In Li Xiaolong's villa, there was an outdoor basketball court. Chu Huan and Jenny Bass came here and saw that there were already many people here.
At this time, Chu Huan saw Magic Johnson in the basketball court preparing for a bullfight with a black man who was much shorter than him, but also about 1.80 meters tall.
"It seems that someone in the Lakers is not satisfied with the arrival of Magic Johnson!"
Jenny Bass, who was standing next to Chu Huan, smiled and talked to Chu Huan.
"You said that person is a Lakers player?" Chu Huan stood there and asked Jenny Buss.
Jenny Buss looked up at Chu Huan curiously and asked: "As the owner of the Lakers, you don't know your team's main guard Norm Nickerson?"
Chu Huan was a little embarrassed. Chu Huan knew the name of Norm Nickerson and had seen the photos, but he had never seen the real person, so he didn’t recognize him just now. Although Chu Huan was familiar with the NBA, what Chu Huan was really familiar with was the NBA.
The NBA at the end of the decade and after 2000, not the NBA now.
Jeanie Buss covered her head and said exaggeratedly: "Oh my God, if the media finds out about this, the Lakers fans will definitely explode. Now I really doubt whether you can lead the Lakers to the top!
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In less than a second, Chu Huan's embarrassment disappeared, and he said with a smile: "You are wrong, it is not me leading the Lakers, but what the Lakers management will do if they lead the Lakers."
With such results, I don’t have much time to manage this team!”
Jenny Bass sighed: "I only heard my father tell some things about you, but now I know a little bit about you!"
"How do you say it?" Chu Huanxiao asked.
Jeanie Buss said: "Just from the conversation you just had with my father and me, I can see that this Lakers team is more like a toy that an adult man buys for himself for you, but this toy
The value is not acceptable to others!”
Chu Huan laughed and said: "Sports are just a toy for men!"
Jeanie Buss curled her lips, turned her attention to the basketball court again, and then said with a smile: "It seems that the Johnson you are looking for can't adapt to NBA-level defense. He lost!"
On the basketball court, Norm Nickerson first stole the basketball from Magic Johnson's hand, then made a cross dribble to Johnson, and finally dunked easily, attracting applause from the sidelines, while Magic Johnson fell to the ground.
Johnson was a bit dull.
Finally, Magic Johnson stood up silently, took his jacket from the hands of an audience on the sidelines, and then walked out of the basketball court with a lonely look on his face.
Seeing this situation, Chu Huan smiled and said to Jenny Bass beside him: "It seems that we have to separate temporarily."
Jenny Bass also guessed what Chu Huan was going to do, so she asked: "Will you be back soon?"
Chu Huan said: "It depends on whether you will go home tonight!"
Jenny Buss smiled coquettishly and said: "Then I'll wait for you!"
Chu Huan walked in the direction where Magic Johnson left, while Old Buss walked to Jenny Buss' side.
"How's it going?" Bass asked his daughter.
Jeanie Buss shook her head and said: "It seems that you have no hope of buying the Lakers from this person!"
Old Bass showed a hint of disappointment and asked: "Why are you so sure?"
Jenny Buss says: “Have you ever seen a brother give away his toys?”
The disappointed look on Old Bass's face became more and more intense.
In a corner of Li Xiaolong's villa, Magic Johnson stood there lonely, with the laughter and laughter of the party behind him, but these laughters and laughter did not belong to him, which made Magic Johnson a little at a loss.
"Still struggling with what happened during the day?"
At this time, Chu Huan's voice came from behind Magic Johnson. Magic Johnson turned around and saw Chu Huan, his expression became more and more complicated.
But it can be seen that what happened during the day had a great impact on him. When facing Chu Huan at this time, his expression was obviously at a loss!
"Sir!"
Chu Huan nodded slightly and said with a smile: "I watched the video of your game in the finals. It was a very exciting game!"
"Thank you, sir!" Magic Johnson said still somewhat silently.
Now Chu Huan did not take Magic Johnson's attitude to heart. He still smiled and said: "I bought the Lakers last year, but I didn't come to the Lakers last year. Today is also my first time to enter the Lakers."
