Chapter 543

Chapter 543: Ambition.

The Lakers showed their support.

While Chen Huan was still tutoring the School Flowers early in the morning, Mitch Kupchak paid the 100k USD find on the behalf of Chen Huan.

It meant that the Lakers acknowledged the sanction.

The Blazers could only also acknowledge it the same way but the mood of the two when paying the fines were completely different.

The Lakers paid happily while the Blazers almost cringed water out of their faces.

Chen Huan also received a gift while he was in his villa.

It was from Little Buss.

It was the latest model of Ferrari.

Cars in the US were very cheap but Ferrari was still a luxury brand so the car was worth at least 200k USD.

Chen Huan knew that Americans didn’t like over-politeness so Chen Huan accepted the gifts and thanked him.

This was also Little Buss trying to win over Chen Huan.

After seeing Chen Huan’s superhuman strength, Little Buss regarded him as the pillar of the Lakers for the next 15 years.

Not to mention the huge Chinese market behind Chen Huan.

He saw the Rockets eat that meat before and he couldn’t even get the leftover soup.

It was all fine now, he wasn’t only eating the meat but it was also a big piece of it!

At that time, he regretted only giving Chen Huan a one year contract and forgot about it as it took the 1 million USD as charity.

If he knew earlier, he would be willing to sign Chen Huan 30 million per year for the next 20 years!

Little Buss learned that Jordan wanted to sign Chen Huan for 500k and scolded that guy for being stingy.

Thankfully, MJ was as stingy as ever otherwise he wouldn’t be able to sign Chen Huan.

Little Buss didn’t press and only tested Chen Huan. He heard from him that Chen Huan would only concentrate on the competition and didn’t think about the future so Little Buss didn’t insist.

He thought Chen Huan wanted to show more and play well for a better contract.

Little Buss didn’t mind this at all.

Although the Lakers weren’t that rich and the Buss family weren’t that rich, they were always very generous to the stars and were willing to give the max contract.

Two years later when Kobe would leave, he would even increase Chen Huan’s salary so he could keep this promising superstar.

With Chen Huan, would he be afraid of his big sis Jeanie? She could go eat shit!

Of course for now, Little Buss’s priority was still getting a championship.

Kobe and Iverson played well but Little Buss’ ambition was to get into the Western Conference Finals before.

But it was different now. Looking at Kobe and Iverson’ form on the second game and adding the impact Chen Huan had on both sides of the court, The Warriors may not be able to fight that.

The moment the Warriors was defeated, then the most likely eastern champion Cavaliers would almost certainly be unable to win either.Lebron James had a very strong and dominant physique but from the first game alone, Chen Huan seemed to be stronger than him.

Moreover, Lebron was 31 years old and his physics was slowly declining while Chen Huan was 17 years old so Chen Huan seemed better at every angle.

Little Buss spent a lot of money in order to achieve his goals.

He didn’t only promised Chen Huan 5 million in bonus if they won the championship but he also promised Iverson a bonus too.

Iverson signed a 5 million for one year contract.

This had been hailed as the best contract in the NBA.

This contract was indeed too low now and if he wanted Iverson to continue to give his all, more must be given.

Little Buss also prepared 5 million for Iverson, which would be given the moment the championship was won.

As for the other players and coaching staff, Little Buss had prepared 20 million.

This whole 30 million in bonus was in addition to the salary so a 30 million luxury tax was required.

So the Lakers would have to pay 60 million to meet the championship bonus.

Little Buss really made a big bet this time!

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In China, there were people as ambitious as Little Buss.

It was obviously Jiang Zhenkun, the recently very proud president of Pomelo.

Chen Huan’s godlike performance during the first game of the series brought a lot of attention and traffic to Pomelo.

The number of people registering accounts on their website also increased significantly as more than 30 million new accounts had been made in the last week.

There were also many people who watched as guests and it was believed they would soon register.

Jiang Zhenkun obviously also watched the second game.

Chen Huan was sent off after 2 minute into the game, which stunned him and made his heart drop into his stomach.

Then, he learned that the situation developed in a way beyond what he expected.

The netizens not only didn’t scold or unsatisfied, they actively rallied to give Chen Huan their support.

The clips of less than 2 minute became the most popular and trending video on multiple platforms.

Even the viewers on Pomelo were rising.

Although Chen Huan got ejected, the people were worried about the Lakers performance without Chen Huan so they came to cheer for them.

They also came to cheer for Chen Huan.

Since the broadcast source of Pomelo came directly from the Lakers, the broadcast announced that Chen Huan was fine after his examination and all of it set a new high in terms of live viewers.

Jiang Zhenkun immediately took the rain and asked the employees of Pomelo in the US to pick up their cameras and go crazy to interview members from both teams.

They also had people waiting at the headquarter of the NBA to get first-hand news.

All of those efforts weren’t in vain.

Even when the game was over, the number of viewers on Pomelo didn’t drop but instead increased as people wanted to see with their own eyes how things developed.

The decision of the sanction by the NBA was published by them the moment it came out.

The whole network of Pomelo almost got paralyzed due to the big influx of people at that time.

After such an incident, the process of Pomelo following up on the situation and being the first to report the news was a big hit among the people.

The trending topic on the internet in China was Pomelo if Chen Huan was excluded.

Even people who didn’t follow basketball or sports knew of the hard working Pomelo.

The number of posts about Pomelo these few days exceeded 300 million.

Their official accounts of Weibo or other social media would post something and the post would be shared millions of times with tens of millions of people liking the post and commenting.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that everyone happened in a day!

By just being at the center of the attention, it wouldn’t be surprising for the valuation of Pomelo to increase by 30%!

It wasn’t the first time Jiang Zhenkun enjoyed the high since his desperate move to win the rights for the Lakers’ playoff. Today, his mood went down and up, he almost had to eat heart medicine.

Before today, Pomelo was just a second rate video streaming website, far away from those big shopping websites or portal websites.

Pomelo enjoyed the treatment of a superstar just because Chen Huan played great in the NBA and his ability to attract attention and be trending.

Jiang Zhenkun took the decision to send his most beautiful reporter to the US and with his best in the US, their job would be to trail Chen Huan and put the focus on him.

The Lakers received so much money from Pomelo that this kind of privilege must be given.

CCTV obviously also had their own reporters in place but they were generally more reserved so they wouldn’t even bother to be this crazy in reporter news.

Wasn’t the time for Pomelo to shine there?