Huawei actually didn't expect to be selected by Min Congda as the title sponsor of the stadium.

How could I, a Chinese company engaged in communications engineering, be brought in to sponsor a stadium in the United States?

However, it is not for nothing that communication companies sponsor stadiums, and the home stadium of the Spurs is AT@T named by the American communications giant.

The main reason why Min Congda chose China was that he remembered that many years later, Huawei was not less targeted by the United States.

At that time, the stadium that will be named will definitely be unlucky, which is not a good thing for Min Congda.

Huawei was also very surprised, after all, they were originally making a scene, and the offer they gave was not sincere.

Just because Huawei wants to develop business in the U.S. market, it has followed the trend of a number of Chinese companies with overseas business to participate.

Unexpectedly, Min Congda crossed a number of well-known large enterprises and chose Huawei, Huawei's senior management was very embarrassed when they learned the news, and wanted to double the sponsorship fee, but Min Congda sternly refused.

"The most important thing in doing business is to be honest, and at the beginning it is good to say what the price is, then what the price should be. How can you sit on the ground and increase the price casually? You can't add money, that's it. ”

As a result, Huawei won the naming rights of the Clippers' new arena for five years with a mere $5 million offer.

At $1 million a year, this fee is less than the $1.8 million a year naming fee for Oracle Arena.

Moreover, What kind of hall is Oracle Arena? The old arena built in 1966 costs $1.8 million a year.

The Clippers are building a new arena, and there is no rival in the league in terms of size and sophistication.

At Min Congda's strong request, the stadium was designed beyond the scale of an ordinary basketball hall, with a staggering 25,000 spectators.

In fact, many newly designed arenas no longer pursue excessively high attendance.

On the one hand, there are too many people, which is a major challenge to stadium management, stadium design, logistics services, etc., which will greatly increase operating costs.

On the other hand, with the development of live TV and online live broadcasts, it is no longer so important to have more seats and sell more tickets, but the on-site viewing experience is more important.

If there are too many people, the viewing experience can be a problem for fans.

Generally speaking, more than 18,000 seats is the best number to experience.

Too little will not have an atmosphere, too much will be too crowded.

But Min Congda insisted on 25,000 seats, and everyone from Shelly Sterling to other investors couldn't resist him.

Who made the decisions he made right for the past three years?

On September 1, 2012, Min Congda, along with Clippers executives, owners, investors, and all the players on the team, attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the new arena.

It took more than half a year for Min Congda to really complete his plan for Afang Palace.

To be honest, Min Congda himself felt a little incredible.

When he first proposed the idea, no one endorsed or supported it.

But he took the plunge and started with the acquisition of the Great Western Forum, and moved forward step by step.

It stands to reason that this matter should be more difficult to advance in the future, after all, a billion-dollar project.

I don't know why, the further it goes, the smoother it gets, especially after the Clippers win the championship.

A large number of details, funds, and government affairs problems are always helped by someone to help solve them.

Of course, the price is the need to cede some benefits, and Min Congda doesn't care at all.

In short, this process has been fueled by a large number of people, simply put, more and more people are tied to this boat.

Banks, funds, individuals, fans, team owners, local officials, rap stars......

Min Congda sometimes feels that he is "crazy", as if the big liar who engages in Ponzi schemes has dragged a large number of people into the water.

When the scam is broken, it doesn't matter if you are an ordinary person or a high-ranking official or star, you will all be unlucky.

It's just that Min Congda's "lower-average" intelligence has never figured out why so many people are willing to invest in this new arena and why they are optimistic about the Clippers.

The new arena will be built near the original Great Western Forum Arena and will become the largest and most luxurious multi-stadium on the West Coast and in the United States.

In addition to basketball matches, boxing, ice hockey, indoor soccer, volleyball, and other entertainment can be held at this venue, including large-scale concerts and large-scale talk shows.

In order to operate the stadium well, the "Clippers Stadium Asset Management Company" was set up to carry out comprehensive and comprehensive management of the new stadium.

Min Congda personally served as the general manager of the company, responsible for the various businesses of the stadium, as well as the financial and debt situation.

