In June 1997, Michael Jordan, the world's best basketball player and known as the god of basketball, had just won the fifth championship trophy of his career, and the whole of Chicago turned into a sea of celebration.

On the other end, their old rival, the New York Knicks, is in the air!

New York Post Sports Edition: "Knicks owner Li Wei is an idiot!" ”

New York Daily News: "I've never seen such a stupid deal, the new owner Li Wei doesn't understand the ball!" ”

A well-known ESPN commentator: "Li Wei may be a genius when it comes to stock trading, but ball games - he should play table tennis, basketball is too big for him." Look at this stupid deal, it's a blasphemy against basketball to let him have a team! ”

In the New York Knicks training hall, a generation of famous coaches and a teacher known to the majority of Chinese fans in later generations - Comrade Jeff Van Gundy, is not as bald as he was ten years later. But when he heard the news of the team's trade, he instantly grabbed a few strands of hair that were getting thinner!

The next second, he roared like a mad lion and stormed into the office of the team's president, Ernie Grunfield.

"Ernie, I need an explanation! Why didn't the team trade say hello to me beforehand? And are your brains in the water, actually using my main point guard, plus a potential player, to exchange for such a slow, fat, soft, and injury-ridden person who hasn't played a day of ball...... Stab...... He......

Van Gundy struggled for a long time staring at the long list of bizarre letters in the newspaper, and finally gave up on reading the long, awkward Eastern European name.

"Which country is this from? Do you speak English? Are you sure he can play? ”

General manager Grenfield's face twisted into a bitter melon shape: "I don't know if he can play, but his English is very bad, and we have to have a translator for him." ”

"Oh my God, I really don't know English!" Van Gundy didn't expect his casual complaint to come true, and suddenly one head has two big!

- What do you trade this player for if he doesn't even know English?

Or trade with my primary point guard?

Isn't this a diamond for someone's glass ball?

I've seen something stupid, but I've never seen anything so stupid!

"Jeff, calm down, this deal is not what I want to do, it is the request of the boss Li Wei. At that time, I also yelled at him for a long time like you, but unfortunately he completely ignored my opinion, and I was more helpless than you! Glenfield said.

"This bastard Li Wei!" Van Gundy stamped his foot, "Then did you ask him, our main point guard is gone, who will give us the ball next season?" Who dominates our offense? Who can we rely on? ”

"I asked, and my attitude is tougher than yours. Do you know what he says? He said he could be our team's point guard! ”

"The boss can play?" Van Gundy was stunned.

To say that this Li Wei is also a legend recently, from a little-known smuggler to a wealthy and large investor, it only took a few years. A reporter broke the news that he had never lost money in stock trading, and even Warren Buffett, a generation of stock gods, had been planted in his hands.

ITT Corporation, the majority shareholder of the New York Knicks, has been adjusting and divesting its non-manufacturing division since last year, and wants to focus on the manufacturing industry. It has been rumored that the team's other shareholder, Cable Corporation, will buy a stake in ITT and achieve full control, and the new owner will be the chubby James Dolan.

But for some reason, this Li Wei suddenly stabbed sideways, not only buying ITT's team shares, but also the part of cable TV's shares. A sports reporter broke the news that Li Wei's bid exceeded the reserve price of ITT and cable TV by four times!

Quadruple! There's really money to spend!

You must know that most NBA teams are losing money in this era, although New York is the largest city and ball market in the United States, and the Knicks are also one of the few teams in the league that do not lose money, but it is definitely not worth the price!

Van Gundy has been busy scouting rookies these days, and he has no time to pay attention to the new boss, only that he is a yellow-skinned rich Chinese. He was shocked to hear the general manager's words.

The owner is coming to play the team's point guard?

Do yellows play?

There were whites and blacks in the NBA, but there were no yellows. Van Gundy has been inspecting rookies for so long, and he has never seen a yellow man play well!

Of course, he didn't know that in the future, there would be a yellow man named Yao who would sympathize with him and form a deep friendship between master and apprentice, in short, now he doesn't believe that yellow people can play at all!

And this guy who spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the team is not young, right? Can an old man play a ball?

Van Gundy suddenly had a picture of a yellow-skinned old fat man being knocked to the ground on the pitch.

Grunfield heard Van Gundy's questioning and laughed, "Jeff, how long has it been since you paid attention to financial news?" Just look for a newspaper, the boss is only twenty-two years old and a college graduate this year. In the upcoming draft, we can pick him. You'd better pray that he doesn't get drafted by other teams, or the Knicks owner will play for other teams and make the fans laugh! ”

"Shall we pick him in the draft?" Van Gundy blinked, his eyebrows squeezed together.

The NBA is the top basketball league in the world, and in order to balance the strength of each team, all young people have to go through the draft to join the league, and they can't go to any team they want.

Since it is the team that picks people, not the team, the criteria for the draft are very broad. Every U.S. four-year college graduate is automatically eligible, and those who have not graduated can also apply in advance by registering.

Of course, just because you're eligible doesn't mean you want it. Each team can only be selected twice in the draft, and only the best of the best will be selected, thus entering the highest temple of this world basketball world!

