Nike's advertising call came again, just as Lin Dong had just booked a ticket to Doha early the next morning.

It was after 10 o'clock in the morning, considering that the trip back to the Dragon Kingdom would take a long time and conflict with the shooting time reported by Nike, Lin Dong changed the shooting time to the afternoon of the same day on the phone, and also postponed the ticket to Doha by one day.

Fortunately, Nike already had the idea of shooting the advertisement and formed a team before making the call.

But this temporary change of time still made Nike's side busy for a while, and when Lin Dong flew to Portland in the afternoon, he started filming in full swing.

But how can things that are done in a hurry really go well...... At the beginning of the shooting, there were all kinds of small problems, and I thought it would be done in two or three hours, but it didn't end until after 12 o'clock in the evening.

As a result, Lin Dong had just returned to the hotel, but he received a 'rework notice' from Nike, saying that Phil Knight had rejected the finished film and asked the team to shoot according to Plan B.

Thinking that he had pushed Nike several times, and the ticket had been changed to tomorrow, Lin Dongmian cooperated with him, and it was another toss in the morning, and it was completed in the afternoon.

Lin Dong still has to go back to Seattle, tomorrow morning's flight to Doha, but just rushed to the airport, Nike's 'rework call' came again, and this time it actually demanded that the whole idea be overturned again.

Frankly speaking, if Lin Dong can understand last night's rework, after all, the shooting was too hasty, and there are indeed some flaws that even a layman can see, but after the reshoot this morning, he has to rework, and even requires that even the overall idea be overturned, which is really a bit funny.

You haven't decided on your advertising ideas, why are you looking for me to shoot your hair? I'm a professional wait-in actor at your home, do I just accompany you to shoot commercials when I don't do anything all day?

Lin Dong and Philnet are also very familiar with each other, frankly speaking, for that smile seems to hide a cold old guy, Lin Dong has a natural vigilance and vigilance, he feels that this matter may not be just because of advertising.

And it makes him feel even more that this is because the contract is about to expire, Nike is testing his loyalty, and because the Cavaliers have formed a super team, Nike may even want to give up his disobedient chess piece?

For this, Lin Dong still has a very light share.

Not to mention that he didn't plan to renew his contract with Nike, he was just in urgent need of a fund to help the supersonic team and help him achieve the purpose of using La Liga to train Dragon players.

Now that the Mobius team in La Liga is on the right track, and the SuperSonics have already proven their ability to attract money, there is no need for him to prepare any funds for his mother...... Everyone is just using each other, so there should be a break with Nike.

I may not have the ability to be a chess player in the capital market, but I never want to become a pawn of capital.

"I'm just a player, not an actor, and I've worked well after two shoots." Lin Dong just replied very calmly on the phone: "I have my own business, and the planning of the advertisement is not done by me, and it is your problem if I am not satisfied with it, it has nothing to do with me, I have exceeded the shooting terms required in the contract, as for the advertisement, you can use it or not, whatever!" ”

"In short, don't call me again because of this, otherwise, I will block you!"

…………

In the Asian Championships, as Lin Dong expected, the Dragon Country men's basketball team led by Da Yao had almost no opponents.

In the group stage, he played against Japan once, and unlike the Japanese fans who imagined that the dragon country did not have Lin Dong, the Japanese national team could at least break wrists with the dragon country, Sakuragi Hanamichi and Mori Shigekuan, who returned from La Liga, were still out of disadvantage when facing Yao Ming.

In the NBA, Yao Ming can be restricted to a certain extent, that is because Chandler partners well with him, but Sen Chongkuan, although he has a strong figure of 211 cm and 118 kg, but in terms of strength, height, skills, etc., he is still a big step behind Chandler after all.

What's more, there are roughly and Yi Jianlian in the domestic line of the dragon, and the idea of Japanese fans imagining to seize the inside line and fight a positional battle with the dragon country has not really been realized since the first quarter, but Sakuragi and Morishige were frequently squeezed out of the inside line by Da Yao and roughly teamed up.

