Chapter 635: [Purchase target, long-term layout]

As for buying the Warriors, Yang Rui also gave up.
In the previous life, in 2010, Joey Lacob bought the Warriors and only invested 450 million US dollars. After the Warriors won the championship twice, the valuation reached 2.6 billion US dollars. The purchase of the Warriors is stable and profitable. Yang Rui also hates the geographical location .
Every time people talk about the Warriors, they will naturally mention San Francisco, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and other famous areas. Few people talk about the city of Oakland where the Warriors host.
But if you are a resident of Auckland, you will know that the above areas are too far away from you, even in San Francisco across the bridge.
Yang Rui asked his agent John to investigate and found that Oakland is still one of the cities with the highest crime rate in the United States. It is notorious for residents in other places and talks about tigers.
Auckland’s downtown area 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, there are many cases of theft and car theft. If you dare to leave items such as GPS or mobile phone in a place visible in the car, then the window must be broken the next day.
It is a miracle that the Warriors can rise in this place.
Excluding those two teams, the only candidates left are the Kings and Clippers.
Within a few years, the King’s boss, the Maruf brothers, would also sell the team, but the King chose Thabeet... God can’t save them.
Yang Rui asked: "How do you like to buy the Clippers, Tom?"
The Clippers are in Los Angeles and share the Staples arena with the Lakers. Of course Thomas raised his hands and feet and raised his limbs in favor. "Of course it is best if you can buy it, but will Sterling sell it?"
"No for the time being, but Sterling is old and no one is working on the team at home. I can buy a part first, then wait for him to stop playing, and then buy the Clippers. The question now is, how to make He willingly sold part of it, or made other small shareholders willing to sell shares."
Yang Rui eats as much as the Clippers stock sells. He knows that there will be an acquisition opportunity in the future, which is Sterling's "racism door". The league will force him to sell the team, otherwise it will be difficult for the Los Angeles team to change the boss. Too.
In April 2014, the TMZ website exposed a recording of a conversation that was suspected of Stirling and his girlfriend. During the conversation, Sterling accused his girlfriend of taking photos with Johnson on the social network and angered his girlfriend "Don't bring black people to my game!"
When the news came out, there was a huge wave in the NBA, and Sterling became the object of criticism. Subsequently, Adam Silva, the new president of the NBA, announced a penalty decision: fined Stirling $2.5 million, suspended for life, and will make every effort to force him to sell the Clippers.
Sterling stated that racial discrimination was a conspiracy, and he was set by the woman.
Immediately afterwards, the media broke out that "Magic" Johnson wanted to buy the Clippers. For a time, conspiracy theories were flying.
As the direct victim of Sterling's racial discrimination, Johnson entered the Clippers home to watch the ball under the left and right clusters of NBA President Xiao Hua, senior official Vanderbilt, and Disney CEO Bob Iger in May. Whispering is seen as negotiating the acquisition of the Clippers.
Finally, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer bought the Clippers from Donald Sterling for $2 billion.
The Clippers who have never made it to the Western Conference finals can sell sky-high prices because it is located in Los Angeles. Go up.
At that time, some 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 and Fox Sports signed a rebroadcast contract for a period of six years of 300 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 himself. In the future, the Clippers game may be broadcast on the platform under his name. That way, he will earn more, but Yang Rui did not see that day in his previous life.
Facebook now broadcasts NBA games. Yang Rui is more likely than Ballmer to have his own OTT (provide various application services to users through the Internet) streaming media 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 to be missed. It is worth a long-term layout. As long as they can acquire the Clippers within 5 years, they will make a lot of money.
Owning an NBA team for direct profit is only one aspect. The biggest role is advertising, just like the previous rocket owner Alexander.
He is often hailed as a model of poor NBA bosses, but Yao Ming has been selected, and his net worth has soared to tie for ninth place with the "vice-squad leader" of 30 NBA team owners.
Alexander said: "You all know that I want to thank Yao Ming and McGrady, especially after Yao Ming came, he brought me 1.2 billion of wealth. Because the development of the Chinese market is my biggest business opportunity. The penultimate NBA has become the ninth positive. My current goal is to increase my assets to more than the Chinese population."
Later, Alexander really did, and became one of the richest team owners in the United States. In 17 years, the Rockets were valued at 1.65 billion, and the final transaction price is expected to exceed 3 billion.
Stirling is also an example. If he is not the owner of the Clippers and simply engages in the real estate business, not many people are willing to cooperate with him because no one knows him. With the advertisement of the Clippers, others have become more courageous in business cooperation with him.
Thomas said with a smile: "I'll go back and find someone to set up a project to study how to make Sterling willing to invite you to the Clippers to teach and buy shares. There is a problem, the Clippers have always been a bad team~EbookFREE.me~ Can you lead the team to turn the Lakers?"
"It's easy." Yang Rui smiled, bursting with confidence.
In the art industry, there is a specialty. Such a matter of acquiring a team requires professional talents to bargain and lead the team to win. Yang Rui is the best.
Now the Clippers have two potential newcomers, Blake Griffin and Eric Gordon. De Andrew Jordan is also a potential player. There is room for improvement on the defensive end. The style of the game attracts fans. The score is all based on dunks.
The Clippers also have a second-rate star, Chris Kaman, who can pull out to pick and roll the midfielder, can attack in the low post, and can trade back to a good player as a bargaining chip.
The other is a group of non-influential players. The biggest good news is that the Clippers did not sign a long-paid Byron Davis, and the team has a super bad contract.
In Yang Rui’s previous life, the Clippers traded with the Cavaliers to clean up Davis’ bad contract and packaged an unprotected draft pick before replacing Mo Williams. Then, the Cavaliers used that 11-year draft pick to win the No. 1 pick and chose Kyrie Irving. The Clippers suffered a loss.
Although the Clippers role players are not very useful, at least the contract is not too bad, you can still do it if you want to trade.
In addition, the Clippers have salary space, and there are many "big fish" in the free market for 10 years.
As long as Griffin is reimbursed next season, the Clippers will rot, and the 10-year draft picks will not be low. Yang Rui will be able to pick another potential newcomer.
The only thing that makes Yang Rui a headache is how to get along with Clippers owner Sterling. There are too many negative news, stigmatization, sexual harassment, and racial discrimination. Yang Rui was afraid of having a big personality difference and had an unhappy life.
Fortunately, he has a strong economic team behind him, and some people will make suggestions.
He can relax now and wait for the opportunity to join. Next year, coach Dunleavy's contract will expire.