Chapter 732: Fame and Fortune
Old Nelson took Chamberlain to the press conference with a heavy heart, Spoelstra and Wade were whispering, and when they saw the two of them coming, the two of them closed their mouths, and Wade lay on the table, his eyes blank and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Old Nelson went up and shook hands with Si Shuai, he mainly wanted to investigate Riley's conspiracy, but he didn't get anything, mentioning the future of the Heat, Si Shuai gritted his teeth and said: "Our future is Dwayne, he is our future." ”
"But I've heard that Riley is planning a couple of big deals, like LeBron James and Anthony, and they seem to be the chips he wants to get, and if you want to get these guys, I'm afraid you'll have to send Dwayne away." Old Nelson said casually.
Si Shuai's brows trembled without a trace, and then he smiled: "This is gossip, swear to God, we will not send Dwayne away, never." ”
Wade smiled, seeming confident in that.
Old Nelson pouted, if God could really manifest his spirit, then there would be no one in ten Christians in the world, who did not use God as a shield? When the deal does happen, God can't stop it.
Shuai's trembling brows made the old Nelson's mood heavier and heavier, and then at the press conference, he didn't say anything more, but Chamberlain was very active, constantly answering reporters' questions.
One of the people Chamberlain admires the most is Haslem, and when a reporter asked him to comment on his opponent, he said: "Before the game, when we were going to discuss what the core values of the Miami Heat are, my head coach directly gave us a picture of Judonis Haslem, who embodies the characteristics and traits that a Miami Heat player wants, leadership, tenacity, durability, stability and purity. ”
This evaluation is high enough, the reporters were a little surprised, many people looked at Chamberlain with strange eyes, you kid is bad enough, did you deliberately praise Haslem to provoke conflicts in the Heat locker room?
The Florida Sports reporter stood up and laughed and asked, "Are you exaggerating a little?" Haslem is good, but we know Wade is the heart of Miami, isn't he? ”
When he said this topic, he also wanted to provoke a conflict between Chamberlain and Wade.
Chamberlain was not fooled, and directly smiled slyly and said: "I don't want to say much about this, but you can ask Dwayne." ”
Hearing this, most reporters are basically sure that this bastard is just trying to muddy the waters of the Heat.
What can Wade say, of course, he has to support his good brother, saying: "Everybody is the core of the Heat, it's a team, not a team of one person, and it's true that Haslem is one of the brightest in the core." ”
Chamberlain laughed, "Not only that, but seriously, now in California, when we think of South Florida, we think of Haslem. In a sense, he's the mayor here, and the community needs people like him, and the kids need role models. ”
You are really shameless, you can say such a thing, and when Chamberlain put Haslem to such a height, everyone was sure that he was going to provoke Wade's jealousy of Haslem.
However, Chamberlain is destined to be disappointed, Haslem's loyalty and Wade's tolerance are by no means what he imagined, and the Heat's locker room atmosphere has been good.
Chamberlain doesn't care, he's not the kind of person who hopes to weaken his opponent to win the championship, he wants to win the championship, it's absolutely dignified.
As the saying goes, fortune and misfortune do not go alone, and Chamberlain has had good luck lately, and after winning the game against the Heat, Sonny Vacarro called him and told him that the championship company controlled a rubber company in Hainan last year.
At the beginning of 2009, there was a trading crisis in the rubber market, because in the past few years, the blind development of rubber plantations in South America, the rubber reserves were too large, and a large amount of rubber was listed at the same time, which hit the rubber market.
At that time, when the champion company took over the rubber company, the latter was preparing to go public, but because of the rubber crisis in 09, the company almost went bankrupt, and the champion company injected capital in time to save the company from the bankruptcy crisis.
At that time, the company's controlling shareholder signed an "equity transfer agreement" with Vaccaro to transfer 16.75 million shares to the champion company. A week later, the company was restructured into a company limited by shares, and Vacarro injected the fund again, bringing the shareholding ratio to 51. 75%, becoming the largest shareholder.
This year, the rubber market began to pick up, and politicians in South America suffered losses and began to control the area of rubber plantations, and the automobile industry in Asia prospered, driving China's domestic rubber industry.
The company of Champion Holdings subscribed online and offline on March 4 and was listed on the SME Board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Among them, a total of 25 million shares were issued, and Chamberlain was the company's largest shareholder, with a shareholding ratio of up to 29%, earning 28 million US dollars in one fell swoop!
Chamberlain was shocked when he learned the news, the champion company has developed super fast in the past two years, especially in Asia, surpassing big brands such as Adidas and Nike in terms of sales, and has become an Asian ace sports brand.
Sports companies can't expand their military at will, they need to be steady and steady, otherwise it is very likely that the overall market will be sluggish because of a product problem.
Mr. Vaccaro's chosen response was to pour money into other industries, and Mr. Chamberlain knew that the company already controlled a major supermarket chain, a real estate development company, and a number of websites.
Originally, Chamberlain was skeptical about this, but this time the income of the rubber company made him have to express his admiration for Vaccaro's vision and ability.
He got $28 million without paying anything, which is before taxes, but it's already a lot of money, and he spent a season in the league living and dying, which is only half of that money.
"No wonder these sports stars are running to be bosses, evil capitalists, it's too easy to make money!" Chamberlain couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and at the same time secretly rejoiced that he had also become a capitalist.
Indeed, it is common for NBA stars to open companies, such as Yao Ming, a compatriot from Chamberlain.
