As soon as he thought of it, Lin Yu immediately contacted his cousin Lin Shenzhen who was in the Virgin Islands.
Lin Shenyuan is now Lin Yu’s Chinese agent, mainly responsible for Lin Yu’s domestic brokerage affairs and the tax avoidance business of offshore companies in the Virgin Islands.
In the NBA under David Stern, betting was not allowed. In the entire United States, sports betting was also illegal. This situation did not gradually change until New Jersey first legalized sports betting in 2011.
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So if Lin Yu wants to buy golf balls, he can’t buy them nearby. The closest one he wants to buy is Las Vegas, but they are basically private gambling guaranteed by US dollars. So if Lin Yu wants to buy golf balls, it’s best to go overseas.
, there are legal gambling companies in the Virgin Islands that participate in NBA ball buying and selling.
Coupled with Lin Yu's status as a professional player, he cannot buy football in person. If he is caught buying football in person, it will be great fun.
Therefore, he wanted to use Lin Shenchen's identity to buy it.
On the second day of the playoffs, the Cavaliers had no games or training. Lin Yu, who had a lot of free time, contacted Lin Yuan and asked him to go to the gambling company in the Virgin Islands.
“What are the odds for the Warriors to beat the Mavericks?”
Far away in the Virgin Islands, Lin Shenyuan, who was already working at a gambling company, quickly reported an accurate odds figure: "60 to 1."
Then, he added: "If you guess the score, the odds will be higher. Do you want to guess the score, Dayu?"
"No, let's just guess that the Warriors succeeded in defeating the Mavericks." Lin Yu shook his head. Even if he still remembered the score, he wouldn't guess. He still remembered last year's finals.
"I've allocated 1 million US dollars to you to go all-in on the Warriors and the Mavericks."
"All-in?" Lin Shenzhen of the Virgin Islands opened his mouth wide. "Although I don't watch football very much, but the Mavericks are far better than the Warriors, right? Dayu, you are giving away money!"
Lin Yu laughed: "Don't think too much, Sheyuan, you have to believe in the vision of a professional basketball player."
Lin Shenyuan still felt that Lin Yu was playing a little too big, just giving away money, and the money given away was quite a lot, a full 1 million US dollars.
He thought of last year's finals: "I remember last year you vowed that the Heat would overturn the Mavericks when they were 0:2 behind, but it didn't happen..."
The implicit meaning of this statement is to question Lin Yu's vision.
Lin Yu stopped laughing for a moment: "If I ask you to suppress me, you will suppress me. If you lose, it will be mine. It's only 1 million US dollars. Do you know how much your brother and I can earn next season in terms of salary alone?"
"How many?"
"About fifteen million dollars, then divide that by two!"
Divide by two to get the tax paid. In other words, excluding various taxes, Lin Yu can get a salary of eight to nine million US dollars from the Cavaliers.
This year, one million US dollars is indeed a lot, but next year, this million US dollars will be just a small amount of money.
Lin Yu also had to consider how much money he could get if he made this money. If he lost one million US dollars and lost 60, he could directly earn 60 million US dollars!
"Okay, I'm placing my bet..." A moment later, Lin Shencheng's voice came from the other end of the phone again: "Dayu, you may not be able to spend the 1 million US dollars."
"What?"
"They have a betting limit here, and the upper limit is $50,000."
"..."
Lin Yu was helpless and calculated again. With 50,000 US dollars and an odds of 60 to 1, he could get a profit of 3 million US dollars, which was quite a lot.
"Then go ahead and bet $50,000 on the Warriors."
Then, Lin Yu asked about the odds of the Cavaliers against the Magic and the odds of the Cavaliers winning the championship. One was 1 to 1, which meant that even if the Cavaliers beat the Magic, he would not make any money.
The Cavaliers' odds of winning the championship are 1.5 to 1, which is only slightly higher than the Mavericks' 1.2 to 1 and the Celtics' odds of 1.3 to 1, ranking third in the league.
This basically represents the Cavaliers' ranking as the favorites to compete for the championship. The betting companies are optimistic about the Cavaliers, but they still rank behind the Mavericks and Celtics.
It is foreseeable that after the Cavaliers and Celtics enter the Eastern Conference Finals together, the Cavaliers' odds of winning the Eastern Conference Finals will definitely be high. Lin Yu has a large number of time-effective items to ensure that the Cavaliers beat the Celtics.
If Lin Yu placed a bet, he would surely make a fortune.
However, Lin Yu had no intention of betting on himself. This was one of his rules, because betting on himself would lead to the possibility of match-fixing...
He considers himself to have very strong self-control, but he is always afraid of eventualities, so he would not bet on himself even if he were to be killed.
In the afternoon, Lin Yu sat at his home and watched the entire battle between the Warriors and the Mavericks.
Then, every few minutes, the nannies and bodyguards at home could hear Lin Yu cheering and screaming, not for anything else but because the Warriors played so well.
"The Warriors played so well, Stephen Jackson should be the best player in this game!"
The game is coming to an end, and the Warriors, who lead by double digits, have secured the victory.
David Alexander, who was sitting next to Lin Yu, stared at Lin Yu as if he had seen a ghost.
This guy clearly remembers that two or three months ago, Lin Yu once said that German drivers are afraid of short defenders with stable chassis. He even predicted that the Mavericks would not be targeted in the regular season, but it would be different in the playoffs.
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As a result, everything happened in the ongoing playoffs!
"Win, the Warriors have won, and if the Mavericks can't find a way to solve Dirk Nowitzki's problem, the Warriors will kill the Mavericks in the first round of the playoffs!"
The game ended. The Warriors won the first game 97:85 with a margin of 12 points, causing the biggest upset since the start of the playoffs.
Dirk Nowitzki made 4 of 16 shots and only scored 14 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists. He was blocked by Stephen Jackson.
David Alexander glanced at Lin Yu, gave a thumbs up, and then sighed: "Don Nelson is Don Nelson, he is indeed a mad scientist!"
The mad scientist's wonderful targeted adjustments helped the Warriors take the first step on the road to Black Eight.
Lin Yu was relieved. Just watching the first game, he was sure that the Warriors' black eight was solid. Half of the US$3 million had already entered Lin Yu's bank account.
In other matchups, the Spurs relied on their defense to easily defeat the Nuggets.
In the Eastern Conference, the Celtics directly defended the lowest score in the first game of the first round playoffs, 61 points, but scored 96 points themselves.
96:61, the Celtics defeated the Nets by a huge score and also won the first game.
The Cavaliers are most concerned about the Heat versus the Raptors. The two teams are very close in strength and they play very anxiously. In the first game, the Heat defeated the Raptors 96:91 and won the first game.
In this way, in two days, after the start of the playoffs, all eight groups of matches ended. The only real upset was the Warriors defeating the Mavericks in the first game.
Lin Yu originally wanted to come out and say a few words after the game to clear himself of his failure in prediction last season, but then he thought about it. Failure in prediction may be a bit bad for others, but it may also be an opportunity for him.
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Maybe, if his predictions failed continuously, he could use this to create a Ming Deng Lin meme.
