Well, for now, we’re still managing to hold on, but if things really become dire, we’ll have to seek investment, and there are some candidates for that.
However, seeking investment means sharing the potential earnings, so until we absolutely must seek investment, let’s just wait and see.
We’ll see if capital comes looking for us first or if we go after it, the difference in earnings is quite significant.
After a while, when the chat window showed "OK," Zhang Hao closed the computer.
Money... to catch the wave of the times, you need capital.
Thinking of money shortage, Zhang Hao remembered receiving a league notice this morning when he arrived in Boston; he was given an additional technical foul and fined twenty thousand US Dollars...
It’s frustrating to think about—being hit and unable to retaliate?
But retaliation had already happened, so it was no big deal.
Speaking of money, it feels tight, but it’s not that tight. Zhang Hao calculated that he could manage for a quarter.
Anyway, they hadn’t planned to further optimize the software or webpage; after updating 3 versions, ICQ was already good enough to use. Optimization now is as simple as possible, without any extra complicated additions.
Pure operational maintenance, no problem with that.
Since there’s no problem, Zhang Hao thought it over and decided to set it aside for now; when the time comes, things will naturally fall into place.
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The incident of Iverson being slaughtered with 58 points became a phenomenon-level topic, quite rare in NBA history.
But it did.
Some people have already linked 58 with Iverson, giving Iverson a new nickname—ordinary rookie.
Fans unfamiliar with the situation were puzzled seeing Iverson’s nickname—are the star requirements so high now? A rookie performing like Iverson is just an ordinary rookie?
Time doesn’t stop, on December 7th, the Lakers arrived at the North Garden Arena to challenge their rival Celtics.
In past years, when the Lakers faced the Celtics, no matter what, the Celtics would always fight hard.
But this time, the Celtics tried their best to weaken their own players’ performance!
When Celtics players play against the Lakers, due to the teams’ historical grievances, they always play hard, and the Lakers do too.
But the Lakers’ effort is relative to playing other low-ranked teams in the league like the Vancouver Grizzlies, whereas Celtics players truly aim to defeat the strong while being weak.
Moreover, tonight the Celtics performed very well! At halftime, relying on Anthony Walker scoring 9 consecutive points, they overtook the Lakers by 54 to 53 to enter the halftime break.
By the third quarter, the Celtics players fought harder and harder, by the end of three quarters, the Lakers trailed the Celtics by 78 to 81!
The Lakers had to get serious; just when O’Neal was ready to come out in the final quarter to save the team, Celtics coach M-L-Kael took the initiative to substitute the performing players. Whoever played the worst got on, and once they started performing better, they were immediately replaced.
After slacking for three quarters, Zhang Hao, Kenny Anderson, Magician, O’Neal, Barkley, and others felt embarrassed for trailing behind the dead last team with a 1-17 record, preparing to work hard, but faced this situation unexpectedly!
They felt like they did nothing and yet somehow did something. In the first three quarters, averaging 27 points per quarter for the Celtics, they only scored 9 points in the final quarter!
With 103 to 90, the Lakers reversed the score with a last-quarter performance of 25 to 9, defeating the Celtics, securing an 8-game winning streak!
During Duncan’s inevitable entry into the draft graduation season, tanking teams are everywhere; over in the West, even the seventh-place team’s win rate is below fifty percent, and the Celtics, having waited for Duncan for two years, went all out to lose games this year!
...
This year, Duncan’s news is indeed less than last year, but Zhang Hao felt from another angle how much Duncan has driven NBA weak team management crazy.
When playing against the 76ers, the 76ers coach wasn’t thinking about winning, only about how to provide better opportunities for Iverson to practice his solo play.
The Celtics didn’t even care about training players, they just wanted to lose...
Encountering such situations sometimes, Zhang Hao wasn’t quite sure which team would end up with the top draft pick since history had changed so much already, which made him curious.
After the match against the Celtics, the next day the Lakers flew to Detroit.
Coming up is a real formidable enemy.
The newly rebuilt Pistons!
Throughout the season, the Pistons achieved a 13-6 record, ranking third in the East!
Arriving in Detroit, Zhang Hao checked out the local news about the Pistons and, unsurprisingly, fan favorite Grant Hill was dominating the sports news pages.
But there’s another person frequently mentioned in name—Alan Houston.
Alan Houston was seen by Detroiters as a traitor for leaving the team that developed him for money.
Zhang Hao had no opinion on this view, but there was one thing the local media seemed to say accurately—if Alan Houston hadn’t left, the Pistons’ strength would have been even better!
Indeed, Zhang Hao felt a bit regretful, considering if Grant Hill had an improved Alan Houston by his side, the performance really could’ve been better and perhaps wouldn’t be used so harshly by the Pistons.
Coming to Detroit, the most troublesome thing was not being able to go out freely, Zhang Hao didn’t visit Coach Collins for a chat, he could see him tomorrow.
He stayed in the hotel gaming all afternoon, and by evening, Zhang Hao saw news about Duncan...
"Wow, Duncan’s already started as part of the historic background tour with Kobe?"
In the 2 PM game between Duke University and Wake Forest University, Duke University’s young star Kobe Bryant completed a poster dunk over Wake Forest University’s NBA likely top draft pick Tim Duncan, becoming the post-game news cover for Duke University’s 82-75 victory over Wake Forest University!
In this match, Duncan’s performance remained excellent, with 24 points, 14 rebounds, 6 assists, and 3 blocks, continuously breaking various records in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Currently, with every match he plays, he’s setting new records in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
However, Zhang Hao saw in the news that Kobe also performed exceedingly well after entering college. Initially capable of immediately becoming an NBA team’s bench player, Kobe, in 9 games of the new season, averaged 20.9 points, 7 rebounds, 4.9 assists, and 2.1 steals, becoming the leading candidate for Atlantic Coast Conference’s best newcomer!
Previously, Zhang Hao hadn’t noticed that Duncan and Kobe had ended up in the same league. Now that they’ve faced each other, he finally realized!
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