In the past, in the NBA, he and others played 2 and 1 to make Da Yao, but now it has become Da Yao looking for a helper to make him 2 and 1...... With 9 points and 7 rebounds, Hanamichi Sakuragi handed over this report card is obviously far from what Japanese fans expect from him.

On the contrary, it was Kaede Rukawa's outside three-pointers who shone in this game.

13 of 16 shots in the game, including 11 three-pointers, made Sun Yue, who was responsible for defending Rukawa Kaede, feel a little doubtful about life.

After all, everyone has known each other for a long time, when he was at Lloyd, Rukawa Kaede was an absolute rookie who was kept 10:0 clean sheets by him every time, but today he actually threw 11 three-pointers on his head!

Does the NBA exercise people do this?

Sun Yue felt a little itchy more and more, but unfortunately Aoshen didn't let go, and his contract with Aoshen still has a year to expire, I hope I can catch up with next year's NBA draft, if I don't go again, it's almost over the draft age......

Thanks to Rukawa Kaede's magical play, the game was stalemate until the third quarter, and the final score was 109:93.

And this, probably is also a true demonstration of the strength of the two sides, with Japan only losing one game to the Dragon Country, ranking second in Group A, it is estimated that the final finals will be another battle with the Dragon Kingdom.

In the past few days from the 2nd to the 4th, Lin Dong has watched not only this game, but also a few others.

Asian basketball in another world, before 2000, was almost always ruled by East Asian countries, and the three countries were basically the champions, runners-up and runners-up.

After 2000, in addition to the dragon country is still the only one, Japan and South Korea have actually gone downhill for more than ten years in another world, but it is the rise of strong teams in Middle Eastern countries, such as Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, and the Philippines.

But when the butterfly effect of his own crossing was spread from Japan and the Dragon Kingdom, it had greatly changed history.

Japan defeated Lebanon 121-96 and Dragon defeated Qatar 116-82......

It's not that Lebanon and Qatar are weak, you must know that in the 05 Asian Championships in another world, Lebanon and Qatar were the runners-up and third runners-up, and they once forced the Dragon National Men's Basketball Team to a desperate situation that year.

Can ...... now Da Yao's early evolution and even surpassed the level of the peak of history, obviously let the Dragon Country men's basketball team have a great ceiling improvement, especially in terms of physical fitness, after suffering from Sakuragi and others in the NBA before he was strictly defended and consumed, Da Yao's physical fitness is stronger than another world, and he is high-energy throughout the whole game when he plays Qatar, and he almost doesn't sweat much.

And Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue and others are still a little bit behind the pinnacle of another world, but at least they are much stronger than them in that world in 05, which obviously benefits from Lin Dong's guidance, and also thanks to the experience of the Olympic runner-up, etc., making this dragon team in Asia is simply a complete crushing posture.

Not to mention the dragon country, Japan, which has two NBA players, Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede, as well as La Liga members such as Mori Shigekuan and Sendo, is currently showing a level of disconnection from other teams in the Asian Championships.

Let's put it this way, Japan's level now sweeps almost every other team in Asia except for Dragongoku, and it can force Ryukoku to take it seriously......

The basketball world of the Dragon Kingdom is naturally jubilant about this, after all, it has won the Olympic runner-up, and its vision has become different, but it is inevitable that there will be some pride and arrogance because of this.

- We are also the strongest basketball empire in the world!

Such slogans have been publicly shouted in the media on more than one occasion, and even more so on the Internet.

And Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue and others, this year's progress is already very small compared to before participating in the Olympics, and even makes Lin Dong feel that they are still standing still.

In fact, everyone usually talks on the phone, Lin Dong feels that the mentality of these young people is not too much of a problem, and they also want to improve, but the environment is not strong.

The overall level of CBA is still too poor, and the training cannot fully keep up with the world's most advanced level.

To be honest, in this context, Lin Dong actually hopes that the Dragon Country men's basketball team will lose one game in the Asian Championships, which will wake up the basketball association.

