Chapter 285: A Busy Holiday (Part I)

"Defend! Defend! Defend! ”

The San Franciscans' near-frantic roar rang out from the Oracle's basketball arena at Nuoda as it was Game 6 of the 2018-19 NBA Finals and the Golden State Warriors' last game here.

Dai Zhiwei has been a standard basketball fan since Yao Ming joined the Houston Rockets, and his idols have been from Yao Ming and Kobe Bryant to Curry and Leonard today, and he can be regarded as an old fan.

Once upon a time, he always wished that he could watch a Kobe Bryant game in the NBA, but unfortunately until Kobe Bryant retired, he could not realize his wish, and now he finally came to Oracle Arena to attend the Finals.

This year's NBA Finals is against both sides, the West is still the Golden State Warriors, and the East is the Toronto Raptors, who have some dark horse elements, both sides have his favorite superstars, so no matter who wins or loses, he can gladly accept it.

However, Dai Zhiwei's favorite team in the NBA is the Warriors, so he is wearing Curry's blue jersey today.

The only regret is that the Golden State Warriors have been affected by injuries in this year's playoffs, and Durant's season reimbursement has made the Warriors currently trail by a score of 2:3, hanging by a thread.

As a wealthy man with a weekly salary of one million yuan, Dai Zhiwei naturally chose the first row of seats in the NBA - the price of this ticket alone is as high as $50,000.

However, he didn't pay for this kind of ticket, because the seat originally belonged to Warriors small owner Mark Stevens.

In the Finals G3 game a week ago, Raptors All-Star point guard Lowry rushed to the sidelines of the audience during a save, and most of the audience was friendly to protect Lowry from injury, but a man in blue pushed Lowry maliciously.

Although the shoving did not hurt Lowry, the fan's rude behavior angered Lowry, and the two exchanged "traditional virtues".

In the face of such a negative event, the subsequent NBA league reaction was also quite decisive, and punished Mark Stevens - Stevens was banned from watching live games and participating in team activities for one year, and fined $500,000!

$500,000 is just a drop in the bucket for Stevens, who has a personal asset of $2.3 billion, but the NBA has privately forced Smiths to sell his Warriors shares before the 2019-2020 season.

In other words, he was kicked out of the game once he had a cheap hand.

Mark Stevens, 59, has three children, is worth $2.3 billion and was a former shareholder of the Sacaramento Kings. After his stake was forcibly bought in August 2013, he turned to invest in the Warriors, and since then the Warriors have soared, winning three championships in four years, and the value of his shares has also risen.

Dai Zhiwei has wanted to buy the shares of an NBA team many times before but could not get it, and this time Stevens gave him the opportunity, he entrusted his agent team to negotiate with Stevens to acquire the shares of the Warriors in his hands at the first time, and now Stevens's ticket is just a little sweetness given by the other party before the formal negotiation.

Although Dai Zhiwei had a free seat, he still spent more than $50,000 to buy a ticket.

The reason is simple, just look at the beautiful girl sitting next to him who is also wearing a Curry jersey.

Wang Xiaoqi, Penguin NBA live hostess.

When he was in G3, Dai Zhiwei, who came to Auckland, met Kefan, Yang Yi, Xiaoqi and Zhang Weiping, the king of basketball commentary, through Penguin Live.

To be honest, Dai Zhiwei has always been very eye-catching for domestic basketball commentators, and his professional level is very limited compared to American commentators.

Because of the situation, Dai Zhiwei said hello casually to Kefan and Yang Yi, but in the face of Zhang Weiping, he became a little fan - Director Zhang + Kobe Bryant is the vast majority of his memories of youth basketball.

For Xiaoqi, Dai Zhiwei's first impression is very good, being beautiful is a must, young and beautiful, with a feeling of first love, and there is no problem with other female anchors in China who are bewitching and cheap.

Before G4, Dai Zhiwei, who had nothing to do after arriving in Oakland, was also invited by Penguin Sports to participate in the recording of the roaming NBA program with Xiaoqi and Director Zhang.

