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As the current president and CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer has too many administrative affairs to deal with, but in the midst of his busy schedule, he still pays attention to the Seattle SuperSonics, and today he is dealing with his most annoying While working on the documents, he turned on the TV casually, and suddenly their comments aroused his great interest.

Although he once served as the manager of a high school basketball team and has a certain understanding of basketball, he still cannot avoid the common problem of using the player's reputation to determine the player's strength. For the team's failure this season, in his opinion, it is the team's strength. There are deficiencies.

If you want to achieve better results, you will naturally need to add stronger players. In this team, except for Stephen, who can see his eyes, he has a little disdain for other players. The idea of ​​​​recruiting Yao Ming , he thinks it makes sense.

On the one hand, the strength of the team has been strengthened, especially the strength of the inside line, because there is already a Stephen on the outside line, and Durant's ability is not bad. Now there is no top player in the inside line. If Yao Ming can be traded , The team is relatively balanced inside and outside.

On the other hand, if Yao Ming is traded, it is also a very good choice for the commercial development of the team. There are a large number of Chinese living in major cities on the east coast of the United States, and Seattle is no exception, although it is not as good as San Francisco. and Los Angeles, but not less. [

Not only attracting Chinese fans to the stadium to watch the game, but also other business plans. Steve Ballmer knows how huge the Chinese market is, and it is not just a sales market. With development, the future China will become Center of gravity of the world economy.

But whether it is possible to get Yao's name, this needs to hear the opinions of professionals, so he didn't care about letting Chris Hansen transfer, so he directly called Presti and asked Presti about this matter. possibility of transaction.

Presti will not flatter him just because he is the boss behind the scenes. For this idea, he agrees with the prospect and Qian Jing, but he thinks that the possibility of trading Yao Ming is unlikely. The Houston Rockets basically have no chance. It is possible to trade Yao Ming, this possibility is too low.

"By the way, you just said that trading Yao Ming needs a certain opportunity. I don't know what kind of situation is an opportunity?" Steve Ballmer did not give up so easily. Usually, people with such achievements are more determined, so what would happen? easy to give up.

"If necessary, I can persuade Chris Hansen to pay a special fund to complete this joke, or what resources need to be used, and I can also provide some help."

Microsoft has a tradition that when I can't beat you in the market, I will buy you with cash. On average, more than 20 large and small companies are acquired by Microsoft every year, and most of them are competitors of Microsoft. Or the industry leader Microsoft is trying to get into.

Having a huge amount of cash reserves is a common manifestation of high-tech companies. On the one hand, this does not need to deal with financial industries such as banks, which makes them not easily controlled by traditional consortiums and can maintain independence; on the other hand, this capital These are usually prepared for acquisitions.

In Microsoft's product system, the operating system and office software are the two pillar products of Microsoft and the main source of their profits. However, at the beginning, their products were not the opponents of Lotus [-] of Lotus Software.

At this time, Microsoft was preparing to acquire Lotus Company. Although it failed in the end, Lotus Software Company was acquired by International Business Machines Corporation, but this habit and way of doing things has been retained.

Today's Microsoft Corporation has a cash reserve of more than 500 billion U.S. dollars, and the way it encounters business competition is still usually acquisitions.

Steve Ballmer directly brought this idea to basketball. In addition to funds, as a multinational giant, Microsoft has a lot of resources. These are all available to him. If necessary, it is also possible.

"It's not necessary for the time being. The opportunity I'm talking about is something like Yao Ming's conflict with their management. Only after their management is willing to trade Yao Ming will we have a chance."

Although the saying that money is the boss is true everywhere, but in the alliance, there are many conditions that need to be met before capital can take effect.

Especially for a player like Yao Ming who still has a multi-year contract, it is not something that can be solved with money. If it is said that his personal image is not good, his conduct is not good, and he is not loved by fans, this is still possible, but Yao Ming Just like a model of professional players, people can't find any faults.

Not only has the strength on the court, but also has the appeal in the commercial market. Unless such a player is out of his mind, who would give up on his own initiative? If Yao Ming's contract has expired or is about to expire, he can still use the team Grades and big contracts will lure him, but it's still too early.

