NBA: Back to 97, to be the Jagged Bishop

Chapter 277 Becoming the Boss
After a while, Stern walked in with a stack of documents.

"Bosses, I know everyone is busy, so I won't talk nonsense."

"There are two things to discuss in this meeting. The first thing is the relocation of the Charlotte Hornets. They are going to move to New Orleans."

"After the Hornets leave Charlotte, we plan to expand a team in Charlotte, increasing the number of teams in the league to [-], with [-] teams in each of the east and west."

"The second thing is naturally to determine the owner of the new army and enter the schedule of creating a new army as soon as possible."

Stern made a long story short and recounted the content of today's meeting.

The bosses in the venue nodded one after another, and they agreed with the Hornets' move from Charlotte to New Orleans.

In recent years, the Hornets' profitability ranks the bottom of the league, and their attendance rate ranks the bottom of the league. They suffer huge losses every year and need a lot of subsidies from the league.

It’s not that Charlotte’s sports market is not good. Although it’s not a big sports market, it’s still located in North Carolina, where the basketball atmosphere is extremely strong. The base of basketball fans is very good.

The main reason for this serious loss is the Hornets owner George Sean.

George Sean is also the scum who QJ became a cheerleader in the team and gave him two hundred dollars afterwards. After several years of lawsuits, the husband of the cheerleader was found dead in the suburbs, and this matter will be over. It's over.

Of course, fans also have a view of good and evil. This kind of scumbag boss makes them sick, so they began to boycott the Hornets game.

This has led to more and more losses for the Charlotte Hornets. They are not a powerful team in themselves, and there are no superstars in the team.

Now that George Sean moved the team from Charlotte to New Orleans, he couldn't bear the pressure anymore, thinking about starting over in another city.

It's a pity that he didn't expect that even in New Orleans, the local fans would continue to boycott him and would not buy him at all.

His losses were even worse than in Charlotte.

Later, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he was going to sell the Hornets. Unfortunately, the price was not negotiated. Stern couldn't stand it anymore, and used the funds of the alliance to buy the Hornets. This also made Stern the only one of the Hornets. shareholder.

Then it led to the combination of Kobe and Paul being rejected by Stern. After all, he is the owner of the Hornets and he has every right not to sell Paul to the Lakers.

Later fans conspired, saying that Stern was worried that Kobe and Paul would win too many championships together.

In fact, this is not the case at all. What Stern is really worried about is that without Paul, the market value of the Hornets will drop sharply.

Looking at it this way, after George Sean made a wrong thought, it led to so many chain reactions.

Of course, these are things for later.

The bosses at the scene, including George Sean, felt that the Hornets would be reborn after arriving in New Orleans.

Kong Bu snorted, borrowing that old saying, the Internet has memory, and it has done such a big evil, and you expect the fans to forget it?Absolutely a fool's dream.

"Michael, did you say that the cheerleader's husband was killed by Sean?"

Kumbu asked Jordan beside him in a low voice.

"I don't know, it's hard to say, but this guy Sean is indeed a real scumbag. You should try to avoid contact with him in the future."

"He makes me sick, he's going to hell when he dies."

Jordan also answered Kong Budao in a low voice.

It can be heard that Jordan has a lot of resentment towards George Sean.

The reason why he is unhappy with George Sean is that on the one hand, Sean is indeed morally corrupt. Even the old rascal Jordan thinks he is too much. On the other hand, when he retired, he wanted to buy shares in a certain team. , become the team owner.

At that time, the team he contacted for the first time was not the Washington Wizards, but the Charlotte Hornets.

Charlotte is a city in North Carolina, and Jordan played for the University of North Carolina. North Carolina is his second hometown. He has a very high fan base in North Carolina.

He also has deep feelings for North Carolina, so the Hornets became his first choice.

As a result, after he contacted George Sean, he was ridiculed by Sean and almost blew Jordan up.

……

The Hornets relocated their home court without a vote, and Stern only announced it in an official capacity.