Dai Zhiwei only had some good feelings for Xiaoqi because of his appearance before, but in Curry's wife Ayesa Hotel, it made him want to pursue it.

For no other reason, maybe it was just that the sun was shining that day, and she had a feeling that made your cells feel happy when she ate.

Therefore, after the G4 Warriors lost and their lives hung by a thread, Dai Zhiwei deliberately accompanied her to visit the whole Oakland after the game in order to make her happy.

Therefore, in the final battle of the G6 Oracle, he spared no expense to purchase tickets for the first row.

Although, the two have not even held hands at the moment - this is definitely a "turtle speed" for Dai Zhiwei.

The only pity is that G5 Dai Zhiwei can't go to Toronto with the Penguin Live team, because he has promised Ozil to go to his wedding.

On June 8, Mesut Ozil held a wedding in Istanbul, Turkey, and his wife Gursi was elected Miss Turkey.

At this grand wedding, in addition to Dai Zhiwei and other personal friends, there were also heavyweights - Turkish President Erdogan served as witnesses for them.

At the wedding, Mesut Ozil made his wedding wishes public: "A lot of my fans asked me, my family and friends, about their wishes for tomorrow's wedding. As a professional footballer, I am fortunate to receive such special treatment. Amine and I will cover the cost of surgery for 1,000 children with acute illnesses. On top of that, I would be happier if there were more opportunities for treatment around the world. ”

He also called on more capable people to support the charity projects he participated in.

Dai Zhiwei naturally couldn't go empty-handed to attend Ozil's wedding, and the "share money" he prepared was a Rolex watch worth nearly 20,000 euros, but after learning about Ozil's wedding wishes at the wedding, he suddenly felt that he was cheesy.

Needless to say, he agreed to pay for the surgery of 50 emergency children at the wedding - the cost was about 100,000 euros.

Although 100,000 euros is already the coveted weekly salary of most players in Europe's top five leagues, it doesn't care about Dai Zhiwei, who has deep pockets.

A few days ago, Forbes released the athlete income list, Dai Zhiwei is the world's highest-paid athlete, Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar are ranked second to fourth.

The statistical period is from June 1, 2018 to June 1, 2019, during which Dai Zhiwei earned £110 million, of which £25 million in wages and bonuses, and another £85 million from commercial endorsements.

Of the £85 million commercial contracts, more than £50 million is earned every year by Huaxia's domestic endorsements alone!

For the past seven years, it has been American boxer Mayweather who has dominated the athlete earnings charts, and this time Dai Zhiwei has pulled him down.

Messi, who is ranked second, earns 100 million pounds, of which 72 million pounds in wages and bonuses, which is 2.88 times that of Dai Zhiwei.

Ronaldo's income is 86 million pounds, of which 51 million comes from wages and bonuses, which is 2.04 times that of Dai Zhiwei.

For the first time in history, Neymar earned £83 million, and the top four places on the Forbes athlete earnings list were all occupied by footballers.

Mexican boxer Garneiro Alvarez is fifth with £74 million, while Swiss tennis star Federer is at £73.5 million.

Real Madrid star Paul Pogba is in 44th place in the top 100 with £27 million, while other players in the top 100 include Alexis Sanchez with £24 million, Mesut Ozil with £23.5 million, Mohamed Salah with £20 million and Gareth Bale with £21 million.

The overall list presents such a situation, soccer players occupy the top 4 positions, but there are 35 NBA stars in the top 100, which is the group with the largest number of finalists. The top 100 athletes come from 26 countries and regions, with 61 from the United States.

Dai Zhiwei is also the only Chinese athlete on the list.

But compared to Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar, the wages and bonuses he receives from Manchester United are less than a quarter of the total income, and even less than half of Messi and Ronaldo, which also makes Woodward feel the pressure.

Even if it weren't for Dai Zhiwei's Champions League, Premier League and Club World Cup between June 1, 2018 and June 1, 2019, winning the Champions League, Premier League and European Golden Boot, and getting all the additional bonuses in his contract, then in terms of salary alone, he has even just reached one-third of Messi and Ronaldo's salary, less than half of Neymar's salary.

