It was already at the end of December when he signed with Nike, although the previous lifetime contract worth at least 6 billion had whetted the appetite of the entire sports world and even the United States, and also raised everyone's horizons, so that in the end, Lin Dong's forced short contract surprised the whole United States.

However, this is still a 2-year $300 million super sky-high contract, plus a 20% licensed product dividend, it is conservatively estimated that Lin Dong can get at least $5-700 million from Nike in the past two years.

This income is not only the highest in the NBA today, but also the most sports stars in the United States and even the world, and even threw the second place far away!

Frankly, all of this is thanks to Under Armour, and also thanks to the fierce competition between Nike and Adidas.

If it weren't for Under Armour's madness in the past two years, if it weren't for the crazy competition between Nike and Adidas, then even Lin Dong himself would not dare to think that he could be worth so much money.

But in any case, the money is always in hand, counting the sale of Under Armour's shares, the net worth has steadily crossed the 1 billion mark, becoming a member of the $1 billion club on the planet that is truly qualified to be called the 'top rich'.

Even though he was a person with a very indifferent view of money before, at this moment, Lin Dong couldn't help but feel that he was no longer interested in money.

To put it bluntly, don't talk about yourself, even if it is your own son and grandson, as long as they don't gamble and don't want to do a career, and be a loser, it really belongs to no matter how you lose.

A little money sighs.

The purse bulged, and Lin Dong was also a little bloody.

In addition to preparing a gift package for everyone in the team to celebrate the previous 34 consecutive wins, I also bought a yacht that my mother missed.

After all, they live on the island, and most families on the Mansha Peninsula have yachts, but the Lin family has not done it, and the yacht dock given away has been empty and has not been taken care of, and it seems that the price is not cheap.

Forget about private jets, you can enjoy it, it's not necessary to be too extravagant.

The end of December is Yuya's birthday, a sports car is just a gift for a small threshold, and then drive a new car and get on a new yacht, and a lingering and unbridled romance on the sea on a moonlit night is the focus of the two like glue.

has known each other for many years, and has been dating for many years, but it has not cooled down the relationship between the two.

In fact, in the past two years, one has been in the professional arena, and the other is still in college, so although they are both in Seattle, most of the time they are less together and more separated.

But it is precisely because of this kind of gathering less and leaving more that the two will always find some changes in each other every time they meet, giving the freshness of love a sufficient shelf life.

Coupled with the cleanliness of the two of them, their calmness in front of each other, and the strict control of Lin Dong's profession in terms of times...... Good guy, that's called a Wushan encounters clouds and rain, and the sky thunders and stirs the earth!

Freshness, as well as sexual passion, this is the best insurance in the love stage, and it is also the easiest to help a couple get through the 'tired period' of boring each other......

The supersonic competition, on the other hand, gradually adapted to the league's new rules for restricting elevator doors and began to get on the right track.

The winning rate is still as high as ever, although it is not as exaggerated as another wave of 34 consecutive wins, but after two consecutive defeats, it was followed by another wave of 9 consecutive wins, and only then did it lose to the Cavaliers, who had already shown the posture of dominance in the East.

Today's Cavaliers have grown a lot compared to last season.

Although he didn't get O'Neal, LeBron gained 15 kilograms in the offseason, and his 206 cm and 116 kilogram figure made him look like an inside giant.

What's even more terrifying is that this guy still maintains his original flexibility and speed under such height and weight conditions, and his dominance over the interior line is comparable to O'Neal when he first joined the league.

What's even worse is that such a guy has the ability to attack independently and has an amazing projection ability!

This season, the 40.7% shooting rate of outside three-point shooting is second only to Lin Dong and other sharpshooters.

This is not the era of the later generations when the three-point shooting rate was more than 40% and grabbed a lot of small balls, and if he could exceed 35%, he was already a first-class shooter in the league, but this interior monster actually has the ability to shoot at the top level in this era......

Gain weight to enhance confrontation, and also have nimble footwork, and even have projection ability that far surpasses O'Neal.

He averaged 29.8 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists, and even 1.8 blocks per game.

LeBron has vaguely qualified to sit alongside Wade for the top spot in the Cavaliers this season and become the hottest star in the East.

Wade is still rising steadily, known as comparable to Iverson's breakthrough ability, comparable to rookie Jordan's scoring ability, and the connection with LeBron to the extreme, with an average of 31.2 points, 8 assists, 1.5 steals per game to be selected as the Eastern Conference Player of the Week several times, and also ranked at the top of this year's regular season MVP selection predictions.

The connection between the two has defeated the Wizards with Yao Ming twice in a row, as well as the Eastern powerhouses Pistons and Nets, etc., and are currently 38-7, ranking first in the East, second only to the SuperSonics' 43-2.

Before this game, there were really not many people who were optimistic about the Cavaliers, although they were very strong, but the strength shown by the supersonic was really terrible.

But......

At 116:98, the Cavaliers beat the SuperSonics.

It's like that, strength on paper doesn't make a difference, the overall state of the SuperSonics is not good, after all, it's hard to really be absolutely focused and committed in every game in a long season.

Of course, these are only objective factors.

There are three real causes of failure.

One is Payton's declining form.

Since the beginning of this season, Payton has actually not played much per game, about 15-25 minutes of average playing time, mainly a protection of the veteran by McMillan, in the case of the SuperSonics can completely control the situation, let Payton rest more, let him save his energy for the playoffs is obviously the most correct choice.

But the long break also kept Payton in a low level of game form, and when it really came time to suddenly pull into the field to get more serious, it was inevitable that he would look tired.

4-of-13 shooting from the field, with a shooting rate of more than 30%, is really a bit stretching for a player of Payton's level.

