Chapter 845 [Acquisition Plan, Final List]
On September 10, Robert Smith brought his brother Matt to Guo Xu and said that he would ask him some questions about the NBA.
"You're very eye-catching, and I want to ask, do you think NBA teams are worth investing in? I want to buy the Warriors. As soon as Matt spoke, Guo Xu was taken aback.
Warriors owner Chris Cohen did consider selling the team, and a few years ago, there were rumors that Cohen would sell his stake. This summer, the same news has been circulating again, and it is becoming more and more real.
Cohen is tired, and the Warriors have become almost synonymous with weirdness and failure over the past 15 years under his leadership. He's tried to be the owner of the fans, he's tried to be a winner, but he just can't get results.
The Warriors are well-located and have a market in the San Francisco Bay Area, and they are supposed to be easy to succeed, but they just miss something.
After trading to Kobe, the Warriors still failed to make the playoffs, and Cohen finally made up his mind.
The Smith family's desire to buy an NBA team is a butterfly effect caused by Guo Xu, and Matt was not a competitor in his previous life, and he is not familiar with the NBA at all. Now it's different, the Smiths and Guo Xu are allies, they started to follow the NBA and learn about the NBA, and they want to buy a team to advertise their own industry.
In the past, they were just invisible rich people who were in the limelight, and they were not well-known outside the circle, but as they met Guo Xu and Robert to marry Britney, they began to gradually come to the forefront. At present, the global economy is not in good shape, and investing in the NBA is the way to go.
"Of course you can buy it, I'm optimistic about the development potential of the NBA." Guo Xu directly gave a positive answer.
Robert chimed in: "Are you sure? I've heard that the 2011 collective bargaining agreement was not negotiable, and that a lot of teams were losing money. ”
"Yes, the NBA is also in a recession now, but in a few years it will be different, the NBA will become a dominant league in the basketball world, because this year's Olympics I and the Dream Eight team easily won the championship, fans can see the gap between other leagues and the NBA, if the 2010 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics The United States team wins the championship again, the commercial value of the NBA will continue to increase."
At this time, only a few people thought that investing in NBA teams had a future, and in Guo Xu's previous life, Warriors' future owner Joey Lacob was engaged in venture capital.
Matt smiled and asked, "Jason, will you consider the Warriors playing in the future?" Or are you planning to play until retirement with the Suns? ”
"I didn't think about this, even if I don't go to the Warriors to play, I can give you some advice on how to build a team." Guo Xu replied.
Matt smiled, "Okay, I'll form a group to discuss the acquisition of the Warriors." ”
Guo Xu is not joking, he has won too many games, and people have become a little floating, he now has a Hong Kong comic mentality, and he is always invincible and boring, even if the warriors are formed like in their previous lives? It might be more fun to play more intensely.
There is just a problem, many people know about his relationship with the Smith family, maybe some people will question match-fixing?
Considering that Adam Silva will cooperate with the bookmaker when he becomes president in the future, Guo Xu's matter does not seem to be a problem.
Matt is likely to be the winner, because the Smiths' financial resources are not comparable to Lacob's, and if they decide to buy, they will definitely be able to outbid the other party. Cohen must have been the one who bid high and sold to whom, and there was no reason to sell it cheaply.
In recent years, Cohen has also been investigated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for tax evasion, which can be described as a troublesome problem. To add insult to injury, the Warriors also reported management infighting, which caused the whole team to be disheartened. Guo Xu knew that the Warriors would change hands in the summer of 2009.
A player can't buy a team, otherwise he wants to buy the Warriors for fun. When he retires in the future, he will have a team to run and will always be tied to the NBA.
It's not the key to make money from the team, it's a live advertisement, and it's convenient to do other businesses, and everyone will know the boss through the team.
In the previous life, the Warriors began to rise in 2013 after changing owners, winning three NBA championships in four years in 15 years and becoming the hottest super team in the league. Lacob bought the Warriors for 450 million, how much was it worth later?
In 2018, the Warriors were valued at a staggering $3 billion, how many times did they earn? Cohen's blood is lost, and it is estimated that his intestines are repentant.
Guo Xu does not participate in anything about the acquisition of the Warriors, he just has nothing to do with him, and when the team really changes hands, he will not have any controversy.
Guo Xu will play for the Warriors in the future, it's not impossible to consider, now he is very happy with Brian Colangelo, it is based on his youth, and when he is 35 years old, his state has declined, who is sure that he will continue to be happy?
It's not uncommon for NBA stars to be unable to get big contracts after their form declines, and to be forced to take a pay cut or be swept away. Maybe Brian will suddenly go crazy one day, in Guo Xu's previous life, this guy did a lot of stupid things.
He has been exposed to lashing out at his team and players on social media with multiple trumpets, including blaming star Embiid, as well as Okafor, who has been snubbed by the 76ers, and he also slammed 76ers' former manager Hinkey. All of this has caused an uproar in the whole public opinion.
Of course, if Brian is not stupid enough to build a trumpet spraying Guo Xu, only crazy people will do it. Guo Xu firmly believes that he must have won more championships than Jordan at the age of 35, and he was probably the first person in NBA history at that time. He's only 27 years old now, and he still has 8 years to go.
In September, the Suns finalized the spot, selecting 37-year-old veteran Brent Barry, making up a 15-man roster.
Barry is well-rounded, can shoot threes, has good passing awareness, and has the physicality to keep up with the pace of the game at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions. He's not exactly a mascot mixed ring, and he can play for a few minutes from time to time.
Guo Xu and the Suns completed a contract extension, with a maximum salary of 5 years, which will be implemented from next season, with a player option in 2012 and expiring in 2013. At that time, Guo Xu will be 32 years old, and he will be able to sign another big contract.
Guo Xu didn't sign for 6 years, and it was very embarrassing in 2014, and it was not appropriate for players to sign long-term and short-term contracts, because in 2015, the NBA as a whole began to raise salaries, and any role player had an annual salary of 10 million. Guo Xu's plan is to sign a three-year contract from 2013 to 2016, and if he does not retire at the age of 35, he can catch up with the tail of the salary increase and sign a few years with a high salary.
He may not have cared about making money by playing at that time, but the size of the player's contract and whether the maximum salary is an intuitive reflection of the value of the star, and he didn't agree to give too little. Some stars cut their salaries in order to have better teammates to hit the championship, and Guo Xu can also impact the championship without superstar teammates.
When Guo Xu bought a house in Los Angeles, many Suns fans were a little worried, for fear that he would suddenly make a statement to return to the Lakers. If the Lakers want to welcome him back, there is no way, just send Joe Johnson away and not exchange for a player. Bogut is still on a rookie contract, and Ellis and Artest are not on large contracts to free up salary space.
Now that Guo Xu has completed the contract renewal, fans are relieved.
At the press conference for the contract renewal, Guo Xu also explained the reason for buying a house in Los Angeles. "Phoenix is too hot, Los Angeles is more suitable for vacation, I like to stay in Los Angeles during my vacation, and I want to live there when I retire in the future, and I don't have to worry about me joining the Lakers or the Clippers."
He stayed until the end of September, when Guo Xu returned to Phoenix, and the two cats, Steve and Bucky, stayed in Los Angeles for Jason Statham to help watch, and recently his cousin moved into his house, and the two talked nonsense every day.
After "Inception", Statham also became popular, and the film appointments continued, but there were no big productions, they were all action movies of the same type.
The good news is that he has done the starring role, and he is no longer playing a villain or playing a show......