Since then, Min will personally control the Clippers' number one thunder, and the team has been saddled with nearly $1.5 billion in debt for the company and the stadium.

Of course, after winning the championship, the Clippers' market value jumped to $600 million, a $140 million increase from last season.

As a result, Min Congda was rewarded with $14,000 when the season dividend was settled.

This reward amount really made Min Congda cry, $14,000?

Throughout the playoffs, Min Congda paid a total of $48,000 in winning fines!

In the case of winning or losing in basketball games, Min Congda lost a lot.

Fortunately, there are fines, as well as the money you make from investing in stocks, plus almost no daily expenses, to get the $48,000.

But after all, it's 50,000 US dollars, a total of more than 300,000 yuan, how can you not be heartbroken? You can buy a high-end car.

Since basketball wins and losses have been unable to break even, and have begun to lose money, Min Congda must of course focus all his energy on investment and operation.

At the groundbreaking ceremony on September 1st, Min Congda and Shelley Sterling, as well as a group of investors, as well as Curry, Harden and other team stars, picked up a shovel to lay the foundation stone for the new arena, and the stadium officially started!

Shoveling a bowl of soil towards the foundation, Min Congda breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, thinking: "After three years of exploration and hard work, the bankruptcy of the Clippers is finally on the right track!" ”

Thinking of this, Min Congda really wanted to shed tears, how many detours have he taken in three years?

He himself crossed the river by feeling the stones, one step at a time, and now several long-term plans are finally beginning to show their power.

The new arena will be a huge liability for the Clippers, the Asian Basketball Foundation will be a wound for the Clippers to bleed up a lot of cash, and a heavy luxury tax will take up a lot of financial resources for the team.

Now the overall financial situation of the Clippers is in a tight equilibrium, once the team's goodwill is impaired, the market value declines, and the operating income declines, the capital chain may break at any time.

Min Congda imagined the problems that the Clippers might have in the new season:

After the team won the championship, the pride and complacency, the young players fought each other for the ball and status, the team's record declined, the revenue and market value both fell, and the debt problem will definitely explode.

"As soon as the debt problem erupts, the interest cannot be repaid on time, the cash outflow problem, the asset is mortgaged, and the players cannot be paid, then I will find Adam Silva to let the league re-escrow, declare bankruptcy liquidation and sell the team, won't my task be completed? Hey. ”

Thinking of this, Min Congda's heart is full of hope, and the confidence that has been hit by the finals is back!

At the groundbreaking ceremony, Min Congda also saw the top pick who just joined the Clippers this year, Anthony Davis.

This guy's appearance is really strange, his limbs are strangely long, and his eyebrows are connected as if he is from Arabia and Persia, and his ancestors may have blood from there.

To say that modern society has really given many people a stage to display their talents and abilities, a tall person like Anthony Davis, with strange arms, was estimated to be a strange person in the circus who was watched a hundred years earlier, and two hundred years earlier, he was a little cotton picker in the cotton field.

Min Congda doesn't know much about Anthony Davis's strength.

He watched very little NCAA games, and he didn't participate in this draft, so he didn't want to interfere too much.

But it can be seen that the Clippers uniform team expects a lot from him, and when he is in the row of seats, he sits on Min Congda's right hand and Curry is on the left.

The two top picks, one on the left and one on the back, are a symbol of the Clippers' talent.

After the ceremony, Min Congda invited Anthony Davis, Curry, Harden and other players to a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown for a meal.

Shelly Sterling said, "Smart, we have dinner at Beverly Hills, aren't you going?" ”

Min Congda waved his hand and said, "For this kind of event, Xie Li, you should go, you are suitable for this kind of high-end banquet." I go to lunch with the players and don't go to the party. ”

On behalf of the Clippers, Sheri Sterling hosted a banquet for investors in a luxury villa in Beverly Hills.

This is a gathering of bigwig capitalists, Min Congda has never been interested, he feels too restricted, and he is not used to eating unpleasantly.

Instead, he prefers to spend time with the young players in nightclubs, bars, or Chinese restaurants.

After that, you can go to Santa Barbara to find a place to relax, it's been a long time since I've seriously explored.

Shelly doesn't force it, she knows that Min Congda has such a personality and likes to soak with the players.