Lakers Arena, and all of this is because of you Johnson, because I am very optimistic about your skills and believe that you can lead the Lakers to win the NBA championship again.
As for what happened during the day today, you can regard it as a performance of me showing my strength to you. As long as you can play well on the court, you should already understand my strength, so I can guarantee you
, as long as you can lead the team to get the honors he deserves, then even if you retire in the future, you will have a very successful life."
During the day, Chu Huan hit Magic Johnson on the head with a stick, and now Chu Huan handed Magic Johnson a sweet date.
This made it difficult for the magician who was not yet twenty years old to understand Chu Huan's behavior.
Chu Huan smiled and patted Magic Johnson on the shoulder and said, "Okay, you don't need to think too much about anything today. If you don't like the atmosphere here, you can leave. There is a gift from me outside!"
Magic Johnson nodded silently and left the scene. When he came outside Li Xiaolong's villa, he saw a man in black who was guarding Chu Huan today. A brand new car was parked next to the man in black.
In the Mercedes-Benz car, the man in black smiled and took out two car keys from his pocket and handed them to Magic Johnson.
"This is a gift from our chairman. There is also a gift in the car. Enjoy it!"
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Magic Johnson took the car keys, drove ignorantly, and then saw two hot girls in bikinis sitting in the car...
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The next day!
Chu Huan woke up in a top-level suite of a hotel in Los Angeles. Lying next to her was Jenny Buss, but Jenny Buss had not woken up yet.
As usual, wash up, do boxing, take a shower, and have breakfast.
While Chu Huan was having breakfast, Jenny Bass woke up and came to Chu Huan barefoot, hugged Chu Huan's neck from behind, and asked lazily: "How many days are you going to stay in Los Angeles?"
Chu Huan said: "I'm going to New York today!"
Jenny Bass nodded and asked: "So our date is over?"
Chu Huan smiled and said: "If there is a chance, we can continue dating!"
"Okay!" Jenny Bass let go of Chu Huan and sat across from Chu Huan to have breakfast together...
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On the plane from Los Angeles to New York, Chu Huan looked at the woman next to him, Vignali, with some humor and asked, "You are so elusive!"
As Chu Huan said, Vignali is really elusive now. She called Chu Huan in Italy the day before, but ended up in Japan the next day. Maybe she will wait for you to call her number in Japan.
By that time, this person was already in North America.
Vignali put down the fashion magazine in her hand and said proudly: "This is not all your fault. Since Chu Shifeng's Hundred Days Banquet, my dad has completely welded me to your body.
, it doesn’t matter how you want to play, you can’t have men around you anyway, but now I have given up, this is good, I can go wherever I want, anyway, my dad will never give me money!”
Chu Huan laughed and said: "Your dad is afraid that one day the two of us will be together!"
Vignali nodded and said: "Yes, but this kind of life is definitely not a long-term solution!"
"How do you say it?" Chu Huanxiao asked.
Vignali said calmly: "Now I am young and beautiful, but in the future, if I still can't win you over in the past few years, I guess my dad will not let me come to you again.
At that time, we should find a younger and more beautiful woman from our family to come to you!"
Chu Huan asked: "Does your family have such a woman?"
Vignali rolled her eyes at Chu Huan and said: "There is definitely no one more beautiful than me, but there is definitely someone younger than me!"
Chu Huan nodded and said, "So your dad's business in Italy has encountered problems?"
Vignali, who had been indifferent just now, heard what Chu Huan said, and her expression suddenly changed. She looked at Chu Huan in surprise and asked, "Are you looking for someone to investigate our family?"
Chu Huan shook his head and said softly: "I don't have that spare time, but your family is still famous in Italy. Even if your father wants to cooperate with me again, he shouldn't use such an obvious way of lowering his status.
But now that he has done this, it means that your family must have encountered a big problem now!"
Vignali sighed: "I really don't know what's going on in your head!"
"A normal person's head just turns a few times more!" Chu Huan said with a smile.
