The two middle-aged men, one black and one white, even the suits on their bodies are one black and one white, the black people wear the black, and the white people wear the white ones, which seems to be extraordinarily symmetrical.

Seeing Li Ming get out of the car, these two people immediately greeted him, obviously recognizing Li Ming: "Let me introduce myself, my name is Jerry, and I am the representative of Nike who came to negotiate the contract this time. ”

Li Ming nodded, shook hands with the two of them one by one, and introduced his agent to these two people.

After greeting each other, they were about to go in and sit down and talk about the contract slowly, but Jerry stopped him first, and smiled mysteriously at him: "Li Ming, don't rush in first, we have prepared a gift for you, please come with me!" ”

Li Ming raised his eyebrows, a little surprised, the other party only decided to come to Chicago last night, and he still had time to prepare gifts.

Following the latter to the parking lot, where there was a van, Jerry led Li Ming to the trunk and opened the back door of the car, where there was a car full of sneakers.

The moment Jerry opened the car, a few sneakers even fell out. They are all Nike-branded sneakers, including almost all of their collections.

"Soon, you'll have your own sneakers like these people!" Jerry gestured to the sneakers in the carriage, "But for now, that's all we have, and we hope you like it!" ”

Listening to the meaning of the words, Jerry planned to give them all to Li Ming, Li Ming glanced at the sneakers piled up on the car, many of them were signed shoes, if they were sold one by one, I am afraid they would be worth the basic salary contract he signed with the Bulls.

That's a lot of money! And that's just a small gift they have prepared. Sure enough! Sneaker manufacturers don't take money for money!

In fact, it is not new for sneaker sponsors to push a cart of sneakers to meet the stars they want to sign, such as Adidas, they often use this method, when they drove a cart of Yeezy Boost and Ultra Boost in front of James Harden, directly prompting the latter to nod and agree to sign a contract to endorse their sneakers.

In these years, just a simple contract can't attract the favor of superstars at all, and compared to sending money directly, such a small surprise will make those superstars feel very surprised.

For example, when Wrigley found out that Derek Rose liked to eat their Skittles very much, he specially asked the staff to send a special Skittles vending machine to Rose, and promised to provide Skittles for free for three years.

You must know that Rose was the one who was able to get Adidas to sign a $250 million contract with him back then, which shows his influence at that time, and exchanging three years of free Skittles for the endorsement of such a star was a sure thing to make money no matter what.

This is a free advertising opportunity brought by its favorite,

In recent years, as the phenomenon of sneaker manufacturers grabbing players has become more and more serious, this kind of method has also been used by sneaker manufacturers, although the methods are different, but they are undoubtedly trying to close the relationship between each other by doing what they like, prompting the star to sign a contract.

"I have a heart!" Li Ming had to admit that he also liked this kind of little surprise.

Who hasn't thought of owning a pair of sneakers from Nike's Jordan series when they were kids? And now almost the entire series is in front of him.

"It's great to have your approval, but our surprise is much more than that!" Jerry saw that Li Ming's reaction was not bad, and he became more confident.

The four of them entered the tea restaurant, it was just morning at this time, there were not many people, they found a relatively quiet corner to sit down, Jerry directly said the theme: "We have created an ad for you, believe me, you will absolutely love the idea of this ad!" ”

He nodded at Breggien, who took out a laptop and opened a video playback app.

"For the time being, this is what we set the screen to look like!" Clicking on one of the files, Jerry didn't make too many introductions, and directly pointed the picture of the notebook at him.

"Oh? Have you made it yet? This is what Li Ming didn't expect, I thought that the other party just had an advertising idea to discuss with him, but I didn't expect people to directly make the idea.

In the picture is a three-D villain model, the model slowly stands up in the dark, as he stands up, his back wings are more and more open, and then a basketball to his hand, directly into the air and the screen is shattered.

The shape of the crack is the Nike logo, and above the logo is no longer the phrase just do it, but four Chinese characters, buckled and questioned.

The video is very short, and that's it for now.

"At the same time as the wings are raised, there will be four images flashing behind you, all of which represent the classic goals of your career, but we don't know which ones to choose at the moment, of course, if you can give us some advice, we will be happy!"

Jerry said a few points in this video that didn't show up again, and then said to Li Ming: "What do you think!" ”

Li Ming is actually quite satisfied, especially the four words of crushed questioning on the Nike mark, which can be regarded as the best response to the things he has experienced since his debut.

The doubts about him at the beginning were really loud, whether on or off the court, but Li Ming did fight back with excellent performances again and again.

Buckle up the doubt! I have to admit that he likes these four words very much.

"But you know, the price Adi offered us is 1.1 percent, although it's only a zero point difference, but I think it's at least a few million dollars here, right?" Seeing that Li Ming was a little tempted, Bruce immediately said a word on the side.

Li Ming is the first time to talk about a contract, in fact, for players, the most taboo is to show their hearts in front of the sponsor, in that case, it is impossible to force the sponsor to make the biggest concession.

After Bruce finished speaking, Li Ming immediately came to his senses, and the difference of several million also startled him, he didn't think about it so much, thinking that the difference of 0.1% was not much. He almost nodded in agreement, but fortunately it wasn't too late, and his expression wasn't too obvious just now. This time, he was really grateful to Bruce, fortunately there was such a professional agent, otherwise, the contract would have been finalized. Then he could have lost millions of dollars for nothing.