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After Zhuang Fei lost 101-107 to the Lakers on the road, the Timberwolves players still did not stay in Los Angeles, not to mention that the two teams are in the same Western Conference, but Minnesota shares a border with Canada, and Los Angeles is 2,600 kilometers away, which is the distance from Guangzhou to Běijīng. It's another long-distance flight, and the Timberwolves players will inevitably stay on the plane again.

"Zhuang, do you say our performance this season is like a dream" Zhuang Fei and D'Antoni on the plane did not have a trace of sleepiness, Zhuang Fei was a little reluctant to Los Angeles, after all, there was a girl he was most excited about, and there was his purest juvenile feelings, although he was no longer a young man, but he counted the numbers, the women he knew in these two lives could really be counted on one finger, not to mention what verbal and physical contact he had with women, And among these people he met, the most exciting thing was naturally the fan singer and Los Angeles Scarlett who met in Toronto, both of them are unique in the world, and the fan singer in Canada Zhuang Fei didn't know if he could meet again in his life, but Scarlett was confident that he could meet again, because Zhuang Fei wrote his address in Minnesota on Scarlett's hand, which meant that he hoped that Scarlett would be able to come to him again when he was free, and then he completed the unfinished signature, It's just that Zhuang Fei understands it this way, but I don't know if Scarlett wants to be crooked, in Western countries, men leave addresses for women or women leave addresses for men, which have other meanings, which is also the reason why Zhuang Fei regrets it now, I am afraid that Scarlett will think that he is too frivolous and can't sleep, if only he could calm down a little more at that time, Zhuang Fei is tossing and turning left and right without sleeping. If Zhuang Fei has insomnia because of love, then D'Antoni has been insomnia for a long time recently because of his career. Recently, I heard that some NCAA teams poached him to go to college as a head coach, this season D'Antoni has a lot of media exposure because of Zhuang Fei, and Zhuang Fei also advertises this profitable assistant in the media from time to time, and praises him a lot, after all, he is Zhuang Fei's first assistant coach, and with Zhuang Fei's reputation in college and Zhuang Fei's current importance to him, D'Antoni is definitely a gunner. But to the surprise of many poaching teams, Coach Z's first assistant coach is as interested in the NBA as Coach Z is much higher than the NCAA. He turned down all offers from the NCAA, and some of them were from prestigious schools.

As long as the Timberwolves can continue to play like this, D'Antoni believes that he will not be far from officially coaching the NBA team. His dream will always be the NBA, and that's his only goal.

"I think it's really a dream," Zhuang Fei leaned back lightly in the chair behind him, turned his head and smiled at D'Antoni and said.

Who's to say it isn't? He Zhuang Fei, in his previous life, was just an unliterate CBA youth team coach, but now he has become the head coach of the Timberwolves, in his previous life, he just dreamed of becoming a player like Yao Ming, and now Duncan, Carter, Garnett, Pierce, these superstars who are no worse than Yao Ming in later generations are his disciples. And superstars like Scarlett Johansson have become his fans, and Wake Forest has erected a statue of him, which is indeed a dream-like fact.

Looking at Zhuang Fei, whose eyes were empty, D'Antoni also smiled. Even if it's a dream, he hopes it's a dream that he will never wake up from.

Zhuang Fei returned to his home in Minnesota and took a few hours of rest, and the next morning he arrived at the club before he could enter his office when he was stopped by the team's general manager, Kevin McHale.

"These companies want me to endorse? Why? Zhuang Fei looked at some letters of intent for cooperation handed over by McHale and said in surprise. He's not a player, he's not an entertainment star, he's just an ordinary basketball coach, what economic value and endorsement value can this have? Even if he has the identity of Chinese, but now the NBA does not have much popularity in China, to put it mildly, Jordan's influence in China may not be as big as Sakuragi Hanamichi, and there are definitely more people who know Coach Anzai than Phil Jackson. Moreover, this is Zhuang Fei's first year in charge of the NBA, and now CCTV has not come to the door, which shows that he Zhuang Fei has no influence in China, and it is estimated that not many people in China know him at this time, because Chinese fans do not have the concept of NCAA now, even if Zhuang Fei's NCAA results are brilliant, it is useless.

"This, I don't know if you ask me, you don't have an agent, so they found the club, but you know that the team is too busy in the first two weeks, so we have been handling you off, and we will only inform you today, but we also hope that you can deal with these things as soon as possible, if you really can't do it, you can ask the club's finance department or the player's agent for help, I think they will be happy to help you" McHale sighed, Zhuang Fei underestimated his fame too much, In the United States, the popularity of this Chinese is definitely not lower than that of any other coach, and even some NBA superstars cannot compare to him.

