Reborn NBA Gao Fushuai

Jeff Reed was sitting alone in a coffee shop. He looked very calm, but only he knew that his heart was about to jump out.

Not long ago, Jeff Reid finally received a call from Vujacic. Before that, he called Vujacic every day and kept promoting himself, but the effect didn’t seem to be very good, which made him a little discouraged. , It also made him doubt whether he is suitable for the job of broker.

Just when Jeff Reid was about to give up, Vujacic actually called him. At that moment, he felt his heart was about to jump out, as if his years of hard work were coming to an end, and his life was about to meet. Come dawn.

After making an appointment to meet, Jeff Reid went to this coffee shop. When he thought that he would meet Vujacic soon, his brain suddenly went blank, and he didn't even know What to say.

Flipping through the newspaper, Jeff Reed's eyes suddenly became serious. On the front page of the newspaper was a large photo of the darling of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the little emperor LeBron James.

"asshole!"

Jeff Reed cursed as if muttering to himself.

He has known LeBron James, not only has he known him, but he has known him for a long time. In fact, they have known each other since the day James showed his basketball talent in middle school.

That's right!

Jeff Reid is James' former agent, and he has been doing it for five years.

During those five years, Jeff Reed hardly got a dollar of income from James. He just worked hard to take care of everything about James, and pushed James step by step to the position of the No. 2003 pick in the [-] NBA draft. .

But just before James signed with the Cavaliers, he chose him and terminated the contract, and plunged into the arms of a well-known agent Rich Paul.

When he learned that he was fired, Jeff Reid felt that his sky was about to collapse. He had worked hard for five years, but when it was time to harvest, others picked the peaches.

Jeff Reid is not reconciled, he is definitely not reconciled, but no matter how unwilling he is, he has nothing to do. The NBA is like this. The agent sounds like this job is decent, but in fact he is a wage earner. His employer He can be fired whenever he wants, without even paying a dollar release fee.

Losing the greatest weight to climb to the pinnacle of life made Jeff Reid disheartened. He wanted to change careers altogether and find a stable job, but he was not reconciled but made him persevere. He wanted to Find a player who is strong enough to challenge James, and let the ungrateful little emperor receive the cruelest punishment, but for a whole year, he had nothing to gain until he met Vujacic.

In fact, from the very beginning, Jeff Reid didn't think Vujacic was so good. Even if a white player can be a spearhead in a black-dominated NBA, it is really too difficult to become a superstar.

At first, he was just observing, but the more he observed, the more frightened Jeff Reid became. He is an expert, and he can tell at a glance whether a player is good or bad, and how much potential he has.

Gradually, Jeff Reid felt more and more intense shock from Vujacic, that feeling was the same as when he saw James for the first time.

When Jeff Reed met James for the first time, James did not regard basketball as his future. He was still hesitating between basketball and football. It was Jeff Reed who helped him make up his mind and let him Eventually became a basketball player.

Originally, Jeff Reed thought that he would never be able to find a player like James again, at least in the last few decades, but Wanwan never expected that he would find out that he had watched a game in Dallas before. Vujacic.

Jeff Reid had also heard of the name Vujacic before, but he didn't care about it. He just regarded Vujacic as a good newcomer.

After all, 2003 has just passed a big draft year, and it is basically impossible to achieve the same talent blowout in 2004.

But the game in Dallas shocked Jeff Reid. In Vujacic, he saw the shadow of a superstar.

Although Jeff Reid failed as an agent, he has a very unique vision for seeing people. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to value James's future at a glance from so many young players.

But it’s useless to have good vision and no contacts. NBA agents are a monopoly industry. Those with money and power have everything. If they have no money and no power, if they don’t have luck, they won’t be able to find someone who can stand in the NBA for a long time. Players with heels can only die. In this circle, some agents earn more than [-] million yuan a year, but there are still many agents here who are only subsisting.

Obviously, Jeff Reid is the latter. After losing LeBron James, his other two small players who survived in the NBA also went to other teams, making him completely alone. Therefore, Vujacic is Jeff. Reed's last hope, as long as he can sign Vujacic, he would rather make the biggest concession in terms of economic interests.

According to NBA regulations, an agent can only get 4% or less of a player's salary. A good agent will get 3%-4%, but like Jeff Reed, it is generally about 2%.

Sometimes in order to grab newcomers, they even take 1% of their salary. If a rookie player earns around 200 million yuan a year, his agent can only get 2 yuan a year, which is more than this price in the United States, let alone all year round. A well-dressed agent who appears in various high-end occasions.

In terms of the total income of NBA agents, Ian Tailem, who ranks No. The wages of players in the league can all enter the top 45% of the top crowd.

There are currently about 450 registered agents in the NBA, and only 103 of them have players under their contracts. The 103rd-ranked "Phoenix" agent is Jeff Reid, but now his ranking is no longer guaranteed. The annual income of his players is only 35 U.S. dollars, and his salary is less than 8 U.S. dollars, which is worse than the Chinese editor. Now, he doesn’t even have a player, and his income has become zero.

There are only 1000 agents in the NBA with players whose annual salary reaches 53 million, but 1000 million can only be said to be well-off, and they have truly entered the wealthy class, that is, only 5000 of their players have a total annual salary of more than 13 million. Compared with players, the competition of NBA agents is obviously more brutal.

Of course, the salary of the players is only a part. The real money for a good agent is to find endorsements and advertisements for the players, and they can get about 20% of the income at a time.

For example, when the young agent David Falcao matched Jordan and Nike, it can be said that a business has become a legend in his life. In the cooperation between Jordan and Nike, Falcao made a lot of money. Later, someone calculated that Falcao At least $5 million was earned on Jordan, but now it is too difficult to replicate the Jordan legend.

However, it is not completely impossible. At least Rich Paul, who snatched the little emperor LeBron James from Jeff Reed, is likely to replicate this legend. Before this season, he just helped James and Nike Signed a 7-year 9000 million contract.

Compared with most commercial competitions, NBA agents are definitely high-risk and monopolized industries, which are extremely risky for newcomers trying to enter.

This can also indirectly prove why after players retire, they work as coaches, businesses, team management, and even commentators, but few people choose to become a seemingly lucrative agent.

The NBA's current agent team has been fully formed. Like all social groups, NBA agents also have their own arena.

Although it seems to the outside world that the relationship between agents is intricate, in fact, these people have divided the NBA into extremely precise spheres of influence, and few people will go beyond the threshold. within the scope of their own way.

Player agents are the bridge between the NBA and players. They are responsible for the business between players and teams, as well as the communication between players and advertising companies. A good agent can turn decay into magic and make A player with mediocre qualifications gained the trust of the team and thus won a big contract, such as Nene of the Nuggets and Jerome James of the Knicks.

And a bad agent will not only affect the size of the player's signing contract, but even the backyard is on fire, and the behavior of the gentleman on the beam appears. When these behaviors occur, no matter how great the agent is for this player, it is terrible.

Taking people’s money and eliminating disasters for others is the purpose of NBA agents. They all say "behind a successful man, there is always a woman". This sentence needs to be changed in the NBA. In a successful NBA There is always an agent behind the players, although some of their actions are considered "unscrupulous", although they may sometimes be on the "opposite side" of the team and fans, as long as they can protect the interests of the players, then This broker is successful.

Jeff Reid is only one of the 450th in the circle of NBA agents. Of course, he is still a failure, but now he sees an opportunity to change his destiny, and this opportunity lies in Vujacic.