jobs has just returned to the position of chairman of Apple, this is the best time for Richard to inject capital into Apple......

For a whole 100 million US dollars, the golden dragon was dumbfounded, how crazy Richard was, how confident he was in his own vision, and he even smashed all his net worth directly without leaving a way back......

With such a large sum of money, it is naturally not so easy to exchange all of it for Apple's equity, and after the golden dragon got Richard's instructions, he immediately began to rush.

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The $2 million given by DeVos is actually not a small amount, even if it is more than ten years later, if a head coach endorses it, it is actually not much money, and $1.8 million is already quite good.

But this money Richard will definitely not put in his eyes......

The reason why he agreed to come down was actually because he had his own considerations.

On the one hand, he didn't want to make it difficult for Paul Allen, after all, he had promised others, and secondly, Richard also wanted to be more well-known in China.

That's right, Richard had a purpose of raising awareness in China......

Although it is not beneficial for Richard to increase his popularity in China, he still has some thoughts from his previous life in his heart, and Amway relies on hype, so it is conceivable that Richard's advertisements will be everywhere in China at that time.

In the final analysis, this is actually Richard's "vanity", even if he has another layer of identity now, he still wants to show his face in China......

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Dazhi also didn't need to go to the summer league, so Amway arranged for Dazhi and Richard to gather in Portland and shoot video commercials and print ads for the two.

It took half a morning......

Then at the end of September, Richard and Dazhi only needed to go to China to help Amway stand on the platform, and they didn't need to invest too much energy.

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Thinking of returning to China, Richard had mixed feelings.

He was a little afraid of returning to China, afraid of seeing some scenes that he didn't want to see, such as the fact that there was a young version of Richard in China.

But he was looking forward to it......

The Amway incident this time may also be an excuse for Richard's self-paralysis, and he just can't make up his mind whether to return to China or not, and now with the excuse of Amway, he has to go back if he doesn't go back.

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In the blink of an eye, the summer league was over, and the Trail Blazers played six games with a 4-2 record.

Richard naturally didn't care about the results of this summer league, and he was going to start gathering the team's new players to start offseason training.

In addition to the old Curry and Robinson, most of the team is actually newcomers, and the training must not be left behind.

At the end of the season, Richard gave the newcomers a month's break to spend time with their families, and then, as last season, began training with the team in late July.

Now is the critical moment, and the more hard training you have, the more chance you will have to win the championship.

This shrinking season is the best time for Richard to start the Richard era in the NBA, and it can almost be said that the time and place are favorable......

The lineup has reached the most luxurious level that Richard can build!

The main reason is that there are many high-quality newcomers produced in 96 and 98, and Richard seized the opportunity, which is why he came up with such a luxurious lineup.

In '96 Richard brought in four newcomers, and this year Richard brought in five newcomers.

In the future, it will not be so easy to have such a bumper harvest year......

And after the end of this shrinking season, many main players will face the problem of contract renewal, and there will definitely be main players who will leave the team at that time, and the strength of the team will be damaged.

It can be said that this year is a strong period for the Trailblazers, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win the championship!