One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty. The Road to Godhood Is Not Just About Achievements on the Court
During this year's draft, the most eye-catching team was undoubtedly the Nets.
Although the Nets' selection of Porzingis has been criticized, once Anthony leaves, the only players in the Nets' lineup with a salary of more than $5 million are left, including Lopez and Garrett Jack, who are waiting for freedom. The market is open. After the Nets signed Larry Sanders, the total salary was only more than 44 million US dollars, and there was still room for a maximum salary!
It is almost universally acknowledged that the Nets are losing money at this stage, but if they can make a difference in the free market this year or next year, the Nets' prospects are not bad!
Some people even think that after Ballmer took charge of the Nets, he quickly turned a dead end into a smooth start.
Indeed, many people feel that it is a good move to send Anthony away now that he has trade value. Anthony is already 31 years old. Last season, Anthony showed a significant decline compared to the previous season, and it is no longer possible to use Anthony as the core. Build a team and get the second pick... Although Nets fans are reluctant to let go of Anthony, the former superstar, it is generally recognized that the Nets stopped their losses in time, but many Anthony fans are dissatisfied.
It's just that with the second pick, Okafor, Russell, and Hezonja were not selected, and Porzingis, who almost no one knew, was selected... This made the Nets' draft vision questionable.
Another team that caused a little stir, the Grizzlies finally selected Nance Jr., and received good evaluations after the draft - they selected a suitable athletic big man.
The Grizzlies have always done a good job in drafting. They used the 22nd pick in the first round to select a rookie who was predicted to be at the end of the first round or at the beginning of this round. The loss is not particularly large. If he is selected, he can stay in the NBA. If you rotate players, you will make money.
There are 60 players selected every year, and probably less than half of them can finish their rookie contracts without being laid off. In some years when the draft market is not good, many second-round picks are not able to get contracts.
Generally speaking, it is still the winner theory. Some people always think that the Grizzlies picked up the treasure in advance. The reason is naturally that the Grizzlies have been very good in this area since trading back to Sun Ce.
And many teams are seen as getting a bargain, with several rookies who were originally in the middle of the first round falling to the end of the first round...
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“Point guard, it’s me and no one else;
Shooting guard, Buddha and Teacher Tony, Flyer, this position has not changed much;
As for the small forward, there is only Pickled Pepper;
At the power forwards, the Black Bears, Yi Muhualian, Nance Jr., and Aldridge are all strong, and they can also play center;
Center, Gobert..."
Sun Ce took a look at his lineup. He has a heavy task this summer!
Blake, Richard Jefferson, and Stoudemire have all chosen to retire. Maybe someone will find a chance to play again because they have no money, but now they have all told the Grizzlies management to retire.
Livingston's market price is around 6 million, and he probably won't be able to sign him back.
For their current lineup, their salary has reached 110.066 million U.S. dollars. Of course, Klay Thompson and Aldridge must complete their contract extensions. These two people have more than 34 million U.S. dollars...
Currently, the team is short of 5 players and has a mini-middle class available. Sun Ce doesn't know how the management can put together a 15-man roster.
Fortunately, after the finals, the feedback from the free market has been good, and their current lineup, excluding Nance Jr., has a stable and strong core lineup that is attractive enough to veterans.
What needs to be added is the rotation of the lineup, so don't be too anxious, take your time, choose slowly. If necessary, someone from his family can help. For example, when recruiting Nash and Carter, the effect may not be good or not, but he is willing to do it anyway. .
Therefore, Sun Ce has nothing to worry about the team's operation. It is estimated that a bunch of veterans will line up to come over in the summer, and the situation will definitely be very different from the situation after winning the championship for the first time.
After the draft, Sun Ce went to participate in the meeting between his negotiating team and Nike. The negotiation regarding the matter that Nike raised before was nearing completion.
Sun Ce participated in the meeting,
He just listened, and he didn’t know the market as the professionals under John and Bill Duffy did. Finally, at the last meeting on the morning of the 30th, on the day when the second-generation boots were about to be announced, an agreement was reached!
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Every time AJ releases a new product endorsed by a star, it will arouse the attention of sneaker collectors. Sun Ce's three first-generation boots are very successful, with cumulative sales in North America reaching US$600 million in two years. If you only look at this past In the most recent year, Sun Ce's sneaker sales ranked first in North America, more than 10 million US dollars higher than James.
Today is the day of the new product launch conference that AJ has announced long ago, which naturally attracted the attention of sneaker enthusiasts and Sun Ce fans.
However, at 10 o'clock in the morning, Nike and AJ jointly issued an announcement, which caused a shock in the basketball world!
Nike and AJ jointly announced that the second generation of Sun Ce's North American Lords boots, Asia-Pacific Overlord boots, and World Edition New Era boots will become the last versions of AJ's three boots.