"I feel like it's going to be a really bad option – wait, I remember the league had rules that a player can't take a stake in any team, he can't join any team!"

Grenfield said: "Yes, players can't own a stake in the team. But after Li Wei bought the team, he transferred all the equity of the team to his girlfriend Ms. Luo Wei. Strictly speaking, our boss is actually Luo Wei, not Li Wei. But Ms. Luo Wei completely ignored the team's affairs, and Li Wei was our actual boss! ”

"Oh my God, it's so complicated?" Van Gundy's eyebrows continued to furrow, "Is it possible that the owner will be drafted by another team?" Twenty-two years old, I haven't heard the name yet, and the market must be very bad. What school did he graduate from? How did you perform in the NCAA? Do we have his scouting report? ”

Grunfield was stunned for a moment when he saw Van Gundy's serious question, and then laughed under the table: "Jeff, do you really think he can play?" I'm kidding you!

He is a graduate of Harvard University and has never played in the NCAA League. Even on the Harvard varvard team, he could only be a cheerleader. As for the scouting report – haha, I'm sure no scout will look at him. Do you know? He's only one meter four or five tall - he's a dwarf! ”

"A dwarf who is only one meter four or five tall?" Van Gundy rolled his eyes and almost fainted!

Basketball is a giant sport, and the taller you are, the more you have an advantage. As the world's top basketball stage, the NBA is a group of people with the best physical fitness in the world. Even if you grow to more than two meters tall, it's just ordinary here, if it's only less than one meter nine, it's a standard dwarf!

A dwarf who is 1.45 meters tall actually wants to play in the NBA?

Are you ashamed, ashamed, or ashamed?

There is no boss in the world who lacks such a heart!

"If this news breaks out, it will definitely be the headlines of tomorrow, and New York will become the laughing stock of the whole world!"

Grenfield nodded, and said approvingly, "I was going to whip him with the soles of my shoes when I heard him - in fact, if he wasn't our boss, I would have swollen his face." ”

Van Gundy said: "No, I have to talk to the boss, I can't let him mess around like this." If this continues, the end of the world is not far off! ”

"I understand your feelings." Grunfield spread his hands, "But the boss has gone to China, and I don't think you will see him for two days." ”

"China?" Van Gundy's eyes were a little dazed, he didn't know anything about that distant country.

China, a county, Xiangyang Town, anti-American leather shoe factory.

A teenager sitting under a dilapidated basketball hoop in a shoe factory, holding a few copies of yesterday's English-language newspaper, is none other than Li Wei, the new owner of the New York Knicks.

Li Wei, who has been making money in the United States, has deep feelings for this leather shoe factory that is about to close down and this dilapidated basketball hoop. Because in his previous life, he grew up here, played here, watched the wooden baskets rot little by little, and watched the leather shoe factory slowly disappear here.

That's right, Li Wei is a reborn person, he never dreamed that his life could be reborn!

What if you could do it all over again?

Perhaps, you will make up for many irreparable regrets in your previous life, and perhaps, you will achieve success that you will never be able to achieve in your previous life!

Li Wei used the prophetic foresight of the reborn to achieve success that he would never have been able to achieve in his previous life, and now he has a wealth that he couldn't even think about in his previous life!

The memories of the two lives crossed his mind, and Li Wei sighed: "Weiwei, people must have dreams when they live. My dream has always been to play in the NBA, which is the highest basketball hall in the world, where all the stars are gathered, and I will be one of them! ”

Next to Li Wei sat a beautiful woman who captivated the country and the city, her name was Luo Wei.

When the two first met, Luo Wei's parents had just been killed by gangsters, and Luo Wei also jumped into the vast sea and almost died.

Later, they depended on each other, went to the United States together, and experienced the whole process from poverty to wealth together. For Luo Wei, Li Wei is her closest person, and for Li Wei, Luo Wei is also his closest person.

Hearing Li Wei's words, Luo Wei glanced at him from the corner of her eye, and said disdainfully: "You can't even beat me." ”

Li Wei's face turned red, and he argued forcefully: "When I grow taller, you won't be able to beat me." ”

Although Li Wei was very short in his previous life, he could not be regarded as a dwarf, and now he is only one meter four or five The reason is that he is still underage!

There are too many restrictions on minors in the United States, and in order to obtain civil rights as soon as possible, he can only pretend to be a dwarfism patient and falsify his age. Fortunately, his mental age and speech and demeanor did not arouse the suspicion of the USCIS, and everyone was convinced that he was an adult dwarf!

Li Wei knew that even if he grew taller, he would not be able to compete with real players in the NBA. Those professional players are all world-class monsters, not ordinary people at all, and Li Wei is still like paper in front of them when he grows up.

But can't you play if you can't beat it?

For ordinary people, they are not qualified to step on the stage of the NBA if they are not strong enough, but Li Wei is the owner of the team!

What is it for spending hundreds of millions to buy a team? Don't you just want to show off?

That's right, Lao Tzu is not strong enough, Lao Tzu can't beat them, but Lao Tzu is going to play, and Lao Tzu is going to play in the NBA!

Lao Tzu has money, and if you have money, you can be willful!