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Chapter 275 The Road Is Narrow

Long hours of training make people feel tired.

Prolonged rest can also paralyze the nerves.

Some people sweat profusely in the off-season, and some people sweat profusely in the off-season.

Qin Fei felt that he had learned a lot of new moves, and he was waiting for the new season to perform well.

After spending some free time in Los Angeles, he moved on to other things.

For example, create your own investment company.

The name of this company is "Emperor Qin Investment", which can be regarded as a sorting out and planning for his long-term investment in various industries. The real person in the company is actually Qin Fei alone, and the rest, such as Tellem and Pelinka, are more like outsourcing workers.

With this formal investment company, Qin Fei specifically contacted Lin Xuanyi.

Mr. Lin's family has a big business in Hong Kong Island, and Hong Kong-US joint ventures are a popular model. Through this method, Qin Fei applied for another company in Hong Kong Island, and his partner is Lin Xuanyi.

The subsidiaries of the whole company also focus on investment. Lin Xuanyi knew that Qin Fei was rich and had a good eye. The most important thing was that she had an inexplicable trust, so she cooperated with Qin Fei in some operations.

After the establishment of this company, Qin Fei got in touch with Zhao Dongjun.

Brother Jun has a wide network and investment channels, so he is waiting for Qin Fei to get in the car.

After Qin Fei Capital entered, they invested in Aitexin Information Technology Co., Ltd. recommended by Zhao Dongjun, and several people used their wealth to invest in the shares.

"The other thing is about the game. I don't know why. You have an idea in this area. I think it has a lot of ideas, so I went to find it. I think the more reliable team is "Target Software". Their production team is quite interesting."

At first, Zhao Dongjun thought that games were not interesting. It was not until Qin Fei believed that making games well was a new growth pole to promote the development of the Internet that he began to pay attention to investment in this area.

Qin Fei is quite an interesting person. He is a natural hands-off shopkeeper, and he doesn't invest too much. He mainly invests with feelings.

After hearing Zhao Dongjun introduce the target team, Qin Fei had a basic understanding of the target software.

In fact, domestic stand-alone game research and development started relatively late. The target software, established in 95, is already a domestic pioneer in this area.

Anyway, for Qin Fei, stand-alone games will have to be popular for a while before online games come out, and the loss will definitely not be much. If there is better assistance, it may help his team achieve a better result.

After finishing the call with Zhao Dongjun, Qin Fei thought of Helena's father again. Isn't Helena's father also engaged in this field of work?

So he called Helena again to see what kind of news and help she had.

When the time span reached October, there was still no progress in Qin Fei's contract.

It is difficult to reach an agreement that satisfies Qin Fei between Tellem and Wally Walker, and it is actually not very meaningful to talk more.

Wally Walker is a very enlightened general manager. He is not very old. Before the Supersonics won the championship, he was able to get along with the players. The situation is actually very obvious. There are two routes ahead of him.

One is to maintain the stability of the championship lineup as much as possible and ensure continued success with this lineup next season.

The other is to make changes and trades early to avoid empty baskets.

In terms of trading, there are only so many players with tradeable value. Both Payton and Kemp are veterans of the team. Payton is also the FMVP of the team. Qin Fei is only the third player of the team, and it involves a contract year, so Qin Fei can only be moved.

The reason why he has not moved now is also because of the labor negotiations.

Labor negotiations are too critical. No one knows what the new labor agreement will look like. Only on the basis of the new labor agreement can we ensure the maximum benefit of the team. This is his professional ethics as a general manager.

So it's okay to chat with Qin Fei and Qin Fei's manager, the main thing is to know Qin Fei's attitude.

When Qin Fei's attitude was so firm, Wally Walker was not angry, but tried to solve this problem.

There are still rumors in the NBA market. Anyone with a discerning eye can see the predicament of the Supersonics. With the bundle of two big contracts, this team of kings does not have enough room to renew Qin Fei.

The biggest hidden danger is the reform of the salary cap of the new labor agreement. If there are really strong measures to limit the salary cap or punish teams that exceed the salary cap after the reform, it will definitely make the team make a new round of trade-offs.

This is the opportunity!

According to some reports, Qin Fei's agent is in a state of negotiating with the uniforms of other teams.

