That night, Yang Jian invited the entire Sonics team to have a dinner at the famous Anthony Seafood Grill in Seattle. The players could also bring their families. As early as when he was in Detroit, he had already called to reserve a place.
Yang Jian scored 61 points against the 76ers and agreed with his teammates to treat him to a treat. Now that he is signing a contract with Nike, he wants to treat him to a treat. He plans to treat his teammates to dinner often in the future because he is about to become a member of the entire team.
The richest person.
The salary of Sonics players this season is not high, the team's total salary is only 25.86 million. Several of the team's stars are not very successful in endorsements.
The best person before was Sean Kemp, who had filmed many commercials. With his outstanding performance, he also won the favor of Reebok and signed a sneaker endorsement contract.
Kemp's first Reebok shoe is called Reebok Kamikaze, which was only put on sale this year. And because the sales of shoes for insider stars are generally not as good as those for outside stars, Kemp's annual endorsement fee is only 3.5 million.
Payton is even worse. He and Schrempf have only endorsed team shoes before, without their own exclusive shoes. This is what unpopular stars are like. Not only them, but also the Bulls' Scottie Pippen does not sell shoes.
Nike has never launched a signature shoe for Pippen, but has only launched some very recognizable sneakers for Pippen, such as the Nike Air More Up Tempo.
In a parallel world, after Payton reached the finals, Nike launched his personal ZoomGP series, with average sales. At the end of his career, he also endorsed the player version of Jordan.
Payton's style of play is not attractive, and his record is not attractive enough. Anyone who can launch exclusive shoes and become the spokesperson of a major brand is basically a very handsome player. There are also stars who are highly praised by the league and are extremely famous.
, it doesn’t matter if you are particularly ugly when playing basketball.
Yang Jian did not hide it from his teammates. During the dinner, he mentioned that he would sign a contract with Nike. "So, don't be polite to me in the future. I will treat you often."
We couldn't keep this matter secret, Snow knew about it first.
Moreover, Yang Jian will definitely hold a press conference when he signs the contract. His contract is larger than the contract signed by Anfernee Hardaway and Nike, and is second only to Michael Jordan.
Jordan is the first player in NBA history to receive a lifetime contract. When he signed this dividend-based lifetime contract with Jordan, Nike was still a little-known sports company. After signing the contract with Jordan, Nike created its subsidiary brand airjordan, itself
He also became the leader of basketball sports brands through Jordan's fame.
Yang Jian signed a big contract with Nike, which means that he will soon become the boss of the Sonics, but he lacks qualifications. Nike's promotional efforts are no joke. Wait until Yang Jian's sneaker advertisements and exclusive shoes are released.
, his exposure rate is far better than Kemp and Payton.
It's useless for teammates to be jealous. None of the three stars play as good-looking as Yang Jian. Kemp's playing style is also not as good as Yang Jian. He mainly just dunks, while Yang Jian also has a picturesque jump shot.
During the meal, everyone chatted, and the topic was all about Yang Jian.
Kevin Edwards is the person who talks the least. He feels that he will never get ahead if he stays with the Sonics. Nate McMillan, who will return in the next game, also attended the dinner. He mainly plays the 2 position.
Overlaps with Edwards.
McMillan congratulated Yang Jian and said: "I have been paying attention to the team's news, and I can't believe your performance at home. Yang, I have never seen anyone rise faster than you. Sometimes I wake up and think
I have been recovering from my injuries for several years."
The teammates all laughed. Yang Jian's rise is definitely the fastest in NBA history, faster than Chamberlain. Chamberlain was playing with a meager salary at that time, and had no advertising endorsements, no sneaker endorsements, or even basketball shoes.
The first generation of basketball shoes in the NBA were canvas shoes. At that time, people used canvas shoes as sports shoes, no matter what the sport was. It was not until 1970-1980 that the second generation of basketball shoes appeared in the NBA. In fact, it was
Changes have been made to canvas shoes, which are more comfortable than canvas shoes.
Jordan's rise was not as fast as that of Yang Jian, because Jordan was the third overall pick and had a very high starting point. Yang Jian was undrafted and had the lowest starting point in the league. After playing more than a dozen games in the regular season, he overcame a group of stars and was valued by Nike.