Who holds the highest ratings for American basketball games right now? Isn't it Wake Forest? Created in the NCAA Finals with Kentucky. In the three years in Wake Forest, this Chinese is the best head coach and the most popular head coach for three consecutive years selected by major American media, this is not a random award, even Phil Jackson has never received such recognition as Zhuang Fei, and Zhuang Fei's showtime in college is even more fascinating to a group of people, see that Carter has not yet entered the NBA, and his popularity has far exceeded any superstar in the NBA. According to McHale's understanding, these people have been eyeing Zhuang Fei for a long time, and there are many people who are waiting, and this batch of people who came this time is just some to test the waters, or to gamble. These people originally wanted to sign Zhuang Fei when he coached the NCAA, but Zhuang Fei was the NCAA coach, so they could only give up, the NCAA has very strict requirements for business activities, and finally waited until Zhuang Fei came to the NBA but encountered a shutdown, and finally encountered Zhuang Fei's brain-dead transactions at the end of the shutdown, this series of accidents made these manufacturers and companies repeatedly postpone the time of contact with Zhuang Fei, but now Zhuang Fei has fully proved that he has the ability to gain a foothold in the NBA through this more than a month of competition, This also makes these manufacturers come to the door.

But for these Zhuang Fei didn't know at all, he was still subconsciously thinking that he was just a nameless junior, and he didn't want to think that a nameless junior, Scarlett, would immediately recognize him, and then frantically ask him for an autograph? It's just that Zhuang Fei is really too obsessed with basketball after being reborn, and many other things he has ignored, or rather ignored.

Zhuang Fei not only doesn't know what kind of fame he is now, but he also has no concept of money, he didn't buy a car, he didn't buy a house, these are all provided by the club, he only knows that he has 10 million US dollars lying on his account, but he doesn't know how to use these things at all, his mind has been full of basketball in recent years, and there is no love and no spending.

"Zhuang, I think it's better for you to find an agent," McHale looked at Zhuang Fei with a puzzled look on his face and kindly reminded.

Zhuang Fei nodded slightly, there are indeed many things that he can't do by himself, and he needs someone to act as his agent.

But then McHale heard what he meant, and the companies that were looking for him had been sending people to Minnesota for many days, just waiting for him to return. Now he really needs to talk to those companies himself.

There are a total of three companies that came to the door this time, and to Zhuang Fei's surprise, these three are actually big brands, and they have long admired their names in China before. With Zhuang Fei's current fame, it is impossible for a small brand to humiliate itself.

The first is McDonald's, the giant of the fast food industry, McDonald's and basketball have always had a close relationship, the American high school basketball league All-Star Game is McDonald's, and they also have a tradition of having NBA players endorse.

The second is the Cadillac Motor Company, a subsidiary of General Motors of the United States, which is a luxury car company, and now is the time for the company to be in the limelight.

The third is Coca-Cola, the world's most famous beverage company is preparing to launch a new advertising slogan next year, in 2000.

Zhuang Fei's negotiations with these three companies were very fast, surprisingly fast, even McHale was taken aback. There's no such thing as meeting at noon and having it all done before dinner.

"You're not going to sell yourself casually, are you?" After Zhuang Fei signed the contract, he hosted a banquet for McHale, D'Antoni and Stephen Green at the largest hotel in Minneapolis in Minnesota in the evening.

"How so? Am I that stupid," Zhuang Fei said with a smile.

"What is your contract with Coca-Cola?" McHale was a little incredulous, and D'Antoni and Green were curious.

Zhuang Fei smiled slightly, stretched out five fingers, and then said with a smile: "Sign a contract for 3 years, 5 million per year, and then if you make the playoffs, it will rise by 10% on the basis of 5 million, and so on, and winning the championship will increase by 25%, no loss."

McHale and D'Antoni looked at each other and looked at Zhuang Fei in disbelief.

"How did you do it, as far as I know, this should be the highest-level contract that Coca-Cola has given to basketball practitioners," McHale looked at Zhuang Fei like a monster.

"It's very simple, invite these three corporate negotiators who don't know each other to my office at the same time, and then these people arrived in my office and saw that the other two were dumbfounded, and it took a long time to come up with such an offer, I think the contract they gave under the supervision of the other two should not be too shabby."

"High, coach, your move is too high," Green said admiringly. D'Antoni also nodded yes, he had not heard of anyone negotiating like this.

"Zhuang, I think you're more suitable to be a general manager than me, and it seems that you don't need any agent," McHale said with a wry smile.

Zhuang Fei was in a good mood today, it only took one day to solve these mundane things, and he didn't delay too much of the team's time, and he also made tens of millions, Coca-Cola's 5 million, Cadillac's 3 million, and McDonald's 4 million, a total of 12 million.

Zhuang Fei really didn't think that someone would spend such a large price to invite him, but what he didn't know was that when Pepsi and Ford learned that Zhuang Fei signed a contract with Coca-Cola Cadillac, they regretted it to death.

"By the way, in a few days, Cadillac will take some model information to let me choose a car, the contract stipulates that I can get five of their cars for free every year, I can't use it alone, you can choose one."

McHale and D'Antoni were stunned for a moment, then nodded, and Stephen Green jumped up excitedly, he now has a low income and has never been a professional player, so he has no savings and naturally no money to buy a car. Not to mention a luxury sedan like Cadillac.

Zhuang Fei looked at Green and shook his head with a smile, Cadillac is generally between 10 and 200,000 now, which is indeed not easy for Green to buy.

Although it is beneficial to sign a contract, it will definitely be restricted in public in the future, and Pepsi will definitely not be allowed to drink in public in the future.