When I returned home on the 17th, I only stayed in Seattle for an extra week.

Two days before leaving, Schulz and Peyton had dinner with Lin Dong twice, although the dinner table was basically chatting, but they also reached some tacit consensus between each other.

At the same time, Lin Dong can follow the team for daily training at any time during his school at Seattle Lakeside High School, and the team will arrange the best trainer for him, daily nutritionist, etc., in addition to no salary, and no follow the team to show his face and participate in various activities, other treatment in the team is basically the same as the team's main force.

To put it bluntly, it's the supersonic that starts training you ahead of time at the risk of not getting you.

And what Lin Dong needs to pay, one is that he must participate in next year's draft, and if the supersonic does not get the champion sign, and other teams that get the champion sign want to sign Lin Dong, then Lin Dong needs to cooperate with the supersonic to complete a sign and then change deal, in fact, he doesn't need to do anything specifically, all the work of signing first and then changing must be supersonic to communicate with other teams, and what Lin Dong has to do is just when the other team's senior management asks him about his intentions, he must make it clear that he prefers to play in supersound. If this kind of thing is said by the players themselves, the opposing team will be concerned about your loyalty to the team, and people are afraid of cultivating you in vain, plus supersonic to pay the right price, then there is a high probability that the operation can be completed.

Lin Dong feels that this is still a good deal, not only can he get a year of high-level training opportunities, adapt to the intensity of the NBA in advance, and all the risks are basically borne by the supersonic team, all he needs to do is to show that he is more focused on playing at the supersonic speed when possible.

What's more, Payton is really good to himself, and his strength has improved by leaps and bounds recently, except for the deep accumulation of the year in Japan, which was basically developed by Payton with his super defense.

In addition, Payton got Schultz's permission to release the video to show his full support for him at the risk of offending fans across the league, which greatly reversed the direction of public opinion.

These are all things that Supersonic did without negotiating any conditions with himself, although he knew that people were certainly not motivated by noble character and pure righteousness and bravery, but it was really enough to be able to do this.

In addition, in recent times, local fans in Seattle have strongly supported and supported Lin Dong on the Internet under the guidance of Peyton, and the friendliness shown by the whole city to him still makes Lin Dong feel that Seattle is a city with room for the growth of dragon people, after all, it is the city with the third highest proportion of dragon people among major cities in the United States.

If before coming to Seattle, Lin Dong actually wanted to go to the Rockets, after all, it was the only place where Dragon players had played, and there was historical experience to learn from, then now, what he liked more in his heart was the Seattle SuperSonics.

It's just that this thing can only be a 'consensus', a verbal agreement, and it is impossible to sign a contract.

After all, this itself is not in line with the rules of the league draft, although many teams are actually doing this, and many teams in the league are even calling for changes to the rules so that teams can sign rookies in advance before the draft results are out, but apparently Stern has not agreed to do so for the time being, after all, it will greatly reduce the popularity of the NBA's annual widely watched draft.

Once the two sides reached a consensus, the rest of the matter was logical.

From time to time, Peyton will post a few pictures of playing or eating with Lin Dong on his MSN account, the main body is to publicize the hot relationship between SuperSonics and Lin Dongzheng to fans across the league, and also to build momentum for Lin Dong's draft next year.

This matter is actually a double-edged sword, exposing the supersonic's intention to sign Lin Dong in advance, so if you don't get the champion sign next year, the team holding the champion sign will definitely ask for the supersonic lion's sky-high price, which is a disadvantage;

But the advantage is that the team can get the attention of the dragon country in advance, enhance the overseas brand value, Schultz now intends to lay out Starbucks in the dragon country, he has been to the dragon country several times, he feels that there is an incomparably huge market, and even feels much larger than the local market in the United States, and it is much younger and more active, especially in the past few days, after seeing that some news media in the dragon country began to frequently promote Lin Dong's highlight performance of the Nike summit, and caused a huge repercussion in the dragon country...... Schulz's confidence is even greater.

If Starbucks can be widely known in the Dragon Kingdom in advance because of Lin Dong, and make it easier for the people of the Dragon Kingdom to accept Starbucks, then the value he gets will be unimaginable, and paying this is a chicken feather?

This is the most important move for Starbucks to expand into overseas markets, and for Schultz, this matter is even more important than the team itself, MD team only makes a few dollars a year? Sometimes you have to lose! Not to mention being on a par with Starbucks' global strategic goals.

This is the real purpose of Schultz's willingness to take the risk and pay a huge price, and also to reach some verbal agreements with Lin Dong in advance.

