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The end of the regular season, for those teams that did not make the playoffs, means that all work will start again, and for the players of the team, it means the coming of a long vacation, which means complete relaxation, Those who should go on vacation can go to play, and for those teams that have reached the playoffs, the playoffs mean the beginning of a more intense fight.

From the first game to the championship at the very end, winning the supreme O'Brien Cup, four rounds of fighting, none of which can be easily won, but there can only be one winner. Before the start of the first game of the playoffs, an all-player meeting without any members of the management and coaching staff was held in a large and bright conference room.

Since the playoff roster is limited to 13 players, and last season, there were still 12 players. After selection, the final roster reported by the Spurs is as follows: Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Ginobili, Michael Finn Leigh, Mohamed, Oberto, Stephen, Brent Barry, Robert Horry, Van Exel, Nesterovic, Bruce Bowen, Udic.

As for Max and Sanders, we can only let the two of them enjoy the warm sunshine of the Mediterranean Sea first. With their salaries, they may not be willing to travel so far, and the beaches in Florida are also very good. There were no trades in the middle of the season, so the thirteen guys sitting in the conference room were all teammates who worked together all season.

The purpose of the meeting is to unify everyone's thinking and unify everyone's thinking to win the championship. This is the first time Stephen participated in such a meeting. The meeting was not as grand and serious as imagined. Qi sat in the farthest position.

As the boss of the team, Duncan was the first to speak up. He first told a bad joke and made everyone laugh. Then Duncan began to talk about the hardships and tribulations from the beginning of this season to the present. Then he talked about Michael Finley and After Van Exel came to the team, he performed conscientiously.

Because the two of them came to the Spurs for the championship, especially Michael Finley. After being given up by the Mavericks, with his strength, many teams are vying for it. Why can the Spurs sign him with a low salary? He, in addition to his salary from the Mavericks, the Spurs are also the team most likely to win the championship.

After talking about the two of them, Duncan praised Stephen's performance again, thanked Stephen for his contribution to the team, and then looked forward to the Spurs' road to the playoffs. After some comments, Duncan ended his speech.

Then I started to speak according to the order of the seats. There is no fixed rule for speaking. Anyone who wants to say anything can say something. Those who like to talk can say a few more words. Those who don’t like can just wave their hands. Anyway, the atmosphere of the team is very Well, very harmonious, in short, this is a united conference, a successful conference, a victorious conference.

When Stephen and the others were having a meeting, the team’s staff were also busy. The ticket sales had already been completed. At the beginning, we have to engage in some activities and so on, all of which need commercial promotion to design.

The Spurs face the Sacramento Kings in the first round of the playoffs, while the rest of the Western Conference faces the Phoenix Suns against the Los Angeles Lakers, the Denver Nuggets against the Los Angeles Clippers, and the Dallas Mavericks against Memphis. Grizzlies.

In the expert prediction program before the game, ESPN organized more than 40 experts to be optimistic about the Spurs winning the first round. Half of the experts predicted that the Spurs would cross the Kings, and most of the rest believed that [-] to [-] was more reasonable. Only One pundit suggested it might be four to two.

In short, these are two teams with relatively different strengths. No one is optimistic that the Kings can stage the "Black Eight Miracle". In the remaining matchups, only the Suns predict the Lakers. They performed miraculously and even scored 81 points at the Staples Center, but their strength is still far inferior to the Suns. If the team can win, it will also play the seventh game.

With the end of the regular season, various awards began to be announced gradually. On the night of 51 points, the best rookie will naturally no longer have any disputes. Stephen also discovered that he might still win the best sixth man award. As long as the number of times a substitute player plays is greater than the number of starting games, he can compete for this award. Stephen has just returned to the substitute lineup in the last few games.

Many people appealed that the rotation method like the Spurs is unfair to other players, because the substitute players of other teams rarely get so much and stable playing time like Stephen, otherwise if they simply In terms of scoring, Stephen has an absolute advantage. He averaged more than [-] points per game. The highest remaining is Mike Miller of the Memphis Grizzlies, who averaged [-] points per game. Moreover, Stephen's rebounds and assists The numbers also have an advantage, so the award for the best sixth man seems to belong to Stephen.