In the next two years, the research and development of Sun Ce's shoes will not stop, but the ownership of Sun Ce's sneaker endorsement will be jointly owned by AJ and AJ's parent company Nike, and a new brand will be established, named after Sun Ce's North American version of Lord's boots - —Air-Overlord, the next shoe is called Air-Overlord-new-, which is the new generation of Overlord. The Asia-Pacific version and the World version of the boots will also use the previous name and the new naming method.
The preparations for the new brand will be launched quickly, and the progress of the preparations for the new brand will be announced in the next two years, including the new logo design, etc.
The three combat boots released today are the last generation of AJ, and will stop shipping on December 31, 2016, becoming out-of-print combat boots.
The so-called out-of-print... means that there will be replicas in the future. Sneaker collectors know this, but there are always some differences between the replica and the original, such as craftsmanship, new technology, etc.
Nike and AJ's operation has made the popularity of the new product launch at 7 o'clock tonight unprecedentedly high!
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The new product launch went smoothly. Sun Ce had already had this experience, so this time he just had to read the script.
This is not a basketball court, nor is it a discussion about basketball. Sun Ce did everything according to instructions and successfully completed the display of the new product launch. The subsequent interviews were also official answers.
The series of events at the new product launch ended in the early morning, and Sun Ce and Bill Duffy's team and John's team still held a celebration banquet.
It took three weeks of negotiations to finally complete the deal.
According to the agreement reached, Sun Ce will grant Nike the right to use the three trademarks he owns for life, and the right to use his portrait and image in sports products...
The endorsement contract signed before remains the same. After the contract expires, Sun Ce has the right to renegotiate or directly extend the contract at the original price.
As for the new sneaker brand, Sun Ce enjoys the right to dividends. The dividend ratio will be calculated according to the length of Sun Ce's NBA career, and it is calculated based on the season in which he is selected as an All-Star starter. Every time Sun Ce is selected as an All-Star starter, the sales dividend will increase by 0.3%.
Originally, Nike proposed to give Sun Ce a profit dividend of 1% for each All-Star starter, but the final negotiation result was a sales dividend of 0.3%.
The two are almost incomparable. The latter is a sales dividend like Jordan, which is much better than profit dividends.
Just like in 2014, AJ's total sales reached more than 2.9 billion US dollars, and Jordan took 5% of the sales, taking more than 100 million. If the net profit was distributed according to 15%, AJ's net profit in the financial report that year would be 400 million US dollars, which is a huge difference.
Such a contract can be signed because Sun Ce's position in the Asian basketball world is not weaker than Jordan's in the North American basketball world.
Therefore, Nike originally gave them a similar offer to Jordan in the 1990s. If Sun Ce played for 15 years and started in the All-Star Game every year, he could also get more than 15% of the profit dividend.
But who made Sun Ce popular? In the end, it was negotiated to be a sales dividend.
In terms of global influence, there is still a gap between Sun Ce and Jordan. How much money can be earned depends on Sun Ce himself. Nike also hopes that Sun Ce will be more popular, because they will definitely make the most money.
However, there is also an agreement that before Sun Ce retires, part of the sales dividend will be temporarily stored in Nike's foundation, and will be settled to Sun Ce after retirement. The interests generated by this money during this period will naturally belong to Nike's foundation.
For example, from July 2017 to June 2018, if Sun Ce has been selected as an All-Star starter, then Sun Ce's All-Star start number will reach 9 times, and Sun Ce will receive a dividend of 2.7% of the sales of the new brand's new combat boots that year; from July 2018 to June 2019, if Sun Ce is still selected as an All-Star starter, the dividend for that year will reach 3% of the sales, and so on.
If other spokespersons are signed at that time, just like AJ signed him, Sun, the sales will also be included.
These details have not been made public, just like Jordan's former agent revealed some details of the year a few years ago.
However, even if the details have not been revealed, it has caused a shock in the basketball world! Sun Ce is the second basketball player to receive this honor!
Moreover, without revealing the details, the media and fans can also speculate based on the news that Jordan has revealed, which is not known to be true or false. For a time, Sun Ce's popularity, which has just dropped, has soared again!
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While the heat was rising again, Sun Ce set off from New York to London to start a business trip.
After a dreamlike schedule, Sun Ce became the first player who could catch up with Jordan in the true sense. If he wanted to catch up with Jordan, he had to have such a dreamy season, and he had to surpass the former and do better.
And Sun Ce really did it last season! So it was generally recognized at that time that he, Sun, had established his godhood and was on the road to becoming the new god of basketball. As for whether he could become a god, it depended on whether he had enough hard honors.
The number of dynasties, the number of data kings, the number of MVPs, the number of FMVPs... none of them can be missing!
But this is just catching up with Jordan. If he really wants to be on par with Jordan, he must also keep up with the influence off the court. In this regard, Nike first helped Sun Ce add fuel to the fire!