NBA: Start with 2 billion, buy the Knicks

Chapter 111: Fuck up the Nike and Adidas plans! (Thanks to Dudong Lone Star for the 10,000 reward, more to come!)

one-57 apartment building.

58th floor.

Jiang Chao was shocked when he saw that all the Capanelli furniture in his house had been polished to a bright and translucent finish.

There was a nice, familiar smell in the air, without the smell of a bachelor living alone.

As if there was a tacit understanding, when Jiang Chao called the only person who gave the key to inquire, she also called:

"Junior, where have you been today? I haven't seen you in the office."

"I still want to ask you. I have been in the office this morning. Where have you been, Senior Liu Yan..."

"I...I also want to ask you...why is that key..."

Liu Yan, who was in the office, was blushing. She had worked very late yesterday to arrange the players' apartments for the team, and it was too late to go back, so she remembered the key given by Jiang Chao.

I didn't expect to rent such a nice apartment building for her.

She never thought that this was actually Jiang Chao's home, because she was shocked the moment she opened the key. All of Jiang Chao's personal belongings appeared in front of him without any scruples.

In other words, before Jiang Chao left, he said he would live closer, but he actually lived with him??

Or should he leave for a few days and let her stay?

Because it was too late, Liu Yan had no choice but to sleep in the second bedroom all night. She cleaned Jiang Chao's apartment early the next morning and went out to work.

I thought a lot about how to return the key after meeting Jiang Chao, but I didn't expect that Jiang Chao and the players had already left after arriving at the arena.

"Yes, I have three rooms here. Can't you give me a personal secretary to stay in?"

Jiang Chao unbuttoned his suit, lay down on the neat quilt, and put his cell phone aside hands-free.

"This...this is not good, I will give it back to you."

"Come over and have a rest tonight. I haven't had dinner yet. Do you want to have dinner together?" Jiang Chao knew from the tone that he was speaking out against his integrity, so he naturally took action.

It's hard not to be moved by the thought of tidying up my room so cleanly, and then thinking about it being done by such a pure and artistic senior.

Compared to the widowed sister who is passionate and unrestrained, Liu Yan is the type who keeps her emotions introverted and then shifts to work or cleaning his room.

Many girls in China are like this. They are school beauties, they have their own pride and window screens.

So at this time, he had to take the initiative, and he couldn't let Liu Yan take advantage of his kiss.

"Dinner?"

"Yes, just think of it as an appointment with me and I'll pick you up."

"Boss, this..."

Liu Yan's bangs were messy and her face was already hot. She came back from a trip to the casino. Her junior's offensive was too fast and fierce. This domineering model really looked like a boss.

"Wait for me at the entrance of the arena."

Jiang Chao didn't do any ink, just took the keys of the classic car, put on a refreshing sports suit and set off.

The night was very long and it was time for him to find a hostess.

I don’t know if it’s because this body admired Liu Yan in his previous life, and he also has an inexplicable affection for Liu Yan.

Maybe a secretary bonus?

Maybe it's like meeting your hometown in a foreign land and hugging each other to keep warm.

News from the Wall Street Financial Channel came from the vintage radio of the classic car. Prokhorov, the owner of CSKA Moscow, became the richest man in the belligerent country through oil sales during the economic crisis and was preparing to enter the NBA market.

Jiang Chao was also given a cue, saying that due to the NBA's recent economic downturn, all New York teams have been sold, let alone the New Jersey Nets, which no one wants to play. He suggested that Prokhorov acquire the Nets and Jiang Chao

China and Russia form a super-powerful rivalry.

"I'll give you a lift..." Jiang Chao switched channels.

"A shares are stable at 3,000 points.

With the hot sales of zk4 and aj2009, the Chinese sneaker brands that reaped dividends during the Imperial Capital Olympics encountered a trough..."

News from all walks of life made Jiang Chao feel itchy. He was almost bankrupt in running a team. He didn't know how much money he had left to invest after paying the balance to Duncan.

