Chapter 208: Questioning
After Ye Hai signed a contract with Nike, Nike officials couldn't wait to announce the news of signing a 7-year $150 million contract with Ye Hai on its official website, which caused a heated discussion in Chinese and foreign media. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Barkley and O'Neal, famous retired NBA stars and commentators in the United States, have a lot of complaints about Ye Hai's sky-high endorsement contract.
Barkley: Who is Ye Hai? The ace of the World Junior Champions? Hehe, look at Rubio of the Timberwolves, I think Rubio seems to be more worthy of such a big gamble by Nike.
O'Neill: Is the Chinese market worth so much money? Dude, I didn't disrespect Yao Ming, but it seems that after Yao retired, he planned to use Ye Hai and the Chinese market as a cash cow, I mean, even if it is a top show, plus the Chinese market, he is not worth so much.
Not only that, but even LeBron James, who signed the first lifetime endorsement contract in Nike's 44-year history with Nike, also voiced on social media: 150 million in 7 years? Kobe Bryant is back in the league? (Bryant's endorsement contract with Nike is about $25 million per year)
And Durant, who is currently the second most valuable basketball player who endorses Nike, also answered reporters' questions on some occasions: "Seriously, buddy, now there are Chinese people everywhere mentioning this draft list, but I don't know who he is?" 150 million in 7 years? Well, I'd love to know if he's worth the price. All I'm concerned about now is how to defend my title next year. ”
An anonymous basketball player in China said to a reporter friend of Sports Weekly: "The Nike advertisement the year before last, James, Kobe, Durant, George, Irving, Davis, which of these 6 basketball stars can Ye Hai beat?" Not to mention that Kobe Bryant has retired, even if it is the female star Elena of the WNBA on the advertisement, I estimate that she can finish the sea of leaves, except for Yao Ming and the Chinese market, I can't think of any other reason why Nike can give such a high contract. ”
Although Ye Hai has become the youngest but richest player in the Chinese basketball industry, it seems that Ye Hai's road in the NBA is not very easy.
After Nike announced the signing of Chinese player Ye Hai, Adidas quickly changed its target and signed a four-year, 40 million contract with Cha Yicheng, who was also selected by the New York Knicks in the early part of the first round. Compared with Nike's contract of over 100 million yuan to Ye Hai, Adi's contract is much more conservative.
Ye Hai's contract has become a hot topic of discussion, but at the same time, it also tells everyone how rich Ye Hai is now. On the night that Nike announced the contract, countless agents of American real estate companies called Ye Hai to recommend a luxury house in Boston to Ye Hai.
At first, Ye Hai listened to the other party's introduction with interest, but when he heard the price, he still scared Ye Hai.
"25 million? Dollar? Ye Hai hurriedly stopped the other party's gushing recommendation, and was not interested in listening to the other party's continued introduction to how good the location of the house was, how many bedrooms and a few bathrooms and so on.
In this case, Ye Hai, who was completely inexperienced, had to find Yao's team. It seems that having such a team can really help you solve a lot of headaches outside of the field.
At Yehai's request, Yao's team helped Yahai find a home in the Lincoln neighborhood of Massachusetts, which was sold for $2 million, and the homeowner was Rajon Rondo, a point guard for the Boston Celtics.
This mansion, which is very "simple" for Ye Hai's current net worth, has a total area of 6,513 square feet, or about 605 square meters. When Ye Hai heard that the average price of this mansion was only about 20,000 square meters, he had to sigh that the housing prices in the United States were really cheap! In Jinling, even if it is Jiangbei or Pukou, a better location, there is no house less than 20,000 square meters, and the house price of some real estate has already exceeded the 30,000 mark!
The mansion has a total of 5 bedrooms, 5 large bathrooms, 2 small bathrooms, a home theater, a lounge with kitchen and fireplace, a games room, and a beauty room.