My goal is the 08 Olympics, and that will be when I and Da Yao are at the peak of our bodies and mentality, and if we want to be an Olympic champion, there is only one chance!

But the gap between the Dragon National Men's basketball team and the United States team still exists, if the whole country is immersed in the title of 'strongest' and does not want to forge ahead, Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue and other young players also want to stand still, then maybe the 08 Olympics will become their biggest regret.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Basketball Association is also in Doha in the past few days, Lin Dong talked to Lao Li, and still hopes that the Basketball Association will make efforts to let Zhu Fangyu and Sun Yue and other young people go to the NBA or La Liga to play as soon as possible, but the result is undoubtedly disappointing.

It's not that Lao Li has changed or is short-sighted, but these changes involve the vital interests of the CBA teams and even the league itself.

can only wait for the expiration of Sun Yue's contract with Ao Shen next summer, and as for Zhu Fangyu and Yi Jianlian, they will have to wait until the end of next year.

Lao Li's trick to Lin Dongzhi is to let him pay more attention to youth training, start from youth training to pick people, and if there are really good seedlings, just poach them directly.

The domestic environment and conditions are like this now, and it will not be so easy for the world to change anything, if you really want to do something, then you can only come with the attitude of competing with it, not with the attitude that I want to break all the unreasonable and conventional.

It's just basketball, and it's not really a revolution, you have to be gentle and follow the laws of the market......

originally wanted to persuade Lao Li, but Lao Li taught him a lesson, and Lin Dong was also a little crying and laughing.

Fortunately, Xu Yong and Chen Jianghua made rapid progress in Europe during this time, let go of some of their selfishness of wanting to win the 08 Olympic championship, and started from the youth training to help the Longguo men's basketball team, and planned in the long run...... Lin Dong now feels more and more that this may be the best way out for Dragon Country basketball.

As the saying goes, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and it is said that the water must be straight to the bridge, so it is better to go with the flow.

I spent a few days in Doha, and then I went to Xiangjiang to shoot a movie.

I have seen a lot of stars who were once familiar on TV, compared with the entertainment trend in the mainland in later generations, these film and television stars in Xiangjiang are undoubtedly real actors in Lin Dong's opinion.

Very professional and funny, almost no one will put up any shelves on the scene, play any big names, and after finishing work, they will take Lin Dong to the food stalls outside to eat roadside stalls, these so-called stars just regard making movies as a profession, in fact, they are no different from ordinary people.

Of course, it can't be ruled out that 'because the object is a bigger star of their own', it seems that they have no shelf.

Due to the need to accommodate Lin Dong's time, the past few days have been filming around Lin Dong's ten-minute scenes, and the main venues are concentrated in the arena, so it is inevitable that there will be some wonderful dunk performances, and they will also be edited into the film as tidbits.

Lin Dong feels that he is the type who has no talent for acting, but after all, he is not stupid, with the hand-in-hand teaching of a big man like Stephen Chow, who is known as the top acting officer in Xiangjiang, the finished film still makes Lin Dong feel very interesting, and he can't see anything about the play.

And the stars who mingle up and down make the shooting on the set not boring.

This should have been a very interesting experience, but unfortunately the bad news from Seattle came one after another, but Lin Dong really couldn't bring up the mood of 'enjoying this special experience'.

On the third day of filming, the first bad news came from Seattle.

The contract with Nash was not negotiated.

Bob intends to tentatively give an offer of 45 million for 5 years, compared to Nash's normal salary increase, which is completely worthy of his bird rights and the status of the best offensive team this year, and it is also to leave a negotiator for the SuperSonics themselves, according to the results of the previous discussions with Yang Dong, the SuperSonics can give up to 60 million for 5 years.

Unexpectedly, when the supersonic was still negotiating the price and operating space, Nash's ownership had been directly settled with a speed that made the supersonic jaw-dropping.

The Mavericks signed and traded, first giving Nash a five-year, $45 million contract, and then packing this contract with the team's Shaun Bradley to the Lakers in exchange for their backup center Brian Grant.

