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After playing with Concubine Han in the Bay Area for a few days, Shou Ye is about to leave for Minneapolis.The media day and training camp of the new season are getting closer and closer, and he has to prepare for the season.

On the good side for him, he has been training this summer and is in very good physical condition.But it doesn't mean that he doesn't need special training, because the rules of FIBA ​​are different from those of the NBA, and he needs to re-adapt to the NBA's 3-point line and so on.

Shou Ye has been in China this summer, but he has not stopped paying attention to the Timberwolves' operations in the summer.

The Timberwolves did not make earthquake-level trades and signings this summer. Their salary space is limited, so they cannot sign big-name free agents.

On July 7, the Timberwolves and Kevin Martin officially signed a new contract worth $11 million over four years.

Kevin Martin is a very good scorer. He didn't get too many opportunities in the Thunder last season, and the Timberwolves won him with a contract slightly higher than the middle class, supplementing the offensive firepower on the outside.

On the day Kevin Martin signed, the Timberwolves signed Corey Brewer to a three-year contract worth approximately $3 million.

Brewer has a strong scoring ability, is a good scrambler and fast-break light cavalry, he is only 27 years old, and he is in his prime. Signing him can enrich the team's wing lineup.

On July 7, the Timberwolves signed Turiaf as a free agent for $12 million in two years.

This signing can be regarded as increasing the inside reserves of the team. Turiaf is not a strong player, but he is a very good blue-collar.

When someone comes, someone goes.The starting shooting guard at the beginning of last season, Huang Manba Roy, has announced his retirement, while the team's starting small forward AK47 Kirilenko last season did not renew his contract and signed a two-year contract with the Nets. In the first year of the contract, the salary of the mini-middle-class clause ($318 million) is provided, and there are player options in the second year.

AK47's contract last season exceeded 1000 million, while the combined contracts of Kevin Martin and Brewer were less than 1200 million.This is an upgrade of the lineup.

After all, AK47 is 32 years old, and his attendance rate last season was mediocre. It has gone downhill, and he played mediocrely in the playoffs.Even his defense, which he is best at, seems to be very ordinary, and his ability to protect the frame and assist in defense has declined seriously.

On August 8, the Timberwolves announced the official renewal of Pekovic's contract. The new contract will last for 15 years and is worth 5 million US dollars.

Shou Ye remembered that the average salary of Pekovic's renewal contract in his previous life was more than 1000 million, but because of his arrival, the opponent's playing time was squeezed, so that the opponent could only sign the middle class...

Shou Ye looked at the team's current lineup and found a big problem, that is, most of the players focus on offense and despise defense.For example, Brewer and Martin, the two important signings this summer, are equally defensive. They are both thin wings, lack of confrontation ability, and are easy to be targeted.

The team's most lacking 3D wing is a none, and such a player is a very important player in the playoffs.

Shou Ye feels that if Martin, Brewer and Love are the starting three swordsmen, the Timberwolves really don't need to expect too much in the new season's defense.Even if it's not "thousands of people stabbing", it's about the same amount.

If you want to compete for the championship with such a defensive ability, you must think too much. It is impossible for a team without defense to win the championship. This is almost an iron law of the NBA.

But this is something that Shou Ye cannot change, the only thing he can change is himself.If you become stronger and your defense doesn't hold you back, you can somewhat raise the upper limit of this team.

As for the ending, it can only be seen one step at a time.

During the training in Minneapolis, Shou Ye received a call from Zhang Mingji from China. On the phone, Zhang Mingji expressed the willingness to cooperate with several businesses and asked him if he was interested.

Of course Shou Ye is interested!

Not interested in making money?That doesn't exist!
Not only is there good news from the domestic side, but in the United States, Bill Duffy also informed Shou Ye that the one-year contract of $380 million with Nike has also expired, and now Nike wants to renew the contract.Not only Nike, Adidas also intends to sign him.

If Bill Duffy didn't say it, Shou Ye really didn't realize that the contract with Nike had expired.A year passed so quickly that he didn't feel anything.

Shou Ye is not in a hurry to renew his contract with Nike. He is completely different now than he was a year ago.At that time, he was just a potential stock that signed a big contract, but now he is an NBA All-Star starter and a star who entered the second team of the year.Not only that, he has now changed his nationality, led the Chinese men's basketball team to win the championship in the just-concluded Asian Championships, and won the MVP.Today, his popularity is already at the level of a top star in the league, and there is a vast Chinese market behind him. Even if the center does not sell shoes, Nike wants to use a small contract to buy bottoms, that is absolutely not allowed.

If you want to buy the bottom, bring a fat contract!

Back then, Yao Ming and Reebok signed a seven-year, $7 million endorsement contract, but now it is 5000. Shou Ye asked himself that his strength and popularity were not as good as Yao Ming, but if the contract offered by Nike was too shabby, he would probably choose Sign contracts with other brands.

There is no place to stay here.

Bill Duffy was very efficient, and soon, the offer from Nike came.There are two quotations in total, one is 3 million US dollars in 2000 years, and the other is 5 million US dollars in 3000 years.

Shou Ye did some calculations. Taking the three-year contract as an example, it was less than 3 million a year.

The average salary of Yao Ming's contract back then was almost 700 million US dollars, which is not a lot if you calculate it this way.

Shou Ye told Bill Duffy that he chose a three-year contract, but the price still needs to be increased.

The reason why he chose 3 years instead of 5 years is also because he has confidence in his future.If in the next 3 years he enters a team or even wins the MVP, then the endorsement contract will naturally be even bigger. 5 years is still too long, anything can happen.

Shou Ye is so confident because Nike really wants to sign him, the most popular foreign player in the league.How big is the Chinese market, and Nike knows a lot more than many keyboard warriors and ball masters.

As for Shou Ye's potential, I am afraid that the sky is his limit.The biggest problem now is that Chinese players are physically impatient and their career length is limited, which is why they only propose a five-year contract at most.

These longevity leaves don't care, his idea is very simple, just to get more money, it's as simple as that.

It is never shameful to make money, let alone make money through formal channels.

In the end, Nike compromised, and they signed a 3-year endorsement contract with a total price of 2500 million US dollars with Shou Ye!

After Shou Ye signed the contract, the agent Bill Duffy was the happiest.He was glad that he promised Yao Ming to sign this yellow-skinned big man. Now it seems that this will be the most correct thing he did in his career.