The following new army ownership competition is the top priority of this meeting.

Kong Bu felt the strangeness of Jordan beside him, his breathing began to become rapid, his body trembled slightly, and adrenaline began to secrete crazily.

It's not that Jordan hasn't seen the world, but the ownership of this team means too much to him.

"Kong, we can take this team, right?"

Jordan nervously pulled Kumbu's palm and held it tightly.

Kong Bu hurriedly withdrew his hand in embarrassment. On such a solemn occasion, he didn't want to be seen holding hands with Jordan. Maybe there would be some rumors.

"As for being so nervous?"

"Even if you don't get the ownership of the team today, if you are so rich, you will be able to buy a team sooner or later."

Kong Bu said angrily.

Jordan shook his head again and again, "It's different, this is a completely new team, completely belongs to us, and has not been branded by anyone."

"It's like a child we were born and raised together, and buying someone else's team is more like adopting a child, you understand?"

Jordan's explanation made Comb even more speechless, wishing he could cover Jordan's mouth and let him say a few words less.

But Jordan's words are indeed reasonable, and Comb also feels the same way. Creating a new team feels completely different from buying someone else's team.

Kumbu feels that the new army is like a virgin bride, and the acquisition of other teams is more like a second-married old lady.

"Then comes the highlight of this meeting, which is the competition for the ownership of the new army."

"There are a total of three powerful competitor groups. Next, let them come up and talk about their thoughts on the new army, and then you will vote to decide the final owner of the new army."

After Stern finished speaking, he waved at Larry Bird.

Kong Bu was stunned. He didn't expect that there would be such a speech session. Why did he seem to be an election class cadre?

"Kong, let me talk later, I can definitely impress all the bosses at the scene."

Jordan took the initiative to invite Ying, exuding confidence all over his body.

Kumbu did not refuse, anyway, he is not good at this kind of public speech.

Larry Bird walked onto the stage, and it could be seen that he had made a lot of preparations.

First, he talked about his relationship with the city of Charlotte. For example, his grandmother is from Charlotte. As for the truth, no one knows.

Then I talked about my own team building ideas, using the military expansion draft and the draft conference to make steady progress and let the Hornets enter the playoffs within three years.

It took about half an hour to speak. To be honest, the speech was very good. Big Bird Byrd's ability to pretend is very strong, and the speech is also very moving.

After Larry Bird finished speaking, the second competitor group took the stage.

This is a couple, Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television.

The couple are legendary black entrepreneurs. The BET created by them can be called an entertainment empire. The popular American drama "Empire of Hip-Hop" is based on this couple.

Under normal circumstances, the ownership of the Hornets was taken by the black couple.

In addition, they also have a partner, that is, the rapper Nelly who has been very popular recently, and this time they also contributed funds to compete for the new army together.

The couple's speeches are very contagious, their business ability is outstanding, and they have a strong social influence. With the support of the popular NELLY, it is no wonder that they can win this competition.

After they had finished speaking, Jordan took the stage.

"Larry, you were not such a cautious character when you were a player, and you entered the playoffs in three years?"

"Why do you have the nerve to say so? My guarantee is that I will at least make it to the Eastern Conference finals in the first year, and win the championship directly in the second year!"

What Jordan said on stage made Kong Bu's face change, which is too nonsense.

Why is the new army not doing well?That's because there are almost no decent players in the expansion draft.

The so-called military expansion draft, which can also be called the expansion draft, is to allow the new army to form a normal team of players to play games.

All other players in the league except the rookies can protect their own eight players, including some restricted free agents, such as rookie players whose contract is over, and the home team can give priority to matching rookies.

In other words, there is no way for the new army to choose these eight players.

Other players who are not protected are more or less faulty, otherwise it is impossible not to be protected.

It is almost equivalent to the fact that the new army can only pick up some unwanted garbage players from other teams, either they are extremely weak, or they have a super cancer contract, or they have a serious brain disease.

