Chapter 766

As Lakers fans expect, it's far from over.

Now the West Lafayette players have been all over the league, and many of them are the leaders of each team.

With Big Ben and others coming forward, these West Lafayette players will certainly not be indifferent.

There are many other teams in the league that have a close relationship with Richard. In this case, naturally, they have to express their attitude.

For a while, the Lakers directly became the focus of half of the league's verbal criticism, and almost everyone was criticizing the Lakers.

The buss family is in a mess now. Now they have to face not only external pressure, but also internal pressure of the team.

Kobe Bryant and other four core submit transaction application, which is not the most headache for them.

The biggest headache for buss is that the small shareholders of the team are ready to move.

The bath family only owns 66 percent of the Lakers, about two-thirds of them, and the remaining three are minority shareholders.

At present, because of the reasons of Jim Buss, the Lakers are in danger. These minority shareholders naturally do not agree, and they have asked old Buss to properly handle this matter.

In fact, these small shareholders have been staring at the shares held by the bass family. If possible, they will never miss the opportunity to carve up the shares of the bass family.

Under normal circumstances, when buss died in 2013, he shared 66% of his equity to his six children, which led to the Lakers being in the center of the storm.

If these six children are completely twisted into a rope, then we don't need to worry about minority shareholders, but the key is that the bass family is not so united

At present, old buss is still alive, and the small shareholders make a lot of noise. I don't think there will be any trouble in the end.

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Now people in the basketball circle around the world are waiting for Richard's statement. They know that Richard can't just let the Lakers go.

After the voices of the league's Luciano Lafayette players and Richard's allies, the media finally waited for the news they wanted to hear.

The clipper will hold a press conference at four this afternoon.

Almost all the media in Los Angeles have been admitted. Not only that, but also foreign journalists can enter with their press cards if they can come here.

At 3:50 p.m., there was already a crowd of people in the conference hall. Nearly 300 reporters were looking forward to Richard's arrival.

Now Richard is on the phone with Xiao Hua.

"Li, I don't think it's necessary to have such a big battle. In fact, Los Angeles can't accommodate the development of the two teams."

"Only peaceful coexistence can develop..." Xiao Hua wanted to appease Richard and said something he didn't believe.

Richard laughed. "Adam, don't worry about it."

"I'm measured, I won't make it hard for the league, and I may even surprise you."

"But it's impossible for the Lakers to get out of this."

"Gimbas has to pay a price." Said Richard in a cold voice.

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Just hung up with Xiao Hua, Richard's cell phone came to a strange number.

"Hello, Li, this is Jerry bass. Can I have a talk with you for a few minutes?"

It was old buss who made the call.

Originally, old buss was ready to adapt to the circumstances. First, wait for Richard to make a move, and then they will see each other again

But now he can't sit still. Before Richard starts to play, he has upset the Lakers inside and outside. If Richard plays again, the Lakers will suffer an unbearable blow.

Richard frowned. At this time, old buss called. It really made Richard a little upset. Why did he go?

Richard did not speak, waiting for old Buss to continue.

"Lee, this time it's Jim Buss's fault."

"For this reason, we are also willing to pay compensation. I don't know how we can make up for it, so as to dispel your anger?" Asked old buss slowly.

Richard frowned. Hearing the tone of old Buss, how could he feel that he was messing around and then came to meet the porcelain buss family?

"Old Buss, it seems that your buss family has been at ease in Los Angeles for too long, and has lost the ability to deal with such emergencies."

"Well, since you ask me what compensation I want, I won't be rude to you."

"For the first compensation, Jim buss apologized to me in the press, press conference and TV media respectively, that is, for three consecutive apologies in a day!" Said Richard with a sneer.

Old buss was stunned and apologized three times on three occasions? And in a day?!

This is absolutely Richard's humiliating the bath family!

But even so, old buss felt that he could only recognize it by holding his noseAfter all, it's good that Richard didn't ask the master of the bath family to apologize.

……

"What about other compensation?" Asked old buss in a deep voice.

Richard cleared his throat and continued, "it's not good to apologize."

"Gimbas has to pay a heavy price for it."

"Mr. Buss, if I'm not wrong, your ownership of the Lakers will be divided into six shares in the future?" Said Richard with a smile.

Buss feels that things are not good. Did Richard decide to take ownership of the Lakers?

But it's totally impossible, unless Richard sells his shares in the clipper.

"Come on, Li, what do you want to do?"

"It's very simple that if you divide your equity into six, you just want to share it equally with six children."

"The compensation I want now is to kick out of the game and sell the shares that would have belonged to jimbas within one month. As for whether you will give the money to jimbas, that's not what I can manage."

"By the way, don't try to sell and buy the shares of Jim buss. If you do, I don't think you will be happy to see what may happen in the future."

"If you agree, I can guarantee you a championship in the past two years. How about it? Does it sound tempting enough?" Said Richard with a smile.

After hearing Richard's words, old buss directly refused.

"Li, we can't agree to your request. The shares of bath family will never be sold. This is our family property." Said old buss rather decidedly.

Richard said to protect them a championship, this matter old buss does not doubt, the current Lakers lineup is quite good, Richard to help, the Lakers are still quite likely to win the championship.

But even so, he is unlikely to allow Richard to sell his 11% stake in the team.

In the eyes of old Buss, it's absolutely a matter of self destruction

After 11% of the shares are sold, the bass family still has 55% of the shares. Compared with the shares of small shareholders, there is no big advantage. If there is any moth in the future, the bass family may lose control of the Lakers, which is absolutely the situation that the old buss would never want to see.

He also knows that Richard's purpose is to make the Lakers confused.

Don't tell me, Richard really had such an idea in his mind.

When I first came to Los Angeles, Richard didn't have any idea about the Lakers, because there was no need.

I have an agreement with stern, step by step, slowly, one day, I will build the clipper into a Laker, and even surpass the Laker is not difficult.

At present, Richard is still so young, in his early forties, he still has countless time to operate the clipper.

So he doesn't have to worry at all, and there's no need to have any conflict with the Lakers. The peaceful coexistence of the two is totally acceptable to Richard.

But now, because of the provocation of jimbas, it is clear that Richard gave up his original plan of peaceful coexistence.

The influence of the buss family on the Lakers is too great. Many Los Angeles fans are loyal to buss. Now Richard is trying to weaken the influence of the buss family.

The sale of 11% of the shares does not seem to have much impact on the basi family in the short term, but it may be the most important reason for the basi family to lose control of the Lakers after the death of the senior basi in 2013.

For this reason, Richard would not hesitate to give the Lakers a taste of sweetness now, and protect him as a champion in the past two years.

Of course, this championship is mainly about Richard trying to compensate Kobe Bryant and Big Ben. After all, they haven't won it since they joined hands

To Richard's surprise, old buss refused to consider Richard even though he didn't think about it.

Seeing that there was nothing to say, Richard hung up the phone directly.

After the next press conference, Buss will call Richard again.