Recast youth

Chapter 1799

After Ye Feng left Seattle, Dixon did not return to New York immediately. Instead, he got on the plane to San Francisco. After the plane landed, Li Liang, who had received the notice early in the morning, was already waiting at the airport passage with Shao Yuwen. .

He held a greeting sign with Dixon's name on it.

After the company responsible for operating the Sonics team is established, Li Liang and Shao Yuwen will be initially responsible for the company's operations. Subsequent management personnel, Ye Feng will increase according to the situation.

However, there is no need to increase the number of management personnel.

Because the NBA's operating model is different from other companies, Ye Feng's purchase of the SuperSonics is equivalent to buying the entire SuperSonics team, including the players, team general manager, and coaching team. The specific operations of the team are mainly The general manager is in charge, so there are a lot less things that Li Liang and Shao Yuwen need to do. And with Li Liang here, Ye Feng is not afraid of causing trouble with Shao Yuwen, who he has only met a few times.

It is an old saying that is true when you employ people without doubting them and when you doubt them, you do not use them.

But this sentence is not completely correct. To be more precise, it should be that people should be suspicious when employing people, and people should be used when they are suspicious. After all, people are at odds with each other. Before something really happens, no one knows whether the other party will dig a hole to cause the problem. I've capsized in the gutter, and Shao Yuwen is still in charge of the financial direction. It's better to have local snake Li Liang on the side to hold the battle.

As soon as Dixon walked down the aisle, he saw Li Liang and Shao Yuwen holding hands with their names written on them. He walked forward and after a brief greeting, he confirmed that they were the people Ye Feng had arranged to greet him.

Li Liang was also very polite to Dixon. He knew that the origin of this native of Country A was not simple. The head of Citibank's global capital markets was about to leave for Ye Feng's company.

What's more, he was the one who brokered the deal with the Sonics.

After knowing that he was the one he wanted to pick up, Li Liang, who was also a basketball enthusiast, suppressed his excitement and asked Dixon if the Sonics had bought it.

After getting the reply that he had bought it, Li Liang almost jumped up with excitement.

After all, Shao Yuwen has a master's degree in economics from New York University. Coupled with Lao Shao's deliberate training, she has high self-confidence and is unwilling to fall behind in front of Dixon, a senior. She is neither humble nor overbearing from beginning to end, calmly dealing with and negotiating.

After the negotiation, Shao Yuwen was concerned about what they should do next.

Dixon asked Shao Yuwen and Li Liang to take him to the company. On the way, he talked about his plan. After arriving at the company, he planned to summon the news media and hold a press conference to announce that he would move the NBA team SuperSonics from Seattle to San Francisco.

Ye Feng had told Li Liang and Shao Yuwen about this matter before leaving San Francisco, and both expressed that they would cooperate with Dixon's plan. At the same time, Li Liang used his connections to call his father and said this on the phone. He asked him to help convene the news media. Dad Li was a local leader among the Chinese in California and a member of the Hongmen. He had great connections. His son made 1.2 million U.S. dollars following Ye Feng in one year. When he knew that Ye Feng wanted to After moving the Sonics to San Francisco, he immediately offered to help.

In addition to the favor that Ye Feng brought his son to earn 1.2 million US dollars, there is also the fact that Ye Feng moved the Sonics to San Francisco, which means that his son can further interact with Ye Feng.

This is something he is very happy to see.

So Li Liang's father not only took care of convening the media, but even took care of the venue, waiting for Li Liang to take Dixon to hold a press conference.

to the company.

Dixon saw the office building that Ye Feng temporarily rented, and also saw in the office the draft of the arena drawings that Ye Feng had previously designed with Li Liang and Chen Pan. Although the Chinese on the draft was incomprehensible to Dixon, the drawings above He can still understand it. It is an arena with complete supporting facilities and very luxurious facilities. The overall design is very stunning.Far better than Key Arena in Seattle.

Dixon has been working in finance for many years and has a keen sense of the cost of the arena. He immediately analyzed that if this arena was to be built, it would cost at least US$7 to US$8 million.

Even Dixon was a little stunned when he saw this, and then turned to ask Li Liang if Ye Feng planned to build a new arena in San Francisco. After receiving a positive answer, he asked for the specific cost.

Then the numbers were consistent with his guess, the cost was around US$8 million.

Dixon was amazed by Ye Feng's generosity, but it is not difficult to explain that Ye Feng, who is only 28 years old, can successively make moves that shock the investment world. He is extraordinary and cannot be judged by ordinary people. This also explains why Ye Feng Why did the Sonics move from San Francisco to San Francisco? This means that Ye Feng wants to truly build a basketball kingdom of his own in San Francisco.

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Li Liang's father acted quickly. After receiving Li Liang's call, he notified the sports news-related media in a short period of time and arranged the place for the press conference.

After Dixon and Li Liang received the notice, they immediately went to the location of the press conference with Shao Yuwen. When they arrived, reporters from the news media had already arrived.

Dickerson, as the main person in charge of purchasing the Sonics, began to hold a Sonics press conference, at which he announced that the Sonics would be moved from Seattle to San Francisco.

There was an uproar for a while.

As we all know, the SuperSonics have always been Seattle's NBA team, and now they have just been traded and are moving the team to San Francisco. How can everyone not be shocked?
The news media workers present recorded the contents of the press conference, and then published articles in newspapers immediately after the press conference.

It can be said that Dixon's press conference suddenly caused a stir.

There was a lot of cursing for a while.

Among them, Seattle fans reacted the most intensely. Although the Sonics have never won the NBA championship since winning the NBA championship in 1979, they have become accustomed to the fact that the Sonics belong to Seattle.

Now that Ye Feng is moving the Sonics from Seattle to San Francisco, how can they not be angry?
Even the Seattle authorities were very shocked and angry when they found out about this. They called Schultz one after another. When Schultz just heard the news, he still couldn't believe it, because Ye Feng personally promised him, He will keep the Sonics in Seattle, develop the Sonics, and strive to win the championship.

However, after receiving confirmation from many sources, Schultz was so angry that he was almost admitted to the hospital. At that time, he dropped his favorite coffee cup.

Then he immediately called Ye Feng.

At this time, Ye Feng was still on the plane returning to China. There was no signal on his mobile phone and he could not receive a call from Schultz. An angry Schultz called Dixon again. Dixon had promised in Seattle that he would let the SuperSonics His attitude towards winning another championship in Seattle, he said coldly:

"I think Mr. Schultz, you have misunderstood. We originally bought the SuperSonics with the intention of moving it to San Francisco. Obviously, Seattle is not suitable for the development of the SuperSonics."

(End of this chapter)