Vignali sighed: "Now the Italian government is cracking down on the mafia more and more severely. In addition, my unsatisfactory brother was instigated before and offended several other big families in Italy. Now my father
The fight can be said to be exhausting, so your help is even more important!"
Chu Huan nodded, and did not ask in-depth questions about the Camorra family, because it had nothing to do with Chu Huan. He just looked at Vignali, who was wearing a leather jacket next to her and clearly showed off her long legs, and said with a smile: "You guys
I'm not interested in worrying about family matters, but there is a business that you are interested in..."
Vignali immediately leaned next to Chu Huan, hugged Chu Huan's arm with both hands, and said excitedly: "Yes, yes, yes!"
Vignali understands very well that everything she has now is actually given to her by her family. If there is any problem with the Camorra family, then her current life will be gone.
So when Chu Huan said there was a business, Vignali immediately became excited.
Chu Huan said with a smile: "Don't get excited. I am doing this business with you, not with your Camorra family. I hope you can understand this!"
Vignali understood Chu Huan's meaning very well. What she did with her was actually done with the Camorra family, but Chu Huan still showed that she was unwilling to have any contact with their Camorra family's business.
"clear!"
Chu Huan said: "I am planning to set up a warehousing company in Italy, which may involve domestic logistics and international logistics in the future. If you are interested, you can become a shareholder!"
In the future, Italy will become the European warehousing and logistics center with its unique geographical advantages and developed garment industry, and what Chu Huan has to do now is actually to make arrangements in advance.
However, to establish such a company, you must deal with local societies, so this is the reason why Chu Huan changed his previous idea, and it is definitely not because of Vignali's long legs!
Vignali didn't actually care what kind of business Chu Huan was doing. What she cared about was whether she could do business with Chu Huan, so she excitedly asked Chu Huan: "No problem, how much money do you need?"
"This project requires an initial investment of almost 70 million U.S. dollars. I can release 10% of the shares to you, which means 7 million U.S. dollars!"
Vignali nodded: "No problem!"
Chu Huan looked at Vignali and said seriously: "There is one thing I need you to understand. I actually don't want to cooperate with you in this business. After all, your family's business also requires warehousing and logistics. But now that I
If I choose you, then you must promise me that this business cannot intersect with your family's business. Otherwise, I will terminate cooperation with you at any time, and I can guarantee that your family will also be removed from the history of Italy.
I think you should know that I have this strength!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Vignali glanced at Chu Huan silently, then nodded: "I understand, don't worry!"
Haha, Chu Huan will definitely not be so relieved, and people will definitely pay attention to this matter when the time comes.
But this does not prevent Chu Huan from saying now: "Of course I believe you!"
Such a sentence made Vignali feel warm in her heart. In fact, this cooperation is not only a transformation for the Camorra family, but it is also of great help to Vignali herself. Before this,
Although Vignali is favored by Camorra, she is only a woman in the family after all. This can be seen from Camorra's insistence on letting Vignali sleep on Chu Huan's bed.
But now Chu Huan has stated that this business is only a cooperation with Vignali, which actually improves Vignali's status in the Camorra family. From now on, she is no longer a member of the Camorra family who can be used to be used.
It exists as a chess piece.
The plane arrived in New York, and Chu Huan and Vignali moved into a room in Chu Huan's apartment in Manhattan...
Chu Huan came to New York this time to attend the NBA's pre-game conference. David Maxwell attended it last year, but it happened to be held now, so Chu Huan stopped by to watch the NBA's pre-game conference.
The NBA's pre-game meeting was held in a private club. When Chu Huan and Vignali came here, they had already seen many NBA bosses sitting here, and the ones who were familiar with each other were sitting here.
Chat together.
The arrival of Chu Huan and Vignali obviously attracted the attention of many people. This was the first time they saw Chu Huan.
"Excuse me, who are you?"
At this time, a short white man wearing glasses asked Chu Huan.
When Chu Huan saw this man again, he recognized him. It was David Stern, the future NBA president who would bring the NBA to the world. However, he was not the president of the NBA yet, but a high-level executive.
Chu Huan smiled and said: "I am Chu Huan, the owner of the Lakers!"
