Zhiba NBA

Chapter 1 (Prequel) The Plan of Rebirth

(Due to major revisions in the later stage, the part of the introduction has been moved to the column "Related Works". Please new readers start reading from the introduction)
On April 1995, 4, in an ordinary school in a certain city in southern China, it was time for lunch break, and elementary school students were playing and chasing each other.One of the children stood there stunned, looking out of place.

"I'm still alive! Besides, this environment is so familiar... This is my alma mater? I'm still a primary school student, and I haven't gone to study in Houston yet!" The stunned Yuan Fei slowly realized his situation, and his surprise slowly turned into ecstasy. "I can watch Yao Ming's games again, I can experience life again, I can make up for all the regrets of these years, and I can even... change my whole life!"

Yuan Fei quickly calmed down, returned to the classroom silently, and carefully analyzed himself.

In these 30 years of life, he has accumulated a lot of knowledge, and it is easy to go back to university to study and start a business, and more importantly, information resources.You can do Facebook earlier than Zuckerberg, and predict the stock market crash more accurately than Buffett.There is even simpler, if you go to gamble, you can make a lot of money, and you will be invincible at all.Thinking of this, he smiled, the NBA game that accompanied him the most over the years.Making money is not a problem, the problem is how to live a meaningful life to be worthy of this period of youth.

Soon he decided, not as a 30-year-old adult, but as a teenager under the age of ten, he decided his future path.

"I want to lead the Houston Rockets to create brilliance and create a more glorious dynasty than the Celtics, Lakers and Bulls!"

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Years of hard work at home and abroad have created Wang Yuanfei's calm and tough character.Even for basketball, he is no longer the little fan who is enthusiastically drooling at Jordan and Dameng, but a calm basketball observer.Being able to calmly put aside emotions and watch basketball is one of the capitals he is proud of.Now that he had made up his mind, he began to work seriously from two aspects.

One is of course basketball knowledge: do old fans know everything in the basketball field?of course not!People's memory is always limited. In 95, Yuan Fei was still young, and he was not professional in watching football. He didn't know enough about the league at that time, and there would be some memory confusion.He first excerpted the part that he remembered deeply and ensured it was correct, and then found a lot of materials, and did a special analysis and research on the entire NBA league, especially the Houston Rockets.

This period is the most glorious period of the Houston Rockets. In 1994, the Houston Rockets won the NBA championship for the first time under the leadership of superstar "Big Dream" Hakeem Olajuwon.In the following year, the Rockets ranked sixth in the Western Conference in the regular season.On June 2, 1995, just 6 months after the far-flying crossing, the Rockets beat the Magic at home and successfully won the championship, and became the championship with the lowest regular season ranking in NBA history.

Another job Wang Yuanfei started was to make money.If you want to participate in the decision-making of the Rockets, it will be difficult without financial support.Yuanfei's father, Wang Changming, is a small businessman, and his family is fairly well off.Wang Changming's educational philosophy is relatively avant-garde, and he has always advocated cultivating his son's independence, making preparations for sending his son to study abroad in the future.So when Wang Yuanfei proposed to control a large amount of money in the family, Wang Changming was only surprised, not afraid.He carefully confirmed his son's investment idea, and after confirming that it was not being used by others, he first affirmed his son's independent spirit.Then he immediately mobilized contacts to investigate his son's investment direction, and felt that it was indeed feasible.

1995年5月18日至5月22日，短短的3天，却构成了中国史上最著名的股市大牛市。受到证监会宣布国债期货关闭影响，3天时间股指就从582点上涨到926点。而22日起熊市到来，王长明却早已抛售股票数钱了。

At this moment, Wang Yuanfei is very grateful to his father, not only Wang Changming for his investment support, but also Wang Changming in his previous life, seeing Yuanfei's intention to inherit his father's career in business, he strongly suggested that he choose a second degree in finance.It is precisely because of the accumulation of knowledge in the past that he was able to dig this first pot of gold.

With the first pot of gold, Wang Yuanfei then purchased a batch of old buildings to be demolished with the support of his father, and received a large amount of demolition compensation in just one year.This time the profit was so smooth that the local land and resources department once thought that an insider had leaked the demolition information, but after investigation it was ignored.

As the family's savings were substantial, Wang Changming's business grew bigger and bigger.After receiving the huge sum of compensation for demolition, he invested in the real estate industry by taking advantage of the rapid economic development of the motherland.And Yuanfei also quickly bought bottoms in the bear market, and then started long-term and short-term operations in the stock market. In the long-term, it invested in blue-chip stocks such as Sichuan Changhong. In the short-term, it continued to harvest by relying on some experience and memory fragments.When another big bear market came in 1997, Yuanfei successfully withdrew its capital and invested it in some real industries.At this time, no one except the father and son knew that Wang Yuanfei, who was only 11 years old, was already a local tyrant with a net worth of tens of millions.

Finally, the fateful year of 1998 came, and Yuan Fei was going to travel across the oceans this year to attend middle school in the distant United States.

"Son, you have been sensible in housekeeping since you were a child. Now that the family's financial conditions are good, you don't have to worry about expenses. Choose your favorite place, even if you go to Manhattan to study in a noble school, your parents can afford it." Yuan Fei's mother, Chen Yueqing, didn't know that her son's personal assets were not as good as his father's, and he would not worry about tuition fees and living expenses at all.

"Mom, I've made up my mind a long time ago, so I'm going to Houston." Yuan Fei chose without hesitation: "I will live in Houston for a long time, and even graduate and work for a while in the future. But I will definitely come back to honor your elders after I become famous."