This shows that Qin Fei is not determined to stay in the supersonic, and the supersonic's attitude towards keeping Qin Fei is not very tough.

Under the overwhelming reports of labor negotiations, such rumors can only be regarded as small news.

Even if Qin Fei was an All-Star player and championship member of the league last season, it doesn't matter. People don't care about personal gains and losses at all, they only care about the future of the league.

If it was previous years, the preseason of the new season has already started at this time, and the schedule for the entire season has also been released.

But this year there is no news at all, and the basketball hall is still closed.

Fans are looking forward to it, waiting for new news from the NBA.

Sure enough, within a few days, league president David Stern regretfully announced that hesitation in labor negotiations was fruitless, and the regular season would also begin to be absent.

In other words, the labor negotiations will not end for a day, and the NBA will not restart for a day.

Of course, the fans will not be able to see the new game, and the impact will be far-reaching.

For example, Wang Zhizhi, who was supposed to participate in the new season of the NBA, the Bayi team asked him to return to China and join the CBA again. The league for foreigners is too unreliable.

Wang Zhizhi was also very sad, so he called Qin Fei again.

"I'm not too sure about this matter, but in my opinion, it's actually a very good opportunity. Where are you now?"

Qin Fei can't say that he knows that the season will restart in January next year, and it will be almost enough to rest for another three months. This is too outrageous and will be considered a monster.

"Now in the country."

Because the NBA was suspended, Wang Zhizhi's P1 visa was not granted, and he was unable to stay in North America for a long time for training, so he returned to China. This is where he struggled.

"I'm thinking, can I play in the CBA, maintain a reasonable professional league status, and then reach an agreement with the team. Once the NBA rematch, the NBA rematch shall prevail, because I heard that, in fact, for a player, the rookie season is really, very important." Wang Zhizhi said to Qin Fei.

His thinking is a bit taken for granted. If he really played in the CBA and didn't help his home team win the championship, how could he leave?

Basketball is not about fighting and killing, but about people's sophistication. If you want to use your home team as a tool, you may be sprayed to death.

So Qin Fei immediately vetoed it.

"I think you can either finish the CBA this season, or don't play at all. Take a bet, the NBA should not be suspended for too long. This labor negotiation will end sooner or later."

Qin Fei gave him another suggestion: "You can find a way to get another visa, come to San Antonio earlier to meet the team's coaches and old players, and see if they have a place to train. A team with strict management like the Spurs must have trained during the lockout period, and they are waiting for the championship next year!"

"Hahaha, Brother Fei is joking again, the Spurs were defeated by you all last year, why are you still sprinting?"

Dazhi spoke too directly, and Qin Fei was amused. The maturity in the future must also grow up in the little childishness of today.

Forget it, fortunately, the language barrier, so you can be a low-key person, and it is more in line with the Spurs team culture.

In late October, NBA negotiations continued without any results.

On the other hand, the Hong Kong government officially repelled the "financial giant" Soros and kept the financial market.

Soros, who is invincible in the international capital market, suffered a severe blow in Hong Kong Island, but only he himself knows whether he will win or not.

For the Hong Kong government, it must be a victory.

Because the Hang Seng Index has been preserved and the Hong Kong dollar has not collapsed, Hong Kong Island is still a financial center, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the society is prosperous.

Qin Fei is more concerned about this matter, but as an ordinary person like him with a net worth of less than [-] million, he can only watch the operations of the big bosses.

To be able to feel the shadows of swords, lights and swords, dangers and murderous aura is already a relatively deep experience.

This is also one of the representative incidents of his "doing nothing" during the offseason.

At the beginning of November, Qin Fei's ability value increased to 11. On the offensive end, the layup attribute, dunk attribute, and mid-range shooting attribute all exceeded 86. The three-point attribute is relatively low, only 80. On the defensive end, the steal attribute is as high as 70, which is the highest among all attributes.

Qin Fei's rebounding attributes have also increased a lot, and the backcourt rebounding attribute has also reached 73. After grabbing the backcourt rebounds and using [Transition Master] to advance at a high speed is a trick he uses more in the field during the offseason. He can often attack while others are not in position.

Everyone who plays basketball understands that it is much easier to score in transitional offense and defense than in positional battles.

But in the current NBA, there are too few teams that specialize in switching. The Sonics are so good at switching. In the playoffs last season, they didn’t show much opportunity for switching.

