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Chapter 689 Targeting me again?
NO.11 At two o'clock in the afternoon, Su Yang rushed to the Montana Hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, to participate in the league's season summary meeting as the owner of the Kings. The main topic was to discuss how to better solve the problem of the disparity in income between the teams .

It probably involves a new dividend model. All team bosses attended in person, plus Xiao Hua and other alliance staff, filling a large conference room.Su Yang scanned the audience and found that, except for the owner of the Cavaliers, Gilbert, everyone else was quite happy.

"The Cavaliers are a team that is still losing money after the allocation of profit and dividends last season. He should be very upset..."

Jordan smiled and introduced the situation to Su Yang. He also took the initiative to mention that the Hornets had a revenue of 2.2 million U.S. dollars last season. Unfortunately, the revenue growth was relatively low, only about 200 million. It was all due to the big money-making team subsidies like the Kings and Knicks. , to maintain growth.

The reasons for the Cavaliers’ losses are simple. First, there are many giants with high salaries. Second, the sports market is small and the average ticket price is low. Third, the income from local broadcasting is too low. LeBron pays dividends to other teams.

"LeBron is so awesome, just because he returned to Cleveland, the Cavaliers are going to pay dividends to other teams..."

Although Su Yang knew it was true, he was still surprised. According to the data in front of him, after LeBron joined the Miami Heat, the Cavaliers received a bonus of 13 million US dollars in the 14-1080 season, but after LeBron returned to Cleveland, the Cavaliers received A total of 1862 million US dollars in dividends have been paid to other teams. The specific calculation standards and rules are more complicated than women's hearts.

This meeting is mainly to discuss the allocation of dividends.

For many years, the league has used dividend allocation policies to reduce the disparity in income between teams.

However, big earners such as the Knicks, Lakers, Kings, Bulls, and Warriors have paid a lot of income dividends in the past few years. Last season alone, they paid 1.44 million US dollars in income, which is equivalent to working for other teams. Several bosses are very unhappy.

Su Yang doesn't care, everyone is really good, and it depends on other teams to set off the king's excellence.

The bosses of other teams are also not very happy, thinking that the distribution of dividends given by the league is too little. Among them, the Grizzlies owner Robert Pera is the representative. Just because it is located in Memphis, last season's ticket revenue was only 2500 million, and it was as bad as the Lakers, with ticket revenue of 1.2 million US dollars.

Amidst the noisy conversation, Xiao Hua knocked on the table to signal the start of the discussion, and first described the profitability of the entire league last season.

Throughout the 2016-2017 season, the total revenue of 30 teams in the NBA totaled US$76 billion, mainly from four sources. The first was national and international broadcasting. TNT and ESPN paid the league US$26 billion, and Tencent paid US$1 million.

There are other live broadcasts in Spanish, as well as various small platforms for buying broadcasts. Su Yang took a closer look at the information and found that the Kings, like other teams, can share about 5000 million US dollars, but that will not be directly transferred to the Kings. Adjust again.

The second largest revenue in the league is ticket sales, with a total of 17.5 billion U.S. dollars last season. Although the Kings had the best record and the viewing experience was excellent, they only had sales of 1.26 million U.S. dollars, which is only a small amount after the Warriors and Knicks. The light of the ball market.

Su Yang was planning to increase the average ticket price before, but it’s still a big deal when you think about it carefully. Saskatchewan is a cattle town, and the overall income of fans is low. It can’t compete with places like Los Angeles, New York, and the Bay Area. It’s better to sell the place honestly. Broadcast rights are better.

The league’s third largest income is advertising sponsorship, which was only $8.6 million last season, but will skyrocket to $12 billion next season, plus Nike’s new jersey sponsorship, $8 billion in eight years, and open the right side of the jersey This position will greatly increase the income of teams like the Lakers and Knicks, so in this meeting, we must first clarify the matter of money distribution.

Su Yang has already figured out that the advertisement on the right side of the jersey will be sold to China Merchants Bank at that time, and it will be no problem to make tens of millions of dollars a year. Although 25% will be given to the league and 50% to the players, he can always keep 25%. Mosquitoes No matter how small the legs are, they are still meat, so eat as much as you can.

The league's fourth largest income is peripheral product sales and regional broadcasting, and the gap between strong teams and weak teams is even greater.

The King's income of 4.17 million U.S. dollars last season made the total income only behind the Knicks' 4.26 million U.S. dollars. It relied on the sales of peripheral products. Curry and others' jerseys sold like crazy, and Su Yang himself designed the "Walking with the Kings". Xiangbest' series of jerseys has become a hit in the Greater China region, and with other products, it has abruptly generated nearly 2 million in sales.

