406. The final regular season
Eva refused to pay full compensation to McDonald's under the contract, always believing that McDonald's was responsible for the destruction of Huaben's image, so she was willing to pay up to 60% of the damages, which is the minimum amount of compensation stipulated in North Carolina's economic law. {}
McDonald's did what it said and directly sued Huaben, and Eva hired the most famous team of lawyers in North Carolina, 'Devil's Mouth', to engage in a fierce confrontation with McDonald's in court.
This was planned by Eva, according to Huaben's meaning to compensate the matter in full and save the upset. But Eva, as the first person in charge of his agent team, does everything from Huaben's standpoint, she is willing to lose money, but she must make McDonald's pay the price, and at the same time maintain Huaben's image.
Sure enough, as soon as this lawsuit started, Huaben's reputation rose a lot. Eva's slogan is 'never make money with a clear conscience', which has won the favor of many parents of teenagers, and no one wants their children to idolize an athlete who has a milk and is a mother.
The East Coast Gazette, North Carolina's most prominent media outlet, praised Huaben as a responsibility to society, to the fans, and to himself by giving up huge advertising dollars, and attacked McDonald's as Shakespeare's Venetian merchants and grandet.
McDonald's sworn enemy KFC seized the opportunity to contact Huaben, saying that he was willing to accept the contract left by McDonald's, and would be responsible for the court appearance costs of the devil's mouth, and if he lost the lawsuit, he was also willing to compensate McDonald's on behalf of Huaben, as long as Huaben was willing to sign a contract with them.
Hua Ben is now a little insensitive to food advertising, which is prone to problems and is a threat to his image.
In the midst of the McDonald's tussle, the Bobcats' final days of the 2004-05 regular season slowly passed, and after the victory over the Wizards in April, the Bobcats fell into a small slump. The next nine games were lost in six. The main thing is that the schedule is too dense, playing 9 games in 14 days, especially with the playoffs coming soon.
These games. Jordan began to recuperate, and the Bobcats recuperated their energy and sprinted to the playoffs.
17 April 2005. The Bobcats' final regular-season game was played at the Time Warner Center, and this time they faced the Hornets. []
It was a meaningful game for Charlotte fans, as the Hornets had been their parent club for the past fifteen seasons, but after the 2002 season, the team decided that Charlotte's market was bad and threw themselves into New Orleans. You know, this is a very humiliating thing for fans in Charlotte, New Orleans is a famous disaster city in the United States. The city is close to the Atlantic Ocean, and every year there are either hurricanes or tsunamis, and the Hornets would rather fight the disaster than stay in Charlotte. Isn't this a slap in the face of Chi Guoguo?
In fact. The Hornets really didn't make much money in Charlotte that year, and many fans were not interested in this fish belly. But. The city does have its loyal fans, too, and the Hornets' move to New Orleans is a real thing for these fans to accept. It just so happened that the Bobcats announced that they would settle in Charlotte, so these die-hard fans blindly switched to the Bobcats - just to get revenge on the Hornets, which is where the Bobcats' first fans came from.
This is a bit like a bloody bitter drama, a Bai Fumei fell in love with a rich and handsome, but this rich and handsome man actually chose a female hanger, Bai Fumei promised herself to a short and poor sling out of revenge.
The only difference is that the counterattack of the bobcat is very gorgeous, and at the beginning of the season, there is a crane tail that is half-covered and half-hidden to sign next year's champion, after the game starts, Huaben led the rookie army all the way to kill, and was stunned to play a gorgeous season, from the sling to the imperial prince. …,
Now the 2004-05 season is coming to an end, looking back, in fact, the pairing between the Hornets, the Bobcats, New Orleans, and Charlotte City is still a sling with a female hanger, and Gao Fushuai found Bai Fumei: even in New Orleans, the Hornets box office is still extremely bleak, while the Bobcats make a lot of money in Charlotte, 39 of the 41 home games are full, and team-related products are selling hot, especially Huaben's No. 1 jersey, which is often out of stock.
Speaking of which, the Hornets are pretty miserable too.
Charlotte's Hornets joined the NBA before the 1988-89 season, and the team was not as lucky as the current Bobcats to sign a fierce man in the early days, but after years of bad work. But thanks to the team's unwavering determination, they have so many high-quality draft picks, and then have a good lineup: the core is Larry. Johnson and Alonzo. Mourning, after the arrival of these two men, brought the Hornets into the playoffs that year. However, in the 1996-97 season, both of them were traded, and the team has since reverted to being a fish belly.
Back in the day, there were many people who were skeptical about the market in the city of Charlotte and their willingness to support a professional basketball team. First of all, it is a purely rural city, and although several Fortune 500 companies are stationed here, it does not have the appearance of a metropolis; Second, North Carolina is a college world, where fans never transfer their passion for amateur games to an NBA team, even though they have to buy tickets to both professional and amateur games.
