After reaching a verbal agreement with Calderon, Korver, and Kwame Brown, Liu Mang's offseason officially began.

On July 7th, Liu Mang said goodbye to her and left Atlanta for Greece, starting a six-stop sneaker tour in Asia and three in Europe.

When I went to do activities a few times before, the first stop was with the girl, and the first time I went out alone, I was a little unaccustomed.

In China and the United States, Yao Ming joined hands with Kobe, which was a sensation, but in Europe, relatively general, Liu Mang as the defending champion, coupled with the feat of leading the team to kill the American team last summer, the publicity of the three basketball powers in Europe is still very successful, and there is a wave of advertising for the cold ice third-generation boots that were just released on July 1.

But when I returned to China, I found that the limelight was all stolen......

The impact of Yao Ming's arrival with the Lakers continues to influence the basketball world in both China and the United States.

The Lakers once again have a dominant center and are the favorites for the championship.

David Stern is happy, Yao Ming has arrived in the most suitable city to be a star, and Los Angeles can maximize Yao Ming's commercial value.

Lakers and Yao Ming, these two names have dominated everyone's attention after the free market opened.

None of the other team's signings have caused any waves.

Crazy Sprewell yelled for a 10 million contract, and no team paid attention to it and was ignored.

Payton veteran's base salary continues to hug O'Neal's thighs, and the Heat have spent a lot of money, signing from the Grizzlies for 24 million in 3 years and then trading for white chocolate Jason Williams, and poaching Antoine Walker from the Celtics for 32 million in 4 years, and the three heavyweight reinforcements have all been drowned in the storm of Kobe Bryant and Yao Ming.

The Eagles squandered $5 million in free market to find someone, but they didn't go unnoticed.

Sam Cassel and Cardino Mobley joined hands to join the Clippers, supplementing the weakness of the Clippers' strong inside and outside scum, and with the capital to impact the playoffs, they were also ignored.

Other large and small transactions, signings, did not attract much attention.

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"That's the end of today's event, thank you for your participation, and the next step is the lucky draw......"

Finally hearing the closing remarks, Liu Mang waved his hand to the fans and walked to the backstage passage.

Ace ...... Ace ......"

The fans at the event were still shouting Liu Mang's English name, but it was not the first time that Liu Mang had carried out promotional activities...... It's a little numb, it's not that I don't pay attention to the enthusiasm of the fans, but I'm too tired.

There are more and more sites for the campaign, and now there are 9 stations, and it has been 13 days to promote in 9 cities in 6 countries, and I have long been physically and mentally exhausted.

Finally, the promotional activities of the last stop of the Imperial Capital Station are over, and Liu Mang can finally start the real offseason.

"Ace, are you going to go home next? Coming with me to Shanghai? Schwartz asked.

"I'll stay in Beijing for two days." Liu Mang hadn't visited the imperial capital yet, and was ready to go out for a walk, and made an appointment with several teammates of the national team for dinner.

"OK, I still have something to do, Dwyan's promotion activities with Kwame and Tracy are still ongoing, Chris's sneaker endorsement still needs to be discussed, my afternoon plane will go to Shanghai first, and I will let someone book a hotel for you first."

"Hmmm......"

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"Hurry up, Sister Lian, why do you walk so slowly with such long legs!"

"Boss Ace, don't call me Sister Lian!"

"Okay, okay, I know, Sister Lian."

“……”

Yi Jianlian was helpless, he didn't know why Liu Mang had to call him Lianmei, and his objection was invalid.

"Ace, is it okay for you to go shopping?" Yi Jianlian asked worriedly.

"It's okay Lianmei, now the fans' attention is on Da Yao, who is not a basketball fan, probably doesn't know us, at most I just think we are tall, don't I wear a hat, you see, it's Da Yao and the poster of the iron." Liu Mang moved his cap with his left hand and pointed to the poster of the shopping mall building next to him with his right hand.

"Iron-striker?" Yi Jian thought of Kobe's appearance of playing the ball and eating people in the NBA live broadcast, and when he heard the adjective Liu Mang, he thought that Kobe's shooting rate was really not very good...... Yi Jianlian once again realized why Liu Mang was so hated by the stars, his mouth was too poisonous!

"Oh, there's a Nike store over there, go see my shoes, Sister Lian, I'll give you a pair of ......" Liu Mang searched for a long time, and finally found his poster, and ran towards the store.

"Boss Ace, wait for me......" Yi Jianlian hurriedly caught up, the young boss of the national team has too much personality!

