Updated: 2013-11-11

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"Jingle Bell ~ Jingle Bell ~"

Gan Guoyang was woken up by a burst of phone calls, and he tried to get up to answer the phone, but found that he was lying on the bed and couldn't move at all.

"Jingle Bell~"

"Clyde! Clyde! Gan Guoyang shouted Drexler's name, but no one responded.

Gan Guoyang struggled to get up from the bed, he felt every muscle in his body crack, and then someone squeezed a lot of lemon juice into it, which made him sore.

As he struggled to pick up the phone, he heard Falck's anxious voice, "Gan, are you still in the hotel?" What time is it? Sign the contract at night, sign the contract! ”

Gan Guoyang only remembered at this time that he was going to fly back to Portland today to sign a sneaker contract and return to the Trail Blazers by the way to prepare for the team's training.

He looked at the clock and saw that it was past the point where the plane had taken off.

"Damn, I slept!"

Yesterday's training was only one afternoon, but Gan Guoyang, who had been practicing for two months, was half exhausted, and when he and Drexler returned to the hotel like dead dogs in the evening, Gan Guoyang almost fell asleep directly at the door.

What's worse is that when he lay on the bed, Gan Guoyang found that there was no pain in his body, and he didn't fall asleep until midnight after this pain.

Naturally, I overslept and missed my flight to Portland at noon.

Gan Guoyang endured the discomfort all over his body and woke up Drexler, who was sleeping in the next room, he was also pestered by Cooper yesterday, and he was a little swaying when driving at night.

"No wonder the Lakers can reach the Finals three times in four years, and you can see the gap from the training." Yesterday Drexler said with emotion.

"Yes, I also kind of understand why the Lakers play offensive basketball and can win the championship, because the opponent is tired to death by them." Gan Guoyang also understands why in the NBA, which is known as "defense wins championships", the Lakers' sho-time can be invincible.

After getting up and packing up, the two hurriedly took a taxi to the airport and changed their tickets.

Still, by the time they got on the plane, night had already fallen in Los Angeles, and by the time they got to Portland, it was probably late at night.

On the plane, Gan Guoyang had another good night's sleep, and when he arrived in Portland, Gan Guoyang's spirit and body finally recovered a little.

After arriving at the Portland airport, Gan Guoyang was greeted by Falke, as well as Falke's cold and serious expression.

"Sorry Mr. Falck, ...... yesterday"

"Needless to say, Gan, come with me, Nike's top management is waiting for you." Falke didn't listen to Gan Guoyang's explanation, and said directly.

"However, it is late now, and I still feel very tired, I ...... yesterday"

"Listen Gan! As a professional player, you have to have the credibility of a professional player, saying that you sign a contract today, and that is today! Falck was rarely angry.

Gan Guoyang stopped talking for a while, he knew that modern society is very credibility, and for those business people, time is money.

He is also a professional footballer now, and since he has left his business affairs to Falke, he should follow his arrangement, at least be punctual.

In this way, Drexler and Gan Guoyang said goodbye first, and Gan Guoyang took Falck's car to the place where the contract was signed.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Falck, which company do you say I'm going to sign a contract with? I didn't hear that clearly. Gan Guoyang suddenly remembered the company that Falck told him about.

"It's Nike, Nike, it's not just you, another player under me is here, and you've definitely heard of him." Falck came up with the name "Nike".

Gan Guoyang's brain is a little messy now, Nike, this is the world's largest basketball shoe manufacturer in the future, and it is a giant in sports equipment.

Although now, Nike is only an Oregon shoe factory with a place in the American market, and many giants such as Converse, Adidas, and Reebok are still pressed on his head.

It's just that on this very night, Nike's fate will be completely changed because of two contracts.

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"Gan, how was the contract signed last night?"

"Okay, I met Robert Strasse, Phil Knight, Dinko Hatfield, Jack George, Bit Mueller and Harvo White...... Well, I know you don't know all of them, but I remember their names, and that's the most meaningful thing I did when I signed the contract. I had no idea what they were talking about. ”

"Oh, so you at least know how big a contract they gave you, right?"

