Zhou Qi left the CBA and joined the NBL in Australia. What kind of league is this, and why do so many NBA players become big bosses or small bosses early on, and even Durant is moved?
Durant wants to buy the NBL's team, and there is really something wrong.
The NBL has a lot of retired and active NBA players as owners or shareholders, and the biggest boss is Kevin Martin, who has played the Kings and Rockets. In 2019, Martin teamed up with an agent to buy a majority stake in the Brisbane Bullets and became the big boss. The bullet team was the same team that Liu Chuanxing went to.
In fact, Durant had the opportunity to become the big boss of the Bullets. Before Martin, he consulted with his agent Kleiman to buy the bullet team. Kleiman went to talk, talked for a long time, and finally Durant himself played a retreat, he felt that Australia was too far away, both in the eastern hemisphere and in the southern hemisphere, to see and not to see, can not manage, forget it.
But the NBL's big boss Kesterman is not reconciled, on the one hand, he blames the Bullets for being too stingy, on the other hand, he feels that Durant will one day change his mind, because the NBL now has 10 teams, and there are 6 teams without NBA stars.
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NBL teams and NBA star shareholders
Team
establish
Win
NBA players take stock
Adelaide has 36 people
1982
4
-
Brisbane Bullets
1979
3
Kevin Martin
Middleton
Sardeus Young
Keynes Taipan Snake
1999
Ilawarra Eagles
1
Ramelo Bauer*
Melbourne United
1984
6
New Zealand Quick Attacker
2003
Walsh/Marion
Oladipo
Perth Wildcat
10
South East Melbourne Phoenix
2019
Randolph/Harrington
Childris
Wall/Aixam
Kings of Sydney
1988
Bogart
Tasmanian jumping ant
2020
The four teams that already have NBA stars in the stock are the Brisbane Bullets, the Illawarra Hawks, the Sydney Kings and Zhou Qi's Southeast Melbourne Phoenix. Ball once announced that he had bought the Illawarra Hawks, but the NBL debunked the rumors that it had not yet been negotiated. The head coach of the Eagles, the Gore you are familiar with, won the bronze medal in coaching the Australian team at this year's Olympic Games, and has been coaching in the CBA for a long time to make money.
Not counting the "three-ball" Ball, the NBL already has 12 NBA players as bosses or shareholders, and I don't know if Zhou Qi will join after playing for a year. Buying an NBL team or being a small boss doesn't cost a lot of money. After Martin became the big boss, he successfully persuaded Thadious Young and Middleton to take a stake this year, and Middleton won the NBA championship three months after taking the stake, and he made $120 million in his career, going to Australia to buy some team shares to play, which is nothing.
On average, NBL teams are worth almost $10 million each, which is not much money for NBA players. It's different if you want to be the owner in the NBA, and the least valuable team right now is the Grizzlies, valued at $1.3 billion.
In fact, as early as 2018, marion, a former Suns forward who had played with Nash, became the small boss of the New Zealand fast attackers, and it was Matt Walsh who pulled him into the company. This Walsh claims to be a former NBA champion, in fact, he only played two games for the Heat in 2005, adding up to less than 3 and a half minutes, shooting a ball, a total of 2 points in his career, but half a year later Wade and O'Neal let the Heat win the championship. Don't underestimate these players, Marion has only played in the Heat for half a year, the two do not coincide, Walsh's three-inch tongue convinces Marion, and also pulls Oladipo into the company. (Fast Breakers New Zealand Breakers, the name of the Breaker team comes from the basketball term fast break, fast break)
On the afternoon of Zhou Qi's joining the Phoenix, Wall tweeted congratulations, and Wall's identity is not the boss of the Rockets, but a shareholder of the Phoenix team. The Phoenix big boss is Los Angeles real estate developer Romy Chowdhury. It was a new army that was formed only two years ago, when Joe Boss pulled in NBA retired stars Randolph and Childdris, and later added Native Star Exam who played in the NBA.
The latest shareholder of the NBL team is Borgett of the Sydney Kings. He is an NBA champion who returned to Australia three years ago to play and is an NBL-designated "outstanding player" who actually uses him as a sign to expand his influence. Bogett's annual salary is $500,000, but he made $118 million in the NBA and came back not to play for money, but to one day be the boss and run the NBL.
