NBA: Starting with $20 billion, buying the Knicks

Chapter 365 The Nets change hands, Boss Cai learns from Jiang Chao!

After a few days of leisure, the Western Spurs and Thunder have a cooperative relationship.

The Eastern Bobcats, the Nets and the Pacers who signed a verbal cooperation contract, etc., are constantly in contact with the champion Knicks.

But the embarrassing thing is that they are all "receiving" and not "giving".

No one wants to make a deal with the Knicks. They all want the Knicks to give people and advice...

During the window time for management operations during the planting period, everyone wants to ask the Knicks for reference, but without exception, no team will ask for draft picks.

There are also some small-minded teams who want to use leftovers to dismantle the defending champion team's lineup, and contact the players directly without notifying the Knicks for quotations. It seems that the peaceful offseason is very chaotic.

This is also a headache for Max and the others, because it is difficult for every championship team to maintain a championship lineup, because after being plated with championship gold, everyone's value has risen sharply. From the past, 10 out of 8 players in contract years One will run, and the team will support it.

After all, it is also a good thing for meritorious service to go out and get a big contract.

Besides, the NBA is a business field, and players are not real family members. Everyone has to live. If players who have won championship honors have more money to choose from, they must choose more money.

It's just that Sean Marks and the others really dare not choose the rookies by themselves. Recently, when Jiang Chao's villa party was in full swing, they just held a joint trial training in New York and called all the rookies to try out. After taking a look, the scouting report was made and waited for Jiang Chao to check. By the way, they also tried out a few of them that they thought were promising.

Now the Knicks don’t have to go out of New York for the draft trial training. They take the initiative to send a large number of players, such as Kemba Walker and even the top pick Irving. He likes different bosses, maybe this boss also thinks the earth is flat?
But the Knicks also know that it is impossible for them to get the No. pick this year, unless there is a starter at the level of Howard, Harden, and Curry, but they will not come out after thinking about it, so it does not take time. The high-ranking pre-draft picks are directly swept out, and there is no time for you to try out alone here.

The final choice and transaction must be consulted with the boss.

Other bosses can be hands-off shopkeepers, only the Knicks boss is a real thigh.

The lottery is also over here.

Mustache's luck was neither bad nor good, and he drew the No. 26 pick in the first round and the No. 56 pick in the second round.

After the pick came out, it was no surprise that there was no swap or trade in advance. Who would dare to give the Knicks the pick?Maybe you can add someone, but now all the Knicks are championship contributors, and it is impossible to trade by themselves, and it is up to the players to decide on their own follow-up.

Then the Cavaliers were really awesome, and were lucky to get the No. pick, that is, just one year after James left, they won the No. pick with bad performance.

The Timberwolves are still the league's key support target, ranking second.

The Jazz got the third pick, and the No. 4 pick is also the Cavaliers'...

Overall, there is no difference from the previous life.

"Boss, do you think there are any good seedlings this year?"

"The management of the Nets, Spurs, Pacers, and Bobcats all want to talk to us, and they have sent people here several times."

After the lottery, Jiang Chao's mailbox received a bunch of scouting reports from scouts on this year's rookies, as well as a voice message from Sean Marks.

This forced Jiang Chao, who was fascinated by Kimchi's beautiful legs and American bears, to go to the arena. Hearing that the Nets had undergone major changes in the past few days, he personally came to visit with Moutai.

Because the Nets turned out to be Jiang Chao who was contacted by Cai Chongxin.

The Brooklyn Nets have officially changed their dynasty this season.

"Boss, you are finally here. Mr. Cai and Mr. Prokhorov have just returned to Brooklyn. Do you want me to notify them now?"

"Tell me what's going on now." Jiang Chao looked at the thick documents on his desk, feeling as if he had returned to reality from the Garden of Eden.

However, most of them were congratulatory gifts from the top officials of the league, and greeting cards sent by many celebrities and celebrities. Although Jiang Chao was at the scene at the time, he could guess everyone's excitement when he saw the Knicks win the championship in front of the TV. And the explosion, to be honest, he also ignored that there were too many celebrities on the scene excitedly wanting to hug Jiang Chao and so on... Let Liu Yan write a personal letter for him to reply.

