Former Bucks owner Herb Kohl is still sending his old employees checks worth
thousands of dollars
http://ppt.cc/6v0M
大意：
雖然公鹿的前老闆Kohl(按：他是威斯康辛的政治人物)把公鹿隊給賣掉了，但他可是
回絕了好幾億美金才把公鹿隊留在密爾瓦基(相較於西雅圖超音速)，而他之前的同事
也都保住了在密爾瓦基的工作他之前在球隊易主的那天，就有跟每個球團上下包含體
育館員工在內的所有人一一道謝而且給予他們一張豐厚的支票，而即使在球團易主之
後，他還是匿名地持續寄給許多公鹿球團員工支票，這樣慷慨的行為還在持續中，其
中一些支票的金額大小甚至「改變了那些員工的生活」(按：看來有些金額在4萬到10
萬美金)。
Former Milwaukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl could have stopped after selling his
former team, declining the overtures of several suitors and turning down
hundreds of millions of dollars in order to keep the Bucks in Milwaukee,
selling to Wes Edens and Marc Lasry. He could have stopped after contributing
$100 million of the then-record $550 million he made when he sold the team to
attempts to formulate a new arena that would stay in the city of Milwaukee,
rather than scampering off to the outlying suburbs.
He then could have stopped after it was reported that Kohl was anonymously
sending out $500 checks to various Bucks employees.
He didn’t stop there. From Gary Woelfel at the Racine Journal-Times:
What you haven’t read, though, is that Kohl’s generosity extended much
further. He also bestowed significant financial gifts to others in the
organization, from secretaries to sales personnel to basketball operations
officials. The amount Kohl gave those employees varied and was based on
different criterion, not the least of which was longevity with the
organization.
Some Bucks employees received $40,000 while others received nearly $100,000.
And there were even some individuals who were given checks that one person
close to the situation described as “life changing.”
Yes, for quite a few people even a relatively slim percentage of the numbers
being floated around as gifts from the former Wisconsin senator would be
regarded as “life changing.”
Remember, this team isn’t leaving Milwaukee, because Kohl determined that
any such talk from a potential buyer would be a non-starter. Unlike former
Seattle SuperSonics owner Howard Schultz, who basically colluded with current
Oklahoma City Thunder owners Clay Bennett and Aubrey McClendon to move the
team from Seattle to OKC (Schultz, who made his billions in the city of
Seattle, could have chosen to sell to local owners), costing dozens if not
hundreds of SuperSonics employees and tangential Seattle-area NBA workers
their jobs.
Without any reports of sending some anonymous checks back to their
ex-employees along the way.
Kohl’s former co-workers actually still have jobs, as a rebuilding Bucks
team will line up in its first season under Lasry and Edens this fall. Even
on top of that batch of good news, Kohl still saw fit to anonymously brighten
a few days as he moves into another stage of his life.
One gets the feeling that reports of his generosity won’t stop bubbling up
any time soon.