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).
蔡崇信去年买下了篮网49%的股权，并有权在2021获得篮网的主要控制权。
当初蔡崇信也有希望买下火箭，但他最终与前篮网老板Mikhail Prokhorov达成协议。
正如他接受《New York Post》采访时所说的那样，只因为他对纽约的热爱。
“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.
蔡崇信接受访问时表示：
“那时篮网在出售，与此同时火箭老板也在将球队出售。我们考虑过这问题，
最后决定将精神放在篮网身上，因为我无法想像自己长时间待在休士顿。
不是说休士顿不好，但我喜欢纽约。
当你拥有一支职业球队，特别是像NBA这种大型联盟，
这就好像在公园大道旁拥有一套漂亮公寓，永远不会亏本的。”
“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.”
“从商业角度来看是有其道理的，我当时是看重在其优点上。
NBA以及篮球在全球是非常非常盛大的运动，无论在哪，人们都喜欢NBA，
特别在中国，我在中国看到许多人是多么热爱这项运动。
另外在东南亚、菲律宾、他们都喜欢篮球，还有印尼，甚至墨西哥，
都将是一个广大的市场。所以会有很多国际拓展的机会，这一切都是有道理的。”
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