However, by then the NBL had been bought by Kestermann, so Bogart looked at him unfavorably. Bogett thought he couldn't buy the NBL, so I bought the Sydney Kings as the big boss, but in the end I didn't buy it until the end of May this year, I bought a 10% stake in the Kings. When he couldn't be a big boss, Bogut opened a network podcast to scold the mother, mainly scolding basketball, cursing sports, cursing the NBL, and cursing politics, jumping up and down during the Hong Kong X ravages.
Zhou Qi wanted to go to the NBL, and there were several teams to grab, including the Sydney Kings, who had the highest bid. Because Bogart was a small boss, Zhou Qi avoided it and chose the Phoenix team.
Randolph signed the Phoenix fans
It has been said that Kesterman bought the NBL, what the hell is going on, a league can be bought by individuals? Before talking about him, we must first talk about the past and present lives of the NBL.
The NBL was founded in 1979, originally between April and September, in the winter of the southern hemisphere, because it could not do the huge local professional football, and after 20 years, it took the initiative to avoid it and moved to October to April. In Australia, basketball is a niche sport, rugby is the big sport, and there are 4 professional leagues just because of the different rules. The NBL's teams are in and out, and the only people who are a bit famous are The Perth Wildcats and Melbourne Tigers.
The Melbourne Tigers are located in a big city, have slightly better financial resources, and once went to China to promote, but at that time, Chinese fans only recognized the NBA, and occasionally saw them come here in the summer to play some warm-up games with the Chinese men's basketball team. In 2007, the global financial crisis broke out, and in the next two years, the Sydney Kings, Melbourne Tigers, Brisbane Bullets and Singapore Ascendas Lions withdrew, and the NBL games could not be sold for money, so they had to be broadcast for free, but there were only two or three live broadcasts a week. Some people couldn't watch it, bought the Sydney King, returned to the NBL, and only spent $20,000 at that time, at the exchange rate at the time, equivalent to 120,000 yuan.
A big thing happened in 2013, the NBL and the Australian Basketball Association split up and operated independently, which is equivalent to the separation of management and office here. Efficiency increased significantly, the audience returned, and the NBL was taken in by a real estate developer, Larry Kesterman, known as "LK".
In our concept, the separation of CBA management offices is the general trend, targeting the NBA model, that is, the board operation of each team boss, and the NBL should do the same. But for businessmen, there is never only one model for doing business. The main contradiction of the NBL is that there is no money, no money, no one is not good-looking, no one looks good, no one looks at it, and no one looks at it, and no one looks at it, and there is no money - in the end, the market is small and the financial resources are weak. This will not work on the NBA model.
A Native of Ukraine, Kesterman immigrated to Australia with his parents at the age of 12, worked as a telecommunications company Dodo after graduation, and sold it for $230 million in 2013, equivalent to 1.3 billion yuan at the then exchange rate. Then he started doing real estate, with little success, and to this day, Australia's Fortune Review ranks it 139th on the country's richest list, with a net worth 760 million Australian dollars, equivalent to 3.6 billion yuan. This little money, not in the eyes of the super-rich, can not enter the List of Australia's Richest People in forbes in the United States, which starts at $1 billion, and LK is still half the same.
Although he looks round and round,and is not tall, unlike basketball, Kesterman's round head is full of business and a keen sense of smell. In 2015, he accurately bottomed out, spent 7 million Australian dollars (equivalent to 33 million yuan at the time) to buy 51% of the NBL shares, becoming the big boss of the holding.
Now the NBL is booming, digging people everywhere, "three-ball" Ball also played here before going to the NBA, and now China's Zhou Qi has gone, it seems that Kesterman has created a legendary story. In fact, things in the world are not so magical.
Kesterman originally liked basketball, he often went to the ball, looked at it, and became a sponsor of the Tigers, but seeing the Tigers and the NBL withering year by year, he was unwilling, so he bought the Tigers shares and wanted to help. Help, not only the Tigers can't do it, even the NBL is getting worse and worse, then simply buy the league, he said, can't watch it just like this.
This is a typical "stock speculation becomes a shareholder, and the bubble girl becomes a husband".
Kesterman is completely different from the so-called basketball professional operators before him, and he uses business thinking to operate. He gave the NBL a clear positioning: based on the Asia-Pacific region, speculating in the market. Australia has only 20 million people, and more than half of them watch rugby, so they have to sell the broadcast rights to make the NBL bigger. But the level of competition is low, there are few stars, how to sell broadcast rights? Then send it, just like Stern did when he went to China. But even if it is sent in vain, no one in China will turn.
