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Chapter 189 I want to meet him

Chapter 189 I want to meet him

After crying bitterly, Iverson suddenly heard his daughter calling to him, and he turned around in shock.

Messiah, who had just recovered from a serious illness, opened his hands and rushed into Iverson's arms, shouting that his father is the champion. Iverson's wife followed behind, and Holloway was also accompanying him.

Iverson's wife tearfully said: "Since the start of the playoffs, Holloway has been with me to take care of our children. The doctor said that Messiah has fully recovered."

Iverson subconsciously looked at Holloway, and then subconsciously looked at Li Lai, who was covered in green drinks by his teammates.

"Coach, you are such an asshole."

Holloway walked towards Li Lai, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, looked at his desolate appearance covered in green, chuckled, then raised her head and said with the corners of her mouth up, "You deserve it when you are in such a mess, you idiot."

At this time, the podium has been set up in the center of the stadium, and the flashing championship trophy is placed in the center.

David Stern walks to the podium.

"Thanks to the Bucks and Lakers for the wonderful finals matchup, and now I announce that the championship of the 2009-10 season is the Milwaukee Bucks!"

Immediately afterwards, David Stern put down the microphone in his hand and shook hands with Li Lai, and then handed the championship trophy into Li Lai's arms.

Li Lai held up the trophy high, and the Bucks players behind him almost went crazy.

"we are the champion!"

"Number 1!"

The tall and burly O'Neill and Yi Jianlian couldn't help but secretly touched the championship trophy behind Li Lai excitedly.

Li Lai took back the championship trophy and searched back and forth behind him, saying, "Ron? Where are you? Come here!"

Surrounded by his teammates, Artest walked to the podium. Li Lai solemnly handed over the trophy in his hand. The players finally cheered heartily, and then the trophy fell into everyone's arms one after another.

Bill Russell was invited by the host to the podium, and the camera was very friendly to Westbrook and Curry.

All Bucks players are keeping quiet at this time, and everyone knows that next will be the highest personal award an NBA player can get in his entire career.

David Stern said: "He defeated the Celtics with a magical three-pointer in the second round of the playoffs. He is the most unique guard in NBA history."

"He is the youngest triple-double player in NBA history and the second in the league to average a triple-double."

Hearing David Stern's evaluation, Yu Jia was very entangled on the commentary stage, "Why do you praise Curry for a while, and Westbrook for a while?"

"Could it be that the two want to share the FMVP?"

Su Qun shook his head resolutely and said, "Impossible, unless the two get married, the trophy can only be brought home by one person."

The FMVP selection team is composed of 9 members of the media, that is to say, the media has absolute dominance over the FMVP selection, and more importantly, there are only 9 members, so no matter what, it is impossible for two people to share the screen at the same time Appear.

Immediately after the live big screen announced the FMVP votes, Westbrook led Curry by 1 vote and won the award.

The big screen at the scene then announced Westbrook's average data in the entire finals series, 22 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists, shooting 48% from the field and 35% from the three-point range.

Lord of the Rings Bill Russell handed the trophy to Westbrook, and Curry also hugged his good brother to celebrate at this time.

"The award will be mine next season," he said.

Westbrook and Curry clapped and said: "Of course, we have to go for two consecutive championships."

巴克利在解说台有些遗憾说道：“库里在总决赛的场均数据是24分3篮板3助攻，投篮命中率45%，三分球命中率44%。”

"It stands to reason that he is also eligible for this FMVP trophy. If it is really given to him, then Curry is the second person to win this award as a rookie."

"Pity."

After the awards ceremony, the stadium and the locker room were in a mess.

Champagne, cigars, everywhere.

All the Bucks players knew that they still had one extremely important thing to do, so after a simple celebration, they all rushed to the locker room.

Tyronn Lue had already placed the box in the middle of the locker room, and only the middle fragment of the championship trophy on it was still vacant.

Li Lai took out the fragment and looked at all the players in front of him.

Westbrook, Curry, Artest, Yi Jianlian, O'Neal, Iverson, Rasheed Wallace, Villanueva, Dragic, George Hill, Danny Green, Andre Ingram, Austin Croshire, Francisco Elson.

"Coach, come on!" Artest said suddenly.

"Yes, coach, come on."

"Put our last glory in."

Seeing the expectant eyes of Westbrook, Curry and others, Li Lai nodded, then took a deep breath and placed the last fragment in it.

All the Bucks players burst into extremely warm applause.

Li said: "General manager Hammond will make a model of the trophy in the box, and then mount it on the floor at the foot of our locker room."

"This is our highest honor!"

"Now, let's cheer!"

Team office.

Compared with the players who can celebrate unscrupulously, the next business of the Bucks management has been densely piled up, waiting for Li to deal with it.

Holloway said: "The total prize money for this season's playoffs is 1200 million. The team that wins the championship will get a reward of 250 million U.S. dollars, and the runner-up team will get a reward of 150 million U.S. dollars."

"Teams that make it to the playoffs will each get $20, $25 for reaching the second round, and $40 for reaching the conference finals."

