A few days later, when Nike almost summoned the media from almost all over the United States to the scene, and then held a grand signing ceremony for Meng Xu, the entire American press was frightened by Nike's move of having money and nowhere to spend, and signed Meng Xu for 3 years and 30 million US dollars, either Nike is crazy, or the world is crazy, which can also be seen Nike's expectations for Meng Xu.

"Nike spent 30 million to sign Meng Xu."

"Can Meng Xu take on the responsibility of Nike's revival?"

"Whether the miracle can be repeated, Pete Williams bluntly said that signing Meng Xu is as important a milestone in Nike's history as Jordan."

On the second day of the signing ceremony, almost all the headlines in the newspapers were full of news about Nike and Meng Xu, and the sensational effect was even greater than that of Reebok's signing of Iverson last year. And this sensational effect alone is more useful than Nike's spending tens of millions of dollars on advertising, I have to say that before Meng Xu started selling jerseys and shoes, Nike has already earned back the capital from him.

Although the team has been on vacation, but Meng Xu is not idle now, this summer Meng Xu's tasks and itinerary are still very intensive, first of all, around the 20th of this month, Meng Xu will be invited to participate in this year's McDonald's training camp in the United States, after that, Meng Xu, who has not been home for two years, will return to China to deal with some of his own things. At the same time, you will also participate in Nike's Asian tour promotion activities for yourself, advertise your sneakers in advance, and the itinerary includes Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other major cities in China, as well as several major cities in Asia such as Seoul in South Korea and Tokyo in Japan, and the trip will last for about a month.

Then the Spurs also made a weight gain plan for Meng Xu this summer, striving to increase Meng Xu's weight to about 92 kilograms at the beginning of the new season. At the same time, there is also the Sydney Olympics this summer, the news from the CCAV team in the United States, the Chinese Basketball Association is now considering recruiting Meng Xu to participate in this year's Olympic Games, the original main small forward of the Chinese basketball team, Liu Yudong, who is known as the god of war by the fans, injured his Achilles tendon this season, and it is difficult to say whether he can come back before the Olympics, so the Chinese Basketball Association has been hesitating now, and judging from the news feedback from the media, There are already a lot of fans who want to see Meng Xu wearing the national team jersey.

And basically at the same time, Terry Porter and Steve Kerr, the veterans of these two teams, also held a press conference to announce the news of retirement, Steve Cole is really unable to play now, this season has been restless, counting the playoffs A total of more than 30 games, each game played less than 10 minutes, and after Terry Porter got the championship ring, the former All-Star also bluntly said that he had lost his only motivation, after the two veterans announced their retirement at the same time, The search for a replacement was also on Popovich's table.

And the Spurs have a bigger and more important thing in this summer, that is, the contract renewal with Tim Duncan and Avery Johnson, the NBA league will begin to implement the luxury tax system from next year, so this season, except for some local tyrant teams, basically no one dares to spend money indiscriminately, so in order not to pay the luxury tax next year, this season's offseason, the Spurs will have to prepare in advance. This season's salary cap is $35.5 million, and the salary cap is expected to reach about $40 million next season, so the Spurs must ensure that the total salary next season cannot exceed 45 million, otherwise the luxury tax alone will be enough for the Spurs to drink, and the Spurs' board of directors has also made it clear that they will not pay a penny of luxury tax.

Regarding Duncan's problem, Popovich is also a headache now, although he defended the championship and won the FMVP, but Duncan hesitated on the issue of contract renewal, from some acquaintances to get the news, and Duncan's signed Adi company has been encouraging Duncan to go to big cities, preferably New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, because only in these big cities, Duncan's commercial value can really be brought into play. The war between Adi and Nike has now entered a white-hot state, so as Adi's biggest star, Tim Duncan is naturally pushed to the front line of this war.

At the same time, at the same time that the Spurs made an offer for Duncan, the Suns, Magic, Bulls, and a large number of other teams all opened the largest contract they could offer to Duncan at the first time after the end of the season, and the biggest controversy between the Spurs and Duncan at present is about the length of the contract, Popovich offered Duncan a long-term contract of 7 years and 88 million, but Duncan's agent wanted to sign it for only 3 years, because according to the league's collective bargaining agreement last year, players like Duncan, After 3 years, you can sign a 7-year contract with a total amount of 130 million with a maximum salary, so there are some disputes between the two on the issue of the contract, and Duncan simply went out to travel.

Originally, in Popovich's plan, as long as Duncan signed this contract, then the Spurs would have enough salary space to accommodate David Robinson, Tim Duncan and Meng Xu at the same time, but Duncan, under the instigation of his agent and Adi, was unwilling to sign such a long contract.

Because he still has a one-year contract with the Spurs, Meng Xu doesn't have so many worries now, and after a few days of rest, Meng Xu took a flight arranged by McDonald's and flew to New York, where he will participate in the McDonald's high school training camp held there this summer.

In this training camp, which will last for a month, almost all the talented high school players in the United States are concentrated, such as Kobe Bryant and Vince Carter, who came with Meng Xu this time, were once the best in this training camp, and many of the players who participated in this training camp eventually entered the NBA and even became superstars.

As a senior, all the contracted players under McDonald's will attend this training camp, only Meng Xu knows, and among the rookies in the same year as Meng Xu, there are Steve Francis, Elton Brand, and Ramar Odom, who will come to see this year's McDonald's training camp. And the organizer McDonald's will also select some of the most capable players among these high school students this year and play a friendly game with these current NBA players, so that they can familiarize themselves with the rhythm of professional games in advance. It's just that Meng Xu is a little embarrassed that among so many of the active McDonald's contracted players who have come to McDonald's training camp this year, Meng Xu is the only one who has not participated in McDonald's training camp and All-Star Game.