"Adam, what is Richard doing now?" Stern sat in his office, rubbing his forehead, apparently frustrating him as well.

Xiao Hua smiled bitterly, "There was no action, after the press conference, his side calmed down, but the players were quite restless, and the possibility of a strike in recent days was not ruled out." ”

"Hey......" Stern sighed, now he wanted to strangle Sterling to death.

Stern is absolutely unacceptable to the scene of a player strike, which will cause irreparable huge losses to the NBA league.

"Is there any evidence that Richard is behind this?" Stern asked, frowning.

Xiao Hua shook his head......

Many people suspect that Richard did this, but no one has any evidence, so no one dares to say this.

The last person to mess with Richard was named Sterling......

If there is no evidence, go and bite Richard, it's strange that Richard can let him go.

So now there is a situation where everyone knows it, but everyone doesn't talk about it.

"This person is really terrible!"

"More than ten years ago, he was just a stunned young man, but he didn't expect that after more than ten years, he would be ruthless to this point." Stern was also a little frightened......

This incident directly forced Sterling to the edge of the cliff, and it is the kind of cliff where he has to jump if he doesn't jump, anyway, there is absolutely no place for him in the NBA league.

"Mr. President, we should act quickly on this matter, otherwise the impact will be very bad, and it may even make the fans feel that we are shielding Sterling." Xiao Hua said with a serious face.

Stern nodded, he didn't know this, but there should always be a process for everything, and the alliance didn't even start an investigation at the moment......

"Forget it, skip the investigation process, there's nothing to investigate anyway."

"Tomorrow I will notify the NBA owners to have a meeting, and they must have better come to this meeting in person." Stern said with a long sigh.

There is only one purpose for this meeting, and that is to vote on whether Raheem Sterling can stay in the coalition......

The voting hasn't started yet, but the outcome is certainly foregone, even if 29 of the 30 teams in the NBA today have white owners......

Even if there must be someone like Sterling in this gang of bosses, no one will risk the world's condemnation to stand up for Sterling at this meeting, and it will definitely be self-defeating.

"Adam, when this is over, I will consider retiring, now that I am old, I really don't have the energy to deal with these headaches." After setting up the meeting, Stern suddenly burst into words.

"It could be the end of this season, or it could be the end of next season, you prepare well, and I'll let you take over my shift."

Xiao Hua was stunned for a moment, although he had known that there would be such a day, but he didn't expect this day to come so early.

After leaving Stern's office, Xiao Hua was still a little unable to calm down, and it wouldn't be long before he could sit in the position of president?

Under his leadership, how will the NBA develop by then? Will it be better than the league that Stern is forging right now? Or is it better than now?

……

Xiao Huamali informed the owners of each team that this matter must be resolved as soon as possible, and if it drags on, it will not be beneficial to anyone.

After the Pirates were notified, Richard and Jordan decided to go to New York together to attend the meeting.

The reason is very simple, Richard is the bitter master of this incident, and Jordan, as the only black boss in the league at present, is not suitable for either of them, and they must play.

On the plane to New York, Jordan sat next to Richard.

"Li, did you promote this incident?" Jordan was a little curious, and couldn't help but ask Richard.

Right now, it's not just Jordan, it's the people who doubt Richard......

"No, Michael, do you think I'm that powerful?" Richard asked with a smile.

Jordan nodded solemnly.

"Lee, you're more powerful than we thought."

"I have a strange feeling that maybe our relationship won't last long." Jordan looked at Richard with deep meaning.

Richard didn't respond to Jordan, just a faint smile on his face.

"Lee, if you have the idea of selling the shares of the Pirate team at that time, please let me have the right of first refusal."

Jordan said with a sigh.

Richard nodded imperceptibly, and if all goes well to the point where he wants to sell the Pirates stake, he will definitely sell to Jordan first.

……

As soon as he got off the plane, Richard's mobile phone received a news link from Sun Xiaoben.

