Chapter 373: End of preseason

Chapter 376
After playing the game with the Kings, the Suns returned to Frenex, while Leon stayed in California for one more day, and went to Los Angeles to accompany his wife. Khomeinis is now in a state of expectation, and the affairs of his brokerage company are handed over to professional managers. For his venture investment many years ago, it can be said that he has received a very generous return.
Especially after the CAA brokerage company acquired his previous team and took all the shares, Khomeinis' worth has greatly surpassed his husband. This occasionally makes Leon feel a little shameless. After all, he is on the court. He always wears like a "million daddy". Once the game is over, Leon will change back to casual clothes so that the clothes match his used car.
In recent years, Khomeinis has been living in Santa Monica Beach, a celebrity leisure center in Los Angeles, where you can meet Hollywood stars from time to time. Leon has never been interested in the entertainment industry. There is another piece of capital paradise. It is said that regardless of style and sport, many sports stars will know those entertainment stars, walk on the red carpet, invest in small film and television companies, and invest in movies.
But Leon is used to living in Boston. To this day, he is still a little uncomfortable with the beautiful beaches and blue sky and white clouds of Los Angeles. He has long been used to the cold Atlantic Ocean and the always gloomy sky of Massachusetts. So every time he came to Los Angeles, he would choose to walk around with Khomeinis at dusk. He took Khomeinis's hand and walked barefoot on the delicate beach. The temperature of the sun during the day was still in the soft sand, and it was very comfortable to step on it.
The sun is slowly disappearing from the sea level, but it is still struggling to release its last brilliance. The clouds on the horizon are dyed crimson, and you can see the black spots flying on the clouds. It is on the sea. The seabirds that continue to forage, they eat their last food before the sun sets.
Summer has passed, the peak tourist season of Santa Monica Beach has passed, and the weather is getting colder, so there are not many people on the beach in the evening. Leon took off his coat and put it on his wife, and the two enjoyed the beautiful sunset on the beach. But the scenery is so romantic, and the conversation between the two is not at all romantic.
"How are the housing prices in Santa Monica Beach? Is there a continuing upward trend?" Leon asked, watching the setting sun while thinking about housing prices.
"There is still a rising trend, and it seems that the growth rate is still rising, why, do you want to buy a house with your own money?" Khomeinis said, she herself has bought several houses in Santa Monica Beach , Are all self-paid, one set to live by oneself, the other is used for investment or renting.
Leon shook his head and said: "I think you'd better sell it as soon as the house price is still rising. After a while, the house price in the United States may not be able to hold it."
If others say this, Khomeinis will definitely think he is crazy, because the US housing prices may be stronger than the US hegemony, and they have been rising for so many years. But what Leon said, Khomeinis must consider, not only because Leon is his husband, but also because she knows her husband, he is a gambler with no plan.
So even if Khomeinis didn't want Leon to leave college and return to the NBA, in the end she supported her husband's decision. She knew that her husband's decision must be well thought out and with good reasons.
Khomeinis didn’t speak. She knew Leon would have an explanation. Sure enough, Leon went on to say:
You can look at your own house and have bought several houses, but that area is all such investment vacant houses, some people buy them. , But no one lives."
Khomeinis interjected: "So what? Someone always wants a house, and even if no one buys it, I hold it in my hand and the house will not rot. I don't care about the property tax." In the United States, Vacant houses are subject to real estate tax, but California's real estate tax is about 0.7%, which is not worth mentioning to Khomeinis.
Leon said: "That's because you bought a house with full money, so you don’t have a loan. But the fact is that not everyone has the financial resources to buy a house with full money. Many people buy a house with loans. Have you ever thought about it? , So many people buy houses, but no one takes over. What will happen if the buyer cannot repay the loan?"
Khomeinis is still an incredible look. In her view, personal housing loans are the most stable and least risky type of all loans. The company may owe bank loans due to poor management and bankruptcy. As long as an individual lives in this society, he must repay the loan. In the past few decades, housing prices in the United States have been so stable and have been on an upward channel. For most people, the president will change, but housing prices will not fall.
But Leon is not a person who thinks so. He continued: ‘I know you definitely don’t believe it, but I have carefully checked the first-hand credit information of many banks. Did you know that some people’s mortgage lenders are dogs. A dog! The bank can even lend him a dog. Do you think a dog will repay the loan? "
"but……"
"I also investigated the methods used by some banks to package and sell CDOs. They package high-quality loans and sub-prime loans and average them with an average to achieve a good rating. In fact, nearly half of the loans are likely to default. . Do you know what I mean? They should use the median instead of the average. The average is meaningless here. If I'm not mistaken, big investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan have already started to act."
Leon’s words sounded incredibly convincing. Khomeinis only hesitated for a while and asked: "Then, what should I do? Sell the house, and then?"
"Then give me the money, I will figure out a way to double the money tenfold." Leon looked at Khomeinis and said.
Khomeinis smiled and said, "As an investor, I want to divide it into 90%."
"Ninety percent is too much, right?"
"We have to take 80% of the children in our stomachs, and half of the rest."
"Okay, I agree."
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The next day, on October 14, Leon returned to Phoenix alone to prepare for the team's second preseason game. Next, the Suns will have a total of 7 preseason games, against the Hornets, Jazz, two Clippers, Bobcats, Nuggets and Sonics. From the perspective of opponents, only the Bobcats have an Eastern team, and the others are Western teams. The opponents are not very strong, and the style of play is offensive. This is good news for Leon, because he can better experiment and adapt his tactics.
However, on the night of the 14th, in the home game against the New Orleans Hornets, the Suns were attacked fiercely by the peaks led by Chris Paul. The problems of the Suns on the defensive end were unobstructed. Chris Paul was in the first half. territory. In the end, the Hornets beat the Suns at 119:110 with a 9-point advantage. It looks like this season, there will be a strong competitor in the West.
After the game, Leon did not criticize the team's defense, but emphasized that if we can get 120 points ~EbookFREE.me~ then we won't win the game.
In the next games against the Jazz, Clippers, and Bobcats, the Suns’ performance was always unstable, because Leon’s lineup rotation was too frequent, and they were constantly performing permutations and combinations. There was never a stable rotation. The assistant coaching staff is a little worried. If a stable rotation cannot be fixed in the regular season, it will be harmful and useless for the long regular season.
But Leon didn’t seem to care. Even in the last game of the preseason, Leon was still experimenting. He even unexpectedly showed Barea, Nash, and Jasco in the game against the Sonics. The top leak prevention lineup of Visius' three colanders. You know, the first opponent of the Suns in the regular season is the Seattle SuperSonics. It's strange that their backcourt is not pierced by the new second place Durant.
In this preseason game, it also relied on Nash's key three-pointers to barely win, which was regarded as a fairly satisfactory end to the Suns' preseason game. But everyone is still very worried. From the players to the coaching staff to the fans, everyone is thinking, if we play like this, can we win the regular season? Can you win the playoffs?
No one knew, and Leon didn't know it himself. It's just okay, everything is still within the scope of his plan.
(End of this chapter)