Because there are generally only one or two games in October, or none at all, November has always been the first month of the NBA in previous years, and the NBA will select the best player of the month this month.

The best player of the month is the first selection award for the MVP selection. If it is the best player of the month every month, or if it has been selected as the best player of the month for several months, then it is very likely that it will eventually become the MVP of the season.

The NBA hasn't started playing in November, and everyone realizes that the NBA has really stopped!

It's not that the previous suspension was not called, but when it affects the normal regular season, the seriousness of the problem becomes more prominent.

the players are in a hurry

The bosses are actually slapping their faces to pretend to be fat, and they are very anxious, but the bosses have a better city, and they have good conditions, a solid foundation, and can withstand the influence.

But the players can't. Many players, especially the bottom players, have to work to support their families.

If there is no game, then there is no salary.

What do you eat without salary?

This is the most realistic food and clothing problem before us, the first level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory.

The players began to actively look for a breakthrough in the negotiation. This is actually an opportunity, but it is not obvious enough, and the pressure is not enough to break the deadlock instantly.

The real king of breaking the game depends on David Stern.

In December, David Stern, who lost his temper, announced that if the new NBA labor agreement still cannot be passed before January 12, then the rest of the regular season of this season will be abolished.

This Jewish old man is too smart. If he puts pressure on him from the beginning, it will only kill the players.

And when the pressure of not playing in the regular season for one or two months was slowly exerted on every player, he threw a heavy blow at the last moment. This is the killer feature.

So Si Shubao is really too powerful. With one blow, the entire player union is completely floating. From the bottom players to the top-salary players, everyone has encountered different pressures, and they all feel the deadly threat.

"If you can't figure it out, you're going to get out of here!"

At this time, the agent David Falcao played tricks, and the high-paid NBA players headed by the players union chairman Ewing began to waver, preparing to make concessions on the new labor agreement and finally sign a new labor agreement.

At this time, insiders already know what the new labor agreement is.

There is no way not to know, and every item involved in it is to be used for discussion and wrangling.

The salary cap issue that Supersonic general manager Wally Walker is concerned about also has the latest answer.

That's setting the luxury tax and escrow.

These two are new terms, the purpose is to punish those teams or players who exceed the salary cap.

Everyone knows the origin of the salary cap, which is 48% of the league's total income. So what is the luxury tax line?According to regulations, it should be 55 percent.

If this line is exceeded, then there are two penalties.

The first penalty is to fine money, the team’s money, how to fine?Those who pass the line are handed over to the league at a one-to-one tax rate. For example, if I exceed the luxury tax threshold by 500 million U.S. dollars, I will be fined 500 million U.S. dollars by the league for doing nothing. This actually makes the boss feel the most distressed.

Such a punishment is not enough. What's the use of the boss being sad? The fans think that if they want to compete for the championship, shouldn't the boss sacrifice money?Don't be so stingy.

That's why there is a second type of punishment, third-party hosting.

The new labor agreement stipulates that players will put 10% of their annual wages in a third-party escrow organization. If the team exceeds the luxury tax line, then this 10% will not be refunded. If it does not exceed, it will be returned in the second year. Therefore, this punishment is for players, and the punishment is relatively severe.

If someone in the team has a particularly high salary and still doesn’t play well, everyone’s salary will be reduced and there will be no achievements. It will definitely affect the mood and unity, and the team will fall apart in an instant.

This is how the new labor agreement was born, two new inventions that limit the high salaries of players.

After Wally Walker understood clearly, he shook his head helplessly.

According to this algorithm and the stinginess of the Sonics boss, the Sonics will definitely not pay the luxury tax. Last year’s salary cap was 2690 million US dollars.

The salary of Payton + Kemp will be close to or even exceed 2000 million US dollars. For example, there are 9 other players, all of whom are players with a basic salary. Calculated at 100 million per person, that would cost 900 million. How can there be money to renew Qin Fei?

What's more, it is impossible for everyone else to receive a basic salary. There are always some players who have middle-class contracts.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to engage in the "Big Three", at least until the salary cap has not risen to the point where the "three million-level" players can be acquired, the team can at most play "dual-core".

With Wally Walker's calculations, the road ahead for him is getting narrower and narrower.

(End of this chapter)