"Three years, 150,000."

"One hundred and fifty thousand in three years? Oh my God, 50,000 a year? That's a lot of money, you're still a newcomer, it's really jealous. ”

"It's not 150,000 in three years, it's 150,000 in every year, and it's 450,000 in three years."

After Gan Guoyang finished speaking, he had already changed his clothes in the locker room, left the stunned Drexler, and walked out of the locker room, ready to start training in the stadium.

"If I told him it was a five-year contract and I asked it to be changed to three years, I don't know what Clyde's expression would be." Gan Guoyang thought secretly in his heart.

Last night's signing made Gan Guoyang a head and two big, he didn't expect that signing a sneaker contract would be more troublesome than signing an NBA contract, and the two sides started a war of words over various details.

Of course, all of this is done by Falck, and all Gan Guoyang can do is memorize all the business cards of Nike executives in his head so that he can recognize everyone.

In the end, with the efforts of Valck, Nike decided to give Gan Guoyang a five-year contract of 750,000 yuan, and Falke mentioned the idea of the Chinese market in the negotiations, which became the last bargaining chip for Nike to make up its mind.

But when Gan Guoyang signed it, he decided to sign only a three-year contract, which made Falke incomprehensible, and Nike's boss wondered if this guy's brain was broken.

"I think in three years, I'll definitely be more than that." This is the explanation given by Gan Guoyang, and in the end, Nike also accepted Gan Guoyang's proposal to modify the contract, in fact, three years is the number of years they prefer.

For this reason, Falke complained to Gan Guoyang a lot, but Gan Guoyang kept silent, making a look of being in his chest.

Gan Guoyang was very satisfied with the contract, the only regret was that he couldn't meet another spokesperson, he had signed the contract and left before Gan Guoyang came.

"You're so Gan, I heard that you were taught a hard lesson in Palm Springs the day before yesterday, right?" Coming to the training ground, Coach Ramsay, who had not seen him for a month, actually used such a sentence to "welcome" Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and immediately thought that there should be a connection between NBA coaches, so he said with a smile: "That's right, his chest is on my fist, and my hand still hurts." ”

Gan Guoyang's words were not without ridicule, and Ramsey was also used to this guy's no big or small, even McAdoo dared to fight, this kid will definitely be a ruthless character in the future.

At this time, the other players of the Trail Blazers also arrived one after another, changed their clothes in the locker room and came to the court to assemble, which was the first gathering practice of the Trail Blazers team before the new season.

It's just that compared to last season, the Trail Blazers have changed a lot, and half of the players have changed to new faces, so this training camp has become a good opportunity for players to get acquainted with each other.

"Okay friends, you're not kids in school anymore, you're all professional players with big contracts, so we're not going to introduce yourself. I'm sure we'll get to know each other during training, and in the afternoon, the boss will come to see our training, and we'd better work harder, it's not easy to eat. ”

Ramsay's words made the new and old players laugh at the scene, and some players who were not very familiar with Ramsay even thought that the old man must be a good guy with a good sense of humor.

But after an hour, the Trail Blazers players couldn't laugh anymore, let alone think Ramsey was a good guy.

Because in the morning, Ramsey arranged physical training for the players, and it was a very intense physical exercise, repeatedly running back and running around the field, torturing several players who had just finished their holidays to death.

However, Gan Guoyang and Drexler seem to be more relaxed, their training has been going on for two months, and this amount of practice is not a big problem for them.

Ramsey watched the two men and knew they certainly weren't lazy in September.

"Hurry, hurry! How do you play in the NBA at this pace? The team didn't swap you for you to cheer on the sidelines, run, run! Ramsey was on the sidelines like a slave owner, reprimanding every player on the field.

He doesn't care who is a big name or a role player, he always treats everyone equally, and scolds when he deserves.

By the end of the two-hour workout, the five rookies looked fine, while the other seven veterans, with the exception of Drexler, were a little tired.

But after all, they are all professional players, and it is impossible to exhaust their energy with this level of physical training, and there are other training programs to follow.

Ramsey gave the players a free-throw practice after the workout, so that everyone could adjust and regain some strength from the free throw line.

