Chapter 107: Buying a House
After a day's rest, the Lakers welcomed the Suns at home, the third meeting between the two teams in the regular season, and the first two meetings ended in defeat.
And the same is true for this third game, although Li Hao feels warm and returns to normal in this game, it is not enough to bring a victory to the Lakers.
In this game, the Suns let PJ Tucker keep an eye on Li Hao all over the court, but even so, Li Hao still handed over 10 of 20 shots, 4 of 7 three-point shots, and 6 of 8 free throws, scoring 30 points, 5 assists, 7 rebounds, 1 block, and 2 steals.
The stats are almost perfect, but the team still loses, so it's a question of whom.
"It's not that one person's responsibility to lose the game, it's that all of us didn't do our best," Li Hao said in the case of three consecutive defeats.
"Li, are you shirking your responsibilities?" is still the female reporter with an abyss.
It is said that the female reporter handed Li Hao a small note with her phone number on it, but Li Hao did not contact her at all, and the note was thrown directly into the trash.
"What responsibility do I shirk?" Li Hao asked.
"As a team leader, you can't lead the team to victory," the female reporter said.
"Leader? Sorry, I'm just a rookie, and besides, did you ask Kobe? "As long as Kobe Bryant is still with the Lakers, then there will be only one leader in this Lakers team.
In the past few games when Kobe Bryant rested, Li Hao did have unlimited firing rights, and he did carry the team on his shoulders, although the effect was not very good, but this does not mean that Li Hao is the leader of the Lakers.
Li Hao wanted to do it, but when Kobe Bryant did not retire, Li Hao could only think about it even if he thought about it.
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"I'll tell you the good news, the matter of your house has been settled" On the way back, Kobe Bryant found a good thing and said.
"So fast?" This surprised Li Hao, he thought that the house might have a long time.
"Of course, you don't look at who is helping you" Originally, the man's house was not going to be sold, but when he knew that Li Hao was going to buy it, he changed his mind, because the owner of the house was a loyal fan of the Lakers.
"That's not good, if~~~ I mean if, I don't play for the Lakers in the future" One person and one city is always too fairytale, and loyalty is often cheap.
"Don't worry, it's just a normal business deal" For Li Hao, Kobe Bryant understands that he almost left the Lakers.
"By the way, the house is almost 100 square meters smaller than me, about 1,300 more, and the price should be about 10 million" Kobe Bryant spent more than 9 million when he bought it in 08, and the house price has risen a lot in the past six years, so this can be said to be a very favorable price.
"I've made an appointment with the other party to go and see the property tomorrow," Bryant said.
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"Li, you are the best rookie I have ever seen" At ten o'clock the next morning, Li Hao appeared at Kobe's house with Aomei, and then set off from Kobe's house.
The owner of the house is probably only in his early forties, according to Kobe's friend, this man is working in investment banking, self-made, and now has five small goals, and the small goals here are calculated in dollars.
Although I am a native of Los Angeles, I have been living in New York because of my work, and I bought this house for several years, but I come back for a month at most every year.
With the net worth of the owner of the house, even if he doesn't live all year round, it's nothing, so he hasn't thought about buying it in the past few years, and he has always learned from Kobe Bryant's friends that Li Hao wants to buy a house before he took the initiative to say that his house can be taken out.
This person is friends with Kobe Bryant, and the two have known each other since college and have a very close relationship, which is why they met this time.
The "garage for 6 cars" is different for each of these high-end villas, but they all have the facilities.
One basement, two floors above ground, swimming pool, sauna, recreation room, all have them, and the bedroom is on the second floor, including the master bedroom, a total of six.
Led by the owner, Lawrence, the group walked around the entire villa.
Coincidentally, the owner of the house happened to go back to Los Angeles to do some business in the past two days, so he personally came to take Li Hao to visit, and by the way, he personally contacted Li Hao.
Although Lawrence has not been in Los Angeles for a long time, he is still the holder of the Lakers' season ticket, and as long as time allows, he will definitely come to the scene to support, and Lawrence is in the stands for the Lakers' opener today.
He prefers to be in the stands closer to the pitch than to sit in the box.
Li Hao's performance shocked Lawrence, who was only born in 70 years, has only one intuitive data on the performance of the ancient gods, and it is completely different from what he saw on the spot.
It was Li Hao's wonderful performance that conquered Lawrence, which led to today's meeting.
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"If it weren't for Smith telling you that you want to buy a house, my house would never be sold, so Li, you don't need to have any burden, if you want, I won't make any money from you, if you don't like it, you can also just say "The mall cheats me, and the investment bank is even more so, but in the face of the team you like, the player you like, this successful businessman doesn't want to use the mall."
"Seriously, I like it" But after speaking, Li Hao looked at Ao Mei, it was obvious that Li Hao wanted Ao Mei to make a decision.
"I also think it's very good" Kobe Bryant chose here because of the good environment and safety, plus the high location, sitting in the yard to enjoy the sunrise and sunset.
"I think we can settle this matter," Li Hao said, looking at Lawrence.
According to the market price, the house is about 13 or 4 million, and Lawrence spent nearly 10 million on the purchase, and this does not include a series of follow-up expenses such as renovation.
"Did Eric tell you about the price?" Eric is a friend of Kobe's, his full name is Eric Smith, and the owner of the house is named John Lawrence.
"Ten million" Lawrence really didn't plan to make Li Hao's money.
"Lee, if you have difficulties, I can make some more concessions" There are also automatic price reductions?
"No" Li Hao refused, 10 million is already far below the market price, and Li Hao is a little embarrassed to drop it again, besides, Lawrence Li Hao is a little "afraid".
"I know you can definitely sign a big contract in the future" Everyone is a smart person, Lawrence said that Li Hao understood.
"John, I appreciate your kindness, but I still have ten million, you forgot? I signed an endorsement contract for 10 million yuan in 10 years," Li Hao said.
"I forgot about it, by the way, when your signature sneakers come out, I'll buy a few more pairs" Lawrence is also a sneaker collector, and he has several properties in Los Angeles, one of which is dedicated to sneakers.
What is the saying? People are not as good as shoes, sneakers can live in a large villa of thousands of square meters, and some people can't even afford a house of dozens of square meters.