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As the rumors intensified, several big fish gradually emerged from the water.

The Warriors have said that they will keep Durant no matter how big the contract is or what the hard salary cap is.

Durant's agent Kleiman also revealed that Durant will most likely choose to stay with the Warriors.

There is news about the third child who is ten thousand years old, and naturally there is also the second child who is ten thousand years old.

There was news about James soon.

According to multiple media reports, James is hesitant about renewing his contract with the Cavaliers. Currently, many strong teams have contacted James' agency team.

These two pieces of news are heavy but also very interesting.

Because it was the media or agents who broke the news, and the two parties involved remained silent, some people who were hiding behind the scenes and observing all this were unable to analyze whether it was real news or fake.

Time flies, and trading news comes out one after another.

The Timberwolves sent core Ricky Rubio in exchange for the Jazz's 2018 first-round pick. It is reported that the first-round pick comes from Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma City Thunder, and the top 14 picks are currently protected.

Subsequently, the Timberwolves officially announced the signing of guard Jeff Teague. In the eight years since entering the league, Teague has averaged 12.65.5 assists and 2.4 rebounds per game, and is considered an active second-line defender.

The Bulls officially announced the implementation of the third-year team option in the contract of team core Anthony Davis.

It is reported that in order to deeply tie Davis to Chicago, the Bulls management made a public commitment to the media that they would sign a supermax contract with Davis only after the 2017-18 season. Salary renewal.

The Bulls have officially announced that if they want to save face, they will choose to fulfill their promise next season.

The NBA's just-introduced King's Agreement has been implemented for the first time, and Davis is likely to become the first player to trigger a super-maximum contract extension.

After the Bulls' official announcement, many teams also reached official contract extensions with their core players.

The Pelicans officially announced the contract extension of main point guard Jrue Holiday. According to team policy, the details of the contract will not be disclosed.

However, according to previous reports, the new contract is about 5 years and worth 126 million yuan. If the incentive clause is triggered, the total contract value can reach up to 150 million yuan. In addition, the fifth year of the contract is a player option.

As the team's best perimeter player, Jrue Holiday averaged 15.7 points and 7.3 assists per game for the Pelicans last season, and coach Gentry is increasingly trusting the team's core defender.

The "Charlotte Observer" reported that free agent McAway has signed a one-year, $270 million contract with the Hornets.

Last season, Webb, Sessions and Brian Roberts competed for Kemba Walker's backup, but no one locked in the second point guard position. Since the 76ers era, McAway's career has gone from bad to worse.

While playing for the Bulls last season, McAway averaged 6.6 points per game and 36.6% shooting, both career lows.

In the previous three seasons, Mcaway averaged double figures per game, and his effectiveness during his time with the Bulls was not very high. The Hornets will be the fourth team that McAway has played for in 5 seasons. He was the Rookie of the Year in the 13-14 season. However, he was traded to the Bucks in 2015, and his shooting problem has always been Mcaway's most obvious flaw.

According to ESPN reports, the Raptors first officially renewed Serge Ibaka's contract, which is a three-year contract worth a total of 6,500 million yuan.

Then he signed a three-year contract with core point guard Kyle Lowry worth a total of 100 million.

"Choose the person who believes in you in the first place." Lowry said at the signing conference.

As for the Mosaic team, the management officially signed PJ Tucker, and the contract details have not been announced yet.

Tucker has played for the Phoenix Suns and Toronto Raptors, averaging 7.7 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game in his career, which can be regarded as a reinforcement for the Mosaic team.

The Denver Nuggets officially announced today that they have signed free agent Paul Millsap.

Last offseason, the Hawks planned to trade Millsap to the Nuggets, but Horford later chose to leave the team, so the deal fell through.

Millsap has met with the Kings and Suns before. In the 16-17 season, Millsap averaged 18.1 points, 7.8 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game. He is an outstanding space-based No. 4 position in the league.

According to a report by famous NBA reporter Shams Charania, Millsap signed a three-year, 90 million-meter contract with the Nuggets, with the third year being a team option.

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Among all the recent signing and transaction information, only Davis can be considered a real big fish, and the other teams are just playing small tricks.

It's just an appetizer now, the real hard dishes will have to wait for a while.

the other side.

Every summer offseason is also the best time for star-endorsed new product launches, which attracts the attention of sneaker collectors.

In early July, Wang Zelin took a plane back to China.

As for Anta, Wang Zelin's previous generations of sneakers have been very successful in design, and his cumulative sales in North America alone have exceeded 1 billion. In recent years, his sneaker sales have ranked first in North America, surpassing James. An increase of more than 20 million yuan.

July 10th was the day when Anta officially announced its new product launch, which naturally attracted the attention of sneaker enthusiasts and countless Wang Mi and Wang Chui.

