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Chapter 268 Tie-break, the desperate finals!Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass!
Chapter 260 Tie-break, the desperate finals!
Now on the stage of the Eastern Conference finals, against the Pistons with stronger defensive strength or defensive ability.

O'Neal's performance began to decline further. In the five games against the Pistons, O'Neal averaged only 14.6 points per game.

This is the first time since O'Neal entered the NBA that he averaged less than 15 points in a series.

During the battle of Tianwangshan, O'Neal even scored just 12 points, and then Dwyane Wade, who averaged nearly 30 points per game in the first five games, naturally began to be a little dissatisfied. After the end of the Tianwangshan battle, Wade's dissatisfaction broke out completely.

Even Wade has begun to secretly say to Pat Riley that he must trade O'Neal away, otherwise, Wade will not renew his contract this year.

As a rookie in 03, Wade's rookie contract is about to expire this year. Originally, after winning the championship last year, the Heat seemed to renew the contract with Wade in advance.

However, although the two parties agreed on the willingness to renew the contract, they disagreed on the amount of the contract renewal.

Especially, as Wade played more and more this season and became a top shooting guard, Wade began to be less anxious!

As for Pat Riley, he also has some concerns about renewing Wade's contract. After all, Pat Riley intends to bring together several top rookies from the 2 class within 3-03 years.

If Wade is given a huge contract now, it may create obstacles for the Heat to form the 03 Galaxy Battleship!

Then, this matter dragged on until the end of the season. Originally, by this time, the two sides had almost reached an agreement on the contract salary!

But now, because of the conflict between O'Neill and Wade, the contract matter is heresy again!
And when the Heat's inner and outer cores started their sixth game with this disagreement, the result was beyond doubt. In the end, the Heat could only usher in a defeat at their home court.

In the end, after a lapse of one year, the Pistons defeated the defending champion Heat with a big score of 4:2, and once again advanced to the NBA Finals stage.

It's just that when David Stern watched the Pistons advance to the Eastern Conference and the Spurs to advance to the Western Conference Finals, he began to feel a wave of despair in his heart.

To be honest, since the Pistons won the championship in 04, the ratings of the NBA Finals have been declining.

That is, last year, the Heat and Mavericks replaced the Pistons and Spurs and advanced to the Finals, which made the ratings of the NBA Finals not decline for the first time in the past three years.

However, if the Pistons and Spurs enter the finals again this year, David Stern dare not imagine what the ratings of the finals will be this year!

"Mad, if I knew it earlier, I would have asked the referee to be tough. Even if the Heat enter the finals, the Rockets will still be killed. That is better than the Spurs against the Pistons."

There are no absolute stars, and defense is the main focus. This type of team duel is basically separated from the ratings!
"Otherwise, try not to let the Spurs advance in the Western Conference Finals?"

However, David Stern still hesitated when he thought that Yao Ming might win the championship directly after advancing to the finals this year.

After all, if Yao Ming wins the championship this year, the Rockets will definitely be very attractive to many veteran players in the league next year!

After all, there are a few old guys who are still at the end of their prime who plan to leave the team this year.

At that time, the Rockets may directly come to a three-peat.

In that way, David Stern's plan to suppress the inside and promote the outside world will be postponed for many years!
"Forget it, maybe the Spurs can bring us some new changes this year."

In the end, David Stern still chose to press Yao Ming for a year. After all, the league is not the time when Yao Ming, an international player, should rise.

Actually speaking, David Stern is really not afraid of the rise of international players, even if Yao Ming and Xu Lang rise at the same time, David Stern is not very worried.

What David Stern is worried about is that with the rise of international players, there is no team of the same level for American players against these international players.

Of course, the American players mentioned by David Steer are not defensive and team players like Duncan and Ben Wallace.

After all, defense may usher in a championship, but offense can usher in ratings and commercial value.

Speaking of this, David Sden also felt depressed.

The rise of the international players is also a few inside players, but a few inside players are all playing very well on the offensive end, such as Dirk Nowitzki, Yao Ming and others can all enter the top five in the scoring list players.

Over the years in the United States, there have also been good players in the interior, such as Duncan, Garnett and others, but all of them are interior players who are strong on defense.

"It seems that in the future, we still need to increase the training and promotion of outside players. The training cycle of inside players is too slow, and they may die halfway at any time."

And just when David Stern was thinking about how to continue to limit the performance of inside players and increase the offensive firepower of outside players, the tiebreaker of the 2006-2007 NBA Western Conference Finals was about to begin.

After the showdown in the first six games, both the Rockets and the Spurs have clearly known the strengths and weaknesses of each other.

For the Rockets, there is no doubt that the strengths lie in the starting lineup and the core inside and outside.

