Chapter 103: Champion
The apartment sold by James Dolan to Zhang Yu is in the Upper East Rich District of Manhattan, with a floor on the 28th floor, 2 bedrooms, 2 living rooms and 2 bathrooms, with a usable area of 175 square meters, only a 20-minute walk from the Knicks' home stadium "Madison Square Garden", so Zhang Yu doesn't even have to buy a car.
Recently, the entire United States, except for the New York media, has been unanimously singing about the Knicks and Zhang Yu, and the media that is still praising Zhang Yu for how versatile Zhang Yu is during the NCAA National Round of 64 seems to have changed his face overnight.
In fact, they were really optimistic about Zhang Yu, but Dolan's brain damage has long been known to everyone, and generally as long as he thinks it is right, it must be wrong. So he is optimistic about Zhang Yu, and that Zhang Yuba's achievements are parallel goods! Leaving him 20% is considered to be ten face-saving
After listening to what Fagan told him about what the American media thought of him during this time, Zhang Yu was suddenly half angry in his heart!
"The boss is brain-dead! Does it have anything to do with whether I can type it out? ”
After meeting Dolan, Zhang Yu actually likes this very affectionate boss very much, and has never seen a boss who will say to the player in person: I like to see you use iron elbows and elbow people, and appreciate your trash talk, which is in line with Zhang Yu's appetite.
"I don't believe that if I can lead China U19 to win the World Youth Championship and lead Stanford University to win the NCAA championship, can't I turn the Knicks into a championship team?"
Zhang Yu was complaining in New York, and Fagan's agency team was still working hard in South Korea, and after a month of arduous negotiations with Samsung, the two parties finally negotiated a five-year treaty endorsement contract of 40 million to 50 million.
In the stalemate stage of the negotiations, the shrewd Fagan once again took out the conditional contract that he was best at, and after fooling Zhang Yu, he also fooled Samsung.
According to the contract, if Zhang Yu wins the Rookie of the Year in the 2008-2009 season, the contract will automatically change from $40 million over five years to $45 million over five years. Next, if Zhang Yu can win the regular season MVP during the contract period, then the contract will be automatically changed to five years and fifty million US dollars.
In the end, Fagan was not satisfied, and added another championship clause: if Zhang Yu wins the NBA championship and wins the Finals MVP during the contract period, then Samsung will also pay a bonus of 5 million US dollars!
Samsung thought about it for a week and agreed to the contract proposed by Fagan.
Koreans feel that if Zhang Yu can really complete all the additional terms, then his fame may not be inferior to Kobe James and others at that time, and Samsung will not lose even if it pays the highest endorsement fee of 55 million for 5 years.
In terms of domestic Lenovo, it has been slow to agree to the endorsement fee of 35 million for 5 years, and insists on the highest offer of 30 million US dollars for five years.
Faced with a price difference of up to $5 million per year, Zhang Yu finally chose Samsung.
Fagan received a commission of up to more than $8 million from this endorsement, which made Zhang Yu feel distressed! The thought of having to pay another 40% tax on the rest of the tax makes it hurt even more
On June 27, 2008, David Stern presided over the draft at Madison Square Garden, the home of the Knicks.
Zhang Yu was unable to go to the draft site because he was training in China, so he wore the hat of the New York Knicks in China by live video broadcast and officially became the champion of the NBA2008 draft!
The Chicago Bulls hit the big luck, a month ago with less than a 5% chance of drawing the No. 2 pick, they surprisingly did not choose Beasley, who was not inferior to Zhang Yu in the finals, but chose Derek Rose of the University of Memphis, which made Beasley, who was sitting on the scene, immediately turn blue!
Beasley knew that the champion would definitely not be able to compete with Zhang Yu, and the Knicks didn't invite him to try out, which shows that they had already recognized Zhang Yu with their hearts. But Beasley's list of things that Beasley regarded as a bag was also robbed by Rose, which made his face very embarrassed, and even regretted coming to the scene to participate in the draft.
The Miami Heat, who had the No. 3 pick in hand, had no idea of picking Beasley, and they had already set their sights on Derrick Rose. Unexpectedly, the bull did not choose Beasley, who was better looking than Zhang Yu's college number jù, but chose Rose, who was not outstanding in college number jù.
Wade immediately smiled and announced that they had chosen Michael Beasley, finally making the grim-faced guy squeeze out a stiff smile.
The Timberwolves then picked OJ Mayo in fourth; The original SuperSonics, which have changed their name to the Thunder, chose Russell Westbrook; The Memphis Grizzlies chose Kevin Love; The Los Angeles Clippers chose Eric Gordon; The Milwaukee Bucks selected Danilo Gallinari......
The subsequent draft has little to do with Zhang Yu......
Zhang Yu was elected as the champion, which is the second time that a Chinese player has become the NBA draft champion, and the second champion of a Chinese player in ten years!
China has produced two champions in a row in ten years, and it is also a defender, which has become a hot topic around the world. You must know that the probability of a shooting guard getting the top spot is the lowest in NBA history, not to mention that this guard has always been regarded by foreign media as an Asian who is not suitable for playing the guard position.
The Chinese media and even the world media rushed to report on it, and for a time the NBA also set off a second basketball boom in China......
Scouts of NBA teams seem to have discovered a new continent, scrambling to go to China to find basketball talents, two champions in ten years, showing that the talent of Chinese in basketball far exceeds their estimates! Think about it...... In the huge population of more than one billion, there may be many geniuses like Zhang Yu and Yao Ming waiting to be discovered......
On the street basketball courts in various cities, the number of people playing street ball increased overnight.
