The Hawks beat the Cavaliers 99-91, and Liu Mang scored 33 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.

Liu Mang is now standing up from the bench, whether he is a real substitute or pretending to be a substitute, as long as the bench bandit is triggered, the ability value is 79.

Although Liu Mang's ability value is only 79 evaluation, his 79 ability can be equivalent to the effect of other 83 and 84 ability value players, because his ability value evaluation is different from others, it is a pure ability value evaluation, and defense will not be counted in it, his is the value of the simple ability value combined, not the ability value of other players according to the performance that can be played now, because Liu Mang's defense cannot be evaluated, if you don't want to defend, no matter how high the defense evaluation is, it is useless. Others, on the other hand, are counted as whether they are willing to defend or not, and how effective the defense is.

Therefore, although Liu Mang's own ability value is only 75 now, compared to the end of last season, it has only improved from 71 to 75, and it has only increased from 74 to 79 after triggering the bench bandits, but his growth rate is actually no worse than that of most talented talented players, just the difference between him and James, who has improved to a top star in the second season of history.

In the eyes of the media, Liu Mang's progress is in line with expectations, and he is almost to the level of a first-class star, and scoring more than 30 points is a common performance for him when he is in good shape.

It's just that the media, like the Eagles fans, think Liu Mang's data is too weird!

When he played as a starter, he exploded in assists, and when he played as a substitute, he returned to the king of promiscuity.

Liu Mang can't help it, even if his ability value of 79 can be equivalent to the ability value of 83 and 94 of others, but it is only the strength of a quasi-first-class star, it would be good to be able to do a good job, and he should take into account scoring and assists? It's a bit hard.

Eight wins in a row!

The Eagles are back among the favourites!

With the inexplicable decline of the Kings this year, the Lakers' O'Neal sidelined for two months due to injury, and the overall sluggish regular season record in the East, the Hawks, who bucked the trend, are on fire again!

The Bucks and the SuperSonics deal is indeed very eye-catching, but it has little impact on the league, and not many people feel that the current Bucks have the strength to compete with the Nets.

Payton's age is key, and at the age of 35, he is no longer expected to be the core of a championship-contending team, and the Bucks are seen as a new team that will mess up the Eastern Conference playoffs, but at best it will mess things up.

As for Carter's comeback, who knows what the state is, even if the doctor said that Carter is fully healthy, but even if Carter is completely healthy, his ability to lead the team is not very good, mainly because his talent is too good, and he attaches more importance to his individual performance than the team's record, which has been criticized.

The comprehensive talent Carter may not be as strong as Maddy, but Carter's technology is already very mature when he enters the NBA, and he entered the peak earlier than Maddie, but Maddie is now mature, and his achievements with the team are much stronger than Carter's.

People's impression of Carter will also gradually take shape.

As for the fierce Spurs of the East and the West Dog, they are too stable, and people are not surprised to take the first place in the regular season, and even because they are too stable and extremely ugly and even dirty play, many people choose to ignore them, except for Duncan's style of play is quite strong, at the peak, and his popularity is high, many people don't want to see the existence of the Spurs team except for Duncan.

If it weren't for Duncan, the superstar who is firmly in the league's most popular power forward, it is estimated that the league would want to kick the Spurs out of the league.

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Because the Hawks are in a hot state, the TV stations that lost a lot during the previous live broadcast want to add the airport Hawks' popular game, and this time the Wizards came to Atlanta as a guest. T added an Eagles game again, and coincidentally, the game between the two people Barkley hated the most was his turn to comment.

According to the grapevine, Barkley went to a fast-food restaurant and ordered a bunch of burgers after knowing that he was going to broadcast the game, saying that he wanted to kill himself and did not want to broadcast the game live.

But it may be that Buckley went too late, the burgers in the fast food restaurant have been sold out, and Buckley, who has eaten six or seven hamburgers and is only eight points full, can only go home in a huff.

Although Mr. Joe's performance this year is average, and the old fans don't recognize this Jordan, the Hawks' home tickets have increased several times because Jordan came to Atlanta to play the regular season for the last time in his career, and the average ticket price this season is 65 US dollars for the Hawks tickets, and when Jordan comes, the lowest tickets on the second floor are 111 US dollars, which means that Jordan is going to retire for the third time and is no longer ready to come back.

The most expensive ticket on the sidelines sold for 23,232.3 US dollars, to an accuracy of 30 cents.

Although it is not like Kobe Bryant after accumulating 20 years of popularity, the last year's away games have all become home, and the courtside tickets of sixty or seventy thousand US dollars have been bought, but this is the beginning of the century, the American knife is definitely a little more valuable than ten years later, and the current ticket price is almost 20 percent cheaper than ten years later, the average ticket price of the Lakers season after more than ten years is more than 100 US dollars, and the average ticket price of Kobe Bryant in the season of his retirement has reached 110 US dollars, and now even if the Lakers have just won three consecutive championships, The average ticket price this season is only 87 US dollars, ranking second in the league, and the first is the New York Knicks' 91 US dollars.

The Hawks' average ticket price of $65 is already ranked fifth, and except for the Lakers and Knicks, no team has an average ticket price of more than $70.

