The Boston Celtics lost to the Cavaliers on the road, and the defeat in this game was an unexpected defeat for Zhuang Fei, although this season the Cavaliers are definitely not comparable to last season in terms of team cohesion because of the return of Penny Hardaway, plus this team is not a fish belly team without excellent players. This team is the opposite, there are a lot of good players in it.

For example, Andre Miller, who just renewed his contract this summer, such as the team's starting interior big z and Boozer, and of course, the team's outside core Ricky Davis, with the strength of the Cavaliers' lineup, even last season was very competitive, just because this team lacked Penny Hardaway's pressure last season, which made this team too far behind in mental attributes, and finally failed to enter the playoffs. In this case, the performance of these people may not be worthy of their strength, but in the new season, after the team welcomed back Hardaway, the results immediately rose more than one notch.

This is not because of how strong Hardaway's stats are, the former NBA superstar can now only average 28 minutes per game this season to contribute 11 points, 5 assists and 5 rebounds, which is an absolute role player statistic, and even in terms of playing time, his time is not as good as Petrus, who was drafted by the Cavaliers with the No. 7 pick this year, and Petrus has an average of 30 minutes per game in the new season, which can also be seen, Now it's to protect Hardaway or to keep Hardaway alive for the playoffs in the future. The Cavaliers have begun to consciously let Hardaway change the impact on the team, although in terms of statistics and playing time, Hardaway has almost reached the lowest point of his career this season, but there is no doubt that his role is still the same, otherwise how can the Cavaliers be in the top six in the East?

Of course, for Zhuang Fei. Regardless of what the Cavaliers are doing now, how Hardaway is now, the Celtics' loss to the Cavaliers on the road is a tough thing to accept. Even if that game was a back-to-back away game for the Boston Celtics, of course, although Zhuang Fei was not satisfied with the reality of the team's away loss to the Cavaliers, there is no doubt that for these Celtics players, the recent schedule has been a bit exhausting, whether it is the schedule or the strength of the opponent.

It can be said that the Celtics have had some difficulties in the previous period, but judging from the current 22-4 record of the Boston Celtics, the Boston Celtics have passed this period very smoothly, and after this period, the Boston Celtics will usher in a period of consecutive home games. Starting with the home game against the Timberwolves on December 15. Until the Christmas game on December 25 to play the Lakers, the Boston Celtics during this period were all at home, of course, although the six opponents during this period are not easy teams to deal with whether it is the Timberwolves in the first game or the second Dallas game or the Hawks and Lakers in the fifth and sixth games, especially the Timberwolves in the first game and the Lakers in the last Christmas game, these two teams can be said to be the best performance in the West this season and the fastest improving team in the league, these two teams were fourth and fifth in the West last season, Now it has become the first and second in the west. This is also the most surprising thing that has happened to the NBA so far this season

"How expensive are the demolition fees and land prices in New York?"

At Zhuang Fei's home in Boston, Zhuang Feiyi returned from Cleveland. His assistant Chris was waiting for him at home, Zhuang Fei's assistant had been busy for half a year for Zhuang Fei to build a basketball park in New York, and now that he had finished the matter, he also came back to report to Zhuang Fei, because Zhuang Fei gave full authority to his agent, and he didn't ask at all, so he could only say that he was speechless for a report that suddenly appeared from injury.

"Zhuang, it's not that New York land is expensive, but Manhattan is expensive, this is the most expensive land in the world, since we choose to build a park in Manhattan, then we can only accept this price, who let us not have the support of the New York City government, we are a personal business, of course it will look more expensive, but this is still within the normal controllable range" Chris looked at Zhuang Fei, who was shocked, and said helplessly.

"Is this still manageable?" Zhuang Fei looked at the quotation in his hand and was a little speechless, the cost of going out for demolition, just the land price, on average is 10,000 US dollars per square meter, this was in 2004, not in the future, although the current US dollar has fluctuated because of the Iraq war, but it has not depreciated. The construction area of Zhuang Fei's basketball park is the world's largest arena of 85,000 square meters, and in addition to the stadium, plus the commercial area and residential area, as well as the square and parking lot, it is almost nearly 300,000 square meters, and according to the land price of 10,000 US dollars per square meter, the most basic land price alone needs 3 billion US dollars.

Coupled with the demolition costs of residents, you know, there is not much idle land in the Manhattan team, and the demolition cost is definitely an astronomical amount, and in fact, in this report, Zhuang Fei needs to pay as much as 1.5 billion US dollars in demolition costs, because without government support, almost all of these original residents are lion big mouth type, a full 4.5 billion US dollars, just to finish the land will cost 4.5 billion US dollars, if you add close to 1.5 billion construction costs and facility costs, Zhuang Fei's basketball park almost requires a minimum cost of 6 billion US dollars, which is too much worse than Zhuang Fei's previous estimate of 4.5 billion.

"There's no way, if you're willing to go to Brooklyn to build a stadium, we can complete the design for up to $3 billion," Chris said helplessly, in fact, for him, the basketball arena is for games or other activities, not for Bikuo, in fact, according to his ideas, this arena is best built in Brooklyn, Brooklyn and Queens are the two largest and most populous districts of New York. Whether it's in Queens or after building a stadium in Brooklyn. In terms of audiences, they are much better than in Manhattan, which has a population of just over 1.5 million, while Brooklyn and Queens combined have almost 5 million, and more importantly, why go to Manhattan and Madison Square to compete? Isn't that a two-offense? Of course, although Chris was not very satisfied with Zhuang Fei's decision, he could only follow it.

