I was determined to be bad, but I went straight to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Chapter 453 Desire to Win (Part [-])
On the morning of January 1th, representatives of New York MSG Madison Garden Sports Group arrived in Los Angeles by plane, and immediately went to the Great Western Forum Center in Inglewood to conduct a field inspection of the arena. The Central Bible Church is negotiating how much it will cost to buy the legendary stadium.

The bishop of the church, Paul Foster, greeted the representatives of MSG in person at the airport. The leader was Andrew Rustgarten, the business director of MSG. He was a very trusted right-hand man of the boss Roland. He used to work at JPMorgan Chase Bank and then joined MSG. , has been handling the business affairs of the two professional teams of the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers for Dolan, and has extensive negotiation experience.

This time he made a special trip to Los Angeles, and he is determined to win the Great Western Forum. Obviously, this is a very high-quality asset. Whether it is geographical location or cultural connotation, it is absolutely worth buying it.

It's just that after the financial crisis, everyone doesn't have enough money in their pockets, and the league has also encountered a shutdown crisis. Not only the NBA, but also the NFL were suspended last year, so the funds of each sports group are not sufficient.

With the help of New York's financial center status and New York's super-large sports market, MSG has made profits year after year despite the poor performance of the Knicks. It really made money lying down.

Now with JPMorgan Chase, it is more than enough to come to the West Coast to buy a stadium, but I didn't expect the Los Angeles Clippers to go one step ahead, negotiate with the church, and set the price to 3000 million US dollars.

This price is unacceptable to MSG and JPMorgan Chase. For this reason, JPMorgan Chase used political resources in the Los Angeles area and promised that if the church sells the Great Western Forum to MSG, the local area will ensure that the employees of the arena will not be laid off, and at the same time provide the church with New prayer and event venue.

Of course, Min Congda's identity as a Chinese was also used as a lobbying condition. He believed that selling the Great Western Forum to the Clippers was a compromise with China and a sale of American cultural assets to the Chinese.

Along the way, Rust Garten and Foster had a good chat. They mentioned the glorious history of the Great Western Forum. In the 60s and 70s, it was the preferred venue for many rock and pop superstars to hold concerts. The Beatles, Qi Berlin Zeppelin, Queen, Eagles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and other famous figures in the history of music have all left their voices and figures in the Great Western Forum.

In terms of sports competitions, the Great Western Forum also left many records in history, not to mention the Los Angeles Lakers game. In 1973, Ali played against Ken Norton here. In 1982, he witnessed the Manchester miracle of the Los Angeles Kings in the playoffs. The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games was held here as the main venue for basketball games.

In short, in the hearts of Americans, the Great Western Forum definitely has a very special status and has many national memory moments.

"I still remember my big dream when I was a kid, which was to come to the Great Western Forum to watch the NBA Finals! It was the 70s, the Lakers and the Knicks were fighting each other, but unfortunately I had no money at that time, I was too young .If you can buy the Great Western Forum for MSG, it will be considered a small conquest of Los Angeles by New Yorkers, right? Haha~"

Rust Garten was joking with Foster in the car. The Lakers and the Knicks were old enemies in the 70s. They met three times in the Finals in the 70s and won each other.

That was the last brilliance of the New Yorkers on the basketball court. After that, they failed to get involved in the championship. Instead, the Lakers became more and more courageous and became the number one giant in the league.

Foster smiled and did not respond. He thought to himself, the New Yorkers are really arrogant. If the church hadn't liked the background of JPMorgan Chase and their promise, he thought that trading with the Clippers was a good choice.

When the car drove to the Inglewood area and was about to arrive at the Great Western Forum, several large garbage trucks appeared on the road one after another, and they were also heading towards the arena.

Foster opened the car window and looked around. He felt that something was wrong. There seemed to be a lot of people and vehicles gathered on the road leading to the arena. What's going on?

When the vehicle arrived near the arena, Foster smelled a foul smell, and he hurriedly closed the window, it was the smell of garbage.

"Why is it so smelly?"

"I don't know, is it the garbage truck just now?"

Soon Foster and Rustgarten discovered that the plaza of the Great Western Forum was full of garbage.

The garbage trucks that passed by just now really came to the arena, and several of them were dumping foul-smelling garbage into the square.

