Legendary Basketball Tycoon - Chapter 716

How rich is Bruce? !

It can be said that at that time, no one in the world was optimistic about Liu Guangrong, a nouveau riche, who took out his property for the children to “splurge” in advance, thinking that the father and son would definitely lose their fortune immediately.

But look at what Bruce has done over the years. Bruce is involved in the shares of the top ten companies in the United States. Even if he does nothing in the future, he can achieve financial freedom just by eating the dividends of these companies. Surprisingly, after 1999, Bruce’s personal worth has also reached the level of a boss. Of course, this must be thanked Mr. Cuban, if not for the fact that Bruce spent a sum of money to acquire the sports held by Cuban. If the video website BROADCAST.com is concerned, I am afraid that Bruce will not be so valuable now.

In 1999, Cuban sold the company to Yahoo for $5.9 billion. Calculate how much Bruce can get for 20% of the shares, plus the 98 World Cup Bruce made a small profit in Macau. Of course, this is also because Bruce paid back a sum of money to Paul Allen in private. For a few years, his liquidity was really stretched. If Paul Allen didn’t lend him money to work around, he would probably only be able to operate after he sold his shares in those companies. This has led to the fact that although the current Bruce is not the most valuable among these bigwigs in the NBA league, he is definitely in the top ten.

In a word, no one dares to underestimate Bruce now. Everyone says that Bruce is someone else’s child, including these bigwigs here today, who usually use Bruce to “encourage” their younger generation. them.

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“Bruce, come to me!” Paul Allen said immediately after seeing Bruce, pointing to the vacant seat next to him.

As Bruce’s “godfather”, participating in such a level of conference must not allow his “godson” to suffer. After all, Bruce has only participated in such an industry committee three or four times. Of course, there are many teams ahead. The boss asked the general manager to participate, and this time Stern ordered all the bosses in the entire league to come forward. This is the first time since the official. But different from the previous small fights, you can see today’s lineup, not a general manager came to participate, all the bosses.

When Bruce heard Paul Allen calling him, he ran over and sat down.

As the president of the league, Stern is of course the last one to appear, so now the bosses here have begun to divide the faction. Paul Allen, as the top boss in the league, has always been flattering to him. So there are still a few bosses who fawn on Paul Allen, such as Heat boss Mickey Arison.

Of course, with Bruce’s placement, the representatives of Bruce’s potential Alliance also sat over imperceptibly. After all, there are top bigwigs like Paul Allen charging ahead, and they also like to enjoy the shade under the big tree! Such as Cuban, these people!

Since the speaker didn’t come, that’s fine, everyone can talk about their own, such as going there to play recently, going there to make a fortune and so on…

After a long while, Stern finally arrived late.

“Hello everyone, welcome to the meeting at the headquarters of the Alliance…” Stern came up to speak the same way as the school principal came up to speak. He actually said something that was not very important, at least not at the beginning. What brought everyone together.

“Gentlemen, let’s welcome Mr. Stan Kroenke, new to the league, Stan Kroenke…”

Next, Stern talked about how Stan Kroenke succeeded, how to have those developments in the future, and so on, just like when Bruce first entered the league, Stern also introduced it, but Bruce was very old at the time, and he didn’t come forward to express his views to the board of directors of other teams in the league, and now Stan Kroenke, as an adult, must be up and speaking.

“Hello, gentlemen, I am honored to join the big family of the Alliance…”

It’s just different for people who write professionally. Didn’t you see Stan Kroenke reading it with a piece of paper in his hand!

Bruce looked at Stan Kroenke’s operations and seemed to be familiar with it, which was obviously not surprising to everyone.

He knew about the team’s change of owner. In the next few years, some well-known rich people from previous lives will also join it. Now, at least half of the bigwigs sitting in this office have to be replaced.

If the historical deviation is not too great, it should be. After the new century, those rich people are aiming at the four major league sports teams that can make money for them. Among them, the NBA team Rockets, which owned Dayao in their previous life, made the most money. Who would not be jealous of these rich people when they saw it!

Maybe there will be a scene of speeches like Stan Kroenke again soon.

After listening for about a quarter of an hour, after Stan Kroenke finished speaking, Stern finally began to talk about the main topic.

“Cough, there are a few things to say in bringing everyone together this time.”

“The first thing is that Mr. Stan Kroenke bought the Nuggets, and he will be a member of our league’s board of directors, which was said at the beginning.”

“Then what I’m going to say is that the league is going to add another team in 2002, bringing the team together to 30 teams, east and west, in order to finally divide the area.” Stern calmly said. talking.

After speaking, Stern did not forget to look at everyone to see how these people reacted, whether there was too much resistance. After all, adding another team is not a big deal for the league, but it is not a big deal for other teams. For the team owner, that’s a problem. You think, if you expand your army by another team, then you will have to come up with an unprotected list of 8 players. It was done once in 1992, and again in 1997. Now 00 You have to do it once a year. Do you have no complaints when you are these bosses? !

Obviously, everyone has complaints. After all, it is in their interests. No one wants their team to have excellent players to be picked up by the expansion of the army, but a team can only protect a total of 8 players, so it is bound to be. There are some good players on the team who will be picked away, and the most uncomfortable one is undoubtedly Bruce.

Bruce has managed to put together a good championship lineup over the years. Although Kobe is about to leave, even so, none of the current team’s lineup is garbage, all of them are high-quality players. It can be said that the expansion team will pick anyone out. Bruce is heartbroken!

Sure enough, many bosses in the league started to have a headache when they heard that Stern was preparing to expand another team.