As a mature professional sports league, the NBA operates in terms of both immediate and future interests, especially when selling a team, the selling price is important, but the development trend of the team after the change of owner is equally critical, and selling a team in the NBA is a matter of careful calculation.

So, Bruce, I hope you can be cautious when choosing your trade partners, and, in the current situation, the council has to say that there is no way for him to pass the council and eventually become the owner of the Nets until the results of the investigation are available... “

Nets owner Rabrus Ratner hung up the phone call from David Stern, the president of the league, his face was a little gloomy, and his expression was extremely depressed.

For Arthur Boleyn, the English earl, the ability to toss, while having a headache, I have to admire.

As I said before, although the team is the owner's asset and the owner has the right to sell the team, it is not so casual to sell it in the NBA, the NBA has relevant process regulations, and if you don't follow the rules, the team really can't sell it.

The 30 teams in the NBA are a whole, and there are interests involved in each other, and a team changing hands involves many interests, so it is not the boss who can call the shots.

Hence the NBA Board of Governors, an organization that often appears in major decisions about the NBA. The NBA Board of Governors is made up of team owners who have the power to make important decisions in the league.

According to the regulations, the transfer of any team in the NBA must be approved by the Board of Directors, and the specific way is to vote, in addition to the owners of the sales team, the owners of the other 29 teams must have three-quarters of the people agree before the team can be put on the shelf, which means that at least 22 owners must vote in favor.

Once the proposed sale of the team has been approved by the league council, the next step is to select a buyer. The NBA has a special finance committee to evaluate the value of the team and estimate what may happen after the change of ownership, and if the estimate is not conducive to the future development of the team, even if the owner determines that the buyer can only be eliminated.

To be honest, a bear with a background like Rokhorov can only impress the league council and agree to the team's trade agreement under various favorable conditions.

It has to be said that in terms of economic strength, Prokhorov, who once topped the list of Russian wealth in 2009, is undoubtedly quite rich, but it is also officially because of this, the league council is a little hesitant about whether to sell the Nets to Prokhorov. Prokhorov has a deeper background, and many bosses fear that Prokhorov's arrival will upset the economic balance of the alliance.

Especially under the demagogic hype of Arthur Boleyn, a young billionaire, teams with superstars have become hostile to Prokhorov, fearing that after he joins, he will set off a golden storm in the league and be poached.

What's even more depressing is that the Bald Eagles lawmakers have come out to publicly oppose the sale of the Nets to Prokhorov because Prokhorov has extensive investments in an African country, and the Bald Eagles are imposing economic sanctions on his country. In addition to this investment, there are rumors that many of Prokhorov's financial gains are coming from the wrong place.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the originally simple business behavior was expanded, and the NBA had to immediately launch an investigation into Prokhorov's qualifications in accordance with the prescribed procedures. Prokhorov was asked to provide the league with all the documents needed for the investigation, and the NBA began a series of qualification reviews.

No matter how helpless Nets owner Rabrus Ratner was, and how angry Prokhorov was, he could only obey the league rules and revoke the verbal agreement between them...

"Knock-"

"Come in. ”

"Boss, Mr. Arthur Boleyn is here, you see—" The secretary who pushed the door in, looked at the frowning boss La Bruce Ratner, and asked cautiously.

"Please!" said Labrusratner as he heard this, then got up from his boss's chair, straightened his suit, walked around his desk, and stood in the middle of the office, staring brightly at the office door.

Dressed in a crisp and close-fitting blue haute couture suit, the tall and straight Arthur, with a bright smile on his face, walked into the office, and La Bruce Ratner also smiled, took two steps forward, stretched out his hand and said, "Good afternoon, Mr. Boleyn... ”

"Good afternoon, take the liberty of visiting, I hope it doesn't bother you. Arthur shook hands with each other very politely and greeted each other.

"Hehe, not presumptuous at all, you are very welcome, please take a seat—" Labroules smiled happily and stretched out his hand to invite.

"Thank you. Arthur sat down on the sofa in the reception area of the office under the guidance of the other party, and asked for a cup of coffee under the courtesy of the other party.

When the two sat down relatively peacefully, they chatted a little inconsequential gossip at the beginning, and when the secretary brought in coffee, the two took two sips of coffee, and after a word of praise, Arthur put down the coffee cup, smiled and said straight to the point: "Mr. Ratner, the main reason for my rash visit this time is to talk to you about the Nets trade." ”

"Oh, please—" Ratner sighed as he looked at the young man in front of him, who was smiling kindly, but was very clever and unscrupulous, and was eager to hear what he had to say.

"Hehe, in the past few days, there has been a lot of uproar around the Nets' trade, and Prokhorov and I have had a lot of disputes over this.

Truth be told, there are a number of teams in the league that can be traded right now, like the Golden State Warriors, the Hornets, and the Wizards, so there's a lot of options, but the reason why I prefer the New Jersey Nets in your hands is because it's moving to Brooklyn, New York, and I love the city of New York and get half of the new court.

So, even if the Nets' record and foundation are the weakest of these trade teams, I don't care, because in my opinion, this is not a good thing, so that after taking over, I can rebuild without burden, use the draft chips in my hand, and spend a few years building a successful championship team.

I also have a football club in England that has been relegated for many years, and I bought it when it was on the verge of bankruptcy, and after this period of rebuilding, it has been renewed, and the whole club has come together to push for the next league, which is certainly something that I am very proud of.

Well, Mr. Ratner, having said all that, I just wanted to express my sincerity to you, I bought the Nets, not on a whim, but after careful consideration, I decided to invest, I will invest money and energy to make the Nets go to glory, please trust me!"

Arthur's eyes were sincere, and his words were extremely frank, hoping to impress the other party, to say that the other party has owned the Nets for so many years, without a little emotion, it is impossible, this time the reason why he will trade the team is also because he has to raise money to continue to develop his real estate project.

Arthur was also prepared for this, and continued: "I am very optimistic about the real estate market in New York, after the financial crisis, although the real estate market has not improved for the time being, but I am optimistic about its future, so I have also bought a lot of properties around the world.

I'm genuinely interested in your Atlantic Courtyard plan and would be more than willing to invest if I could!"

Arthur's last words were undoubtedly the last straw that broke the camel's back, and Ratner looked at Arthur and said, "Are you really willing to invest in the Atlantic Courtyard Project?"

"Of course, this is an opportunity to make money, not for the Nets, I deliberately used this project to curry favor with you, after all, no one will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on water, these days, I have conducted an in-depth investigation of your Atlantic Courtyard plan, and personally visited it, which is more certain of my decision to invest!" Arthur said with a confident smile on his face, very sincerely.

Hearing this, Ratner also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the Atlantic Courtyard project is undoubtedly his biggest heart problem, as long as the funds are in place to survive this time, he believes that this real estate project will be a great success.

Looking at Arthur's young smiling face, Ratner smiled lightly: "Well, Your Excellency Boleyn, your sincerity and honesty have touched me, 80% of the Nets' shares, including 45% ownership of the Barclays Center, 2. $300 million, if you agree, then it's yours!"