$2 million is a piece of cake for the current Ye Hai, what makes Ye Hai a headache is that it is the first time for him to live in such a big house, and there are so many empty rooms, which always makes Ye Hai feel a little insecure.
"Find a hostess for it to give birth to a bunch of children early, wouldn't it be solved." Team Leader Zhang of Yao's team said jokingly.
Ye Hai was speechless.
After signing the contract with Nike in Shanghai, Ye Hai took the plane of the day and returned to his long-lost Jinling overnight, when Ye Hai opened his door, he was surprised to find that the "monkey" Sun Bin was actually sitting on the sofa, and at the same time, there were a group of partners from Zijin Middle School such as Heimu and Liaoyuan, and what surprised Ye Hai even more was that even Jiang Dong and his girlfriend Shen Yan, who returned to their hometown to live, actually appeared here!
“surprise!” Sun Bin and the others said loudly to Ye Hai together!
"Damn, if you do this, I'm going to be embarrassed!" As soon as Ye Hai's words of surprise fell, Sun Bin and others, who had a good relationship with Ye Hai, had already rushed forward and surrounded Ye Hai.
"You kid has grown taller again, why don't you give it to me evenly!" Liaoyuan compared himself and Ye Hai with his hands, thinking that he was about the same height as Ye Hai back then, but he didn't expect that in just 2 years, the gap would be so big.
"You kid seems to have grown a lot, it seems that the steak and training in the United States have played a good role!" Kuroki squeezed Ye Hai's arm vigorously with his big palm.
"Ah Hai, are you brothers! Borrow a few million flowers first! Sun Bin's words are even sharper, and now everyone knows that after the NBA draft, Ye Hai has already been worth a lot of money and is different from the past.
Looking at these good friends gathered around him, Ye Hai's eyes unconsciously moistened, and when he saw Jiang Dong and Shen Yan, Ye Hai couldn't help but think of Ji Yanran.
"Hey, your kid is getting more and more useless, and his eyes are still red in this case!" Sun Bin said jokingly.
"Don't just let us stand, let's talk, where are we going to eat today, we can't cheap you now!" Liaoyuan said with a smile.
Ye Hai gently rubbed his eyes, and then said to everyone with a smile: "Zifeng Mansion, if you don't get drunk, you won't return!" ”
"Roar~~~" The group of young people immediately erupted in enthusiastic cheers.
After being full of wine and food, the group continued to continue the stall in Zifeng No. 1, Ye Hai looked at this group of enthusiastic partners, and his heart couldn't help but feel warm, and at the same time he had a sense of loss, and soon after, he was going to the United States and embarked on a different path with everyone. Although facing a lot of doubts, Ye Hai still felt warmth in this group of friends.
Kuroki and Liaoyuan have confirmed to sign a contract with Jiangsu Nangang, and they will officially become professional players after graduating from high school until they graduate from high school, and they will land on the court of the CBA in the new season. Sun Bin and others will continue their studies, but they will continue to gallop on the CUBA schedule as sports students who have won the national championship, among which Sun Bin and Jiang Dong have been invited by Nanjing University and Southeast University respectively, thus avoiding the cruel college entrance examination and will spend their most relaxed senior year of high school.
"By the way, monkey, how do you have the key to our house." Finally getting a chance to be free, Ye Hai asked Sun Bin, who was sitting beside him.
"Your mother came back before you and knew that you had gone to the United States and it would be difficult to come back, so she gave me the key and said that I would help take care of it. Your mother told me about your return to China, and we have been waiting for you to come back to celebrate you, but I didn't expect that it didn't take long for you to become a billionaire. Sun Bin said enviously.
Ye Hai didn't have any pleasure of becoming a billionaire when he heard this, and at this moment Ye Hai thought in his heart: "Maybe now, I should go and see how she is doing." ”
A knot that has been wrapped around Ye Hai's heart is finally facing the situation of unraveling!
Ye Hai turned on his mobile phone and dialed Ji Qingchuan's phone... (To be continued.) )