After explaining to Steve Ballmer, Steve Ballmer also understood, but he also asked Presti not to give up his efforts in this area, and not only Yao Ming alone, for those who have the strength All players must pay more attention, and those who can be traded or signed must not be let go.

Everything has its own objective laws, and basketball is no exception. To be honest, Presti is very dissatisfied with this kind of interference from outsiders, but he has nothing to do. The team belongs to others. I am just a manager. Not every team owner is like Holt. Of course, not all bosses are as stingy as Holt.

As the general manager of a basketball team, no matter how rich the boss is, it is impossible for the boss to write a check to let the general manager buy players at will like in football. The general manager of the basketball team is really not that happy.

Fortunately, Chris Hansen has basically never interfered with the team's operations. As for Steve Ballmer, he has no time and energy to interfere with a small team, so Presti's displeasure It was just a flash, and then his brain began to quickly calculate the team's operating space and the possibility of various trading plans. [

While these things were happening, the game was still going on there. The draw in the first half made the superstar players of the US team slapped all over their faces, especially Krzyzewski in the locker room. He even sprayed madly at them.

Krzyzewski doesn't care if they look good or not. The team is playing like this, and all the players on the field are responsible. After a burst of merciless spraying, Krzyzewski didn't arrange any tactics. After leaving the locker room, the rest of the assistants began to appease the players.

In this case, at the beginning of the second half of the game, the US team launched a massive attack on the Chinese team's defense. Except for LeBron James who was still sitting on the court to rest, the other main players returned to the court.

For the U.S. team's frenzied attack, Jonas did not expect it. In the locker room, he asked the players to stick to the defense, to prevent the initial wave of offensive, and the next game will be played. And the lineup sent out is also the lineup he believes has the strongest defensive ability.

Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian partnered, and Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue, and Liu Wei played on the outside. This lineup is basically the best defensive lineup except Stephen.

But even so, with all the preparations made psychologically, the lineup is the most suitable for defense, and the tactics are right, it still failed to prevent the US team from attacking. Kobe Bryant led the first offense at the beginning of the game , It took only four seconds to get to the basket and score a layup.

Then the whole court was pressed tightly, which caused the Chinese team to make a pass error. Dwyane Wade scored a fast break after stealing. Under the double-teaming of Anthony, Yao Ming failed to score, and Chris Paul shot through the heart with a three-pointer. It took less than a minute for the US team to complete a wave of seven games. Zero offensive.

After coming back, Sun Yue shot and scored under the cover of Yao Ming. It was barely a draw for the Chinese team in the second half, but soon Kobe Bryant responded with a three-pointer. Two points, but Carmelo Anthony quickly made another three-pointer.

Then the Chinese team made another mistake. Liu Wei was intercepted by Chris Paul during the dribble, and then passed to Dwight Howard at the basket. point.

Then both sides missed two shots, but the U.S. team took the lead to score again. Kobe Bryant scored two points with a very simple and casual fadeaway jumper in front of Sun Yue, and almost blocked Sun Yue when he came here. The shot of the month.

Yao Ming grabbed the offensive rebound. Dwyane Wade wanted to snatch the ball from Yao Ming's arms, but Yao Ming almost hit him on the head with an elbow. , hit the face at most.

The Chinese team used up all these 24 seconds before Yi Jianlian made a one-second shot at the end, which almost caused a 24-second violation, but soon Carmelo Anthony made another shot from outside the three-point line, and the gap between the two sides came to an end. Fourteen points, just like the first half, except that the leading and trailing teams lost one by one.

The U.S. team's full-court press once again caused Sun Yue's mistakes, but Sun Yue made up for it and gave the future team leader Kobe Bryant a chasing cap when he returned to defense. He didn't give the team leader any face at all. .

This block helped the Chinese team to stabilize the situation, and then the two sides began to score each other. Although the point difference was still expanding, the process became extremely slow. They played until more than half of the third quarter. It was only extended to seventeen points. At this time, Stephen Shi came on the stage and replaced Yao Ming.