Chapter 888 The third regular season MVP
Xie Kai and his wife Zhou Jing attended the event in full dress. They had a very high appearance. If they dressed up, they would become more glamorous, just like male and female guests attending the film festival.
The award ceremony was full of stars, with many current stars, NBA celebrities, well-known journalists, and many people in the entertainment industry.
Xie Kai became the focus of attention. He is the core of the championship team this season. He won the championship and FMVP. He spent a season not only telling the world that he is still the strongest player in the league, but also helping the Thunder, a renamed team, win the long-awaited championship.
That night, Xie Kai became the biggest winner. He beat the Rockets' core bearded man and won the regular season MVP for the 2016-17 season! This is the third regular season MVP trophy in his NBA career. The most honors he has won are currently among the active players.
In addition, 11-time champion, Bill Russell won the NBA Lifetime Achievement Award, Bucks rookie Brogden won the Best Rookie Award, Egg Chasing Green won the DOPY, Eric Gordon won the Best No. 6, and Antetokounmpo won the Fastest Progressive Player Award.
Although Harden's fans were dissatisfied with Xie Kai's regular season MVP, the MVP was announced this time at the end of the season. After watching the performance of Harden and Xie Kai in the playoffs, many people stopped talking. Even if the two can compete in the regular season data and team leadership, the performance of the two in the playoffs shows a gap in grades.
Of course, the regular season MVP selection does not combine with the playoff performance, but even in the regular season, Xie Kai's performance is above Harden. His leadership and overall situation are not comparable to Harden.
The best defensive team for the 2016-17 season was also announced that night. The first defenses were: Chase Egg, Gobert, Facial Paralysis, Xie Kai and CP3.
After Xie Kai got this MVP, some media specifically took out the results he has achieved in his career and compared them with some historical superstars.
Xie Kai is currently 29 years old and has won 4 championships, 3 regular season MVPs, 3 finals MVPs, 5 teams, 6 All-Stars, 4 scoring champions, 3 steal kings, and of course some fragmented honors.
When he was 29 years old, the God of Basketball Michael Jordan won his second career championship, two regular season MVPs and finals MVPs. Judging from these, Xie Kai is even in the lead.
At the age of 29, Kobe had three championships and one regular season MVP.
So compared with these two historical No. 2 positions, Xie Kai is currently in the leading position. And he is still at the peak and his career is still long. As long as there is no major injury, he should still be able to win some great honors in the future.
No matter how many honors Xie Kai can receive when he retires, the most Asian players in the league are in the league.
After the award ceremony, Xie Kai returned to his home in Los Angeles to continue his rest. The continuous high-intensity competition left his body tired. He had not received any rest because he had been celebrating the championship before. Now he has finally calmed down and can make himself more relaxed.
In the past few days, Nike officials have been contacting his agent, hoping to reach a contract renewal with him. In fact, since he won the championship, the other party has been talking about the contract renewal with his agent.
After Xie Kai won the championship, Nike was very enthusiastic about renewing the contract, and during the offseason last year, they did not even deliberately talk about the early renewal.
Xie Kai is also very popular about this. If he hadn't shown his outstanding competitive state, if he hadn't led the team to win the championship and won two MVPs, Nike would probably think that it was difficult for him to return to the peak and was no longer as brave as he used to be. Perhaps they had already planned to win a younger superstar and felt that K God was no longer able to do it.
Although it is understandable from the interests of the company, but in terms of reason, it is hard to say that the lean camel is bigger than a horse. Are you just thinking that Xie Kai is an ordinary All-Star?
Xie Kai is not in a hurry to renew his contract with Nike. He wants to renew his contract with me and show sincerity! It’s not just you, I won’t renew your contract with you. Adidas, Converse, and Under Armour are all lined up to renew my contract with me. I am the number one superstar in the popular league!
Xie Kai and Nike's contract was signed in 2012. The contract was 5 years and the total value was US$75 million. In the past five years, he has grown into the league's top superstar. His K God series signature shoes have also become the league's best-selling signature shoes.
Nike made a lot of money for this, of course they wanted to renew their contracts, but because of the reimbursement of the season last season, their enthusiasm for renewal was reduced a lot. To be precise, it was not that they didn’t want to renew their contracts, but that they wanted to lower the price.
The lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even if Xie Kai returns from injury and returns, he is only at an ordinary All-Star level, he still has the popularity at the forefront of the league because he is a Chinese.
Xie Kai won the double MVP and once again proved that he was the top superstar, which made Nike anxious. They were afraid that Adidas and Under Armour, who had a strong momentum recently, would sign with Xie Kai first.
In fact, Adidas and Under Armour have indeed come into contact with Xie Kai, and they have been in contact very early. However, Xie Kai is still in the contract, so they cannot sign a contract with him, but building a good impression as soon as possible is the first step in cooperation.
Xie Kai is indeed not in a hurry. His contract with Nike will expire until the end of September and is still in the contract. Whether it is renewal or discussing cooperation with other companies, there is indeed plenty of time.
Xie Kai's business empire was mainly responsible for his agent Saidis Forcher and his wife Zhou Jing. Because his business value is getting bigger and bigger, his agency team is getting bigger and bigger. Not only does he have professional teams in the United States, but also in China, but also overseas teams.
In the words of Xie Kai’s mother Chen Guixiang, it is: “Our Akai is the number one superstar in the NBA and an international star, and the agency team should be international.”
Xie Kai announced through the media on June 29 that he would break out of the contract and become a complete free agent.
This is not surprising. Xie Kai signed a two-year, $53 million contract with the Thunder in the offseason last year, and the second year is the player option.
Although Xie Kai has become a complete free agent, the outside world does not think he will leave the Thunder. They just won the championship, so he has no reason not to try to defend the title next season.
The Thunder team won the championship last season, which also gave them confidence to strengthen their offseason. After all, the Big Three are so young, and the team's winning window should be able to last for a long time.
Chapter completed!