What is the contempt chain of NBA teams?
Generally speaking, the big ball market despises the small ball market. Teams like Miami and Chicago that can attract superstars to vote are far better than those that rely solely on draft and trading, such as Oklahoma and Cleveland. Superball City despises all the remaining teams, such as new york, whose record is at the bottom every year, and the Los Angeles Lakers, who are natural winners.
The contempt chain of NBA teams is probably like this: super ball market team-big ball market-small ball market.
It's easy to break the chain of contempt. Either you are strong enough to be above everything, such as the Heat/Warriors in previous years, or you are rich enough that nothing can't be solved by a sack of dollars. If there is, then two sacks. Skill Jun is talking about him, Clippers owner Ballmer.
In the hearts of many fans, those who can afford a team are mostly super-rich people who are worth billions at every turn. There are also many fans who believe that people worth billions like Jordan must be at the bottom of the league.
In fact, Jordan's can actually be regarded as the middle level of NBA bosses.
For example, Holt, the owner of the Spurs, belongs to the tractor industry and is worth more than 200 million yuan. After careful calculation, Duncan may have more money than the boss who pays himself. Due to the lack of funds, Holt has created a magical scene with as many as 23 shareholders in the team, and as the boss with the most shares, Holt only accounts for less than 20% of the shares.
For another example, the Buss family of the Lakers is relatively poor among NBA bosses. Old fans are basically aware of this matter, and most bosses who own teams are playing with tickets and having a good time. The Lakers are Bath's whole family, and the whole family depends on this team to make a living.
Knowing these points, we can understand why many teams have to lay off employees to avoid millions of taxes, and why the Lakers have been unable to keep up with the Clippers because they are really short of money.
Ballmer, the owner of the Clippers, is much richer than we thought.
In the 2020 Hurun Report released not long ago, Ballmer ranked tenth in the world with a net worth of $66 billion. You may not know this. To put it bluntly, this big brother's net worth is nearly 20 billion higher than that of Ma Yun and Wang Jianlin.
What is even more frightening is that this old local tyrant is not only rich, but also willful.
There was a news the other day. Aunt Jenny said: The Lakers are the owners of Los Angeles.
Uncle Ballmer responded with a smile: Although I know she is joking, I can buy the Lakers at any time if I want.
Before that, Ballmer did another thing.
Uncle Tuhao decided to spend $1 billion to build a "best stadium in sports" for the Clippers, because he felt that sharing the stadium with the Lakers was not very effective.
In the process of building the arena, I also encountered some minor problems. For example, Dolan, the owner of the Knicks, felt that Ballmer's new stadium was too close to one of his own stadiums, which would affect his own interests, so he blocked it in various ways.
Guess what?
The next scene, people see Ballmer's very profitable side!
Ballmer said that nothing that money can't solve is a problem, and he directly bought the Inglewood Basketball Center belonging to Dolan.
Ballmer: You just want money, right? Here! Fuck off!
Such a large investment is definitely the second-to-none existence of the alliance.
Since Ballmer entered the Clippers, the whole team wanted to move forward. With such a boss, why is the team unhappy?