After Chen Yueqing went to the side to wipe away tears alone, Wang Changming secretly asked, "Son, are you going to invest most of the funds in Dad's company?"

"Well, I believe that the real estate industry in China has been very good in the past few years, except for the few assets I told you not to move. I will invest the remaining part of the money in the US stock market. By the way, my mother's family has a distant relative who seems to be starting a company this year. Dad will inject more money into him, and we will be the major shareholders of this company."

"Which distant relative?"

"That cousin from Guangdong, Chen Yidan."

(Note: Chen Yidan, in November 1998, co-founded a company called SZ Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd. with four other partners.)
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Another two years passed by, and Yuan Fei was still in the United States and his heart was in China, and he still focused his energy on investment. After all, studies at this age were really child's play for him.

Wang Yuanfei is not a money fan, and he does not have high requirements for material life.But the NBA is a business empire, and it really needs a barrier to entry. In 1993, businessman Leslie Alexander bought the Rockets for US$8500 million. At this time, Alexander was still a poor owner at the NBA level. In his previous life, he did not get rich until the joining of Yao Ming helped him open up overseas markets.Yi Yuanfei's net worth 2 years ago is still far from the figure of 8500 million knives.

这几年却是休斯敦球迷痛苦的一段时间。1995年两连冠后，不少球迷以为休斯敦篮球要持续辉煌时，火箭却惨遭打击。1996年的5月12日，火箭被“手套”佩顿领衔的西部新贵超音速4-0横扫出局。97和98火箭又连续2年惜败给西部冠军爵士队。篮球之神迈克尔.乔丹在此三年间完成了第二次三连冠，而奥拉朱旺终究未能和他会师总决赛。

The 98-99 season after Jordan retired was the famous shrinking season in the history of the league. It was also the first time a new generation of superstars stepped onto the stage of the finals. The Spurs twin towers formed by the young "Stone Buddha" Tim Duncan and the senior "Admiral" David Robinson led the Spurs to win the first championship in team history.In the next 15 years of Yuanfei's previous life, Duncan will lead the team to another 4 championships.The Houston Rockets have had nothing in these 15 years.Their current situation is very bad. In the 98-99 season, the team bought Jordan's chief guard Pippen. If Olajuwon, Barkley and Pippen are all at their peak, the championship will basically be in their pocket.But in 99, the three together were 104 years old, and the youngest Pippen was already 33 years old and had already stepped off the peak.The high salaries of Pippen and Dameng filled the salary cap, making it difficult for them to reinforce.When the season only achieved fifth in the Western Conference, the first round of the playoffs was killed by the Lakers led by O'Neal, the ruler of the league in the next few years.Olajuwon, who was still able to fight, averaged 13.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, while O'Neal, who had just reached his peak, averaged 29.5 points, 10.3 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game, completely shattering his dreams and avenging his revenge in the 95 Finals.

Of course, the management of the Rockets is very dissatisfied with spending a lot of money and the record is not good. It is urgent to overthrow and rebuild, but being too eager for quick success makes the future construction of the Rockets very difficult. On August 99, 8, Francis, the No. 27 pick of the year, expressed his unwillingness to play for the Grizzlies, and the Grizzlies were forced to sell him.The Rockets succeeded in taking over at the expense of four ordinary rotation players, but it was a pity that they paid for the first-round pick in 2003 (the famous golden generation draft year). On October 10, a big deal was born. The Rockets sent Pippen, the youngest and most valuable player among the three veterans, to the Trail Blazers for 2 for 1 (6 ordinary players including Cato). Two days later, they renewed Barkley's contract with a high salary of 6 million for one year, giving the veteran a decent old age.

On the face of it, the rocket's construction job couldn't be better.It can be called robbery to set up Francis, and the four players paid are available but none of them are stars.Waiting for the two veterans to retire to free up salary space to sign a big-name center and pairing with Xiaofu is another strong team.

But Wang Yuanfei knew that this was not a good idea for team building.Boss Fu (the nickname given to him by Chinese fans) started his career up and down. In the past few years, he was very popular, but his decline was rapid, and soon he couldn't even play in the CBA. In the first round of the 03 golden generation, several stars no less than him can be selected.And the Rockets' incomplete performance will also lead to mediocre draft picks in the next few years. If God hadn't drawn a No. [-] pick and got Yao Ming, I don't know how many years it will be bad.

There are two reasons for the Rockets’ failure to take off in the next few years: one is the poor draft: Carol Dawson, the general manager of the Rockets at the time, was famous for his poor draft (in his many years of work, he only had one draft worthy of praise, which is the pride of the Chinese people—Dayao), and his successor Morey’s draft level is very high; the second is the full camp of injured players: Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady were overused.
Yuan Fei also has a rational judgment on his own value.The draft is simply a piece of cake for him, which rookie is a parallel importer and which is a star of tomorrow, he can keep it in his mind.Improving the team's bench depth through drafts and trades can also help the team's core stars get more rest time, improve health factors, and reduce potential injuries.

But his value is not just information, but basketball philosophy. Which is better, the old-school basketball of the 20th century or the new-school basketball of the 21st century?The topic of Guan Gong's battle with Qin Qiong can't always be discussed, but Yuan Fei will actually fight a war of the era of basketball concepts.

To win this battle, you must first have a professional orientation.as a boss?head coach?team manager?scout?executive CEO?After thinking about it, Yuan Fei decided to jump out of these conventional positions, and he gave a unique answer of his own.

After years of accumulation, data analyst Wang Yuanfei is finally ready to take the first step towards the NBA
　It is reasonable to put this chapter in the prequel, because the content of basketball is too little.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)