Chapter 155: Year 5 Championship and Deal That Shocked the League
Entering its fifth season in the NBA. Li Qiang led the Timberwolves' championship lineup to kill gods and Buddha along the way, and cut down a 78-4 record in the regular season!
Li Qiang averaged 54 points, 14 assists and 13 rebounds per game, with a three-point shooting rate of 65%! And the overall shooting rate of making fouls has reached about 80%!
The formula for the efficiency index of NBA players is [(Score + Rebounds + Assists + Blocks + Steals) - Shots Missed - Fouls - Turnovers]
According to this calculation, Li Qiang's efficiency value has reached an unprecedented (54+13+14+3+3)-6-3-2=76! It is 2.5 times that of Jordan, who has the highest regular season efficiency value in history, and has set a record of 31!
In the playoffs, Li Qiang even scored an immortal record of 63 points, 12 assists, 16 rebounds, 5 blocks and 3 steals per game! The average efficiency value of the game reaches 88!
The Timberwolves are averaging 123 points per game, outscoring opponents by an average of 28 points per game! 16 wins in 16 games, swept the league without suspense and won the championship!
The Timberwolves led by Li Qiang have finally established an immortal dynasty with three consecutive championships!
At this time, Li Qiang once again indisputably won the regular season MVP, All-Star Game MVP and Finals MVP!
And Li Qiang's many 80+, 90+, and 100+ in the regular season and the playoffs have also brought him more than $10 million in income according to his contract with Nike! Because according to the contract, every time Li Qiang plays 80+, Nike will give 500,000, 90+: 700,000, 100+: 1 million, and all the numbers in the playoffs will be doubled!
Coupled with the $8 million for the two MVPs, $10 million for the championship and the most basic $15 million, Li Qiang will absorb a full $50 million from Nike in a year!
What everyone doesn't know is that in addition to absorbing money from Nike, Li Qiang also executed the equity distribution rights that he can execute as long as he wins the championship from the owner of the Timberwolves, thus obtaining 5% of the equity of the Timberwolves with a market value of more than $40 million!
Coupled with Li Qiang's basic salary of $35 million, a year and several other brands he endorsed, Li Qiang was given more than $60 million. Li Qiang earned a full 200 million US dollars in a year!
Li Qiang has been named the most profitable athlete in the world!
The second-ranked famous American golfer Tiger Woods' $80 million and the second-ranked basketball world's LeBron James's $60 million were suddenly dwarfed.
At the same time, another huge figure of Chinese fighting in the alliance has also attracted attention. Zhang Guangming, the big giant who plays for the New Orleans Pelicans, has already played no less than O'Neal in his rookie season in his rookie season! With an average of 27 points and 13 rebounds per game, the inside monster is starting to wield! As a Chinese, being able to get such data in the first year of coming to the NBA can indeed be called phenomenal.
Although the Pelicans still failed to enter the playoffs because the perennial roster was too weak, Zhang Guangming's strength is already well-known!
The most talked-about Li Qiang VS Zhang Guangming duel ended with Li Qiang's complete victory. In the four games in which the two teams met in the regular season, Li Qiang scored more than 60 points from Zhang Guangming's head in each game, and as long as Li Qiang defended Zhang Guangming, the power he was proud of did not work at all, and his shots were often covered. It can be said that both offensive and defensive ends have been blown up, but Zhang Guangming is still growing rapidly! By the end of the regular season, he had a height of about two meters seven! And with more power and faster!
In the summer of that year, the general managers of all 31 NBA teams jointly protested to the league's chairman, Xiao Hua, that the Timberwolves' superstar huddle had seriously damaged the balance of the league's game, and that the annual championship would be no longer in suspense, and the attention caused by the NBA would decline. It's like the reason why the Chinese badminton team wants to export so many talents overseas is not so that the Chinese team doesn't win the championship every time, so that no one pays attention to the sport except Chinese?
Under intense pressure, Shaw was forced to ask the Timberwolves to split their roster. The negotiations lasted for more than a month, and the Timberwolves' owners, coaches, Li Qiang, Brack, and other team owners in the league and league chairman Xiao Hua gathered together to discuss the future direction of the league and some details that appropriately limit Li Qiang to maintain the balance of the league.
In the end, Xiao Hua, the CEO of the alliance, announced a big deal that shocked the alliance!
Brak and Polles were traded back to their original teams and the Nuggets were traded back to their original teams to become team leaders again, while the Timberwolves got two first-round picks and a lot of cash. Love and Gasol were also acquired by the Cavaliers and Rockets, respectively, and the Timberwolves were given a bunch of role players and a large sum of cash.
After the split, except for Li Qiang, the original main starting lineup of the Timberwolves was all purged. In the next few days, Li Qiang will have to lead a group of substitute-level players to compete for the championship. Seeing the Timberwolves being done like this, the owners and general managers of the major teams finally had a smile on their faces.
However, as long as Li Qiang is still in the Timberwolves, this team will always be a strong contender for the championship. Now that the Timberwolves have been split, other strong teams such as the Spurs, Thunder, Pacers, Mavericks, Bulls, Rockets, Warriors, etc. have only won the championship again, and they may not be able to beat the Timberwolves with only Li Qiang.