This incident can definitely lead to a personal biographical film in the future, which is full of legend.
After everyone dispersed after dinner, head coach George Karl said to Yang Jian: "Don't forget to train tomorrow morning. You are strong now and can be even stronger in the future. You have to focus on the basketball court."
Yang Jian nodded. "My mind has always been on the basketball court. This is a great cause."
George Karl smiled and said: "It's good if you think so. You have been in love with a movie star recently. I'm afraid that one day you will go to film a movie like O'Neal. If he does that kind of thing, he won't have time to practice, and it will definitely affect his condition.
of."
Yang Jian thought to himself: You are overthinking. O'Neal is not something that other centers can handle one-on-one if he doesn't practice. I am also this kind of person. You mortals don't understand the life of cheating.
"My current goal is to win the championship." Yang Jian believes that people who have achieved great things since ancient times will not be hindered by the love of their children. His love is a spice in life, and it cannot be the focus of life.
"Our goal is to win the championship." George Karl patted Yang Jian on the shoulder, very satisfied with his answer.
The core of the team should have such ambitions. It doesn't matter if Yang Jian fails. There will be opportunities to compete for the championship in the future. The Sonics cannot afford to wait. Kemp will stay for two more years at most. This is something everyone knows.
The next morning, Yang Jian received the only bad news recently.
Barrymore answered the phone and said apologetically: "Honey, I have to go back to Los Angeles today."
"Do you have an audition invitation?" Yang Jian asked.
"Yes, my agent said it was a Woody Allen movie and I couldn't miss the opportunity to work with him."
Anyone who is familiar with Hollywood movies must have heard of the name Woody Allen. He is an all-round talent. He has starred in and directed many movies since he wrote, directed and starred in his first work "Journey to Hell" in 1969.
Already.
Many people say that Woody Allen's movies are compulsory courses for literary youth. Yang Jian did not like his movies in his previous life, preferring popcorn commercial movies. He has watched several movie commentaries, and they were all early nonsense comedies.
Many actors in Hollywood are willing to work with Woody Allen. In 1977, Woody Allen became a famous Hollywood director. "Annie Hall" won the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Actress that year.
It has won four awards for Best Original Screenplay and is a classic work.
Later, he also filmed famous movies such as "The Legend of Xili" and "The Purple Rose of Cairo"...
Yang Jian immediately thought that Barrymore was going to audition for the musical "Everyone Says I Love You", and her partner was Edward Norton. Because the two acted so warmly in the movie, there were rumors of a scandal. Later,
Some fans said it was disappointing that Barrymore did not marry Norton.
Yang Jian knew about the movie but couldn't watch it. The music, singing and dancing were not attractive.
He only remembered that Norton proposed to Barrymore in the movie and hid the ring in the cake. Barrymore saw the cake and ate the ring, what a fool. Then the two of them went to the hospital to take a film to pick up the ring, laughing like a fool.
Similar.
"You will definitely pass the audition." Yang Jian had already guessed the result.
"But while I'm filming, I can't be with you in Seattle." Barrymore sighed.
"You want to be a strong woman, so how can you keep flying around with me and watching basketball games? I can see how tired you are and how haggard you are."
"I'm going to film a movie. You can't be too casual. If I see you have a new girlfriend on the news, I will be very sad. God, I think you will definitely have problems because you are so good with women. Restaurant
All the waitresses in there are peeking at you." Barrymore said with a wry smile.
"You are overthinking it. I am not a casual person. Eric can testify to me that I have always refused when fans asked for my phone number before."
"You promise?"
"I promise." Yang Jian smiled and asked, "Do you want to pull the hook?"
"I'm not that naive."
Barrymore doubted that Yang Jian could not be single-minded, but he was willing to promise that she was better than those pure scumbags. She was an independent person, and it was impossible for her to not work all the time.
In the afternoon, Yang Jian took Barrymore to the airport, and then took a taxi to the arena.
There is an important game tonight, the SuperSonics play against the Spurs at home.
