Chapter 1300 Golden State Warriors

  San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland City.

   Oracle Arena, which can accommodate nearly 20,000 people, is sparsely seated with thousands of fans who come to cheer and cheer for the home and away teams.

  In the field, the visiting team Houston Rockets kept pressing the home team Golden State Warriors, and the Warriors fans in the audience were worried and a little depressed.

  The home court of the Warriors was originally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but moved to California in 1962. Because California is nicknamed "Golden State", it was named "Golden State Warriors".

   It is one of the first 11 teams to join the NBA and the first championship winner in NBA history.

  The legendary superstar Wilt Chamberlain set an NBA record of 100 points in a single game during his time with the Warriors. This record has not been broken so far. Jordan's highest score in a single game in the regular season was only 69 points.

   But these brilliance are in the past tense for the Golden State Warriors.

   As a famous fish belly team in the Western Conference, it has not won a championship ring for more than 20 years.

   Two years ago, the team also created a miracle of Black Eight, beating the first-place Dallas Mavericks in the West in the playoffs as the eighth place in the West.

   Just when everyone thought that the Golden State Warriors had been sinking for many years and were finally about to rise, it lay flat again!

In the first row of the auditorium, Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive who is now a private investment advisor of Xia Jingxing, wore a leather jacket that seemed to be borrowed from Huang Renxun, and told Xia Jingxing about the Golden State Warriors with great interest. Brilliant team history and current situation.

   "Daren, look, how many fans are there today? Not even half of the seats are full."

   Chamath pointed his finger around, and then said: "This is the fans expressing their dissatisfaction!

   Excluding this game, there is one more game in the 08-09 season to end the regular season of this season. The Golden State Warriors are outside the top ten, and most of them are not in the top eight.

  The current owner of the Warriors, Chris Cohan, is worth only $325 million. He has no strength or confidence to revive the team.

   I got in touch with him and he has the idea of ​​selling the team.

   It's just that he wants to sell at a high price!

   Speaking of which, he was also a bit unlucky, spending $119 million to acquire the Golden State Warriors in 1995.

   More than ten years have passed, and the team's performance has stagnated. If it hadn't risen once in the 06-07 season, it would have not made the playoffs for more than ten consecutive years.

   I see his sports investment, most of which can only earn interest money, or barely beat inflation. "

  Xia Jingxing nodded and said nothing, his eyes kept on a tall figure on the bench of the visiting team.

   Even when he sits, he looks like a giant.

   Chamath noticed that Xia Jingxing was looking at him all the time, followed the latter's gaze and said with a smile, "Yao is a very good player, but unfortunately he seems to be injured and can't play today."

  Xia Jingxing nodded. He made a special trip to watch the game today, mainly to see Yao Ming. As a result, the opponent injured his right foot and was unable to play, which is a little regretful.

   "Daaron, after we acquire the Golden State Warriors, we can sign Yao over and use him and your Chinese identity to open up the Chinese market with huge commercial value.

   There are also many Chinese in San Francisco and California, which are the areas with the largest concentration of Chinese in the United States.

  We play the Chinese card, for example, during the halftime, performing some Chinese programs should be able to win more fans for the team. "

  Xia Jingxing smiled, Chamath's move was not new.

   He remembered that his Palo Alto neighbor Jeremy Lin signed with the Golden State Warriors in a previous life and became the first Chinese-American player to land in the NBA.

   But Jeremy Lin is far from as brilliant as Yao Ming achieved.

   Even if a team wants to pack him, it is not enough to please Chinese and Chinese fans with him.

   In the final analysis, making stars in competitive sports still requires athletes to have a certain strength.

   Just as Xia Jingxing and Chamath were talking, new changes appeared on the court.

Rockets 43-year-old Congolese veteran Dikembe Mutombo jumped, grabbed the ball under the backboard, and quickly put on a fake to confuse the Warriors before he passed the ball to his teammates , like a nimble cheetah, he flew towards the half court of the Warriors, and several players of the Warriors hurriedly pursued.

After running across the midfield line, Mutombo received a pass from his teammate, and then he chose to continue to dribble forward to break through. Finally, with a height of nearly 2.2 meters and a strong physique, he easily knocked away the defending players who came to interfere. , jumped hard under the rebound and scored two points with a dunk.

  Suddenly, the audience was boiling!

   Countless Rockets fans stood up and applauded, sending blessings to the veteran who still rides thousands of miles alone and performs violent dunks by himself in his 40s.

  If nothing else, this could be Mutombo's last professional season.

  It is very rare that the opponent still maintains a high level of competition at the end of his career.

  Xia Jingxing, as a neutral fan, also laughed and applauded, only to be hostile to the surrounding Warriors fans.

   The domestic media reporters who came to the scene of the game noticed this interesting scene and turned their cameras on Xia Jingxing.

  Xia Jingxing smiled and waved to them, making the reporters very happy.

   Mutombo's successful counterattack completely sounded the horn of the Rockets' aggressive attack, and the score began to expand.

   Until the referee blew the first-half whistle, the Warriors still did not tie the score, trailing the Rockets by as many as ten points.

   followed by half-time, another favorite viewing time for spectators.

   Cheerleaders dressed in navel-baring sports bras and covered in few fabrics began to shine. Accompanied by the dynamic music in the venue, the **** and enchanting girls began to perform hot dances.

  Xia Jingxing looked at the dance that was full of youth and vitality, and thought that this performance was worth the price.

  While Xia Jingxing and Chamath were evaluating the talents of the girls with the eyes of reviewing assets, two little white old men came over.

   "Daren, I didn't expect you to come to watch the game in person."

The person who came was Chris Cohan, the owner of the Golden State Warriors, who shook hands with Xia Jingxing with a smile on his face.

  Larry Ellison, who was standing beside him, gave Xia Jingxing a cold look, didn't come to say hello, and put on a stinky face that someone owed him ten billion dollars.

  Before the rise of Musk, whoever was the craziest and most flamboyant person in Silicon Valley might be Larry Ellison in front of him.

   A few years ago, Larry Ellison told the outside world that whoever invested in Workday was his enemy.

   He wanted to strangle the business competitor Duffield through this kind of "blocking" method.

But Xia Jingxing didn't take Larry Ellison's threat seriously at all at that time, and directly invested in Workday "at the risk of the world", which was considered a slap in the face of Larry Ellison once, and Liang Zi did the same. concluded.

  Because of this incident, the relationship between the two parties has been very tense.

   Facebook, Fuxing Industry and other companies under Xia Jingxing stopped cooperating with Oracle many years ago.

   Later, Larry Ellison and Larry Page invested in Musk's Nikola Motor Company, which is completely the opposite of Xia Jingxing.

  Xia Jingxing, as if he didn't see Larry Ellison, took this person directly as air, and only shook hands with Chris Cohan, and then started a conversation with him.

   (end of this chapter)