Chapter 98: Is This...a Recruitment Fair?

Although Chris Cohan is the owner, he is not interested in basketball, nor does he care about team affairs. He just treats the Warriors as a business, and he has less direct communication with Larry Riley.

"Larry, what about season ticket reservations for next season? Last week, if I remember correctly?" Chris Cohan asked.

"Let me take a look...it's not bad, it has already sold a thousand copies." Larry Riley opened a file, checked the data sent by the ticketing department, and replied.

"Very good, you print out a data sheet and bring it to the conference room." Chris Cohan ordered and hung up the phone.

Larry Riley was a little puzzled, wondering why Chris Cohan asked him to work in the ticketing department, but of course he obeyed the boss's orders.

He quickly printed out a thick form, above the Oracle Center season ticket reservations for next season's specific situation.

He stapled the forms together, walked out of the office, went upstairs to the conference room, pushed the door open and entered.

There were a lot of people sitting in the conference room, divided into two sides, one side was headed by Chris Cohan, besides a lawyer, Larry Riley didn't know anyone else.

And when his eyes turned to the other side, his heart was shocked.

Opposite Chris Cohan, there was a yellow-skinned young man sitting. It was the coach Z he had just seen in the newspaper—Zhang Yu!

He was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, with a serious face, and beside him, sat a few white men, who seemed to be headed by him.

This is...a job fair?

Larry Riley had a lot of guesses in his mind, but he just nodded and smiled at Zhang Yu, and then put the data sheet in front of Chris Cohan:

"Boss, this is a detailed summary of the season ticket reservations for next season as of today."

Chris nodded, but didn't move his hand. A middle-aged white man next to him picked up the form and flipped through it.

"If it's okay, then I'll go first?" Larry Riley said with a smile, but his tone was a little stiff.

The team owner, behind the general manager's back, came into contact with a cutting-edge head coach who has become famous all over the United States. Larry Riley can still maintain a smiling face, which is already quite self-cultivated.

Chris Cohan nodded and said:

"Larry, don't tell this matter, including Mr. Zhang's coming to Oracle."

Zhang Yu nodded and smiled at him in a timely manner.

"Okay, I see." Larry Riley agreed and walked out of the meeting room.

He took out his mobile phone outside the door, clicked on the address book, slid to the column of "Don Nelson", hesitated, and put the mobile phone back.

Wait a little longer, don't act rashly.

Although he has worked with Nelson for a long time, Nelson is too senior and acts a bit domineering. As the general manager, he actually doesn't have much power.

If Chris Cohan really invited Coach Z to coach the team, Larry Riley's life would be much easier.

He knew it was unlikely to happen, but what if Chris Cohan wanted to go with him and wanted to use Zhang Yu's identity as a Chinese to make money?

After all, Chris Cohan is not interested in basketball, he only cares about how much money the team can make for him.

Anyway, the Warriors have been rotten for so many years, he is likely to make a gimmick, follow the Rockets, and make a fortune first.

The more Larry Riley thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense, and he completely gave up the idea of reporting to the old Nelson. He planned to go back and read more about Zhang Yu's information, so as to prepare for getting along with his "new colleagues" in the future.

In the conference room, after Larry Riley left, the middle-aged white man finally flipped through the thick form, and after obtaining Chris Cohan's consent, he smiled and said:

"Mr. Zhang, please see that in just four days, more than a thousand season tickets for the Oracle Center have been sold, and you have also seen the attendance rate of the stadium in the past ten years. It is very good, which is enough Demonstrating that the Warriors have a strong fan base in San Francisco, it's a steady stream of revenue..."

This person speaks eloquently and demonstrates the profitability of Oracle Center from many aspects. He is the highest-level financial analyst under Chris.

Larry Riley guessed wrong, this is not a job fair, but a business negotiation.

The subject of the negotiations was that Zhang Yu would initiate the acquisition of the Warriors.

This is not the first meeting between Zhang Yu and Chris Cohan. In the past six months, the two parties have met three times and resolved many details. This is the fourth negotiation and the most important one. The purchase price is subject to final discussion.

Sitting next to Chris Cohan are his lawyers, financial analysts, assistants and accountants.

Zhang Yu put all his energy on the Bulldogs, so naturally he didn't have time to form his own business negotiation team, but he had Mark Baum.

The lawyers and financial analysts he brought were all Mark Baum's people, and even Mark Baum himself came and sat next to him.

Mark Baum is not simply helping, this acquisition also has his share.

Zhang Yu did not acquire the Warriors alone, but cooperated with Mark Baum to acquire them. If the transaction is successful, he will also be the team owner.

Originally, Zhang Yu didn't want to recruit Mark Baum, and he had sufficient funds.

In April last year, the subprime mortgage securities market began to fluctuate greatly, and then it went down all the way. It fell to the bottom in August. Lehman Brothers Bank went bankrupt, and the subprime mortgage securities market collapsed.

The CDS value of Zhang Yu's short-selling subprime mortgage securities soared all the way, reaching as high as 1.2 billion US dollars at the peak!

This did not reach Zhang Yu's expected 1200% return, but the subprime mortgage securities market collapsed too quickly. If the sale was late, the corresponding bank might go bankrupt as a result, and he would not get any money.

After all, even a behemoth like Lehman Brothers collapsed in the subprime mortgage crisis, and no one knew what would happen next.

After cashing out and leaving the field, Zhang Yu immediately launched the acquisition of the Warriors.

He originally wanted to hold back and wait for Curry to be selected by the Warriors before making a move, but the situation has changed. If he really waits until then, the day lily will be cold.

In his previous life, although Curry shocked the United States in March Madness in 2008, he switched to point guard in the following season, which exposed many shortcomings and the team's record was not satisfactory.

Moreover, as a 21-year-old rookie, Curry's draft prospects are not very good. Many experts are not optimistic about his future, thinking that it will be difficult for him to even become a qualified starter.

But now Curry switched to point guard as a freshman. Under the guidance of Zhang Yu, he changed the way of shooting and exerting force in a targeted manner, focusing on improving the practice of physical confrontation and movement control skills, and helped the Bulldogs win the NCAA. The two consecutive championships have already entered the scouts' field of vision.

While Curry's shot-focused offense still raises doubts that he'll get lost in the intensity of NBA-level confrontation, his shooting is simply too dazzling.