He didn't read these envelopes with love stickers on them, and sent a Weibo post to thank them together.

While he was watching, Max and the mustache who came in a hurry were talking.

There was a big change in New York basketball after the lottery.

After experiencing a season in which the peak All-Stars like Anthony + Stoudemire could not bring flying and drive income, the original owner no longer listened to David Stern's nonsense telling him to persist, and decisively chose to sell. They can no longer afford it. The Barclays Center worth 10 billion has been spent, and the team has been losing money. The original boss told David Stern that my money was used to buy Coca-Cola stocks rather than the team.

And this sell-off sold really fast.

Because this year saw the great success of the Knicks in New York, Prokhorov, the richest man in the warring country, and Cai Chongxin, the vice president of Alibaba, who had communicated with Jiang Chao many times in Hangzhou and Wuzhen, were already ready to move.

So when the Nets were about to sell their shares, the two hit it off and formed the China-Russia alliance without Jiang Chao ever expecting it.

But Jiang Chao can imagine that David Stern would never allow a second Chinese owner to buy the NBA. The Chinese like to cooperate and win-win, let alone in a city, and reciprocity is very likely to happen.

So since Cai Chongxin started to work hard last year, when he consulted Jiang Chao, Jiang Chao suggested that he set up a puppet white boss and operate behind the scenes. side.

I didn't expect him to be really successful this year, and a Sino-Russian alliance came to buy the Nets' equity together.

In early July 2011, the NBA officially announced that the purchase of 7% of the Nets by Russian billionaire Prokhorov had been approved.

In this way, the Nets, which had the worst ability to make money and the lowest attendance rate in the regular season, finally realized the "change of dynasty".

Prokhorov thus became the first NBA owner from outside North America and the tallest (2.06 meters) NBA owner.

He acquired 51% of the stock of the Nets and 45% of the Nets' new arena.

Another 29% stake was acquired by Cai Chongxin, Vice President of Alibaba! ! !Cai Chongxin also became the second owner of an NBA team in New York!

Fortunately, the big head came from the richest man in the fighting nation, otherwise Cai Chongxin would definitely be at the forefront of the storm. After all, Jiang Chao’s acquisition was a hot-headed one under the economic crisis, and if Cai Chongxin took over all the shares, would he say that it has nothing to do with the Knicks? Possibly, he was still watching the finals from the sidelines.

The two spent 16.4 billion US dollars together. I don't know exactly who paid the amount, anyway, that's what the news said.

It is worth mentioning that the rapper Jay-Z also bought the equity this time. He also invested in the arena, presumably for the convenience of holding concerts in the future?
Jiang Chao flipped through, and there was an introduction to them later.

As the famous richest man in Russia, Prokhorov is worth as much as 95 billion US dollars.The business scope of his family industry is very wide, including mining, finance, real estate, media, public facilities, technology and so on.

There is a gold mining company in Siberia, which also occupies a large part of the country's aluminum producers.

Prokhorov also has a media empire, two banks, an insurance company and many real estates. It can be said that he is much richer than Jiang Chao’s industry. To open a bank means other people send him money. Things are thankless in the eyes of rich people.

He is one of Russia's most ardent athletes, a former owner of Moscow's European championship-winning basketball team and the coach of the Russian national team, so perhaps Tsai believes in him because of his knowledge of basketball.

But actually...

The reality is that this product doesn’t understand basketball better than Cai Chongxin, but Jiang Chao can’t tell Boss Cai that this product can still make money. He bought it for less than 3 million last year, and Cai Chongxin bought it again. It will cost 23 billion U.S. dollars in time. No matter how well he operates, the richest man is getting richer anyway...

As for the boss's coquettish operation, Jiang Chao remembers a classic one:
During the offseason of 2013, Prokhorov’s biggest and most disastrous operation appeared after the acquisition of the Nets. He really wanted to do something for the team at the time, so he told Sean Marks the president before he took office. I don't care how much money is spent, how much luxury tax.

