the great gatsby

Chapter 465 I'm Not Short of Money!

During the offseason, Gatsby had a very comfortable life. He took Long Xiaoman to play around. After playing around, he returned to the United States and began to study for an undergraduate degree at New York University. He left the school after graduating from high school. I want to go to college this time because I want to get an undergraduate degree, not for that degree, but mainly to enrich my life experience and learn how to run a football team.

The offseason is long for people with nothing to do, but for Gatsby, who is immersed in his studies, it passes in the blink of an eye. Gatsby didn't pay much attention to the summer league, and the training camp started in October. When he came to the team to report.

"Mike, is this our schedule?" Gatsby was very surprised.

D'Antoni nodded, his face a little pale.

Gatsby had a mocking smile on his face.

"It seems that Xiao Hua is still worried. Is he trying to exhaust us with this schedule?" Donnie Walsh said angrily.

Gatsby was surprised because the schedule was too perverted. Generally speaking, the principle of schedule arrangement is average and concentrated.

Average means that the games should not be too dense or too scattered. Generally, games will be held every other day. Try to avoid back-to-back and avoid too long intervals between two games, because the time of the season is constant. If the interval is too long, it means There is a period of time to back to back.

The principle of concentration means that when playing away games, we will try to arrange teams in one area, so that we don’t have to travel too frequently and the players will not be consumed too much.

But the schedule that Gatsby saw included six or seven back-to-back games. Sometimes they could rest for four or five days, and sometimes there was a cruel limit of back-to-back games. The next game will be in the East, scattered and long journey, almost all create opportunities for the opponents of the Knicks, and the Knicks are abandoned!

Gatsby smiled and shook his head: "Xiao Hua is really fooling around. I have given in, but he is still aggressive. This is bullying me. He thinks he can do whatever he wants after becoming the president?"

"Gatsby, what do you want to do?" Donny Walsh was also irritated.

Gatsby waved his hand and said, "There's no need to do anything more. We just need to win. As long as we win enough, his face will be swollen more and more! I understand now that one of our country's The great leader once said: "Pursue peace through struggle to survive peacefully, and seek peace through compromise to perish peacefully. Now I finally understand this truth!"

"... Seeking peace through struggle leads to peaceful survival, seeking peace through compromise leads to peaceful death. What an incisive summary, Gatsby, who can say such words must be very remarkable?" D'Antoni said.

Gatsby smiled: "It's probably like the status of Washington and Lincoln in the United States!"

Donnie Walsh was a little distressed: "I understand the truth, but with such a bad schedule, how do we win? This is not something that can be solved by rotation at all. Frequently across the entire United States, let alone play, even Simply flying by plane is enough for weaklings to bear, and it will have too much impact on your competitive state!"

Gatsby nodded with a smile and said, "The problem that can be solved with money is not a problem. Donny, please write an application. I heard that the Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi has developed the SportsJet in the past two years. The aircraft will be equipped with Just-needed equipment such as gyms and massage tables is equivalent to moving training and rehabilitation facilities to an altitude of [-] meters.

We can learn from this idea and immediately purchase two Airbus A380s, and then entrust the manufacturer to integrate equipment such as gyms and massage tables. As long as we have enough money, if we order now, it should be put into use not long after the start of the season. . "

Donny Walsh looked at Gatsby with the eyes of a fool: "You're crazy! It's true that the boss's daughter is your girlfriend, but do you know how much an Airbus A280 costs?"

Gatsby shrugged, "How much?"

"The original price is 2.92 million US dollars each, but Airbus spokesman David Voskull announced on the closing day of the Paris Air Show on the 19th that the price of the A380 will increase by 3.4%, that is, from the current 2.92 million US dollars per aircraft. The dollar went up to $3.02 million, two... That's $6.04 million, and that's just bare metal.

If you buy a plane, you have to renovate it. According to your thinking, every player must have his own bed where he can lie down and sleep, and then add the fitness and rehabilitation equipment you mentioned. If there is no $2000 or [-] million, it will not be able to come down, plus Maintenance and personnel, [-] million US dollars will not be able to beat it! "Donny Walsh has a lot of treasures, one by one.

Gatsby was quite surprised: "Donnie, how do you know so much?"

Donnie Walsh smiled triumphantly: "I like reading this information, I just need to pay more attention to the accumulation."

"Wow, that's amazing. Um... [-] million dollars, that's a lot, how about this, your budget is applied at [-] million dollars, and [-] million dollars is invested, don't save." Gatsby said.

The eyes of Donny Walsh and D'Antoni almost popped out.

Gatsby looked upset: "Forget it, let me go and talk about it."

"Wait, we don't need to buy new ones. American Airlines seems to be retiring some large planes recently. We can buy second-hand ones, which can be half the price," Donny Walsh said.

Gatsby stopped in his tracks and thought for a moment. He wanted to take the plane, and the whole plane was filled with people from his own team. If this one fell down, the entire Knicks would be gone.He turned around and said, "You still have to buy a new plane when you buy one. It's for flying in the sky, so don't be sloppy."

Donny Walsh couldn't help but smile, and D'Antoni looked at each other.

Just to fight against Xiao Hua, he threw [-] million US dollars into it. This is not taking his girlfriend's money as money. It is estimated that Ms. Long will not agree to his unreasonable request, but later Long Xiaoman put The two of them called over to implement the purchase of the plane, and even proposed to buy a terminal with the airline to facilitate travel.

Danny Walsh went to implement it in a daze. The work is not too complicated. He likes it on weekdays. He also has some friends on the aviation side. Those who don’t know are said to be needed by the Knicks, and most of them welcome it. Cooperation, after all, those who do business are welcome to come to their door.

