After a walk around Henderson, Leon drove off and drove back to downtown Las Vegas, where he arrived at the Thomas Sports Center, escorted by two security guards. In this way, the two security guards relaxed www.biquge.info their hearts, but they still didn't dare to go back, while taking this opportunity to come out and let off steam, and be lazy, while continuing to "serve" Leon, this guy has a record of sneaking out to "collect taxes".

But this time, the two security guards really wasted an afternoon of doing nothing at the sports center, because Leon had lost interest in the little money in the Las Vegas casino after seeing Henderson's house. What he is most concerned about now is how to short the US real estate market as quickly and with minimal trace, after all, he has been observing this for several years.

He is not the only one in the United States, but also some financial professionals who smell the rotten and rotten smell of the American mortgage market. Many people start planning early to prepare for the collapse of the real estate market, like vultures hovering in the sky, waiting for the huge prey to die on its own, and then get down to peck at the sumptuous dinner.

And Leon, as a sports coach, has to devote his time to basketball a lot of the time, and he only dedicates a small part of his energy to observe the financial markets, which is his old job. Leon first noticed the holes in the U.S. housing market in 2002, when they lost to the New Jersey Nets in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Then that summer he wanted to buy himself a house and use his income. Since the Boston Celtics have been giving Leon the treatment of temporary workers, Leon must have taken out a loan. Leon's social credit rating has been bad before, so almost no banks are willing to lend him money. Although he is the coach of the Boston Celtics, although he is very famous in Boston, his credit score is too low, and he has suffered a lot of non-compliance in the past.

It wasn't until later that Leon was told that he didn't need to go to the lending department of those big regular banks to seek loans, just make a phone call, find a small bank or a credit institution under the investment bank, and with his social status and job, it would be easy to get a loan. Sure enough, Leon called a random credit agency, and then easily got the loan and bought an apartment in Boston's North Side.

Of course, he quickly paid off the loan, sold the house, and moved into a single-family house with Khomeenez. However, this experience made Leon, who has rich experience in the financial industry, smell a trace of abnormality. Because Leon found that the interest rate on U.S. loans has fallen alarmingly. However, at that time, his whole mind was on basketball and he was not interested in these things.

Then he had a wife, children, he left Boston to teach at the university, and then he found that after a few years in the NBA, his income was not as high as that of Ayatollah Khomeinis! Khomeenez relied on her father's support, and the brokerage company was booming. Leon was victimized by various temporary labor contracts in Boston, and basically did not take much money. During the three-game winning streak, his salary level was only in the middle and lower reaches of the league as a whole.

Of course, Leon is not worried about money, and he doesn't love money very much, but sometimes, he still hopes that his achievements can match his income, after all, it is still quite embarrassing to get money at home and not be able to get his wife. Therefore, Leon sometimes goes to the casino to collect taxes, but as the casino guards him strictly, it becomes more and more annoying to make money on his own. Gambling is supposed to be just a form of entertainment and relaxation, and it is not fun to be like this.

At this time, Leon began to think of the huge MBS market in the United States, and decided to start tracking the entire market and obtain first-hand information as much as possible to give himself a general understanding of the entire market situation. In the absence of qualifications to buy CDS, Leon decided to set his sights on those hedge funds, and he was ready to pick a few suitable hedge funds to invest in, so that his assets could play not just one, but two, three, and four in the coming storm......

But these are still in Leon's plans, and he is still waiting, waiting for the best time to invest.

Now, he still has to focus on basketball, and if all he went to see today was subprime loans, then at Thomas Sports Center, he saw secondary players, rating BBB-level marginals.

By the time he arrived at the center, summer league had already begun, and the Phoenix Suns were facing the Cleveland Cavaliers. Leon sat on the sidelines and looked at the end from beginning to end, and he saw that he was about to fall asleep. Because none of the players on either side satisfied him.

In the end, the Phoenix Suns also lost the game, and the team's top scorer, Marcus Banks, who scored 42 points, is clearly a cut above everyone else in terms of individual ability. But his performance did not satisfy Leon, because he stood out only because he was in a low-level league, and when it came to the high-level NBA, Leon did not find in him the qualities that attracted him.

Then the first afternoon of the game passed like this, and Leon watched it all afternoon, and there was not a single guy he liked. He couldn't help but complain to D'Antoni: "I don't really know what your selection criteria are, but obviously, I think you're looking too much for the whole picture and too much for the specificity when it comes to the selection of role players. In such a place, instead of looking at the average, look at the median. ”

On the one hand, Leon means that the Suns are selected according to their comprehensive ability, but they forget that they can't pick All-Stars here, as long as they can find players who are good in a certain aspect. On the other hand, he complained about the way the American rating agency rated MBS.

On the third day, there were still no surprises, and today their opponent was the Philadelphia 76ers, the Suns lost the game again, and there were still no bright spots in the process of the game. However, Leon still maintained a great deal of patience and watched the game carefully.

His only surprise in the past two days was to meet the Chinese national team in another sports hall, who went to Las Vegas to train and participate in the summer league in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games. Of course, Leon saw his former team member Wang Zhizhi, as well as Yi Jianlian, who had just been selected by the Bucks in the draft. After Leon left Boston, Wang Zhizhi also left the NBA, returned to China, returned to the Bayi men's basketball team, and led the team to win the CBA championship in the 07 season. It can be said that after several years of training in the NBA, Wang Zhizhi has become more dominant in the CBA.

Leon watched the game between the Chinese men's basketball team and the New York Knicks on the sidelines that day, and Wang Zhizhi scored a team-high 20 points, but the Chinese men's basketball team still lost to the Knicks in the absence of Yao Ming.

In this way, more than a week went by, and the Suns were repeatedly defeated in the summer league. In fact, it doesn't matter if you lose, Leon is hoping to find some talent, and now the Phoenix Suns are basically in line with the lineup, and the core lineup has not changed much compared to last season. But Leon knows that sometimes the change in a team's temperament often comes from those who sit on the bench.

However, on the 14th, things changed a little. At four o'clock in the afternoon, when the Dallas Mavericks were supposed to play the Boston Celtics, Leon decided to go live to see the Celtics game, which was held at the Coliseum at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. After coming to Las Vegas, Leon has not yet been on the scene to see the game of his old club.

Then after arriving at the stadium, Leon found that the game was canceled because the Boston Celtics didn't come to Las Vegas at all! This originally scheduled match did not exist at all. And Leon usually doesn't have any schedule in his hand, he remembers it all in his head, but the schedule has changed, and he doesn't know yet.

Later, Leon thought that he couldn't just come for nothing, so he decided to visit the Dallas Mavericks in practice. Because the Mavericks' current assistant coach is none other than Carlisle. Leon still wants to catch up with him.

However, when Leon arrived at the door of the gymnasium and wanted to enter, he was stopped by a Maverick player who was about to enter, and said, "I'm sorry, but the idlers can't wait." We train inside. “

Leon said: "I'm not an idler, I'm Fox Leon. Leon immediately reported his name, he could not have imagined that there were players who did not know him.

But the player said, "Fox Leon? Then you can't go in, our coach said, anyone can go in, don't let Fox Leon go in. Okay, I'm going back to training. ”