When Zhou Qi just signed a contract with the Phoenix, I wrote, some small farts can't understand and export dirty, meaning that you don't support the players to go out, why zhou Qi went out and worried about the CBA? In fact, I am discussing from the perspective of CBA operation: if Zhou Qi goes to the NBA, it will not only make a lot of money, but also drive China's basketball enthusiasm, which is good for the CBA; Zhou Qi is going to the NBL, a league with much smaller plates than the CBA, and the NBL is ambitious, and the game time and CBA conflict are bearish for the CBA in trouble.
Zhou Qi signed a contract, and the NBL broadcast rights that could not be sent for free suddenly asked for money. That's the business, and that's what Kesterman is for. When he saw the purchase of the NBL, he said something like this: How strategic we are, our "neighbors" are developed, and the NBL should not be so depressed. Interpretation: the geographical location refers to the fact that there is almost no time difference with East Asia and Southeast Asia, and can be broadcast in prime time at night; the "neighbor" is developed, which means that China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, the Philippines basketball is very hot, India is also hot, and the East Asian economy led by China is booming, and there is money everywhere.
Although Kesterman is not rich, he has the experience of business hype, so he looks particularly rich. Compared with the top 138 wealthy people in Australia, Kesterman's appearance rate is extremely high, with a large number of photos in the media, doing various interviews and speeches. In order to promote his real estate Capital Grand, he even invited the "female devil" Theron to endorse and go to the cave, and the appearance fee was as high as 3 million Australian dollars, equivalent to nearly 14 million yuan.
After buying the NBL, he went to talk to the NBA, and in the one-year cycle of 2017, the Suns, Thunder and Jazz went to Australia to play against the Bullets and Tigers. He said ambitiously that with our appeal, sooner or later the NBA would put the regular season one or two games in Australia.
But Kesterman never prevented players from going to the NBA in order to keep people, and specially put down his body and said that our NBL is a springboard for young players, and I encourage you to go. One of the reasons why Zhou Qi signed the Phoenix team was to encourage him to play here, play well and have a chance to go to the NBA, and the Phoenix team was warmly farewell.
Kesterman seized every opportunity to connect the NBL and the NBA, and all the topics were hyped up. Bogt can't play in the NBA, so go home and play, "three goals" is not happy in Lithuania, then come to us, R.J. Hampton does not want to go to college and does not let the draft, then come on. He put the Bullets and Eagles game in the stadium, where 17,500 people poured in, and the single-game broadcast rights were sold to Facebook, which was hyped up in the United States.
NBA stars have money, come on, NBL teams are too cheap, there are 6 teams without NBA stars into the shares, each team is less than $10 million, so even Durant is impressed. "Three balls" playing in the Eagles, thinking that it is better to buy this team and be the boss like Daddy?
But from the last article I talked about the NBL's wage system, you can see that he should be hard and extremely strict about cost control. For example, young players sign a DP (development player), a price of 80,000 yuan, no counter-offer, salary limit during the epidemic period, the annual salary of more than 200,000 yuan will be cut in half, no negotiation. The NBL is not an NBA, nor is it a CBA, and there is no board vote, the LK has the final say.
Every year, he would invite the bosses and shareholders of the various teams to board his yacht and hold meetings under the name of a meeting, which was actually brainwashing and ideological debriefing. He told the shareholders that it was time to invest more, and at this time the opportunity was the best, you see the NBL's influence expanding day by day, the audience doubled, and the broadcast rights began to sell money. Then the shareholders felt that the steps were a little too big, and they were reluctant.
Kesterman didn't make a sound, just listened, and finally said: "Do you have anything you want to sell?" Whoever sells, I buy. Bogart always quarreled with him, and after arguing, he said: Am I stupid X, knowing that I have interests in it, and I still in it? Only stupid X does this, I am for your own good. But LK never says the same thing, whether you're a team owner, a shareholder, or Bogart.
The shrewd real estate businessman, using his omnipotent sense of smell to find business opportunities, from Martin, Bogett, "Three Balls", Middleton, and the latest arrival of Zhou Qi.
He said that the NBA is the first in the world, and our NBL is the second in the world.
Whether he was right or wrong, at least that's what he thought in his heart. Da Yao, did you hear me?