………………

The tape was replayed over and over again in the training room, and LeBron and his personal trainer watched it over and over again.

LeBron has watched this game hundreds of times.

Boasting about Haikou in front of the media was not a very troublesome thing to do.

Frankly speaking, it was just a strategy at first, a strategy to temporarily calm the public's doubts, after all, since the video came out, the debate continued, more detailed discussions, and the increase in heat, it would be more and more detrimental to him.

Anyway, I was 'injured', and the World Championships are only two months away, so I can take advantage of the fact that the injury has not yet recovered, avoid the World Championships, and justifiably avoid the showdown with the Asian devil, and save the talent until next year.

But......

When the news came out that Lin Dong and the supersonic various honeymoon topics, and even Lin Dong was likely to participate in the 02 draft, LeBron knew that he would not be able to avoid it this time.

Nike's $90 million big contract, he has never seen so much money in his life, but the premise is that he must be the top pick in next year's 02 draft.

But if Lin Dong also wants to participate in next year's draft, his chances will be greatly reduced.

There are no more than two paths in front of him.

First, he chose to avoid the World Championships and beat Lin Dong in the draft next year after a year of hard training.

But the road is too difficult, and the more LeBron looks at this tape, the more certain he is of it, his vision has always been accurate, that guy is like a trumpet Jordan, a god who can do anything!

Can you surpass him in a year? Surpass his weight and you'll be sure!

Then there is only a second way left, the death championship to defeat him.

Compared with winning Lin Dong in the draft next year, although the World Championships are closer and the time is tighter, there is a huge advantage that always exists, that is, the gap between the United States team as a whole and the Dragon team.

If you have Wade, Bosh, and Anthony around you, and they still can't win against Lin Dong with a team of fish belly, then what else can you expect?

Expect to go head-to-head with that devil next year?!

After all the calculations, it is more cost-effective to die in the championship.

As long as he bears the reputation of winning over Lin Dong, then next year's draft will be a huge plus, and at the same time, he will become a real tough guy and hero in the eyes of American fans, and it will be enough to cover up the difference in strength between them.

However, I can't be idle for these two months, even if I eat and sleep, I have to keep training, physical, mental!

Analyze him, study him, improve yourself, and of course, improve the relationship between the brothers around you...... Let them become their real die-hard supporters at that time, and use their power to defeat the great demon king of Asia together!

LeBron's eyes flashed with the flames of war, and a deepest deepest desire poured out madly.

90 million contract ...... The greatest opportunity to change your life, this time you must not lose, and you can't die!

"I think the main direction of training is to get rid of the drill, you have to learn how to get rid of him from the outside to shoot more 3-pointers, but you have to learn to get rid of him to get the ball under the basket."

The personal trainer is Badrov, who previously worked as an assistant coach for the Orlando Magic for several years and was the main middleman who brokered LeBron's 90 million contract with Nike.

At this time, he was formulating a targeted training direction: "As for the defensive end, give up, in just two months, it will be really difficult to be able to defend against this guy." ”

Whether or not this deal can be made is important not only for LeBron, but also for Badrov, who has a 0.5% commission.

Baderov said: "Leave that trouble to your teammates and focus on attacking!" Didn't that Asian Peyton help train, you will have it too, and he is not the only one in the league who Payton can defend! ”

"Looking for whom?"

"How's Ben Wallace?" Badrov said with a smile: "This guy just went to Detroit last year, and this World Championships national youth team is likely to be led by Chuck Daley, with the relationship between Chuck and the Detroit Pistons, it is not a big problem to borrow personal in the offseason." ”

"Chuck? Isn't he retired? ”

"It was originally scheduled to be Lao K, but the loss of this Nike summit made Lao K questioned a lot, and there were many voices scolding him on the Internet, saying that if it was Chuck, then the American team would not lose, the call was too loud, and Chuck came out to comply with the requirements of the fans and was ordered to be in danger." "It's a good thing for us, Chuck understands human feelings better than old K, and only he will give you the most room to perform," Baderov said. ”

"So don't think about anything else next, train hard, defeat this guy, and win our 90 million, which is our only goal!"

Starbucks in real history began to enter China in 04, but because of the butterfly effect in the book, there was an opportunity to open the Chinese market in advance, so it was possible to enter China in 02 or even 01.

I wrote this to illustrate the changes in history, including that Da Yao in the book will win the CBA championship one year ahead of schedule and participate in the draft one year ahead of schedule; The platinum drafts of the 03rd class will also be more famous and debut a year earlier because of this Nike summit, which did not exist in history.

(End of chapter)