The Grizzlies' championship parade changed everyone's impression of the city of Memphis.

It turns out that not everyone in Memphis is living in dire straits. It turns out that basketball also has a strong appeal in Memphis. It turns out that there is no difference between it and most places.

Memphis fans used their enthusiasm to create a frenzied summer.

Of course, for everyone, this frenzied summer has only just begun.

The NBA Finals are over, a new NBA championship is born, and Link, the new king, has also taken the crown from James.

But at the same time, a new round of journey is already surging undercurrent.

From the time of the draft, the war had actually begun.

On June 27, 2013, the new round of the draft was held at the Barclays Center in New York.

Normally, championship teams don't play much in the draft. After all, championship teams have historically had little need for potential rookies to join, and there was no room for potential rookies to develop.

Coupled with the fact that the Grizzlies don't have a first-round pick this year, their presence in the draft is even more frighteningly low.

Now that all the Grizzlies are still immersed in the joy of winning the championship, who cares about the draft.

Besides, this year's draft can be described as a real draft year in Link's opinion.

The top three players in the draft, Bennett, Oladipo and Otto. The Potter three, in Link's opinion, is only Oladipo worthy of the name.

Needless to say, Bennett didn't expect to be selected as the top pick. After all, in the prediction before the start of the draft, he was only ranked 610.

The knight really doesn't have anyone to choose, Knor, there's an injury. Oladipo, which coincides with Vitesse and Owen's position. It's so embarrassing to have a champion and not have a player to pick. In the end, because Bennett was very polite during the tryout, the Cavaliers signed the top pick to Hoho......

As for Otto. Potter, his strength is actually not weak, but Link is well aware that he has not lived up to people's expectations of him in the future.

The real highlight of this year's draft was the 10th pick, when the Trail Blazers selected C.J. McCollum. and the 15th pick, in Link's manager Jeff. With the help of Austin, he was David. Stern read the name of Janis. Antetokounmpo!

Austin has been really busy lately, because Antetokounmpo is his next heavyweight client, and he must have bothered a lot to try out for "Brother Alphabet".

But now, I'm sure Austin must be breathing a sigh of relief.

The defending champion Grizzlies didn't finally show their faces until the second round. Pera really asked Link if he had any suggestions or ideas for the draft before the draft, and he did what he said and gave Link a lot of authority.

But Link didn't give much advice, because to be honest, the Grizzlies really don't have any suitable candidates to pick in this year's draft.

Link's suggestion has to be reasonable first, and within reason, even if the Grizzlies are traded, they can only get a mid-to-late first-round pick at most. The only one worth winning in the middle and late stages of the first round was the Frenchman Rudy. Gobert too.

But considering that the Grizzlies already have Gasol as the best defensive player, there is no need to pick Gobert. So, Link simply didn't give any advice.

This permission should be used only when it is useful.

As a result, in the second round, the Grizzlies selected Jamal Brown, a junior swingman from San Diego State University. Franklin.

In his junior year, he averaged 17 points, 9.5 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game, which seems to be very powerful, but he didn't play a dominant performance in college in his junior year, which shows that he can't play the same level of data in the NBA, and it's no wonder that he fell to the second round.

And Link is not familiar with the name and appearance of this person, which is not surprising, which means that he may not survive in the NBA in the future......

Link thought to himself that he might not meet the rookie next season. Because most likely, he will go directly to the development league to report.

It seems that some of the players who were drafted were not necessarily much better than the undrafted.

In this way, Link watched the live broadcast of this year's draft with Rachel on his couch.

Rachel had fallen asleep on Link's shoulder, after all, it was a draft year, and it was really hard to arouse people's interests.

Less than ten minutes after the draft ended, Link's cell phone rang. On the caller ID, it's Jeff. Austin's name.

Link smiled, this guy is quite efficient. As soon as I was busy with the draft, I remembered myself.

"Congratulations, Jeff, I saw it. Yang Nis. Antetokounmpo, who was drafted with the 15th pick. I think you're pretty happy with the result. As soon as Link picked up the phone, he congratulated Austin.

"Expected, expected. Compared to your victory, that's nothing to congratulate. By the way, Link, do you have time tomorrow? ”

"Of course, what's the instructions?"

"Come on, I can't command the king of Memphis. If you have time tomorrow, let's finalize the sneaker contract. There are a lot of things going on this summer, and we have to solve them little by little. ”

Co-author Austin has just finished the draft and is going to get involved in Link's sneaker contract.

In the past few days, Link has encountered a crazy robbery in the sneaker contract market! According to the rules of the sneaker market, Link is now equivalent to a restricted free agent, and all shoe manufacturers can make an offer to Link. If Nike doesn't want Link to be poached, all that can be done is to match the offer, or offer a higher price.

As a result, major manufacturers have started their money offensive.

The first to attack Link was naturally Nike's old rival Adidas, who fired an astronomical figure of 185 million in 10 years, which can be described as full of sincerity.

You must know that Adidas and Rose also signed 185 million at the beginning, but Rose's term is 13 years, while Link only has 10 years!

After that, the Chinese brand Li Lin also offered Link a price of 200 million for 10 years. And, there are some shares that come with it.

There is no doubt that China's local brands have also started to go uphill during this time. And, began to be willing to spend money to find a spokesperson. Li Lin's offer is already quite tempting. There are not many people in the whole league who can get such a price!

Just when people thought that Li Lin was going to take down Link, Under Armour's strong addition directly dealt a dimensionality reduction blow to Li Lin and Adidas!

Under Armour, a young company founded in 1996, has grown quite rapidly over the years, although it is only less than 20 years old.

After continuing to wear tights and American football equipment, Under Armour is also determined to enter the basketball field with a piece of the pie.

When a new brand enters the basketball field, in addition to its own products, it naturally needs to have enough spokespersons to support the brand value.

And Link, who just led the Grizzlies to win the championship, is undoubtedly a strong enough spokesperson.

So, Under Armour made a 10-year offer of $285 million to Link! This time, Adidas and Li Lin directly scolded and quit the group chat.

Link has been at home for the past two days, looking at this offer of hundreds of millions at every turn, and he feels dreamy. I couldn't have imagined this kind of thing before!

There is almost unanimous agreement that Nike has lost Link. Because in this era when most football star shoe contracts do not exceed 200 million, Under Armour suddenly came up with an offer close to 300 million, which is really exaggerated.

However, even in the face of Under Armour's 285 million dimensionality reduction blow-like offer, Link was unmoved.

Because Nike has decided to renew Link's contract, they don't allow a future superstar-level player to be poached like that.

Link led the team to the championship on his own in the third grade, and no one knew what else he could do in the future.

So, Nike ended up giving Jeff. Austin's number is 1 higher than Under Armour's 285 million!

In this way, Link's one-year income from a sneaker contract alone is $30 million!

To show its sincerity, Nike has even set up an ace R&D team for Link to design signature shoes specifically for Link.

If this price code bursts, the whole world will definitely be surprised.

When he thinks of the money war that the major sneaker manufacturers have started in the past few days to compete for himself, Link feels proud.

In just one year, his sneaker contract has grown from a little more than 200 million at the beginning, to nearly 300 million, and now to more than 300 million! This may be the bonus that the championship brings to a player.

"Do you sign a contract with Nike tomorrow? Well, I'll be waiting for you at home making good coffee, Jeff. ”

Link is in a good mood and the championship is really a good thing.