The king's regional broadcast income is low.

Because the Maruf brothers signed a contract with Comcast Sports.com for many years in advance when they were the bosses. After Su Yang became the new boss, he must continue to fulfill the contract. However, Comcast’s benefits to the Kings are not only far less than Time Warner’s 20 years. As much as $30 billion, not even the $2000 million per year level of the Nets and Celtics, which is the lowest level in the league.

Fortunately, Comcast Sports felt that the Kings were bad at the beginning, and worried that the ratings would not be guaranteed, so the contract expired this year.

"Brother Maloof is really pitted. They can't learn from the Lakers, but they can learn from the Nets. They have to sign a long-term contract and sell it for many years..."

While Su Yang complained in his heart, Xiao Hua's briefing ended, and the meeting turned to the speaking stage, first discussing the allocation of dividends.

Sun boss Savor immediately stood up, ignoring the meeting regulations, and stared at Su Yang fiercely: "I think the alliance should increase the king's dividends. We all know that Su Yang also has a company in China. His advertising sponsorship is extremely It is possible to use different books to reduce the revenue of the alliance, and we have no way to verify it, but he uses the entire alliance to make money for him!"

Savor's doubts and accusations seem to be out of personal grievances, but there seems to be a theoretical possibility.

The other bosses were silent, and the staff didn't care about the meeting rules, as if acquiescing to the questioning.

Su Yang smiled slightly, spread his arms and shrugged his shoulders: "I went to Nima, since you have made a claim, show evidence, otherwise get out of the way, first solve your discrimination against blacks, misogyny, and PUA employees, and then question whether I am a black box operate."

Anyway, don't reason with lunatics and enemies.

Savor heard the words and was about to refute, the staff beat the hammer to stop, the white bosses had different expressions, but Jordan remained calm.

"Let's go back to the topic. First of all, the representatives who are dissatisfied with the existing dividend allocation model will speak..." Xiao Hua shouted.

The voice fell, and many bosses spoke.

Pelicans rebounder Tom Benson believes the league should split all revenue excluding team merchandise.

Blazers owner Paul Allen believes that a more secure income distribution model should be established, mainly for those teams that are poor. If they receive dividends for four consecutive years, they should start to reduce the share from the fifth year. Between words, it is almost express Teams such as Timberwolves, Magic and Jazz.Su Yang agreed quite a bit. The management of the Magic and Timberwolves is garbage among garbage.

The owner of the Nuggets, Kroenke, is quite Buddhist. He hopes to have a guaranteed net income of 2000 million U.S. dollars per year, probably because the focus is not on the NBA, and he doesn't care about the annual income. He wants to wait for the team's market value to rise. big head.

Clippers owner Ballmer suggested that arena revenue should also be included, because teams like the Kings and Knicks completely own their own arenas and do not need to pay venue fees for each game. Space needs to be rented.

The bosses had a heated discussion.

Su Yang has no novel ideas, and he is sure that he will earn more money in the end. After all, a new resolution can be passed with at least 16 votes, and there must be more than 16 teams in the league that want more money. The final difference in the debate is nothing more than How much does it go up.

At four o'clock in the blink of an eye, there was no discussion, but a consensus was unexpectedly reached. The salary cap needs to be lowered next season, and the next season depends on the situation to decide whether to recover. The main purpose is to avoid some teams from paying high luxury taxes, which will make them more profitable.

Hearing the results of the discussion, Su Yang called out the grass and mud horse in his heart, which is fair and fair, but for the time being, only the king's decision to limit it is very likely that even if Cousins ​​cuts his salary, he will not be able to keep LaVine at the same time, and he will have to pay the same level luxury tax.

Unless both Cousins ​​and LaVine cut their salaries at the same time, they will drop more, but LaVine really doesn't have that motivation.

Belonging is forcibly weakened.

The theory is that each team is almost more equal in forming a strong team. After all, the soft salary cap has always been a sharp weapon to avoid too large a gap in income, but because the super broadcast contract came into effect in 16, it makes the strong team more brave and makes the life of the weak team more difficult. .

There is nothing to argue about, the rules apply across the league.

During the break, the bosses of the Celtics, Suns, Heat and Thunder all smiled and looked at Su Yang.

"Aren't you going to fight back?" Jordan asked with a smile.

Su Yang also laughed: "Let them be happy first, even if I only have the two giants, I can still make them suspect that they don't understand basketball..."

(End of this chapter)