Today is July 22nd, Liu Mang rested in the hotel yesterday for a day, tonight there is a dinner party of several teammates of the Athens Olympic Games, Yi Jianlian arrived in Beijing yesterday, and today he is responsible for accompanying Liu Mang out to go shopping, in addition, he has to protect Liu Mang's safety.

Thanks to Yi Jianlian, he is still an 18-year-old boy with good athletic ability, otherwise he really can't keep up with Liu Mang's footsteps with a height of two meters and one.

Liu Mang came to the door of the Nike store on the ground floor of this square building, looked at his poster on the glass wall, and admired it.

At this time, a saleswoman wearing a Nike clerk T-shirt walked up from inside the door.

"Sir, we have the latest basketball shoes from NBA star Liu Mang, which are on sale in limited quantities, and there is also a 95% discount on the event price...... "The salesman came up to introduce.

Seeing Liu Mang and Yi Jianlian's height, and one is taller than the other, everyone will think that they are playing basketball, whether they are professional or not, they are so tall, the first impression is that they play basketball, and they are still looking at Liu Mang's posters, and there will definitely be a chance to sell shoes.

The saleswoman continued: "...... This new version of the basketball shoe uses Nike's new technology, which has good protection for the ankle, sir you can come in and have a look......"

Speaking of this, the saleswoman raised her head to look at the faces of the two, and the highest one was first...... I don't know ......

Then I looked at the shorter but still tall one...... This face is so familiar!

He turned his head to look at the poster, and then to look at the taller and shorter ......

The saleswoman covered her mouth in shock, for fear of screaming.

Liu Mang was self-intoxicated, and also heard what the salesman said, and responded: "Okay, let's go, Sister Lian, brother will give you a pair of shoes, choose whatever you want." ”

Yi Jianlian really wanted to cover his face, and was called Sister Lian in front of people...... Be sure to pick the most expensive pair!

Liu Mang walked into the store, there were few people in the store, there were more clerks than customers, some of them wanted to buy his sneakers, they had all bought them during the event the day before yesterday, and there were relatively few people behind.

Mainly now, the price of Nike is very expensive among sports brands, even if it is the imperial capital, it is impossible for children to have a pair of feet.

And in the early morning, the passenger flow is very low, otherwise Yi Jianlian would not agree to take Liu Mang out for a walk.

Liu Mang walked into the door of the store and saw his sneakers at first sight, but ...... Next to it is the little blacksmith's Nike version of the Kobe generation......

It's annoying!

The soul of this iron strike will not be dispersed!

When the saleswoman saw Liu Mang entering, she immediately followed, repeatedly compared the poster posted in the store, and the big man in front of her, and finally determined that it was him!

After hesitating for a moment about which is more important, work or star chasing, thinking that the job of being a salesman can be found anywhere, he immediately walked over and said, "You ...... You...... Are you Ace? ”

Finally someone recognized the master! Liu Mang pretended to be shocked, looked at the female saleswoman, lowered his hat and said, "You recognized it?" That's right, I'm Liu Mang. ”

Yi Jianlian on the side was speechless, aren't you dressing up without any disguise, just to be recognized and show off? It's been half an hour of walking, and it's a miracle that I wasn't recognized!

After the saleswoman confirmed that the person in front of her was Liu Mang, she jumped up excitedly and wanted to scream loudly, so she quickly covered her mouth.

Liu Mang didn't pay attention to this saleswoman before, her height was ...... There is a certain gap, now take a closer look at this saleswoman...... No, it should be a little girl, too young, looking like a high school student.

But that bun face ......

"Ace, can you sign it for me? ...... you wait" The bun-faced girl went to get a poster next to her sneakers, took out a pen from her pocket, and excitedly handed it to Liu Mang, regardless of whether Liu Mang agreed to sign it.

Liu Mang didn't refuse, pressed the ballpoint pen, and asked tentatively: "Your surname?" I'll write some words of blessing. ”

"I ...... I...... My surname is Zhao! The bun-faced girl didn't expect this benefit, and hurriedly said: "My name is Zhao Liying!" ”

"Zhao Liying ......" Although Liu Mang was already immune to celebrities or something, he still felt a little surprised, but his hand didn't stop, and he wrote on the poster.

actually met Zhao Liying when she was so young.

"Okay, signed." Liu Mang casually wrote a word of blessing and handed it back to Zhao Liying.

