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Chapter 409 Financial Income
Chapter 409 Financial Income
Hearing the results reported by Xiao Hua, the Chinese fans at the scene were immediately excited.
Thousands of Chinese fans gather together to speak Chinese crazily, which is also a beautiful landscape in the NBA.
Xiao Hua bit the bullet and picked up the MVP trophy, and handed it to Ge Feng with his own hands.
Ge Feng took the trophy from Xiao Hua with one hand, then clinked glasses with both hands, and responded enthusiastically to the fans' cheers for him.
So what if you are the commissioner of the NBA?
It's not about honestly awarding the MVP trophy to Ge Feng.
Xiao Hua didn't exist in Ge Feng's eyes. If Xiao Hua kept doing this, there was no need for others to do it. The alliance committee would clean him up one day sooner or later.
Ge Feng responded loudly to the carnival fans:
"I love you guys! Thank you!"
Ge Feng borrowed the host's microphone and shouted something in Chinese to the fans.
This sentence immediately detonated all forums around the world. Just like the phrase "manbaout" in 16, a new era quietly kicked off in the NBA.
Ge Feng thanked the fans all over the world in Chinese. Chinese players finally held their heads high in the world once!
When the MVP awards ceremony officially ended, this year's All-Star Contest officially came to an end.
Whether it is Gordon's lamentable uncrowned king of the slam dunk contest, or Ge Feng's individual All-Star race, and the first all-appointed MVP trophy in Chinese history, everything has become a thing of the past.
The All-Star weekend is over, and the game is about to enter the second half of the regular season.
The schedule in the second half of the regular season will definitely be more intense than the first half.
Moreover, as the trade deadline is approaching, many team reinforcement plans have been pushed to the surface by their respective managements.
Players are traded every day.
Every day there are players like DeRozan last season who are suddenly told by the guard that he is no longer a member of the team.
The core of the general team rarely encounters this situation.
But few, doesn't mean none.
No, this year Chris Paul wanted to go to the Rockets to participate in training, and like DeRozan, he was stopped by the door and told that he was no longer a member of the Rockets.
The Rockets and Thunder swap cores.
The Rockets and Thunder reached a blockbuster deal before the trade deadline.
The Thunder sent Russell Westbrook to the Rockets and got Chris Paul, a 2024 first-round pick and a 2026 first-round pick, plus 2021 and 2025 pick swaps.
After the Thunder traded Paul George to the Clippers last year, it was only a matter of time before they parted ways with Westbrook.
At the beginning of the season, Westbrook made it clear that he wanted to leave the Thunder.
At the same time, many teams in the league have expressed interest in Westbrook, including the Heat, Rockets and Pistons.
In fact, Westbrook himself most wants to go to the Heat, but there are big obstacles in the trade negotiations between the Thunder and the Heat.
In the end, the Rockets and Thunder reached this blockbuster deal.
With the conclusion of this deal, the two old friends of the Thunder, James Harden and Westbrook, joined forces again after a lapse of 7 years.
Harden raised his hands and feet in favor of Westbrook's arrival.
Harden and Durant did not deal with each other, but the relationship between Harden and Westbrook has always been strong.
Among the Thunder Four back then, except for Durant, the relationship between the other three has always been very good.
Durant is too arrogant. No matter which team he goes to, he will only make friends with the team's second leader. As for other players, they are not in Durant's eyes at all.
Time flies, and after the trade deadline, each team's final lineup for the year has been determined.
According to league regulations, after the trade deadline is the moment when the league asks each team for a luxury tax.
Xiao Hua took the lead and rushed to the front line.
But when Xiao Hua finished collecting the money, his eyebrows were all wrinkled together.
After collecting the luxury tax and some dividends, the NBA's brokerage team produced a financial income statement overnight.
According to the report, the financial income of NBA teams and the league this year is not optimistic.
Among the 30 teams in the NBA, only the Thunder have suffered a loss, with a total loss of about 1800 million US dollars.
With the departure of Westbrook, the Thunder, which used to be the most talented in the world, was completely abandoned by the fans and became the most unpopular team in the NBA.
The income of other teams has shown a downward trend as a whole.
The Los Angeles Lakers are the league's most profitable team. Even so, the Lakers' financial revenue fell by 11% year-on-year, and fell by 2010% from the peak in 33!
This is still the return the Lakers are most likely to get in the year of winning the championship. If the Lakers do not lead the league, then this year's income is hard to say!
It will be Xiao Hua's turn to have a headache next.
Since Xiao Hua took over as the president of the NBA, he has tried his best to take more money from the fans.
However, in order to make money, Xiao Hua made money-oriented reforms to the NBA time and time again, which greatly dampened the enthusiasm of fans.
Now, Xiao Hua is in a difficult situation.
Over his head, there are members of the committee overseeing him.
Xiao Hua's main task is to make money for the NBA. If Xiao Hua can't make more money for the NBA, he will be voted out by the committee.
Xiao Hua was extremely nervous.
He couldn't understand why he tried every means to make money for the league, but in the end he couldn't make any money.
The former president, David Stern, seemed to have been doing business at a loss, but the NBA was pushed to the top of the world in the hands of Stern.
Moreover, the NBA was pushed to the top of the world in the hands of Stern, not only in terms of money, but also in terms of reputation.
No one will pay attention to Xiao Hua's distress, and many people think that Xiao Hua is to blame.
Xiao Hua is about to turn the NBA into a large-scale performance venue for entertainment stars.
Xiao Hua's reform model of nakedly rushing for money is really ruining the popularity of fans!
For example: fans spend money to come to the NBA scene, just want to watch athletes play basketball.If fans want to watch a concert, they will naturally buy special concert tickets instead of paying double the price to watch a concert before watching an NBA game.
Amidst all kinds of noisy discussions, the 2020 regular season has come to an end.
It has to be said that the number of fans in the United States this year is much smaller than in previous years. Most of the fans in the United States are not too interested in the current NBA. The number of fans paying attention to the NBA playoffs has decreased by at least a quarter compared with previous years.
The only thing that makes the NBA fortunate is that the enthusiasm of the Chinese fans from Asia has not diminished in the slightest.
If the NBA hadn't had Chinese fans supporting them, they would have declared bankruptcy a long time ago.
Xiao Hua still can't understand this truth. He thought the NBA was an exclusive project for them in the United States, and his narrow vision makes people laugh.
As the regular season finally came to an end, the regular season records of the East and West were officially settled.
(End of this chapter)