The No.1 Anti-Fans in Basketball-Chapter 76: Sudden Enlightenment (11/12, please subscribe!)

Chapter 76: Chapter 76: Sudden Enlightenment (11/12, please subscribe!)

"If I had tens of millions, even hundreds of thousands would be no different from a few bucks."

That was one of the most classic lines Hansen had come across online, and could only be matched with phrases like "If you had a billion dollars" and "If you had a cow."

No matter how you looked at it, a gift worth over 400,000 US Dollars was definitely considered a substantial present.

Particularly for Hansen, who was only worth a million or so at present, he truly didn’t know how to react for a moment.

"Thank you, Shaq." Not accepting it would have been a snub to O’Neal’s face, so Hansen had to compress all his emotions into the shortest sentence possible.

You couldn’t judge a man by what he said, but by what he did.

Hansen made a mental note of this favor.

"Want to give it a try?" O’Neal smiled as he fished out the keys and handed them over.

Hansen nodded and soon was taking O’Neal out for a spin.

The car was a custom edition with plenty of space inside, accommodating multiple people without a problem.

With a press of the accelerator, a roar burst forth, and it accelerated to 100 kilometers per hour in just 5.3 seconds.

Once they got on the ring road, Hansen drove the sedan like a sports car.

O’Neal, in the passenger seat, grabbed the roof handle and howled.

So the Big Shark had his fears too.

The next day, O’Neal had the car transferred into Hansen’s name, and Hansen promptly changed his living place, renting a small villa with a garage.

He had to make such a decision to prevent the car from being stolen.

Luckily, it was in Cleveland, where there were fewer people and an abundance of housing. Renting a place similar to his previous one amounted to an improvement in living conditions.

After that, he began to fiddle with investments.

It all seemed great when he thought about it yesterday, but when the time came to make decisions, Hansen discovered it was harder than he had imagined.

Firstly, in his previous life, he was involved in basketball, and when it came to business, he was not just uninformed but utterly clueless.

Secondly, although he was a transmigrator, his brain wasn’t a computer, and his memory held very little information concerning money-making.

So now he had to either consult with a business advisor or look up useful information online by himself.

He chose the latter.

After spending some time trawling through a massive amount of information, he finally spotted something familiar in the corner of his eye.

Bitcoin.

He hadn’t expected that this thing was born in January of this year, still a very new concept at the time.

It was like stumbling upon treasure.

Then, there was the stock market.

The share prices of companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook weren’t too high right now.

Although it would not yield a return as significant as the million dollars in original Google stocks that O’Neal bought in 1998, compared to the future, they still held considerable investment value.

Lastly, there was real estate.

Not the real estate in the United States—Hansen’s finances clearly weren’t sufficient for that.

But real estate back home was just starting to develop, and the prices were low.

For this, since his parents were back in China, all he needed to do was wire the money and give them some directions based on his memory to buy properties in prime locations.

With a plan in hand, but once it came to execution, Hansen still encountered two issues.

The first was the anticipated lack of funds.

To ordinary people, assets worth millions might be unattainable in a lifetime, but for investing, it really wasn’t much.

Especially with Bitcoin, which needed time to generate profit, and the longer the time, the higher the profit.

It meant that the money he injected was like throwing stones into a pond for the short term.

Stock market investments and real estate were pretty much the same.

Unless you knew precisely the fluctuations within a certain period, these were long-term investments.

This reminded Hansen of his experiences betting on March Madness and the NBA champions last season, which really brought short-term earnings.

No wonder the NBA would later go into deep collaboration with betting companies, and the more they partnered, the higher the broadcast contracts would be, with fast money being the main attraction.

The second issue was risk, and not just investment risk, which his heaven’s eye could avoid, but legal risk as well.

"Just like you can’t expect someone who plays basketball to understand business all that much, you certainly can’t expect them to know much about law either.

But speaking of law, Hansen thought of someone.

He directly called Chris Rondo, who had said he went to study law before.

"Han? Han!"

As soon as the call connected, Rondo on the other end started yelling excitedly.

"Do you know? We haven’t missed a single one of your games, and just yesterday, we thought we were watching Kobe play in the first half of your game, it was so cool!"

Listening to the long-missed voice and tone, and thinking about the intrigues that had followed since coming to the Cavaliers, Hansen was also filled with emotion.

The reason people reminisce about their campus days is because of the innocence back then.

And when Rondo said "we" instead of "I," he was probably referring to the teammates from Barry University.

"I’ll be back in Miami to play next month, I’ll get you guys tickets, and you all better come."

"Really? We’ll definitely come! But you don’t need to worry about my ticket, have you forgotten who I am?" Rondo said with a mischievous laugh.

"Locker room visitor attendant," replied Hansen with a smile.

"Haha, I knew you’d remember! I’m going to tell them right now, guarantee they’ll all be there."

Hansen could imagine just how happy that kid Rondo was laughing right now.

After hanging up, Hansen remembered he had been so caught up in chatting that he hadn’t asked about the actual matter.

But since the Cavaliers were visiting Miami in the middle of next month, there was no rush in this moment.

He then made another call to Thomas.

Matters of finance had to be sought off-court.

Shoe contracts are the most important part for a player, but they are not the only ones.

Now that he was gradually gaining a foothold in the Cavaliers, his position in the team was also rising—those endorsement contracts should keep up as well.

If long-term contracts are disadvantageous, then look for short-term ones.

In the call, Thomas also shared some good news—the shoe design with UA was going smoothly, and his first signature sneakers were expected to be released next summer.

This was indeed great news; Hansen was still wearing someone else’s shoes, making this spokesperson look quite unprofessional.

After the call, Hansen went on to check social media.

With his hook shot skill confirmed, he now needed to speed up the accumulation of negative fan points.

He had accrued over fifty thousand points in his system now, but that was far from enough.

There was a bit of commotion under his Facebook account.

The reason was that he was facing simultaneous attacks from the two biggest fan bases in the League.

The cause was the phrase about carving out a new lane he had said at the news conference.

Kobe fans: No wonder Hansen attacked Kobe before, turns out he’s a LeBron fan!

LeBron fans: Hansen was a LeBron hater before he entered the League, he’s suggesting our King is just a larger Pippen!

Truth be told, Hansen didn’t know when Kobe fans and LeBron fans started to be at each other’s throats.

Whatever the LeBron fans praised, Kobe fans had to denigrate, and whatever Kobe fans denigrated, LeBron fans were bound to praise.

Right or wrong, the actual truth—none of that mattered. Trading insults was the main thing.

However, compared to the vendetta-like scenes from before he transmigrated, this was relatively civilized. freewebnøvel.com

Back to that phrase, he originally just wanted to tease James, using a method from the "BOAT quotes."

Carving out a new lane, if you can’t compete in scoring, compare in versatility—James’s team loved data, and versatility was something they touted.

Whether he’s truly versatile or not, filling up the stat columns, James’s data from that game matched it perfectly.

Watching the two groups argue, and seeing his own negative fan points steadily rise, Hansen suddenly had an epiphany.

Before, he thought he wouldn’t be able to earn negative fan points from LeBron fans in the Cavaliers.

Not only was it impossible to lay out the facts, snide remarks were not easy either, as James and his team were no fools.

But today’s event had opened up new ideas for him.

Who said that praising someone was necessarily a good thing?

There’s a term in this world called "damning by faint praise."