Foster got out of the car in a hurry, the stench just paved the surface again, he held his nose and came to a garbage truck, slammed on the door of the truck, and shouted: "Hey! Who are you? Why are you dumping the garbage here? ! Are you crazy? Move the trash!"

The driver rolled down the window, pointed to the back, and said, "You talk to our leader. I'm only responsible for bringing the things over, and I don't care about other things."

"Your head? Who is your head? My God, it stinks. Damn it, I'm going to call the police!"

Foster took out his phone and wanted to call the police, when a short man in a gray woolen coat and a brown linen hat came over.

"Boy! Are you Bishop Foster? My God, can black people be bishops now... Are you Bishop Foster!"

The little man's voice was very loud, and Foster thought he was probably the boss, so he said, "Yes, I am Bishop Foster. You asked them to bring the garbage over? What the hell is going on? Why do you To do this?"

The little man took off his hood and said, "Because your arena has not paid the garbage disposal fee, it has been in arrears with us for a long time."

Foster said, "What? Garbage fees? You...well, we don't pay garbage fees, but we haven't held an event in a while, we don't produce garbage at all, what garbage fees do we pay? And you Who is it? What does the garbage disposal fee in our arena have to do with you?"

The little man said: "Even if you don't produce garbage, you still have to pay the garbage disposal fee. This is the expected fee. Hire us to dispose of the garbage. As for whether you produce garbage or not, it is your problem. You don't need to produce garbage, but Fees must be paid.”

Foster shook his head straight, and said, "We've talked about this issue before, and there has never been such a statement."

"Because you're talking to the wrong person, so the statement is naturally different, understand?"

"I... who are you? Who are you?"

"I'm Daniel Rossi, the person in charge of garbage disposal in this area. After you pay the garbage disposal fee, the garbage will be disposed of. Do you understand? Otherwise, garbage will come here every day and dumped here , leave it to you to deal with.”

Foster's seven orifices are full of smoke, and the Great Western Forum Arena, because of its annual activities, generates an astonishing amount of garbage every day.

But during this period of time, the arena is in a semi-closed state, and there are no activities at all. Naturally, no garbage will be generated, and there is no need to pay any garbage disposal fees.

He took out his mobile phone and wanted to call the police, but the little man snatched the phone and said viciously: "Do you think the police will help you solve these problems? Your real problem is that you want to sell the Great Western Forum Arena For New Yorkers! New Yorkers came to Los Angeles to buy this legendary building? What are you thinking? Let me tell you, calling the police is absolutely useless, as long as you are still thinking about selling the arena to New Yorkers, things will not happen Never, never!"

After speaking, Rossi got on a truck, and then these garbage trucks drove off after dumping the garbage, leaving piles of garbage on the arena square, making a mess.

Foster was so angry that he frowned and covered his nose. He went back to the car first and told Rust Garten that the arena had encountered some troubles, so he wanted to postpone the visit.

Rustgarten looked at the stinky garbage on the square, temporarily lost the mood to admire the spectacle, and he was afraid that there would be other troubles later.

"If you want to negotiate, you should settle some troubles first. Take me to the hotel first."

So, Foster ordered the driver to send Rustgarten and his party to the hotel first.

Then he immediately called Akeqi, the executive manager of the arena, and people from the security department of the arena.

The manager Akeqi said: "The people in the security department resigned collectively this morning, so there is no one who can stop these cars."

"The people in the security department resigned? Why? It's agreed, even if the arena is sold, their jobs will not be lost."

Akchi said: "Mr. Foster, the people in the security department are all from Sloan Security Company. As far as I know, the Clippers are a major customer of Sloan Security Company."

"The Clippers? What do you mean, the Clippers are playing tricks on today's incident?"

"I don't know. The little man just now was named Daniel Rossi. He contracted more than half of the garbage disposal in the area of ​​Inglewood. He is Italian."

"Shet, the Italians... Could it be that the Clippers are looking for the mafia to trouble us? Damn it, if this is the case, we will be in trouble."

Foster felt that the deal between the Great Western Forum and the New Yorkers might not go so smoothly.

He would never have thought that Min Congda, the general manager of the team, would have such great energy?

Thinking about it, the price of 3000 million US dollars, he must be determined to win the Great Western Forum.

(End of this chapter)