Therefore, the ticket revenue that Jordan brought to the Hawks for this game is already terrifying, and in the finals last year, the highest ticket price for the Lakers' sidelines was only 20,000 US dollars, and the Nets' home court was only 5,000 US dollars.

The Hawks management also held a farewell ceremony for Jordan, and on the rest day after playing the Cavaliers, there was no training for the whole team to take a holiday, but Liu Mang was called to the stadium by Schwartz on the phone.

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"You say, let me send a blessing to the 23rd?" Liu Mang was surprised.

"That's right, you have to come here, this is an opportunity to inherit the torch of the basketball god!" Steven Price has recently regained his momentum and regained the spirit he had before the season.

The Eagles are starting to move in a good direction, and he, the club's executive vice president and general manager, finally doesn't have to bear the pressure from the head office, and now that the Eagles are on good momentum and are expected to hit the playoffs, he has been going to nightclubs more often when he is in a good mood.

"Boss, shouldn't Sharif go? He's the boss of the team. "Liu Mang is very strange, although this is a good thing, he can speak in the live broadcast in the United States, but in terms of seniority, it will not be his turn.

"No, Ace, it's more appropriate for you to go," Steven Price emphasized, "Sherif is too quiet to be as seductive as Ace...... No, it's not as contagious as Ace, you are the core of our future focus on training, Sheriff is great, but he has reached his peak, he doesn't need to be cultivated, he can already be used as the face of our team, we need another façade to play, that is, you, Ace. ”

Steven Price wants to promote Liu Mang to the position of the team's main star, and the reason is simple.

In the past, the Hawks lost money, for example, last season, the average ticket price of the team set at the beginning of the season, the average ticket price of the Eagles was only 29 US dollars, ranking fourth from the bottom of the league.

Although it rose a little bit in the later period, many fans planned which game to watch at the beginning of the season, so they bought tickets early, the American law is very strict, the price of unsold tickets can be increased, and the sold season tickets and tickets can only make that little money, and people must show the game to others when they come with tickets, otherwise they will wait to be sued.

This season, the average ticket price of the Hawks' regular season tickets is 65 US dollars, aside from some friendship tickets and event tickets, the remaining ticket revenue is expected to reach 50 million US dollars, double that of last season, or last year's playoffs, plus the broadcast fee of about 8 million league average sharing will be distributed, 5 million US dollars of Georgia local live broadcast fees, and some advertising fees are about 15 million US dollars, and sports clubs have tax deductions, even if they deduct close to 20 million US dollars, The Hawks' regular season income this season is also enough to pay players' salaries and pay taxes, and there is still a surplus, that is, they are finally going to make a profit!

This is not counting the playoffs tickets, advertising, live broadcast sharing and other income, last year because of the Eastern Conference finals almost turned a profit, but it is still a little bit, this year's ticket price has risen, and sponsors from China have made the Hawks' stadium advertising fees rise from 3 million US dollars last season to 15 million US dollars, and now even if you don't count the playoffs, the Hawks are already making money.

Counting the playoffs, there may be an income of up to 10 million US dollars, and the Eagles have made a lot of money this year because of Liu Mang!

You must know that even the Kings, whose strength projection is higher than that of the Hawks, can only keep it without making or losing, and it also has to count the income from the playoffs.

Just like the Rockets lost more than 6 million last year and earned it back before the start of this year's season, they got the Hawks, one of the two stars with the most Chinese market, and the salted fish turned over!

Although there is a huge gap between lying down with the Knicks and earning 150 million a year, even if the Knicks have a poor performance and have to pay tens of millions of luxury taxes, they are still making profits every year.

But the Hawks haven't made a profit for several seasons, the last time they made a profit was in 1988-1994, when NBA revenues skyrocketed for the first time in the years and player salaries hadn't even skyrocketed.

So the more popular Liu Mang is, the better he plays, even if he is a little willful, even if the style of play is unpredictable, even if he proposes to meddle in the team's personnel affairs unreasonably, Steven Price did not hesitate to agree immediately.

More than two-thirds of the 29 teams in the NBA are losing money every year, such as the Cavaliers, who lose money every year, but because their owners are local nightclub tycoons, there are more than 10 nightclubs in Cleveland, and they can generally make up for the team's losses, but they still want to get a superstar in order to completely turn the loss into a profit.

It's incredible that the Eagles can make a profit from team tickets and advertising revenue alone! Aside from big-city teams like the Knicks and Lakers, it's hard to find teams like the Hawks and Rockets that can make money by selling tickets and advertising.

Therefore, Steven Price will not miss any opportunity to increase Liu Mang's popularity.

Liu Mang saw Steven Price asking so strongly, then okay! He agreed.

Seeing Liu Mang nodding in agreement, Steven Price was very happy, he wanted Liu Mang to agree to make a speech, and he was worried that Liu Mang's strange temper would not agree, and he was worried that Liu Mang would not be happy, so he was very worried, Liu Mang agreed, and the big stone in his heart was finally put down.

"Ace, this is the content of the speech......" Steven Price took the copy that had already been written by the team's press officer to Liu Mang's back.