However, at 10 o'clock in the morning, Anta officials and Wang Zelin's agent Zhou Yang issued an announcement, which shocked the basketball world!

Anta’s president made a high-profile announcement: Starting from this year, Anta plans to launch the King series of boots for Wang Zelin, which coincides with the King Agreement that the NBA just introduced this year. The King series of boots will also become Anta’s most valued football boots.

Starting tomorrow, Wang Zelin's boots will continue to increase research and development funds, and the ownership of Wang Zelin's sneaker endorsements will be jointly owned by Anta and Wang Zelin. For the new series of King boots, also known as the "King Generation", Wang Zelin will have a share of the sales, while Wang Zelin will own the sales share. It’s no longer just about endorsement fees.

The announcement of this news means that Wang Zelin’s exclusive boots this year will stop shipping on December 31, 2017 and become out-of-print boots!

The so-called out-of-print...that is, there will be a re-engraved version in the future. Sneaker lovers all know this, but there are always some differences between the re-engraved version and the original version, such as craftsmanship and technology.

This wave of operations by Anta's senior management and Wang Zelin's agent team has made the new product launch conference at 7 o'clock tonight more popular than ever!

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The new product launch conference went smoothly. Wang Zelin had already had many experiences, so he still just read the script.

This is not a basketball court, and there is no need to discuss basketball matters. When it comes to business matters, Wang Zelin only needs to follow the instructions of professionals and successfully completed the display of the new product launch conference.

The final interview session was also unified into official answers.

After a series of events at the new product launch conference, it was already early in the morning, and Wang Zelin had to lead Zhou Yang's agent team and Anta's senior team to a celebration banquet.

After the finals, Zhou Yang came to Anta headquarters and kept dealing with the senior management. The negotiations lasted for nearly a month, and he finally settled this big deal.

According to the agreement reached, Wang Zelin will grant Anta lifetime rights to use the three trademarks he owns: his, portrait and image rights in sports merchandise.

As for the new sneaker brand, Wang Zelin enjoys the right to dividends. According to Wang Zelin's NBA career length plan dividend ratio, and starting from the season when he was selected as an All-Star starter in his rookie year, Wang Zelin will receive a thousand points increase every time he is selected as a one-time star starter. 5/5 sales bonus.

Originally, Anta officially proposed to give Wang Zelin a 1% profit share for each All-Star selection. However, after Zhou Yang's team argued hard, the final negotiation result became a 5% sales bonus.

Don't look at it, it just changed from profit dividends to sales dividends, and the gap is almost inevitable. The latter is a sales dividend like Jordan's, which is much better than profit dividends.

According to American media reports, since Jordan signed a contract with Nike to create the subsidiary brand AJ, Jordan has been able to receive 5% of sales every year, which is more than 100 million yuan in dividends from AJ every year.

The reason is that what Jordan signed back then was sales dividends, not profit dividends.

He was able to sign such a contract because Wang Zelin's status in today's basketball world is no less than that of Jordan in the 1990s.

Therefore, Anta originally wanted to refer to the similar offer made to Jordan by Nike in the 1990s. If Wang Zelin played for 15 years and could start in the All-Star Game, even after retirement, as long as his King series brand still exists, he would be able to earn more than Fifteen percent profit dividend.

Of course there is no way, who will make Wang Zelin red?

As long as Anta hesitates for half a second, some teams are willing to sign Wang Zelin with money.

Anta finally agreed to give up sales dividends, because how much money the King series brand can make mainly depends on Wang Zelin himself. No matter how he calculates it, they will definitely make the biggest profit.

In fact, in addition to the King Series and sales dividends, Anta's senior management is also discussing a major matter, which is to try to tie Wang Zelin to the big ship of Anta forever.

What is permanent binding?

It's very simple, let Anta and Wang Zelin sign a lifetime contract!

In the history of basketball development, you can count on your fingers the number of players who are eligible to sign lifetime contracts with brands.

Regarding this matter, some senior executives of Anta are still hesitant.

But something happened next, which made some senior officials who were still hesitant change their minds.

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Milligan.

Nike suddenly held a global media conference in the Big Apple.

After reporters from major media around the world came, they discovered that there was actually an NBA player at the launch site—LeBron James!

What is Nike trying to do?

Reporters on the scene were confused for a moment.

Is it possible that James is going to release some new sneakers?

Then it won’t be such a big battle, right?

Nike brand president Andy Carter attended the scene and officially announced a big news:

LeBron James has signed a so-called "lifetime contract" with Nike!

After Durant signed a 10-year, $300 million contract at a sky-high price, Nike struck again.

It won’t work if we don’t attack. No matter how we continue, Anta will rely on Wang Zelin’s nuclear weapon to increase its sales in North America. It has crushed Nike’s top brand James for several years.

