Updated: 2012-09-25

Richard DeVos, the owner of the Magic team, is one of the two founders of Amway Group, a famous direct sales business organization. In 1991, he bought the Magic team for 85 million US dollars. As for the naming rights of Amway Arena, it can be explained as **'s business behavior, and it has nothing to do with this matter.

The bosses of the 30 teams in the league are different. Some of them use the team as a career. They invest in the business, such as Holt of the Spurs and Alexander of the Rockets. This is the case. Although they have other businesses, the team's revenue is also very important to them, so they always manage small businesses and dare not make big moves.

Some people regard the team as part of their own industry, just like the New York Knicks for the Dolan family, the Los Angeles Lakers for the Bass family, and the Chicago Bulls for Jerry Reinsdorf. The team is only part of their industry. For example, the Lakers are relatively good at operating due to the importance of the Bass family and good at operating.

The New York Knicks are only a trivial part of the Dolan family's industry. James Dolan alone manages the sports sectors of four professional teams and TV networks, so it is understandable that the operations of the New York Knicks are in chaos.

The Bulls' owner Jerry Reinsdorf also owns the Chicago White Sox team, which also has the Major League Baseball team, and he likes baseball very much. Although the Bulls won him six national championships and the White Sox team only got him one, the Bulls still look like a concubine's son in their eyes. He once openly declared: "Basketball is just a game. Baseball is people's belief, and baseball is the sport that Americans love."

Some team bosses have developed the situation and bought a team in order to improve their social status and scramble to build a society. There are many such bosses in the league, such as Paul Allen, the owner of the Portland Trail Blazers, Richard DeVos, and Schultz, the former boss of the Supersonics. Among them, they are the founders of Microsoft, the founders of Amway Group, and the founders of Starbucks, after becoming billionaires through their own efforts, they spend some money to buy a team. For them, the team is just a tool and a toy, so they usually do not manage the team seriously.

Others regard the team as a supplement to their own industries. For example, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Stetson, had the original purpose of owning the Clippers to better rent or sell their own houses, while the owner of the Cavaliers was to better promote their own loan companies.

Of course, the purpose of many people having a team may be multiplicity. For example, the Maruf brothers who run the casino business bought the Sacramento Kings in addition to improving their social status, but also had plans to manage well. Few team owners really like basketball and bought the team. Bobcats' small boss Jordan, Spurs' boss Holt, and Mavericks' boss Mark Cuban may be exceptional.

Even Mark Cuban may not be true. His favorite sport in college was rugby, and his behavior of acquiring the Mavericks after getting rich was more like the third type. Of course, his love and dedication to the Mavericks is true, but it is not necessarily for the sport.

Richard DeVos is like this. He doesn't like basketball and rarely appears in the box at Amway Arena. Apart from entertaining guests to show off his team, Richard DeVos doesn't care much about this team. Logically speaking, this should be a good boss, just like Holt, the owner of the Spurs.

"Leave professional matters to professionals to deal with." This is a saying that American bosses usually like to talk about. Richard DeVos does the same. He rarely interferes in the management of the team, but his investment in the team is not continuous.

At some point, he also has a strong desire for championships, and then he will ask the management to be enterprising and strengthen the team's strength. For example, this is the case this offseason. Inspired by the Magic's playoffs last season, he issued a requirement to quickly strengthen his strength to the team's management.

The management dares to ignore his opinions. They are not as satisfied with the boss like the relationship between Vicky and Holt. Then the boss will make you dissatisfied. There are more people who want to be general managers these days, so the Magic signed Lewis so eagerly.

Lewis is strong and famous. Although they also know that Stephen is more capable and more potential, Stephen is not very enthusiastic about their recruitment. At the same time, when they consulted Richard DeVos, DeVos did not have any obvious statement. He just said that there was no problem when he heard Lewis' salary requirements, so the Magic management quickly signed Lewis.

