Joe Tsai Talks Decision To Buy Nets Over Rockets
May 7th 2019 at 10:54pm CST by Chris Crouse
Joe Tsai bought 49% of the Nets last year and has the rights to assume
majority control of the team in 2021. The billionaire businessman had an
opportunity to instead make a play for the Rockets, but he ultimately took
the deal with Mikhail Prokhorov because of his love for the City of New York,
as he tells Paul Carcaterra of US Lacrosse Magazine (h/t Brian Lewis of the
New York Post).
蔡崇信去年買下了籃網49%的股權，並有權在2021獲得籃網的主要控制權。
當初蔡崇信也有希望買下火箭，但他最終與前籃網老闆Mikhail Prokhorov達成協議。
正如他接受《New York Post》採訪時所說的那樣，只因為他對紐約的熱愛。
“At the same time the Nets were up for sale…the owners of the Houston
Rockets also put the team up for sale. We thought about it, but we decided to
put the focus on the Nets because I just couldn’t imagine myself spending
too much [time] in Houston,” said Tsai. “No knock on Houston, but I love
New York. And owning a sports team, especially in a major league like the
NBA, it’s like owning a nice apartment on Park Avenue: The value’s not
going to go down.
蔡崇信接受訪問時表示：
「那時籃網在出售，與此同時火箭老闆也在將球隊出售。我們考慮過這問題，
最後決定將精神放在籃網身上，因為我無法想像自己長時間待在休士頓。
不是說休士頓不好，但我喜歡紐約。
當你擁有一支職業球隊，特別是像NBA這種大型聯盟，
這就好像在公園大道旁擁有一套漂亮公寓，永遠不會虧本的。」
“From a business standpoint, it made a lot of sense. Then, I was looking at
the upside. The NBA and basketball is a very, very big sport globally.
Everywhere, people love the NBA, especially in China. I was seeing how the
people loved the sport in China. Also, in Southeast Asia, in the Philippines,
they love basketball. Indonesia. Even Mexico; that’s going to be a big
market. So there’s a lot of international expansion opportunities. So it all
made sense.”
「從商業角度來看是有其道理的，我當時是看重在其優點上。
NBA以及籃球在全球是非常非常盛大的運動，無論在哪，人們都喜歡NBA，
特別在中國，我在中國看到許多人是多麼熱愛這項運動。
另外在東南亞、菲律賓、他們都喜歡籃球，還有印尼，甚至墨西哥，
都將是一個廣大的市場。所以會有很多國際拓展的機會，這一切都是有道理的。」
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