It turns out that these people's suspicions are in vain for the blind to light the lamp, and the success of the Bobcats proves one thing, whether a team can succeed does not depend on what city he is in, but what kind of game he can play, such as the Clippers, even in Los Angeles, is still one of the league's top cranes, and this season's Bobcats almost became the league's regular season revenue champion: Huaben ruled the fans in the Americas, Wang Zhizhi brought in a lot of sponsorships from Asia, Patin and Oku attracted the attention of European fans, and the Bobcats made a lot of money!
In fact, the Hornets are not weak this season, but unfortunately, because of the addition of the Bobcats, they were classified in the West last year. Such a team is still a bit interesting in the East, and wants to make the playoffs in the wolf-like Western powers? Don't make jokes like that. At the start of the season, the Hornets were aiming for the playoffs, and now that the regular season is over, their goal is the No. 1 pick
Looking at the lineup combination, the strength of the Hornets is really not weak. Byron. Davis' speed is top-notch, and he and Magloyle were both Eastern Conference All-Stars last season. And the latter is also the league's most improved center. Magloyle formed a strong front court with PJ Brown and Lynch, and in the middle of the season he traded for Jasidy. White, all four of them played well.
But the Hornets have a big problem in the backcourt. Davis and Wesley, who have the strongest fighting power, are both small players, and neither is particularly suitable for playing organization, the former is a small tank and the latter is also a small tank. They are all people who can rush but can't pass on. Last year, they picked a good rookie, JR. Smith was a nerve knife, crazy and unbeatable, but unfortunately only 19 years old, too young, often crazy in the brain rather than crazy in the hand. They have Armstrong and he's a good substitute, but he's getting old and the 36-year-old can't play for long.
Some might say that the Hornets also have a tough Mashburn. Unfortunately, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and Marsh started the season with a knee injury that was reimbursed for the entire season. The saddest thing is. Mid-season. Davis, the boss of the team, was dissatisfied with the uniform team and wanted to switch to his team to a big city. Although it didn't make the trip, the Wasps' morale was shaken.
The only thing that can be praised is that this team has an All-Star head coach, Scott. Scott was a coach for the Nets for three and a half years, with a 149-139 record and a winning rate of over 50 percent. At the Nets, Scott had the first glory of his life: before he coached the Nets, the Nets were fourth from bottom in the East. After he became the owner, the Nets quickly became a strong contender for the championship, reaching the finals twice! …,
Scott, a hands-on coach rather than an academy player-turned-coach, played in the NBA for 14 years, won three championships with the Lakers, and was a first-hand participant in the world-changing Lakers "show-time." As Magic Johnson's best partner in the backcourt, Scott has a brilliant brain, and his ability to understand the game and utilize good playmaking defenders is very strong, as evidenced by his experience with the Nets.
In the 2000-01 season, Scott became the head coach of the Nets for the first time, but the Nets' results did not soar that year, only the 26-5 season Kidd arrived, and the Nets improved by leaps and bounds, with a 52-30 record in the regular season, setting a record for the number of wins in a single season in the history of the Nets, and the improvement rate of 26 games was also in the top 6 in the NBA (Nash led the Suns to set a new record, otherwise Scott's record would be the top five). That season, Scott became the All-Star coach of the East, and the most amazing thing is that the Nets continued to play bravely after the All-Star, leading the team to a blockbuster in the playoffs, eliminating the Pacers, Hornets and Celtics before losing to the Lakers in the Finals.
In the 2002-03 season, Scott led the Nets to the Finals again, and the Nets finished the regular season with 49 wins and 33 losses, second in the East. In the early part of the 03-04 season, Scott and Nets core Kidd had a stalemate, the former believed that the other party did not play according to his own philosophy and led to two consecutive Finals defeats, and the latter believed that the former should be responsible for the team's two consecutive Finals failures, and forced the team's uniform team to choose one between himself and Scott to stay on the team. Later, Scott learned of this, and in a fit of rage, he quit his job and went to work as a commentator on ABC TV. Half a year later, on May 28, 2004, Scott, who was not willing to be lonely, returned to the mountain and became the seventh coach in the history of the Hornets.
In fact, from the perspective of a descendant, Kidd is a good player, but not a good team builder, and he should not have taken it upon himself to get rid of Scott, because after the latter left, the Nets never made it to the Finals
At the beginning of the season, the Bobcats played against the Hornets once on their home court, and that time Hua Ben scored 36 points and 22 rebounds to cut the Hornets without bloodshed, and this time there was basically no surprise, and the Hornets were still a failure. The reason why so many people are paying attention is because there are too many Hornets veterans on the Bobcats now: Mourning, Anderson, West. The former is the No. 1 center in the history of the Hornets, the latter two have just been traded this season, and it was a loss-making deal, and now both Anderson and West are indispensable members of the Bobcats.