The Portland Trail Blazers have not been weak, but the first stepping stone of the Bulls dynasty is the Trail Blazers, who were the first corpses to fall at the feet of Jordan and the Bulls. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Jordan retired, Drexler "Glider" left Houston to join forces with Big Dream, and finally got the coveted championship ring last season.

But the Trail Blazers have entered a dormant period, and although they can still make the playoffs every year, they no longer have the strength to compete for the championship.

The pre-game trade rumors between the two teams are not groundless, although the exchange of Van Exel for Strickland seems to be the Lakers taking advantage at first glance.

But if you consider that the contract expires next summer, the Portlanders may not be able to keep him in the first place, and they won't pay too much to force him to stay.

So it's better to trade him for Van Exel, who is a little less powerful, but five years younger, and has an extremely good salary.

Van Exel's contract only expired in the summer of '99, and before that, his contract was $1.9 million a year.

Such a cheap contract will not affect any rebuilding team.

If you look at it this way, Van Exel's value contract is the most worth trading for him, it really doesn't take up space in the team, and his quality is much higher than his contract.

The Lakers are in third place in the West this season because the Pacific Division is too competitive, while the Trail Blazers are competing with the Jazz and SuperSonics for the first place, and this year they are no longer even secure in the playoffs.

Strickland himself has shown no resistance to leaving Portland, and all the players of this era aspire to the big city, except that he was already planning to leave this tepid team.

As a simple example, among the four centers today, Ewing of the Knicks is not particularly outstanding compared to the other three, and is basically the bottom of the four in all aspects.

But he is the leading big brother of the four in sneaker endorsements, and even O'Neal can't compare to him, and the reason is that he is in New York, the world's largest metropolis.

Strickland also yearns for big cities, and if he can be traded to the Lakers, there is nothing disgruntled about making him a second-in-command, after all, he has always been a second-in-command role, and he has no intention of being the boss.

This is better than Van Exel, although his style of play is also the type that requires a lot of ball-handling, but Strickland is not too resistant to handing the ball away, he is not very possessive, and to put it mildly, he does not have much sense of responsibility.

But in this game, Strickland was very hungry to perform, while Van Exel, on the contrary, was fascinated and clearly influenced by trade rumors.

Zhang Zhu's performance is still stable, and Harvey Grant, who is opposite him, weighs 230 pounds, and his confrontation ability is very good, but this person is more like a big forward, in the face of Zhang Zhu's agility and explosiveness, he can only be beaten passively.

However, Zhang Qi broke an arm today, and Fan Maniac was beaten from head to toe by Strickland, and he was almost beaten to the ground.

Zhang Yu was surprised by the breakthrough level of this New York street football king, he was obviously not very strong, but the Lakers' defense was helpless with this guy who had the ability to control the ball to achieve "man-ball integration", and he was stunned to take away a victory at the Lakers' home court.

The final score was 101:98, Zhang Mao's final three-point shot missed, and the Lakers suffered a defeat at home for the first time this season.

Zhang Qi got 22 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists, and Ceballos had 24 points and 6 rebounds, both of them played well, but Van Exeel, one of Zhang Zhu's right-hand men, was out of standard, and only 2 of 12 shots were made today, only 6 points and 4 assists.

The Lakers are now playing a strong team, or a team of the same level as themselves, and if they want to win, they must ensure that all three arrows are played, otherwise one of them must be able to explode.

Zhang Mao and Ceballos both played normally today, but without Van Exel's firepower output, it was obviously not enough to support them to win.

On the other hand, Strickland was in the limelight on the road, he was like no one today, frantically breaking through the Lakers' defense, and finally cut 29 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists in front of his somewhat talented godson, that is, Kyrie Irving, who is said to be a one-year-old dribble.

Strickland's performance has also made many Lakers fans inclined to trade, and they feel that the streetball king is really not bragging.

"Just kidding, his scores are all breakthroughs, where am I going when this guy comes?"

Zhang Wei feels that this Strickland is very incompatible with himself, he still likes teammates with outside baskets, this Strickland only has mid-range shots, breakthroughs and balls, which has too much overlap with his own functions, and the two will definitely not match together.