However, Liu Mang refused!

When Liu Mang agreed, he had a funny idea in his head: "Boss, I'll write a speech myself!" Don't look at me as a basketball player, I'm a genius who completed the credits in my sophomore year! ”

The strength stinks and shameless.

"Uh......" Steven Price was a little surprised, he knew that Chinese was very good at reading, but he didn't expect Liu Mang to write it himself, but seeing the eagerness to try inside, he didn't have any opinion: "Then Ace, you can write it yourself, your appeal is definitely better than that of the press officer." ”

Having said that, Steven Price felt that something was wrong, especially when he saw Liu Mang smiling a little weirdly, and it felt even more wrong......

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After Liu Mang received the work of the team, there was nothing else, and he left the stadium to buy some new game discs, this early in the morning, he came out, and it was boring to go back immediately, Dinah and Alexia in the review and guidance review before the end of the semester exams, the importance of sports in American schools is very high, especially for elementary school students like Dinah, the results of sports actually account for one-third of the final grades of the entire semester! Even the important science practice and handicraft classes are not as important as physical education.

So Alexia, although her salary is on the low side, is one of the hardest working teachers.

Levia has been looking at houses everywhere recently, this year's All-Star Weekend is held at the home of the Hawks, Levia is ready to move before the All-Star Weekend, Liu Mang must have a lot of friends to come during the All-Star Weekend, and he must do his best to be a landlord, if he is in the apartment, he is too embarrassed for Liu Mang, there is still more than a month left, look at the house, buy a house, move, etc., the time is still very tight, Liu Mang went out early and went back, strange and boring, so I am ready to buy some PS games to go back to play, and find a place to practice in the afternoon.

It's still good to exercise in winter, the humid and cold air of Atlanta, and the body is stiff if you don't exercise.

Just about to ride a bicycle to the computer city, Liu Mang's phone rang.

Liu Mang picked it up casually and put it to his ear.

"Ace, I'm Michael, let's have lunch together."

Before Liu Mang could react, he hung up the phone on the other end of the phone!

Liu Mang reacted that it was Jordan who called him to ask him to have lunch, and suddenly his head was full of black lines, and he felt that he had come to the crow's nest.

You said where to eat! Just such a headless sentence!

I know that you celebrities love to play cool clothes, and people in the 60s are this virtue, but it's good to say a store name!

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After some twists and turns, Liu Mang learned from the team's staff about the hotel where the Wizards players were going to stay tonight, Liu Mang finally found Jordan, fortunately, the Hawks were going to send a bus to pick up the Wizards players to play tomorrow, so they knew where they lived, otherwise Liu Mang estimated that they would be confused.

Call and ask Jordan? Liu Mang thinks it's better to forget it, people are 40 years old, and it's hard to pretend to be forced and play some cool behavior of the older generation, Liu Mang still doesn't destroy Jordan's final nature, after all, if you want to win this old man tomorrow, you have to save some face.

Liu Mang first rode his bicycle home, and then drove a riotous red Lamborghini to the newly opened Hilton Hotel in Atlanta, where the Wizards stayed, and looked at the time, it was already eleven o'clock.

Because of the appearance of Liu Mang, Atlanta has become one of the popular cities for domestic tourists to travel to the United States, Atlanta tourism is very developed, as the ninth city in the United States, compared to the top ten other cities in the United States, the pace here is too slow, it is a more suitable place for tourism and leisure, many rich people also hide a little wife and illegitimate children here.

Because of Liu Mang's appearance, it has become more popular, and the economy of the entire city has been driven because of Liu Mang.

This is a bit different from what Yao Ming brought to Houston, Yao Ming mainly helped the Rockets make money, and the impact on the city of Houston was average.

Of course, many people in China who don't know much about the United States only know that there is a city of Houston because of Yao Ming, but Houston is positioned as a city of high-tech talents, with very developed science and technology, and then there are few tourism resources.

Liu Mang is different, the role of the star effect is quite obvious, because of his rise, Atlanta's tourism revenue in 2002 increased by 5 percentage points compared to 2001, compared with the normal annual increase of two to three percentage points, almost doubled, all of which are contributed by Chinese tourists.

So the world's famous hotel industry giant Hilton International Hotel also opened a new store here, due to the popularity of Hilton hotels, in just a few months, this hotel has become the best five-star hotel in Atlanta.

Liu Mang came to the front desk, and was just about to ask the front desk which room Jordan, the young lady who was already excited to jump up, and wanted the front desk to help contact him, when he saw Jordan, who was surrounded by everyone, coming from the direction of the elevator.

"Oh...... Ace, it seems that I estimated the time accurately! Jordan greeted Liu Mang very proudly after seeing him.

Liu Mang was stunned to see a group of people next to Jordan, some of them seemed to be white-collar workers, executives and other dressed people, mainly two big beauties, one of whom Liu Mang knew, was Ivanka dressed as a hotel manager, and the other seemed to be a little impressed, but it seemed that there were no clothes in the small movie, and now I am a little afraid to confirm that I am dressed.

After thinking about it carefully, this person who has a little impression seems to be the princess of another American real estate tycoon in addition to Ivanka!