roccoschili Chapter 636 [Purchase goals, long-term layout]
Chapter 636 [Purchase goals, long-term layout]
Chapter 636 [Purchase goals, long-term layout]
As for buying the Warriors, Yang Rui also gave up.
In a previous life, in 2010, Joey Lacob bought the Warriors for only $4.5 million. After the Warriors won two championships, the valuation reached $26 billion. Buying the Warriors is a guaranteed profit, and what makes Yang Rui disgusted is also the location. .
Whenever people talk about the Warriors, they will naturally bring up San Francisco, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and other famous areas. Few people talk about Oakland, where the Warriors are home.
But if you're an Oakland resident, you'll know that those areas are just too far away, even if it's San Francisco, which is just across the bridge.
Yang Rui asked his agent John to investigate, and found that Oakland is also one of the cities with the highest crime rate in the United States, and it is notorious for residents in other places.
The downtown area of Oakland is relatively better, and the suburbs are extremely chaotic. The farther away from the city center, the wider the distribution of blacks and Mexicans, it is a paradise for Mexican smugglers.
Even though injuries are rare, thefts and car thefts are common.If you dare to leave items such as gps or mobile phones where you can see them in the car, the windows will definitely be smashed the next day.
It is a miracle that warriors can rise in this place.
Excluding those two teams, the only candidates left are the Kings and the Clippers.
In a few years, the Maloof brothers, the king's owners, will also sell the team, but the king chose Thabeet... God can't save them.
Yang Rui asked, "Tom, what do you think about buying the Clippers?"
The Clippers are in Los Angeles, sharing the Staples Arena with the Lakers. Of course, Thomas raised his hands and feet in approval. "Of course it's best if you can, but will Sterling sell it?"
"Not for the time being, but Sterling is getting older and no one in the family works for the team. I can buy some first and then buy the whole Clippers when he stops playing. Now the question is, how to make He is willing to sell part of it, or let other small shareholders be willing to sell their shares."
Yang Rui will eat as much as others sell the Clippers shares. He knows that there is an acquisition opportunity in the future, that is, Sterling's "racial discrimination gate". The league will force him to sell the team, otherwise it will be difficult to see the Los Angeles team change the owner. .
In April 2014, the TMZ website exposed a recording of what appears to be a conversation between Sterling and his girlfriend.During the conversation, Sterling accused his girlfriend of posting a photo with "Magic" Johnson on social networks, and scolded her girlfriend for "don't bring black people to my game!"
As soon as the news came out, it set off a huge wave in the NBA, and Sterling became the object of criticism.Subsequently, the new NBA commissioner Adam Silva announced the penalty decision: fined Sterling $250 million, suspended for life, and will make every effort to force him to sell the Clippers.
Sterling said the racism was a conspiracy and he was raped by the woman.
Immediately afterwards, the media broke out that "Magic" Johnson wanted to buy the Clippers. For a time, conspiracy theories were flying all over the sky.
As a direct victim of Sterling's racial discrimination, Johnson entered the Clippers' home court in May under the support of NBA President Silver, senior official Vandeweghe, and Disney CEO Bob Iger. Their stealing Whisper is seen as negotiating a Clippers acquisition.
In the end, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer bought the Clippers from Donald Sterling for $20 billion.
The Clippers, who have never made it to the Western Conference finals, can sell for a sky-high price because they are located in Los Angeles. Sterling really doesn't want to sell it. He filed a lawsuit for this. up.
At that time, media broke the news that Yao Ming wanted to form a Chinese consortium to acquire the Clippers.
The commercial potential of the Clippers is obvious. In 16 years, Ballmer signed a broadcast contract with Fox Sports for a period of 6 years and 3 million US dollars, which is twice the previous price.
It is worth mentioning that Ballmer is also preparing to invest in the live broadcast network. In the future, the Clippers games may be broadcast on the platform under his name, which will make more money, but Yang Rui did not see that day in his previous life.
Facebook now broadcasts NBA games, and Yang Rui is more likely than Ballmer to have his own OTT (provide various application services to users through the Internet) streaming media network live broadcast system.As long as Yang Rui can lead the team to suppress the Lakers, the Clippers will be a super cash cow in the future.
Yang Rui explained his thoughts. Thomas also thinks that this cake is too big and must not be missed. It is worthy of long-term layout.As long as they can acquire the Clippers in 5 years, they will make a lot of money.
Having an NBA team for direct profit is only one aspect. The biggest role is advertising, just like the former Rockets owner Alexander.
He is often hailed as a typical example of a poor NBA boss, but Yao Ming was selected, and his net worth soared from the "deputy squad leader" of 30 NBA team owners to tied for ninth place.
Alexander said: "As you all know, I want to thank Yao Ming and Maddie, especially after Yao Ming came, he brought me 12 billion fortune. Because developing the Chinese market is my biggest business opportunity. The bottom of the NBA has become the ninth positive number, and my current goal is to increase the amount of my assets to be larger than the population of China."
Later, Alexander really did it and became one of the richest team owners in the United States. In 17, the Rockets were valued at 16.5 billion, and the final transaction price is expected to exceed 30 billion.
Sterling is also an example. If he is not the owner of the Clippers and is purely engaged in the real estate business, not many people will be willing to cooperate with him, because no one knows him.With the clipper's advertisement, other people will be much bolder in business cooperation with him, and the monk can't run away from the temple.
Thomas smiled and said: "I will look for someone to set up a project and study how to make Sterling willing to invite you to coach the Clippers and buy shares. There is a problem. The Clippers have always been a bad team. You can lead the team when you go there. Do you beat the Lakers?"
"It's easy." Yang Rui said with a smile, his self-confidence exploded.
There is a specialization in the art industry. For such things as buying a team, professionals must bargain and lead the team to win. Yang Rui is the best at it.
Now the Clippers have two potential newcomers, Blake Griffin and Eric Gordon. DeAndre Jordan is a potential player for the time being. There is room for improvement on the defensive end, and the style of play attracts fans.
The Clippers also have a second-rate star, Chris Kaman, who can pull out to pick and roll mid-range shots, and can attack in the low post. As a bargaining chip, he can also get a good player back.
The others are a group of inexperienced players. The biggest good news is that the Clippers did not sign Baron Davis on a long-term contract with a high salary, and the team lacked a super bad contract.
In Yang Rui's previous life, the Clippers traded with the Cavaliers in order to clear Davis' rotten contract and packaged an unprotected draft right before returning to Mo Williams.Then, the Cavaliers used that 11-year draft pick to draw the No. [-] pick and selected Kyrie Irving, and the Clippers suffered a huge loss.
Although the Clippers' role players are not very useful, at least the contract is not too bad, and it can still be done if you want to trade them out.
In addition, the Clippers have salary space. There are many "big fish" in the 10-year free market, and it will work if you catch one.
As long as Griffin is reimbursed next season, the Clippers will rot, and the 10-year draft will not be lower. Yang Rui will be able to choose another potential rookie.
The only thing that gave Yang Rui a headache was how to get along with the Clippers owner Sterling. This guy has too much negative news, stingy, sexual harassment, racial discrimination and so on.Yang Rui was afraid that he would have an unpleasant life because of the difference in personality.
Fortunately, he has a strong economic team behind him, and someone will give advice.
He can relax now and wait for the opportunity to join, next year, coach Dunleavy's contract expires.
(End of this chapter)