Chapter 645 Determination
It is difficult to buy an NBA team, but it is actually very easy to do. As long as the team owner agrees, the league agrees, and you can pay enough taxes, everything will be as fast as turning on the green light.
After all, the current chairman of the NBA is Stern, who has been committed to making the NBA a great chairman who influences global sports since he took over the position of NBA chairman in 1984.
Although his main goal is still to expand the influence of the NBA in the American sports league and to expand such influence to European countries. But he doesn't mind taking the lead in expanding the influence of the NBA to ancient China.
Although people in the world now look at that ancient country as a feudal and backward old man, this does not prevent him from taking over a wealthy boss of this country to join the NBA league, especially after the new boss gave him some very surprising suggestions, which made him more welcome to the other party to join.
All the players and coaches, assistants and staff of the 76ers' training center stood on the court to welcome their new boss.
The members who had not been able to enter the playoffs for several consecutive years had a little chance of survival because of Jerry Stackhouse, a rookie who was known as Jordan's overtime man, who was signed in 1996.
This year, the successor of Jordan continued to decline, but they signed a stronger No. 1 pick last year and performed well this year, which made them more hopeful. But just when they were ready to wait for this hope to mature and bear fruit and lead the team to create glory again, the team owner changed.
And the replacement was a Chinese who they didn't know at all, which cast a shadow on the hearts of all the members and coaches who were originally preparing for the game.
"I am very happy to acquire this team and have excellent players like you. Although the team has changed its owner, except for digging more excellent players to join you, the plan decided internally before will not change at all. And." Yang Dongxu paused here: "After training, I will treat you to the largest nightclub in Philadelphia today."
"Woo."
Originally, seeing such a young Chinese owner, everyone was a little nervous, guessing what this young owner would say when they met for the first time.
Who would have thought that the other party would be so open-minded, saying that he would not interfere, and would only spend money to buy better players to join the team, and then he was so polite to treat them directly. The players who were originally nervous suddenly felt that their new boss seemed to be quite good, unlike the previous boss who wanted good results but was unwilling to spend money and was very stingy.
Watching the players excitedly discussing how to play in nightclubs and what the characteristics of the largest nightclubs were. Larry Brown's face did not have the ease of the players. He asked the assistant coach to restrain the excited players to continue training, so as not to leave a bad impression on the new boss, and then walked into the office.
He walked into the office with Buck Coulson, the current general manager of the 76ers. This is a fat man with a height of only 165. Just looking at the surface gives people a sense of funny, because he is really too fat.
But this fat man who looks a little funny has excellent vision and team management ability. The 76ers have such poor results in recent years, and they can still find some good players from time to time and dig them up all because of his vision.
It's a pity that he met a stingy boss. Even if he is optimistic about the players, the first thing he considers is always the price, and then the players' ability. It would be better if he could meet a player who is both capable and cheap. His previous boss always thought so, which made him very distressed sometimes.
"What I said just now is not empty words to comfort people. The current management system and plans of the team will not change. I called you to the office to learn more about the team, and at the same time I want to hear your opinions on the current shortcomings of the team.
Don't worry, I am not a person who is eager for quick success and asks you to do this or that this year or next year. After all, capable players also need time to grow. But I don't want the team to continue to play badly, so the results don't have to enter the playoffs, but at least they can't be at the bottom like now." Looking at the two nervous people, Yang Dongxu said.
Hearing their boss say this, Buck and Larry Brown, who were originally a little nervous, looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief. There is also a feeling of "their boss is really too reasonable" from the outside players.
Or maybe it's just too considerate. He doesn't do anything they're afraid of, and supports everything they want to do. He's simply the best boss.
As for the team's performance, which seems to have no requirements but actually has requirements, they don't think it's a big deal. After all, this is what they have always wanted to do, one of them is the general manager of the team, and the other is the coach.
No one wants to let the team play badly, or any manager or coach of any team, even if it's for draft considerations, no one is willing to play the team badly. Every year, I compete with the bottom team to see who is worse. To be honest, I feel embarrassed when I go out and meet my peers.
"Let me talk about the current situation of the team's players and the salary structure." After confirming that the boss in front of him really wants to make the team better and will not blindly command for quick success, Buck said after a pause.
He was obviously prepared beforehand, and this preparation was naturally that if the new boss was good, then it would be a work report. If the new boss made him more desperate than the previous boss, then it would be a resignation report for job handover. The current situation is obviously the former.
