Chapter 139: The Heart Is Big
"You're kidding me!" Li Zhixian's first reaction when he heard that Joe wanted to buy the team was that this kid must be lying to me.
In recent years, including the next few years, the most famous thing is that Jordan bought the Bobcats at a low price to become the poorest owner in the NBA, and the Russian ~ Ross tycoon bought the Nets and moved his home court to Brooklyn, New York, and the current Clippers owner Donald was forced to confiscate the team due to the problem of racial ~ racial discrimination ~ Steve Ballmer bought the Clippers. There are also some more speechless Pelicans who are dead to the future of the current Hornets, and the boss directly sells the team after winning the champion thick eyebrows, as if to say, look at me to sell the team at a low price, and give away the champion, but the Hornets were raised by the league that year. David Stern was also half angry, if it was a good team, it would still make a little money, but a bad team like the Hornets that year, no one watched the game, and they couldn't enter the playoffs.
No rich man is a fool, the most popular sport in the country is rugby, but the most popular sport in the world is basketball. If you have an NBA team, and you have a big player on the team, then you have made a lot of money, and if the team is stronger, then it can even promote the development of your main industry, because as the team develops, you also become a well-known person, the most famous is the owner of the Mavericks, Cuban, who is known as the NBA who knows the most about basketball and is also the owner who has the best relationship with the players, and this name has also brought him unlimited income.
However, owning an NBA team is sometimes a double-edged sword, and if you take a stake in the team's garbage, then you may still lose money, which is why many owners quit, and the salaries of stars and other personnel every year, as well as the maintenance of the arena are huge sums of money. So why does the boss need a good general manager the most, only in this way will he bring big names or discover potential players, promote the team, and then what the championship has the opportunity to win, whether there is a chance or not is not the key, money is the most important thing.
Joe has the advantage of memory, and there is a system that is still being upgraded infinitely, although the system is very pitiful, and it has been upgraded, but it can be seen that the advantage of player attributes is enough for Joe to set up a super team. Instead of looking at other people's faces and getting angry, it's better to have a team yourself.
But it's not easy to buy a team, first of all, don't talk about money, as an active NBA player, you are not allowed to buy a team, and although the player has money, it is not strong enough to buy a team, most NBA players are spending a lot of money after they have money, and there are not a few who go bankrupt after retirement. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many NBA players, only Jordan bought the team after retiring. Joe had to admire Jordan for having a vision, and he was very lucky, he bought a bobcat at a super low price, although he was the poorest boss, but he also had his own hand in life, and he knew that what he knew best was basketball, so he did this business, although his eyes were a little watery, but he still had a business mind.
Joe's thoughts are the same, his memory is only until 2015, and after 2015 his investment can only be relied on luck. Fortunately, there is still a system of storage, and even if you retire at that time, I believe you can organize a super team.
And the team that Joe has his eye on is the Los Angeles Clippers. At this time, Donald has not yet been exposed to the remarks of ~racial discrimination~, but he has actually been planning to sell the Clippers, and he has lost a lot of money on the Clippers. However, the Clippers can be considered the least popular team in the NBA.
First: The Clippers and the Lakers share a court, Staples Center, because the Lakers have Kobe, the Clippers' reputation has not been as good as the Lakers, after the NBA introduced **** fans know the Lakers as soon as they mention Los Angeles, as for the Clippers, I'm sorry Los Angeles has a second team? Even if O'Neal is gone a few years ago and the Lakers' record plummets, fans prefer to watch the Lakers lose rather than watch the Clippers win. Without their own history and their own big-name players, the Clippers may never be a match for the Lakers. So buying the Clippers fame is definitely a loss.
Second: price, because it is located in Los Angeles, the second largest city in the country, has a large market, which is why the Clippers in NBA2k15 have become the favorite option of many people in the manager model, and the big cities are more marketable. So the Clippers are definitely more expensive than the other smaller city teams. And without its own home turf, and at such an expensive price, who wants to buy it.
So Donald can only gnaw on the Clippers by himself all the time.
After analysis, Joe thinks that Donald wants to dump the Clippers to explode ~ racial discrimination ~ see, it's really too scheming.
If it weren't for the fact that there were real fans like Steve Ballmer, and the Clippers had Paul and Griffin and Jordan Jr. at that time, it is estimated that the league would have to raise the Clippers again, and in the end they may "not be able to raise" (in fact, they don't want to waste money) and be forced to cancel.
Maybe for others, the Clippers can only be said to be chicken ribs, and it will be difficult for Kobe Bryant to turn over without leaving the Lakers, unless there is a star who is more famous than Kobe Bryant who can suppress the Lakers.
It's not a boast, Joe is the man who wants to be the man who is more famous than Kobe, shoots better than Maddie, and outsmarts James. Well, the blowing component is still very high, but people don't just have to be a little ambitious.
If there is a real chance to have a team, Joe can build a team that can really be a dream team, and it will work much better together than the dream team.
Imagination is limitless, and reality doesn't have to be cruel. What do you want to buy a team, money, when it comes to money, uh, Joe doesn't. Even if there is, it is no fun to buy an NBA team without 230 million US dollars, and Jordan's luck is basically none. But the money is coming soon, this is not Apple's new iPhone1 is about to go on sale, Joe has already filmed an advertisement some time ago, and Jobs also said that the iPhone1 is estimated to be on sale after the playoffs. Knowing the sales volume of smartphones, the money will definitely be available by then. And as mentioned earlier, NBA players can't buy teams, so Joe has to find someone to come forward.
Originally, Carey was a very suitable candidate, but everyone knew that Carey was Joe's agent, and this cheating was too obvious. So Joe thought of Steve Jobs, Apple's current CEO.
After the release of the iPhone 1, Jobs is destined to become the top 10 richest people in the Fox version, if not at least, at least 10 billion or 20 billion US dollars. In this life, Jobs has no health problems, and it is estimated that there will be no such thing as a full donation of property, at least not for now. As one of the shareholders of Apple, it is not as exaggerated as Jobs, and it should be no problem to have a few hundred million.
And as a rich man, Jobs is not a problem at all to start an NBA team, and no one will think of Joe, although everyone knows that Jobs and Joe are "full of love" for the pair of Joe, but a rich man and a player, no one can associate Joe with the real boss of the team.
Of course, Joe discussed this matter with Jobs, and Jobs was shocked, but he felt that Joe's idea was normal and quite supportive. Although he thinks more about Apple, no one will hate having an extra industry under his name, although it is not his own. But he's also happy to be a nominal boss.
It depends on the results of the release of the mobile phone, if it is not like in the previous life, then let alone making money, Joe himself lost all the money for the Adidas sneakers, which is nearly 100 million. Although some of them are in other places, but after all, they are only small portions, and Apple is the big one.
But now Joe's most important task is to explain his thinking to Lee Ji-hyun.
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