The supersonic side has just prepared to make an offer, but Nash has already formed a super luxury chariot in the west with Yao Ming, Kobe, and Odom......

This is only the first month of the trade market, according to normal circumstances, and it is not in the free market, if a player with bird rights wants to complete the trade, it is not a matter between teams and players, but between teams and teams, the exchange and balance of interests between various teams, and it is usually not the first month to negotiate the result.

And players like Nash who are sought-after and willing to trade, the team that makes the offer after often has more advantages, which is the main reason why the SuperSonics dare to spend a few days discussing slowly, and want to see what other teams have offered Nash first.

But...... But how can you just talk about it in one wave?

Moreover, it still let Nash go to the Lakers!

This is already the worst possible outcome for supersound.

You must know that in last season's Western Finals, the supersonic game against the Lakers seemed easy on the surface, but in fact, it was to pinch the Lakers' ball-handler, so that the Lakers could not be formed on the offensive end.

Who is Kenash? Last season's assist list was second only to Lin Dong, a demonic passing master!

Just imagine if the Lakers were in possession of Nash instead of the hapless Atkins in the Western Conference finals last season, then Sakuragi Hanamichi was afraid that he would not be able to limit Nash's passing at all, pinching the Lakers' offensive system, Yao Ming Gaodum and Grant's interior combination is still stable supersonic, then maybe the final result is to force Lin Dong to fight with the Lakers to score, it is really hard to say whether he wins or loses, and it is impossible to be easily beaten 4:0 by the supersonics. This is actually the same reason as the knights have more Kidd......

Nash + Kobe + Yao Ming + Odom, this is another Knight copy of the F4 battleship!

Bob felt a deep sense of despair.

The teams on the outside are constantly reinforcing ...... No, this is no longer called reinforcement, but group strengthening! But what about supersonic? The SuperSonics didn't even have a first-round pick this year, and they were used to trade Battier in the millennium, and now the lineup is intact, and Payton is still old!

This......

But fans across the United States are crazy.

Everyone can see that these deals are aimed at the SuperSonics' fourth consecutive championship, and apart from the complaints from Seattle fans who question whether the deal is compliant, the fans in other places who have been suffering from the 'SuperSonics for a long time' are all happy.

And just when the supersonic has not digested this 'bad news', the Lakers' riot operation has arrived.

They then traded Sean Bradley from the Trail Blazers for the Lakers' former veteran: Nick Van Exel.

As a player selected by the Lakers in the second round of the 93 draft, Van Exel's entire career is actually not very exciting, after playing for the Lakers for a few seasons, he has been going to the Nuggets, Mavericks, Warriors and Trail Blazers, except for a highlight season with the Mavericks who averaged 21 points per game, most of the time he is a blue-collar player who averages 13 or 4 points per game.

If you only look at the score, you can't see how much potential the quarterback has, but if you look at the way he scores......

In the past, Van Exel was the standard No. 2 position, and his style of play was mainly based on breakthroughs, but now after entering the 30-year-old mark, Van Exel's last season was uncharacteristically shooting 3 points, and it was quite accurate!

Eight 3-pointers per game put him in a tie for fourth place on the single-game 3-point list last season, and his 12.6 points per game were almost all from 3-pointers.

Yes, this guy was in the Trail Blazers last season, with a pitiful number of breakaways, and a 51.6% 3-point shooting rate, which is also among the best in the league, but his salary last season was only 1.15 million veteran base salary.

When it comes to Kobe Bryant, who has a passing master like Nash, Yao Ming and Odom dominate the interior, and has an inside and outside shot as a filler, what the Lakers lack most is not a forward, but a stable outside shooter.

The Lakers can get such an outside shooter with a 2-year 3 million contract, which is simply a tiger with wings, and the 1.5 million contract that year also leaves a lot of room for the Lakers' already stretched salary cap, so that they may even further strengthen the defensive end on the basis of the 3rd luxury tax......

