Basketball: The Chosen Victim

Chapter 125 Lao Zhan, Title!
Because he was in a hurry to catch the flight back to Cleveland, Wu Di only practiced with Ross for an extra hour after the game, so he only earned $154 million.

Coupled with the $252 million earned during the game, he earned a total of $406 million during this trip to Chicago.

Although there is still something to say, but the team's flight take-off and landing time is fixed, Wu Di can only bid farewell to the youngest MVP in the future league, and ask him not to play during garbage time to avoid stress injuries.

In his previous life, Thibodeau was an idiot who fucked Rose too hard. He played against the 12ers in the 76 playoffs. When G2 was a sure win, Rose was still allowed to stay on the court during garbage time, which caused Rose torn his knee cruciate ligament on the spot and was directly scrapped for the season. , It also allowed the 76ers to pull four games in a row, creating a black eight miracle to eliminate the Bulls.

This serious knee injury had a great impact on Rose's career, making him directly absent from the 12-13 season, and he suffered frequent injuries after his comeback, and he fell before reaching the peak age.

"Dude, you are enough!"

Ross pointed at him angrily. Wu Di played with an injury today and practiced extra after the game, but now when he left, he told him not to work too hard...

Fake!

It's as if a roll king is saying, "Don't roll, it's useless, anyway, you can't roll me!"

Seeing this, Wu Di smiled and shook his head, but he was really afraid that Ross might misunderstand, so he didn't hesitate to ask Eva to show him the MRI report in the end.

"Wu, are you sure you want to do this?"

Eva was a little hesitant. An athlete's physical condition and medical report are his most important privacy. Sometimes even his own team has to hide it. How dare Wu Di want to show it to Ross?

And this also involves the play strategy of the Cavaliers today.

But Wu Di still nodded, not for anything else, just because a healthy Rose can make him spend more money!

And today's Cavaliers play strategy is not formulated by Scott, but by him, so he also has the right to decide whether to share.

After reading the report, Ross immediately "raged" and said:

"Xie Te!! You really weren't hurt at all! Can't there be more trust between people?!"

"If you have the guts, don't go. If you don't practice today and get injured, no one will want to leave this court!"

After speaking, he also laughed. Wu Diken shared such private information with him, and he also fully understood Wu Di's good intentions. Wu Di was not pretending to be 13, but was really reminding him to pay attention to stress injuries!
Thinking of this, the way he addresses Wu Di has changed:
"Brother, you should also pay more attention to load management. Next time Cleveland fights again, I will show you how terrible the Bulls are!"

"Hehe, let me talk after I win!"

Wu Di said goodbye to him, but he was not going to remind Ross to keep it a secret for him.

In fact, although information such as medical reports is private, it only helps Ross confirm his speculation. If Ross spreads it, it can only prove that Ross is a [-]-year-old boy.

As a fan in his previous life, he already knew that Rose had an excellent character. Such a star is worth making friends with!

On the flight back to Kecheng, the team held a small Christmas party. As the boss of the team, Wu Di shared the precious cigars and red wine prepared in advance, and celebrated tonight's victory by the way.

After tonight's hard work, they successfully ended their six-game losing streak and returned to the eighth position in the Eastern Conference!
Everyone's faces glowed with confidence again. There is nothing that can unite the team's centripetal force than a long-lost victory!

If so, just two!Just three games!
They are only eighth in the Eastern Conference. This ranking is no different from Baige in the playoffs. They still have a long way to go!
Thinking of this, Wu Di opened the system panel again, and exchanged the beautiful knife that was brushed out tonight into 3 points of talent and 1 point of recovery essence, adding 2 points to the defense, raising the defense from 88 to 90, the super-giant threshold.

In today's game, he played a quarter later than Rose. With full physical fitness, his explosive power was similar to Rose's, but he was easily passed by Rose. His defensive awareness suffered too much and had to be strengthened.

The remaining 1 point was added to the speed, which increased the speed from 86 to 87, which is also an index that is currently seriously slowing down his performance.

Restoration Essence is used to speed up recovery, reduce body loss, and reward yourself at the same time.

After all, there are Ariana, Megan, Amanda, Lena, Aniston, Zivia, Miranda, Enya and other beauties waiting for him at home later.

This is a 1v8 Christmas battle!
No easier than hitting a bull!
……

In the afternoon of the second day, Wu Di refreshedly opened the Christmas gift Aniston gave him, a newest Apple computer.

Then I started browsing the sports news.

There are so many things to watch in this Christmas battle!

In addition to the duel between him and Rose's new generation of leaders, the league also arranged a match between the Lakers and the Heat, focusing on the 23VS24 duel.

