Min Congda, who finished the observation training, felt very satisfied, and he thought that with Curry's confrontation performance, whether he could survive in the NBA was a question.

Through some guidance, let Curry insist on being himself, and his confrontation will not be able to go up in the future, and the Clippers' results will definitely not go up.

Although I was very upset, I felt that I might ruin Curry's career, but I had already given someone a contract of more than 20 million, and if it weren't for the champion, Curry wouldn't have gotten such a big contract.

"If you choose him from another team, you will get less money, and you won't be famous, so I'm actually his benefactor, let him get more than 10 million yuan."

Thinking about it this way, Min Congda felt much more comfortable.

Before leaving, Min Congda asked Ada to go to the restaurant to pack a seafood fried rice, a fried chicken and a milkshake, and he had dinner today.

In the next few days, Min Congda went to work at the Clippers headquarters in the morning, drank a cup of coffee, ate a small snack purchased by the team, and breakfast was settled.

Before lunch, I asked Ida to drive me to the training center to observe the training, of course, the observation training is fake, and the rice is real.

At noon, you can have a full meal in the cafeteria of the training center, and in the afternoon, you can pedal your bicycle in the team's gym until three or four o'clock, pack a dinner and go back to the apartment, and the day's work is done.

Most of the team's affairs were left to Olschea and Rosser, who set three rules:

1. All signings, layoffs, and transactions of players must be finally approved by him, otherwise they cannot be implemented.

2. All projects that the team wants to cut expenses and reduce prices must be approved by him, otherwise they cannot be passed - there is no need to increase expenses and increase prices.

3. Other matters can be reported at the work meeting every Monday, don't bother him with these small things.

With these three rules, Min Congda's work burden has been greatly reduced, and life is simply not too comfortable.

Until early July, the summer league will begin right away, and the Clippers will travel to Las Vegas to compete.

Min Congda decided to go to Las Vegas in person and go to the scene to oversee the Los Angeles Clippers Youth Army!

"Next week's Las Vegas Summer League kicks off, and I'm ready to be there to watch it and cheer on our youngsters. Young players are always the hope of the team and the future of the team! ”

Min Congda now speaks, the old sow wears a bra one after another, and people will automatically learn to say these words when they reach the leadership position.

"During the time I was away from the team, the affairs of the team went on as usual, and Olser and Rosser worked hard for you."

Olche has no opinion, since Min Congda became the general manager and president, his workload has actually been reduced a lot, and many things can be left undone, just maintain the status quo.

Olsche actively contacted other teams to trade Randolph before, but now he naturally put it down, and some teams called and wanted to trade and all of them refused, saying that they had no authority.

There are also new players, scouting potential stocks, etc., and I just do some daily work to sprinkle water.

The NBA is a circle that is not small, but it is not big, and the management will soon get information about the team's movements.

Every team has informants within each other, otherwise there wouldn't be so many cases of the draft being cut off.

Min Congda, an airborne outsider, has no roots and connections, no one will call him to quote players, and there will be no informants to provide him with information.

Olsie is ready to come to a non-violent non-cooperation, do nothing, and when the team has problems, Min Congda will naturally come to him.

Rosser is a bit busier and has a lot of work to do in the administration in addition to keeping the team running on a day-to-day basis.

For example, when the new season is about to start, the team's ticket sales are a big problem, because the team has a poor record for three consecutive seasons, and the box office revenue has been declining repeatedly.

Box office revenue, which accounts for 40 percent of the team's operating revenue, is a crucial revenue item, and the Clippers are already at the bottom of the league.

Compared with the Los Angeles Lakers next door, the Clippers' record is really shabby, the Lakers are the champions of the 2009 season, and they are back at the top of the league after eight years, and they are once again the brightest star in the league.

The Clippers are ugly ducklings, the semifinals are the best result in history, and then go straight to the top show, who wants to watch such a team play?

The Clippers sell tickets for many games not by their own teams, but by visiting visiting teams.

For example, the Los Angeles derby between the Lakers and the Clippers, such as James' Cavaliers vs. the Clippers, such as the Celtics Big Three to defend, and so on.

But these games are limited in the number of games in a year, just a few games, so if they sell well, they are some loose tickets.

