Qilu Evening News·Qilu One Point Reporter Liu Wei
Cree is injured again, because the right Achilles tendon tore during training, the new season has not started, and the reimbursement has been announced in advance. For two consecutive years, he suffered serious injuries to the cruciate ligament of his left knee and the Achilles tendon of his right foot. Life was indifferent and cruel to Klay Thompson, and the future was complicated and blurred.
(Cray has had a long life in the past two years)
Cray is injured and has a bad season. The Warriors who have made a comeback start with a thunderbolt.
However, the Warriors management does not seem to believe in evil, from boss Lacob to general manager Miles, fighting a lot of luxury taxes, crushing the back teeth, and vowing to bring the team to the playoffs. , Brought into the ranks of the rushing team.
At this time, the Rockets owner Fertita, who is as far away as Houston, made a calculation on Twitter for Lacob, who is a peer, and then hurriedly deleted it, leaving a very interesting scene.
(Twitter deleted by Fertitta) Why is
worthy of fun? Because of the two bosses, two very extreme paths are now being taken.
Let me first talk about Lacob, who burns a lot of money. In order to fill the vacancy left by Cray's injury, the Warriors quickly finalized a "stand-in": with a special trade exception, they signed Kelly Oublay from the Thunder. Oubre’s salary for the new season is 14.4 million U.S. dollars. In the NBA, this salary is not too high, but the problem is that the Warriors’ previous salary structure has already exploded.
Before Ubre, the Warriors who had Curry, Green, Wiggins, and Clay already had more than 140 million U.S. dollars in guaranteed wages, which exceeded the alliance's luxury tax threshold and required 66 million U.S. dollars in taxes. After eating 14.4 million Ubre, the Warriors added another 68 million in taxes. In this way, the Warriors spent 82.4 million U.S. dollars to win Ubre. At this time, the warriors would pay 134 million for the luxury tax alone.
Considering that Wiseman, who just picked the top spot, needs to sign, plus signing other rookies or role players, according to the NBA luxury tax progressive system, the Warriors will pay the super luxury tax in the new season, which will be an astronomical figure. Some people predict that the Warriors' new season spending is likely to exceed 300 million US dollars. According to the statistics of Forbes wealth list, the net worth of Warriors boss Lacob is only 1.2 billion US dollars.
When the new crown epidemic has brought a huge impact to the world, especially the United States, when everyone is tightening their belts to live, Lacob is "trenched" to stunned.
(Fertitta and Lacob (sitting) greeting)
Compared with Lacob, Rockets owner Fertitta looks "normal" a lot, and can even be described as stingy.
Fertitta, who made his fortune with seafood restaurants and casinos, suffered heavy losses during the new crown epidemic. He became the first boss in the United States to lay off employees on a large scale, cutting 40,000 people in March alone. In order to pay employees, Fertitta spared no effort to borrow money to survive. In this context, basketball as a sideline naturally became Fertitta's first choice for reducing expenditures. Fertitta fired the general manager Morey. You must know that Morey's annual salary is as high as millions of dollars. After Morey left, the Rockets used the little-known general manager Stone to form a team with the "first experience of coach" Silas. , Continue to save money to the end.
If you are confused by Stone's not bad money and still can't perceive Fertitta's way of saving money, you can taste the Rockets' latest deal. Two days ago, the Rockets completed a deal with the Blazers. The team sent Covington in exchange for Ariza and two first-round picks. But before Ariza had time to report to the Rockets, he was changed hands by his old club and packaged with a first-round No. 16 pick and sent to the Pistons for a future first-round pick. The Rockets' operations have cleaned up the salary of a major rotation player and freed up a lot of salary space.
Fertita’s careful calculations are in sharp contrast to Lacob’s magnanimity. This is not difficult to explain. Fertita retweeted the tweet and deleted it immediately after thinking it was inappropriate. In short, he was shocked. .
(Ubre’s three-point shooting cannot be compared with Clay)
In the eyes of most people, under the impact of the new crown epidemic, time is difficult, and it is the best to survive the difficulties like Fertitta. The best choice. So, why did Lacobe act so crazy? You know, as a top 3D player, Clay is irreplaceable in the Warriors position, even if Oubrey is on top, even if there is a second-place pickWith Wiseman joining, whether the Warriors' new structure can re-enter the playoffs has to be a question mark, let alone hit the championship.
is such a big bet, we can only say that Lacob, who was born as a venture capital boss, really dares to play. Because he is certain that only by winning the championship can your every investment bring more added value, otherwise, the added value of the team will only get smaller and smaller, and financing will become more and more difficult.
In addition to being a venture capital player, Lacob also has a bitter side. Right now the Warriors just moved the arena from Oakland to San Francisco. The record is so bad that the San Francisco market cannot be opened. How to raise funds? How to sell tickets? With the blessings of
, the scarred Warriors have embarked on a path of no return. In the 2020-2021 season, they can only win, and they are not allowed to fail. The turbulent and confusing
2020 also gave the two bosses a multiple-choice question: Is Fertitta's conservative and more practical, or Lacob's radical is more worthwhile? One to the left, one to the right, time will give the answer.