David Stern was stunned for a moment, but still smiled and said: "Welcome to the NBA!"
At this time, as a senior executive of the NBA, he naturally knew that behind Alder Commercial Bank, the owner of the Lakers, there was a Chinese owner!
Chu Huan smiled and nodded with Stern.
This is also a capable person. He took the videotape of Magic and Bird in the Finals to his hometown and waited in the corridor of CCTV for more than two hours before CCTV people saw the NBA.
game, and later CCTV began to broadcast NBA videos, and then live broadcasts.
It's just that David Stern's successor, Xiao Hua, isn't doing so well.
"I remember today is a meeting of the owners of our NBA teams. What's going on with this guy?"
Just as Chu Huan was talking to David Stern, a man wearing a cowboy hat, a suit, and a cigar in his hand suddenly said loudly.
Then Chu Huan noticed that everyone's eyes were on him.
Chu Huan did not expect that he had not encountered such a thing at Li Xiaolong's party before, but now Chu Huan encountered such a thing at an internal NBA meeting.
David Stern hurriedly said: "Sonny, this is Chu Huan, the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, and he is also a member of our NBA league!"
Then David Stern whispered to Chu Huan: "Mr. Chu, this is Sonny, one of the owners of the Indiana Pacers. This is his character. Please don't care!"
The Indiana Pacers were founded as a joint venture by eight businessmen.
Chu Huan nodded without saying anything, wanting to see what this modern cowboy wanted to do.
Sonny did not sit down because of David Stern's explanation. He still preached loudly: "I remember that the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers is a bank. When did he become a Chinese?"
Chu Huan sat directly in the empty seat next to him and said easily: "Because that bank is mine too, naturally the Los Angeles Lakers are mine too!"
Seeing Chu Huan's attitude, Sonny became more and more dissatisfied, and immediately said: "The NBA is our North American sports event, how can we let a Chinese be the boss? If I had known that the Los Angeles Lakers were going to be sold to a Chinese,
I will definitely not agree to this proposal!"
In the NBA, whether an owner wants to acquire a team or build a new team in a city, this requires the consent of the owners of the original NBA teams!
Sonny shouted loudly: "Everyone, I think we should re-vote and deny this Chinese-American from becoming the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately aroused the approval of many people.
Chu Huan looked at this situation and knew that they must have communicated in private, otherwise they would not be so united at this time!
Chu Huan even saw Sonny showing a proud look towards him.
Faced with such an expression, Chu Huan just gave a disdainful expression.
Seeing that the atmosphere at the scene was getting more and more intense, current NBA President Larry O'Brien finally appeared and stopped the noise of the NBA owners present.
Then he looked at Chu Huan and said with some embarrassment: "Director Chu, look at the situation at the scene, can you please go out first so that we can discuss this matter?"
When David Stern heard what Larry O'Brien said, he immediately said: "Larry, we..."
"Don't talk!" Larry O'Brien scolded David Stern.
Chu Huan sat there without moving, just looking at Larry O'Brien with a smile. To be honest, Chu Huan really didn't expect to encounter such a situation today, and by this time he should have understood who was connecting these bosses.
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What makes Chu Huan a little confused is why such a situation suddenly occurred?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In fact, this is because Chu Huan does not know much about North American culture. Although they talk about equality every day, in fact, the people in this country are the most proud, especially the white people.
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Don't worry about the NBA league. Nowadays, it can only be regarded as a low-level sports program in North America, but people think very highly of themselves. Some of them may have heard Chu Huan's name, but they don't know Chu Huan well.
When they saw that in their alliance, there was a Chinese who was standing in the same position as them, the pride in their hearts could no longer be tolerated.
Although Larry O'Brien knew that Chu Huan was the owner of Alder Commercial Bank before, from the acquisition of the Lakers to the management of the Lakers last year, David Maxwell was in charge, so Larry O'Brien also
Just pretend that you have forgotten Chu Huan.
But now Chu Huan suddenly appears in the NBA, which makes Larry O'Brien think that Chu Huan wants to officially take over the Lakers. This situation is unacceptable to Larry O'Brien.
