Chapter 733

"Adam, what's Richard doing now?" Stern sat in his office and rubbed his forehead, obviously it was a pain in the neck.

Xiao Hua wryly laughed, "there is no action. After the press conference, he calmed down, but the players are quite restless. I don't rule out the possibility of strike in recent days."

"Ah..." Stern sighed, now he would like to strangle Sterling directly.

It's absolutely unacceptable for the players to strike, which will cause huge losses to the NBA.

"Is there any evidence that Richard is behind this?" Stern asked, frowning.

Xiao Hua shakes his head

Many people suspected that Richard had done it, but there was no evidence, so no one dared to talk about it.

The last person who offended Richard was Stirling

If there is no evidence, go to bite Richard. Richard can let him go.

So now it's a situation that everyone knows, but everyone doesn't say.

"This man is really terrible!"

"Ten years ago, he was just a fool. I didn't expect that after ten years, he was so ruthless." Stern is also a little scared

This incident directly pushed sterling to the edge of the cliff, and it was the kind of cliff that he had to jump without jumping. On the contrary, there was no place for him in the NBA.

"Mr. President, we should do something about it quickly, otherwise the impact will be very bad, and even the fans may feel that we are shielding Stirling." Xiao Hua said solemnly.

Stern nodded. He didn't know that, but there should be a process for everything. At the moment, the League didn't even start the investigation

"Well, skip the investigation process. There's nothing to investigate anyway."

"I'll inform all NBA owners of a meeting tomorrow. They'd better come here in person for this meeting." Said stern with a long sigh.

The only purpose of this meeting is to vote whether Sterling can stay in the league or not

The voting hasn't started yet, but the results are doomed, even if 29 of the 30 NBA teams today have white owners

Even if there must be someone like Sterling among these bosses, no one will go to sterling platform at this meeting at the risk of the world, which is definitely the end of self destruction.

"Adam, when it's over, I'll think about retiring. Now I'm old, and I really don't have the energy to deal with these annoying emergencies." After setting up the meeting, stern made a sudden remark.

"Maybe it's the end of this season, maybe it's the end of next season. You're ready. I'll let you pick up my class."

Xiao Hua was stunned for a moment. Although he knew that there would be such a day, he didn't expect that it would come so early.

After leaving Stern's office, Xiao Hua still can't calm down. Will it not be long before he can take the position of President?

Under his leadership, what will the NBA become? Better than the alliance stern is building right now? Or not as good as now?

……

Xiao Hua informed the owners of all teams that this matter must be solved as soon as possible. If it is delayed, it will be bad for everyone.

After receiving the notice from the pirate team, Richard and Jordan decided to go to New York together to attend the meeting.

The reason is very simple. Richard is the victim of this incident, and Jordan, as the only black boss in the League at present, is not suitable for either of them. They are sure to play.

On the plane to New York, Jordan sat next to Richard.

"Li, did you promote this incident?" Jordan was curious and asked Richard.

It's not just Jordan right now. There are so many people who doubt Richard

"No, Michael, do you think I'm so psychic?" Richard asked with a smile.

Jordan nodded solemnly.

"Li, you are more powerful than we think."

"I have a strange premonition that our partnership may not last long." Jordan looked at Richard with deep meaning.

Richard didn't respond to Jordan, just smiled.

"Li, if you have the idea of selling the pirate team, please let me have the preemptive right."

Jordan sighed.

Richard nodded uncertainly. If everything goes well enough to sell the pirate's shares, he would sell them to Jordan first.

……

Just off the plane, Richard's cell phone received a news link from sun Xiaoben.

Richard points in and finds out that it's the exclusive interview of Magic Johnson.Like Richard, the magician in this incident was scolded by Stirling. It's quite normal for him to receive an exclusive interview at present.

The only abnormality is that the magician mentioned in this interview that he wanted to set up a team to buy the clipper

……

Magician is a better mix of retired players. It seems that in addition to Jordan, magician will make more money after retirement.

A few days ago, the media reported that the magician now has a total wealth of 800 million dollars.

It seems that there are a lot of 800 million dollars in wealth, but if the magician really wants to get the money, he can't even get 100 million dollars.

He is engaged in the real industry, for example, many Starbucks stores have half of his shares, and also invested in restaurants and so on

These industries are the masters of magicians. He will not sell all his masters for the purpose of acquiring clippers.

In case of poor operation of the express ship, he will find someone to reason with.

That's why he wanted to form a consortium to buy the Clippers.

According to the memory of his previous life, Richard also knew that the magician had raised the idea of buying the clipper after Stirling's accident.

But in Richard's view, magicians are not the biggest competitors, or even competitors.

Richard's real rival is Ballmer, who took over Bill Gates' class in 2008 and is now president of Microsoft.

In terms of wealth, he can't compare with Paul Allen, but it won't be long before he can surpass Paul Allen in the Forbes rich list.

Normally, in 14 years, Ballmer spent 2 billion dollars to get the clipper

Interestingly, at that time, in addition to his competitors magicians, there was Yao Ming.

Yao Ming normally retired 14 years ago. He was similar to the magician at that time. He also wanted to form a consortium to buy the Clippers.

As a result, these two people were directly surrounded by Ballmer's big money. They had predicted that the value of the express ship would be between 1.2 billion and 1.5 billion dollars, and Ballmer directly invested 2 billion

At present, because the time point has been advanced for four years, the clipper is certainly not worth so much money. Last season, ESPN announced the market value of each team. The market value of the clipper is not as high as that of the pirate team, about $630 million.

Even so, Richard felt that the premium of the clipper would be quite serious. Even if Ballmer didn't participate, the premium of the clipper would be close to one billion dollars!

And if Ballmer gets involved, it's going to cost a billion dollars.

The only thing Richard is thankful for is that at present, Ballmer's value is not particularly exaggerated, only less than 10 billion dollars, and he doesn't have the strength to invest 2 billion dollars directly to buy the clipper.

……

"Johnson wants to buy clippers?" Jordan also saw the news and couldn't help laughing.

"This guy thinks a little bit about the Los Angeles team. How could he have bought it?"

"Li, I'll try my best to raise money in the recent period. The money I raised here alone can hang three Johnson. I don't know what this guy is thinking."

Hearing Jordan's words, Richard smiled and shook his head. He didn't take Johnson seriously at all. At present, what he wanted to know most was whether there was any action on Ballmer's side.

Richard calculated that the market value of the pirate team last season was about $700 million. If he sold half of his shares to Jordan, he would get $350 million.

You can also sell some projects that you don't have much potential for, and then you can probably raise 500 million dollars.

We lent Golden Dragon 350 million US dollars before. At present, golden dragon can't return all of them. But it shouldn't be a problem to give a 150 million US dollars

In this way, he has about a billion dollars of capital, which is the capital he can take out without breaking his muscles and bones.

If you sell those stocks with unlimited potential plus equity, it must be another matter.

But Richard will not be stupid enough to move those potential stocks

One billion dollars is now Richard's limit. If Ballmer doesn't participate, it's almost enough.

And if Ballmer's going to get into the mix, it's hard to say.

But Richard didn't worry much. He had the strong backing of Paul Allen. He couldn't die without help