And what really supports the bulk of the team's box office revenue are those season tickets that can be bought for one season, or even several seasons.

Some fanatical local tyrant fans will buy season tickets for many years in one go, and then don't watch the game when they arrive, they are rich, they are capricious, and they are just to support the team.

Traditional big-city giants like the Lakers and Knicks have such well-known local tyrant fans.

The great director Spike Lee is a hardcore Knicks, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to watch the game, enough to support two team employees.

The Lakers are the famous actor Jack Nicholson, who has watched the Lakers since the 70s, and can be said to be the irons of the irons.

He certainly spent a lot of money to see the game from the best position in the Staples Center, and it is said that he has spent close to $10 million on tickets from 70 years to today!

A little more hardcore fans like this can hold up the box office.

And most of these people are celebrities and celebrities, with their own traffic, and their watching the game on the sidelines itself can attract fans to buy tickets, which can be said to be live advertising.

Los Angeles is a gold mine with Hollywood, celebrities and money.

It's a pity that most of this gold mine has been taken away by the Lakers, and only when the Lakers play, the Staples Center is star-studded.

An ugly duckling like the Clippers is purely a foil to set off the glory and greatness of the Lakers, and this team is really useless.

Rosser was bitter when he looked at the pre-sale of this year's season tickets, and originally expected Griffin to bring a wave of box office, but without Griffin coming to Curry, the situation was not optimistic.

"Mr. Smart, I have a job that I need your authorization on, regarding the discounted price of the season ticket."

"We have a bad season ticket pre-sale for the new season, less than 60% of the previous season, and I think it's necessary to do a season ticket discount promotion to increase our season ticket sales..."

Before Rosser could finish his words, he was immediately interrupted by Min Congda.

"No! Discount promotions can't happen to our team! This may lead to a temporary increase in sales, but it is a damage to the team's reputation and a blow to the team's confidence! ”

"But our income ......"

'Looking at Rosser a little bit longer, we have to look further and we have to build the brand of the team. You look at the New York Knicks, are they doing well on the team? The same sucks! But will their season passes be discounted? No! ”

"Why? Because they have confidence in themselves, they have the foundation. The history of the Clippers is also 40 years, and we must also build the foundation and show confidence! ”

Min Congda said that Rosser had nothing to say, in fact, he could refute it, and all kinds of data proved that if it was not discounted, the team would probably lose money this season.

But since the new manager is so confident, and Sterling trusts him so much, it would be nice to let him be confident.

He would like to see what Sterling will do against the confident guy when the new season starts with a lack of attendance and dismal sales.

"Then the discount strategy is canceled?"

"Cancel, must cancel. Not only do we not discount, but we also have to increase the price, and the prices of all tickets, general tickets, and season tickets will all go up! ”

"What? And the price will rise? ”

Rosser can't sit still now, he can't sell tickets in the first place, and you still raise the price, are you looking for death?

Min Congda didn't care, and while looking at the box office sales report, he continued to add: "We not only have to increase the price, but also launch a new membership system, some good seats, and meet a certain amount of peripheral consumption before buying." We want to limit the number of lifetime memberships that can be purchased, and this lifetime membership has to be marked, and the previous one was too cheap! Also, the best and best seats, auctioned, the highest bidder wins! ”

The executives in the conference room looked at each other, such a pricing strategy, isn't the new season going to end?

Can tickets still be sold? The complaint number of the ticket center will definitely be blown up, and there will be a refund of the season ticket.

"Okay, my opinion is finished, who is for it and who is against?"

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, who is against it? What's the use of opposing it?

Anyway, I have increased the salary of the big guy by 20%, and I still oppose it.

Let him build it, it is estimated that he will lose money and leave after half a season.

As a result, it was unanimously approved, and the box office price increase strategy of the Clippers for the new season was decided.

Seeing that there was nothing important to deal with, Min Congda asked Ada: "Have you booked the ticket and room to Las Vegas?" ”

Ida nodded and said, "It's all booked, and we will leave on the 12th." ”

"Excellent! …… The expenses are reimbursed by the team, right? ”

"Of course, it's all reimbursed."

“Good！ Let's go, go to the training center to eat... No, take a look at the players' training! ”