Chapter 60: Championship-level teams
Looking at the family in front of him, Chen An was in a trance, he couldn't help but think of the moment when he was just reborn, he whimsically wanted to be the head coach of the Magic team, and finally ran to the interview, but because of that seemingly reckless and reckless decision, he has now taken the first step to success and can sit here and interview others.
"Mr. Chen?"
Looking at Chen An, whose eyes were out of focus, he didn't say anything for a long time, Chen Zhong leaned forward slightly, and Chen An came back to his senses and said, "I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted when I think of something." ”
"It's nothing, and please don't mind my recklessness Mr. Chen."
Chen Zhong looked very polite, but Chen An was not ready to be polite to him, so he immediately changed his words and said straight to the point: "At noon today, a franchise brand specializing in sports equipment found me through Zhu Fangyu's agent and wanted me to endorse their products, and the offer was 1.2 million for three years, what do you think?" ”
As soon as Chen An came up, he put out the dry goods, Chen Zhong immediately sat up straight, and said: "I have read some relevant reports of Mr. Chen before I came, to be honest, there has not been an example of Mr. Chen in China, but compared with the cases of Coach Li Chunbo, Coach Liu Guoliang, etc., the price given by this company is not too low."
However, it depends on Mr. Chen's expectations of himself. ”
"How?"
Chen An came to be a little interested, and the agent he wanted to find needed to have some understanding of the sports circle, and it was best to reach a consensus with him on some ideas, and be forward-looking, not just focusing on immediate interests.
Chen Zhong also knew that Chen An was really testing himself, and said seriously: "Let's take the most intuitive example, Mr. Yao, Yi Jianlian, Sun Yue, these three people have experience in the NBA, but whether it is from the player salary they get or the commercial value, it is very different, the reason for this Mr. Chen must be very clear, it is because of their respective strength, and the more intuitive response is how much data they have."
At present, Mr. Chen's popularity is based on the Magic team, and even partly because of the complementarity of Zhu Fangyu, so Mr. Chen's commercial value naturally depends on the performance of the Magic team in the future.
If the Magic are just a belly team, I suggest you take over the endorsement of this brand.
But if the Magic team can play a certain score in the regular season, or even make the playoffs, I hope Mr. Chen can wait and see for a while, as the Magic team's results are highlighted, I will naturally do my best to operate for you in China, and when the time comes, whether it is advertising, endorsement or commercial activities, etc., the remuneration will definitely be far more than now. ”
Chen An nodded with satisfaction, he naturally understood what Chen Zhong said, he was very happy with Chen Zhong's professionalism and forward-looking vision, but he felt that Chen Zhong's imagination was still a little insufficient, so he smiled mysteriously: "Then what if I can build the Magic team into a championship team?" ”
Chen Zhong was stunned for a moment, and said with some doubts: "Mr. Chen, do you mean that the Magic team will become a team competing for the championship this season?" ”
"Of course! I believe that it will only take half a season for the media to form such a consensus, and I have such confidence! ”
Chen An will not be the champion as soon as he comes up, but this does not prevent him from quickly building the team into a championship contender, just like the Clippers, who have not been able to compete in the West, but for a long time they have been considered to be the strongest team in the West and the team competing for the championship, and it is precisely because of this that when Clippers owner Hollins was forced to sell the team by the league because of that discrimination, the Clippers still sold a sky-high price of $2 billion.
Of course, there is a reason why the Clippers are located in Los Angeles as a big ball market, but with Paul, Griffin, and Jordan Jr., they have long been regarded as championship contenders, which has also increased the team's valuation, in other words, the expected value of the business is realized.
Chen An just wants to increase his expected commercial value as much as possible, and he is also confident that he will build the Magic into one of the so-called championship teams in the new season, after all, with Harden, after all, it is in the East, not to mention the strong player lineup that the team has, if you don't even have this confidence, Chen An is still a fart coach.
"This..."
Chen Zhong obviously didn't expect Chen An's expectations, and he didn't say anything for a long time, although he had made as many plans as possible before he came, he didn't expect Chen An to be so confident that he would directly promote the magic to the championship team and maximize his business expectations.
"You don't have to answer me in a hurry, after you go back, make a detailed plan based on the expected prospects I just said, and when I return to the United States, you fax it to me, and if this plan can meet my requirements, I think we can move on to the next stage."
Chen An concluded the conversation, he was very satisfied with Chen Zhong, but whether to hire Chen Zhong in the end depends on whether Chen Zhong can keep up with his thinking and meet his requirements.
After Chen Zhong left, the time was close to twelve o'clock, and Chen An didn't have time to rest, packed his luggage, and after meeting the other members of the team, he rushed to the airport together, and more than an hour later, he boarded the plane to Orlando.
After returning to Orlando, Chen An reluctantly gave the team a day off, he was really worried that Harden would take the players to mess around again, but the team's trip to China was not light, the boat was tired, everyone was tired, and both the players and coaches needed to get rest.
Fortunately, Harden is still acquainted, or Chen An's scolding of Hickson played a role before, this guy didn't go to Hu Tianhu again, let alone bring other players, a day later, the team reassembled, through the feedback of the health system, most people's physical fatigue was reduced to more than 20, and occasionally a few people over 20 were identified by Chen An as not having a good rest, and Harden was also included.
Chen An was not polite, he took these people out one by one and went directly to intensive training, and these people who practiced were miserable, but these people didn't dare to let go of a fart, because after the team regrouped, fifteen players became fourteen.
Hearing the news of Blake's layoff, most of the players thought that Chen An was making an example of the monkeys, and was warning the remaining players: Don't think I dare to touch you, anyway, it's a newly built stove, and whoever is disobedient will be.
Through this incident, coupled with the previous summer league scolding Harden and Turner, Chen An has established absolute authority in the team, everyone understands that Chen An has the power of life and death, if he really contradicts Chen An, there will definitely be no good life, and more importantly, this is a brand new team, no one is indispensable, at least in the minds of the players.
Time flew by in the middle of the players' desperate drills, and two days later, Beverley came for a tryout.