Chapter 340: Sneaker Contract
On January 21, 2016, US time, after four rounds of voting, the final All-Star voting results finally showed their true colors in everyone's expectations.
Kobe Bryant was elected the All-Star vote king with a super high vote of 189w, which is also the fourth time in his career that he has been elected as the vote king.
The others are Curry and James, who occupy the second and third places with 160w and 100w respectively, and no one else has more than one million votes.
In the East, the starting five All-Star Tigers are Wade and Lowry in the backcourt, and James, Paul George and Anthony in the frontcourt.
In the West, Curry, Don Shuai and Westbrook are in the backcourt, and Kobe Bryant and Durant in the frontcourt.
Because for the first time, there is no definition of a center, the start of this All-Star can be described as extremely weird, and the scene of five guards in the West is also a unique scene in the All-Star game.
When the news that Tang Shuai officially became an All-Star starter came out, the entire basketball world exploded, domestic, American, and even other countries.
The word Tang Shuai has become the most searched word in Google, as if overnight, Tang Shuai has changed from a rookie to a household name.
Who Don is, if you don't know yet, then you haven't been paying attention to the news for too long.
There are still a large number of media people and media in the United States who have expressed strong dissatisfaction with the incident that Tang Shuai officially became an All-Star starter, reprimanding this Quanming as the most absurd and the most shameful one during Xiao Hua's tenure, and even openly calling on American fans not to go to Toronto to support the game.
However, after the official list was announced, many people expressed support for the results.
O'Neal: When I was selected as an All-Star, I knew it was because of the support of the countless fans behind me, and I respect the fans' choice.
Olajuwon: An amazing rookie who has made a lot of history, and I'm sure he'll show us something different in the All-Star Arena.
Kerr: It's the first time in the league that players have only been differentiated by front and back. The result of such a ballot is really interesting, and I believe in the wave. Bo will love it to death.
Iverson: Don will be another little man who has left his mark on the league, the league has always been fair, and it will not treat all those who work hard.
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Unlike the previous two voting results, when the final results came out, many people had the confidence to speak.
Tang Shuai also saw this result in a dazed state. Of course, he quickly accepted the result.
According to the domestic parlance, don't ask so much why if you get it.
To say that the most excited at this time is Duffy, after the all-star voting officially came out, Duffy led Adidas's agent to Tang Shuai's villa.
Tang Shuai saw Duffy's face excited, of course, he also knew that the negotiations between him and Adidas should be coming to an end, but at the same time, his eyes were full of doubts, Duffy had been negotiating with Nike before, how did he bring Adidas people.
"Hey. Hello Don, I'm the VP of Sales at Adidas, my name is Ben Heras, and you can call me Ben. As soon as he entered the villa, a bald head who looked in his forties and wore a white jacket smiled and stretched out his hand to him.
"Hello, Ben." Tang Shuai smiled and shook hands with Heras.
Duffy sat down and pulled the papers out of his briefcase. Then he said: "Mr. Ben is from the headquarters of Adidas, and this time Adidas is full of sincerity. Their contracts, of course, you take a look at them first. ”
Duffy said and handed the contract to Tang Shuai's eyes.
Tang Shuai took the contract, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that Duffy had turned the contract to the most critical amount.
Fifty million in five years.
Million?
Million?!
Tang Shuai rubbed his eyes vigorously, and after making sure that he was not mistaken, he was stunned.
Adidas actually offered such a big contract to a rookie? And for five years?
In his understanding, the basketball players are mobilized. It seems that only Nike has signed a rookie contract for James that is bigger than this!
Although he knows that he is improving, he is not at all comparable to James now, even when he was a rookie.
But now Adidas has offered such an amazing contract, not to mention others, it is himself. I don't understand it at all.
He turned his head to look at Duffy.
"Don't look at me like that, I don't have that much negotiating power, this contract is reported by Adidas itself." Duffy said and looked at Heras.
Heras smiled and nodded.
"Mr. Ben, may I ask, why do you dare to open such a big contract? As someone who is not very involved in this kind of business operation, I am really curious. Tang Shuai looked at Heras suspiciously.
"Mr. Tang, our company feels that you are fully worthy of this investment." Heras affirmed.
"Why do you think so?" Tang Shuai asked, he still hadn't said the second half of the sentence, and he didn't feel that he was worth so much money now.
"There is a saying in China that Ming people don't say dark words, and since Mr. Tang asked so, then I will say it directly." Heras said with a smile.
"You say." Tang Shuai gave Da Fei a look, and Da Fei went down to make coffee.
"Potential, as Nike invested in LeBron, and we don't want to miss out on another player." Heras explained.
Tang Shuai couldn't help but smile: "Seriously, I don't think the current value is comparable to LeBron's original." ”
"There may be a lot of other factors, but I want to say that we see things that others may not have noticed, that your performance in Chinese college basketball is not outstanding, and that you got into the NBA with a little bit of luck, but after entering the NBA, the speed at which you are improving is amazing, even scary, and to be honest, I can't even estimate how high you might be in the future, and that's the main reason why we made this decision." Heras said sincerely.
Heras said this, Tang Shuai probably also knows Adidas's thoughts, this is the same as the incremental contract signed by the player, maybe you are worth 200w in the first year, but in the second year it is 500w, or more 800, 1000w, and the five-year contract is completely tied, if the player is worth more than the contract within five years, it is a big profit, so this is more like a gamble.
Tang Shuai glanced at the contract a few more times, and from the bottom of his heart, he really couldn't find a reason not to sign this contract.
Duffy brought them all a cup of coffee.
Tang Shuai followed and said, "Ben, can you let me talk to Jaime first." ”
"Absolutely." Heras said cheerfully.
Tang Shuai cast a look of embarrassment, and then pulled Duffy into his room.
Closing the door, he said, "Jaime, are you sure there is no trick clause in this contract?" ”
"Nope." Duffy smiled and shook his head.
"Seriously, this contract is a bit big." Tang Shuai couldn't help but swallow his saliva and said, hard work is one thing, but he really saw that he had never seen so much money in his life, and he really couldn't adapt to it.
"Can you not be so unstable?" Duffy couldn't help but complain about Tang Shuai.
"Forget it outside, it's the first time I've seen nearly 100 million dollars, can't you make me excited?" Tang Shuai couldn't help but rub his hands.
"Yes, but you'd better wait until you're done signing to get excited." Duffy smiled and patted Tang Shuai on the shoulder.
Tang Shuai rushed to the window excitedly, shook his arm a few times, vented his excited expression, and then turned around and said, "Let's go, let's go out!" (To be continued.) )