Since Yao Ming entered the NBA, he has been operating his own brand, such as the earliest "Yao Restaurant" only with a "Yao" character as a shareholder, and the subsequent chain of fitness institutions and music websites do not involve large amounts of money, but are more just maximizing their brand value.
Its most eye-catching investment is the acquisition of all the shares of the Shanghai men's basketball team for 20 million, which has greatly improved Yao Ming's status in the domestic sports world, and even dares to slap the table with the officials of the Basketball Association.
However, in the NBA, Yao Ming's actions can only be said to be petty fights, not to mention others, let's talk about the little emperor James, he opened his own agency as early as 2005, and used his influence to sign some basketball potential stocks into the company in advance.
James used to work for CAA, the largest agency in the United States, and his agent at that time was the famous 'knife mouth' Rich Paul. As a result, James has since terminated his contract with CAA and taken Rich Paul with him, and it was this guy who helped James build a new agency called Klutch-Sports-Group, based in Cleveland.
In addition, James has Cannondell, a well-known bicycle manufacturer, who gave President Bush a $5,000 bike last year, and Cannon-Dell, a top sports brand.
James himself is also a loyal fan of Cannondale, and he usually uses this brand of bicycle in his training, perhaps because the little emperor is not happy to buy a bicycle and be made money, he simply injected capital into the sports brand to become a shareholder.
However, some people say that James entered the sports brand because he wanted to build a sports brand empire like Chamberlain, whose championship sports already had the skeleton of the empire. James was smart enough to know that it was too late for him to get his jerseys and shoes in his hands, so he simply made it big and played with a bike
Not long after Chamberlain's rubber company helped him make money, another big man in the sports world also made a move, and Jordan officially became the largest shareholder of the Bobcats board, which means that Jordan can really control the Bobcats from now on.
Compared with Chamberlain and James's tens of millions of earnings or capital injections, Jordan the Great is much more domineering, and he spent 2 on the acquisition of Bobcats. $7.5 billion, in addition to the 1 that the team previously owed. $500 million in debt.
In addition, the NBA officially announced the latest edition of the MVP rankings in the early morning of March 10, and the top four remained unchanged, and Chamberlain continued to walk at the top of the rankings with his strong performance after the All-Star Games.
In this way, Chamberlain received money and honor, and the scenery was immeasurable for a while.
However, James has an impact on his MVP, and in the MVP vote, Chamberlain's 189 votes are only 4 more than the little emperor, who also won with 185 votes.
James has been playing triple-doubles recently, and the Cavaliers have rushed to the first place in the East, aiming to be the first in the league.
This season has been a season in which a large number of new players have exploded, and James has averaged 31 per game for the Cavaliers. 9 points, 8. 3 rebounds, 8. 6 assists, 1. 7 steals and 1. 1 block, shooting 50 from the field. 1%!
James in March can only be described as all-around, and the team has won five straight victories under his leadership, winning the Celtics, Pistons, Mavericks, Jazz and Pacers in a row. James' 5-game count is a super quasi-triple-double - 35. 2 points, 9. 7 rebounds, 9. 3 assists plus 2. 0 steals and 2. 0 caps!
With the excellent performance of the little emperor, the knights won by an average of 9 opponents in these three games. 3 points.
However, Chamberlain's performance in March was also dazzling, averaging 36 per game. 8 points, 20. 1 rebound, becoming the first player in the last 30 years to score 35+20 in four consecutive games.
In fact, James's honor in this regard is also dazzling, because he is also the first player in the last 30 years to win 4 consecutive games 35+9+9.
In this way, experts say that a new era of black and white hegemony has arrived, and Chamberlain will compete with James for dominance of the league, just as Johnson the former Magic competed with Big Bird Bird.
But the experts' point of view is used to be slapped in the face, and this time it is the same, not long after this point of view came out, another scorer in the West rushed out violently, Kevin Durant!
Durant has averaged 34 per game for nearly a month since the All-Star break. 2 points, 7. 5 rebounds and 2. 8 assists on 47-point shooting. 7%。
Scoring is already a task for Durant, who has scored more than 30 points in 37 games so far this season, surpassing Spencer Haywood's record of 35 games set in '72-73.
Although Durant struggled to catch up with Chamberlain and James in the MVP race this season, he scored 40 points against the Raptors, becoming the only player in NBA history other than Chamberlain and James to score 2,000 points at the age of 20.
There are also many remaining fierce players, Oden, Dwight Howard, and of course, not to mention Kobe and Wade.
Howard is now averaging 18 per game. 5 points, 13. 1 rebound and shooting 60 from the field. 8%。
Another up-and-coming super-center Oden, who has averaged 21 per game so far this season, is playing catch-up in the late stages. 5 points, 12. 8 rebounds, it is precisely because of his rise that the position of the little bully Stoudemire in the Suns is unprecedentedly embarrassing, the latter averages 17 per game. 4 points and 8. 2 rebounds, the lowest number in his rookie season.
Because the light of the new generation of stars is shining, as the last perseverance of the 96 generation, Kobe Bryant is not dazzling, he averages 27 per game. 7 points, 5. 4 rebounds, 5. 9 assists and 25+5+5 counts were enough to ensure him reach the top of the MVP list in previous seasons, but now he can't even make it to the top three.
After the Lakers defeated the Kings on March 7, the Flyers, who played for the Lakers for 14 years, helped the team increase the total number of regular season games won to 671, surpassing "Magic" Johnson in one fell swoop and climbing to second place in team history, ahead of him Abdul-Jabbar, and the gap between Kobe Bryant and "Skyhook" is only 72 games.