Updated: 2013-05-07

As the current president and CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer has too much administration. The matter has to be handled, but in his busy schedule, he is still paying attention to the Seattle Supersonics. Today, while handling his most annoying document work, he turned on the TV. Suddenly their comments aroused his great interest.

Although he once served as the manager of a high school basketball team and had a certain understanding of basketball, he still cannot avoid the common problem of determining the player's strength by his reputation. In his opinion, the team's failure this season is still insufficient.

If you want to have better results, you naturally need to add stronger players. Now, in this team, except for Stephen, he can see other players a little bit disliked. He thinks that the idea of ​​recruiting Yao Ming is still reasonable.

On the one hand, the team's strength has been strengthened, especially the inside, because there is already a Stephen on the outside, and Durant's ability is pretty good. Now there is no top player in the inside. If you can trade Yao Ming, the team will be relatively balanced inside and outside.

On the other hand, if you trade Yao Ming, it is also a very good choice for the team's commercial development. 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, the number is also quite large.

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

But whether it is possible to get Yao Ming is still a professional opinion, so he didn't bother to let Chris Hanson transfer, so he called Presti by phone and asked about the possibility of Presti's transaction.

Presti won't be flattered just because he is the boss behind the scenes. He recognizes the prospects and money for this idea, but he thinks that the possibility is not high when it comes to trading Yao Ming. The Houston Rockets are basically impossible to trade Yao Ming, and this possibility is too low.

"By the way, you just said that trading Yao Ming requires a certain opportunity. I don't know what the situation is considered an opportunity?" Steve Ballmer was not so easy to give up. Usually, people who have such achievements have a firm will, so it would be so easy to give up.

"If necessary, I can convince Chris Hansen to pay a special amount of funds to complete this laughing transaction, or to use any resources, 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 companies of all sizes are acquired by Microsoft every year, most of which are competitors of Microsoft or industry leaders that Microsoft is trying to enter.

Having a huge amount of cash reserves is a common manifestation of high-tech companies. On the one hand, if you do not need to deal with financial industries such as banks, it makes them less likely to be controlled by traditional consortiums and can maintain security; on the other hand, this amount of funds is usually prepared for acquisitions.

In Microsoft's product system, operating systems and office software are the two pillar products of Microsoft and the main source of their profits. However, in the beginning, their products were not rivals of Lotus One, Two and Three of Lotus Software.

At this time, Microsoft was preparing to acquire Lotus Company. Although it failed to achieve its goal in the end, Lotus Software Company was acquired by the International Commercial Machine Company, and this habit and method of doing was preserved.

Today, Microsoft has more than $50 billion in cash reserves, and the approach taken when encountering commercial competition is still usually acquisitions.

Steve Ballmer brought this idea directly to basketball. In addition to funds, as a multinational giant company, Microsoft has a lot of resources, which he can use, and it is not bad if needed.

"I don't need it very much for the time being. The opportunity I mentioned refers to things like conflicts with their management. Only after their management is willing to trade Yao Ming out will we have a chance."

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

Especially for a player like Yao Ming who has many years of contract, it is not something that can be solved by having money. If you say that your personal image is bad, your character is misbehaved, and you are not loved by fans, this is possible, but Yao Ming is like a model of a professional player, which makes people unable to find any problems.

Even if he has the strength on the court and the appeal in the commercial market, who would give up voluntarily unless he has a brain in his mind? If Yao Ming’s contract has expired or is about to expire, he can still use his team’s performance and big contracts to lure him, but it is still too early.

After explaining Steve Ballmer, Steve Ballmer also understood it, but he also asked Presti not to give up on his efforts in this regard. It was not just Yao Ming, but also to raise the attention of those with strong players. Those who can trade or sign, should never be spared.

Everything has its own objective laws, and basketball is no exception. To be honest, Presti was very dissatisfied with this kind of interference from a relatively layman, but he had no choice. The team belongs to others and is just a manager. Not every team's boss is like Holt. Of course, not all bosses are as stingy as Holt.

As the general manager of a basketball team, even if you have a rich boss, it is impossible for the boss to write a check like football, and let the general manager acquire players at will. The general manager of the basketball team is really not that happy.

Fortunately, Chris Hanson basically did not interfere in the team's operations. As for Steve Ballmer, he didn't have the time and energy to interfere with a small team, so Presty's unhappiness just flashed by, and then his brain began to quickly calculate the team's operation space and the possibility of various trading plans.

While these things are happening, the game is still going on. The draw in the first half made these superstar players of the US team lose their faces, especially Shashevsky, who was even more squirting at them in the locker room.

Shashevsky didn't care whether their face was good or not. The team played like this, and all the players on the court had the responsibility. After a ruthless squirting, Shashevsky left the locker room without any tactics, and the remaining other helps began to comfort the players.

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

Yunas did not expect the US team's crazy attack. He asked the players to insist on defending in the locker room and defend the initial wave of crazy attacks. The following game was played well, and the lineup sent out was also the lineup he believed to have the strongest defensive ability.

Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian are partnering, while Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue and Liu Wei are on the outside. Such a lineup is basically the best defensive lineup except Stephen.

But even so, all the preparations were psychologically prepared, the lineup was the most suitable for defense, and the tactics were right, but he still couldn't defend the US team's offensive. At the beginning of the game, Kobe Bryant led the first offensive and scored a layup in just four seconds.

Then the pressing of the whole game caused the Chinese team to make a pass mistake. Dwayne Wade intercepted the ball and scored a fast break with one dragon. After returning, although the ball was passed to Yao Ming, Yao Ming failed to score under the double-team of Dwight Howard and Carmelo Anthony. When he came back, Chris Paul made a three-pointer pass through the heart like a sharp arrow. In less than a minute, the US team completed a seven-to-zero offensive.

After coming back, Sun Yue scored under Yao Ming's cover, which was barely tied for the Chinese team in the second half, but Kobe Bryant soon responded with a three-pointer. Yao Ming finally scored two points with a knock-out shot, 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 it to Dwight Howard at the basket. Dwight Howard immediately made a big dunk, and the US team's lead immediately reached 11 points.

Then both sides missed two shots, but when they came back, the United States scored first. Kobe Bryant scored two points with a simple and casual back jump shot in front of Sun Yue. After coming here, he almost blocked Sun Yue's shot.

Yao Ming grabbed this frontcourt rebound, and Dwayne Wade wanted to snatch the ball from Yao Ming's arms, but he was almost hit by Yao Ming's elbow. There was no way. Who said that his height was too low? If it were someone else, it would be hit in the face at most.

The Chinese team used up these twenty-four seconds before Yi Jianlian scored a single second shot in the end, almost causing a twenty-four second violation. However, soon Carmelo Anthony scored another shot from outside the three-point line, and the gap between the two sides reached fourteen points, just like the first half, except that the leading and lagging teams fell one by one.

The American team's pressing over the game once again caused Sun Yue's mistake, but Sun Yue made up for the success and gave the future team boss Kobe Bryant a big hat to chase after him, which did not give the team boss face at all.

This block helped the Chinese team stabilize the situation, and then the two sides began to score points on each other. Although the score difference continued to expand, the process became extremely slow. It took more than half of the third quarter, and the score difference was expanded to 17 points. At this time, Stephen Shi suddenly appeared and replaced Yao Ming.
Chapter completed!