So before Chu Huan came today, Larry O'Brien had already contacted several NBA team owners to discuss this matter, and by saying this now, he actually wanted to make Chu Huan look bad!
"Mr. Chu, please!" Larry O'Brien smiled and motioned Chu Huan out again with a polite expression.
Chu Huan was still sitting there and said with a smile: "Of course I can leave, but the moment I stand up, the NBA league's sports sponsorship will be cancelled. In addition, the cooperation with HBO to broadcast NBA games will also be cancelled.
, so O’Brien, do you want to ask me out now?”
As I have said before, the NBA is now only a low-level sports project in North America, and its low-level status is reflected in the fact that they did not have decent sports product sponsorships before this, and there was no live broadcast of their games on TV.
ABC's occasional recordings!
The NBA's ability to make money is lackluster.
But just last year, Nike signed a sponsorship contract with the NBA, and HBO also signed a live broadcast contract with the NBA this year.
To put it simply, Chu Huan is not only the team owner in the NBA, but also the father of the NBA’s financial backers.
In fact, he is not only the financier of the NBA, but also the financier of these NBA teams. Because of the two contracts signed by the NBA and Jiaku, the funds earned must also be distributed to these teams, especially the live broadcast contract.
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Larry O'Brien's face changed drastically. Because of the news dissemination channels in this era, if you didn't study it, you wouldn't know that Nike and HBO are both affiliated with the North American League.
Of course, Larry O'Brien doesn't know about this now. He was just shocked by the strong attitude shown by Chu Huan at this time. Of course, he was also shocked by what Chu Huan said.
"I wonder what Mr. Chu means by this?" Larry O'Brien asked Chu Huan in confusion.
Chu Huan smiled and said: "Don't you know that Alder Commercial Bank is affiliated to North America Aku, and HBO and Nike are also subsidiaries of North America Aku. In addition, North America Aku is my wholly-owned company. Guess what?
What do you mean?"
Now that we have talked about it, what are you guessing?
Only then did Larry O'Brien understand why Chu Huan had such an attitude. It turned out that she was simply confident!
"Mr. Chu, although these two companies belong to you, if you do this, I think you are violating the contract, right? If this is the case, we can sue your company!"
Although he understood what Chu Huan meant, Larry O'Brien still didn't want to bow to Chu Huan just like that. After all, his arrogance was engraved in his bones!
Chu Huan nodded and said: "Of course you are free to sue, but I don't know if you noticed when these two companies signed the contract with the NBA, there was a special clause on it that said we have
The right to revoke this clause of the contract when encountering unfair treatment.
Now I think the situation I encountered is unfair, so we naturally have rights. Of course, if you are dissatisfied, you can sue me, and then we will see who can afford the lawsuit!"
Larry O'Brien's face became even more ugly. Although he still didn't know Chu Huan's true financial resources, he still knew that Nike's asset valuation in North America had exceeded US$500 million, and HBO's asset valuation had exceeded US$500 million.
200 million U.S. dollars. What’s even more terrifying is that the asset valuation of Alder Commercial Bank has already exceeded 3 billion U.S. dollars. Just these are not what he and the NBA can handle!
The most important thing is that if this lawsuit is really fought, the NBA will be stink in the North American sports circle, and it will be really difficult to get sponsors by then!
"Haha, Director Chu misunderstood. It was just a small misunderstanding. Don't take it to heart. We can officially hold our meeting now!"
In the face of interests, Larry O'Brien decisively chose to selectively forget what happened before.
Chu Huan laughed and said: "Although it was a misunderstanding, I am still very dissatisfied with what just happened, so I need that Sonny who provoked me to apologize to me now!"
When Sonny heard this, his face turned ugly instantly.
"Of course!" Chu Huan stood up at this time, looked at Sonny with disdain from a distance, and said: "It's okay not to apologize, but I remember that NBA live broadcast fees are paid to different teams based on the number of games.
Are they offering different broadcast fees?”
Sonny immediately stepped forward, walked towards Chu Huan step by step, and then lowered his head: "I'm sorry!"
Chu Huan then showed a satisfied smile, and said again, they are all cheap and must be cured!