Unfortunately, the details of this contract are not announced, but some people estimate that there is no suspense about James' lifetime contract starting at US$1 billion.

In fact, James signed a lifetime guaranteed contract with Nike as early as 2015, but both parties chose to keep it secret, so this news only circulated within the NBA.

Until today, with the official "official announcement" from both Nike and James, this news has finally been confirmed for two years, instantly causing an uproar in the outside world.

In fact, in the original time and space, this suspense was "accidentally" revealed by James in an interview in 2017. At that time, he said that he would donate half of this lifetime contract, which is about 8 meters of gold, for charity and education. cause.

Therefore, it can be calculated that James' lifetime contract is about 1.5 billion gold.

As for using it for charity?

There is nothing that can be done about it. Federal law imposes severe tax deductions, and the wealthy people here basically have a professional team on hand to help avoid taxes.

Take the "God of Investment" Buffett as an example. Compared with sleeping, he is unambiguous.

According to later statistics, between 2014 and 2018, Buffett's wealth increased by 24.3 billion yuan, but the total tax he paid in these four years was only 23.7 million yuan, and the actual tax rate was 0.1%!

23.7 million yuan is an astronomical figure for most ordinary people in the world, but for Buffett himself, it is a drop in the bucket.

There is an old saying that the richer you are, the stingier you become, and this is true.

Of course, there is no problem with reasonable tax avoidance. Wang Zelin’s brokerage team also has its own tax avoidance plan.

His reason is also very simple: the money earned by labor and capital must be avoided by their own ability. Why bother if you work so hard to contribute to the United States?

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As soon as James' "lifetime contract" came out, many people couldn't sit still.

Especially Anta's top management, they held an emergency meeting overnight to discuss James' "lifetime contract."

In addition, they also received a message that Nike has been actively contacting Wang Zelin's team and is preparing to terminate Wang Zelin's contract after his contract expires at the end of this year and offer him a contract similar to James's.

Until Anta's senior executives couldn't help but feel frightened.

He is worthy of being the leader in the sports industry. If he doesn't take action, he will catch Anta's seven-inch punch!

Wang Zelin is the most critical link in Anta's globalization plan. He is their absolute trump card and the only trump card. He cannot be cut off by other companies.

Nike does not have Wang Zelin and James. It has a big business and a strong foundation and is still the leader in the global sports industry. But if Anta loses Wang Zelin, their globalization plan will be in vain.

Not only the globalization plan, but also the King series of boots that were ambitiously launched during the day will also be aborted.

Referring to the time when Converse ignored Jordan, it was eventually overtaken by Nike, a rising star, and completely lost its dominant position as a sports brand in North America...

"hiss!"

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ANTA's top management has collectively contributed to global warming.

The example of the God of Basketball is in front of them, so they cannot be cautious.

It is said that the discussion lasted only 2.5 hours. Ding Shizhong, the current chairman of Anta's board of directors, immediately made the decision and roared:

"Nike dares to give it to others, so why don't we?"

After that, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com decided to sign a new contract for Wang Zelin. The specifications were the same as James's, which was a lifetime contract.

No, considering that James is now completely above James in both current and historical rankings, Anta decided to maximize its sincerity and make Wang Zelin's lifetime contract worth more than James.

Recently, the sales of Wang Zelin's last out-of-print exclusive sneakers have been astonishing, and Nike can't wait to come out to set the pace and suppress the popularity.

You do the first grade of junior high school, and I do the fifteenth grade!

A super genius who is just 23 years old now has already established his own era in the NBA, the world's largest professional basketball league. He holds four championships and four regular season MVPs, plus countless honors. Jordan didn't have him back then. So fierce.

In this case, what else does Anta not dare to gamble on?

Ding Shizhong immediately decided to take a big gamble, otherwise he was afraid that if he missed this opportunity, he would regret it for the rest of his life.

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This kind of internal news will definitely not spread that fast. Wang Zelin still doesn't know, because of Nike's rhythm, he is about to gain a fortune.

But even if he knew it, it wouldn't matter. He even hoped that this kind of thing would happen more often.

NBA players are essentially workers, but their wages are ridiculously high. Especially the salary of top players, for example Wang Zelin himself, his annual salary is almost as much as the annual revenue of many large domestic companies.

Capital is involved, and in the end it is he, the wage earner, who is the cheapest.

He has now contacted his teammates on the other side of the ocean and is ready to take them to visit the great rivers and mountains of China and experience the customs and food of various places.

He has already planned the first stop, heading to Guizhou Province, where he will let his teammates experience the legendary Niupa hotpot.

Gee, that scene made him look forward to it just thinking about it. (End of chapter)