On the morning of January 29, representatives of New York's MSG Madison Garden Sports Group arrived in Los Angeles by plane and immediately went to the Great Western Forum Center in Inglewood to conduct a field tour of the arena and negotiate with the loyal Central Bible Church, the owner of the arena, to see how much it would cost to buy the legendary stadium.

The bishop of the church, Paul Foster, personally greeted MSG's representatives at the airport, led by MSG's commercial director Andrew Rust Kato, who is a trusted right-hand man of owner Roland, who worked at JPMorgan Chase Bank and later joined MSG, and has extensive negotiation experience for Dolan in handling the business affairs of the New York Knicks and New York Rangers.

This time he made a special trip to Los Angeles, and he was determined to get the Great Western Forum Arena, which is obviously a very high-quality asset, whether it is geographical location or cultural connotation, it is definitely worth buying it.

It's just that after the financial crisis, everyone's pocket money is not enough, and the league has also suffered a shutdown crisis, not only the NBA, but also the NFL was shut down last year, so the sports groups are not well funded.

MSG took advantage of New York's status as a financial center and New York's super-large sports market, and made profits year after year when the Knicks were performing poorly.

Now it is more than enough to cooperate with JPMorgan Chase to buy a stadium on the West Coast, but I didn't expect the Los Angeles Clippers to take the first step and start negotiations with the church, and even hit the price to $30 million.

This price is unacceptable to MSG and JPMorgan Chase, so JPMorgan Chase uses the political resources of the Los Angeles area to promise that if the church sells the Great Western Forum to MSG, the local government will ensure that the work of the stadium staff will not be laid off, and at the same time provide new prayer and activity venues for the church.

Of course, Min Congda's Chinese identity was also used as a lobbying condition, believing that selling the Great Western Forum to the Clippers was a compromise with China and a sale of American cultural assets to the Chinese.

Along the way, Rust Gato and Foster had a great conversation, and they mentioned the glorious history of the Great Western Forum, which was the preferred venue for many rock and pop stars to hold concerts in the 60s and 70s, and the Beatles, Led Zeppelins, Queens, Eagles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and other famous figures in music history have left their voices and figures.

The Great Western Forum has also left a lot of records in history when it comes to sports, with the Los Angeles Lakers not talking about the 1973 Alli match against Ken Norton, the 1982 Los Angeles Kings playoff Manchester Miracle, and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics as the main venue for basketball.

In short, in the hearts of Americans, the Great Western Forum Arena definitely has a very special status and has many national memory moments.

"I remember when I was a kid and one of my big dreams was to come to the Great Western Forum Arena to watch the NBA Finals! It was the '70s, and there was a lot of fighting between the Lakers and the Knicks, but unfortunately I didn't have any money at that time, I was too young. If we can buy the Great Western Forum for MSG, it will be a small conquest of Los Angeles by New Yorkers, right? Haha~"

Rust Gato joked with Foster in the car that the Lakers and Knicks were rivals in the '70s and met three times in the Finals in the '70s.

That was the last glory of the New Yorkers on the basketball court, and after that, they never won a championship again, but the Lakers went from strength to strength and became the league's No. 1 giant.

Foster smiled and didn't respond, thinking to himself that New Yorkers were really arrogant, and if it weren't for the church's fancy to JPMorgan's background and their promises, he would have thought that trading with the Clippers would be a good choice.

When the car drove to Inglewood and was about to arrive at the Great Western Forum Arena, several large garbage trucks appeared on the road one after another, and it seemed that they were also heading towards the stadium.

Foster opened the window and looked at it, feeling that something was wrong, there seemed to be a lot of people gathered on the way to the stadium, and there were cars, what the hell was going on?

When the car arrived near the arena, Foster smelled a foul odor and he hurriedly closed the window, it was the smell of garbage.

"Why does it stink so much?"

"I don't know, is it the garbage truck just now?"

Soon Foster and Rust Gato discovered that the square of the Great Western Forum Arena was filled with garbage.

The garbage trucks that had just passed by were indeed coming to the stadium, and several of them were dumping foul-smelling garbage into the square.

