Min Congda recently made a decision that he wants to buy a house!

It's been five years since he came to the U.S., and he's been living in a high-end apartment provided to him by the system.

This apartment is in a good location, good location, comfortable space, all kinds of facilities, and close to Chinatown, life is very convenient for Min Congda.

From this point of view, the system is still very humane, and it has given Min Congda very good care, but the task setting is a little perverted, and there is no hope of completing it to this day.

Min Congda didn't buy a house before, firstly, the money was not enough, and secondly, the apartment was indeed very comfortable, and the whole family was not hungry when one person was fed, so why bother to toss the house?

Now Min Congda has enough cash assets, and at the same time thinks that he will eventually settle here in the future, so real estate must be there.

If one day the system suddenly says that the task time is up, fails, and takes the house back to him, won't he have a fixed place to live and will go to the Huawei center to lay a floor.

Min set his sights on San Marino, north of Los Angeles, which was founded in 1913 as a sophisticated satellite town with garden houses.

In the early years, the residents were mainly high-level gold-collar whites such as lawyers, accountants and physicians, but in recent years, many wealthy Asian families have begun to buy properties here.

Many of the Los Angeles Asian elites Min knew had bought houses here, and when they heard that Min wanted to buy a house, they all introduced their real estate agents to Min Congda.

As a celebrity in the Los Angeles area, he was quickly treated as a VIP client, receiving calls from at least one real estate agent almost every day inviting him to have time to look at the house.

Min Congda still has plenty of time, when the team is not playing, or when he goes to play away, he will arrange time to look at the house and choose a favorite residence for himself.

After looking at several houses in succession, Min Congda felt that each one was good, and it was a very exquisite and beautiful garden villa.

The city of San Marino is also very livable, with wide roads, beautiful greenery, and very good security, with a large number of police patrolling and on duty.

By contrast, Inglewood, where the Huawei center is located, is located south of Los Angeles, and law and order is very volatile, and gunshots can sometimes be heard at night.

The Chinatown area is a little better than Inglewood, but it's still not as good as San Marino, which is the real affluent area.

After going there a few times, Min Congda had to sigh that the lives of the rich and poor in the United States are really very different, as if living in two worlds.

However, Min Congda still did not make a final decision, he never found the most satisfactory house for him, and always felt that if he changed to a new garden house, it seemed that something was not right.

Subsequently, a series of problems that occurred in the Clippers during the season also prevented Min Congda from focusing too much on buying a house.

At this time, the time has come to 2015, and the Clippers' journey in the 2014 season has not been very smooth.

First, the injury problem continues to spread within the Clippers as if it were a virus, starting with Paul George's broken leg and creating a chain reaction.

Because some players are injured, the playing time of other players increases, the physical load becomes larger, and injuries are more likely, and then some players are injured again, and the playing time of the rest of the players increases......

This creates a vicious cycle that puts injuries at risk of worsening.

Faced with this problem, Min Congda decisively decided to give up some regular season games to minimize the chance of injury.

That led to the Clippers finishing the year on December 31, 2014, with a 22-11 record and fifth place in the West.

This is the worst start to the regular season for the Clippers in recent seasons, and this result is still one place away from Min Congda's minimum requirement to enter the top half.

Secondly, the Golden State Warriors, the biggest opponent on the way to the Clippers' championship this year, are on the road to the first place in the league, and they have a 25-5 record in 14 years, ranking first in the league.

In the Christmas game against the Clippers on December 25, the Warriors defeated the Clippers 101-97 on the road, beating the opponent in two consecutive games, further consolidating the team's confidence.

Although Min Congda mobilized the media to pour ecstasy soup into the Warriors, NBA-Batman also turned into a boat black Yongmi, waving the flag for the Warriors and ruining their character.

But when it comes to the court, it still depends on strength, and the Warriors' lineup has indeed burst out with huge energy.

Especially LeBron James, after he came to Golden State, he really calmed down and concentrated on playing super support.

His current season stats are 22 points, 10.5 assists, 9.1 rebounds, 1.4 blocks and 2.5 steals per game.

In addition to averaging points per game to a new low since his rookie season, assists, rebounds, blocks and steals are all career highs.

He has made a huge change in his style of play, taking full heed from Steve Cole and becoming a solid, reliable super-versatile No. 4 for the team.

