This afternoon, Los Angeles, Roger Phillip's office.

"Dingding......

"Hello, here's Roger Philip's phone."

"Hello, Mr. Philip, I'm ......"

The phone rang, and he received a call from Skechers President Mark Nathan, and the two were talking on the phone.

"What?"

After hearing Macnathan's words, he was shocked and couldn't believe it.

Opposite Macnathan said: "Yes, Mr. Philip, you heard it right, we will send Zhou Quan a signed sneaker contract for a five-year term, two million dollars a year."

Of course, there will be some additional incentives attached to the contract amount, which is negotiable, and I think you should be able to understand it.

I hope that you and Mr. Zhou Quan will carefully consider our contract, we are very optimistic about his future, and we hope that our formal negotiations will take place as soon as possible. ”

"Okay, okay."

Hanging up the phone, Philip waved his fist excitedly, eager to inform Zhou Quan immediately.

He never thought that a company that had just been established would be willing to give Zhou Quan a signed sneaker contract, which was incredible.

As far as he knows, Nike is now negotiating with O'Neal, the top pick in the first show, and Nike is not willing to send O'Neal a signed sneaker contract, and the negotiations between the two sides are not going well.

And now, Zhou Quan has such an opportunity, and the contract is not small, ten million dollars in five years, an absolutely big contract.

……

The Pistons did not play in the past two days, and Zhou Quan rested at home, but the daily strength training was uninterrupted.

"Week."

"Rog? Oh, you didn't even inform me, did something happen? Come on in. ”

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Philip rushed from Los Angeles to Detroit, and went straight to Zhou Quan's rented private training room, which startled him.

"Hello Hughes."

"Hello, Rogge."

Philip came in and greeted trainer Swilton.

"A surprise for you."

The training room was very simple, Swilton helped bring a chair over, and Philip sat down and said with a smile on his face: "Guess what?" ”

Zhou Quan took a bottle of water for Philip, turned his mind around, and said with a smile: "Could it be that there is good news in the sneaker contract?" Is there a company willing to give me a cash contract for exclusive sneakers? ”

Philip smiled and said with a wry smile: "You are just too smart, which makes me feel very unfulfilled." ”

Speaking of this, an excited smile appeared on his face again, and he said with a smile: "But Zhou, you guessed wrong, it's not a cash contract." ”

"What? No way. Zhou Quan was stunned.

On top of the cash contract, there are only signed sneaker contracts, but is that possible?

"You guessed it right, it's the signature sneakers. Excited, right? Ha ha! Philip laughed excitedly.

"What?"

Swilton was shocked on the side.

Zhou Quan was about the same, muttering, "Are they crazy?" ”

Philip took a big sip of water, then smiled: "There is no change in the other companies, you should know that they are only willing to give an ordinary cash contract."

But Skechers was willing to give you a cash contract for exclusive sneakers, you know. But, this time they gave us a surprise, a big surprise, and after your match with Jordan, they contacted me immediately yesterday and wanted to start formal negotiations. ”

"Rogge, how big is the contract?" Zhou Quan asked excitedly.

"Five years, so much."

Putting down the water bottle, Philip raised his right index finger, with a look of mystery and excitement, and added: "This is just the opening price, and we should be able to continue talking." ”

"A million dollars?" Swilton next to him looked envious.

Hearing the figure of one million dollars, Philip suddenly looked disgusted and gave Swilton a blank look.

"Ten million? Hiss! ”

Swilton almost bit his tongue.

"How can such a big contract be?"

Zhou Quan is the same, he definitely did not expect that one day a sneaker company would open such a contract for himself.

Philip said excitedly: "They bet, Nike bet on Michael Jordan back then, and Adi didn't dare to bet, so Nike won."

Now Skechers is betting on you because you led the team to take down Jordan's Bulls the day before yesterday. ”

In fact, he guessed wrong, the reason why Skechers is willing to give such a contract is because McNathan saw his strong personal style from Zhou Quan, which is the eye of a designer.

Although Zhou Quan was excited, he still asked calmly: "Rogge, the quality of Skechers?" ”

Speaking of this, Philip also calmed down and said: "At present, we have no formal negotiations, and everything is still just words.

We can't take into account the quality of their sneakers because they don't have a formal product yet, and the company has just been established.

So I need to visit their company and see their R&D capabilities, as well as their laboratory products.

They'll provide you with some lab products to try out, and if the quality isn't bad, week, we'll have to sign them, and it's such a rare opportunity that it's almost impossible for you to get a signed sneaker contract from another company. ”

Zhou Quan couldn't help but nodded, if he didn't sign Skechers, he wanted to get a signed sneaker contract, unless he became a superstar with a lot of influence, that is, a supergiant in the real sense.

Roger Phillip spent the night in Detroit and rushed back to Los Angeles the next day to begin preparations for formal negotiations with Skechers.

……

Johnson, a magician who was actively doing cocktail therapy that day, gave a phone interview to reporters in Los Angeles, and he talked about Zhou Quan

"I'm still following the league and noticed the recent Pistons-Bulls game. I would say that the same point guard, with an iron fist of 95 kilograms, can crush any point guard in the league, and he even broke two ribs of John Paxson in a ball-carrying breakaway.

It's safe to say that he's a super-heavy point guard unique to the NBA today, and he's playing in an unreasonable way at the No. 1 position, where he has his own unique misalignment advantage.

I compared myself to him, I have absolute height at the No. 1 position, but he has an absolute power tonnage advantage at the No. 1 position, I can face any point guard at the No. 1 position, he has a height mismatch advantage, and he's in a similar situation.

So what I really want to say is, Jerry, go find a way to trade him, the Lakers deserve him, he's a Los Angeles native, and we're really missing out on a really nice guy. ”

"Elvin, obviously, Iron Fist is going to improve, he's going to get stronger, so do you have any advice for other point guards?" The journalist asked.

"Either you can practice faster speed, or you can only gain weight and increase your confrontation ability." Magic Johnson concluded.

"Speed up? Gaining weight? ”

Not to mention the West, the entire East, almost all point guards are in a dilemma.

Speed up, talent has a ceiling, and they are not Ferrari, how to mention it?

Weight gain, this also has a ceiling, the iron fist because it is a door panel body, so it can maintain a large tonnage without losing sensitivity, they can't, too much weight, as soon as there are many muscles, the body will be stiff, lose sensitivity and speed.

Anyway, since then, speeding up and gaining weight have become a headache for point guards in the East, and some point guards with good height are trying to gain weight.