Three Hundred and Fifty-Eight. Why Are They All Insiders?

Hearing that Bill Duffy said that the team supported him to go out to explain the game and let him lose two days of training, Sun Ce felt very sad.

If you work too hard these years, you will be disliked by the coaching staff for practicing too much?

In fact, no wonder the coaching staff, Gilbert Arenas was also very hardworking back then. Although he was not as hardworking as Sun Ce after the game, he was definitely among the top ten or even top five in the league.

As a result, I practiced myself.

Sun Ce's training intensity is not the highest, but the training time...is scary!

Sun Ce is approaching the last month of the regular season, and he can still be released to toss other teams...

The commentary fee of 35,000 U.S. dollars per game also includes round-trip air tickets and hotels. Sun Cequan should travel for a day before entering April.

If you have money, you can still go on TV...

This kind of thing makes the teammates envious!

If they can earn $30,000 in commenting a game after retiring... I don't know how happy they will be.

Ninety percent of NBA players are unemployed after retirement, and the vast majority of retired players who can find jobs are generally scouts, coaches, management and commentators.

Barkley's one-year commentary income has just reached $3 million. Although it is higher than his salary when he played in the past, it is really not high among current players.

Barkley is basically the most popular and paid basketball commentator, and he is not paid as much as the middle-level contract in the NBA.

However, Barkley is already in the 1980s and early 1990s, except for super popular superstars such as Magic Bird Joe, who entered the NBA very well.

Most of the stars went bankrupt not long after retiring. Pi Erye earned more than 50 million after tax in his career salary, and more than 15 million in endorsement income. Not long after he retired, he was cheated of more than 40 million...

With the development of the times, the current stars are much better at financial management than most of the stars in the 80s and 90s.

The main reason is that the salaries of players suddenly skyrocketed at that time. In the 1980s, the magician only earned more than 1 million US dollars a year, and Jordan only had a salary of 2 million US dollars. In the era, the salary cap of only 1.9 million dollars when the Magic Bird entered the NBA, to the end of the Magic Bird era, the salary cap of the 1989-1990 season has exceeded 10 million.

When Jordan's first three consecutive championships and the Barcelona Olympics pushed the NBA to the world,

In the 1995-1996 season when Jordan returned after his first retirement, he signed a 20-year high-value live broadcast agreement, and the salary cap doubled again, reaching more than 24 million US dollars.

At this time, any All-Star will have a starting salary of seven to eight million dollars, and if you give three to five million dollars, other All-Star level players will not sign with you, let alone a long-term contract, except for Pi Erye...

At this time, the players began to drift away. Many of them didn't know how to play and suddenly their salaries increased by ten times.

The iconic figure is Rainman Kemp, whose salary in the first seven years of his career totaled 8 million dollars. In 1997, he got a 7-year 84 million contract, and his salary skyrocketed tenfold. Then he gave birth to a bunch of children, retired and went bankrupt.

Because the salary is much higher than in the 1970s and 1980s, many players in the 1970s and 1980s are already ready to work after retirement.

But after the salary skyrocketed, who would think about that? Most players have no jobs after retiring from the game, and before graduating from college, they will become millionaires or even multi-millionaires directly after entering the society. They have no ability to survive except playing football...

The situation has improved a lot in the past few years. The stars have become accustomed to such a high income, and social media is more developed. It’s not like at that time, a random financial agent just came and deceived them.

Of course, there are also cases where two No. 21s were cheated by the same agent...

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Sun Ce arrived in Charlotte from Memphis the next morning.

How close is Memphis to Charlotte?

Anyway, it is much closer than the black iron triangle formed by the Rockets, Spurs, Mavericks and New Orleans. Tennessee is not even adjacent to Texas and Louisiana.

Instead, it is adjacent to North Carolina, where Charlotte is located.

Sun Ce feels that the Grizzlies should be in the East, so that they can compete with the Eagles for the third place in the East. What a cool team in the first half of the playoffs!

Arrived at the Charlotte Douglas Military and Civilian Airport and met people from T.N.T TV Station and came to T.N.T's branch in Charlotte.

"Noah, this is our branch in Charlotte. It's very close to the Bobcats stadium, closer than other TV stations. Let's shoot the video of the promotional advertisement that will be launched at noon..."

Come to the T.N.T branch building...a seven-story building, which is the tallest building in their area.

"Is it close? Great, Bill told me that the traffic here is troublesome." Sun Ce breathed a sigh of relief. When Bill Duffy contacted him last night, he was most worried about the problem of driving.

"Yes, it's very close. It takes us 90 minutes to go to the Bobcats Arena."

"Oh... that's pretty close... what? Ninety minutes?"

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Every time he comes to Charlotte, Sun Ce feels that this place is really magical.

