Bishop of the Devil

With the start of labor salary negotiations, the players' contract renewals or transfers must have come to nothing. They will have to wait until the new labor agreement is introduced before they can renew or transfer...

However, the summer league started normally. In early July, Zhang Weiping and Stevens took five rookies and a group of undrafted players invited to participate in the summer league in Southern California.

The Chinese team participated in the 1996 Summer League, and in the following 1997 and this year, the Chinese team also sent players to participate, and they all participated in the Southern California Summer League.

Richard originally wanted to personally lead the team to participate in the summer league this time, just in time to meet the legends of the Chinese national team, but then he received another job and could not be distracted.

Paul Allen had previously contacted the Magic boss, DeVos, the founder of Amway Company, because of Richard's matter.

At that time, DeVos wanted Richard to be their spokesperson for developing the Chinese market, and Paul Allen agreed.

Later, when Richard found out about this, he definitely wouldn’t say anything and got an endorsement for nothing. This was totally a piece of pie-in-the-sky good thing...

Of course, Richard had to get Da Zhi to do this, and DeVos must have thought that the two-person endorsement would be more effective.

Richard's contract is for five years and two million US dollars, and Dazhi's contract is higher, five years and four million US dollars...

Speaking of which, in fact, Richard was really too lazy to accept this endorsement. He really didn't take it seriously for a mere two million US dollars.

The two investments that Richard made before are now in the harvest season. According to Golden Dragon's calculations, these two investments have brought Richard more than 80% of the income...

In other words, the investment of 40 million U.S. dollars resulted in a profit of more than 36 million U.S. dollars!

Soros had already finished collecting the network. Richard simply withdrew all the funds. Blizzard's parent company also withdrew all the funds, plus the salary he had earned over the years, as well as the college admission income from "Violent Black" , collected a total of 100 million US dollars!

For Golden Dragon, Richard directly asked him to resign from Soros and fired him with an annual salary of US$500,000. He was specifically responsible for his own finances and was considered Richard's personal financial manager.

The reason why he had to gather so many chips was because Richard knew that 1998 was the best time for him to enter the stock market.

When Apple went public in 1980, it caused a huge sensation and created many billionaires and millionaires.

However, with the removal of Steve Jobs from the board of directors, Apple has been in a period of decline in the past ten years. Especially last year, Apple was basically in a state of internal and external troubles...

Richard naturally didn't know much about Apple, but he still knew about Jobs.

Now that Steve Jobs has just returned to the position of chairman of Apple, this is the best time for Richard to invest in Apple. Before Apple's stock price soars, he can invest first...

A total of 100 million US dollars, the Golden Dragon was dumbfounded. How crazy was Richard? How confident was he in his own vision? He actually threw away all his wealth without leaving any way out...

It is naturally not that easy to convert such a large sum of money into Apple's equity. After Golden Dragon received Richard's instructions, he immediately started running around.

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The two million US dollars given by DeVos is actually not that small. Even if it is more than ten years later, if a head coach endorses it, it will not be much money. US$1.8 million is already quite a lot. Not bad.

But Richard will definitely not take this little money seriously...

The reason why he agreed was actually because he had his own considerations.

On the one hand, he didn't want to make things difficult for Paul Allen, after all, he had already agreed to it, and secondly, Richard also wanted to be more famous in the country.

Yes, Richard has the purpose of increasing his popularity in China...

Although it is of no benefit to Richard to increase his reputation in the country, he still has some thoughts from his previous life in his heart. Amway relies on publicity. It is conceivable that Richard will definitely be recognized in China by then. Advertisements are everywhere.

In the final analysis, this is actually caused by Richard's "vanity". Even though he has another identity now, he still wants to show his face in the country...

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Dazhi did not need to participate in the summer league, so Amway arranged for Dazhi and Richard to meet in Portland and shoot video ads and print ads for the two of them.

It only took half a morning in total...

Next, at the end of September, Richard and Dazhi only need to go to China to help Amway stand up, without investing too much energy.

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Thinking of returning to China, Richard's psychology was complicated.

He was a little afraid of returning to China, afraid of seeing some scenes that he didn't want to see. For example, there really was a young version of Richard in China.

But he was still looking forward to it...

This incident with Amway Company may also be an excuse for Richard to paralyze himself. He just couldn't decide whether to return to China or not. Now that he has Amway as an excuse, he has to go back even if he doesn't.

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In the blink of an eye, the summer league ended. The Trail Blazers played six games and achieved a record of 4 wins and 2 losses.

Richard naturally doesn't care about the results of this summer league. Next, he will start gathering the team's newcomers to start offseason training.

Except for the old Curry and Robinson, most of the team is actually newcomers, and training must not be left behind.

At the end of the season, Richard gave the new players a month's leave to spend time with their families, and then started the team's training camp in late July like last season.

This is a critical moment. If you train harder, you will have more chances to win.

This shortened season is the best time for Richard to start the Richard era in the NBA. It can almost be said that the right time, place and people are right now. If he cannot win the championship this season, Richard will probably die of suffocation...

The lineup has reached the most luxurious level that Richard can build!

Mainly because there were so many high-quality newcomers produced in 1996 and 1998, Richard seized the opportunity and came up with such an extremely luxurious lineup.

In 1996, Richard introduced four newcomers, and this year, Richard introduced five newcomers.

It will not be so easy to have such a bumper harvest in the future...

Moreover, after this shortened season, many main players will face contract renewal issues. By then, some main players will definitely leave the team, and the team's strength will be damaged.

It can be said that this year is a strong period for the Trail Blazers, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win the championship!