NBA basketball rhythm monster

For several major sports companies, 2003 was definitely a busy year.

As it is recognized that there is a talent blowout year about once every ten years (84 96 03), the main task of major sports companies this year is to grab people. And their approach is indeed very fruitful from today's perspective. Nike chose James,

The latter eventually became the lifelong spokesperson of Hook. Anthony was chosen by Air and became a member of Jordan. Even Converse, which was increasingly declining in the NBA, took a rare gamble and signed consecutive contracts with Chris Bosh and

Wade.

Among them, the contract between James and Nike is the most dramatic.

In high school, James wore the most three-striped sneakers, which gave Adidas a powerful position. At that time, Adidas initially offered James a sky-high 10-year, $100 million contract, but at the final signing ceremony,

The amount was suddenly changed to 70 million, which made James very dissatisfied and refused to sign the contract on the spot. Adidas' behavior of changing the contract amount made James feel that he had been cheated. Even though Adidas admitted his mistake and sincerely apologized, he never thought about it again.

Signed with Adidas. A few days later, James immediately announced that he had reached a 7-year, 90 million sneaker contract with Hook.

Therefore, it makes sense that Adidas has been defeated by hooks in the field of basketball shoes today, so it makes sense to stay in a corner.

Back then, he refused to bet on Jordan, which led to the rise of Hook.

James' default in 2003 completely caused Adidas to decline in the basketball market.

Speaking of which, I really don't blame anyone else. Tianhu started like this. God is really feeding you, and you just vomited it out.

After a period of communication, Bill Duffy finally confirmed the quotations of several major companies for the rookie Li Luo.

Reebok 26 million in 7 years

Three lines, 30 million in 6 years

The hook was the most outrageous, not to mention the offer of 24 million for 7 years, 4 million of which was a bonus treaty, which could only be redeemed if certain goals were achieved.

Li Luo was a little confused when he heard the news. He repeatedly asked Bill Duffy to confirm whether the amount was correct.

"That guy LeBron is worth 90 million!"

"90 million!" Li Luo emphasized again!

Although Li Luo doesn't have much desire for money, how can he tolerate the fact that his sneaker contract is so much worse than the opponent's due to his strong competitive spirit.

Bill Duffy actually thinks that this amount is not low for today's Luo Li. After all, his old rival Melo has only won 18 million in AJ endorsement for 6 years. So he is going to try to persuade Luo Li to accept one of the contracts first.

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As a result, Luo Li's attitude was beyond Duffy's expectation:

"This is not about money!" Li Luo emphasized to Duffy again and again.

"Forget it! Let's not sign anyone for now. Once the entire alliance sees my strength, companies like these will drive cash trucks to my house and beg me to open the door."

Bill Duffy really doesn’t understand why the Chinese people have to fight for the money they get. Li Luo is like this, and Yao Yao is also like this. This summer, he can obviously sign a 120 million super contract with Hook, but he can’t eat it just for this.

Not wanting to lose face, I just accepted Reebok's offer of NT$50 million over 7 years.

The difference is 70 million! The price difference alone is more than what many players earn in their entire lives!

Luo Li had no control over what Bill Duffy thought, but he had the stubbornness to fight for a breath and a stick of incense.

Perhaps the way of thinking is different. Westerners are more particular about the kind of thing where you give me a shot, I get up alive and we continue to do business, as long as the price is right.

Now Li Luo is like a bomb, waiting to be released at the beginning of the summer league.

On July 15, the Boston Summer League, consisting of 10 NBA teams, kicked off. As the host, the Celtics were naturally the most fully prepared.

Different from official games, NBA teams will generally try a summer league lineup that is different from the regular season at this time, which usually contains a large number of rookies and sophomores, as well as unsigned free agents that the team wants to inspect.

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At this time, Li Luo's team status was reflected. As Auerbach personally designated Li Luo, he had great autonomy. The new Celtics assistant coach Wilt Keite, who served as the team's interim head coach, was even formulating the plan.

You also need to ask in a low voice during tactics:

"Li, do you think this is okay?"

Such authority naturally makes the fringe players, free agents, NBA players, and international players who come to participate in the summer league envious. These basketball bums come to the summer league for only one purpose: to use the summer league to win trust and avoid being laid off.

Let's go and try to perform well next season.

This scene,

He is truly a team tyrant!!

After all, Kate is a colleague. Li Luo originally didn't want to be so ostentatious, but after this period of contact, Li Luo found that the new assistant coach was pretty good at offense, but his response was a bit slow in training defense.

This gave Li Luo one more job after the game.

That is to accompany the newly hired coach to watch videos and analyze the game.

"Look here, right here!"

Luo Li said to Kate on the video camera:

"Alan Houston has succeeded three times in a row at this position at the last moment. Kate, come and see what are the problems with our defense?"

Kate seems to be a bit bad at defense, which actually has to do with everyone's coaching style. (Take the familiar Bread Brown as an example. People seem to think he is a big idiot and has no tactics other than giving the ball to James in isolation.

.Actually, this guy is not very good at offense, but he is definitely a master when it comes to coaching defense. So, even if his position as coach is not guaranteed, he can always find a job with a good salary.)

Seeing that Kate didn't understand, Luo Li had no choice but to demonstrate it to him on a drawing.

"As a scorer, Alan Houston must limit his space. Once he is allowed to run, the defense must be switched infinitely to maintain high pressure on him at all times. Otherwise, his palms will be so hot that he will burn through the floor.

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"Look here," Li Luo said while playing the replay, "I gave him two consecutive screens without success. We have been successful up to this point, but the next step is bad. The two inside players on the opposite side completed the screen.

Then he moved around and then switched positions and was blocked again."

"So, doesn't this give you a chance?"

"Hey, let me tell you. Why did he go left and right for a while, and then he was empty? It turned out to be here. Fortunately, Li Luo, you found out in the end and gave him a big hat hard, hey!

You blocked a shot in the first game, how do you feel?"

"Come on, there's nothing exciting about it. The other side hasn't shown its full strength yet. Besides, we have to work hard. I won't have that much time to watch the video with you after the official start of the game."

Li Luo said lightly, but his eyes were fixed on July 21 marked in red on the summer league schedule...

It was game day against the Cavaliers.