There is also a game between the Celtics and the Magic, which will focus on the heavyweight duel between Shaquille O'Neal and Warcraft Howard.

But the headlines were firmly occupied by him:

"40 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists and a luxurious triple-double, the Cavalier Emperor staged the return of the king! "

Even the second one is about him:
"Eight three-point records set a record, the emperor of the East descends to earth!" "

It wasn't until the third article that there were other contests:
"Little Emperor LeBron James scored 27 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists and 4 steals, helping the team defeat the defending champion! "

But the fourth goes back to their game against the Bulls:

"Deadly three-pointer breaks the bull's inner line of defense, the avenging legion is shameful"

I don't know if Riley will be furious after seeing it. He clearly beat the Lakers by 16 points, but the heat is not as good as the game between the Cavaliers and the Bulls.

The popularity of related topics on Twitter, Sports Illustrated, and bleacher forums is also high.

Netizens praised Wu Di's performance and competitive state. After all, Pierce has not self-exploded diarrhea incident at this time, and Wu Di was indeed injured. Netizens' comments on this matter are still very positive.

This also allowed him to gain a large wave of passer-by fans again. Among them, the number of fans on Twitter exceeded 2000 million, and the number of fans on Facebook exceeded 1000 million.

In the circle of NBA players, his Twitter followers have far exceeded Kobe's more than 1300 million, Durant's more than 1100 million, second only to Lao Zhan's more than 2800 million.

But on the whole, Kobe's two major social platforms have no fewer fans than him.

After all, Kobe made his debut earlier, and he usually plays old-school Facebook more. His Facebook fans have reached 2100 million, the highest among active NBA players.

But in terms of the number of fans on the entire network, Wu Di is still higher than Kobe, after all, there is a population of Huaxia.

Because of the time difference, he rarely plays Weibo, but the number of fans still broke through the 1000 million mark.

The surge in Wu Di's fans not only attracted more brands to seek endorsement cooperation, but also made some people restless.

Among them, Lao Zhan is definitely one of the most panicked people.

Because of the 10-11 season, the All-Star voting will officially start tomorrow!
Last year's All-Star vote leader was LeBron James. According to the trajectory of his previous life, this year, James will still overwhelm FMVP Kobe and be elected as the All-Star vote leader again.

But because of Wu Di's presence, Lao Zhan obviously panicked.

There was a small trending search on Twitter that attracted Wu Di's attention——

LeBron James registered on Huaxia Weibo!
Good guy, he actually went to Huaxia to canvass votes!

Does Huaxia have his long-lost brownies? !

Shameless!

In fact, from the perspective of the whole network, even with Weibo’s 1000 million fans added, Wu Di’s 4000 million total fans are still 4300 million behind Lao Zhan’s 300 million.

But it was obvious that Lao Zhan had already sensed the danger in advance, and they all went to Huaxia to register on Weibo!
Wu Di didn't pay much attention to this, just kidding, how could he care about the false name of "All-Star Ticket King"?
Under Armor will not reward him with any shares because of this title!

Wu Di turned off his computer, and today he asked Arena to arrange a business meeting to discuss investment matters with Kevin Systrom, a young entrepreneur who just left the social travel website Nextstop.

"Dear Mr. Wu, it is a great honor that our Instagram APP has won your favor!"

Kevin was so excited that he just released this social application software online in October this year. The market response was good, but the money from the angel investors was almost burned out, just when a new round of financing was urgently needed, so he received it. An investment intention email from NBA supernova Wu Di.

At first, he thought it was a scam email, but he didn't realize it was true until Wu Di called to inquire.

"It's unbelievable, you are literally sent by God to help us through this difficult time!"

Kevin tremblingly handed over the investment contract to the two:

"100 million US dollars, 10% of the shares, please take a look!"

Wu Di took a sip of his coffee and asked while checking the contract:
"How many registered users do you have now?"

Kevin opened the backstage demonstration with some restraint:
"Our app was officially launched on the Apple App Store on October 10th, and it attracted 6 users within a day. By the end of the first week, the number of downloads had reached 25000 times. On December 10st, the number of registrations exceeded 12 million. , now has 21 million registered users..."

This is already a very good data for an emerging social application.

But what Kevin is facing now is Wu Di, who has tens of millions of fans, so he has no confidence.

Wu Di nodded. Instagram will really usher in a big explosion by the end of next year, when it will reach 1000 million registered users and form a "Facebook effect".

Explosive growth soon followed, and the number of registered users increased to 5000 million within half a year. In the middle, Kevin couldn't stand the temptation of wealth and freedom, and was acquired by Facebook for $10 billion!

In other words, Wu Di invests 100 million US dollars now, and after two years, this investment can become [-] million US dollars!

