Chapter 387 [These people have to learn how to spend money]
To celebrate the big win, the Suns had a day off and hosted the Lakers on Nov. 1.
This is the highlight of the league's arrangement, the game that is broadcast live nationally. The Suns are in high spirits, the confidence of the young players is up, the Lakers have a three-day rest after the home opener, there are no player injuries, and both sides can play at their best.
They both put a lot of emphasis on the four regular-season matchups as a significant warm-up as the playoffs are highly likely to meet.
The Spurs looked to have dropped out of the championship race, and in the second game they lost 78-80 at home to the underdog Nuggets, and Duncan struggled to find a win with 20 points, 21 rebounds and 8 blocks.
The Nuggets can wrap Duncan, and the starting center Nestrovic is too poor offensively, pulling out the mid-range shooting is unreliable, and he has been shorted many times, shooting 1 of 11 from the field, scoring 2 points and 7 rebounds.
To make matters worse, starting point guard Anthony Carter, who didn't score a point on 0-of-6 shooting and only had one assist, was blown out by Nuggets point guard Andre Miller.
After losing to the Suns, Bruce Bowen lost even his shooting confidence in this game, playing 34 minutes and only missing one shot, scoring 0 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist. His bright spot was on the defensive end, with Nuggets scout Carmelo Anthony shooting 4-of-15 and only 12 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists from the free throw line.
If Tony Parker doesn't come back, the Spurs' offensive firepower is in the bottom three of the league, and experts believe that the Spurs' offense with Parker is not much stronger. Defensive intensity is important in the playoffs, but it's hard for teams that rely solely on defense to have the last laugh.
Before this big war, Guo Xu has important things to do.
Megan's sister, Christy Fox, is coming to visit and asking for some help, and if she can, she wants to stay in Phoenix to develop. This is the first time Meghan's family has spoken, and Guo Xu has to do everything beautifully.
After yesterday's game, Guo Xu received a call from Meghan's mother Darrens in the locker room, congratulating him on his victory, and at the same time, he made a small request, hoping that he could help Christie find something to do.
Guo Xu, who spoke politely from Darrens, was a little embarrassed, and he didn't say anything to her family after living with Meghan.
Christie has graduated from college this year and has never found a job, unlike her sister's sexy image, she is now a fat woman with a height of 165CM and a weight of nearly 90 kg.
When she was in school, her grades were not good, and she barely got her graduation certificate, her only specialty was that she learned to make pizza when she was working and studying, and she learned to make pizza when she was self-reliant, and she was very creative and delicious, and she made herself confident and became fat.
Her dream is to open a pizzeria, Meghan has always been against it, unwilling to let her trouble Guo Xu, and the two sisters had a fight when they chatted on the phone, if it weren't for Darrens to talk about these things, Guo Xu wouldn't know.
Christie watched the news on the Internet, Guo Xu spent nearly $200,000 just to give gifts to teammates and invite guests to dinner.
It's just that Megan doesn't want to ask Guo Xu, if she does, she feels that the love between the two has become less pure, mixed with interests. Meghan has forgotten about being a maid and asking for a salary back then, and Darrens often says that she is confused and really not wronged her, she has always had low EQ and IQ......
As Guo Xu's fame grows, more and more people say bad things about Megan online, and her pressure doubles. She wanted to spend as little Guo Xu's money as possible to satisfy her self-esteem, so that she could prove that she was not with Guo Xu for money.
After Guo Xu understood the situation, he went home and criticized Megan.
"Don't do this stupid thing in the future, you know? You're not doing this to help me save money, it's making everyone uncomfortable, what will your parents and sister think of us? How long will she have to wait until you make money to help her invest in opening a store? ”
Megan is often "educated" by Guo Xu, does not refute, and sometimes enjoys a little, she knows that Guo Xu is all for her good.
Guo Xu explained: "Opening a store is a piece of cake, I have talked to your mother, and if you need anything at home in the future, you can call me directly, and you can leave a message online." The whole family can come to Phoenix to develop, as long as they don't think it's too hot. ”
Meghan asked, "So you don't feel like we're too dependent on you and insatiable?" ”
"You little fool, what are you greedy for me? Don't you know how many ads I receive? It's only a small part of my annual salary. ”
"......" Megan's mouth opened into an O-shape, and she suddenly realized that she was really stupid, what is it to be polite to this kind of god?
According to the Forbes Sports Athlete Income Rankings, Guo Xu ranked sixth in the world in 2003 and earned $35 million a year. In the NBA, only O'Neal is taller than him, ranking fifth in the world with 37 million.
Because Guo Xu became the youngest regular season MVP in NBA history last season, his value skyrocketed, and he signed several high-priced new endorsements this summer, and when he is counted again next year, he will surpass O'Neal and become the league's most gold-absorbing star.
This is not counting Guo Xu's dividends from making movies and the income from the growth of holding stocks, and Guo Xu has some wealth, and Meghan is not clear.
In recent years, Guo Xu has been buying Apple's bulk shares in the market, and now he holds a total of about 4 million shares, which is currently the top five individual shareholders of Apple, and Jobs only has more than 5 million shares.
And Guo Xu not only invested in Apple, but he also bought the shares of Prie for several years, and he occupied more shares, and he was a major shareholder with more than 8 million shares, which was about the same time as Li Ka-shing, and the stock price was only $2 at that time, and no one was optimistic about this company, so he picked up a big leak.
Since then, Li Ka-shing has increased his holdings several times, spending $210 million in 2002, holding a 33.2% stake. After his involvement with Prie, he took a series of new measures to reduce operating costs, optimize the flow of the entire website, and improve the user experience.
Guo Xu is a shareholder of the company, and if he doesn't go to a meeting, others will inform him of important things, and the agent Harpy originally thought he was crazy and too hasty to invest, but later found that his assets were growing steadily.
Guo Xu's money-making plan is very simple, when Li Ka-shing is ready to sell his shares in the future, he will eat as many shares as he has.
In Guo Xu's previous life, "Li Superman" also had a time when he was blind, and under his series of measures, Prie's stock price rose to $40 a few years later. At this point, he sold his shares in two installments, recovering a total of $460 million, with a 120% return on investment.
But later, Prie's performance skyrocketed, and the stock price grew wildly, and by 2014, the price per share reached $1,400, and Guo Xu only needed to eat one-third of the shares sold by Li Ka-shing, and his future worth could not be less than 10 billion.
Therefore, Guo Xu decided to often give "lessons" to Megan and Dong Lansing's family in the future, he has too much money, these people have to learn how to spend money, they can't know how to play basketball like him, and they won't spend money.
Guo Xu really doesn't spend money, he doesn't have high material needs for life, as long as he doesn't have to worry about eating and drinking, and has a place to live. He plays basketball, sings and dances, and acts in movies not mainly for money, but for fame and hobbies.
Some people rack their brains to make money but can't make it, and some people don't care much about money, but money will come to him.
This is the case of Guo Xu, even if he doesn't speculate in stocks, he can make a fortune by relying on the celebrity effect. Countless companies want to cooperate with him and ask him to be a spokesperson, he is like being fed a cake by a group of people, and it looks like he is about to eat it, and many people will still rush to send him new cakes.