With a $22,000 bonan, Min Congda and the Clippers ended the road trip and returned to Los Angeles.

The good news is that Apple stock has recently fallen a bit more, retreating from $220 to $200 a share.

After receiving the fine, Min Congda used $20,000 to buy Apple shares and increased his position by 100 shares.

This is a significant boost to the value of Min's assets, who already owns 140 shares of Apple stock.

If these 1,000 shares stick to the all-time high price of Apple shares, he will be worth $5.6 million!

This is what will happen 10 years later, and Min Congda is ready to hold shares for more than 10 years.

Because Min Congda also has to welcome the bad news, that is, the next game of the Clippers vs. the Warriors, the tickets are sold out.

Min Congda had just landed on a plane from Memphis, and before he got home, Ida texted him to report the news.

Min Congda almost didn't draw it when he saw the news, why did he sell out the tickets so well?

At a time when the U.S. economy is in a downturn, banks are bankrupt, and the subprime mortgage crisis is rampant, the people of Los Angeles are still overcoming the difficulties together, watching TV at home and running to Staples to watch the game?

It's also unreasonable to watch the Los Angeles Clippers ball.

It's understandable to look at the Lakers' ball, after all, the Lakers are strong and have Kobe.

So far this season, the Lakers have been 100 percent attendance and the stadium is full.

If you want to buy a ticket, you may not be able to buy it, and you may not be able to grab it if you add money.

So the Lakers can box office $1.5 million per game, which is twice as much as other teams.

Clippers? Min Congda seriously suspects that the people who watch the Clippers are those fans who can't grab Lakers tickets and can only buy Clippers tickets to the scene to have a good time.

"These fans in Los Angeles are really unprincipled, I have increased the price, why are you still here? Also full, 100% attendance! It's a dog, isn't it okay to increase the price? ”

Back at the apartment, Min Congda was tossing and turning.

The next day, he came to the team headquarters at the Staples Center early in the morning to hold a regular meeting to solve the problems and difficulties that the team is currently facing.

In Min Congda's view, the team is now in a difficult situation.

After the victory over the Grizzlies, the record has moved to 7-5, which is the same as the Houston Rockets, and is tied for sixth place in the West.

Because of the high win rate with the Western team, it also overtook the Rockets and ranked sixth, and opened a one-win gap with the eighth-place Jazz.

It's very dangerous, you have to deduct money to win in the playoffs, and you have to do it?

Winning a game and deducting 3,000, isn't this killing him?

Then, because of the improvement in the record, the Clippers are now in the attention of fans.

More and more fans are coming to the stadium to watch the Clippers games, and the ratings are rising.

This is a huge disadvantage for the Clippers' bankruptcy plan.

Your team has a good record, a good revenue, and you're bankrupt.

The only thing that reassures Min Congda is that the $10 million spent on a documentary has been properly wasted.

Jordan Peel and Michael Kee have been messing around there lately.

They seem to be messing up another short film these two days to be filmed in the Clippers' locker room.

I don't know what kind of thing I can shoot, but let them make it anyway, they can't make any splash.

When they finish $10 million this season, they'll let them continue next season.

Strive to allocate 20 million to them next season, and empty the Clippers' cash flow.

There is also the project of Stamp to open a restaurant, which is imminent.

Riccelle said he had found a partner and handed it over to Ida.

Ida said that when Min Congda returned from the road trip, he would bring the partner to meet him.

The situation is very grim, and Min Congda feels a huge pressure on his shoulders.

When he walked into the office building of the Clippers headquarters, Min Congda looked serious and frowned.

Everyone was in a good mood, but when they saw Min Congda like this, they didn't dare to speak out.

Walking into the conference room, Rosser and other executives were already waiting for him.

Originally, there was a lot of noise in the conference room, but everyone was very happy about the current good situation of the team.

But as soon as Min Congda came in, he sat on the chair without saying a word, and everyone immediately quieted down.

There was a long silence again, the same as when Min Congda broke into the draft office.

The suffocating atmosphere made everyone start to reflect on whether they were too carried away.

yes, the team's results have improved slightly, but how long has the season started?

Christmas hasn't even passed, and the new year hasn't arrived.

Are there still fewer cases in NBA history of opening high and going low?

There are too many, such as crossing the river.

Let's talk about the Clippers themselves, who had the best finish in history in the 2006 playoffs and reached the Western Conference semifinals.

Then at the beginning of the 2006-2007 season, the Clippers were like a rainbow, with a 6-2 record at the beginning, and once occupied the first place in the West.

Everyone thought that the Clippers would officially be among the top teams in the West and enter the playoffs all year round, but they lost five in a row.

The team's morale plummeted, and Sam Cassel was injured and missed most of the season.

The Clippers soon realized they couldn't rely on a 36-year-old veteran to build the team's future, and then Brand left, Margeti left, and Mobley left, and the team worked so hard to build a roster and plan for six years, and it was ruined.

Now, the Clippers are just getting started, and everyone is getting a little carried away, can this work?

"Smart's face is not very good, he must have noticed the signs of frivolity in the management, I will take it easy later, talk more about the shortcomings, and less about the advantages."

Rosser is very observant, and he didn't say anything about the last time the team sold 3,000 tickets in the middle of the night, and this time he decided that it would be better to report the bad news than the good news.

After being silent for three minutes, Min Congda felt that the leek box he ate for breakfast should have been almost digested, pointed at Rosser, and said, "Rosser, what is the recent situation of the team, briefly tell me." ”

"The team's operation is generally relatively stable, and there is nothing particularly outstanding. ”

"yes, I heard that tomorrow's game against the Nuggets is sold out?"

"Yes, but there is a special reason for this sell-out."

"Oh? What's with? ”

"Because the Lakers went on an road trip recently, there are only Clippers games this week. Usually in this case, some Lakers fans will also buy Clippers tickets to watch Clippers balls. ”

When Min Congda heard this, it turned out that there was another reason, he nodded again and again, and said, "Well, it's good, it's good." ”

Rosser breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that his guess was indeed correct, that it was right to report bad news rather than good news, and that he had to be low-key and humble in front of Mr. Smart.

Rosser looked down on Min Congda from the beginning, and now admires Min Congda, and he feels right about everything.

In order to figure out Min Congda's thoughts, he even went to study Chinese culture.

I found that there are indeed low-key, non-ostentatious norms in Chinese culture, which are very different from those of Americans.

"No wonder, the Chinese are like this, low-key, humble, is their virtue. I'm going to have to get it right. ”

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