Vol 2 Chapter 596: The King of Pop

Chapter 596: The War of the King of Pop

The NBA 2002-2003 season will officially start on November 1, 2002. This summer, the team that trades most frequently and shocks and surprises fans the most is undoubtedly the Houston Rockets.

First traded All-Star guard Francis, in exchange for the first-round pick of the Cleveland Cavaliers and No. 35 rookie Boozer, which is almost nailed to the lottery team next year, and then traded a first-round pick for the Detroit Pistons, and then used the team. The chief blue-collar center Cato exchanged for the "dying year" and the injury "big dream" Olajuwon. This series of transactions was criticized by the media as "stupid" and "idiot"..., unexpectedly in a blink of an eye Lin Feng personally hired the "God of Basketball" Michael Jordan, the "Big Worm" Rodman, and the signing of free agent Billups. The series of transactions was breathtaking.

Although Jordan is old, he is still the most popular superstar in the NBA. He also cooperated with "Dream", one of the best centers in the 90s, and with Rodman's assistance. Before the season, he bet with the media and threatened. This season the Houston Rockets will surely enter the playoffs and launch an impact on the championship. This rhetoric has aroused the expectations of all fans.

In particular, the Houston Rockets also signed the first foreign champion in NBA history, Yao Ming from China, which also makes people look forward to the performance of the 2.26 center. In particular, many media received news from the Houston Rockets’ internal employees. Yao Ming received personal reports from Rodman and Olajuwon. In addition to normal training every day, after the end, he was "ruled" by these two "boss." His rebounding skills and "fantasy footsteps" have already reached seven points by Rodman and Olajuwon.

A center with a height of 2.26, Rodman's ability to predict rebounds, plus Olajuwon's "fantasy footsteps", coupled with the unique soft touch of Chinese players, how terrible is such a center?

NBA president Stern is definitely a person who is good at grasping the hot spots of the market, otherwise the NBA will not develop from a small league that was about to close down that year to one of the most popular sports in the world, second only to football (in some countries, Even more popular than football). Therefore, Stern very cleverly arranged the opening game of the NBA 02-03 season. In the newly established arena of the Houston Rockets, the Houston Rockets challenged the Los Angeles Lakers who had just won three consecutive championships.

Jordan vs. Kobe, Olajuwon + Yao Ming vs. O'Neal.

Known as the person closest to Jordan, Jordan is still in the league and once again challenged Jordan. Today, the most terrifying NBA super center, even the most terrifying super center in history, to challenge the former chief center and the future "chief center", this opener is full of gimmicks.

Such an important opening game, as the owner of the team, and Lin Feng, who actually manipulated the summer Houston Rockets transfer, naturally cannot be absent. At the moment of receiving Dawson's call, Lin Feng immediately arranged everything in the country and set off for the United States in his own "wing of the wind".

Originally, Lin Feng wanted to take Li Zhiyou and others to the opening game, but the crew of the Condor Heroes just happened to film the scene of Li Zhiyou and others. In addition, when Lin Feng went to the United States, he would definitely meet Avril, his heart knot was not yet complete. The untied Li Zhiyou gave up. In this regard, Lin Feng can only helpless. However, this kind of thing can't be rushed, take it easy.

After bidding farewell to Li Zhiyou, Lin Feng took Lin Chiling to Los Angeles directly. Originally, Lin Feng was going to fly directly to the Houston Rockets, but before leaving, he received a call from Avril and asked him to fly to Los Angeles, saying that he would have a surprise for Lin Feng.

Lin Feng wanted to ask what the surprise was, but the weird Avril only said this gift mysteriously. Lin Feng would be surprised. He refused to say anything. Lin Feng had to suppress his curiosity and enjoy it. The comfort of a special plane, direct flight to Los Angeles.

Twenty-four hours later, on October 26, Lin Feng arrived in Los Angeles.

"Hi, Lin, this way!" As soon as she got out of the private airport passage, Avril rushed over.

"Avel, you seem to be a little thinner again." Lin Feng hugged Avel who was leaping towards him, and said with regret.

