Naturally, there is nothing wrong with the acquisition legal documents prepared by the Morgan consortium, in fact, unless these big consortia want to trick people, they will hardly make such low-level mistakes, but Chen Zhiwen still needs to keep another hand for himself.

In addition, his own people have also been investigating the situation of the Lakers for a long time, and after determining that there is no problem in terms of debt, Chen Zhiwen signed happily.

"Mr. Chen, if you need a super villa in Los Angeles, you can come to me, I will be happy to serve you, this is part of the new Mid-Levels villa real estate in Los Angeles, you can take a look." The former owner of the Lakers, a middle-aged white man with a big belly, said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll consider it if I need to." Chen Zhiwen took the leaflet, nodded and said.

The former owner of the Lakers is the owner of a real estate company, in recent years, the oil crisis has led to the deterioration of the American economy and the increase in bank interest, and the real estate market has also fallen into a downturn.

It's a pity that Chen Zhiwen has no interest in this, mainly because, although he often comes to Los Angeles or New York, as long as he stays in a hotel, it is enough, because the hotel is in the city center, and it is also convenient for business talks.

As for the investment attributes, luxury homes in big cities such as Los Angeles and New York will indeed be more and more valuable in the future, but the growth is limited, and it is far inferior to Hong Kong.

"Okay, if you like any of them, you can always look for me." The middle-aged man said with a smile, and after a while, he said goodbye and left, as an elite figure in the mixed real estate market, he can still distinguish whether people are willing to buy a house or not, and he also knows when it is time to leave.

"Eric, congratulations on becoming the owner of the Lakers." Henry Morgan said with a smile.

"Haha, it's not a big deal, you can congratulate me when I buy Disney." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said: "You also said that basketball is not very popular in the United States, and only a few people like it. ”

"Eric, as I know you, if you buy a company, you will inevitably improve it, Disney Actually, I can imagine, maybe you have your way to make him stop the loss, but this basketball? I really don't understand. Henry Morgan asked.

Although Disney has a lot of problems, as long as there is money, it can still solve many problems in the short term, at least many problems can be solved on the surface, the simplest is to spend some money to renovate Disneyland, use various resources to advertise, such as his Henry's NBC TV station, theoretically can attract a large number of people to travel, maybe this is the opportunity, can save the two big parks, other aspects, cartoon characters, film business, really throw money down, please go to the existing management, hire more professional people, It is also possible to succeed.

Although the probability is not clear, there is always a chance to turn over, and Chen Zhiwen is very accurate in looking at future opportunities, and may have his own ideas.

But basketball? It's useless for anyone to come here, right? Even if Chen Zhiwen has the money to poach all the powerful players from other teams, it is useless to be strong in this kind of thing.

"Just wait for the opportunity, and I don't dare to pay tens of millions of dollars, so if I lose, I will lose." Chen Zhiwen shrugged indifferently and said.

In fact, he has no ability to take the initiative to promote the popularity of basketball, although Jordan can dig it up in advance, but the rise of basketball in the 80s is the most fundamental reason for the change of a CEO in the entire league, the new CEO has a very strong operational ability, and is good at using various policies to help various teams discover outstanding talents, and at the same time, in the promotion of this area, it is also doing its best.

Of course, Jordan's contribution is also indelible, his excellent ability has also become a focus of the league's publicity, and eventually Jordan has promoted the popularity of basketball, the league has taken the opportunity to grow, and everyone has obtained very high benefits.

……

After signing the contract and notarizing it, Chen Zhiwen delivered the first amount of $10 million in accordance with the contract, and waited for the rest to be traded three months later, which also gave the acquirer three months to check whether the acquired party had any hidden problems.

However, because of the signing of the contract, the money was not paid, but Chen Zhiwen already had the ownership of the Lakers.

"BOSS, the players below are all members of our team, and only 4 people have taken a leave of absence for various reasons, and they are not here today." Lakers coach Mike and Chen Zhiwen stood in the stands on the second floor and introduced to Chen Zhiwen.

"I heard we're going to play the 76ers soon?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Yes." Mike suddenly said with some embarrassment: "We have lost 2 games before, and now the brothers are working hard!" ”

"Hmm." Chen Zhiwen nodded, not paying too much attention.

Since he had already decided to buy the Lakers, the most basic information, he naturally did a good job of investigating.

The NBA has been around for a long time, but before the 80s, it was not well-known, and it was almost unknown outside the United States.

