81. Invitation

"What's the situation?" Sun Ce looked at the exhaust of the commercial vehicle of the two people who came and left in a hurry, leaving only a membership application form, and was a little dazed.

"I don't know. He seems to be meeting many people. Your country is too complicated. I'm just in charge of Yao's work in the United States." Bill Duffy shook his head.

Sun Ce felt that his manager might know something, but he was unwilling to say more, probably because he was afraid of causing trouble, and it was unnecessary trouble.

"But Yao asked me to tell you that you don't have to worry about being bound by the national team. He will take care of other things. You just need to play for the national team in the offseason in the future." Bill Duffy said again.

Well, Sun Ce can't help it, he is just a small character.

After reading the membership application form, Sun Ce's first goal is to find a membership fee clause that takes a commission or a disguised commission. If he wants to draw too much, he would rather not go. The price he can accept is about the same as the players' union and agent commission. s price……

Yes, Sun Ce regards this as a business. After all, if he can enter the national team, he will be much stronger in terms of commercial endorsements.

5000 dues?

I searched for it, and found it quickly. Among the last clauses, it says "Membership fee: 5,000 yuan (5,000 yuan)/year", and there is a price equivalent to US dollars next to it.

"Why so few?" Sun Ce was a little puzzled.

"Watt? Is there something wrong?" Bill Duffy took the application form from Sun Ce.

It was written in both Chinese and English. Bill Duffy looked at it and didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

"Why is the membership fee so low?" Sun Ce asked strangely.

"Is it low? More than 700 yuan is not low. The registration fee of our American Players Association is only 10 yuan. You are already very expensive, and you have to pay this every year." Bill Duffy seemed a little pained in his tone.

He has never seen a registration fee more expensive than this!

"Uh...is that so?" Sun Ce thought for a while, and for most people, 5,000 soft girl coins a year seems really expensive.

No wonder there are so few registered basketball players in China! Normal people don't want to sign up at all.

In the United States, you can register for $10, and there is no so-called annual fee. No wonder there are so many registered basketball players in the United States! In 2001, the number exceeded 10 million.

After recalling it, Sun Ce remembered that there was a director of the basketball management center named Wei Yuanli who had lowered the membership fee a lot after he came to power. The agreement signed by the first director, Cheng Lanxin, required 5% of the after-tax income to be handed over. The new director seemed to only care about grades, not income. Even the number of CBA games has decreased, and he would rather have less income. It is also necessary to increase the training time of the national team, making it more difficult for Yao Ming, who was originally a leader in the future in time and space, to increase the number of CBA games...

The incident happened suddenly, and Bill Duffy had to go back and discuss with the company people the pros and cons of Sun Ce's joining the national team.

After chatting with Sun Ce, Bill Duffy went back with the application form and asked the lawyer to see if there was any problem.

Trust Yao Ming. As an agent, Bill Duffy is obliged to help Sun Ce avoid some contract traps. In the eyes of Americans, everything is a contract, and marriage is just a contract.

After Bill Duffy left, Sun Ce thought about it and felt that he had underestimated Yao Ming's influence in the domestic basketball world after he had contributed to Chinese basketball for so many years.

Now there are signs of Chairman Yao!

Wanting to run for the chairman of the Blue Association is not a matter of a day or two or even a year or two. Yao Ming began to plan this matter with his high-level partners in the Blue Association during the Island World Championship two or three years ago.

This is not something shameful, it requires extensive accumulation of contacts, seeking help from powerful and powerful people who support you, etc...

"Maybe I'm also the object of Yao Ming's election for the chairman of the Blue Association?"

Sun Ce shook his head,

I feel that this kind of speculation is really worthy of myself.

However, even if Yao Ming was regarded as a wooing target, Sun Ce felt that there was no harm.

Only valuable people will want to win over...

"I have to work hard to become valuable!"

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The training continued day by day. After making obvious progress, the motivation that was previously supported by "interest" was almost exhausted, but now the motivation has recovered, even stronger!

Perhaps it was related to the visit of Yao Ming and the officials of the Blue Association.

It is not a lie to say that you want to serve your country. This is a dream hidden deep in every man's heart. Maybe many people live in this stressful world every day, but one day if you need to carry When a gun is on the battlefield, it will rush forward without hesitation. This is the foundation of the five thousand years of Chinese culture.

But stepping into a brand new field made him realize his weakness.

Many things are not as simple as thought.

Time passed quickly, and it was September 13th in a flash.

In the past two weeks, only one commercial was shot, and Sun Ce has 12 endorsements. Although the highest endorsement fee is only 150,000 US dollars, this is already amazing for a rookie in the second round. Add up to 1.6 million dollars.

And this year's No. 1 pick Blake Griffin's sneaker endorsement is only $1 million...

According to the news from Bill Duffy, there will be no endorsements in a short period of time. Those who can and should be signed have been signed, and the endorsements that cannot be obtained will not be available for the time being. Let Sun Ce do a good job for the training camp. prepare for.

The summer league only allowed Sun Ce to get a contract. How much playing time he can get depends first on his performance in training camp and preseason.

There may still be opportunities after the start of the regular season, but if you get the opportunity at the beginning, you will definitely take the lead in competing for playing time.

According to the strength of the Warriors, which is at the bottom of the league, and also lost Crawford, it is not impossible for a second-round pick to compete for the fourth guard. If the improvement is obvious, it is also possible to compete for the third guard. Teams are always more than happy to develop.

At least after watching Sun Ce's training in early September, Bill Duffy was pleasantly surprised!

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After the two-hour starting training in the morning, Sun Ce took a shower and was eating lunch when the door was suddenly opened.

Sun Ce asked without turning his head: "I'm not in the mood recently, I don't want to go out to play."

You don't even need to look, the only ones who have the key are the landlord, him, and brother Teddy.

The landlord doesn’t usually come here, and rents it out just to keep the house from becoming a haunted house and the yard from being overgrown with weeds to avoid being fined. One of the reasons is to use the rent to pay property taxes.

"It's not about this. You are about to start the training camp in half a month. I know you are working hard. I have a job to find you!" John felt that his personality had been insulted!

"Work?" Sun Ce asked curiously.

"Yes, the day after tomorrow is the auction held by our family, Noah, you can be our opening guest!" John invited.

"Why me? You should not be short of this little money to hire a star." Sun Ce was puzzled.

"Of course, we have invited some celebrities, but those people are here to support the scene. The customers who participated in the auction this time are from Arizona. Now you are the hottest celebrity here!"

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