NBA Drunken Master: I want to play drunk basketball!

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in an upscale restaurant on Franklin Street.

Zhou Chen met the legendary Nike scout, Vaccalo.

This man was not good-looking, with fluffy and messy curly hair, and he looked a little slovenly.

But when he saw Zhou Chen, he was particularly enthusiastic.

Before the two met, Vaccalo carefully studied Zhou Chen's match video since the Sweet 16 and can be said to know his style of play very well.

He also knew Zhou Chen's preferences.

I specially asked a friend to buy a few bottles of Huaxia specialty wine Moutai from outside.

Zhou Chen was a little surprised when he saw Maotai at first, but then calmed down.

In the 80s, Moutai was already famous overseas and won many international awards.

Along with whisky and brandy, it is known as the world's three most famous liquors.

On the contrary, Moutai at this time was very common in China and was not particularly precious, but it was an extremely rare famous wine abroad.

"Hello, Mr. Zhou, I'm glad you can come and meet me!" Vakalo hugged Zhou Chen very warmly.

The two were like old friends for many years at first sight, and they quickly cut to the chase and talked about sneaker contracts.

Tasting the unique fragrance and mellowness of Maozi, Zhou Chen felt refreshed, and the number of drinking points in the system continued to grow rapidly.

"It's worthy of Maozi, this feels many times stronger than those foreign wines."

Zhou Chen was surprised to find that the speed at which he drank Maozi to increase the number of system points was almost the same as the fine wine given by signing in.

In this way, another way to increase strength was inadvertently obtained.

Because in the past, the system checked in to its wine gourd every day was limited, and there was no more after drinking.

When Zhou Chen wanted to replace it with other local wines, he found that there was no such effect at all, not only was he not drunk, but his points increased extremely slowly.

As the amount of alcohol you drink continues to increase, sometimes under the high-intensity competition, the wine obtained from the check-in is not enough.

Now Zhou Chen unexpectedly discovered that the efficacy of Maozi is not much different from signing in for fine wine.

He secretly made up his mind to take advantage of this offseason to return to China, taking advantage of the cheap Maozi at this time, and fiercely stockpiled millions of bottles of Maozi.

Anyway, if you can't finish drinking, you can still increase in value later, so why not?

The negotiation process with Vaccalo went smoothly, after all, Nike in this era was still very famous, and there was not much room for bargaining.

They gave Zhou Chen a 5-year $3 million sneaker sponsorship contract.

And according to Zhou Chen's request, first pay 1 million US dollars to Zhou Chen in one lump sum, and the rest will be paid in the next 5 years.

Nike will also tailor the "AIR ZHOU" series of sneakers for Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen secretly rejoiced, but he didn't expect that the AJ sneakers, which were famous all over the world in the back, disappeared into history like this, and were replaced by AZ sneakers!

Sharp hook AZ sneakers specially tailored for him Zhou Chen!

However, these chips offered by Nike to Zhou Chen are of course not unconditional, and there are many terms in the contract.

Otherwise, if Zhou Chen's water falls, then the 3 million US dollars will be lost.

The contract clearly states that Zhou Chen needs to win the best rookie, be selected to the All-Star Game within three years, and average more than 20 points per game in the season, and the most important thing is that his AZ sneakers will sell more than 4 million pairs within three years.

If Zhou Chen does not reach it, then Nike has the right to terminate the contract in advance and demand part of the liquidated damages from him.

Zhou Chen feels that among these four conditions, the most difficult is the best rookie award, after all, the rookies in 1984 can be said to be the strongest one, there are several historical superstars who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in the future, and it is still somewhat difficult to snatch the best rookie from Jordan, Barkley and others.

Despite the harsh conditions, Zhou Chen signed his name on the contract without hesitation.

In the future, his fate will be closely related to this unknown little broken sneaker company.

It was learned from Vaccalo's mouth that Nike's first choice was Jordan, but Jordan rejected Nike without thinking, and instead signed a contract with Adidas, now the NBA's largest shoe vendor.

At this time, Adi, as the world's largest sports sneaker company, has a prominent capital, and the chip for Jordan is 400,000 US dollars a year.

I have to say that compared with the price code that Nike offered to Zhou Chen, it is a lot worse.

Zhou Chen clearly remembers that in the parallel world of his previous life, Jordan's original favorite company was Adi, but Adi refused to offer Jordan a contract with an annual salary of $500,000, so in the end Jordan turned to Nike.

This also became a watershed moment in the fate of Adi and Nike.

Now that time has come again, Adi in the future does not know if he will regret today's actions.

In this world, Jordan's favorite price is naturally 500,000-600,000 US dollars a year, but now that he is injured, he will inevitably be affected when negotiating with Adi, and it is not surprising that the two sides finally reached a contract of 400,000 a year.

After all, in this era, everyone respects Adidas, and no one would have imagined that its supremacy would be replaced by Nike in the future.

Nike's move is also a broken cauldron, a battle behind the water, and pressed Bao on an oriental boy who had been silent for three years and suddenly woke up and played a few good games.

When signing the contract, scout Vaccalo's heart was also uneasy, and he could only hope that Zhou Chen would save Nike, which was about to go bankrupt.

Shortly after signing the contract with Nike, Zhou Chen's bank card received $1 million.

$1 million is only a base salary for future NBA players, but in the 80s, it was already a huge amount.

Among the NBA rookies of this era, players like the top few can get an annual salary of 7.8 million US dollars, while a superstar like Magic Johnson has an annual salary of only 1 million US dollars.

Although the 80s was also the era when NBA salaries began the first round of skyrocketing, $1 million was already a huge amount for a college player.

Zhou Chen changed from a poor water cooler player to a millionaire.

The appearance of retaliatory consumption is naturally also a common human feeling.

The first thing a man does when he has money is to buy a car.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhou Chen called Monica Bellucci and came to the Ferrari boutique.

After careful comparison and observation, Zhou Chen and Monica finally chose the most classic Ferrari sports car Testarossa.

The two-door coupe, called "Testarosa", was only unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in 1984 and is now being produced and sold.

You know, this sports car was known as the most popular Ferrari sports car in history, and later broke the Ferrari sales record in one fell swoop.

This new, aggressive red sports car can be said to set the trend of a generation of sports cars.

Even with today's eyes, the style of this sports car is still outdated.

As a masterpiece of Ferrari's return to the market, the designers took a big risk at first, and did not expect that it would be so popular that it would become an essential tool for Hollywood and other high-class stars to show off their wealth a few years later.

So the issue price at this time was not very high, and even so, it cost Zhou Chen 500,000 US dollars.

Monica watched Zhou Chen buy a luxury car so generously, surprised and delighted, like a diligent and thrifty little daughter-in-law, complaining that Zhou Chen spent money lavishly.

But later, when Zhou Chen drove this extremely windy red sports car and drove her on the North Carolina campus, attracting the envious eyes of countless classmates, Monica had completely forgotten what she had just said, and slowly began to enjoy this supreme vanity.

When girls are faced with the difficult choice of whether to laugh on the bike or cry on the luxury car, there is actually a better choice, why not laugh in the luxury car?

Zhou Chen was driving the car, and suddenly his big brother's mobile phone rang, and when he picked it up, he said a long-lost and familiar Chinese.