The weakness of the Rockets is also obvious, that is, the power forward position, Moko and Uncle Huo, these are the two best power forward players of the Rockets this season!

As for the two best power forwards, one just entered the NBA this year, and the other is approaching retirement age!

Conversely, for the Spurs, the strong point is naturally the GDP combination composed of Duncan, Parker, and Ginobili, and the weak point is also obvious, that is, the players at the inside center position are about to be overwhelmed by Yao Ming.

So at the beginning of the game, the two teams undoubtedly seized each other's weaknesses and fought fiercely.

Yao Ming is constantly attacking the inside, putting enough pressure on the inside of the entire Spurs, and the Spurs are also using the integrity of the GDP combination to make the Rockets exhausted on the defensive end.

In the first six games, when the two teams played against their weaknesses in this way, they were tied 3:3 on a big score.

But this game is a tiebreaker, as I said before after six high-intensity confrontations and games.

Yao Ming and McGrady's physical exhaustion has become more and more intense. Yao Ming even failed to survive three quarters in the last game!
In addition, although the finals schedule is not too intensive, it is not enough for Yao Ming to quickly eliminate his physical fatigue after six games.

Therefore, in the first half of the tiebreaker, Yao Ming was able to basically maintain the same performance as in the previous games, giving the Spurs extremely high offensive pressure inside.

But after the tiebreaker entered the second half of the game, Yao Ming's physical fitness began to decline rapidly, and he even had physical problems earlier than the previous game.

Fortunately, Yao Ming was more decisive this time. After he felt that his physical fitness was in trouble, he immediately asked him to go off the court and perform a lineup rotation just like Van Gundy.

Moko, who made the playing time of this round of the series shorter and shorter, replaced Uncle Huo and stayed on the court to guard the Rockets' inside line with Uncle Mu.

However, it turns out that Mo Ke's personal strength is not enough to deal with this level of confrontation and competition.

After Yao Ming went off the field, the entire Rockets' ability to protect the frame and offensive ability in the interior dropped significantly.

That is to say, the Spurs are not a particularly strong offensive team.

Otherwise, during the period when Yao Ming is not on the court, the Spurs may quickly pull the gap between the two teams to more than double digits.

And even if the Spurs' offensive firepower is not top-notch, the Spurs are still expanding the point difference between the two teams during the period without Yao Ming.

If it wasn't for McGrady's sudden explosion from outside the three-point line, he made two consecutive three-pointers.

Even if the Rockets won't fall behind by more than double digits at the end of the three quarters, they can at least be sure to lose!

In the end, at the end of the three quarters, the Spurs only took a 5-point lead when Yao Ming didn't play for most of the third quarter.

Although a five-point lead is already a big lead for a team like the Spurs, it is obviously still within a catchable range.

In addition, after resting for most of the quarter, Yao Ming stayed on the court from the beginning of the fourth quarter, so the Rockets still have the strength to fight.

At the same time, after Yao Ming stayed on the court as soon as he played in the fourth quarter, the two teams officially entered the decisive moment.

It's just that the problem is still there, under the high-intensity and long-term confrontation of many games.

The fatigue on Yao Ming's huge body cannot be recovered by resting for most of the game.

Therefore, in the first half of the fourth quarter, Yao Ming could still rely on barely recovering some physical fitness to help the Rockets slowly approach the gap between the two teams.

But wait until the fourth quarter enters the second half of the game.

Yao Ming's physical fitness once again had problems, and then the Rockets eventually collapsed.

Although, in the last minute or so, McGrady miraculously played a super high scoring explosive power of 48 seconds and 8 minutes.

But the Spurs didn't turn into a background version again this time around.

In the end, relying on the previous lead, and at the last moment, Duncan made two consecutive jumpers with a 45-degree angle behind his back.

The Spurs won the game with a 5-point lead in the tiebreaker.

Although, David Sturt has predicted that this year's Finals will be against both sides, and it is likely to be the Pistons and the Spurs.

But wait until the two teams really enter the stage of the finals.

David Stern still felt infinite helplessness and despair in his heart.

Moreover, with the Spurs determined to advance, it is not just David Stern who has been suffering for the two teams for a long time.

At the same time, fans across the United States and around the world have also been crying about the two teams for a long time.

After determining that the Pistons and Spurs have entered this year's finals.

In a sample survey of the ratings of the first game of the finals conducted by ESPN, 70% of the fans did not plan to watch this year's finals.

You must know that as a major customer of NBA TV broadcasting, espn spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to buy NBA broadcasting rights, not for charity.

In the absence of sufficient ratings, there will be no high enough advertising revenue and paid revenue.

This caused ESPN to re-evaluate the cost-effectiveness of rebroadcasting the NBA.

Of course, although many fans and the media are building momentum, saying that the ratings of this year's finals will be very low, basically no one will watch it.