Avril smiled, looked at Lin Chiling behind Lin Feng, the corners of her mouth murmured, then lifted Lin Feng, walked straight over, looked up and down Lin Chiling, and snorted, "You are very beautiful, and you have a good figure. Very well, many Western women are not as good as you, making me jealous. However, Lin is not yours, she is mine."

Lin Chiling heard it, her face was embarrassed, but her heart was shocked. She had also heard about Avril's straightforward character a long time ago. Unexpectedly, when I saw it today, she just understood what is better than seeing once. Avril's straightforwardness is definitely better than rumors. This also made Lin Chiling couldn't help comparing Li Zhiyou and Avril.

When Li Zhiyou saw himself, although he was dissatisfied, he hid in his heart. Avril's dissatisfaction is directly uttered, and the two of them belong to two extremes. Thinking of this, Lin Zhiling couldn't help but glance at Lin Feng, wondering how Lin Feng was able to deal with these two women, and the two women knew each other's existence, but they could secretly acquiesce to each other.

The boss is the boss! ——Lin Chiling sighed.

Seeing that Lin Chiling's face was slightly embarrassed at this moment, Lin Feng hurriedly broke the siege so that Avril did not end up pointing the finger at him.

"By the way, Avril, you didn't have the slightest makeup to pick me up today, aren't you afraid of media tracking?" Lin Feng asked. Avril hates paparazzi stalking the most. I didn’t meet the paparazzi stalking before, and only the reports of the vertical **** were published in the major gossip magazines and became the front page. Now he came to pick him up without even wearing sunglasses. Lin Feng is really good. Surprised.

"Haha, Lin, now the reporter has no time to talk to me, now it's all on Sony and Michael Jackson." Avril said with a sigh.

"What's the matter?" Lin Feng heard the unhappiness in Avril's tone, and asked quickly.

"Lin, Michael declared war on Sony." Avril said.

"Declare war!" Lin Feng was taken aback.

"Well, come, Lin, get in the car, I will take you to a place, a bit far from Los Angeles, about 40 minutes' drive, I will tell you in the car." Avril pulled Lin Feng into a Rolls Royce , But arbitrarily blocked Lin Chiling out.

auzw.com" Zhiling, you can sit in the back and take a car with Li Rui." Lin Feng smiled helplessly, and then ordered.

Seeing Lin Chiling walk to the next car slightly depressed, Avril giggled triumphantly. She drove Lin Chiling to the back of the car. One was to demonstrate, telling Lin Chiling who was Lin Feng's true girlfriend, and the other was that she had some inconveniences to tell outsiders. She could only tell Lin Feng.

"Okay, let's talk about it, what happened to Michael and Sony." Lin Feng shook Avril's hand and asked softly.

"Hmph, don't you blame me for driving away your **** female secretary?" Avril asked when looking at Lin Feng's eyes.

"Ha, you, jealous jar, what are you talking about. Indeed, I admit that she is very beautiful and attractive, but I do know who is the most important woman to me, who I like in my heart." Lin Feng squeezed Avril said with a strong nose.

"Hehe!" Avril's heart seemed to drink honey, sweet. Later, in the car, Avril told Lin Feng about the grievances between Michael Jackson and Sony.

It turned out that the grievances between Michael Jackson and Sony began last year.

When Jackson released the new album invincible in 2001, Sony did not publicize it a lot, and even a little neglected it. In particular, when it was promoting invincible, Fox’s news channel unexpectedly broke that Michael Jackson owed 2.7. The rumor that a huge debt of billions of dollars was about to go bankrupt made Michael Jackson at the time very embarrassed.

In the end, invincible sold 5 million copies. In the eyes of other singers, this is already an extremely alarming data, but in the eyes of "King of Pop" Michael Jackson, it failed, even dismal. Achievement. After all, this album Michael Jackson invested a lot of effort, the whole process was self-financed, and the sales volume of 5 million can only just recover the cost. Sony and Michael want to make money and have to sell at least 7 million copies.

Therefore, there was a battle between Michael Jackson and Sony Records. Michael Jackson reprimanded Sony Records for bad publicity, but Sony Records reprimanded Michael Jackson for being dead. There is a reason why the company does not invest huge amounts of money in publicity. Record sales prove everything!