Around him, Kevin Durant, Thompson, and Lillard have all turned into super shooters, and the team's firepower has climbed to the first place in the league, and no one can stop it.

James' performance not only gave the Warriors the strength to challenge the Clippers, but also brought their MVP voting ranking to the undisputed first place.

Now, more and more people believe that this year's Warriors will knock off the old king of the Clippers, and LeBron James can finally usher in his own championship.

Faced with such a situation, Min Congda can no longer afford to leave it alone, and he must put a lot of his energy into team operations, games and training to stabilize the situation.

Min Congda is not the smartest IQ, but he is a very wise person, and he knows that there is a way for the fast boat in the current situation, and that is patience.

He and his team endured in November, and in December they endured in cold weather and back-to-back away games.

In January, we still have to continue to be patient, endure all kinds of minor injuries and wait patiently for the players to get back to their best.

Patience is full of hostile road trips, and now the whole league regards the Clippers as enemies, and to bring down the Clippers, the only fans who support the Clippers in the United States are the Los Angeles people - that's it, and half of it will be divided by the Lakers.

Endure the negative emotions caused by the loss and criticism from the media and fans, insist on not making changes to the lineup, and insist on not letting Tyronn Lue go out of class.

In the past, Min Congda did not trade or sign, and was called "a senior official of the Los Angeles Clippers Party" by fans, but now that the Clippers' results have declined, some people have begun to say that he is "resting on his laurels", "the previous results are all based on luck", "eating draft bonuses, and returning to the original shape after eating the dividends" and so on.

These Min Congda can see it, and they all know that the Clippers have to suffer a lot of cynicism in every game.

The players will also be affected to a greater or lesser extent, and bad emotions will accumulate and it will also affect the unity within the team.

But Min Congda has always told everyone to be patient and get through this difficult time.

This Clippers team is generally a team that has not "suffered", and since Min Congda became the owner in 2009, the road has been very smooth.

Every year, it is one step at a time, continuous progress, and finally successfully reaching the top, without any twists and turns.

Now that the state and performance have declined, and the public opinion environment has deteriorated, these champions and young geniuses can't stand it.

Only Min Congda can stand it, he used to be a person who has experienced this kind of hard life little by little, and he has not forgotten the life experience before he came to the United States.

If he can endure it, the Clippers players can endure it, and everyone is slowly adjusting, slowly recovering, waiting for an opportunity to release all their energy and prove themselves.

Anyone who changes to an American general manager may either open a trade or give a speech in the team to cheer everyone up.

Min Congda, however, with the flexibility, patience, and silence unique to the Oriental character, endured the troughs and offenses with the Clippers players, and brewed a stormy counterattack in them.

This counterattack, as the season progressed, gradually became apparent.

On January 28, 2015, the Clippers embarked on a road trip that was a long six-game road trip.

Min Congda has been on an away trip with the team for the first time this season, and he hasn't played with the players for a while before that.

On this road trip, the Clippers ushered in a good news in terms of personnel, Anthony Davis made a full recovery and officially returned to the squad after two repeated knee injuries and intermittent absences.

In the first game away from Salt Lake City, facing the Utah Jazz, the Clippers 119:89, beat the opponent by 30 points at the famous Devils' home court, and easily won a victory.

James Harden scored 41 points in the game and scored 40 points in a single game for the fifth time this season.

On the 30th, the Clippers faced the New Orleans Pelicans away, and the Clippers taught the Pelicans to be a man with a super defensive tough battle at 101:76.

Looking at this score, I don't know that I thought it was the 2005 game, Anthony Davis sent 8 big hats in a single game, and the Pelicans were stunned.

These two games played the momentum of the Clippers at once, and also made the Western team feel the fear of being dominated by the Clippers again.

Immediately after No. 31, the Clippers played back-to-back Spurs away, but the Clippers, whose physical fitness was affected, were not bad at all.

Curry and Harden combined for 76 points to help the Clippers win another game, adding to their previous win to make the season's longest five-game winning streak.

The Clippers started a winning streak, and the team was on the right track, and in the next three road games, the Clippers won consecutive games, ending a six-game winning streak with a winning streak and eight consecutive wins.

They also moved up to third place in the West, straight ahead of the Memphis Grizzlies, who are second in the West.

Regarding the Clippers' recent strong performance, the media that rode the wall and saw the wind fell to the wind naturally began to boast about a series of boastful headlines such as "The Return of the King" and "The Return of the Terror Ship in the Pacific".