The problem is, he's the first person in world football in the last two seasons!

Everyone knows that with Dai Zhiwei's performance in the past two seasons, it is impossible to negotiate his next contract renewal with an annual salary of 40 million euros.

That's why Dai Zhiwei will be generous at Ozil's wedding, because he knows that once his contract renewal is on the agenda, it will be difficult for Ozil, as the second highest-paid player in the current Manchester United team, not to be sold by the stingy Sandezi.

After attending Ozil's wedding, Dai Zhiwei was invited by the Chinese Football Association to France to watch the Chinese women's team's first match against Germany in the 2019 World Cup.

Dai Zhiwei watched this game very depressed, and his brows were tightly locked almost all the time in the stands.

In the first half, the Chinese women's team did not have the opportunity to open the scoring, but the striker's ability to seize the opportunity was too poor, and several single shots were kicked away.

In the second half, after Wang Shuang, who is known as the "female version of Dai Zhiwei", came off the bench, the state was also not ideal, he was too hesitant to handle the ball, and after the team fell behind, the head coach Jia Xiu had no choice, the whole team was tired of coping, frequently playing high balls, opening big feet, and quite some of the men's team's low period in the past few years!

In the end, the Chinese women's team lost 0:1 to the German women's football team.

After the game, Dai Zhiwei was silent in the interview with reporters, and returned to the hotel without saying anything, but then the news from the press conference made him furious!

At the post-match press conference, the first question that Jia Xiu answered comprehensively was about the number one star Wang Shuang's coming off the bench.

In this regard, Jia Xiuquan immediately responded very directly: "What do you think of her playing in the second half?" Do you still need to ask me? That's why I put her on in the second half. ”

Jia Xiuquan then said: "What I need is a team, I don't need a certain star, what I need is team football. ”

Jia Xiuquan also licked his face and commented on the game: "In the past, we only knew that we didn't take advantage of each other, but the performance of the players in this game, according to what I said before, play their true selves, and they are the best." The players were still playing very well, their desires, their attitudes, and our offensive and defensive ends, the content of the training was all played, and there was only one goal missing. It's a pity, but that's what we need to do as we grow. ”

Dai Zhiwei saw this news report on the mobile phone news push early the next morning, and when he checked out of the hotel, he was waited by a domestic sports reporter squatting in France, and the question was to ask him to comment on Jia Xiuquan's remarks yesterday.

"What is there to say?" Dai Zhiwei sneered, "The meaning of Coach Jia is very clear: if you lose the game, the opponent is too strong, it is the inevitable experience required for growth, and the player's ability is not good, anyway, I definitely didn't lose." ”

If you talk about the status of the domestic football world, after leading the Chinese team to the quarterfinals of the World Cup and winning the Asian Cup, there is really no one with a higher status than him.

What is seniority?

Dai Zhiwei is the one who is registered with the leader.

Since he said it, he was ready to simply say it, anyway, he remembered that the results of this year's women's football team were not very good, "It's not the first time that Jia Xiuquan has coached, after the 98 A B League, he criticized Sui Bo in public at the post-game press conference for not playing normally, which put Sui Bo under heavy pressure, and finally retired early to end his career. This time it was replaced by Wang Shuang, how much pressure would it bring to Wang Shuang? Will it affect the team's unity and mentality? ”

For Wang Shuang, this game was really average, she also said after the game that she was not in the best condition, but she has always had a back injury, and she has not practiced with the team before, and it is normal to not cooperate with teammates. Wang Shuang is the number one star of the women's football team, and we should cherish and protect her. Especially after the first game, the coach needs to take the initiative to take responsibility, rather than blaming the players, especially when Wang Shuang is still playing with an injury, such criticism is inappropriate and will also affect the subsequent games. ”

"In general, Coach Jia Xiuquan has always coached in the domestic first team, and has served as the head coach of Henan Jianye, Shaanxi Guoli, Shanghai Shenhua and the national youth team, but there has been no improvement in the past 11 years.

Dai Zhi also realized that as the No. 1 athlete in China, his words would definitely become the focus of domestic public opinion, but he didn't care.

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