In this city and even in the entire state of North Carolina, more than 60% of the population is engaged in agriculture, even more so in Charlotte. According to statistics in 2009, Charlotte has a population of more than 700,000, and there are almost 500,000 farmers. There are only 250,000 people, and these farmers are richer than expected. The dream of most urban residents here is to earn enough money to buy a farm.

Correspondingly, the city is extremely small, and the urban area is highly dispersed. The biggest feature is that more than half of the 250,000 people who work in the entire city work in banks. Because the urban area is scattered, sometimes there are several banks in one block, or even one Situations where the block has more bank employees than customers.

However, it is very profitable to open a bank here, because American farmers are high-income groups, and they cannot be farmers without money. Whether it is loan interest income or deposit absorption, Charlotte ranks among the top in the United States.

The basketball market here is also very good. Regardless of the small population in the city, the attendance rate of basketball games is very high. There is a super-popular NCAA team from North Carolina, and the Bobcats were also a strong team in the 1990s.

Since the home court of the Bobcats was rebuilt in 2002, it was chosen near the Outlet Plaza near the Catawba River with the most traffic in Charlotte.

The old arena is almost in the easternmost part of Charlotte, where hundreds of farmers’ markets gathered there. Now the center of Charlotte has moved to the west near the Catawba River, and that canal can lead directly to the east coast. Charleston, now Charlotte's agricultural products, light industry, and textile exports all go out from here, so it has become the financial center of North Carolina.

And these TV stations are all around the old arena of the Charlotte Hornets, and they are purely self-built buildings, and they can’t be moved if they want to move. The agricultural land in the United States is extremely expensive, especially in Charlotte. This kind of agricultural city.

One east and one west, an hour and a half drive...

That's fast in the eyes of Charlotte's sports-television staff, and it takes ESPN two hours to get to Bobcats Arena.

This makes Sun Ce, who can run to the arena in Memphis in ten minutes, feel unacceptable.

But with 35,000...be patient!

This is much higher than the salary of playing games.

Followed the staff to shoot the promotional video, as well as the lottery advertisement.

The prize is the reissue of Air-Jordan-X China Red, endorsed by Sun Ce. T.N.T invited Sun Ce, which has a lot to do with Ai Zhui sponsoring the Bobcats live broadcast.

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When it was time for lunch, Sun Ce and the producer came to a well-known family restaurant in Charlotte. The T.N.T gold medal basketball commentary team, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith came.

Kenny Smith seems to be very disgusted, and Barkley is holding a shopping bag from a dessert shop, a very huge kind.

Barkley warmly came up to hug Sun Ce: "Noah, oh, my friend, I finally see you."

Another fat man!

Why does Sun Ce feel that no matter where he goes, there is a fat man?

After a greasy hug, this guy was a lot bigger than the current O'Neill. Sun Ce resisted the urge to complain, and said politely, "Hello, Mr. Barkley, it's an honor to meet you."

"Noah, you don't need to call him narrowly victorious, just call him Fu Naipige," Kenny Smith next to him cut decisively, and came up to shake hands with Sun Ce to lose: "I'm Kenny Smith."

"Damn alcoholic, I call plump!" Barkley yelled angrily, and then handed the shopping bag in his hand to Sun Ce: "Noah, this is my meeting gift, the dessert from my favorite dessert shop here in Charlotte." Donuts."

Donuts... Sun Ce thought of Anthony's donuts, and he was always wondering whether the reward was a donut, or did it taste like a donut?

But Sun Ce was a little confused, why is this fat man so enthusiastic?

Or are all fat people so enthusiastic?

Seeing Sun Ce's confusion, Kenny Smith said, "Noah, you don't know, because you upset Jordan. This guy Charles fell in love with you and said he wanted to be your brother. This guy is really shameless. It doesn't matter how old you are." Know? He is probably older than your father..."

Listening to Kenny Smith's words, why does Sun Ce feel that Kenny Smith's mouth is so poisonous? Attack two people at once!

When I watched the T.N.T live broadcast, I always felt that Barkley was inexplicably angry. Now I finally understand that Barkley often talks nonsense and makes himself miserable, which is stimulated by Kenny Smith.

I can't feel it when I watch the live broadcast, I just feel that Barkley is the protagonist, making things crazy.

But now I know that Kenny Smith is the one in control...

Sun Ce accepted Barkley's gift and returned the donuts to Randolph. That guy likes these...

Regardless of the reason why Barkley has such enthusiasm and affection for him, Sun Ce thinks it is not a bad thing!

This guy is one of the most versatile power forwards in NBA history. His scoring, rebounding, and passing are top-notch. The MVP season averaged 25 points, 12 rebounds, and 5 assists per game...

Make a good relationship, if you have a chance, ask for advice...

Chatting with Barkley and sitting at the dinner table, Kenny Smith interrupted and fired from time to time... Sun Ce suddenly felt weird about the map gun, why did he meet another inside star who he could ask for advice?