Money can turn ghosts. Driven by the green dollars, EADS has invested a lot of personnel in the transformation. Generally speaking, such a large aircraft will not be in stock, and it will be built only when it is scheduled. But it just so happened A customer breached the contract, and the two newly built planes can only be parked in their warehouses, but they are worrying. Now that someone is taking over, they are happy.

The A380 passenger plane is currently the world's largest ultra-large long-range wide-body passenger plane, with a wingspan of 79.8 meters, a length of 73 meters, and a height of 24.1 meters. passengers, or 8 passengers in a typical three-class configuration (First-Business-Economy Class).

Such a large plane is used to renovate the living space of a team that takes no more than 40 people most of the time. There is still a lot of ample space. In addition to having a bed for each person, some important fitness equipment and key rehabilitation equipment are also moved. Going up, there are also some small entertainment equipment, which can basically make people not feel tired of the journey on the plane.

The aircraft were handed over without even getting the season to actually start, and the whole process took just over a month.

The Knicks faced the Los Angeles Clippers in the opening game, and they had to start their away journey in the first game.

Green got up early in the morning and drove to the arena to meet with the team. He was very excited about the start of the new season, but he felt a little bored when he thought about spending six hours on a plane. Being on a plane was too boring. Ah, although the team does charter flights, charter flights are also very boring!
Teammates who hadn't seen each other for a long time all high-fived and said hello. There were some familiar faces missing in the team, but there were also a few new ones. Green was a little uncomfortable with it. He was not used to the personnel transactions of this professional team.

The bus to the airport leaves on time. If a player is late, the bus will generally not wait. If you are late, go to the airport by yourself. If you miss the plane, then go by yourself.

Green mainly saw that the route after the bus entered the airport was different from last year, and he shouted loudly: "Jerry, did you take the wrong route?"

The driver Jerry laughed and said, "Don't worry, you can't make a mistake, just look at it!"

The bus drove directly into the passage, and then went straight to a terminal building. Green got off the bus with others, and the person who got off the bus first exclaimed: "Wow! How is it possible?"

Green hurriedly looked up. The morning sun shrouded the giant in front of him. The plane several stories high seemed to have a body of nearly [-] meters, shining brightly in the sun. They had seen large planes before, but such a big plane It's the first time I've seen it.

This is not the key fault. The sharp-eyed Green saw the logo on the plane, which seemed to be the Knicks logo?

"Is this a special plane?" Green turned his head and asked loudly.

All the teammates stared at Gatsby with bright eyes. There was a difference between a chartered plane and a chartered plane. The so-called chartered plane actually belonged to the airline company, and it was just to provide flight services for the team.

As long as the team coordinates the time and schedule with the airline in advance.The service is also gradually upgraded, including the transformation of the aircraft, wider seats and more space, and even the creation of special meeting spaces.

Another advantage of chartering a flight is that you can use a special security channel, and the team bus can often pass directly to the foot of the plane to avoid mixing with the public.

Charter flights are already very good, but charter flights are only exclusive to one team during a certain flight. When the trip is over, they have to serve other teams, which is sometimes not so convenient.

There is also a special plane, which is a more advanced leasing method than a chartered plane. A special plane means that the plane is unique to a team and can be highly customized. Logo, these are more just reputational things, which are not more beneficial to the actual comfort, but it still feels different to the players.

Gatsby shook his head and said, "This is the plane our team bought."

"What!" Green's eyes widened.

Gatsby said with a smile: "Airbus A380, worth 3.02 million US dollars, plus transformation costs, annual maintenance and labor costs of 1000 million, spent about 4 million US dollars on it this year, and we have two such aircraft! "

"Wow!!!" Green and the others started howling, it was too rich!

"Go, let's go up and have a look!" Coach D'Antoni waved his hand.

"God, there is a bed to sleep in, and now I don't have to curl up in a chair, it's great!"

“my god! And a restaurant! Ow!!”

"Huh? And the gym?"

"Huh? There are even massage machines and stretching equipment, haha, now I won't have back pain when flying, hahahaha!"

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The equipment on the plane is simply a small cruise ship, which makes the players howl non-stop. The young man Giannis Abertokounmpo is dazzled, it is really unbelievable. Speculation: Sure enough, it is the rich and powerful Knicks!
Gatsby was also very satisfied after looking around, the money was really not in vain, sometimes a few hours of plane journey was quite helpless for Gatsby, after five or six hours on the plane, his back was sore It hurts, and it takes time to recover after getting off the plane. Now that you have these devices, if you feel uncomfortable sitting, go for a run, go for a massage, or lift weights, so that the whole journey will not be boring, and your body will also feel better. It can be maintained in the best condition and you can have a good sleep on the plane no matter what.

As for the money spent, it was nothing to Gatsby. Isn't money just for spending?Buying an airplane is a fixed asset. Even if it is not used at that time, it can still be rented out to others for use, and it can also create value.

The key is that this is definitely helpful for the cohesion of the entire team. After the players get used to life like the Knicks, they think that the environment of other teams will not be so good, and this may also become their decision-making one of the reasons.

The draft of the team must be able to select well, cultivate well, and keep it. This is the secret of the healthy operation of the team. Potential rookies are then abolished by them after a few years of training. Some teams are excellent in training, but they just can't keep them. This may not have anything to do with their work, but because of the size of the team.

But a team like the Knicks has enough confidence. They must not only select well, but also cultivate well, and they must be able to stay. This is Gatsby's ambition!

Of course, the initial investment will be huge, but the value of the team will also be higher and higher. As Gatsby's vision becomes higher and higher, he sets his sights on the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics. The Knicks are operating as the No. [-] giant in the NBA!

(End of this chapter)