The Brooklyn Nets spent a lot of money and made a shocking deal with the Boston Celtics, bringing in Garnett, Pierce, Deron, Joe Johnson and other super giants, and thus formed the most expensive team in NBA history. The starting lineup, 8240 million.

True -- five All-Star starting lineups.

But there are still many problems with this lineup. Unfortunately, the hero is late, and this team did not get a good result.

This transaction also consumed all the future of the Nets, and the big brothers of the fighting nation were not as thick-skinned as Dolan. When they were scolded too much, they quickly sold the team and made a steady profit of 20 billion.

But this has nothing to do with Jiang Chao, and now Cai Chongxin is the second shareholder, and he is proficient in law and finance, and he will not let Big Brother Erros mess around.

The introduction of Cai Chongxin is also written below, which is much simpler.

Cai Chongxin: Ph.D. from Yale University and Yale Law School, global vice president and one of the founders of Alibaba Group, ranked 94.4th on the Forbes list of the world's richest people with a wealth of 279 billion US dollars.

In Jiang Chao's view, Ma Yun and the others are really making money, and they can eat enough with just one Taobao and Alipay... It's not like a big Russian brother, with so many industries.

"Okay, I have a general understanding. This is a good thing for us. The New York duo. The derby will also look good in the future."

Seeing how relaxed Jiang Chao was, Mustache reminded: "They already have Anthony and Stoudemire. With such a strong capital entry, will they be the strongest enemy around us?"

"What's the matter, everyone becomes stronger, and the game is good."

In fact, what these two presidents don't know is that Cai Chongxin has long been Jiang Chao's younger brother in basketball operations. Chongxin respects Chinese culture very much, Barclays Center will definitely export a lot of culture, and the Sino-Russian alliance will not be bad.

"Okay, let's call him over now? He has been anxious to see you."

"Well, yell, I'm in the arena today."

After the two left, Jiang Chao turned the boss chair. He could guess what Cai Chongxin wanted to do with his eyes closed. After seeing the Knicks win the championship with his own eyes, could Boss Cai not feel itchy? He must have come here to learn, although he He is much older than himself, but he is the younger brother in terms of basketball operations. Feitian Moutai is already in his closet. Can you ask him for anything.

Then he will naturally help, the Chinese will not bully the Chinese, another businessman boss will definitely screw the Nets to death, and the Derby team has always had red eyes when they meet each other.

But now the Nets are a team of the Russia-China League, and Boss Cai’s many behaviors in later generations are quite admirable. Jiang Chao doesn’t want to see him being bullied by players, and Alibaba and Chaoshen Group have been In a win-win cooperation, the gang should still help, and he will pay attention to a speed that does not breed tigers.

Taking advantage of Cai Chongxin's time on the road, Jiang Chao was not idle, looking at the information Max gave him as a coordinator.

A large part of it is rookie materials, because they know that Jiang Chao has not inspected any college players for a year, and has never been to college, so they have prepared a thick stack. Bojan from Croatia has a good shot and a strong body some type of……

Jiang Chao glanced at a few interested ones and took them away. He knew much more about these dozens of rookies who looked good than the management, and although this year has always been regarded as a young draft year, he didn’t know that this year was the first draft pick. It's a year of talents coming out in large numbers, anyway, there are more talents than last year.

In other words, Jiang Chao won the championship last season, otherwise he would definitely have to operate this season.

Then there is also a part of the information for the preparation of the transaction, because the transaction will appear in the draft, and the transaction boom is even more after the draft and before the regular season.

That's the profile of free agency this season.

There are obviously far fewer big fish in the free market this year than last year, and they have basically settled down.

The All-Star level has Dayao of his own team.

There are also the Spurs' Tony Parker, Tim Duncan, Ray Allen... These are the only 4 All-Star players in the free market, and basically no one will be interested.

GDP will definitely keep the Spurs with a maximum salary, needless to say.

In everyone's opinion, the Big Three of the Green Army will do it for another 1-2 years.

And Yao Ming averaged only 14 minutes per game in the Knicks playoffs. No team can afford such a luxury, and they don't have Howard in the starting lineup. Therefore, injury factors have caused no team to offer Yao Ming.