But this fame is actually only relatively speaking, it is not comparable to baseball and football in the United States, but it also has a lot of fans, and various popular playoff games and draft games in the 90s have been there for a long time.

Even last year, the Lakers were also one of the hegemons of the league, after all, they were headquartered in Los Angeles, and the boss behind it had strong financial resources, and long-term poaching or other means, including the purchase of rookie rights, etc., naturally made the Lakers a team that was not weak.

In fact, no matter what kind of sport, in the long run, it is still fighting for money, and a few situations are similar to the rise of Bull Jordan, which is a special case.

The Lakers have been in the era of strong lineups over the years, but the league has not yet risen, resulting in much lower popularity and value.

"When does the rookie game start?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"I'll have to wait another two months or so, usually in the summer and summer vacations!" Mike replied.

"Can we bypass the rookie game and go straight to college or high school to poach people?" Chen Zhiwen asked again.

"Of course you can, it's just that it's hard for us to really look at that many potential players, and we can only look at the players' abilities in the rookie game. But if you already like someone, you can directly ask him to sign a contract, as long as he agrees. Mike asked, a little strangely.

In fact, the league basically does not manage how to find high-quality rookies for each team, but it is difficult for each team to complete it independently. A long time ago, teams were communicating with university insiders to find suitable seedlings, but this was too inefficient, and they needed to send people to the university to investigate.

The follow-up league held a rookie game, recommended by various schools or basketball-related celebrities, and everyone gathered together to play a round-robin game, so that all league teams could watch and find suitable seedlings.

However, high-quality seedlings are always contested, the league began to ignore when it was to see which team was willing to give money, free choice, and then was complained about and began to formally manage, rookie selection, but also rely on their own strength to fight, which is actually very reasonable, strong teams are naturally qualified to choose high-quality seedlings, and vice versa, strong ability are willing to enter the strong team.

But outside of the rookie game, the choice of players and teams is still free, but it is generally difficult to meet the right one.

"I once watched a college student at the University of North Carolina who I thought was very good at the game, so I wanted to recruit him to the Lakers, what do you think?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"University of North Carolina, boss, I don't know what this person's name is?" Mike asked.

"It's called Michael Jordan, it's either a freshman or a sophomore this year, he's a very good potential star, if you send someone over there, you can find him by his name." Chen Zhiwen replied.

In his impression, Jordan was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the 1984 rookie game, and since then he has started his legendary basketball life, which is more than a year away from now, which means that he is still a free man, but an excellent seedling like him must be the top in the college basketball game, with a name, it is easy to find.

"Okay, I'm not very busy in a few days, I'll go there myself, as long as this Jordan doesn't object, I will definitely sign him to our team." Mike said hurriedly.

Actually, it doesn't matter how good this Jordan is, the important thing is that the boss has spoken, and he has to go there in person.

If he is capable, then he will focus on training, and if he succeeds, the boss will be happy that he may have more bonuses, if his ability is not good, it is the boss who is blind, then it is good to sit on the bench in the team, which is also normal, after all, ordinary people will only watch the action of showing off. And such a big team, it is very easy to raise an idler, and he also knows the details of his boss, that is the owner of Costco's major supermarkets, and if Disney succeeds in the acquisition, it will become one of the entertainment giants in the United States, even if it is a Lakers, for others, it may just be a hobby toy.

Chen Zhiwen nodded and said: "Okay, thank you for your hard work, try to sign a long-term contract with this Jordan, you carefully examine his ability, if it is really strong, then the signing fee and annual salary will go according to the normal amount, don't think that the other party is a newcomer, just lower the price at will." ”

This is common in any industry, but Chen Zhiwen needs Jordan to serve himself for a long time, as long as he can really make an international reputation, he will definitely not be stingy.

"Okay, don't worry." Mike agreed, but in his heart, he thought, does the boss know this person? How else could it be so good? He doesn't believe that any good capitalist can choose to treat players fairly, even these people, the previous boss always tried to save costs on them.

"There is another thing, I want to select a few Chinese to join the team in the United States, I don't need to specify who it is, as long as it is Chinese, what do you think?" Chen Zhiwen suddenly asked again.

PS: There is a contradiction in the rookie game, I checked the encyclopedia from 94, but Jordan Encyclopedia has a situation where he participated in the rookie game, so I don't know, press the latter.

(End of chapter)