"You've been cheated, you've definitely been cheated!"
"Who came up with this idea? Who! What kind of documentary should I make, what kind of African football fans should I make? Damn it, and you asked me to raise $50,000!"
"My RNM is $50,000. Woohoo, how many games will the Clippers lose... 50,000 divided by 2,000 equals 25...25 games!"
"I've played almost half of the Clippers season and haven't lost 25 games."
"Is it easy for me to get 100,000 yuan from you? Risking your reputation to become a referee? What's the difference between this and going to the zoo to fuck a tiger live? They both earn money for their lives."
"Who on earth came up with this bad idea of charity fundraising, and let me be the initiator!"
"It must be Adam Silva. I saw something was wrong with his expression at the dinner. He looked cheap!"
"This bridge is finally settled, this bridge is finally settled!"
After returning to the hotel after the dinner, Min Congda lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, feeling very uncomfortable.
He even lost interest in being intimate with Dadario, and returned to the hotel after Dadario returned home to New York.
Although Daddario was reluctant to leave, Min Congda's speech tonight deeply shocked her. She felt a little respect for Min Congda and listened to him.
Under the leadership of Min Congda, Daddario donated US$200,000. This amount was unbearable for Min Congda.
But for someone like Daddario, who was born in a family and has a career as an actor, it's just a drop in the bucket.
Not to mention retired basketball superstars and team owners who can easily donate more than 1 million.
Min Congda deeply felt that although everyone seemed to be in the same circle, Min Congda was not in the same class as them.
In terms of wealth, he is just an ordinary person. Although he gained a lot of fame after being cheated like this, his vitality was severely damaged.
"I want fame for a purpose. I want money. With money, I can gain fame. Without money, fame is a burden."
"Although this is a trap for me, in the eyes of Silva and Stern, maybe they think it is a reward for me. It's really terrible. They want to give me the Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award. I won't do it every year in the future." Do you want me to donate?"
"I am a working-class person. I can support myself well. How can I have money to donate to others?"
After calming down, Min Congda analyzed that it was not that others wanted to trick him, but on the contrary, they wanted to praise him.
It's a pity that they didn't understand Min Congda's actual situation. They flattered him in the wrong place and broke his Achilles tendon while flattering the horse's leg.
"No, I can't stay in New York anymore. This is the headquarters of the NBA. I attended this kind of party once, and I might be invited again and again in the future. If you ask me to donate money at that time, it will be a waste..."
"Hey, but, foundation, this is a good way to use up the team's funds."
As the saying goes, find hope in despair. Every time in a desperate situation, Min Congda can always find the spark of hope.
He thought about it and realized that setting up a foundation was a good way to spend money.
He immediately opened his laptop, retrieved relevant information, and learned about the NBA's reserve talent training system.
The discovery and cultivation of reserve talents in basketball can be said to be a bottomless pit of funds, which can consume a lot of cash flow.
Unlike European football clubs, NBA teams do not have a youth training system. The supplement of young talents comes from universities and overseas leagues.
After all, the NBA is the only one, and anyone who wins a championship is known as the "world champion." The world champion is extremely proud.
Basketball talents from all over the world want to come over and show off their skills, so NBA teams don't need to have any youth training reserve teams at all.
But this does not mean that NBA teams do not pay attention to the development of reserve talents. If you do not dig out them, others will poach them.
The team will recruit talented young basketball players through various training camps and conduct long-term observation.
The period of observation may last five to six years, starting when a child is in middle school and continuing through college.
In the eyes of NBA teams, these teenagers are high-quality assets in the future, and superstars are hidden among them.
Discovering them earlier will not only help their growth, but also allow the team to pay attention to good prospects earlier and prepare for the draft.
This is a kind of angel investment. You spend a little money in the early years and get big profits in the future.
Some teams with strong draft prospects, such as the San Antonio Spurs, formed a scouting team very early to go to Europe to conduct player inspections and explore this virgin land that was not deeply cultivated.