"Phew!" "Phew!" "Phew!"

The sound of the basketball smashing on the basket three times in a row, Gan Guoyang stood at the free throw line and looked at his hand and shook his head helplessly.

"Gan, the bricks you threw at the free-throw line today are almost going to build you a house for yourself in Portland!" Ramsey said.

In later generations of China, people often called the failure to shoot a basketball as "striking iron," while in the United States, a failure to shoot a basketball was expressed as "throwing bricks".

Ramsey said that Gan Guoyang's throwing turned his head to build a house, which shows that Gan Guoyang's free throws are really bad enough.

"I don't know what's going on, I've tried to change my posture, but it doesn't work; I used to shoot free throws okay in college, but I think now my hand is even worse. "Gan Guoyang's free throw shooting rate has always been okay, but today he felt very poor.

As a result, he repeatedly changed his shooting hand, and the result only got worse and worse.

"Try again!" Ramsey passed the ball to Gan Guoyang and asked him to do it again.

Gan Guoyang took a deep breath and pressed the basketball in his hand hard, he didn't want to become a center on the free throw line like O'Neal in the future.

And his talent also determines that his free throws will not be bad, but it all requires his own continuous effort.

Gan Guoyang bends his knees, raises his hand, holds the ball with his left hand and lifts it with his right hand, while his right elbow expands outward, and after reaching the highest point, his wrist exerts force.

"Phew!" The ball smashed into Blue's neck, the arc of the ball was too flat, and the shot was too stiff.

"Damn, it doesn't seem like it's a good thing to have big hands." Gan Guoyang attributed the stiffness of the shot to the fact that the hand was too big.

If the hand is too large, it will indeed affect the feeling of the shot, because the fingers are too long, so that the power point is not concentrated, and the ball will be unstable when the shot is shot.

"Who told you you can't shoot well if you have a big hand?" At this time, a teammate next to him suddenly said.

Gan Guoyang turned his head to see that it was a white player on the team, only to see him bend down and easily grab a basketball with one hand, stand one step inside the three-point line, wave his arm, and the ball drew an arc straight to the basket.

"Huh!" The ball goes in, a nice long shot.

"Not everybody is Julius Irving, and not everybody is not good at shooting." Said the player after the throw.

The guy wears number 55, a center number, but judging by his height he should be a small forward.

"Kiki, if you teach this kid how to shoot, I don't want him to be with Clyde all day long, and end up like Clyde who can't shoot." Ramsay said.

Drexler, who was on the side, listened to Ramsey's words, and his face was obviously a little unswerving.

"No problem, if he's willing to treat me to dinner at noon, of course, if he shoots half as much as I do, then I'm willing to treat him to dinner." Kiki said indifferently, as if he had the win.

As soon as he heard this, of course Gan Guoyang would not back down, he didn't believe that his vacant shooting percentage would not even reach half of the opponent's, and no matter how much his shooting ability deteriorated, it would not be so bad.

"Okay, let's have a fight, and I can regain my grip a bit." Gan Guoyang said without hesitation.

However, halfway through this small battle, Gan Guoyang felt that he was almost defeated.

The rules of the game were that Van de Vercch would throw a ball anywhere, and Gan Guoyang would follow suit and throw a ball in the same place.

Then Gan Guoyang found that although this guy was not good at shooting three-pointers like many players at that time, he almost hit every step inside the three-point line.

Well, in the competition with Gan Guoyang, he hit every shot, from the bottom line to the top of the arc to the bottom line, a total of 15 goals were thrown, and 15 goals were scored.

And Gan Guoyang only scored 7, and he was short of more than 50 percent of the hits.

"Okay boy, I'll give you this meal at noon."

"Yes, but I want to have another game after training, fifteen balls is too little." Gan Guoyang was not reconciled.

"Okay, but if you can't win against me all the time, you're going to have to keep treating me to lunch. I'm going to raise my requirements to 70 percent, to my 70 percent. ”

"No, what seventy percent, I want to surpass you in all aspects, and there will be no less ball."

"I hope you won't regret it."