Legend of Tomorrow

On September 10, Robert Smith brought his brother Matt to see Guo Xu and asked him for some questions about the NBA.

Your vision is very accurate. I want to ask, do you think NBA teams are worth investing in? I want to buy the Warriors. Guo Xu was surprised as soon as Matt opened his mouth.

Warriors owner Chris Cohen is indeed considering selling the team. As early as a few years ago, there were rumors that Cohen would sell his shares. This summer, the same news is spreading again, and it’s becoming more and more true.

Cohen is tired. Over the past 15 years under his leadership, the Warriors have become almost synonymous with weirdness and failure. He tried to be a boss supported by the fans and a winner, but he just couldn't achieve results.

The Warriors have a good geographical location and have a market in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is supposed to be easy to succeed, but something is missing.

After trading for Kobe, the Warriors still failed to make the playoffs, and Cohen finally made up his mind.

The Smith family's desire to buy an NBA team was a butterfly effect caused by Guo Xu. In his previous life, Matt was not a competitor and he was not familiar with the NBA at all. Things are different now. The Smith family and Guo Xu are allies. They have begun to pay attention to the NBA and learn about it. They want to buy a team to advertise their own industry.

In the past, they were just invisible rich people who were in the limelight and had little reputation outside the industry. As they met Guo Xu and Robert and married Britney, they began to gradually come to the forefront. The current global economic situation is not good, investing in the NBA is the way to go.

Of course you can buy it. I am optimistic about the development potential of the NBA. Guo Xu directly answered in the affirmative.

Robert interjected: Are you sure? I heard that the 2011 collective bargaining agreement was difficult to negotiate, and many teams were losing money.

Yes, the NBA is also in a recession now, but it will be different in a few years. The NBA will become a dominant league in basketball. Because this year's Olympic Games, the Dream Team and I easily won the championship, and fans can see the success of other leagues and the NBA. If the US team wins the 2010 World Championship and 2012 Olympic Games, the commercial value of the NBA will continue to increase.

At this time, only a few people believed that investing in NBA teams had a future. In Guo Xu's previous life, Joey Lacob, the future owner of the Warriors, was a venture capital investor.

Matt smiled and asked: Jason, will you consider playing with the Warriors in the future? Or do you plan to play with the Suns until you retire?

I haven't thought about this. Even if I don't play with the Warriors, I can still give you some advice on team building. Guo Xu replied.

Matt smiled and said: Okay, I will form a group to discuss the acquisition of the Warriors.

Guo Xu is not kidding,

After winning too many games, he becomes a little drifting. He now has a Hong Kong comic mentality. It's boring to always be invincible. So what if the Warriors are formed like in the previous life? It might be more interesting to play more intensely.

There is just one problem. Many people know about his relationship with the Smith family. Maybe some people will question match-fixing?

Considering that Adam Silva will cooperate with gaming companies when he becomes president in the future, Guo Xu's matter does not seem to be a problem.

Matt is likely to be the final winner, because the Smith family's financial resources are not comparable to Lacob's. As long as they decide to buy, they will definitely be able to outbid the other party. Cohen must have sold it to whom at a high price, and there was no reason to sell it at a low price.

In recent years, Cohen has been under investigation by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for tax evasion and tax evasion, which has caused constant trouble. To make matters worse, the Warriors also reported that there was internal strife among the management, causing the entire team to become disorganized. Guo Xu knew that the Warriors would change ownership in the summer of 2009.

A player cannot buy a team, otherwise he would want to buy the Warriors for fun. When he retires in the future, he will have a team to run and will always be linked to the NBA.

Making money from the team is not the key. The key is that it is a living advertisement, which is convenient when doing other businesses. Everyone will know the boss through the team.

In the previous life, the Warriors began to rise in 2013 after changing owners. Since 2015, they have won three NBA championships in four years and become the hottest super team in the league. Lacob spent 450 million to buy the Warriors. How much was it worth later?

In 2018, the Warriors' valuation reached a staggering $3 billion. How many times did they earn? Cohen was losing blood and his intestines were probably bruised.

Guo Xu is not involved in anything related to the acquisition of the Warriors. He just thinks it has nothing to do with him. When the team really changes ownership, he will not have any controversy.

It is not impossible for Guo Xu to consider playing for the Warriors in the future. He is now very happy to cooperate with Brian Colangelo. This is based on his youth. When his condition declines after he turns 35, who can be sure that he will always be happy? Going down?

It is common for NBA stars to be unable to obtain big contracts after their condition declines, and are forced to take a salary cut or be kicked out. Maybe Brian would suddenly go crazy one day. In Guo Xu's previous life, this man had done a lot of stupid things.

He was exposed to use multiple accounts to criticize his team and players on social media, including blaming the star Embiid, and the No. 3 pick Okafor, who had been left out in the 76ers. At the same time, he also criticized the 76ers. Former manager Hinkie. All of this made the entire public opinion uproar.

Of course, if Brian built a trumpet to complain about Guo Xu, it would not be as simple as stupidity, he would only do it if he was crazy. Guo Xu firmly believes that when he is 35 years old, he will definitely have far more championships than Jordan. At that time, he was probably the number one player in NBA history. He is only 27 years old now and has 8 years left.

In September, the Suns finalized their roster spot and selected 37-year-old veteran Brent Barry, completing a 15-man roster.

Barry is very comprehensive, can shoot three-pointers, has good passing awareness, and his physical fitness can keep up with the rhythm of the game at the 2nd and 3rd positions. He's not just a mascot, he can play for a few minutes occasionally.

Guo Xu and the Suns completed a contract extension, with a five-year maximum salary that will be implemented next season. It is a player option in 2012 and expires in 2013. Guo Xu will be 32 years old by then and can still sign another big contract.

Guo Xu did not sign for 6 years, and it was very embarrassing in 2014. It was not suitable for players to sign long-term or short-term contracts, because the NBA as a whole began to increase wages in 2015, and any role player has an annual salary of tens of millions. Guo Xu's plan is to sign for three years from 2013 to 2016. If he doesn't retire when he is 35, he can catch up with the salary increase and sign for a few more years with high salary.

He may not have cared about making money by playing basketball at that time, but the size of a player's contract and whether it is a maximum salary intuitively reflects the value of a star, and he would not agree if it was too little. Some stars cut their salaries in order to have better teammates to compete for the championship. Guo Xu can compete for the championship without superstar teammates.

When Guo Xu bought a house in Los Angeles, many Suns fans were a little worried, fearing that he would suddenly make a statement about returning to the Lakers. If the Lakers want to welcome him back, there is nothing they can do. They can just send Joe Johnson away without replacing any players. Bogut still has a rookie contract, and the contracts of Ellis and Artest are not large, so they can free up salary space.

Now that Guo Xu has completed the contract extension, the fans are relieved.

At the press conference for contract renewal, Guo Xu also explained the reason for buying a house in Los Angeles. Phoenix is ​​too hot, and Los Angeles is more suitable for vacation. I like to stay in Los Angeles during vacations. I also want to live there when I retire. I don't have to worry about joining the Lakers or Clippers.

He stayed until the end of September. Guo Xu returned to Phoenix. The two cats Steve and Bucky stayed in Los Angeles and asked Jason Statham to help look after them. Recently, his cousin moved into his house, and the two chatted nonsense every day. Haikan.

Statham also became famous after Inception, and he kept getting film appointments, but there were no big productions, they were all action movies of the same type.

The good news is that he has become a starring role, no longer playing a villain or a sidekick...