It's just that there is a Cavaliers in the East, and there is one more Lakers in the West.

Frankly, Lin Dong feels that this Lakers team is even stronger than the Cavaliers.

Yao Ming and Kobe's will to fight is inevitably above the Cavaliers' gang, as for Nash...... The 05 and 06 seasons in history are the real years of the Wind Child, and the Wind Son won the regular season MVP in these two seasons, which is the pinnacle of Nash's career! There are even many Nash fans who simply call these two years 'Nash years'.

The peak Nash, with the peak Kobe and Yao Ming, and even Odom, who is known as the most well-rounded player in the NBA, is at the peak of his prime.

Isn't such a Laker stronger than the old and small Cavaliers?

This is an F4 is not enough insurance, and there is another rhythm that stands in the way? This shows that what you are doing is supersound!

Even though he has always been as stable as Lin Dong, he couldn't stay in Xiangjiang, urging Stephen Chow to catch up with the construction deadline and decide to return to Seattle two days early.

Speaking of his biggest goal as an Olympic champion, he doesn't seem to care too much about the NBA championship, but that's just talk.

Four consecutive championships, truly surpassing Jordan's historical status, these two words are still quite attractive to Lin Dong.

However, unlike Bob and McMillan's sighs, Lin Dong felt a kind of excitement.

The excitement I haven't felt since winning the championship in my debut season.

Let the Cavaliers and Lakers form two F4s, and the supersonic will be out of play?

No...... This supersonic team has been very mature and perfect, and the tacit understanding and coordination within the team have reached a real peak, and he has not really worked hard in the past two seasons, because it is too easy to win, and he does not need to work hard at all.

Crisis? Something that doesn't exist.

What about two F4s? Lin Dong even felt that such a game might be really interesting.

It's just that the NBA is changing, and it's not like a thing to stay in this arena every day to chat and fart with a bunch of entertainment stars, and it's not because I'm worried about anything, but because I can't wait to get everyone back quickly, start special training, start studying those two teams, and start to really make an effort for this season's four consecutive championships.

But just when he booked his ticket back to Seattle the next day on July 25, another news that really made Lin Dong feel a little hit and crisis also followed.

…………

Seattle, WA......

Two days ago, on July 23rd.

The team is in the offseason, and most of the SuperSonics have chosen to travel with their families.

Lin Dong returned to the Dragon Kingdom, Sakuragi went to Japan, Iguodala returned to Illinois, and even Chandler returned to his hometown of California.

There are not many players who choose to stay in Seattle, and Sean Battier is one of them, mainly because he has just talked about his girlfriend and has not had much money in his pocket.

In fact, Battier's family conditions are quite good, born in a middle-class American family, and he has been materially superior since he was a child, but his father is in the Internet industry, and the cold winter of the Internet industry in the past few years has made his father bear a lot of debts.

Although the rookie contract expires this year, on the supersonic side, Bob has also negotiated a 3-year 15 million middle-class contract with him, as long as he waits until the beginning of August to renew the contract, he can get rid of the previous financial difficulties in one fell swoop.

As for the present......

Thanks to a good tutor since childhood, Battier does not have the vices of most players, he does not eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and since he has no money in his pocket, he honestly reads books in his rented home in Seattle in the offseason, cultivates his sentiments, sublimates his soul, and recuperates his body by the way, which is good.

After reading a book all morning, Battier decided to go for a meal with Peyton, who called yesterday to say that it was nice to have a new Chinese restaurant on the Clyde Hill side......

As soon as I picked up the phone, I was still pressing the number, and another call came in.

Glancing at the caller ID, Battier happily picked it up: "Hi, Bill! Is there anything good? ”

The answer on the other end of the phone was a hearty laugh, with infinite pleasure: "Of course there are good things, I found you a big contract." ”

"Endorsement?" Battier's spirits were lifted.

Bill Duffy is his agent, he operated the supersonic when he came to the first place, and he also negotiated Nike's big contract, this guy is Battier's God of Wealth, and for Battier now, there is nothing better than making money.