Anyway, normal and capable healthy players, the new army will definitely not be able to choose.

As for the draft, because the rookies don't have any bargaining chips, they certainly don't want to trade draft picks with other teams, so they can only select two players from the draft.

Even if Kumbu had a good vision and the two players he selected were both stars, how could he make it to the Eastern Conference Finals with a bunch of rotten tomatoes and rotten eggs?

Jordan boasted too much.

As soon as he finished speaking, all the bosses at the scene looked at Jordan not at first, but the embarrassing Kongbu below the stage.

These bosses seem to have no doubts about Jordan's words at all.

Think carefully about Kumbu's great achievements over the years, at least in their view, Jordan didn't talk big at all.

Comb won the championship directly in the first year of coaching the Raptors. At that time, the background of the Raptors must be much better than that of the new team, but Jordan also said that he did not directly win the championship in the first year, and the goal was only the Eastern Conference Finals.

Combe also won a championship in his first year coaching Philadelphia.

This makes Jordan's big words very convincing, even those who are dissatisfied with Kumbu can't fault Jordan's words.

"We are a business alliance. Since we are a business alliance, we must make money."

"I can guarantee that our new army will never lose money. Even if Charlotte's ball market is not big, we will become one of the most profitable teams in this league."

Jordan began to speak harshly again.

This sounds outrageous, because no new army can make money in the initial stage.

But in this regard, Comb has also proved himself. He has made both the Raptors and Philadelphia a cornucopia, and he has made a lot of money every year.

"The most important thing is that I don't have any problems with Kongbu's private life, especially Kongbu. Has anyone heard of any scandals about him?"

"So there is no need to worry about us doing some disgusting things and being boycotted by fans."

"We have the best coaching ability, management ability and social image!"

Jordan spoke smoothly and disgusted George Sean, avenging the hatred many years ago.

The success of a team actually depends on three aspects, record, profit and social evaluation.

Three aspects are indispensable.

If the team has a good record, but is not profitable and has poor social evaluation, then this team is definitely not a successful team, and the team's market value will not be high.

If the team is good in other things, but it can't make a profit and keeps losing money, then it definitely won't work. After all, how can a business league make money if it doesn't make money.

Now the combination of Jordan and Combe is enough to ensure that their new army will have record, profit and social evaluation at the same time. Obviously, the other two competitors have no chance of winning.

Larry Bird sighed in his heart, it seemed that this time he had no chance at all.

He didn't feel wronged when he lost to Kongbu. If it wasn't for Stern's good secrecy, he would have known that Kongbu would compete for the new team, so he would definitely not have come to meddle.

In the following anonymous voting session, without any surprises, the combination of Jordan and Combe became the boss of the new army with an absolute advantage.

But not unanimous votes, 29 teams voted, Jordan and Combe got 19 votes.

The remaining 10 teams may be more or less worried.

They may be some strong teams. If Combe and Jordan have formed a new army, maybe the championship will not matter to them.

There are also some teams that have a bad relationship with Combe, such as the Lakers.

"We made it, man, we're bosses!"

"Kong, I have a lot of plans in my mind right now, and I can't wait to share them with you."

"Team name! What is the name of our team? If nothing else happens, we may participate in the 04 draft. Have you paid attention to the more famous high school players recently?"

"Also, what tactics will our team play then?"

"How many cheerleaders? Where's the team mascot?"

Jordan hugged Kumbu and shouted excitedly. He was really happy. His long-standing dream finally came true, and it came true in North Carolina.

Kumbu was stumped by the barrage of questions, as if he and Jordan did have a lot of questions about the new army that needed to be resolved.

"How about this, Michael, pack up and come to Philadelphia."

"We usually have plenty of time to discuss these issues."

"But don't expect me to give you a high salary. It may only be the basic salary of a veteran. In addition, you must maintain a certain degree of respect for the Philadelphia players!"

Kumbu finally decided to agree with Jordan to join his team, so that it is convenient to discuss the construction of the new army.

(End of this chapter)