In the restaurant of Xinghai Hotel, the figure of a giant has attracted the attention of many guests. A young man sitting by the window stood up with a smile as he stood up with a smile and shook hands with the giant and a middle-aged man beside him.

"Yang Dongxu?" Zhang Lang looked at Yang Dongxu with some uncertainty and wanted to be sure.

"If there's no second one with that name, I think it's me. Yang Dongxu smiled and made a sit-down cleanup.

To be honest, standing with Yao Ming is too oppressive, because he was a child, he could keep up with his nutrition when he was a child, and he has grown a lot in this life, with a height of 186.

can be in front of Yao Ming at 2.26, like the cutest height difference in many shots. You have to hold your head high when you smile at Da Yao, so that the other party can't see it.

"I'm sorry, you're really ......" Zhang Lang smiled apologetically, and looked Yang Dongxu up and down curiously.

Seriously, it is not a secret that the owner of the 76ers in the United States is Chinese, after all, as an official of the Basketball Association, he has done his job quite well, and he naturally has a lot of understanding of the NBA, the temple of global basketball.

Even now, the Basketball Association or the General Administration of Sports has a voice for Chinese athletes to go out and expand the influence of Chinese athletes in the world, among which basketball and football are the focus of the General Administration of Sports.

As an official of the Basketball Association, you naturally need to pay attention to the NBA, and always be ready to see if you can send the good seedlings in your hands, even if you can't be selected, training with you is also an improvement.

So when someone from the General Administration of Sports came over and sent Yao Ming to the NBA draft with him, his first reaction was disbelief, and his second reaction was what kind of joke?

But everything ended just right now, and when he was asked to bring Yao Ming to see the main master, he actually saw Yang Dongxu, a young man, it seems that he is not a few years older than Yao Ming, who is only 20 years old, right? This is the behind-the-scenes boss of the 76ers?

What are you kidding? That's the favourites to win this year.

"Hehe, understood. But although young people are sometimes inexperienced, we are also more motivated, aren't we?" Yang Dongxu said with a smile.

In fact, it was not only Zhang Lang's reaction, when he was ready to take care of and invest in the domestic sports industry, many people from the General Administration of Sports were also surprised when they saw him.

Not to mention cockroaches, it would have been surprising to know that the boss behind the 76ers was a Chinese, not to mention that this Chinese was still so young, just like a college student in school.

"Yes, young people will be more motivated. Zhang Lang's face was still a little stiff, and he didn't know how to speak for a while in the face of Yang Dongxu, who was too young, but spoke with the mature feeling of the older generation.

"Did you bring the information?" Yang Dongxu opened the topic.

"Brought, you made the preparations all here. Zhang Lang took out a file bag.

Yao Ming is not an American, he is a foreign international player, and he has not played in an American high school, let alone an American university. So the first thing he has to do to participate in the draft is to hand over his personal information to the NBA headquarters before April this year, and then get permission from the other party before he can participate in the draft tryout.

Yang Dongxu took the file bag and handed it to the intermediary introduced by Coulson next to him, the other party took the file bag and opened it and checked it carefully, because it was applied to the NBA headquarters, so the information was in English, and after checking, he nodded to make sure that there was no problem with these materials.

Then Yang Dongxu waved his hand, and the white man got up and left, he came over to get Yao Ming's information, and then returned to the United States to hand it over to the NBA in person, ensuring that Yao Ming could participate in this year's draft.

For this reason, Yang Dongxu paid an intermediary fee of $200,000 to ensure that nothing goes wrong. Of course, the job of the intermediary is to hand in the information and get the application form for the NBA foreign international player draft, as for who Yao Ming is selected to participate in the draft, it is the NBA team's business. When the time comes, if he wants to win Yao Ming, he will need to fight wits and courage with these teams.

"Let's talk about Yao Ming's personal contract next. Waiting for the middleman to leave, Yang Dongxu leaned back in his chair and knocked on the table.

This is the focus of Zhang Lang and Yao Ming coming to negotiate in person this time. Yao Ming is a member of the national basketball team, and although he has the support of the General Administration of Sports and the Basketball Association, everything is a green light all the way to the operation of good seedlings to play in the NBA.

But there is a restriction on national athletes, of course, those who have a game recall to play or something will not be talked about now, just the athletes' personal advertising endorsement and the distribution of commercial benefits need to be talked about.

Yang Dongxu spent so much money and so much work, and also decided to let Yao Ming, the first basketball player to go out in China, be selected by a team like the 76ers who are favorites to win the championship, and promised to take care of him and give him enough playing time.

It is impossible to let the cash cow you cultivate by yourself always let others pick peaches to eat, and if you are unhappy, maybe people will not only eat peaches, but also pull out your tree.

