Although the Hornets reached the playoffs at 20 10, they were swept by the Magic in the first round. At that time, the boss robert johnson lost the patience to continue business and decided to sell the Hornets. At that time, Jordan, as a minority shareholder of the wasp, smelled the business opportunity and bought the wasp for $275 million (for example, $654.38+75 million). At that time, the Hornets had a poor record and the team was located in Charlotte, so the development prospect of the small ball market was not optimistic. However, due to the NBA, the market value of the Hornets has now reached $65.438+0.25 billion, while it earned $65.438+0 billion in 2000. This investment is too cost-effective.
In fact, at that time, Jordan couldn't come up with so much money at once, and Jordan didn't really want to buy wasps. However, in order to develop, the NBA league personally came forward to guarantee Jordan. Jordan only needs a "down payment" of $30 million, and the rest can be paid in installments. Where did Jordan's 30 million cash come from? Jordan's career salary reached $90.24 million.
1996-98, Red Bull offered Jordan a salary of $30/kloc-0.40 million and $33/kloc-0.40 million respectively. You know, the maximum salary contract at that time was about $4 million, while the salary cap at that time was only $24.36 million. Until 2065,438+07, that is, 20 years later, Curry signed a five-year contract with the Warriors, which was kept by Jordan Best. It's just broken. Now the salary cap is 1. 1 billion dollars. Jordan's annual salary is about1.500 million dollars.