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In early August, the Magic became the laughingstock of the league. After they freed up salary space, they had money but couldn't spend it. They failed to poach Duncan and Tracy McGrady. They wanted to trade Hill, but they didn't have the bargaining chips that the other party valued.

Ever since the Magic let O'Neal go for nothing, their management has been recognized as incurable. After sending away Anfernee Hardaway, this team was labeled as "inhumane" again.

The Magic letting O'Neal go and the Raptors letting McGrady go are completely different concepts.

In 1996, the NBA had no maximum salary restrictions and luxury tax penalties, which meant that the Magic, which owned O'Neal's Bird Rights, could extend his contract beyond the cap without limit, as long as O'Neal was willing to stay. Other teams must sign under the salary cap, which basically hollows out a team. Under such conditions, the Magic management was able to tie themselves up, lower the price without sincerity, and forced O'Neal away in an almost insulting manner.

Their initial offer to O'Neal was 54 million for four years. No single season's annual salary could catch up with Alonzo Mourning and Juwan Howard's 105 million for seven years. Those two are obviously not as strong as O'Neal, and the Heat and Bullets both offered contracts worth over 100 million.

What's even more outrageous is that the Magic management actually questioned O'Neal's rebounding and defense, and played tricks to lower the price.

In Yang Rui's previous life, Grant Hilken joined because he was tempted by forming a team to win a championship. Even if Duncan didn't join, McGrady would still be there. Now, no star wants to go to Orlando.

Grant Hill wants to go to a strong team with championship hopes, but such teams don't have the right chips to trade with the Pistons. Those who want Hill are usually underdogs outside the playoffs, mainly because of Hill's popularity and want to attract fans. Hill is not interested in this kind of thing.

Finally, the Knicks and Pistons completed a sign-and-trade. Alan Houston and Chris Childs were sent to the Pistons in exchange for Hill.

Knicks manager Scott Layden felt he had made a big deal because Hill played 74 games for the Pistons last season, averaging 25.8 points, 6.6 rebounds, 5.2 assists, 1.4 steals and 0.6 blocks in 37.5 minutes per game, and was selected as an All-Star starter.

They traded Glenn Rice in the summer and have no shortage of three-point shooters. Sprewell's most suitable position is shooting guard, which has some overlap with Houston.

The most important point is that Houston is in a contract year. If he continues to stay in the team, it will be more troublesome to renew the contract next season. If the contract is small, Houston may not be willing to stay. The contract is too big and he will suffer a loss. He is just a scorer with a single role. , averaging 20 points per game is the limit.

Jeff Van Gundy is also satisfied with the deal. He is used to coaching Houston and will arrange three-point tactics for it. It doesn't matter to Houston himself, he is a player from the Pistons and is familiar with this city.

Although the Pistons are not as developed as New York, their fans are loyal enough and will support the home team. They are not like New York fans who boo the home team's stars when they are unhappy, which is very stressful.

After the transaction was completed, Yang Rui called to congratulate Houston and bless Van Gundy.

He knows how serious Hill's injury risks are. As long as he doesn't change his style of play, Hill will get injured sooner or later. If the Knicks are injured, they will have no choice but to rebuild. Add Rice and Longley, and three super bad contracts, and it will be impossible to play.

Houston is in the Pistons. If he pays more attention, it is possible to avoid the end of serious injury and retirement and regain a new life. Because Van Gundy no longer requires Houston to break through, post up, and make mid-range shots like he did in his previous life, he learned from Yang Rui.

Houston's loss is saying goodbye to that astonishing six-year, $100 million contract.

No one other than Knicks manager Scott Layden would offer him this kind of contract.

The big-name players in the free market have all been settled, and there will be no unexpected opponents. Yang Rui flew to Los Angeles for vacation again.

Stana followed him to earn enough exposure and starred in many movies. Jennifer Aniston's management company introduced her, allowing her to play small roles in some small-production movies.

Acting as a walk-on can cultivate an actor's sense of camera, become familiar with the film shooting process, and accumulate experience. Only when he has a larger role can he seize the opportunity to successfully watch the scene without being in a hurry.

Several movies have not been released yet, but Stana takes it very seriously. She thinks that her acting skills have soared in bad movies, and she is ready to drag Yang Rui to the cinema to play the idiotic game of "see if you can find me" in the future.

What surprised Yang Rui was that Stana actually got into a blockbuster film, starring as Nurse C in "Pearl Harbor", and had a line, just surrounding the heroine Beckinsale in the background, chirping a few gossips. .

On August 15, Thomas Bentley came to Los Angeles again and found Yang Rui in the hotel.

"Good news, the matter has been negotiated. When are you going to give her this gift? She will definitely be moved to tears." Thomas handed a copy of the agreement to Yang Rui.

Yang Rui glanced at it, folded it, and said with a smile: "Thanks, it took a lot of trouble, right?"

"The trouble is worth it. Not only the two of us, Jennifer also likes this game very much. The movie adaptation should be able to make a series, but she said that the cost must be controlled. The game cannot change the movie in a big way, otherwise it will be difficult to make money."

This would never have been possible without Jennifer, and now they were comrades in the trenches. Jennifer and her friends invested in Facebook and took a small stake. They bought the rights to adapt the game, from filming, production, release to DVD sales, their circle can handle it all.

Yang Ruixiao asked: "Is she interested in a guest role?"

"How can she act in such an action movie? Stana is fine, her temperament matches her. But you haven't asked her if she likes action movies. What if she doesn't want to act?" Thomas asked.

"No, this heroine is tailor-made for long-legged actresses. She doesn't need acting skills, showing off her figure, and being cool is enough. Now she can only widen her eyes, squint her eyes, smile and frown. , If you don’t act like this, why should you act?” Yang Rui said with a smile.

In April, Thomas found someone to negotiate the movie rights for this game. Yang Rui wanted to surprise Stana as a birthday present, but it has been delayed until now.

They encountered competition from a German company. Fortunately, Thomas liked to play PS games at home, so he knew the game very well and knew more about the key points of attracting fans.

Competitors just took a fancy to this IP and wanted a background and content that would be greatly adapted. Capcom was worried that they would make the movie look like shit after departing from the original work, so they sold it to Facebook.

After chatting for a while, Thomas hummed: "I have to put a few people I want in the movie this time, otherwise I will be really angry. You are so good to Stana, why can't you be willing to praise someone if I want to?"

"Because your girlfriend has changed at some point... There must be a lot of roles. Just put whoever you like into it. Then you have to ask Jennifer, the director, the crew and so on. She will have to help."

"She will help. I want to invest."

Facebook is now mainly developing social platforms and is on the right track. It is not developing new products and is not burning money for the time being. In the past two years, Yang Rui's net worth has exceeded 10 million thanks to his salary, stock trading, and advertising endorsements. Thomas has also made less, and they have money to invest in movies.

Yang Rui fantasized about Stana's chic image in a red dress and wanted to shoot it this year, but she had to think long term and make preparations.

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