No one expected that team owner Steven Price personally went to Milwaukee to bail out Glenn Robinson when he returned to the team.

Glenn Robinson found a lawyer to negotiate a divorce the next day, and with Steven Price's guarantee, Big Dog himself paid a bail of $500,000. Frandy sued while dying in the hospital.

Big Dog wants a divorce and compensation and then sues Big Dog.

However, the $500,000 payment was not in vain. The court date was postponed to June 20, 2003, which meant that the court would not open until the season was over anyway.

Sometimes, men are very strange creatures, and they are definitely despised for hitting women.

But if a man is cheated on and hits a woman...

Not to mention how highly this man would be regarded, at least fewer people would despise him. On the contrary, it also gained a little more sympathy points.

When Brandi was being interviewed with a bandage on her head, she said: Why can’t women come back to seek revenge from male models while men can go out and fool around?

This almost confirmed the fact that the two cheated on each other, making people lament that they were indeed a "natural couple" and at the same time sympathize with both of them...

Poor people must be hateful, and in the same way, hateful people can always find something to sympathize with.

Including Liu Mang, everyone thinks Glenn Robinson is hateful, pathetic and pitiable at the same time.

Obviously, the big dog who came home late wasted the team's precious training time.

It's rare that the team now either has old players who carry the hatred of last season, or they have positive rookies. This should be the best time for everyone to train together and work hard to improve, but as a result, one core player has not returned to the team.

During training, I behaved in a nondescript manner.

Let's train on tactics. Using Emmanuel is too far behind to see how powerful it is. Let's train on defense. I don't know if Big Dog, a guy who is said to have average defense, will come to a strong defensive team.

I don’t know what kind of changes, or how deep the black hole is, or whether the team’s overall system can make up for it.

But for such a guy who may have encountered the most tragic thing for a man to be brought back by a sullen boss, you really can't blame him. Although it is indeed hateful, it is also quite pitiful.

The key is that Big Dog also sensed the crisis and came to the gym to train in the afternoon when he returned to Atlanta. It was very crazy.

Looking at the big dog with the attitude of "I want to change my mind", the rest of the Eagles had no choice but to give up their dissatisfaction. On September 30, the training of the Eagles could finally officially begin.

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The Eagles had a rather strange start this year. I don't know if it was smooth or not. Anyway, the team training in the last few days was pretty good.

Although there are frequent negative news about Glenn Robinson from the outside world, Big Dog is really quite honest these days. He was originally an old slicker. He entered the NBA in the same era as Ratliff and Raheem, from 94 to 96.

A generation of Mesozoic players, they don’t look at the monk’s face but also the Buddha’s face.

It's just that Big Dog's appearance has caused his commercial value, which was second only to Liu Mang and Raheem, to plummet, and domestic sponsors no longer dare to ask him for endorsements.

On the National Day, Liu Mang once again wished his motherland the National Day in a foreign country, and passed it like that.

On October 6, just as the preseason was about to begin, the idle North American sports socialite William Wesley and the ecstatic Jeff Schwartz arrived with several contract offers.

Liu Mang.

But when the two of them came to the place where Liu Mang lived, they felt so weird.

It’s so different from where other All-Stars live!

Not to mention the All-Stars, even when Wang Zhizhi arrived in Los Angeles, he rented a villa with a rent of several thousand dollars a month.

Then seeing that Liu Mang didn't think anything was wrong and seemed to be living very comfortably, he took them to Levia's living room on the sixth floor. William Wesley expressed his disapproval of Liu Mang's casualness and lack of deliberate pursuit of luxury.

The lifestyle is so appealing.

At first, William Wesley received a call from Jordan, and then received a call from Levia. He saw that Liu Mang did not choose to help Liu Mang because of his dressing style.

Now that I see Liu Mang's lifestyle, I really have a crush on Liu Mang.

Sometimes a person's likes and dislikes for a person are just that simple.

Apart from doing yoga, practicing boxing, and going shopping, Levia is usually paralyzed and motionless. Either Alexia comes to cook, or Dinah orders takeout. But whenever an outsider comes, someone else changes.

Like, running to make coffee, pour drinks and buy snacks.

After chatting for a while, Schwartz excitedly took out six quotations and contracts: "Ace, let's take a look. This is the final quotation from Nike, Reebok, and Adidas. This is the final quotation from Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Very Coke."

Liu Mang has been devoted to training in the summer and has not paid attention to the news about sneakers. He has been crazy about it by several major sneaker brands!

Yao Ming was regarded by Nike as a big man who couldn't sell sneakers and was only willing to pay 500,000 US dollars a year. With the help of famous agent Fagan, he signed a long-term contract with Reebok early with a total value of no less than 60 million US dollars.

Knife endorsement contracts are different. As a defender, Liu Mang has been competing for sneaker endorsements from the three giants, Nike, Reebok and Adidas.

It’s true that big men don’t sell sneakers, so Yao Ming’s performance in sneaker endorsements is mediocre. But after Reebok gave him a big contract of 60 million yuan to start his career, Nike became anxious and gave the same offer, but Yao Ming is really considered a domestic player.

He is a very individual player. He said he would not sign a contract with Nike if he didn't want to, and he accepted Reebok's contract early.