The next day, the Los Angeles Times broke the big news again.

This time it's no longer a trade rumor, it's a long-awaited sneaker contract.

The news on Zhang Mao's feet has always been the focus of attention of the media and fans, because the movement is really not small.

It was first rumored that Reebok offered a shocking contract of $50 million for 10 years, and later it was rumored that Adidas quickly followed suit, and even some European brands offered similar big contracts to it......

In short, as soon as Zhang Qi entered the NBA, he was favored by various sneaker manufacturers, which has long been known to the world.

However, Nike, which has a near-dominant position in the field of basketball shoes, has not seen any movement.

Just when people thought that Nike was unwilling to raise the price of a piece, they didn't expect that they would be "final" as soon as they spoke.

It can also be seen that Nike is still the ruler of the NBA at the moment, and no matter how opponents such as Reebok and Adidas jump, they will have to listen to him in the end.

The "Los Angeles Times" exposed part of the contract between Nike and Zhang Qi this time, and I know with my ass that this must be Nike's initiative to break the news.

As expected, as soon as the content of these contracts was exposed, it immediately caused an uproar in the whole league!

The first is the length of the contract and the basic endorsement fee, the "Los Angeles Times" disclosed that it is 50 million US dollars for 10 years, which is the same as the contract provided by Reebok, the difference is that both parties have the right to terminate the contract early in the seventh year.

This means that in the seventh year of the contract, both Zhang and Nike have the right to unilaterally terminate the cooperation.

This part of the content is not too new, the offer of 50 million has long been exposed when Reebok contacted Zhang Fu, and now it can't cause a storm in the city.

The next part of the content is the part that caused a sensation among the stars of the league......

The Los Angeles Times continues to disclose that Nike will build his personal brand for Zhang Mao, which will be temporarily named "Dragonborn".

This is a sub-brand similar to "Jordan", which not only has its own independent assembly line, but also can launch a variety of sneaker series at different price points.

But this "Dragonborn" is not like the "Jordan" series, which can use its sub-brand to sign other stars as its endorsement, so it is still half a notch worse than the "Jordan" brand.

However, no one knows that 7 years later, if Zhang Fu can play, the two sides will upgrade the "Dragonborn" brand to the same level as the "Jordan" brand in the new contract.

At that time, Jordan must have retired, and if Zhang Qi can play the same status as Jordan, his salary will naturally rise.

It is said that there is also a sharing agreement, but the exact proportion of the share is not yet known.

But just having their own assembly lines and sub-brands is enough to make the other stars in the league go crazy with jealousy.

These are the treatments that Larry Bird and Magic Johnson failed to get at the beginning, and now they are actually fulfilled by an 18-year-old high school student, which makes those superstars who have struggled for many years not salivate and jealous!

O'Neill is jealous now, and he and Zhang Zhu's agents are Trim, but he was despised and rejected by Nike back then, and finally had to retreat and choose Reebok, but even Reebok didn't give him a big contract of 50 million, which is simply impossible.

This big fat man called Trim on the same day, and he held the belief that even a hairy boy can get a 50 million contract, and he also has his own brand and assembly line, so he and the current Zhang Qi are two grade players, let's not think about the separate assembly line, but he should at least get an endorsement contract of 50 million, right?

Trim said that you were dreaming, and although he comforted the jealous O'Neill, he secretly slandered in his heart:

It's good that you can have a contract of nearly one million a year, look at the fact that Ma Long can't even find a sneaker endorsement, David Robinson only gets 200,000 US dollars, and the big dream of two consecutive championships doesn't even have an endorsement fee of one million a year, so you have to be content and happy, how can Zhang Yi be compared to you?

However, he really didn't expect Zhang Qi to be so valuable, but if you think about it carefully, Zhang Qi no matter his background, personal image, or race...... They are basically very different from these NBA players, and it can even be said that he and these black players are not from the same world.