Although he is very optimistic about Yao Ming's future, he also wants to help the better development of domestic basketball, for example, in the future, more domestic players will play in the NBA, but he is not a charity, and there are some benefits that must be taken in his hands.

Especially the home-grown cash cow, although you helped cultivate the first half, so I have no problem with you eating the fruit. But I worked hard to make the cash cow bear fruit, so the fruit was distributed to you to eat, this tree can't you say it's yours is yours, and I also want to get a certain amount of autonomy, right?

"Before I came, the General Administration of Sports had already told me the general framework, and Yao Ming and I generally didn't have any opinions. However, the issue of contract ownership needs to be negotiated again. Zhang Lang said.

In fact, at present, the General Administration of Sports hopes that more players can play in top international clubs and learn more experience to enhance themselves. The issue of Yao Ming's contract ownership is not as troublesome as Yang Dongxu imagined.

Or Yao Ming is an excellent basketball player, but it was only after he arrived in the NBA that he ushered in a qualitative leap, and he is currently an ordinary national team athlete in China, not even a real core.

To put it bluntly, when a thing is not very valuable, there are naturally not so many nonsense things. What's more, this is still a decision supported by the above, so everything is very smooth.

But while most of it goes well, there are always some people who jump out to find things. It's like a broken stone, originally thrown in the corner no one wants, everyone knows that he is a broken stone, but suddenly someone says to move the broken stone, there are always people who want to use this broken stone to take advantage of it.

Therefore, for Zhang Lang's contract, Yang Dongxu heard the meaning, but in fact, it was very difficult for Zhang Lang to negotiate again.

According to what he meant, someone helps domestic players operate to the NBA, and also guarantees that there are teams to draft them, and it is still a team that can win championships, and it also guarantees playing time, which is simply a pie in the sky.

Not to mention Yao Ming's contract, he is willing to pay even if it is backwards. Besides, Yang Dongxu's requirements for the contract are not too excessive, giving the General Administration of Sports and the Basketball Association enough face, and also taking into account Yao Ming's personal interests. It's not that Yao Ming is operated as a commodity just to make money, but he really wants to create a good player.

But this is obviously a contract that benefits all three parties, but when the negotiations started, it was a little unsmooth. Some people think that since you have given so many benefits, can you still give more? This is undoubtedly a temptation that makes people want to scold their mother, but although Zhang Lang works in the Basketball Association and is still the representative of this negotiation, the decision is not up to him, so he can only talk hard.

"The contract is as it was drawn up and cannot be moved at all, which is the premise. Otherwise, you run the draft yourself, and the cost of helping to apply in front of me is when I am contributing to the domestic basketball association. Yang Dongxu said with a smile on his face.

Zhang Lang's face couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, but he didn't dare to say anything. Young people have one trait in common, and that is self-willedness. The boss of the 76ers in front of him is not only a young man, but also a very successful young man. Maybe you disobey him, and people just slap their butts and leave.

If it's just one pick, let alone one, it's okay to have several. After all, where are the NBA's declaration rules, international players can apply, it's just a matter of success rate.

It's all about the draft picks that you run, whether you pick the players you send out. Even if you are drafted, you as a player have no chance to play.

If you don't even have time to play, then what are the achievements? What are the achievements? What are the political achievements without achievements? How can you appreciate without political achievements? How can you make money from business without appreciation?

So although the draft pick is a start, this start is just a stepping stone, and the rest of the team career is the focus. So if Yang Dongxu takes back the previous promises to slap his ass and leave, it will definitely be the Basketball Association's side that sits on the wax.

After all, there is no precedent for Chinese players to enter the NBA before this, so naturally they have no experience in operating players, and even those team owners in the NBA are not familiar with them.

So although Yang Dongxu didn't fancy anyone, he looked at Yao Ming, a big man, and seemed to be very optimistic about his future, which was a place to be handled.

But without the 76ers, a strong team in the NBA, everyone doesn't know what Yao Ming's future holds, will he be drafted and won't even have a chance to play?

Therefore, because of Yao Ming's contract with the national team, they certainly have a point to handle. But Yang Dongxu's backing is a choice they can't refuse.

"This ...... We need to discuss it slowly. Zhang Lang smiled awkwardly.

"Get back to me as soon as possible, after all, my team had a good season last season, reaching the Final Four again, and finishing third out of all the teams in the league. Although it is not as good as last season's results, this year there is a greater chance of winning the championship. Yang Dongxu said.

Although the words are not explained, the meaning is very obvious, he still has championship matters to be busy, and he has no time to grind here because of a rookie who has not yet entered the NBA.