How rich is Ballmer?

As early as 2006, Forbes ranked his personal assets at US$13.6 billion.

Among them, 10 billion is his stock in Microsoft.

Of course, it is already 2010, and his assets must have increased.

This is background one. Ballmer has this ability.

How much does Ballmer love basketball?

It’s really hard to imagine an owner with tens of billions of dollars in assets attending almost every game to support the team. Ballmer is such a special case.

His craziness after acquiring the Clippers even surpassed that of Mark Cuban in history.

This is a true basketball fan.

This is background two. Ballmer has this intention.

And now the biggest problem is that Ballmer is still the CEO of Microsoft.

If he wants to acquire the Knicks, he will have to sell his Microsoft stock.

This means that the countdown to his departure from Microsoft has begun.

This is obviously a decision that requires a lot of courage to make.

But Ballmer did it. This may be the judgment of a top businessman.

Judging from Lin Ying's perspective, the market value of the Knicks before he crossed over was already close to 6 billion, and that time was only more than ten years ago.

This will definitely be a profitable business.

All in all, the emergence of Ballmer, the Microsoft boss, finally brought the Knicks' farce to an end.

Although Dolan did not expect that someone would spend 2 billion to buy a team, this result is barely acceptable to him now.

After all, he is essentially a businessman. He no longer plays in the NBA. He can use the money to invest in other teams, such as the NFL, which is also a good choice.

And you have to know that he only spent 30 million when he bought the Knicks in 1997. Now, only 13 years have passed, and it has increased nearly 70 times.

Although this is not as large as the historical proportion of Sterling buying 12.5 million and selling 2 billion, Sterling bought 14 years earlier.

At this time, the happiest people are definitely the Knicks fans and Knicks players.

Dolan is finally out of the Knicks!

They also welcomed a presence who could rival Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen.

And an owner who is willing to spend 2 billion on an NBA team, even if you don’t know Ballmer, would you say that such an owner has no love for basketball?

If you don’t have love, why don’t you use the money to do other things?

For example, make a regular deposit in the bank! [Funny]

Lin Ying was a little surprised when he saw the news.

As mentioned in the previous analysis, Ballmer would acquire the Clippers in history because he had already stepped down from the position of Microsoft CEO at that time.

But now that I still do it at work, it can only be said that I have a passion for it and a business acumen.

And that's not good news for the rest of the league.

Originally, with Dolan here, there were a lot of uncertainties about the prospects of the Knicks' Big Three, such as Dolan blindly interfering in management transactions, or not wanting to spend more on strengthening role players, etc.

But Ballmer is completely different. This guy is very willing to spend money.

The Knicks may not have much room to operate this year, but what about next year, or the year after that?

The prototype of a Knicks basketball empire can already be seen!

So from this perspective, he can be regarded as creating an extremely powerful opponent for himself.

Hey, that’s just how things are in this world!

If the one who can control everything and have everything go his way is not man, but God.

And this is not necessarily a bad thing. Isn’t the reason why basketball is passionate about defeating seemingly impossible opponents one after another?

Just like the Suns' championship last season, making the impossible possible makes people excited!

…

In the blink of an eye, Christmas is approaching.

The impact of the Knicks' change of ownership is still ongoing.

Following the valuation issue mentioned earlier, the valuations of each team have now increased nearly three to four times compared to the same period in history.

This is obviously a premium, but just like housing prices, it's there.

So Stern is also in trouble now, because before there was only an 80% chance that the summer would be suspended, but now it has become 99.9%.

As for the remaining 0.1%, you have to consider the extreme situation of the earth exploding and the planet being destroyed, right?

All in all, this incident caused a far greater butterfly effect than the incident of Billy King not going to the Nets.

Next summer is going to be crazy.

Of course, that is also a matter of next summer. We still have to play games this season, and the excitement will continue.

The annual Christmas war has begun to attract the attention of fans again.

This year's Christmas war has been anticipated by fans for a long time.

"New York's Big Three vs. Defending Champions"!

The Knicks have just won eight consecutive victories and have knocked the Bulls off the top spot in the Eastern Conference.

Poor interior defense and insufficient rotation players are some of the problems exposed by the Knicks in the new season.

But other than that, this team is almost in perfect shape.

In addition, the new owner comes to watch the games frequently, and the morale is very high.

The situation on the Sun's side has finally improved.

However, Nash's condition after returning was obviously not as good as at the beginning of the season.

No matter what the reason is, after suffering such a big blow, it is not easy to get over the psychological barrier.

Lin Ying originally thought that after Nash returned, he could return to the state he was in at the beginning of the season, but looking at this situation, he could not return to it for the time being.

It can only be done by those who are able.

Regardless of the background, this game attracted the highest level of attention since the start of the game.

"I won't be able to spend Christmas with Wanda and the others this year!"

This is what Lin Ying is thinking about at the moment.

He has already been prepared in his heart to play against the Knicks or something like that.

Even if we don't fight against the Big Three in New York, we still have to fight against the Big Three in Heat. A change of soup does not change the medicine.

How can a battle for the spotlight be without the presence of the media?

The location of this game is in Madison, and the Knicks are waiting to work.

One interesting thing is that there are usually no press conferences on training days.

But there is no way, the attention of the Big Three in New York is too great.

So since the start of the new season, they sometimes have press conferences on training days.

On a day like the Christmas War, this is naturally inevitable.

So the Big Three wore training uniforms and were interviewed by media reporters at the press conference.

It was so dark under the stage, this is New York!

As the star of the Knicks, James is naturally the one who gets the most questions from reporters.

"Will you be an Avenger tonight?"

The reporter's question contained a lot of information.

Last season, James was swept by the Suns in the Cavaliers, and the Suns even hung a crying emoji at the front of the parade.

If you want to say that James has no grudge against the Suns, that would be too inhuman.

"I will be Iron Man."

James's answer is surprising, it is more standard than the standard answer.

Marvel has become popular thanks to Iron Man, and the release of Iron Man 2 this year also set off a new wave of movie viewing climax.

New Yorkers love watching superhero movies the most.

James not only responded perfectly to this wave, but also voted New Yorkers' favorite. There is really no better answer than this.

And after that, he added another paragraph very seriously.

"I'm a member of the Knicks now and the past is the past for me and I just want to try and win games for this city."
To be continued...