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Chapter 408 Simple Math Problem
On the early morning of the 25th, Su Yang got up for a run, turned on the TV and saw the news that the Seattle consortium and the Saskatchewan consortium increased their stakes.

The core idea of ​​the two consortiums is very clear, that is, to give more money to other teams, one will give cash, and the other will reduce the share.

"It seems that the Seattle consortium still hasn't figured out their current predicament, or they think it's so awesome that they can change the decisions of other bosses, but $400 million is too little for other bosses, and the price increase of 7500 million is only a little bit more than ours..."

Su Yang is not worried about the increase of the Seattle consortium, because since the Kings sought to build a new arena in 06, many things have happened within seven years. The Saskatchewan City Hall and the NBA Council will never allow the Kings to be moved. .

Back in time 10 years, after the efforts of the NBA led by Stern, the Kings, Saskatchewan City Hall, and the California Convention and Exhibition Center formally launched discussions to reach a land exchange agreement to help the Kings build a new arena in the city center and A new convention and exhibition center was built at the location of Arco Arena (Sleep Train Arena), the original home court of the Kings. At the same time, real estate and retail industries were developed at the location of the original California Convention and Exhibition Center. However, the negotiations did not reach a conclusion in the end. stymied.

In four years, in China, the arena has been built, but the Kings only got a three-party exchange opportunity.

Also TM failed!

Then the Kings owners Maloof Brothers began to try to relocate the arena to Anaheim near Los Angeles. For this purpose, they were also supported by a $7000 million loan from Anaheim's local wealthy businessman Henry Samueli, but the Lakers and the Clippers opposed it together. .

At that time, the Lakers signed a 20-year, $30 billion local broadcast contract with Time Warner. If the Kings joined, the revenue of that contract would be greatly reduced, and the Clippers regarded Anaheim as a potential home court, so they naturally did not want the Kings to occupy it in advance.

To put it bluntly, it is a conflict of interests. Many NBA owners, as well as other professional sports team owners, want to monopolize the market.

The farce lasted until February 12, and finally reached an agreement with the king to build a new arena, but in April, the Maruf brothers were unwilling to fulfill the agreement because the agreement required them to pay more, and the citizens of Saskatchewan opposed the construction with taxpayers’ money new arena.

Immediately afterwards, the Seattle consortium headed by Chris Hansen stepped in and started to acquire the Kings, which was quite strong.

Rumor has it that those in Saskatchewan who opposed municipal funding for the new arena had privately received funding from a Seattle consortium.

At the end of the regular season of the 11-12 season of the Kings, many fans cried, worried that they would not be able to see the Kings next season, but many of them opposed the city hall’s money to build a new arena. Anyway, they have feelings, but they don’t want to spend money.

The Maloufu brothers were so angry that they knew that the relocation would be extremely difficult, but they also bit the bullet and wanted to sell the team to the Seattle consortium.

The mayor of Khazarian City Johnson jumped out again, wooing Indian owner Vic to form a new consortium, preparing to bid for the Kings to retain the team.

In short, after all the twists and turns, because the Thunder owner Clayton broke his word first (promised not to move the Sonics away, he moved to Oklahoma after one season, and he did not hesitate to spend an extra $3000 million), most of the NBA The boss does not believe that the Seattle Consortium will keep the team in Seattle for a long time. There are too many professional teams in Seattle, and it is relatively difficult to make a lot of money.

"As for the reduction of the share of the Sacheng consortium, it is a matter of simple expectations. The bosses may be wrong in mathematics, but their assistants will understand that compared with the stable income brought by the reduction of the share, the potential risky return will be much higher. It should not be too difficult to choose. ..."

If you get $200 million steadily and $50 million with a 1000% probability, many bosses will choose the latter.

The expected revenue of the NBA in the next two to three seasons will not increase significantly. Even if the king reduces the share, other owners will not get too much profit. Su Yang is sure that the owners of the other 29 teams will like him more to quickly reverse the loss of the king. And the idea of ​​​​opening up the Chinese market, even if it is just to build the Kings into a strong team, the income from away ticket sales is also very stable.