Zhao Liying rolled up the poster excitedly, held it and didn't let go, just staring at Liu Mang like that.

Liu Mang looked at Zhao Liying's excited appearance, felt very funny, and was ready to tease this future big star: "Eh, little sister, how much is your daily salary?" ”

Little sister? Zhao Liying looked at Liu Mang, as if there was nothing wrong with being called a little sister, and quickly replied: "The basic salary is 80 a day, and there is a sales commission of three percent." ”

"Uh......" Liu Mang was speechless, he really said the details, he was too honest!

Liu Mang took out his wallet and took out two hundred yuan from it: "Then little sister, I will pay you a day's salary, how about you accompany me to lunch?" ”

"Ah......?" Zhao Liying feels like pie is falling from the sky! There is actually a big star who wants to invite her to lunch!

Yi Jianlian's mouth on the side was wide open, he came out early in the morning, he actually came out to tease his sister?

Yi Jianlian took a look at this one named Zhao Liying, and it looked ...... I'm not an underage!

It's so sinful!

Think about the fact that Liu Mang has two girlfriends...... Yi Jianlian didn't say anything, and honestly performed the task of a bodyguard.

However, Yi Jianlian still felt that it was too sinful!

"Aren't you available?" Liu Mang made a regretful look.

"No, I'm free, you wait, I'll go change my clothes......" Zhao Liying immediately rushed into the lounge where only employees can enter, a sales job, where can I not find it, and eat with a big star! You can show off for a lifetime......

Zhao Liying didn't know at this time that she would also be a big star in the future......

After a few minutes, Zhao Liying changed her clothes and came out, but when she walked next to Liu Mang and Yi Jianlian, she saw the clothes on Liu Mang and Yi Jianlian, and then looked at the clothes she bought on the stall on her body, Zhao Liying hesitated.

Cheap, but clean and simple T-shirt shorts, and a small bag, this is what a high school student looks like, Liu Mang smiled: "Well, it's much better than that ugly staff uniform, let's go!" ”

Seeing that Liu Mang did not show a contemptuous gaze, Zhao Liying felt warm in her heart and immediately followed.

As for work...... It's a child labor without a contract, so if you don't want it, you don't want it......

didn't drive, Liu Mang and Yi Jianlian came by subway, Zhao Liying saw that Liu Mang didn't have any big stars along the way, so she took her around, and the big stone in her heart finally put down.

Originally, I just impulsively followed Liu Mang out, and then I began to worry about this and that, but later found that Liu Mang didn't seem to have any other ideas, so he just took her out for a walk......

While shopping and chatting, Liu Mang understood why this future big star was in sales.

Zhao Liying, born in October 2005, 18 years old, graduated from Langfang Electronic Information Engineering School with a major in flight attendant, dropped out of school because her family had no money and gave up becoming a flight attendant, and now she is doing sales to earn money to support her family.

That is, child labor in minors......

But it doesn't matter so much, there is a future big star shopping together, thinking about Liu Mang thinks it's still quite interesting.

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"This, Ying, you go and try ......"

Liu Mang took a dress and handed it to Zhao Liying.

"No, this is too expensive......"

"I don't want you to spend money, try it, and you don't have to buy it."

"Then try?"

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"Ace, try this!" Zhao Liying took Liu Mang to a snack bar.

"What is this?"

"Oden! You haven't eaten it? ”

"Uh...... We can't usually eat this, we've eaten it before, and we've almost forgotten it. ”

"Try it, I usually come to buy one from this store after work, it's delicious."

"Okay, let's try it, Sister Lian, you can try it too?"

"No, I have a national team game next month and I'm controlling my weight." Yi Jian joined hands with a large number of shopping bags and stood far away, not wanting to stand with this guy who flirted with underage girls.

"You guys are really boring, what's so fun about the Asian Games, why do you and Da Yao have to go?"

“……”

"Ace, why are you called Sister Allianlian?"

"Look at him, he's as shy as a little daughter-in-law, doesn't he look like a girl?"

"Ace, you're too bad!"

chatting and chatting, they became acquainted, Zhao Liying also saw Yi Jianlian on TV, but she didn't recognize it at once.

When it comes to basketball, Liu Mang thinks of one thing: "Sister Lian, you're almost 18 years old, right?" Still playing in the youth team? ”

'No, I'm probably going to the first team next season.' When it comes to business, Yi Jianlian is finally willing to say a few more words.

"Guangdong team...... You haven't played in a professional league, have you? Do you want to try to go to college in the United States? ”