As Dennis Schröder lined up for the first game of the European Championships at the basketball arena in Tampere, Finland, there was a man sitting on the sidelines who had bet $45 million on him. The man was born in India, where his uncle was one of the leaders of the communist party, but then went to the USA as a student and became a capitalist. He founded tech companies, made millions with those tech companies, and bought a basketball club with those millions. That was 2013. Since then, the Sacramento Kings, who had one of the most exciting teams in the North American NBA in the early 2000s, have invested and taken risks summer after summer, but have only made the playoffs once. Why? Because ever since the man took charge, they’ve been betting the money on the wrong players time and time again.
