The Godfather of Basketball

However, after the second round of bidding, most consortiums announced their withdrawal from the bidding.

This price has completely exceeded market expectations.

The market for the Nets is good, but considering its current situation, no amount of money is appropriate at all.

Among all the buyers, only the consortium headed by Boss Ma and Tang Tian, ​​and the consortium headed by David Geffen remained.

It should be said that this only competitor is also pitiful. After successive defeats in the acquisitions of the Clippers and the Eagles, they are not willing to give up easily.

At the critical moment, Boss Ma said the same as Ballmer did: I have sufficient interest in owning the Nets, and I believe that I will own the Nets.

This kind of deja vu speech reminds people of Ballmer at the beginning.

Although there is still some gap between Boss Ma and Ballmer, the gap is definitely not that big. His words like this are completely determined to win.

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

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

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

According to the agreement, Boss Ma owns 41% of the 80% of the shares, and Tang Tian owns 39%.

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

Before the final agreement was signed, Tang Tian sold off the 10% stake in the Thunder. He bought it for 50 million and sold it for 90 million, nearly doubling his profit.

With this sell-off, the Thunder's valuation soared from the previous 500 million to 900 million.

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

After that, it was time for Tang Tian to bid farewell to the Thunder.

This is the last reason why he hesitated to buy the Nets.

According to the rules, he cannot hold shares in two teams at the same time. Buying the Nets means that he has to leave the Thunder.

Although he didn't single-handedly choose this Thunder team, he built the system with his own hands, and the three MVP-level cores have an extremely bright future. If there is an opportunity to buy more shares, he is definitely not willing to give up.

But sometimes it is like this, it is impossible for everything to go well, people are more often faced with this or that choice.

Tang Tian made his choice.

Both Clayton and McLendon have sent blessings to Tang Tian. They can fully understand this choice, and from the time Tang Tian took over Leiting and asked for 10% of the shares, they knew that they would be members of the same class in the future. .

The Thunder fans were unavoidably sad. After waiting for a year, what they were waiting for was the news of Tang Tian's departure.

Of course, the Thunder team members were the most disappointed. They regretted losing last season, and they were still waiting for Tang Tian to come back to lead them to revenge, but they didn't expect such a result in the end.

However, Tang Tian didn't leave Oklahoma immediately. Hathaway and Swift's current physical condition is not suitable for traveling and traveling. 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 talked on the phone with the four young men of the Thunder.

"Coach Stevens is great and you guys will do great under his leadership."

The message Tang Tian sent to them was very positive, and it was actually from his heart. In terms of tactics and player positioning, Stevens is really not much worse than him. The Thunder will remain strong under his leadership.

Stevens came to visit him again, and this time he stayed to eat, and there was a lot of conversation at the table.

He won the championship with the team in the first year, became the best head coach in the second year, and basically became the official head coach in the third year. Although there were some coincidences, Tang Tian did open up a broad road for Stevens to be an NBA coach.

"Brad, you have to work hard. I look forward to playing against you in the finals in the future." Tang Tian raised his glass.

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

After bidding farewell to Stevens, Tang Tian hurried back to Brooklyn after Hathaway and Swift settled down.

Although the team has just been bought, even the personnel are all from the original Nets, but time waits for no one, and the draft and free agent market will follow immediately.

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

There are quite a few of his old acquaintances in this Nets team. Leaving aside 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, He is also his old subordinate in the Thunder.

Of course, the most closely related is the team's head coach Kidd. He played for the Thunder for a year two years ago and won the only championship ring in his career with the team.

"Jason."

Tang Tian met Kidd in the arena. The two people's identities are different from before, but their familiarity with each other makes them look more like old friends who talk about everything.

Of course, Tang Tian didn't just come here to chat, but also to prepare for the upcoming draft.

The Nets' Pierce contract expired this season, and the team released a lot of salary space, but not counting the possible free agent signing, they still exceeded the luxury tax by more than 20 million.

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

And they don't have any picks this year!

This is a dead end and something has to change.

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

"Yes, I know that when you came to Kevin for the deal, you contributed a lot, but this is the only way to change." Tang Tian didn't mean to hide anything.

He would like to send Joe Johnson and Deron away, but as far as the current situation is concerned, unless they go out in the first round, but 2015 is their only first round, if that is also sent, the Nets will really have no chance , let alone not necessarily sent away.

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

In the previous life, Garnett was also sent to the Timberwolves this season, and he was replaced by Thaddeus Young.

"The question now is whether Kevin himself is willing to go back to Minnesota. If he still doesn't want to go back, I hope you can convince him." Tang Tian was still very straightforward.

Garnett has the right to veto the transaction. If he disagrees, the Nets will not be able to send him away. This is another reason why he must find Kidd.

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