Foster hurriedly got out of the car, the stench was just on the surface again, he covered his nose and came to a garbage truck, banged on the door of the truck, and yelled, "Hey! Who are you? Why are you dumping garbage here! Are you crazy? Get rid of the trash! ”

The driver rolled down the window, pointed to the back, and said, "You go to our boss to talk, I'm only responsible for transporting things, and I don't care about anything else." ”

"Your heads? Who are your leaders? My God, it stinks. Damn, I'm going to call the police! ”

Foster pulled out his phone to call the police, when a short man in a gray tweed coat and a brown wire hat approached.

"Boy! Are you Bishop Foster? Oh my God, can a black man be a bishop... Are you Bishop Foster! ”

The little man's voice was so loud that Foster thought he was probably the leader, so he said, "That's right, I'm Bishop Foster." Did you ask them to bring the garbage? What the hell is going on? Why are you doing this? ”

The little man took off his hat and said, "Because your stadium has not paid the garbage disposal fee, it has been in arrears to us for a long time." ”

Foster said, "What? Garbage disposal fees? You... Okay, it's true that we don't pay a garbage disposal fee, but we haven't had an event for a while, we don't have any garbage at all, what do we pay for garbage disposal? And who are you? What does our stadium garbage disposal fee have to do with you? ”

The little man said, "Even if you don't produce garbage, you still have to pay a garbage disposal fee." This is the expected fee, hire us to dispose of the garbage, as for whether you produce garbage or not, it's your problem. You can not produce garbage, but you can't go unpaid. ”

Foster shook his head and said, "We've talked about this before, and we've never said it that way. ”

"Because you're talking about the wrong person, it's naturally different, understand?"

"I... Who are you? Who the hell are you? ”

"I'm Daniel Rossi, the head of garbage disposal in this area. When you pay the garbage disposal fee, the garbage will be disposed of, understand? Otherwise, garbage will come over every day, dump it here, and hand it over to you to dispose of. ”

Foster's seven orifices are smoking, and the garbage generated every day by the Great Western Forum Arena is indeed amazing because of the perennial activities.

However, during this time, the stadium is in a semi-closed state, there is no activity at all, and naturally there will be no garbage, and there will be no garbage disposal fees.

He took out his mobile phone and wanted to call the police, but the little man snatched the phone and said viciously: "Do you think the police will help you solve these problems?" Your real problem is to sell the Great Western Forum Arena to New Yorkers! New Yorkers come to Los Angeles to buy this legendary building? What are you thinking? I'm telling you, it's absolutely useless to call the police, and as long as you still think about selling the arena to New Yorkers, it's not over, never! ”

With that, Rossi got into a truck, and after the garbage trucks had dumped the garbage, they drove off and left piles of garbage on the arena square, making a mess.

Foster frowned and covered his nose in anger, he went back to the car first, and told Rust Kato that the stadium was in some trouble, and he wanted to postpone the visit.

Rustgato looked at the foul-smelling garbage on the square, and was not in the mood to admire the spectacle for a while, and he was afraid that he would have other troubles later.

"If you want to negotiate, you should solve some troubles first, and send him to the hotel first." m.

So, Foster instructed the driver to send Rust Kato and his party to the hotel first.

He immediately called the stadium's executive manager, Akchi, and the gym's security department.

Manager Akchi said: "The people in the security department resigned en masse this morning, so there is no one to stop these cars at all. ”

"The people in the security department quit their jobs? Why? Well, even if the stadium is sold, they won't lose their jobs. ”

Akchi said: "Mr. Foster, the people in the security section are all from Sloan Security, and as far as I know, the Clippers are a big customer of Sloan Security. ”

"Clippers? What do you mean, today's incident is the Clippers' ghost? ”

"I don't know. The little man just now is Daniel Rossi, and he has contracted most of the garbage disposal in Inglewood, and he is Italian. ”

"Shet, Italian...... Are the Clippers looking for trouble from the mafia? Damn it, if that's the case, it's going to be troublesome. ”

Foster sensed that the deal between the Great Western Forum and the New Yorkers might not be so smooth.

He wouldn't have thought that Min Congda, the general manager of the team, would have such great energy?

Come to think of it, at a price of $30 million, he must be determined to win the Great Western Forum.

Some people died, but not completely......