There are still many star players:

Hornets' David West, Grizzlies' Battier, Nuggets' Nene Hilario, Karen Butler, Glenn Davis, Carl Landry, JR Smith, Sasha Ferjacic, Jason Richardson, Zach Randolph…

Marks also flagged restricted free agents worthy of draft attention as:
Marc Gasol, Greg Oden, Al Horford, Joakim Noah, Jeff Green, Marcus Thornton, Aaron Brooks and DeAndre Jordan…

This is the most likely player for each team in the draft. Restricted means that his home team has the right to match the contract of another team and forcibly retain the player. This is called the priority renewal right.

So this kind of player can be signed first and then traded. Of course, there is a high probability that they will be bought at a high price in the end.

In fact, there are still many players who can be used as a championship puzzle. For example, Ray Allen and Battier, who later helped the Heat win the championship, are good role players.

There is also Diaw of the Bobcats, which is also one of the Spurs' future championship puzzles. Brother Diao is very hanging.

Finally, there are the Knicks' Alian, Okur, Turk Drew, David Lee... These are all written at the end, which is obviously an annoyance to the management.

However, Jiang Chao felt very happy after seeing Ah Lian. He still kept Ah Lian in the NBA. The meat and potatoes of it.

Of course, there are Dragic, O'Neal who has not yet announced his retirement, and a bunch of leftover players entering the free market, about two-thirds of which will be completely wiped out in the NBA.

ESPN also has statistics recently. The average playing age of NBA players is 4 years, which means that more than half of the free agents whose contracts expire each year will not get a contract extension.

Therefore, the management team of these people is also showing their talents across the sea. Various self-introductions and touching personal letters have been sent to the Knicks and other teams, and they want to continue to stay in the NBA to shine.

However, Jiang Chao didn't think much of it, although the management put at the top was the personal letter from Battier and Ray Allen's agent and himself, expressing his desire to play for the Knicks...

"This Ray Allen... I'm really not afraid of being scolded." Jiang Chao slapped his head and joined if he couldn't beat him. He also wrote the basic salary of a veteran. Is this a private falling out with the Celtics?
He didn't bother to understand the gossip.

Maybe he thought about it last year, but this year he is too lazy to think about it.

Now that the team is strong and strong, it is the time to play. It will not be as desperate as the Lakers were last year for Taobao's awesome rookie, nor will it be said to chase the stars who expire this year.

No matter how good you are and how much you want to vote, our current group of talents is really the right one.

It is the playoff-level teams that really need to study the free market.

Just like studying the Lakers last year, this year they will study this youth army crazily.

Analyze the Knicks in detail, and then recruit troops in a targeted manner!

Find the shortcomings, and then kill the defending champion!
"Boss Jiang!! Congratulations for winning the championship!!!"

Just as Jiang Chao was about to drink a cup of coffee to relieve his fatigue, a loud mandarin sounded at the door, and then the energetic Cai Chongxin appeared in Jiang Chao's office with a gift box of cordyceps and ginseng.

"Boss Cai, please sit down, please sit down, come as soon as you come, why did you bring something again?" Jiang Chao narrowed his eyes and looked at Cai Chongxin in a suit.

Sure enough, people are in good spirits when they have a happy event. Boss Cai, who successfully acquired the Nets, is obviously happy. He has completely fulfilled his new goal in life, and he also has the temperament of Jiang Chao 2 years ago. It is written on his face that he wants to change the team by himself. .

"We'll be neighbors from now on, we can communicate with each other, we can communicate with each other!"

Boss Cai skillfully placed the gift next to the Moutai placed in the morning, and bowed modestly to take his seat, looking expectantly at Jiang Chao.

"Hahaha, okay, let's talk about it."

Jiang Chao laughed and sat down, and the mustache who followed behind poured coffee for the two of them.

The Chinese culture is extensive and profound, and the first sentence expresses the purpose of the visit.