European and American countries have more transparent systems and good social welfare, but the so-called equality of all people is only equality on the surface, but there are clear classes inside, and the upper class may be very polite to ordinary people, but don't expect people to really respect you, unless your ability has reached the point of respect.

Many Americans now think that basketball is a black sport in the ghetto, and that a large middle class, as well as the elite who are leaders in various fields, are dismissive of the NBA and do not want to watch a group of uneducated black people play.

But before 1950, the NBA was actually an all-white sport.

The first black player had received death threats before playing, so basketball was anything but a black sport.

Basketball, like table tennis, was later called the exclusive sport of the Chinese, and more and more white people were reluctant to play, and the mainstream media was even belittling the competitiveness of the sport, with great intentions to cancel the table tennis Olympic event.

Speaking of which, in fact, it is still a matter of face - the arrogant white man deliberately made a posture of "Lao Tzu can't beat you, it's not a matter of ability, but Lao Tzu is not uncommon to play this kind of low-level sport".

But in fact, China only began to stand on the podium of table tennis after the eighties.

After the fifties and sixties, the influence of the NBA gradually declined, gradually moving away from the middle class and the elite class, the main reason is that there are fewer and fewer white players in the league, but there are more and more black players.

Not only that, but they also belittled basketball as a sport for poor black boys, just a pastime for the lower classes, and the superior white masters wanted to watch noble baseball and football, and even ice hockey was better than basketball.

David Stern is now interested in bringing in more international players to change the overabundance of black players.

It may not sound good to say, but the reality is that if the NBA has always been more than 90% black, then the league will never be high-grade, and at least there must be a large number of white-skinned and black-hearted mixed-race stars like Kidd to attract the attention of a large number of middle class.

As an "elite class" higher than the "middle class", Zhang Wei will not be despised by the so-called upper class, plus his personal image is excellent, he can attract the attention of a large number of female fans, and the mixed race of the four countries is full of topicality in terms of race, which is almost the best image endorsement of the NBA in the new era, and no one is more suitable to become the new image endorsement of the NBA than him.

David Stern even has the urge to change the NBA logo to Zhang Fu, which shows his love and attention to Zhang Qi in his heart. If this little guy is used well, he will definitely have a greater impact on the entire league than Jordan, which is why Nike is willing to compromise, and the real elite will definitely look farther than ordinary people.

At the end of November, Zhang Mao was going to play consecutive home and away games against the Suns with his team amid a controversy among the league's stars.

These two games will affect the standings of the two teams in the same division, and if either team loses two games in a row, they should be prepared to drop out of the top eight.

"I'm very jealous of him, because I haven't made so much money in my life, I think his current glory is because we have been a backing for him, and it took us more than ten years to make the NBA more and more influential, so that we are qualified to make more money, but now the first to reap the fruits is a little kid, do you think I can not be jealous?"

Barkley has a different aura as soon as he appears, and the big ass has always spoken so directly.

Many people know that, but that's not the truth.

In Chinese terms, this is "the predecessors planted trees, and the later generations enjoyed the shade".

Zhang Qiu, the bastard, just in time for a good time, didn't contribute anything to the league, but as soon as he came in, he picked the biggest fruit, so it caused dissatisfaction, and he has been looked down upon by those old guys, which is also a matter of course.

"Don't try to provoke me! Yes, I was very jealous of him, but I didn't hate him, because I was the same, I wasn't a tall man, I came from the poorest part of the United States, and I made more than ten times as much money as those old guys, and I picked the fruits of others, but I also planted new seeds. ”

"If you have to name someone I hate, I hate Michael even more now because I just want to win the championship once before I leave, and that's the reward I deserve, but why would you want to come back?"

Barkley has a good relationship with Jordan, and he is obviously joking when he says this, but it smacks a little sad no matter how you hear it.

The Suns are in a bad situation this season, and it can be said that there is basically no possibility of winning the championship, and there is even suspense about whether they can make the playoffs.

Considering that Barkley is not young, his form can be guaranteed for a few years, no one can say. And Jordan, the lifelong enemy of all stars born in the eighties, has obviously retired but returned to a carbine, so this big ass may really not win the championship.