In the face of such a situation, Min Congda did not let the team go all out, but carried out rotation rest in an orderly manner, and in the first game back at home, the Clippers took turns to rest the main players, so that the main players who had just experienced six away games could have a good rest.

The Clippers lost the game against the Timberwolves as a result.

During the game, Clippers rookie Jokic came on the court and scored a career-high 17 points, 11 rebounds and three assists.

It can be seen that Jokic's performance does have a lot of potential to be tapped, and the prototype of the Clippers' new interior combination Jokic + Davis in the future has been revealed.

Min Congda still has high expectations for Jokic, and Fan Chen's preliminary investigation is extremely secretive and meticulous, and he clearly understands Jokic's characteristics and potential.

And Min Congda looked further, he told Jokic, "One day, you will personally end the era started by me, and then start the era that belongs to you." ”

To a certain extent, Min Congda is one of the initiators of the league's small ball era, and since this season, small ball has become popular in the league.

The Warriors, Grizzlies, Hawks, and Nets are all using small balls to win one victory after another, and speed, space, blocking, three-pointers, and shooting are becoming the keywords of the new era.

But just when Xiaoqiu was still in the rising stage and had not yet reached its peak, Min Congda had already begun to think about his demise, and began to cultivate its gravediggers.

But Jokic didn't really care about it, and after the game, he drank two bottles of Coke as he should, then practiced for a while, and then picked up the phone to talk to his girlfriend who is a college student in Ohio.

Min Congda saw it and thought, why don't you feel bad if you lose the game? You're not the same person you used to be, so you have to pretend you don't care.

And I'm looking forward to you, so sad to pretend.

So, Min Congda took the time to chat with Jokic and told him about his long-term expectations for the future, hoping that he would work hard to improve himself and drink less Coke.

Jokic nodded as if he didn't understand, and suddenly asked, "Mr. Smart, why aren't you married yet?" ”

Min Congda frowned and said, "What's your business, don't worry about it." ”

"But you don't even have a girlfriend, do you?"

"Uh... I used to be, and I was a Hollywood star. ”

Since breaking up with Daddario, Min Congda has never been in love.

From this point of view, he is quite innocent.

"People say you might be a little abnormal, so why don't you fall in love?"

"What? Says who? Who says I'm not normal? Isn't it Mark? ”

"No, I saw it online, on Twitter, on NBA-Batman."

Min Congda then remembered that it seemed that once when he tweeted the black clipper, he hacked himself by the way, and he was too high.

"Uh... Don't worry about my personal affairs, think more about basketball. ”

"Mr. Smart, a man can only have a good career if he lives his life well."

Jokic's words made Min Congda ponder for a long time.

After this little fat man came to the United States, he adapted quickly, he ate Coke fried chicken, trained well and never said that he was hard, he did what he should do on weekdays, and he never got entangled or tidy.

He's not like some of the stars who always have to emphasize how hard he is, how tired he is, how early he wakes up every day, how eager he is to win, how paranoid, as if he has to be insane to be successful.

Just as the Chinese like to engage in a culture of hardship, there is a lot of such cultural propaganda in the United States, but Jokic and many players of the Clippers do not seem to agree very much.

Jokic likes the Clippers very much, and the Clippers are also very accommodating to this fat man, because everyone plays hard, lives well, and doesn't label themselves as a person, and exaggerates how bitter it is.

Min Congda suddenly had a feeling that he had been educated by the children he had brought up, and he was a little stunned.

The next morning, Min Congda received another call from the real estate agent, asking when he would have time to come and see the house.

Min Congda said that he would have time this afternoon, and then he asked Ada to come to his office and asked, "Ada, are you free in the afternoon?" ”

Ida nodded and said, "Of course, what are your orders?" ”

Min Congda said: "Come with me to San Marino to see a house." ”

Ida said, "Okay, what time is it, I'll arrange the work at hand." ”

Min Congda said: "No, you don't need to arrange the work at hand, I'll give you half a day off." ”

Ida was stunned, as a private secretary, it was her job to drive to accompany Min Congda to deal with various affairs, so why give her a holiday?

Before Ida could come to her senses, Min Congda said again, "I'm driving in the afternoon, and I want to hear your opinion on the house." ”

"House, my opinion?"

"Well, of course. The opinion of the hostess is very important. ”

(End of chapter)