The Bobcats in Charlotte made it to the finals in their second year. And with a 12-0 record, it is foreseeable that even if the New Orleans Hornets change their name to the New Orleans Pelicans in the future, the Bobcats will not want the name of the Hornets. Because the Bobcats' achievements in two seasons have surpassed the achievements of the Charlotte Hornets in team history, which means that the current Bobcats are different from the Bobcats team in history that Boss Joe wanted to buy tickets with feelings.

According to Forbes magazine, the Bobcats were valued at just $80 million at the start, with Jordan owning 60 percent and Magic 40 percent.

As of this year's playoffs, Forbes magazine estimates that the Charlotte Bobcats' market value has quadrupled, or $360 million. The main reason is that the team has an amazing record, and the future trend is good, and the overall operation is benign. And Forbes magazine predicts that the Bobcats will double their market value again in three years, becoming the most valuable team outside of the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers.

Not only has the market value doubled, but the Bobcats' operating income this year is also the highest in the league, with a total profit of $50 million, the second place is the Knicks, who still earned $35 million by relying on the big ball market in New York, and the third place Lakers' 30 million is the same, also relying on the big ball city in Los Angeles. The fourth place is the unexpected Rockets, they also have an income of 28 million, and the owner of the Rockets, Alexander, should probably enshrine Yao Mingli at home, and the Rockets' income growth almost depends on Yao Ming's influence. Not only the ball market, but also Houston's tourism industry has grown, with the number of Chinese tourists visiting Houston increasing more than 50 times in the past few years.

The Bobcats make so much money, and Boss Joe is not a stingy person, he has long been in place to create incentives. In the first round of this season's playoffs, each player can get $10,000 in bonuses, even if they don't make the team squad, as long as they have players with team contracts, who rarely play but play a lot in training. The head coach also receives $2,000 in bonuses, while the assistant coach receives only $5,000.

If they pass the Eastern Conference semifinals, the players will receive $20,000, the head coach $50,000 and the assistant coach $10,000.

If you win the Eastern Conference Finals and make it to the Finals, the player gets $50,000, $100,000 for the head coach and $20,000 for the assistant coach.

In other words, up to now, Hu Qingniu has received a reward of 170,000 US dollars, don't think that these rewards are a drop in the bucket for Boss Qiao, but in fact, the cost is not small.

All the players and assistant coaches plus Hu Qingniu, there are also about 25 people, and it has cost millions to reach the finals.

And for role players, $80,000 is already a huge amount of money, and the annual salary of several players at the end of the bench is only hundreds of thousands. For them, these bonuses can be much more useful than Hu Qingniu's pre-game mobilization, and the dollar money is the motivation for their hard work on the field.

But Boss Joe can't lose anything, not to mention the increase in the value of the team for each round won in the playoffs, and the promotion of the team's fame, even if you sell a few more tickets, Boss Joe will earn back the money. So, in a capitalist society, the capitalists can't afford to lose.

Hu Qingniu asked himself to be the founder, leader, and actual manager of the entire Bobcats, but in fact, he was just a head coach and vice president of basketball operations, that is, the head of the working boys.

The Bobcats won the game neatly and crisply, but on the other side, the Rockets and Spurs were still wallowing in the quagmire, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser.

In the first four games, both sides won one home and one away, and the battle ended in a 2-2 draw.

If there's one fastest way to make a name for yourself in the NBA, it's to play in the much-anticipated playoffs. It's like now that there are only 4 out of 30 teams, all the fans have to watch the two sets of games, because the others don't have to watch either.

Although Yao Ming was previously known as one of the four inner lines, that is, along with Shark, Shi Buddha, and Garnett, it was usually considered to be the last position in the four inner lines.

But in this round of the series, Yao Ming and Shi Buddha went head-to-head, showing the terrifying strength of Duncan who was not afraid of Shi Buddha at all. And this round of the Rocket-Spurs series has only recently been seriously scrutinized, and the Rockets seem to have a real chance to drag the old Popovich and his Spurs off the horse.

And will Yao Ming become the first foreign player to lead the team to the finals as the absolute core of the team?

The series battle between the Rockets and the Spurs, in addition to the competition between the two inner cores Duncan and Yao Ming, the confrontation between the two sides' respective outside cores Manu and Hardaway is also a highlight.

Hardaway is a veteran star who returned to the All-Star after the Wizards were treated by Hu Qingniu. Manuginobili is known as the Pampas Eagles, leading the Argentine team to overthrow the basketball hegemony of the American Dream Team, and the playoffs have also repeatedly played amazingly, and is considered the outside core of the Spurs in the next decade.

If there were no injuries and physical limitations, it would have seemed like this was true, but Hu knew that Popovich would hand over the outside core position to the conscientious little sports car Tony Parker. Ginobili, on the other hand, has a richer role positioning, playing at any time, doing anything, and unlimited firing rights, which is what Popovich gave Manu.

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25 May 2005.

The weather in San Antonio is still refreshing, and in the fifth game of the series, the battle of Tianwang Mountain, the city gave the Spurs the greatest support, and the game venue was surrounded by three floors inside and three layers outside, and a large number of fans watched the game on the big screen in an orderly manner in the square outside the stadium. Some of them are garrisons here, some are factory workers in blue overalls, some are farmers on the outskirts of the city, and they often have dozens of square kilometers of land, some used to raise cattle, some to breed foals.

Even the mayor of the city was present at the competition, including several dignitaries from the city government.

In other words, the city is almost completely out of the city, and thousands of people are empty.

San Antonio is a small ball city, with a complex population mix and a general income not as high as Houston, the "Space City", so although the Spurs have had a good record over the years and have won championships, the team has always been in a state of barely maintaining, and the annual team net income is even less than $5 million.

Holt, the big boss of the Spurs, is completely relying on his track-type tractor dealership business to support his sports dreams. As long as he doesn't lose money in sports, he's satisfied.