By the end of the game, the Heat had a 35-15 record.

The Heat defeated the Nets, and Li Lei played an explosive performance, and there were many fewer voices questioning him.

Although there are still them, they are much cleaner than before.

The Heat have four games left before All-Star Weekend.

Feb. 7, Knicks vs. Heat (home).

Feb. 8, Heat vs. Pacers (away).

February 10, Lakers vs Heat (home).

Feb. 11, Heat vs. Magic (away).

The Heat destroyed the Knicks, lost to the Pacers and Lakers, slaughtered the Magic, and won 2 wins and 2 losses.

The overall record came to 37-17.

It is worth mentioning that the last day of the All-Star voting.

O'Neal Jr.'s votes suddenly soared, crushing Li Lei by 100,000 votes.

But in the last three hours, Li Lei's votes rose by 500,000, which in turn crushed O'Neill Jr. by 400,000 votes.

Li Lei's total number of votes reached 2 million, second only to the vote king Carter's 2.12 million votes.

This wave of changes stunned all fans, but the inside story was meaningful.

Many people want the league to review the voting system again.

The result of the re-examination was: no problem.

Domestic fans look at the United States from afar, with contempt: compared to the number of people, we still need to cheat?

If it weren't for Yao Ming and Francis taking part of the vote, it would have been easy for Li Lei to win the vote.

As a result, the 2004 All-Star voting ended, the starters were decided, and the benches were selected by the coaches.

Western starters: Yao Ming, Garnett, Duncan, Kobe, Francis.

Subs: O'Neill, Ray Allen, Brad Miller, Peja, Kassel, Nowitzki, Kirilenko.

Eastern starters: Big Ben, Carter, Li Lei, Maddy, Iverson.

Subs: Kidd, Reed, Pearce, Artest, O'Neal Jr., Odom, Byron Davis.

Kenyon Martin once claimed that if Li Lei was selected as an All-Star, he would refuse to play.

Now it's okay, you don't have to refuse the alliance, the alliance has already rejected him.

And his teammate Kidd, after being selected as an All-Star, did not have the slightest intention of refusing to play.

For this reason, Martin's social media has been overrun by fans.

Martin became a joke for a while.

……

In addition to that, the roster for the rookie game has also been determined.

First Grade: Wade, Hinrich, James, Anthony, Carman, Josh Howard, Bosh, Haslem, Lei Li.

Second Grade: Ginobili, Stoudemire, Boozer, Yao Ming, Prince, Nene , Dunleavy, Yarizzi, Murray.

Caron Butler also received an offer from the second-year team, but he declined due to a minor injury.

In addition, Li Lei accepted the invitation to the three-point competition.

He's got a lot on the agenda.

Participate in group activities on the first day.

The second day of the rookie game.

Day 3 Three-Point Contest.

Day 4 All-Star Game.

The Heat team also had a bumper harvest this time, and Li Lei, Wade, Haslem, and Odom could organize a group to go to Los Angeles to participate in the event.

February 12th.

The Heat didn't play, and the team took an early vacation.

Li Lei first went back to Los Angeles to spend a day with his parents, and then took his parents for All-Star Weekend.

But even on this day, Li Lei was not idle.

Bill Duffy brought the head of Nike to negotiate the contract.

There are three levels of sneaker contracts: signed shoe contracts, cash contracts, and merchandise contracts.

The highest-level signed shoe contracts belong to the NBA's top big-name stars, and only a dozen or so stars can get such contracts at a time.

Medium is a cash contract, which is generally available to 70 to 100 people in the league.

The lowest level is the commodity contract, which the vast majority of players in the NBA sign on.

Nike gave Li Lei the highest-level signed shoe contract.

With Li Lei's current strength, of course, he is not worthy, and a large part of this is thanks to Yao Ming.

In 2002, Yao Ming just entered the league, and he wore Nike in his first year.

When the contract was renewed in the summer of '03, Yao's team wanted a contract with an annual salary of at least $1 million, but Nike only gave Yao Ming $1.6 million for four years.

You must know that at almost the same time, Nike gave James $91 million for 7 years and Kobe Bryant $45 million for 5 years.

When Yao Ming's team proposed a million-dollar annual salary, the person in charge of Nike also said: I think you guys are joking.

This sentence directly angered Yao Ming.

When the competitor Reebok heard the news, he immediately offered a seven-year, $50 million contract.

When Nike heard about it, it immediately regretted it and increased it to $120 million for 7 years.

But what kind of temper is Yao Ming?

Don't fight for the $70 million price difference, but also break with Nike.

Nike can't regret it.

So this time, Nike has to sign Li Lei anyway to make up for the previous losses, and use Li Lei to open the Chinese market, which is half a year late.

Li Lei had only been playing for a month when Nike contacted Bill Duffy and offered a price of $4 million for three years.

Later, Li Lei cut the fourth youngest 30+ in history, and the price given by Nike was $8 million for 4 years.

After that, Li Lei won the Rookie of the Month award in January, and Nike's contract is five years and $12 million.

Until recently, the head of Nike watched the Heat and Nets play live, and he offered a five-year, $25 million contract.

Coupled with Li Lei's selection as an All-Star in his rookie year, Nike can't wait.

Their bottom line is $30 million for 5 years.

Duffy couldn't help it anymore.

So it was decided to get the sneaker contract before this year's All-Star Weekend.

However, Li Lei refused.

The reason is that the contract is too long.

"Bill, I'm only willing to sign a contract for two to three years at most."

After Li Lei thought about it, he told Duffy.

Duffy was stunned: "That's $30 million." If you only sign for 2 to 3 years, the annual income will be much less. ”

Li Lei nodded: "I know, but I figured it out." After this contract, I can sign a new one. ”

Duffy: "......"

He understood, Li Lei was confident.

He is confident that he will be able to improve quickly in the next two to three years, and when the time comes, he will sign a bigger contract.

Ha!

Young people, ambition is great.

Now that Li Lei has made a decision, Duffy can only do it according to the customer's intentions.

In the end, Li Lei signed a two-year, $9 million contract with Nike.

……

The next morning.

Li Lei's family came to the Staples Center early.

Su Qun also joined Li Lei.

In the next 4 days, Su Qun will record Li Lei's first all-star journey.

On the first day, it was a basketball theme park event specially designed for fans, also known as a carnival.

Fans can experience a variety of interesting basketball sports here.

For example, the organizers have collected a large number of athletes' footprints and handprints, and fans can compare them and intuitively feel that O'Neal's footprints are twice as big as themselves.

You can also find a reference player of the same height as yourself from the 1:1 star drawing board from the 160cm "Little Bug" Boggs to the 226cm "Little Giant" Yao Ming.

This is called "one-to-one".

In addition, there are more than a dozen interesting activities such as testing, deducting a buckle, jumping a jump, flying a fly, playing a bullet, throwing a throw, racing a race, fighting a fight, playing a dozen, chasing a chase, buying a buy, taking a look, taking a photo, etc.

Fans can participate in fun activities, play sports, play games, meet the stars, and win prizes.

It's so cool!

If you still can't understand it, it's better to think of it as a Chinese temple fair.