Heading to Brooklyn or Queens? Zhuang Fei never thought of these two possibilities. In the United States, New York is Manhattan, even though Manhattan is only 7% of the size of New York. For Zhuang Fei, this is perhaps the most important project of his career, and for him personally, this project must be the best, if it really just ends up going to Brooklyn, then what's the point of signing the team to New York? It's like moving from Henan to Hebei in the Celestial Empire, it doesn't make any sense. So when he thought of this, although Zhuang Fei felt very sorry for his $6 billion, he didn't have too many other complaints.

In fact, it is already a lucky fortune to be able to buy a 300,000-square-meter piece of land in Manhattan. After all, there is no idle land in Manhattan. Every square meter needs to be negotiated with people, without the intervention of the government, Chris can only be close to half a year to get this matter done is already very good, although according to Zhuang Fei and Chris's estimates, the cost of acquiring apprentices is far higher than more than 20% of the market value of the land, but after all, buying 100 square meters of land and buying 300,000 square meters are different, buying 100 square meters can go to shop around and bargain, buying 300,000 square meters of a whole piece of land has no room for negotiation, This is what is waiting for the other lion to open his mouth. So Zhuang Fei understood after thinking about it for a while, although his agent did not explain to him how he completed the acquisition. But the process must be extremely arduous, so at this time, Zhuang Fei's eyes at Chris were also a lot of admiration, this agent that Allen gave him at the beginning is definitely a treasure, a treasure that can be worth billions.

"By the way, Zhuang, and this, this is a business grant from the New York City government, originally according to our business scale, we should be able to get a business grant of about 300 million US dollars, but now the New York government has finally agreed to our application for a 600 million US dollar business grant" Just when Zhuang Fei was in a daze, Zhuang Fei's agent took out a document from his briefcase again and handed it to Zhuang Fei.

Commercial subsidies, Zhuang Fei knows, this kind of subsidies are available in the United States or in China, which is basically equivalent to the government investment often said in China, since it is investment promotion, there are naturally some preferential policies, although for the New York government, Manhattan does not need to attract investment, there are the most commercial companies in the world, but even so, the government still needs to issue subsidies for some new commercial companies, most of this subsidies are between 5%-8%, and the relationship can be obtained. The relationship is average, according to Zhuang Fei's total investment in this plan is 6 billion, according to the minimum standard can get a subsidy of 300 million, but obviously, this time Zhuang Fei received a subsidy of 600 million yuan is much higher than the highest standard It must be the credit of this agent, Zhuang Fei does not think that the New York government is a good money boy.

"This is also very good, we are also a lot of less expenses" Zhuang Fei finally looked at the subsidy report and said with a smile, this is almost equivalent to saving Zhuang Fei from the construction cost of the stadium, according to Zhuang Fei and Chris's estimates, the construction cost of the basketball park is around 600 million. This is built to the highest configuration. However, it is clear that the government subsidy is certainly not given at the beginning, but needs to be fully completed before it can be fully settled. Therefore, Zhuang Fei's early investment is still indispensable.

Although Zhuang Fei was quite clear about his agent's report on the stadium, Zhuang Fei still talked with his agent for most of the night after reading all the reports, and the more Zhuang Fei thought about it at the end, the more frightened Zhuang Fei became, because many things were just numbers on paper for him, and when he heard that if the stadium park was completed before the summer of 2006 according to Zhuang Fei's plan, from now on, thousands of construction workers would need to be mobilized to work overtime. And the expenses of these thousands of construction workers are no longer in the 60-plus report, so it can be said that the 600 million dollars posted by the New York City government basically need to be used to pay these construction workers a large part of the salary.

Of course, to say that Zhuang Fei is now very surprised by the ability of a basketball gym to spend money, but there is no doubt that at this time, although Zhuang Fei is painful, but he is also extremely happy, the whole world knows that Chinese have the habit of buying land, which is a question of belonging, and this stadium is likely to be Zhuang Fei's final home and is likely to be the only home that belongs to him in his coaching career, and he may never 'rent' like now or in the past.

"Zhuang, this is all the shares of Apple that you asked me to acquire, when we initiated the acquisition, Apple's market value was $6 billion, and after we completed the acquisition, the market value rose by 1.5 billion, and now it is $7.5 billion, and we used $3 billion to acquire 32% of Apple's shares, according to what you said about the acquisition method regardless of cost, the shares that can be circulated on the market are basically swept by us, and some of the remaining ones are unwilling to buy, of course, some are collected from some foundations at high prices. These are equity documents, and I have registered a total of 5 companies to initiate acquisitions, and the average is about 5% per leather bag company," Chris finally handed over a document to Zhuang Fei again when he left.

This is Apple's equity document, a total of six accounts, five are 25% of the shares owned by the leather bag company, and one is 7% of the shares acquired by Zhuang Fei in his personal name, Zhuang Fei because 7% of the shares on the surface are greater than 5%, so he needs to disclose his personal information to Apple, so now basically the world knows that Coach Z has become one of Apple's major shareholders, of course, they must not know that Zhuang Fei actually owns more than 7%, Zhuang Fei didn't have any other problems after reading these reports, because these problems were basically handled by his agent, and they were almost leaky.

"What a guy who is extremely trusted," Zhuang Fei finally looked at the back of his agent leaving and said with a smile, this is the most correct and cost-effective signing in his life. (To be continued.) )