"That is to say, we have received a cumulative bonus of 335 million US dollars, plus the bonus of 45 US dollars for the first record in the regular season, we have received a total of 370 million US dollars."

Li Lai understood what Holloway meant, and said affirmatively at this time: "All the money will be distributed to the players. Of course, they can choose to take all or part of it. The rest will be given to all Bucks staff."

"Of course, according to the usual practice, the team will also take out 50 US dollars as a thank you to these hard workers."

Holloway showed a very happy smile, very happy with the result.

She continued: "This season, the team's total profit reached 7000 million U.S. dollars, which is the third-ranked team in the entire NBA. After removing Adam Silver's 2000 million, we still have a surplus of 5000 million."

"However, the next problem we will face is the design and manufacture of the championship ring, which will become a very large expense."

If Li Lai remembers correctly, the most expensive championship ring in the NBA in the previous life was the most expensive in history when the Warriors won the team's first championship.

In addition, the championship rings of most teams are between 5 and 30, depending on the economic situation and commemorative significance of each team.

For example, for the Pistons in 04, the cost of each of their championship rings was about 2 US dollars. The championship rings of the Heat in 06 were about 5-6. The cost is 20, and they have been complained about being rich and powerful.

Li Lai still clearly remembers that when the Raptors won the first championship in team history in the previous life, they created the championship ring record with the most diamonds in NBA history, costing 40 US dollars.

When the Silver Horn King defeated the Big Three of the Heat, Cuban only spent $140 million to build a championship ring for everyone.

Think about the 2020 championship ring when the Lakers won the championship in 41. Li Lai knows that the cost of making championship rings varies greatly between teams, and it all depends on the wishes of the team management.

So he said decisively at this time: "This is the Bucks' second championship in team history, which is very commemorative. I suggest that this championship ring should be made more decent."

Hammond and Holloway frowned at the same time when they heard this sentence, so this prodigal play is now ready to prodigal again?

Holloway, who knew Li Lai well, had already guessed that Li Lai would spend a lot of money on the championship ring, so she said it was a huge team expense. She also suggested at this time.

"$10 per ring is an extremely high number, how about it?"

Hammond nodded his head in agreement.

After all, he and Holloway will both have the ring when the time comes, and he is already very satisfied with the cost of 10 US dollars.

The championship ring is authorized by the league, and then the team designs it themselves, and the league will pay a symbolic part of the money to support the championship team.

But that amount of money is simply a drop in the bucket for the current luxury production of championship rings.

So the money is almost entirely handled by the teams themselves.

Li Lai frowned and said: "The manufacturing cost of the ring can be increased to between 30 and 50 US dollars, which is a range I can accept."

"Most of the players in the team won the championship ring for the first time, and winning the championship this time is extremely difficult. Although money can hardly represent the difficulty and glory in it, it should always make its value reflect such difficulty."

"Moreover, the Bucks have always been in the backcountry, and most of the league's superstars are reluctant to come here. I also hope that this championship ring can be an opportunity to tell all the players in the league."

"The Bucks are willing to spend money on players."

Hammond nodded, only then did he understand what Li Lai was thinking, and he couldn't help but admire him greatly.

Holloway still couldn't help reminding: "There are two types of NBA championship rings, one is the ring with the name engraved on it, which is only enjoyed by players, coaches and important management.

"The second type is unnamed and is for the important staff of the team."

"So in the production of the championship ring, we have to prepare two expenditures."

Li Lai thought for a while and continued: "We need to make about 20 official rings, and then distribute them to players, managers, coaches, etc., followed by staff."

Holloway naturally knew what Li Lai meant, and blurted out: "According to your current requirements, we need to prepare 20 million to 600 million yuan for 1000 official rings, and the rings for the staff are about 3000-10000 US dollars each. 30-100 million."

"In other words, we need to prepare for the manufacturing cost of the championship ring of 700 million to 1100 million, which is high enough."

"Last year, the rich and powerful Lakers won the championship, and their cost did not exceed 600 million."

After finishing speaking, the little girl Holloway paused, then looked at Li Lai seriously and said, "I want a name."

Li Lai pursed his lips. He didn't need to look to know. At this time, Hammond also nodded wildly, indicating that he also had a name.

The two are notoriously fond of money.

Li Lai still finalized the expenditure of the funds, and then handed over the matter to Holloway, while the design of the ring was jointly participated by Artest, Westbrook, and Curry.

After finalizing this matter, Li Lai arranged for Hammond to discuss with the Mayor of Milwaukee about the championship parade, which will be held about 5-7 days after winning the championship according to the usual practice.

At this time, Hammond talked about another extremely important matter related to the team.

"The lottery ceremony will be held on June 6, and the NBA draft will officially begin on June 24."

“目前状元签的概率是篮网队25%、森林狼队20%、勇士队16%、奇才队10%、76人队10%、国王队6%。”

In other words, after the Bucks just finished the finals, they had to rush to the draft site in just a few days.

Li Lai still remembers the first-round pick of the Kings.

In this year's draft, he will also use this pick to solve some problems in the Bucks lineup.