If Stephen gets these two awards, he will become the first player in the league to win these two awards at the same time. Most of the best rookies have entered the team's starting lineup from the beginning, like Stephen has been staying in the team. There are very few substitutes.

Stephen doesn't care too much about these two awards, because relatively speaking, the gold content of these two awards is not too high. Although Stephen's average data per game is among the best rookies in recent years, only the "little ones" of the [-] generation "Emperor" James is comparable, but there are still many people who say that Stephen can win this award. In addition to the Spurs' system bonus, the quality of this year's rookies is too poor. Otherwise, it will not be said that Stephen won this award. awards.

Stephen never responded to such sour words. What's the use of responding, as long as he can get this award, people who say such things are not qualified to decide. It is a rare honor that is awarded to only one player in a season. Although there are only about 300 rookies, there are more than [-] substitute players in the league.

For these two awards, Wake Company is more important than Stephen. It has prepared a marketing plan for Stephen in advance. Although Stephen did not cooperate with the last night of 51 points, they launched a special version of Stephen's generation in the color of the holy city Still a great success.

This time they are still going to use Stephen's generation as the blueprint, and then produce a best rookie version and a best sixth man version of limited-edition sneakers, which will be released globally in [-] and [-] pairs, representing Stephen in the second generation. They won these two awards in the [-] and [-] seasons. At the same time, they are designing the new Stephen II. They can’t always rely on one product to dominate the world. The contract signed is two years. How about launching only one product? Not too bad.

The design of the first generation was a little more anxious. Although the quality was not bad at Stephen's request, in general, this pair of shoes is really not a very high-quality shoe. Stephen gave Coupard a few pairs. Pad stopped wearing it after wearing it twice, saying that it felt a little uncomfortable to wear, and he couldn't help stepping on it at the same time.

In the design of Stephen II, the official name of the product has not yet been determined, but we have listened to a lot of opinions from Stephen during the design process. At the same time, the design also combined Stephen's own character and image, and added a lot of high-tech elements. Samples After it came out, Stephen tried it, and he felt that it was no worse than the player-specific version produced by Nike or Adidas.

Is this Wick company not bad? This is the first time for Stephen to have a good impression of this company. Although the first cooperation with Stephen felt a bit kidnapped, but after working together for such a long time, I feel that this company is not weak at all. Cooperating with large companies has the benefits of large companies, and cooperating with small companies also has the benefits of small companies.

A company's resources revolve around you alone, and the energy exerted is absolutely different from a company that only gives you one percent or one thousandth of its resources. Wake basically puts all The resources are concentrated on Stephen. Although there is no harvest in the North American market, it can be regarded as the best-selling sneaker in China.

For example, the boss of the company came to meet with Stephen. If it were Nike, Adidas or Reebok, they would not do this. It would be impossible to have a supervisor, because they have too many stars under their banner, and it is impossible to do this for Stephen. A player to spend so much effort.

Like the Lux male perfume signed this time, although it is a world brand and the requirements are not many, the amount of the contract is not too much. At the same time, since there are so many targets to choose from, you don't have much bargaining power. If you don't want to sign it, you don't have to sign it. Unlike the sneaker contract, Wake Company almost begged Stephen to sign it.

A big brand contract is like a glamorous appearance, but it is not affordable. A small brand is like a big bun with a thin skin and a lot of meat. It is not good but affordable. Both have their own advantages. After the conclusion was concluded, Mordance told him that Hewlett-Packard had just sent an intention to invite Stephen to act as the Asian spokesperson for their Compaq sub-brand.

Hewlett-Packard is a world-class big company, but since Compaq Computer was acquired by Hewlett-Packard, although it still retains this brand, Hewlett-Packard does not pay much attention to it, and the price offered is only 20 US dollars, and the contract is only one year. Promise or not?Stephen hesitated.

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I don’t know what happened, but I was so dizzy that the code was not sent out. This is Chapter 174. I am adding it now.