Chapter 1370 The Bosses Feel Cold

At 2 p.m. on June 12, the NBA Board of Directors held its meeting as scheduled.

Stern looked at these bosses coldly and said:

"I'm sorry, gentlemen, because you chose the little profit Nike gave you, because you chose the hammer, because you chose parochialism, because you chose conservatism, all our broadcast contract negotiations were unilaterally terminated. Yes, we have been abandoned by the broadcasters!"

"What?"

"what happened?"

“With our ratings so high, are the broadcasters crazy?”

This news, like a bomb, made all the bosses dizzy.

Stern looked at Old Bass and sneered in his heart.

Old Buss is still calm because the Lakers signed a multi-billion-dollar regional broadcast contract with Warner last year, which is also his decision to support Nike.

Moreover, Los Angeles is owned by the Lakers. There are no strong competitors there, and the NFL does not have a team there. The Lakers' market is guaranteed. Even if the Hammers withdraw, the loss to the Lakers will not be traumatic.

At this time, Stern said: "Congratulations, Jerry, you Lakers have a big contract in hand. Unlike other teams, there is no broadcaster to favor them. After the Hammers leave, their team should fall into a loss situation again." , and your Lakers won’t."

Old Bass's face changed. Are you putting me on the fire?

He saw the eyes of other team owners staring over and said quickly: "No, David, our contract must also be distributed to the league, everyone has a share."

"But the Lakers take the lead." Spurs owner Holt said coldly.

He does not belong to Nike, and he is also one of the bosses who opposes the introduction of relevant rules this time. If Li Ba leaves, he and the Spurs will be the ones who suffer the most. The long-awaited huge broadcast contract has no hope. Now they are all thinking about killing guys like Old Bass.

"We need to re-write the rules and divide the broadcast contracts equally among all teams." Mavericks owner Cuban shouted.

He is also someone who opposes the introduction of rules that restrict defense. He is not short of Nike's money. He and Buss have different thoughts. Buss wants to restrict defense to achieve the purpose of restricting Li Ba, thus creating a way for the Lakers to win the championship. opportunity, but he had no idea.

As Nowitzki's condition declines, he knows that the Mavericks have had little chance of winning the championship in recent years, so the rules that restrict defense have no effect on the Mavericks, and the Mavericks have no chance anyway.

But as soon as his words came out, Buss was anxious, the Heat's owner was anxious, and the Knicks' owner Dolan was also anxious.

However, a phenomenon occurred that made these bosses even more anxious. They all supported the team bosses who restricted defensive rules. At this time, they also supported Cuban.

"This won't work..." Old Bass said hurriedly.

But his words were immediately interrupted by the owner of the Wizards, who said: "I think this is more fair. Without teams like us, can you just rely on a few teams from big cities to play by yourself?"

Next, the team owners who stood with Nike all turned against each other and demanded that the regional broadcast contracts of the Lakers and other major teams be equally divided.

Old Bas and others were dumbfounded, they did not expect this situation to happen.

But in fact, they understand in their hearts that everything is driven by interests.

At this time Stern said: "Who else supports the introduction of rules that restrict defense?"

The bosses who supported the introduction of the rules looked at each other, and no one said a word.

But they didn't speak. When someone wanted to speak, Cuban shouted again: "I support it. Even if Nike doesn't give me money, I also support it."

"NONO, Mark, don't say that. No one will support that rule. We need a new broadcast contract." Heat boss Mickey Arison quickly stopped him.

In his opinion, compared to the tens of billions of dollars in broadcast contracts, Nike's benefits are nothing? Even the championship is nothing.

"Go and beg Hammer, beg him not to leave." At this time, a voice sounded, it was Jordan.

"We don't support restrictive defensive rules now, and he certainly won't..." Old Bass said, but before he finished speaking, he shut his mouth and couldn't continue.

Because at this time, he thought of Li Ba's identity. He is one of the top 20 billionaires in the world, with a net worth many times more than him. And as Apple's stock price continues to soar, his net worth is also soaring. Such a person How to do things is beyond his control and speculation.

"Michael, what did the Hammers say to you?" Knicks owner Dolan asked quickly.

Jordan shrugged his shoulders and said coldly: "I did talk to him about some things. I can tell you now for sure that you will lose a lot of money from now on, which is ten or a hundred times more than what you got from Nike." , or even a thousand times, there won’t be a huge broadcast contract waiting for you.”

He himself is Nike's number one, but he has not come forward in this matter and has not supported the introduction of restrictive defensive rules because he knows very well that he cannot do that.

It's not because of his personal relationship with Li Ba, but because he knows Li Ba's character very well, and he won't ignore Li Ba's status as a billionaire, let alone forget that Li Ba retired twice like him. All of these decided, Li Ba will not bow his head.

"That is a guy who keeps his chin high at all times. His net worth is enough to buy the entire NBA league, but you want to suppress him with rules and at the same time, you also want him to stay here to make money for you. You still have Brain?"

The only thing left in the audience was Jordan's roar.

"Someone must pay for the losses caused by this, and someone must be responsible for our losses." He finally said.

"I support what Michael said." Cuban jumped out immediately.

In addition to him, many bosses immediately expressed their support for Jordan, which made Bass and Dolan look pale.

"Michael, even if...even if we don't introduce rules, will the Hammer leave?" asked Bass, whose forehead was already sweating.

Jordan looked sideways at Old Bass, blew out a smoke ring, and then said: "He told me personally that he is tired of this place. There are only conspiracies here, and he won't play with you anymore."

Old Bass sighed and leaned back on the chair weakly.

As the owner of the Lakers, his net worth is actually not much. The Lakers are the family's main asset. Now not only can they not get new huge broadcast contracts, these teams also have to divide the Lakers' multi-billion-dollar regional broadcast contracts. This It hurt him very much.

Dolan asked Stern at this time: "David, do you estimate how much our new broadcast contract will get if the Hammers leave?"

Stern glanced at Dolan coldly and said: "It will not exceed 20 billion U.S. dollars. Even, it will not exceed 15 billion U.S. dollars."

"so little?"

Dolan's hand shook and all the cigars he held fell on the table.