Richard clicked in and was surprised to find that it was an interview with Magic Johnson.

In this incident, the magician, like Richard, was scolded by Sterling by name, and it is quite normal for him to be interviewed at the moment.

The only thing that is not normal is that the Magic actually mentioned in this interview that he wants to form a team to buy the Clippers......

……

Magic is one of the best retired players, and it seems that in addition to Jordan, Magic makes more money after retiring.

A few days ago, some media reported that the total net worth of the magician is now 800 million US dollars.

It seems that the net worth of 800 million US dollars seems to be a lot, but if you really want the magician to take out the cash, he estimates that he will not even be able to take out 100 million US dollars.

He is engaged in the real industry, for example, many Starbucks stores have half of his shares, and he has also invested in restaurants......

These properties are all magicians' old books, and he will not sell all his old books in order to buy the Clippers.

If the Clippers don't do well, who will he talk to when the time comes.

That's why he thought of forming a consortium to jointly buy the Clippers.

Based on the memories of his previous life, Richard also knew that the Magic had the idea of buying the Clippers after Sterling's accident.

But in Richard's view, the Magic is not the biggest competitor, and it can even be said that it is not even a competitor.

Richard's real rival is Ballmer, who just took over from Bill Gates in '08 and is now president of Microsoft.

In terms of net worth, he is not as good as Paul Allen now, but it won't be long before he can surpass Paul Allen's ranking on the Forbes rich list.

Under normal circumstances, Ballmer spent $2 billion to win the Clippers in 14 years......

Interestingly, at that time, in addition to magicians, his competitors also included Yao Ming.

Yao Ming would normally retire 14 years ago, and he was in a similar situation to the Magic at the time, and he also thought about forming a consortium to buy the Clippers.

As a result, the two were directly blinded by Ballmer's big dealings, and they originally predicted that the value of the Clippers would be between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion, but Ballmer directly smashed 2 billion ......

And now because the time point is a full four years in advance, the Clippers are definitely not worth that much money, and the market value of each team announced by ESPN last season is not as high as the market value of the Pirates, about $630 million.

Even so, Richard feels that the Clippers' premium will definitely be quite serious at that time, even if Ballmer is not involved, the Clippers will be close to a billion dollars at that time!

And if Ballmer were to get involved, it would be a billion dollars.

The only thing that Richard is fortunate for is that Ballmer's worth is not particularly exaggerated at the moment, with less than 10 billion US dollars, and he probably does not have the confidence to directly spend 2 billion to buy the Clippers.

……

"Johnson wants to buy the Clippers?" Jordan also saw the news and couldn't help laughing.

"This guy thinks a little too much, how can the team in Los Angeles be bought by him."

"Lee, I'm going to raise as much money as I can in the near future, just the money I raise here can beat three Johnsons, and I don't know what this guy is thinking."

Hearing Jordan's words, Richard smiled and shook his head, he didn't take Johnson seriously at all, what he wanted to know most at the moment was whether there was any movement on Ballmer's side.

Richard calculated that the market value of the Pirates last season was around $700 million, and if he sold half of his stake to Jordan, he would get $350 million.

I have some projects that don't have much potential, but I can also sell them, and I can probably make up 500 million US dollars at that time.

lent the Golden Dragon $350 million before, and now the Golden Dragon will definitely not be able to pay it back in one hand, but it shouldn't be a problem to take out about $150 million......

If you calculate it this way, he probably has a billion dollars of capital, which is the capital he can take out at the moment without breaking his muscles and bones.

If you sell those stocks with unlimited potential plus equity, it will definitely be a different matter.

But Richard certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to move those potential stocks......

A billion dollars is Richard's limit now, and if Ballmer doesn't participate, this billion dollars will be almost enough.

And if Ballmer is going to enter the arena to stir up, it will be difficult to say.

But Richard is not too worried, he still has the strong backing of Paul Allen, he can't die without help......

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