Jiang Chao's only consolation is that at least "Mud" will not lose money, but if he is satisfied with this, he will definitely be sorry for his status as a time traveler. Which rich man does not cross borders!

His current main business is basketball, but the most profitable way to monetize basketball is by selling tickets, but within a year he can only sell them during games, and he cannot monetize them during the off-season.

And now Jobs is making money doing Pixar animation.

Another Rebus company, Xiaomi, has not yet been established, but a full industry plan has already been developed in Zhongguancun.

Ding Sanshi went to raise pigs, and when Musk saw it, I also went to raise rockets.

There are countless opportunities for investment and speculation in this era, and Jiang Chao also plans to take advantage of this window to return to China to seize some opportunities that he is good at.

The opportunity for the West Lake Pony is rare, but at least he will go to the sports industry to be stable and have fun. Compared with the deceptive investment industry in the United States, he hopes to try his skills in the familiar China.

For example, in real estate and sauce-flavored technology, he will naturally participate to a certain extent, but these returns will be infinitely magnified after ten years, that is, the investment will not be taken out, it is purely for money.

And by that time, if he had managed the team well, he would have no shortage of money. At their peak, the Knicks could make a profit of US$3 million from one regular season ticket. This is no joke.

Real estate and soybean-flavored products are not considered investments to people like Jiang Chao who have an open mind, but are regarded as stable financial management. However, he has a further vision. Venture capital is a way to demonstrate his social status and extraordinary vision.

Instead of suddenly being at the top of the wealth list after ten years of financial management, you are still called a nouveau riche.

The evaluation of a person cannot be entirely based on money. This has always been Jiang Chao's philosophy as a small employee in his previous life. No matter how lavish or expensive some people are, they are always asking their father for money, and their reputation is behind their backs.

It won't be like that.

So now that he has reached this point, let's start with basketball and build his own business empire.

Traffic jams were high in New York at night, and Jiang Chao's classic car was stuck in the traffic.

Jiang Chao looked at the fans' graffiti on the roadside wall and Jennings' profile picture: We need Jennings!

"Okay, little Emperor James must have gone crazy playing in the Bucks."

What is the most profitable thing about basketball? It’s not actually the peripherals.

It's about the profits from creating a superstar.

After taking over the Knicks, he actually thought about trading everyone on the team for Gibson, Jennings, DeRozan, and other future superstars that other teams failed to produce last year.

He also hopes that his team will be full of superstars in the future, but he has to think about the lineup, otherwise he can just pile up all the superstars in this year's draft and free market.

But he also knows the consequences of accumulating superstars. Basketball is not a place for accumulating superstars. Without dedicated role players who want to attack rather than defend, it is very likely that if he does that, the team will play well, but the record will be terrible.

The star player who should be played is ignored by everyone.

Then forced to trade:

When gathered it is a pile of shit, when scattered it is a sky full of stars.

This will be the result of his mindless accumulation of future superstars. Because the stars do not match up, it will lead to a vicious cycle, and a few will have to be traded out due to poor records. After the trade, they will shine in other suitable teams.

So he finally decided to go to the free market to poach Xingyue and bring him the fighting power. If the game was good, he might trade with the Clippers for DeAndre Jordan and get Scola from Mosaic.

They will also use Allen Iverson and Dayao to form a pure emotional lineup.

But this is not a game. He has no room for trial and error. Jiang Chao is also thinking about how to deal with these players in the future who he knows are very good but have not yet been able to play well.

The best way is to register with a brokerage company and sign them, and you can get a lot of money directly from the contract commission.

Thinking of this, he called Lao Lu to consult. If this was feasible, he would register one immediately and sign all future low-ranking Taobao shows to the agency.

