Start by trimming cow hooves

The current NBA president is named Stern.

Mr. Stern has served as league president since the 1980s.

He has been working in his position for more than 20 years, and almost everyone at the NBA headquarters is his. It is not an exaggeration to say that he can cover the sky with one hand.

When he heard Amanda's secretary call out the song invitation price over the phone, which was a full 10 million US dollars, he almost dropped the phone in anger. He felt that Su Rui was arrogant and didn't understand the rules of business.

After all, Mr. Stern has already planned to be accommodating and approve Dad Su's purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers, taking the opportunity to attract a wave of popularity and add some hot topics to the upcoming playoffs.

Logically speaking, even if Su Rui didn't give a discount and return this small favor, he shouldn't have opened his mouth.

Fortunately, secretary Amanda calmed him down in time and advised Stern to listen to the song before making a decision.

She also mentioned that Suri plans to donate all proceeds from the song to the Endangered Animal Conservation Foundation.

Because it was charity and it would help the image of the league, the NBA president felt a little more comfortable and agreed to take the time to arrange a meeting with Secretary Amanda, which was scheduled for next Monday.

Change it to another singer.

Even if Madonna, Celine Dion and others dared to offer such a high price for singing invitations, President Stern would decisively refuse and even sneer at them in private.

But Suri, who has already qualified to enter the top ten of Forbes' list of the world's richest people, is a little different after all.

The days flew by.

Monday came quickly. Secretary Amanda took the initiative to get the opportunity to go on a business trip. At this moment, she walked into the "Olympic Tower" building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York, and took the elevator upstairs.

When she walked through the corridor on high heels and saw Mr. Stern in a spacious office, she immediately smiled, stretched out her hand and said:

"Hi, my boss asked me to say hello to you on his behalf. I hope we can have a happy cooperation in the future and make basketball more popular. Suri said that he has liked a Japanese comic called "Slam Dunk" since he was a child. Maybe I can also consider cooperating with you to create a basketball-themed TV series."

I was still a little awkward, but President Stern knew how popular Suri’s self-made online drama was now, so he replied lukewarmly:

"If you really know how to film such a drama, you are welcome to contact us at any time. I am willing to provide some help. However, the price of 10 million US dollars for singing invitations is still too high. I don’t think anyone else in the alliance will agree, mainly Suri himself. Owning a team means asking other team owners to donate money to his animal protection foundation, which is obviously unreasonable."

According to the regulations of the alliance.

For example, broadcast licensing, part of the ticket revenue, advertising, etc., some need to be allocated to the teams in order to allow the league to develop healthily. This makes the income gap between the strong and weak NBA teams not big, and the team value is not so disparate.

As for the money to buy songs, part of it came from the pockets of other team owners, so there seems to be nothing wrong with that.

After listening to this, Secretary Amanda clearly discovered the problem. She blinked and asked in a surprised tone:

"Is it possible that Mr. Stern doesn't know enough about the music industry? Now that my boss releases a single, the revenue is generally more than 20 million US dollars. If you are not interested in purchasing the full copyright of this song, you can still use The license is obtained at a cheap price, but it may also be used in other places in the future.”

Across the world, President Stern didn't understand the market. He simply felt that 10 million US dollars was too expensive. It might be reasonable to use it in other places, but there was no need to spend it on the league's theme song.

At this moment, President Stern felt a little more comfortable when he learned that the price of the exclusive full copyright was US$10 million, not just the right to use the song. He changed the subject and said:

"Let's listen to the song first, and we'll talk about the rest later."

Because it was to be changed to the NBA theme song, Suri temporarily asked the lyricist to make some simple modifications to the lyrics, but the climax remained unchanged.

In order to make the song sound more shocking, Secretary Amanda went to the store yesterday and bought a capsule-shaped Beats speaker. After connecting it to her laptop, she turned up the volume and started playing it.

Suri is Suri after all.

As soon as the melody of "Unstoppable" started playing, President Stern quickly fell into it before even hearing a few words.

By the time he heard the climax, the old man could already imagine in advance how great the effect would be if this song was used in tonight's playoff debut.

Outside the president's office.

A group of assistants, secretaries and senior executives were attracted by the singing and gathered to eavesdrop.

The lyrics of this song "Unstoppable" fit Suri's mood very well, and she was very emotional when recording the song.

That unstoppable and transcendent passion makes it even more beautiful than the original song.

Not to mention that it makes people want to ride a dog to the battlefield like "Star Sky", but at least it reaches the level of riding a horse to the battlefield. The lyrics are very burning, and the singing is also very penetrating.

Before the song finished, NBA President Mr. Stern could already understand why Suri dared to ask for 10 million US dollars. The last time he encountered such a suitable theme song was the terrible "We Will Rock You" by Queen of the last century. 》.

More than an hour later.

Secretary Amanda appeared in the Dior store on Fifth Avenue. While trying on the new summer clothes that had just been launched, she used a Bluetooth headset to talk to Suri and reported:

"Mr. Stern agreed to the offer of 10 million US dollars. The only requirement is that I want you to sing the song "Unstoppable" in person at the game between the Warriors and the Knicks tomorrow night."

Putting aside his status as a super rich man, Suri is also a top singer, so this request is not too much.

He joked through his mobile phone:

"Then I am at a loss. The price of my commercial performance has long been raised to about 4.5 million US dollars. Last year, the organizer of the Super Bowl invited me, but I didn't even agree."

"Forget it, I haven't shown up for a while, fans have almost forgotten about me."

"You go find someone to arrange it. I will only sing this new song. I will practice it quickly this afternoon. I have almost forgotten the revised lyrics."

Secretary Amanda stood in front of the mirror and said:

"No problem. There should be ready-made equipment in the arena, but I don't know how good the sound effects will be. You'd better go to rehearsals in advance. You still have time to make other preparations and rent professional speakers for concerts."

Just a small problem.

After a brief communication, Suri called her father.

After asking, I learned that the lawyer has prepared the documents and will hold a press conference at the Clippers headquarters this morning as planned to publicly sign the contract.

The bank responsible for providing loans to Suri's father was Bank of America, which he had cooperated with before.

Bank of America has successively introduced many customers from all over the world to Caishen Capital. It is one of the important distribution platforms for Caishen Capital's financial products.

Because of this relationship, and the Clippers themselves being very valuable, Bank of America directly approved Suri’s $400 million loan application without asking him to guarantee it.