After making up his mind, Su Yang no longer cared about the increase of the Seattle and Saskatchewan consortium, and went straight to the Lakers training base after breakfast.

When I arrived at the office, Mike Brown was reading the newspaper. Seeing him enter the door, he said with a smile, "I just saw an interesting story..."

"Oh? Let me see..."

Su Yang took the newspaper casually, and immediately saw that the "California Daily" used the headlines to report on the Indian consortium owner Vick Lanadive. It was obvious that he wanted to create a personality for Vic and win more support from fans. One of the stories was to guide An Jiali win the championship.

An Jiali is the third daughter of Viklanadive and his ex-wife. She is very beautiful and suitable for publicity. The content of the story is roughly that Viklanadive is the coach of An Jiali's team. Force the defense to help the team win the championship.

Mike Brown laughed: "They want to prove that Vick knows the ball very well, but you are the coach of the three consecutive NBA champions..."

Su Yang also laughed out loud, and couldn't help but think back to his previous life. After Vikranadive became the owner of the Kings, he was dissatisfied with the team's offensive and defensive tactics. It was a big joke in the NBA at the time.

That kind of tactic is not completely useless, but it is too outdated. It was played like that in the early days of the NBA, because the offensive efficiency of positional warfare was very low at that time. Soon to be eliminated.

In short, in low-level games, that kind of tactic is very useful, but the NBA level is too high, which is almost equal to giving the opponent points for nothing.

Two years later, I chatted a few more times, talking about the fact that it is a pity that Westbrook will be reimbursed for the season, and it will be a pity if he meets the Thunder in the Western Conference semifinals.

In a blink of an eye, at nine o'clock, Kobe and others arrived one after another. Su Yang emphasized that the defensive strategy should be to let Paul play more in the first half.

The training continued as usual. At [-]:[-] p.m., the third game of the first round of the playoffs between the Lakers and the Clippers started at the Staples Center.

Clippers coach Nigro is quite tough, knowing that Billups played poorly in the first two games, he still arranged for him to start the game.

It is estimated that in Nigro's eyes, winning or not is not important, the important thing is to make the big-name players happy and get the support of the big-name players.

The Lakers played at a normal pace and forced Paul to play more according to Su Yang’s arrangement. In the first quarter, Paul made 5 of 2 shots and scored 6 points with 10 free throws. But the Lakers themselves blossomed in many places. The team scored 26 points in total. 2 points behind the Clippers.

Su Yang continued to adopt the strategy of Curry and Green coming off the court early to rest, so as to facilitate the second quarter to deal with the impact of the Clippers' substitutes. However, the Clippers coach Nigro did not make any improvement after suffering losses in two games, and continued to rely on Paul to score.

After halftime, Paul made 11 of 6 shots, scored 21 points with free throws, and had 3 assists. The number of turnovers was 0.
That performance wanted to be a blast, but the Lakers led the Clippers 54 to 48, except for one less rebound, all others were crushed.

Back from the halftime break, the third quarter turned into a defensive battle. The two teams fought crazily. The Lakers only scored 2 points more than the Clippers.

But the game entered the fourth quarter, the Lakers were full of energy and continued to play as a team under the leadership of Kobe, while Paul lacked energy and could not continue to drive the Clippers efficiently, so that the referee frantically called the Lakers fouls to no avail. Never zoomed out.

At the end of the game, the Lakers defeated the Clippers 104 to 93. Paul scored 35 points and 4 assists. Five Lakers scored in double figures.

With a three-to-zero lead, the Lakers and Clippers have no suspense in the first round. Fans are distressed that Paul tried his best to help. Griffin averaged only 13.2 points in the three games, which is comparable to the white monster who dunked in the regular season. Compared, they are like two different people.

After Su Yang finished the press conference, he returned to the apartment and received a call from the Maruf brothers. He learned that as long as the NBA Council rejects the Seattle consortium's plan to relocate the king in a few days, they can justifiably reach a deal with him, and then wait for the approval of the league.

All in all, things went well.

(End of this chapter)