“NONONO！” Bill said with a smile: "Player contract, 3 years 18 million, go to the Cavaliers, are you at home in Seattle now?" Go straight to the airport, I've bought you a ticket to fly to Cleveland, 3:40 p.m., ......"

"Wait! Wait a minute! Battier was stunned, and after two or three seconds of reflection, he quickly stopped the other party: "What knight to go?" Bob and I have already talked about ......"

"1500 in 3 years and 18 million in 3 years, you are a fool and you can't count?" Bill said: "Lola Ballmer is already waiting for you, I'm here too, you get off the plane in the evening, and we can sign the contract!" ”

Battier was stunned for a while: "This—this is too sudden...... Why didn't you say it beforehand? And, moreover...... And I don't want to leave the supersonic for a while either! ”

"Want your first triple crown?"

"Who wouldn't want that?"

"This year's Cavaliers and Lakers are the hegemons of next season, this is not only two strong teams, they even have the entire league and fans all over the United States standing behind them, this is something that anyone can see, even if you stay in the SuperSonics, you will not be able to win your three consecutive championships."

"But, but, ......" Battier frowned, he knew the current situation of supersound, and the alliance's targeting had long been revealed.

"Reluctant to let go of your little teammates?" Bill smiled on the phone and said, "I think you're emotional." ”

"Say whatever you want...... But which team to go to, shouldn't you, the agent, also discuss it with me first? How can there be ......?"

"Okay Sean, I'll tell you the truth, that's what Phil Knight meant, he communicated with me personally." Bill said: "The five-year, 30 million contract that Nike gave you, you don't really think that Nike is interested in your influence in the basketball world, right?" ”

"From the day you signed that contract, you have been part of Nike's counterbalance to Lin Dong, and Nike is now very dissatisfied with Lin Dong, they don't want him to continue the four consecutive championships, and you, you have to leave the supersonics, this is what Phil Knight meant."

"If you insist, if you have to insist on staying in the supersounds, then what awaits you will not be the nagging of my agent, but the representative of Nike, and even their legal team, the contract that you gave you at the beginning has a lot of terms that are beneficial to Nike's decision, if you don't listen to them, then Nike has a way to pick out the bones in the eggs in the contract, and then sue you for breach of contract, a contract of 30 million for 5 years, and you will never be able to afford liquidated damages."

Bill said a lot until he silenced Battier completely.

"It's 13:20, it's about 40 minutes from your home to the airport, and the flight is 3:40, and I can give you an hour to think about it." Bill said lightly: "Remember, go to the Cavaliers, you have a chance to win the championship, and you can also have food and clothing, but if you choose to stay in the supersonics...... Think about the picture of your father carrying debts all these years, do you want to relive it? Or even ten times more than that. ”

"Also, as far as I know, it's not just you who Nike wants to dismantle, but also Sakuragi Hanamichi, which is also under Nike, next season's supersonic speed will not be complete, and Lin Dong wants to win the championship? Hehe......"

"Don't make unwise choices, don't let me down!"

Doodoo ......

The phone was busy for a long time, and Battier sat there in such a daze, almost forgetting the time.

It took a long time for him to re-dial Bill's phone.

"As long as I'm not in hypersound, right?" Battier asked.

"That's what Nike means, but for you, the knight is the best choice."

"No, I'm not going to the knight either." Battier said: "You can help me find another team, whatever the team." ”

The other end of the phone was stunned: "Why?" ”

"......" Battier muttered for a long time: "I just don't want to go to a team that regards the supersonic as an enemy or even an enemy from top to bottom, and I don't want to help them win the supersonic." ”

"I'm sorry, but my education since childhood has made it difficult for me to put the word betrayal in my dictionary, and of course, I have to survive...... You can arrange the rest, and I can go anywhere. ”

"Also...... I want to tell you that the supersonic can't be dispersed, and without me, they will still win the championship, don't believe it...... We'll see! ”

(End of chapter)