This made Payton, who had always felt that he was just recuperating and waiting for the playoffs to explode, also secretly broke out in a cold sweat.

Even for a veteran like him, playing too much healthy basketball is not necessarily a good thing...... If you slack off for too long, don't wait for yourself to really want to exert yourself only to find that you can't use it anymore, that's the greatest sorrow.

The second is that Sakuragi Hanamichi's ability to eat cakes is limited.

Since the elevator door was banned, the supersonic have changed some of their playing style, and Sakuragi Hanamichi has also developed from a thorough defensive titan and tactical executor to dominate the basket and eat cakes.

Relying on the perfect reading of Lin Dong's game intentions, when Lin Dong controlled the ball, Sakuragi Hanamichi's ability to eat cakes under the basket was quite strong, which had been confirmed in previous games.

In the face of a heavy interior line, he can win by being flexible, and in the face of a flexible interior line, he can win by strength, and most of the interior lines in this league are misplaced, which makes Sakuragi Hanamichi appear comprehensive.

But this time it was LeBron......

Than flexibility, LeBron is not below him, than strength, LeBron is even better!

Small actions and mentality are new skills that Sakuragi Hanamichi has honed after the last game with the Bobcats, but it is completely useless in front of LeBron, and that guy feels like a stone to Sakuragi Hanamichi, which is completely different from the kind of flamboyance that he used to play at the Nike Summit and the World Youth Championships.

LeBron doesn't say much now, not only is he so cold that it feels outrageous, but he can always make people feel a kind of 'evil aura' emanating from him, especially when encountering supersound, this evil aura is even more obvious.

Frankly, I understand.

After all, Lin Dong blocked his 7-year 90 million contract, which also shattered his self-confidence, and even Sakuragi Hanamichi embarrassed him on the international stage, if you want to say that LeBron has no opinion on these two people at all, then I'm afraid even the Virgin Mary in Notre Dame Cathedral will find it incredible.

This guy, like an Avenger......

Hanamichi Sakuragi, who averaged 15 points and 15 rebounds per game, only got 8 points and 10 rebounds in this game, although it was barely close to a double-double, but compared to his All-Star performance in other games, it was too much worse, and it was also a key to losing.

And the third reason for the rest, Lin Dong feels that it is on himself and his opponent.

Wade has become stronger, and he has become very strong.

Even makes Lin Dong feel that Wade's offensive power and defensive ability have surpassed Jordan now, at least more than Jordan, who thought he was back at the top when he was 40 years old!

Wade in another world didn't get to that point, and that had to do with his final year playing at Marquette University.

Wade, who was in that world, had surgery to remove the meniscus of one of his knees before entering the NBA due to overtraining in his final year of college and a serious injury, but that didn't happen in this world.

Entering the NBA a year early, a more professional trainer and a more attentive health nurse allowed him to avoid that injury that affected him for the rest of his life.

This is a Wade with two meniscus......

As a rookie, Lin Dong has already had a feeling of surpassing and returning to the top Jordan, and frankly speaking, this makes Lin Dong feel a little shocked and excited.

He wondered what a fully healthy Wade could accomplish in the NBA.

Putting aside these speculations about the future, Wade in this game can be said to have successfully restricted Lin Dong for the first time on the defensive end.

Not only did he score less, but his 48.5% shooting rate was also the lowest shooting percentage for Lin Dong this season.

And this data finally made the media and hostile fans who had been waiting to see Lin Dong fall off the altar to a complete climax!

- Asians can't do it anymore! Wade is our true king!

- Take a good look at their skin tones! Wade is Michael Jordan, the true successor of the basketball god!

——MVP！ MVP！ MVP！

The all-night carnival of countless fans of other teams made Lin Dong seem to have been beaten from the pride of the sky to the situation of 'finally showing his feet' overnight.

Fortunately, Nike did emergency public relations, scattered a lot of money, and Lin Dong himself had a large number of fans in the United States, but he easily seized the initiative of public opinion the next day.

There was no danger, but it gave Nike a cold sweat.

But in Lin Dong's opinion, he thinks this is a good thing.

During this time, he was busy with his big contract, and after the big contract, he was somewhat relaxed because of the intoxication of money, either to reward the whole team to buy gifts everywhere, or to buy yachts and sports cars, or to drag Yuya to the sea to turn the clouds and rain...... So much so that I barely trained for the whole month of December.

Frankly speaking, Lin Dong felt that he was slacking off.

Throne?

The throne represents nothing more than mere glory.

In this world, there are countless geniuses who pursue their dreams and basketball, and everyone is staring at the position below your ass all the time.

Whenever you want to move your buttocks, there will be countless people who want to rush towards you, not to mention that you actually want to stand up and loosen your legs and move your muscles?

If you want to really sit in this position, you can't afford to be slack.

The so-called battleground, the throne is like a battlefield, and it is a high-level battlefield of life and death that will never lack challengers!

December has passed, and 04 is quietly coming.

And on January 1st, the yacht on the Mansha Peninsula was locked, and Yuya, who had just eaten the marrow and was studying the new posture with great interest, was also persuaded by Lin Dong to return to school.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, a bicycle and a backpack carried a young man with headphones sped out of the bridge on the Mansha Peninsula.

Facing the cold morning breeze on the bridge, listen to the music in the headphones.

Lin Dong suddenly thought of the picture of getting up at 5 o'clock in Kanagawa to go to Xiangyang School.

He couldn't help but smile and stood up on his bike and pedaled hard.

The quest for the top never ends, even at the end of the world!

At this moment, I was in high spirits and galloping.

(End of chapter)