Originally, this was supposed to happen after Yao Ming faced O'Neal and asked Barkley to kiss his donkey's butt. However, because Liu Mang promoted the Chinese market in advance, this matter was advanced for more than half a year. After Yao Ming violently abused insiders all over the world, this contract was signed.

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Therefore, snatching Liu Mang became the top priority of the three basketball shoe giants.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! With William Wesley constantly running around to build momentum for Liu Mang, and Schwartz looking like he is sitting firm, the three giants couldn't help it.

Big contracts were given.

Liu Mang looked at Nike's offer of US$80 million over seven years, Adidas' offer of US$90 million over ten years, and Reebok's lifetime contract with a total price of no less than US$100 million. They all had plans to produce exclusive boots before Christmas.

I never thought I was so valuable!

Liu Mang still underestimated his commercial value. He used to think that James' commercial value was the highest. After all, James represents the North American market of the NBA. He is probably the super money-attracting machine in the history of the NBA, second only to Jordan in North American commercial value. Unexpectedly

I'm not far behind either.

But what Liu Mang wants to complain about is why Reebok loves to give lifetime contracts so much. Iverson has a lifetime contract, Yao Ming has a lifetime contract, and he also has a lifetime contract.

There is a lot of money, but as for sneakers, how can the three brands differ? They are all similar in terms of technology, and the money is actually about the same. Nike has the highest unit price, but the lowest term. Adidas can re-sign the contract in ten years, and then Liu

Mang is only 30, he is playing well and at his peak, and he is a guaranteed investment type; Reebok has long-term guarantee, which is of great benefit to NBA players who may retire and go bankrupt, such as Allen Iverson.

After he retired and until he was 40 years old, Reebok had to buy him hundreds of thousands of insurance every year to prevent him from going bankrupt and starving to death when he retired.

In theory, the endorsement contracts given by the three giants are of similar value. Otherwise, based on the unit price alone, you can choose Nike without hesitation.

Why can Liu Mang analyze so clearly?

Because Schwartz is really a practical person, there is a detailed analysis next to each quotation.

"Jeff, Uncle Weiss, who do you think you should choose?" Liu Mang asked.

"I prefer Reebok, it's guaranteed." Schwartz decisively chose safety. This was the basic preparation for his career, and it was also the reason why he would be fired by Jordan in the future. Of course, it also made him a

For future popular agents, we can only say that life has its ups and downs. Any choice has the same benefits and risks. It is best to stay true to your original intention.

Liu Mang felt that this choice was too consistent with Schwartz's impression of him, pragmatic but without surprises, so he was fired by Jordan, but for someone like Love who likes to be pragmatic, he has always maintained close cooperation.

Liu Mang looked at William Wesley.

Sure enough, William Wesley said: "Of course I suggest Ace that you choose Nike. I am a shareholder."

So direct!

Refreshing enough!

According to his impression, Liu Mang remembers that Nike's air-cushion shoes are always the best-selling basketball shoes. The key is that Nike has many sub-brands, which is very attractive, and whether Adidas signed or signed a contract later, it was very popular in North America.

Rose, who surpassed James, Kobe, and later Giants guard Antetokounmpo, have been losing ground in the basketball shoe market.

From a business point of view, Adidas is still more suitable for making football shoes. The NBA, an almost closed league, is too unfriendly to Adidas. Basketball players need much less equipment than football players.

Reebok... Later, because UA's strength squeezed the market and its sneakers could not be sold, it was acquired by Adidas and specialized in sports equipment.

Generally speaking, unlike Adidas and Reebok who want to be the best in everything, Nike is more focused on basketball shoes. After all, without Jordan and basketball, there would be no Nike.

Suddenly, Liu Mang thought of an interesting thing.

"Uncle Weiss, help me tell Nike that it's 90 million and 1 yuan for 7 years, and the first endorsement contract for new athletes signed within the next two years cannot be higher than my price." Liu Mang couldn't help laughing as he said this.

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"Uh... I'll ask, it shouldn't be a problem." William Wesley thought that Liu Mang would raise the price, but he didn't expect that it would be as accurate as $1, which made him a little confused about what to say.

Nike was sad to lose Yao Ming, especially because the incident caused quite bad public opinion in the Chinese market. Therefore, although the price quoted to Liu Mang was already high, it had not yet reached the bottom line.

After the sneaker endorsement was selected, Liu Mang calculated that it would be 2009 after 7 years. According to Moore's Law, information and communication at that time would begin to enter the explosive stage. Media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Weibo would enter at that time.

During the peak period of development, the value of players also began to increase exponentially from that time, and they could sign larger contracts by then.

Compared to Liu Mang's personal situation, whether it is Adidas or Reebok, the contracts are too long.

After making the decision to endorse sneakers, Liu Mang looked at a soda name that made him very curious.

Very coke?

What a nostalgic name! This is a domestic brand, but it suddenly disappeared without knowing when.

Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi offered $6 million over three years, which is quite satisfactory and the highest offer for an NBA player at this stage, and is the same as Iverson's price.

And the very good offer... is only 15 million for 3 years... soft girl coins.

Liu Mang didn't believe that this quotation was that simple, otherwise Schwarz would not have been able to come up with such a different quotation, which was less than half of that of Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

"Ace, I originally wanted to reject this, but look at the back, here..." Schwartz pointed to the last clause.
To be continued...