It just so happens that Xie Li, a woman, likes to be in the limelight, and if Min Congda is here, he will definitely be the one who will be in the limelight at the banquet.

In his absence, Shelly, as the female boss who won the championship, will definitely receive more attention.

After Anthony Davis was drafted by the Clippers, this is the first time he has been up close to Min Congda.

Davis has always heard of this "legendary" super general manager.

Mysteriously appeared three years ago, after the champion Xiu won Curry, he began a series of miraculous operations, and in just three seasons, the Clippers brought the 10,000-year-old bad team to the championship position, which can be called a miracle in the history of North American professional sports.

Anthony Davis was a little nervous throughout the groundbreaking ceremony today.

The white engineering hat was really uncomfortable on his head.

It was easy to get to the end of the ceremony, and Min Congda invited the players to eat Chinese food together, and the big guy readily agreed.

Mark Gasol hooked Davis's shoulder and said: "The team has rules, after the newcomers come, they have to invite the first meal, and it's up to you to pay today!" ”

Davis was a little stunned, does the Clippers still have such rules?

Min Congda echoed: "That's right! Not only the first meal, but after a while, we will go on an adventure to Santa Barbara together! All the costs are also paid by our champions! ”

Davis scratched his head and said, "I... I haven't been paid yet? “

Davis signed a four-year contract with the biggest rookie.

But the payroll will not be paid until after the regular season starts.

Min Congda said: "Go to Rosser and ask him to give you an advance salary." Besides, don't you have a credit card? Let's go! ”

Anthony Davis had no choice but to drive to Chinatown with the big brothers of the champions.

It stands to reason that Champion Yuanxiu came to a new team and was offered as the future boss.

But Davis is one of the few champions to enter the championship team, becoming the least senior one in the team.

No one in the team from top to bottom is used to him, in terms of pick, Curry is also the champion, and in terms of strength, Gasol Jr. and Randolph have proved themselves in the finals.

In the eyes of the whole team, Anthony Davis is just an ordinary rookie, a talented reinforcement.

For this kind of treatment, Davis still has some gaps in his heart.

In Kentucky he was the absolute heart of the team.

At a very young age, he became a well-known inside line in the United States.

It is the hope for the future of the American interior in the hearts of the media and fans.

Since O'Neal was elected as the top pick in 1992, in the past 20 years, the interior line in the United States has withered, and there are fewer and fewer top high school forwards who have played inside.

Duncan in '97 is not theoretically from the United States, but from the Virgin Islands.

In '98 Olovo Kandi was dropped, in '01 Kwame Brown was dropped, and in '07 Auden was dropped.

Only Howard in '04 really played, but Howard's terrible and stiff offense and too small size are really incomparable to the super interior line of the past.

In the past few years, those who have made a big show on the inside are some European big white bears, typical of which is Marc Gasol.

There is no hope for the interior of the United States.

Although Anthony Davis plays power forward, he is 7 feet tall (213), a proper center height, but he is more slender.

His height and reach are more than enough to play the No. 5 position.

Therefore, Anthony Davis has placed on the expectations of many American fans for the local interior line.

It's easy to imagine how intoxicating the imagination of such a hopeful star came to the Los Angeles Clippers, a championship team.

So what Min didn't know was that after Anthony Davis became a member of the Clippers, the number of potential fans of the Clippers in the United States was growing exponentially.

In the new season, the Clippers will undoubtedly become one of the most eye-catching teams in the United States.

Most fans who do not have a regular support for the team, especially young fans, are most looking forward to the birth of a galaxy battleship.

Today, the South Coast battleship has taken shape, and the Clippers' supership is not far behind.

It's a pity that in Min Congda's eyes, Anthony Davis is just a simple and crispy man with eyebrows and a thin body.

In rookie camp and in the Las Vegas Summer League, Anthony Davis has been doing well, but he has started to suffer from minor injuries.

Min Congda is looking forward to him, like Griffin, to be reimbursed early, and when the time comes, Min Congda will pay him a lot of wages.

And Anthony Davis and Curry have a different mentality, and he doesn't want to prove anything.

He was just wondering how his life in Los Angeles would be more comfortable.

(End of chapter)