"I couldn't talk to you when I won the championship that day. Today I can finally express my blessings to you and the Knicks. The Knicks were so fierce that day. I love your team!" Cai Chongxin will never forget The grand scene of the Madison Garden Arena after winning that game, it was a grand occasion for NBA officials in New York to celebrate together.

"Thank you, thank you. I was so excited that day, otherwise I would have had a drink with you. Boss Cai has also bought a team now. I wish you success too!"

"Wherever it is, I'll just buy it for fun, and it's all thanks to you, Boss Jiang, to be the second boss!!"

"Oh? What do you say?"

Cai Chongxin took a sip of coffee, and after a little talk, it turned out that Jiang Chao really had credit for not signing Anthony and Stoudemire last year, and using Jerome James to steal Yi Jianlian and kill the Nets. Indirectly caused the Nets to be sprayed and sold the team.

The other is that Jiang Chao agreed with the Nets to move to Brooklyn at the time. His generous attitude and indirect request to Stern at the time also allowed David Stern to let Cai Chongxin also invest in the acquisition without any hindrance.

Otherwise, in David Stern's circle, it would be a matter of minutes to find another rich man to buy the shares of the Nets.

It seems that they came to buy the team, it is better to say that the NBA chose them.

Therefore, Jiang Chao has helped Cai Chongxin a lot in his heart!
"Haha, these are all trivial matters. Aren't you also helping me in business?"

"Don't worry about the cooperation. I've been following up over there. Now the work of connecting Chaochao to Alipay is almost done. We have joined forces, and QQ Payment is about to go bankrupt."

Boss Cai hastened to claim credit. The cooperation between Alibaba, Taobao and Chaoshen Group has been very deep. In addition to the fact that Chaoshen Group’s products are sold on Taobao without tax and logistics chain express fees, they have recently worked together on the payment function of Chaochao. .

He also directly invested in Chaoshen Music, helping them buy music copyrights, and strive to win the copyrights that Tang Lun expired in one fell swoop. That's what Ma Yun's boss meant.

Because in the field of music software, Ma Yun was shut down by the two giants of Baidu and Painxun. Now that Chaoshen Group suddenly appeared a software, he invested immediately. I believe that Boss Jiang will be done.

The two chatted about domestic anecdotes and Ali's financial investment and so on. In the end, Boss Cai naturally diverted him to the main purpose of his visit today.

"Boss Jiang, I came here today mainly because I sincerely want to learn from you as a teacher. I am a rookie in future draft plans and free market transactions. I sincerely hope that you can help us, and I will give you the greatest support and cooperation." Good news, my Alibaba employees, whoever you fancy, can work for your Chaoshen Group!"

This can be regarded as straightforward and honest. I just envy Jiang Chao's genius management vision and want him to help the Nets.

Last season, the Nets were eliminated by the Heat 1-4 in the first round. After that, there was news that Anthony and Stoudemire had a dispute over the ball. Now they are also a mess.

And now the draft is coming soon, Cai Chongxin thought of Jiang Chao's God's Eye in the past two years, and he is in a hurry to invite God!
"Haha, that's not necessary. Is that what Prokhorov meant?"

"He is your passionate fan. I can come to your office, which is naturally his intention. We will unconditionally believe what you say."

"Ah? Why do you trust me so much? I also choose randomly in the draft. I choose whoever is pleasing to the eye." Jiang Chao didn't expect the Nets to be so decisive. This is a big change.

In the previous life, Prokhorov believed in the president of the Nets. In this life, did he trust him without thinking?
"Boss Jiang, don't be humble, I won't believe it, victory is as easy as a dandelion on the hillside, but I believe that there are always some good things in the world, which are worth all our efforts, even if we are smashed to pieces, we really want to make a change, I know you also want to make the New York Derby look better in the future."

"Okay, it's all trivial, just call me on the day of the draft, I probably won't go to the scene, by the way, the Taobao benefits for our Chaoshen Group employees..."

"No problem, any account registered with the Chaoshen Group employee account is directly a lifetime member of Taobao!"

Max and Moustache who were sitting in the back were all stunned! !

It's comfortable! ! !

Is this the Chinese Boss Alliance? ! !
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