Basketball has officially become the most popular sport in China, and football, which has never seen the light, has been highlighted even darker at the moment.
The Japanese media said sourly that there are too many Chinese, and it is normal for one or two geniuses to appear, and it is ten times less than the Chinese of their Yamato nation, and it is normal for them to be unable to produce basketball talents...... Then the cunning little devils began to change the topic, quietly shifting the topic from basketball to football, and then they could mock China in a condescending manner......
The Korean media found another way, in Zhang Yu's ancestral hometown, I don't know from whose ancestral grave dug up a lot of evidence that Zhang Yu's ancestors are Koreans, especially recently there are rumors that Zhang Yu will sign a contract with Samsung Electronics in the near future, this news indirectly proves the authenticity of the evidence in their hands!
Chinese fans were speechless for a while, signing a three-star can prove that Zhang Yu is Korean? Is there any connection between the two?
However, no matter how sour and shameless the media in Japan and South Korea are, Zhang Yu's fame still ended with the draft, and he irrepressibly broke into the top position of the idol rankings of the post-80s and post-90s in the two countries.
Zhang Yu, who is handsome and more like a normal person in height, suddenly became popular in Japan and South Korea at a rocket-like speed, which exceeded everyone's expectations!
On the portal forums of Japan and South Korea, Zhang Yu's popularity is already higher than that of many idol stars in the two countries, this phenomenon is not only unexpected by the media, but even Zhang Yu himself can't figure it out.
Taking advantage of Zhang Yu's shareholder style, Samsung decisively decided to shoot an advertisement in July and release it during the Olympic Games.
"Shoot commercials?"
Zhang Yu regrets it now...... regretted that his intestines were blue, and he didn't expect that he would be so popular in Japan and South Korea after the draft, and Samsung's endorsement fee of 55 million in five years now doesn't seem expensive at all, and he would have wanted a little more if he knew it......
According to the news brought to him by Fagan, more than one contracted company will shoot advertisements at the end of June, and the three largest endorsement contracts he has received are not stupid, all of them are eyeing the Olympic Games in August, and plan to take advantage of Zhang Yu's time when he is in the limelight.
Nike must give face, and Phil Knight Sr. is so good to himself, of course he must come first. As for mobile, although the endorsement fee cannot be compared with Nike and Samsung, they are state-owned enterprises, and they must also give enough face! The rest of the Samsung? It seems that he can only be wronged, and the advertising shooting time was directly pushed to July by Zhang Yu.
In addition to these three, Zhang Yu and Fagan have stopped all the contracts currently being negotiated, and even some contracts that have been negotiated but not signed have been temporarily suppressed.
Zhang Yu, who was infected by Xia Wei and was also a bit of a money fan, felt that raising the price of the endorsement fee would make a big profit......
However, you can't care about shooting advertisements and receiving endorsements, and you can't relax your training, if you delay your training in order to make money, and you can't play in the first season, then all these will fly away with wings on your own......
His fame and money were all brought to him by this basketball that cost less than a hundred dollars, and he must never forget this.
As early as May, Zhang Yu had already sampled all 206 of his bones in Nike's real room, and Nike would make a sneaker for him based on these and other very complex numbers, that is, the "Zhang Yu Generation" sneakers.
At present, Zhang Yu's shoes have completed the shape design, and it is estimated that it will be completed in August, which means that Zhang Yu can wear his own exclusive sneakers to compete in the Olympic Games. Obviously, Nike also aims at this, and Zhang Yu's sneakers are sold so well that they can recover the endorsement fee of 110 million US dollars for 6 years.
On June 29, Zhang Yu flew to the United States to shoot a Nike commercial.
Originally, he thought that there would be a few blonde Hollywood actresses or world supermodels with big buttocks and breasts, as his heroines, and then there would be a few kissing scenes, hehehehe...... As a result, when I got to the place, I saw it, and I was a cheating father!
There was only a bare and empty room, and there was not a single female object to be found around the room, except for a few middle-aged bald men who were large and flattened.
In the room, a white curtain has been wrapped around the walls, and he only needs to do some simple actions in front of the camera.
The director told him that they would use computer special effects to add wonderful special effects in the later stage.
To put it simply, he just needs to be like a stupid ×, holding a basketball to make a few expressions to the camera, playing handsome, and pretending to be cool...... Then you can go home and wait to watch the finished film on TV.
Zhang Yu's final tragic discovery that the camera was not as long as the pair of red and white exquisite basketball shoes made by Nike on his feet? Grandma's, you might as well just use these shoes as the protagonist, why are you looking for me?
What about the blonde that said good? What about the buttocks and breasts?
On July 1st, Zhang Yu returned to China with an unhappy stomach, he had no time to rest, and he had to continue to shoot advertisements for Mobile.
But although there is a girl, the process is not very good, don't even think about the kiss scene, this is an advertisement on CCTV, and there is not even a hand-holding link......
On the first day, when they saw Zhang Yu's big man of more than 2 meters in sight, the three girls chattered around, and they wanted to take a group photo and sign autographs, and Zhang Yu took the opportunity to grab and touch a lot of oil, which is the only gain, right?
"Damn, Lao Tzu is only 18 years old, and the tender ones can pinch out the water, these are a lot older than me, and I don't know who rubs whose oil?"
A few days later, Zhang Yu rushed to Seoul a little exhausted, originally thinking that filming advertisements in South Korea was the same process, but he didn't expect that Fagan would sneak out a bunch of photos for him in the hotel at night.
"Tonight, you can choose one of them."
Fagan had a "you know" expression, which was too ** in Zhang Yu's opinion!
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