But players like Xu Lang, Curry, etc., who rely on the NBA to make money, will naturally choose to support this year's finals.

"Ah? So speechless! How do these two teams compare? The Eastern Conference finals are even more boring."

"During the Eastern and Western finals, we can also see Wade's small play in the paint, O'Neal's strong play in the paint, and McGrady and Yao Ming's offensive cooperation.

But now, these two teams are defending, defending, defending, defending, defending and defending. Eight out of ten matchups have been defensive, and there is only one defensive counterattack in an entire quarter. "

"It's boring, it's boring."

The current picture is Xu Lang and others watching the first game of the 2006-2007 NBA Finals in the basketball training facility of the University of Washington.

And the one who just complained was Stephen Curry.

"Russell, can you stop snatching my beef balls, you stole all the meatballs I put in."

"By the way, I don't understand. Haven't you never used chopsticks before? Why are you so proficient in using chopsticks and learn so quickly!?"

Stephen Curry complained habitually after watching himself fail to grab Russell Westbrook again.

Russell Westbrook was chewing on the freshly cooked beef balls and screaming.

After chewing and swallowing the hot beef balls in his mouth, Russell Westbrook took a sip of water and looked at Stephen Curry.

"Talent, do you know what talent is?"

Watching the game, drinking beer, and eating hot pot, the entire training venue of the University of Washington was filled with the spiciness and aroma of hot pot.

There is no doubt that Chinese cuisine can conquer any country and any nation in the world.

Especially countries like the United States, which do not have their own special dishes, are easily conquered step by step by Chinese cuisine.

For example, recently, the hot pot section opened by Xu Lang and others at Garfield's Pizzeria immediately attracted the love of everyone in the United States.

With the development of more than half a year, Garfield Pizza has now officially opened more than 300 stores in the United States.

At the same time, after slowly getting on the right track with Garfield's Pizza.

The plan to bring Chinese food to the United States, which was originally abandoned by Xu Lang and others, has been put on the agenda again.

It's just that this time Xu Lang and others plan to take it step by step, first take some food that is easier to open a chain, and test the acceptance of Chinese food in the American market.

The hot pot is the first tentative product brought out by Garfield Pizza.

Facts have proved that hot pot, which is popular all over the country in China, also has a large market in the United States.

Especially in the case of taking care of the tastes of the local American people, the tomato pot launched has directly become the best-selling delicacy in the entire United States in the past two months.

Then, for the first time since Xu Lang and others invested in Garfield's Pizza for more than a year, they saw their money back!
At the end of May, the entire Garfield Pizzeria completed its first shareholder dividend.

When Xu Lang occupied nearly 1/3 of the entire Garfield Pizzeria's shares, he received more than 1000 million US dollars in dividends for the first time.

Although Xu Lang has already invested nearly 3000 million US dollars in Garfield's pizza shop.

But one dividend can return close to 1/2 of the cost, which means that Xu Lang's investment this time is definitely a relatively successful investment.

You must know that this time the dividends are only for the income of Garfield's Pizzeria in less than half a year after entering [-].

Among them, the store decoration cost of the pizzeria, the opening operation cost and other expenditures of the pizzeria must be removed.

Under the condition that the overall operation of Garfield's Pizzeria is not affected, the amount of dividends paid out.

In fact, in less than half a year, Garfield's Pizza's revenue across the United States has approached $[-] million.

According to the calculations of Xu Lang's internal investment team, according to the current revenue growth rate of Garfield's Pizzeria.

At the end of 2007, Xu Lang was still able to rely on this 1/3 of the shares to earn at least 5000 million US dollars.

It took a year and a half before and after, and Xu Lang turned the 3000 million investment into a cash return of 6000 million to 7000 million.

Moreover, he was able to keep more than 30% of the shares in a real industry with an annual income of more than [-] million US dollars. There is no doubt that Xu Lang's investment this time has made a lot of money!
Of course, it's not just Xu Lang, the other four shareholders of Garfield's Pizzeria also made a lot of money.

Especially Yi Jianlian and Brandon Roy, the two of them were just lying down now, and suddenly found that they had become billionaires.

"Brother Lang, speaking of which, do you have any new investment projects recently? I'm going to have some spare money right now."

Watching Brandon Roy and Yi Jianlian following Xu Lang's investment.

Both Curry and Russell Springs are very envious.

It's just that the Garfield Pizzeria project is a mature project after all, and there is no shortage of funds, so it is not easy for Curry and Russell Westbrook to intervene in it.

Looking at Curry and Russell Westbrook with envious faces, Xu Lang thought about how slow the construction and progress of his traditional Chinese medicine massage club had been during this period.

Immediately, his eyes lit up, and he pulled Curry and Russell Westbrook beside him and began to blow up the investment prospects of this project.

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