Lao Lu actually knows:

"No, NBA laws stipulate that team owners cannot participate in the investment and construction of brokerage companies. Otherwise, the existence of the free market will be meaningless, and players from the brokerage company will be grouped together in the same team." Lakers assistant general manager Pei

Linka has now terminated the contracts of all its players."

"Isn't this also a group thing for Paul?"

"Fu Paul's agency has not participated in any team investment, and they have not formed a team yet." Lao Lu said doubtfully.

"Okay, I remembered the wrong time."

Jiang Chao honked the horn. Indeed, if he really founded his own agency, then why would the players want to play under his boss? There is no way, he is too charming.

LeBron James' agent, Rich Paul, is an agent that all owners hate. Not only does he offer high prices to players, but he also builds his own team of players with the help of James's gravity. Don't rely on James's dividends to take off too much.

So much so that many of the players James wanted were owned by Fu Paul, and the team thought that building a team with James as the core required money, and the contracts they gave were generous, which directly led to this team being more attractive than any other agency.

people.

"The largest agency company on the market now, CAA, has signed more than 90% of NBA players. The remaining 5% are well-known individual agency teams or international agency companies, and 5% of fringe players do not need agents. This market is dominated by them.

They have occupied them, Jiang Chao, even if you invest, it will be difficult to compete with them for people."

Teacher Lu was afraid that Jiang Chao would spend money recklessly, so he gave a serious suggestion.

"Haha, okay."

Jiang Chao smiled and hung up the phone. In fact, he would never sign the wrong person, but it didn't look like it, so forget it. He arrived at the arena, and the elegant beauty was leaning on the Knicks logo, waiting for him.

Jiang Chao handed the car keys to the security guard, got out of the car and walked towards Liu Yan.

Liu Yan obviously changed her clothes, wearing a mint green pure T-shirt, a white plaid short skirt that exposed her beautiful long white legs, and Air Force One pure white sneakers on her feet.

"These shoes have such a high status in the eyes of girls."

Jiang Chao's inspiration came instantly.

Without investing in the players themselves, Jiang Chao can only choose what is closest to the players and what they need most.

Sneaker market.

On a larger scale, it’s sports equipment and sporting goods...

Just as he previously hoped that Curry and Harden would not sign sneaker contracts so quickly, he also wants to create a sports brand to sign players and obtain exclusive buyout rights for players' equipment.

This can be considered as exploiting a loophole in the rules. Isn’t it okay for me to provide sneakers and equipment to the players? It has nothing to do with me which team they go to.

Jiang Chao plans to start with a sports brand first, using his identity as the owner of the Knicks to sign people and then drive sales of sneakers. This model is very healthy.

Why don’t other team owners have this genius idea??

It's very simple, either they disdain the market with such a small profit, or they just don't want to deal with Nike and Adidas. No matter how hard they try, they can't deal with a sports brand that is as deep in their bones as Nike.

You must know that the only products that can impact them in later generations are made in China, and Mizuno products are being pushed further and further to the sidelines.

And the most important thing is that the people who are best at developing sneakers in the world are all owned by these big companies. Few bosses are willing to develop them from scratch. The cost of scientific research and innovation is terrifyingly high. Wouldn’t it be good to just imitate them and sell them at a reduced price?

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Including many overseas sports brands, they basically start from plagiarism and high imitation. Even Putian shoes are sold directly as fake shoes and they are very happy. Scientific research is very laborious and thankless. Isn’t it good to make quick money by directly selling high imitation shoes?

At least 90% of domestic Chinese sports brand manufacturers do not have their own characteristics.

but!

When it comes to Jiang Chao, this is his biggest advantage!

Compared with AJ and Nike, Adidas has to worry about whether the player can perform well after grabbing a player, whether to make signature shoes, etc.

Jiang Chao avoided the first hurdle first.

That is to sign the wrong people. Chinese brands are now also signing foreign players, such as the signing of stars such as Peake and Parker Battier. But what we don’t see is that they sign a lot of wrong people, and the players they sign also sell shoes.

