However, after the second round of bidding, most of the consortiums announced that they had withdrawn from the bidding.

This price has completely exceeded market expectations.

The Nets market is good, but given its current situation, no amount of money is simply not appropriate.

Among all the buyers, the only ones left were the consortium headed by Boss Ma and Tang Tian, as well as the consortium headed by David Gefen.

The only competitor is also pitiful, and they are not willing to give up easily after successive losses in the Clippers and Hawks acquisitions.

At the critical moment, Boss Ma spoke the same as Ballmer at the beginning: I have enough interest in owning the Nets, and I believe that I will have the Nets.

This kind of déjà vu speech is immediately reminiscent of Ballmer at the beginning.

Although there is still a gap between Boss Ma and Ballmer, this gap is definitely not big, and he said this completely out of his ambition.

After the third round of bidding came out and the price climbed to 1.4 billion, the consortium led by Ge Fen believed that what Boss Ma said was not empty words, and finally announced its withdrawal.

In this way, the consortium led by Boss Ma and Tang Tian successfully purchased 80% of the Nets' shares.

Prokhorov was also satisfied with the price and agreed to sell.

Of the 80 shares, according to the agreement, Boss Ma owns 41, and Tang Tian owns 39 shares.

In other words, Tang Tian became the second boss of the Nets!

Before the final agreement was signed, Tang Tian sold the 10 shares of the Thunder team, which was 50 million when he bought it before, and the price of the sale was 90 million, which nearly doubled.

With this sell-off, the valuation of the Thunder team has soared from the previous 500 million to 900 million.

This wave of sales by the Nets has raised the entire value of the league by a large margin.

And after this, it was time for Tang Tian to say goodbye to the Thunder team.

This was the last reason why he was hesitant to buy the Nets in the first place.

According to the rules, he can't own shares in both teams at the same time, and buying the Nets means he has to leave the Thunder.

Although this Thunder team was not selected by him, the system was built by him, and the three MVP-level cores have an extremely bright future, and if there is an opportunity to buy more shares, he will definitely not want to give up.

But sometimes that's the case, it's impossible to have everything as expected, and more often than not, people are faced with a choice between this and that.

Tang Tian made his choice.

Clayton and McClendon both sent their blessings to Tang Tian, this choice was completely understandable to them, and from the time Tang Tian first became the owner of the Thunder and asked for 10 shares, they knew that they would become people of the same class in the future.

Thunder fans are inevitably sad, after waiting for a year, they are waiting for the news of Tang Tian's departure.

Of course, the most disappointed are the players of the Thunder team, they unfortunately lost last season, and waited for Tang Tian to come back to lead them to revenge, but they didn't expect this to be the result in the end.

However, Tang Tian did not leave Oklahoma immediately, Hathaway and Swift's current physical condition is not suitable for the journey, and he will definitely wait until the child is born and rest for a month or two before leaving.

After participating in the bidding and returning to Oklahoma City, Tang Tian and the four young men of the Thunder team all talked on the phone.

"Coach Stevens is fantastic, and you're going to do a great job with him."

Tang Tian's message to them is very positive, in fact, it is also in his heart, in terms of tactical level and player positioning alone, Stevens is really not much worse than him, and this Thunder team will remain strong under his leadership.

Stevens came to visit him again, this time he stayed for dinner and talked a lot at the table.

Winning the championship with the team in the first year, becoming the best head coach in the second year, and basically becoming the official head coach in the third year, although there are some coincidences, Tang Tian did open up a broad road for Stevens as an NBA coach.

"Brad, you have to work hard, I'm looking forward to playing you in the finals in the future." Tang Tian raised his wine glass.

"I will." Stevens raised his glass and drank it down.

After bidding farewell to Stevens, Tang Tian waited for Hathaway and Swift to settle down, and then rushed back to Brooklyn.

Although the team has just been bought, and even the personnel are all the original people of the Nets, time waits for no one, and the draft and free agent market are coming soon.

After buying the Nets, Boss Ma returned to China, as expected, he just invested and didn't do anything, Tang Tian hung up the position of the team's executive president, and parachuted directly into the team.

This Nets team has a lot of his old acquaintances, aside from the "wolf king" Garnett, who was abused by him in the East, Livingston, who signed a three-year 15 million contract with the Nets last season, is also his old subordinate on the Thunder.

Of course, the closest thing to do is the team's head coach Kidd, who played for a year with the Thunder two years ago and won the only championship ring of his career with the team.

"Jason."

Tang Tian met Kidd in the arena, and the two of them were now different from before, but their familiarity with each other made them look more like old friends who talked about everything.

Of course, Tang Tian is not only here to chat, but also to prepare for the upcoming draft conference.

The Nets have freed up a lot of salary space when Pierce's contract expires this season, but not counting possible free agent signings, they still exceed the luxury tax by more than $20 million.

Joe Johnson, Deron Williams, Garnett, a bunch of veteran players occupy nearly 60% of the team's salary space.

And they don't have any picks this year!

It's a dead end, and something has to change.

"You want to trade Kevin for draft picks?" Kidd looked surprised when he heard Tang Tian's words.

"Yes, I know you played a lot in the trade for Kevin, but that's the only way to change." Tang Tian had no intention of concealing it.

He would have liked to send Joe Johnson and Deron away, but as it stands, unless they go out in the first round, 2015 is their only first round, and if that happens, the Nets will really be completely out of play, let alone not necessarily send them away.

So in this case, Garnett, who only has a one-year contract, is the best breakthrough.

In his previous life, Garnett was also sent to the Timberwolves this season, and he was also exchanged for Thaddeus Young.

"The question now is whether Kevin himself wants to go back to Minnesota, and if he doesn't want to go back, I want you to convince him." Tang Tian was still very direct.

Garnett has a trade veto, and if he doesn't agree, the Nets won't be able to send him away, which is another reason why he has to go to Kidd.

Kidd's expression was a little strange, and this matter was a little embarrassing for him.