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After Li Feng finished his trip to South Korea, it was almost October 2011. 8 9 Reading Network

Therefore, he actually plans to stay at home with his parents for a while, and then return to the United States to start the new season.

However, then a shocking fact told him that the NBA this season seemed to be really abnormal, and it might be difficult to start the war on time. The dispute between the players union and the team owners became more and more intense, and there was a more serious lockout crisis!

For Li Feng, such a bad situation was really dumbfounding.

As a member of the players, he naturally understands the purpose of the players union to strive for more benefits for the players, and there is no way he will compromise. As for the boss, everyone puts interests first, and it is even more impossible for him to give in. Even he

We all know that the current situation of both parties has almost become a deadlock. It depends on who consumes more energy and who can withstand the torment better.

Therefore, Li Feng had no choice but to put aside his trip to the United States and still stay in his hometown in China for a while to reunite with his parents. He would only choose to wait for the labor negotiations in the American NBA League to settle.

Rush back.

Anyway, now that he is so popular, he will not worry about not having a basketball game to play at any time. And being able to continue to rest for a while will better guarantee his personal condition.

However, Li Feng still maintains a certain degree of contact with the United States. Through telephone and online contact with the management of the Timberwolves, Li Feng has a fairly clear understanding of some of the operations of the Timberwolves this summer.

Probably also affected by the league's shutdown crisis, the Timberwolves management has not carried out much operations so far. They only announced that Spanish genius point guard Ricky Rubio will definitely appear in this year's team, and then

They sent away several role players who had been lying in hospital beds all year round and had little contribution to the team, and added one or two young players through the draft.

Li Feng felt a little disappointed with such a petty quarrel, and was a little down on the ambitions of the Timberwolves management. Fortunately, he heard that Rubio was very good, which gave Li Feng some comfort.

Of course, at the moment, he still doesn't have too much energy to dwell on these things. Instead, he first has to deal with the series of warm invitations from the CBA League.

In fact, since the lockout crisis occurred in the NBA this year, it has not been properly resolved. Both labor and management are very tough, and no one is willing to let go easily. Therefore, there has been almost no progress in the negotiations between the two parties, which has led to the failure of the new NBA season.

Many schedules and formats have been forced to change. For example, October is about to enter again, but there is no way for the NBA's preseason training camp to start as scheduled, so it has to be canceled in advance. The future of the entire season has become uncertain.

And many NBA stars can only temporarily participate in exhibition games around the world and cannot enter the new season smoothly.

Some players, in order to make a living, have signed short-term contracts with leagues such as Europe and the CBA, intending to play for a while to make money. They will not return to the NBA until the labor dispute in the NBA is over.

Naturally, Li Feng, Dayao and others, who are Chinese and are already extremely popular and dazzling, have also received such invitations. Some teams in the CBA League are very much looking forward to introducing them to the team for a short period of time.

A little stimulation of the Chinese basketball market.

However, faced with such an invitation, Li Feng could not agree yet and chose to refuse. After all, he did not know when the NBA lockout would end.

If the CBA has just started here and the NBA over there can already play normally, wouldn't he miss some regular games? This season, he has certain expectations for the Timberwolves' final results in the NBA and does not dare to take it.

Let's take a big gamble on this matter.

The situation on Dayao and others' side is actually similar. They also rejected the invitation from the CBA League and are maintaining personal training for the time being, waiting patiently to see if the situation in the NBA improves.

They had no choice but to communicate with some CBA management personnel and refused for a long time before they managed to make things quieter around them again.

Then, after some time, everyone discovered that there really weren't many NBA players who went out to play in other games.

Especially the key players of the superstar level, there are almost no outings. It seems that only one Deron Williams who has gone to Europe can be regarded as a top star. More NBA stars would rather be around the world

Playing exhibition games or participating in labor negotiations as a negotiator, they dare not easily test the waters of other leagues.

However, the start of the NBA season in normal years is getting closer and closer, but whether this season can truly start successfully is still an unsolved mystery.

This made more ordinary NBA players unable to sit still. They stood up one after another and began to support the players union, attacking and criticizing the boss and the league.

The majority of basketball fans are also very unhappy. They have been urging the league to play a more active role, and also called on both players and owners to make more concessions and not be too greedy, so that they can see it early.

nba starts war normally.

The pressure from the outside suddenly surged in, making both labor and management and the alliance in the negotiations extremely anxious.

As a result, everyone was finally able to sit down and try to talk about some specific issues.

During this period of time, Li Feng still stayed with his parents in his hometown, maintaining normal personal training and maintaining good condition. It was not his turn to participate in the labor dispute negotiations for the time being, and he did not want to get too involved in this muddy water.

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After all, he is only in his second season in the NBA. It is still unknown whether the Timberwolves will take the initiative to change this season's contract and whether it can be changed. If he messes too much, people with ulterior motives will point out

Not sure how he will be arranged.

At the same time, his agent team took the opportunity to help him get a series of business activities, making him even busier and leaving him less time to worry about the start of the new season.

What particularly shocked and surprised Li Feng was that his agent team was so powerful that they actually contacted him one of the top international sports brand sponsors - Adidas!

Adidas is a business giant, very powerful and famous in sports.

However, in the past two years, under the crazy attack of its strong rival Nike, Adidas' performance has declined slightly in some aspects, especially in terms of signing basketball superstars and expanding basketball sports, and has been slowly outperformed by Nike.

Go down.

Therefore, Adidas is determined to learn from the experience and try to give Nike more counterattacks on this basketball battlefield.

Then, they very sincerely offered Li Feng a sky-high price of 1 US dollars for sneakers and sports brand sponsorship contracts, which almost made Li Feng stunned!

In fact, Li Feng did hear similar big news recently, saying that Adidas offered last season's regular season MVP Derrick Rose a sky-high $1 sponsorship contract. He had been a little envious and jealous before.

Unexpectedly, he was suddenly quoted at the same huge price, which proved that in the eyes of Adidas, he was also a business superstar that could be used to counterattack Nike.

However, based on his performance last season, he is really not inferior to Derrick Rose.

If the Bulls' record was not significantly better than that of the Timberwolves, Rose might not have been able to win the MVP honor. Although Rose was selected for the first team of the All-NBA Team, he was also the highest vote-getter among the second team.

Moreover, Li Feng is only a second-year player and has one of the biggest advantages over Rose, which is the huge Chinese and even Asian markets behind him.

Therefore, when facing such a huge endorsement contract, his agent team did not have a particularly strong sense of excitement and accomplishment. Instead, they felt a little regretful and dissatisfied. Then, they continued to negotiate with Adidas and borrowed Nike

Being a bargaining chip with other large sports brands also brought him more benefits. For example, the first three years of the contract are fixed, and the next seven years can be re-added and increased according to the situation.

In short, the work of the "Team Li" brokerage team has helped Li Feng potentially gain a lot of benefits.

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