If your abilities are average, it would be good if you can almost break even.

Every time the Chinese brand signs a star, it is a large signing fee after bidding competition with Nike and Adidas.

So you have to sign "Baby" from the time he is a rookie, it is cheap and he can sell well after he becomes a superstar.

This is what sports companies are most afraid of. Just like running a team, they are afraid of "stepping on thunder"

If you sign the wrong person, you will really lose money, and it cannot be traded, so it will directly rot in your hands, and it is too difficult to miss the lottery.

The lottery was split up by the two major companies before it was even played.

Ordinary players have basically been taken away by Nike and Adidas. Local players prefer these two brands. Even if they may never give you a signed sneaker contract in their lifetime, some players will keep licking them.

But everyone in the shoe circle actually knows that Nike and Adidas have been weak in the follow-up, and the AJ generation has been beaten to death. There is not a single star shoe that can play in the follow-up. They rarely release sneakers and boots, which are semi-bad boots.

Wouldn't it be nice to let the stars continue to wear the old boots designed by themselves and continue to sell hot-selling products?

These are all trivial matters in Jiang Chao's eyes.

Other companies may take two years to develop the shape of a sneaker, but he may be able to determine it in one day. As for sole technology, he also knows a little bit about it. Later, the sneaker market was like mobile phone launches, and the high technology was directly explained in detail.

Shoe fans all know this very well.

If he tries the sneaker market, he won't be able to cross the river barefoot and feel the pebbles in shoes.

It's an open-book exam, the kind where you just float on the water with Qinggong.

To give a random example, at least he knows the appearance design and sole technology of Anta’s best-selling KT series boots. He can also register the copyright for the Soldier 9 boots that Nike has not released yet... and directly tell you what you are studying.

Everything is done in one go!

That’s exciting! His mind is full of products that will sell well in future generations!

The strongest designer is himself. He can draw beautiful shoes no matter how bad his painting skills are. In his previous life, every time he wanted to buy sneakers, he hesitated for a week after looking at the Taobao pictures before placing the order.

Midsole, air cushion technology? In fact, it is secondary.

Those who really make money are like the Air Force One under Lin Yan’s feet and Mr. Qiao, who can win championships even when wearing aj1... In the shoe industry, good looks are king now and in the future.

Feelings are something that can make people pay for Nike shoes no matter how poorly made they are. With the spirit of Jiang Chao and the domestic Putian, it will not be bad, just look at his fashion design!

"We have to get started quickly before we go bankrupt."

Jiang Chao quickly spent his remaining spare money and never thought of investing in a shady company like Nike. Others looked down upon his small amount of money, but what he had in his head was worth hundreds of millions.

In this life, as long as he has a chance, he will kill them!

Go it alone!

The king of national trends!

"Just now it was said on the radio that domestic brands are in dire straits. I'll see if I can help them recently."

While Jiang Chao was writing in reverie.

A soft murmur came:

"Um...boss, are you okay?"

From Liu Yan's perspective, Jiang Chao looked at her legs or feet like a maniac, and then the smile on his face became more intense, and even when he walked in front of her, he looked down at her in trance.

If she hadn't known him, she would have been scared away long ago.

"Ahem, it's okay. Long time no see. I miss you."

Jiang Chao rubbed the girl's hair, smelling the familiar fragrance of virginity, and the night breeze felt even more comfortable.

"Nonsense..." Liu Yan lowered her head and played with the buttons of her T-shirt, raising one foot back cutely.

"Don't you miss me?" Jiang Chao and her arms were together, leaning on the railing together, looking at the city lights.

"I……"

"Stop talking, let's have a meal first. I see that you slept quite comfortably last night. You can sleep with me tonight too."

"Boss, it's me!"

Just as Liu Yan was about to speak, her pink lips were blocked by Jiang Chao's lowered head, fiercely and forcefully:

"I told you, you owe me one."

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