It can be said that it is just right for him to enter the market now. Not only can he get a low valuation, but he can also use his influence to help Instagram break through the circle faster.

"The contract is fine."

Arina affirmed to Wu Di that Instagram had already accepted investment from professional venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz, so the contract was compliant.

But she wants to make a bargain!
She turned to Kevin again and said:

"Your valuation needs to be lowered! First of all, our investment is far more than the 100 million US dollars on the surface! Wu Di's current endorsement fee is at least 500 million US dollars a year. Wu Di directly invests in you, which is more expensive than the endorsement. The strength is even greater, because this is equivalent to endorsing you with real money!"

"And we can also attract much-needed traffic to Instagram! With Wu Di's current popularity, once he enters, he can bring you millions or even tens of millions of new registered users in an instant. Invincible in the competition with a lot of similar applications..."

Kevin nodded frequently, and Ariana's subsequent words reached his heart.

Instagram was able to quickly accumulate so many registered users in the early days because of the fan effect caused by a professional photographer.

However, the photography circle is relatively small after all. If Wu Di can be attracted, the fan effect will be nuclear bomb level!
"I understand, but the valuation I provided is already very kind, and our angel round financing is only 50% of the shares of $10! But at that time there was no market feedback at all..."

Kevin took a sip of water nervously, and continued:

"And our application experience is unmatched by other similar applications. We have dozens of original style filters, the best experience for people to share beautiful mobile phone photos, and..."

Ariana argued with him, but no one said anything, and finally Wu Di spoke:

"I can accept Kevin's valuation for this round of investment, but I want to invest 300 million, which is 30%!"

Kevin suddenly made a difficult decision. Although Wu Di invested more money, in this way, Wu Di directly became the second largest shareholder of Instagram!
This shareholding ratio is much higher than the 10% of Andreessen-Horowitz Fund, twice the 15% of another co-founder of Instagram, Mike Craiger, and only 45% of his shareholding. Low.

In doing so, the company risks slipping out of his control...

"Think about it, my investment doesn't just represent me alone, there are also some Cavaliers players, Hollywood stars, Chinese market, brand advertisements..."

Wu Di knocked on the table and said, of course, maybe he can introduce some more advanced gameplay, such as short videos.

But that will have to wait until he takes control of the company...

"Sorry, because there is a big discrepancy with the previous investment plan, I need to hold a conference call to inform the venture capital fund and the company's leadership!"

Kevin pursed his lips and said nervously.

"Yes, please!"

Wu Di nodded, he was not worried that Kevin would disagree.

Because Kevin's follow-up experience proved that his ambition is not great, otherwise he would not have agreed to be acquired by Facebook.

You must know that the valuation of Instagram alone has reached 1000 billion US dollars, and it can completely become a giant that can rival Facebook!
When Kevin says this now, there is a high probability that he just wants to add money.

After a while, Kevin returned, embarrassed and said:
"Mr. Wu, I'm sorry, if you want to reach 30% of the equity, you need to double the valuation!"

Wu Di took a deep look at him. If it weren't for the fact that the product is still in a relatively primitive stage and Kevin needs to work, he would have bought the entire company!
But according to the financing practice of Silicon Valley startups, 30% of the shares is already the maximum he can invest this time.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Wu Di is ready to agree to his offer, but there is one condition:
“投资款项分三笔打出，第一笔100万美刀今年12月31日前会到账，第二笔200万美刀明年3月31日前会到账，第三笔300万美刀明年6月30日前会到账！”

In their last two games, one against the Rockets and one against the Spurs, at most they could earn more than 100 million.

Although he still has 1100 million US dollars in his account, it is reserved for static talents and cannot be moved.

So he wants to complete the investment in Instagram, and there are still more than 400 million holes to be filled. If Kevin can accept the conditions of his installment payment for the more than 400 million holes, there will be no problem.

"Ok!"

Kevin was overjoyed and agreed!
They have relatively few users now, and the company team has less than 10 people, so they don’t need that much money, which is why he only quoted 100 million 10% at the beginning.

Both of them are very satisfied and happy, and both feel that they have taken advantage of it.

They signed the contract and went through the process very quickly, for fear that the other party would regret it!
Sending off Kevin, Wu Di smiled while scrolling through Lao Zhan's ten consecutive Weibo posts.

He threw the investment contract into the safe:
"Hehe, isn't that just stealing a house? Who wouldn't!"

In his previous life, the social platform with the most followers of Lao Zhan was Instagram, which reached 1.2 million, which is considered the base camp of Zhan honeys all over the world.

But this time, hehe, it's gone!
Sorry, Lao Zhan, title!
(End of this chapter)