Ginobili, who played in Italy, was drafted in 1999 and could not come to play until the 2002 season, but the Spurs were willing to wait.
That year, the Spurs were the defending champions, and their draft pick was very low. With the 57th pick in the second round, they selected one of the future troika.
Because the Spurs have inspected him, this player is worth their wait.
Tony Parker participated in the Spurs training camp, and the team decided to acquire him.
Other teams had no idea how much this little French guard weighed, and he was picked up by the Spurs with the 28th overall pick.
In addition to the Spurs, there are also the Rockets, Kings, and Mavericks, all of which have opened up the overseas basketball talent market relatively early.
A group of star players such as Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Stojakovic, and Nowitzki were brought into the NBA, which brought huge changes to the team. At the same time, it increased the team's popularity overseas and developed overseas markets.
And some established strong teams, especially those in the Eastern Conference, pay little attention to overseas talents.
This led to the emergence of a pattern in which the west was strong and the east was weak in the first decade of the 21st century, and the east fell behind in terms of development strategy.
The only Eastern Conference team that values overseas players is the Chicago Bulls. Their second three consecutive championships have a lot to do with Kukoc.
After seeing the Spurs, Rockets and other teams have a good harvest in basketball and the market, the Eastern Conference has slowly turned more attention to Europe, Asia, and Africa.
For example, the Milwaukee Bucks drafted Yi Jianlian in the 2007 draft in the hope of replicating Yao Ming's miracle.
There was also the No. 1 pick in 2005 to win Australian center Bogut, but it was not very successful because they only selected players in the draft and did not conduct early follow-up, development, and training.
Later, small clubs like the Bucks will put more energy into discovering overseas talents. After all, small urban markets are small, big-name players will not come, and high-ranking drafts are not available every year, so they can only engage in angel investment on their own.
Min Congda also wants to develop the overseas talent market, but his purpose is different from other teams' talent exploration.
"Other teams are launching the NBA's era of great exploration and discovering talents. Of course we, the Clippers, cannot do that. I want to learn from our Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, who went to the West to send gifts and never engage in basketball colonization! We must embody our quickness Ship’s generosity and enthusiasm, contribute to the development of world basketball, and don’t be a vampire.”
Min Congda spent almost an hour formulating the Clippers' overseas basketball talent development strategy and named it the "Three Treasures Plan."
He set his sights on China on the other side of the ocean and decided to spend money in his hometown. Based on his little impression of Chinese sports, spending a little money here would definitely have no effect.
"But...who should I leave this matter to? Rosser? Or Olshey? How about letting Olshey go? Anyway, he has nothing to do if he stays at the headquarters every day. Isn't he just messing around with the draft? Well. Just send him to China to save him from messing around in the United States. Then over there in China..."
Min Congda is thinking about how to make this fund project work so that while the money is spent, there can be no results.
Min Congda has seen many such money-burning projects in the past. He set up this fund and that fund, supported this and that, but in the end the industry failed to support it and fed some big rats who were lining their own pockets.
Min Congda hopes to have such an effect, pairing up with someone in China and giving the Clippers all their money.
At this time, Min Congda's cell phone rang, and it was Rosser's call.
"Hello, Rosser, what's the matter? I'm going back to Los Angeles tomorrow. I have an important project that I need your financial help for."
Min Congda gave Rosser a critical blow when he came up, and he had to spend money on the project. Are you a basketball general manager or a contractor?
Rosser's voice on the opposite side seemed a little excited, and said: "Okay Mr. Smart, I'm waiting for you to come back, and I have some good news to tell you..."
"etc!"
Min Congda interrupted Rosser, who was now panicking when he heard the "good news"!
"Hey, what's the good news? Someone wants to donate money to our team, right?"
"Almost! Because of the popularity of "Basketball and Gay", YouTube is ready to sign a strategic cooperation agreement with us and become the team's advertising sponsor!"
"What!? How much does my...sponsorship cost?"
"thirty million."
Min Congda's vision went dark and he couldn't see anything.
"Damn it, there's a power outage."
(End of chapter)