Hammond has been preparing for this matter during this time. He said: "The Kings' draft pick is destined to be a lottery pick, so I also inspected about a dozen rookies with great potential and high rankings this year."

"John Wall is the star of the class, and Evan Turner and Derrick Favors are second only to John Wall in terms of talent."

"Wesley Johnson, DeMarcus Cousins, Aipai Udo, Greg Monroe, the four are rookies with second-tier potential besides the first three players."

"Then Al-Farouq Aminu, Gordon Hayward, Paul George, Cole Aldridge, Eric Bledsoe, that's the third tier."

Hammond paused and continued: "Our player reserve at the small forward position has never been enough. Last season we also tried hard to strengthen this position, but things backfired. We still went to the postseason with such a disadvantage. match."

"The good thing is, we still won the championship, and now we can start to solve this problem."

"So, if the Kings first-round pick is in a good position, I think we can take talented small forward Evan Turner or Wesley Johnson, and if the position is a little bit worse, we can also take Al-Farr. Luke Aminu or Gordon Hayward."

"Even if it is a little bit more, we can still select Paul George who is slightly worse. In short, this year is a year for potential rookies at the small forward position. We can choose a lot of targets."

Li Lai was thinking extremely calmly at this moment.

Hammond's analysis at this time is basically similar to the original draft prices of the above players, but if Lee must be asked to choose the next striker, Paul George should be the first choice.

No one knows where the pickled pepper ceiling was before the broken leg, but even after the broken leg, he was a top-notch All-Star player in the league, and even reached the top three on the MVP list.

"If Paul George can be won, the Bucks' guard and striker combination will be the top in the league, and it can even be described as horror."

"Artest will be 32 years old next year, and the Bucks urgently need a strong defensive striker to replace him."

So judging from the current lineup of the Bucks, Hammond's analysis makes sense, and the Bucks should indeed choose the next striker.

But Li Lai thought more, he was very worried about the inside situation of the Bucks.

Especially in this year's finals, without O'Neal, the Bucks would never be the opponent of the Lakers.

But O'Neal will soon be 39 years old, and a center forward who can reach this age is considered a long life, so how many levels of strength O'Neal will have next season is a huge problem that Li Lai has to worry about.

Coupled with the fact that Rasheed Wallace holds the player option, although the Bucks won the championship this season, he should have no reason to jump out of the contract, but anything can happen.

Li Lai shook his head at this time and said calmly: "Let's take this matter for a while, there are still a few days, and I have to think about it carefully."

"However, no matter whether it is the small forward position or the inside position, there are players I like among the rookies. As long as the Kings' draft pick can win, no matter who we pick, it will be a reinforcement."

At this time, Li Lai also looked at Holloway, took out a poster from his pocket and said, "I want to go somewhere."

Holloway immediately knew where Li Lai was going after seeing the poster.

She hadn't seen that person for a long time, and she also wanted to take a look in her heart.

Milwaukee.

The whole city went crazy on the night of winning the championship.

The local police station had to dispatch all police officers to maintain street order and social security.

Garcia remained in the station, checking files, completely oblivious to the wild celebrations outside the station.

It's been a long time since he was transferred here from the FBI, but he still hasn't found what he wanted to investigate. The higher-ups are pressing hard, and the criminal is also hiding very deeply, which has to make Garcia a little upset .

A police officer came in at this time and said: "Mr. Garcia, the director asked everyone to go to patrol the streets. After all, this is the second time in history that Milwaukee has won the championship trophy of the four major leagues. It is the first time in 39 years. .”

"The local fans are going to be pretty crazy tonight."

Garcia ignored the police officer. Although he was the most capable man in the Milwaukee Police Department and knew that he was investigating something, it was convenient for him in his duties, but he still did not raise his head at this time. .

"The heinous crimes committed by that criminal are unimaginable. He can be regarded as one of the top ten transnational criminals in the history of the United States, and at least hundreds of lives have been contaminated in his hands."

"If I find him one day later, it means that another innocent person will be persecuted by him. This is something I cannot tolerate."

The police officer had already understood Garcia's temper, and privately sighed more than once that the police officers from the FBI are so dedicated, but he remembered an interesting incident at this time and reminded him.

"Isn't the life and death of the Bucks owner Herb Cole very strange in the hidden file we found last time?"

"And the trace of the transnational criminal was also interrupted. Could there be some extremely important connection between the two?"

Garcia stopped what he was doing and raised his head curiously.

Herb Cole's death has always been a secret, but because it was involved in an extremely important case, it has not been made public, even his family members do not know this.

Garcia suddenly asked: "Who is the owner of the Bucks now?"

The police officer knew the answer very well.

"Herb Cole's only son, a well-known crotch boy in Milwaukee, fought against Eighteen King Kong overnight, and is a legend on the bar street."

"It's just that I haven't met him for a long time, at least one or two years."

Garcia's brows were deeply frowned. A crotch-playing kid ran the Bucks without losing money, and even didn't sell it. How could he still win the championship?

This is not normal!

He said decisively at this time: "I want to see him."

　After sorting out the outline and the details of the next season, the whole story line has also been sorted out.

　　It will probably take some time, try to update as much as possible tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)