This remark naturally made Michael Jackson extremely dissatisfied, and the contradiction between the two sides gradually escalated. Finally, on July 6th of this year, Michael Jackson held a press conference in New York to declare war on Sony Records, pointing directly to the shady in the recording industry-racial discrimination (discrimination against black singers) and exploitation of artists.

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After listening to Avril's words, Lin Feng was speechless. He didn't expect that the whole incident was so complicated and there were so many shady scenes in the record industry. It's no wonder that many popular superstars who have been infinitely beautiful and record sales have created a miserable prospect of bankruptcy in the end. In addition to the extravagance of some stars themselves, it is more because of the exploitation of record companies. Especially black singers.

Although the appearance of Michael Jackson used a thriller in 1982 to smash the racial shackles in radio and television music programs and record shops, it did not smash the racial discrimination that still lurks in the music industry, especially the racial discrimination within the record company and the treatment of artists. Cruel exploitation.

"Lin, thank you for your willingness to invest and let me set up my own record company, otherwise I will be ruthlessly exploited by the record company," said Avril, nestling in Lin Feng's arms with a look of luck and gratitude.

If it were not for Lin Feng’s investment, and let Avril set up his own record company and operate his own record, I am afraid Avril would not have just released two albums as it is now. After holding a global concert, it will have hundreds of millions of dollars. Net worth. If you sign a record company, Avril can get up to 12% of the share, of course, the emperor superstar has a 24% share.

However, even if the 24% share, Avril’s two albums and seven singles (a total of 27 million sold), as well as global concerts, will bring a total of 470 million US dollars in revenue. In addition to operating costs and company commissions, the agent will pay dividends. , And his own band, etc., Avril can earn up to about 20 million US dollars. And now Avril relies on his own operating company to run his own records, and has become the out-and-out little rich woman in the United States. (Among them, half of the profits are distributed to Lin Feng)

"Hehe, of course, how can I let my woman be exploited!" Lin Feng said proudly with his arms around Avril.

"Hehe!" Avril had a sweet face.

"By the way, Michael Jackson is really going bankrupt?" Lin Feng asked curiously. Although Lin Feng was a fan of Michael Jackson in the past, the domestic news reports on Michael Jackson at that time were all negative news. It was not about bankruptcy, or a childishness, or his profligacy. This made Lin Feng read a lot. It is dissatisfaction.

A person who has donated more than 300 million US dollars to 30 charities will definitely not be as embarrassing as the media said. Therefore, Lin Feng didn't bother to read relevant news later, and just concentrated on enjoying the pure music brought by Michael Jackson.

"Huh, that's not it. Michael Jackson's personal assets are at least $2 billion, how could he go bankrupt. He owns 50% of the copyrights of Sony Atv Music Publishing Company, and also owns the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Copyright, not counting his real estate, he also has nearly 2 billion US dollars in assets, how can he go bankrupt. It's just that he has no liquid funds to repay an arrears of 270 million US dollars recently!" Avril said with a sneer, "Lin, You don’t know, the reason that really made Michael decide to turn his face with Sony Records is because last year when he promoted the invincibility of the world, the man behind his debts was Motorola, the president of Sony Records."

Lin Feng was taken aback.

"Lin, because the contract between Michael and Sony is about to expire, and Michael has stated that he will not renew the contract, Sony did so, hoping to ruin Michael, and eventually force Michael to return to Sony Records due to debt problems and get it back. That 50% of the copyright. Because the loan was mortgaged with the 50% copyright of the Sony Records owned by Michael, and the price was set by Sony at that time, which was just over $270 million. The loan contract stipulates that if Michael is overdue If the loan cannot be repaid, Sony Records will have the right to buy back this 50% of the copyright." Avril said indignantly.

Lin Feng heard it, and after a little thought, he understood what all this was about. For a record company, record copyright is the foundation. If Michael leaves Sony Records with this 50% copyright, the blow to Sony Records is self-evident.

That's it! ——After thinking carefully, Lin Feng finally understood everything in it.

Benefits, this war is ultimately for benefits. However, Michael is to protect his own interests, but Sony Records wants to regain the interests that were lost due to mistakes in decision-making.

"Lin, can I beg you for something, you help Michael." Avril looked at Lin Feng and said.