In daily operations, a boss mainly invests in the team by players and the salary expenses of the coaching staff. If you want to save money, you can find new coaches or head coaches who have no reputation or record certification. Two or three million dollars a year can be paid for. The entire coaching staff does not spend much. Coaches with a little reputation will have to pay 40,000 to 50,000 that year. Jeff Van Gundy belongs to this level, and then upward are those big-name coaches, such as Old Nelson, Larry Brown, and Phil Jackson. The starting salary is more than 8 million, which is almost the price of a star player.

In terms of player salary expenditure, it is a big deal to dare to exceed the luxury tax incentive line and pay the luxury tax. Like the Spurs, allowing the salary cap but not exceed the luxury tax incentive line is a benign and aggressive business method. No matter this method requires very high skills and techniques, because the contract you give players is rarely a one-year or two-year contract, and generally contracts are mostly increased, and if you are not careful, it will exceed the luxury tax incentive line.

In order to save money, all teams will simply limit their work to the salary cap, so as not to pay more if they accidentally exceed the excitation line. From the salary cap to the minimum wage standard, there is room for such teams to operate.

If a team's salary expenditure is only a little higher than the league's minimum wage expenditure, it means that the boss is extremely stingy. Like the Clippers' boss Sterling, this is the case. In a big city like Los Angeles, even if the grades are a little bad, there is no need to worry about no one watching the game. After all, although Los Angeles still has a competitive team, the Lakers' ticket price has always been at the forefront of the league, and it is only a few that can be enjoyed. It is in such an environment that the Clippers' unwillingness to be enterprising.

The Magic have always been in the third level. Signing Lewis means they have entered the second level. If Dwight Howard can continue his current performance, he will definitely have another maximum salary. A team has two maximum salary players, and one has a starting salary of nearly 20 million yuan, which will inevitably lead to the Magic's entry into the level.

Because contracts like Lewis are difficult to trade in less than one or two years, which brings great difficulty to the team's operations. The Spurs rarely offer people a fat contract. This is why, because once such a player performs poorly, it is equivalent to being thrown into his hands and you can't even give away money.

However, DeVos is also a very decisive person who can achieve such a great career. The regret flashed by and continued to focus on the court. Although this guy performed well, the game could not be won by just one person. He still understands this principle.

At the beginning of the second half, Stephen played the whole first half, so he did not appear on the court. The Magic took this opportunity to launch a fierce attack. Even if he was sitting in the box, he could hear Stan Van Gundy's roar. DeVos couldn't help but shake his head. He was too uncharacteristic. He admired the head coach like Phil Jackson who could command the team to win with peace of mind while sitting on the sidelines. Unfortunately, there were fewer such coaches, and they were all more expensive.

The Magic quickly approached the score gap to four points with three-pointers from outside. At this time, the third quarter was only halfway through. At this time, Stephen Ranran returned to the court, assisted Wilkins to make a three-pointer as soon as he came on the court, and then completed a steal from Tekglu, assisting Watson to score in a fast break.

Stephen just came on the court, and in just thirty-eight seconds, the Magic's half-quarter effort widened the score gap to nine. Stan Van Gundy continued to roar on the sidelines, but no matter how loud his voice was, he could not blow the ball into the basket.

However, under the control of Tekglu, the Magic kept the pace of the game to a slow and slow level. Even if Stephen changed the situation in a short time, they still played in a hurry. In addition, they had already made three-pointers, so the Supersonics were unable to continue to widen the score gap.

By the end of the third quarter, the Supersonics led the Magic by six points 77 to 71, but at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the situation on the field changed suddenly. Stephen first assisted Coopard to make a foul by Howard, and then assisted Durant to hit a mid-range shot.

Tekeglu was extremely calm and continued to shoot three-pointers from the outside like a killer, but the game had already entered Stephen's control. Stephen scored 12 points in a row within the next three and a half minutes, widening the gap between the two sides to fourteen points.

When Stephen made a three-pointer from outside the three-point line again, he increased his score in this game to 50 points, and completely defeated the Magic's confidence. As the Magic replaced all the main lineups in advance, the Supersonics also replaced all the substitutes, and finally won the game with 103 to 86 points.
Chapter completed!