At present, the total salary of all 76ers players is 28.61 million US dollars, which does not include venue fees, his own expenses, coaching expenses, assistant coaching expenses and logistics expenses.
If all these are counted, the team's annual expenditure is about 35 million US dollars. This is all spent money. As for the income, including the sales of tickets, some endorsements and other peripheral items, this year's income is about 27 million.
So it is a foregone conclusion that it will lose more than 5 million US dollars this year. Therefore, Yang Dongxu's offer of 50 million to acquire the team is really a high price. Because after paying taxes, all this money goes into Schneider's pocket. As for the team's losses and all expenses, they are calculated from the moment of signing, and they will be his in the future, and Schneider does not have to pay a penny.
After Buck's overall salary and management report last night, Larry Brown gave a brief introduction to the team's situation and the overall plan to build a new team with Iverson as the core.
However, although Iverson is currently being built as the core of the team, the 76ers' highest-paid player is not Iverson, and he can only rank third.
The 76ers' highest-paid player is Derrick Coleman at $8 million, and the second-highest is Jim Jackson at $4.6 million. The combined salary of the two is nearly half of the entire team.
What makes Yang Dongxu even more speechless is that if these two players can play to the value of so much money, he will definitely have no objection. But the current physical condition of these two people is not so optimistic. Although after the doctor's diagnosis, they will go home to rest directly without saying that the season is over.
In the 82 regular season games, it is estimated that they will miss at least one-third of the games, which means that the attendance rate of the two people with the highest salary is good for two-thirds of the time, and the remaining one-third of the time needs to be recuperated. This is still the most optimistic estimate. If there are any new injuries during the game, the attendance rate will continue to decline.
In addition, Jerry Stackhouse, the fourth-highest paid player in the starting team, is also injured, and his situation is even worse than the previous two players. Therefore, three players in the starting five lineup that was put together this season are already lax.
What is even more speechless is that the three 76ers' leading stars are a lazy guy and two prodigals. Jim Jackson, who is second in salary, was later called the NBA's number one prodigal. In his 14-year career, he played for 13 teams, including the Hornets, who did not report to the team.
Although Jerry Stackhouse is not as prodigal as Jim, he is known as Jordan's successor. Because of his rebellious and uncertain personality, it is difficult to train him as a core player of the team. His prodigal attributes are no less than Jim.
Then there is the most valuable Derrick Coleman, who Karl Malone once said that if he could work as hard as him, the No. 1 player in the league would not be Michael Jordan. Barkley also thinks that he is the most talented forward in history. He is a lazy guy and a drunkard.
Although he was selected as the No. 1 pick in 1990, he is not a completely fake No. 1 pick based on the data alone. But because of his laziness and undisciplined life, it was difficult for the team to tolerate him, so he was sent to the 76ers by the Nets. As a result, he only played 11 games in the first year of the transfer due to injuries. His attendance rate was okay in the 96-97 season, but now he is injured again. And his weight has skyrocketed due to his undisciplined weight during the injury. .
"Coleman must be warned. If he still lets it go like this, measures must be taken. The same goes for the other two. If you want to build a championship team, not to say that all players need to work hard, but at least you can't let such people lead the newcomers in the team astray." After listening to Larry Brown's report, Yang Dongxu pinched his eyebrows depressedly.
Before, his understanding of the 76ers was limited to the fact that he liked Iverson in the future, and the information he recently obtained through Zhou Ya's investigation. Now that he has a detailed understanding, he feels that his acquisition this time is still too unexpected.
The reason why a team has been so bad, in addition to the reason of playing badly, is because it is really bad. This situation has a lot to do with bad players. The current 76ers are simply a concentration camp for these bad players. Iverson can be said to be the only green, but this green is too young and is just a newcomer.
"Can we trade him to strengthen the lineup?" Buck's eyes lit up. His new boss seemed not afraid of spending money, which made him feel that he had a chance to perform.
If Schneider had not wanted to save money and find capable players before, how could he have traded these players to the team.
"Warn first, emphasize discipline, and everything must be done according to team rules. If you don't listen, then consider the issue of exchange and reinforcement. For players who no one is willing to take over for the time being, let him sit on the bench for me. If you don't change him for a day, let him sit on the bench for a day. Don't give him a chance to play as a substitute, even if you lose in the end." Yang Dongxu waved his hand to express his tough attitude on this issue.