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Chapter 89 Carnival

At the end of the game, the Heat's record came to 35 wins and 15 losses.

The Heat defeated the Nets, Li Lei played a burst performance, and the voices questioning him were much less.

Although still there, it is much cleaner than before.

The Heat have four games left before the All-Star break.

February 2, Knicks vs Heat (home).

On February 2, the Heat vs. Pacers (away).

On February 2, the Lakers vs. the Heat (home).

On February 2, Heat vs. Magic (away).

The Heat defeated the Knicks, lost to the Pacers and Lakers, and slaughtered the Magic, achieving 2 wins and 2 losses.

The overall record came to 37 wins and 17 losses.

It is worth mentioning that the All-Star voting is the last day.

Jermaine O'Neal's votes soared suddenly, crushing Li Lei by 10 votes.

But in the last three hours, Li Lei's votes increased by 50, which in turn crushed O'Neal by 40 votes.

Li Lei's total votes reached 200 million, second only to Carter's 212 million votes.

This wave of changes stunned all fans, but the inside story is meaningful.

Many people want the league to review the voting system again.

The result of the review is: nothing wrong.

Domestic fans look at the United States from a distance, with contempt on their faces: Compared with the number of people, do we still need to cheat?
If Yao Ming and Francis hadn't split up the votes, it would have been easy for Li Lei to win the vote.

In this way, the 2004 All-Star voting is over, the starting lineup has been determined, and the coaches have also selected the substitutes.

Western starters: Yao Ming, Garnett, Duncan, Kobe, Francis.

Substitutes: O'Neal, Ray Allen, Brad Miller, Peja, Cassel, Nowitzki, Kirilenko.

Eastern starters: Big Ben, Carter, Li Lei, McGrady, Iverson.

Substitutes: Kidd, Reed, Pierce, Artest, O'Neal, Odom, Baron Davis.

Kenyon Martin once claimed that if Li Lei was selected as an All-Star, he would refuse to play.

This is good, there is no need for him to reject the alliance, the alliance has already rejected him.

There is also his teammate Kidd. After being selected as an All-Star, he has no intention of refusing to play.

For this matter, Martin's social media has been captured by fans.

Martin became a joke for a while.

……

In addition, the list of rookies has also been determined.

First grade: Wade, Hinrich, James, Anthony, Kaman, Josh Howard, Bosh, Haslem, Li Lei.

Second grade: Ginobili, Stoudemire, Boozer, Yao Ming, Prince, Nene, Dunleavy, Jarich, Murray.

Caron Butler also received an invitation to the second-year team, but he declined because of a minor injury.

In addition, Li Lei accepted the invitation to the three-point contest.

He has a full schedule.

Participate in group activities on the first day.

The rookie game on the second day.

The third day of the three-point contest.

The fourth day of the All-Star Game.

The Heat also had a bumper harvest this time. Li Lei, Wade, Haslem, and Odom can form a group to participate in activities in Los Angeles.

2 month 12 day.

The Heat did not play, and the team took an early vacation.

Li Lei first went back to Los Angeles to spend a day with his parents, and then took them to spend the All-Star Weekend together.

But even on this day, Li Lei couldn't relax.

Bill Duffy brought the head of Nike to negotiate a contract.

There are three levels of sneaker contracts: signature shoe contracts, cash contracts, and merchandise contracts.

The highest-level signature shoe contracts belong to the NBA's top big-name stars, and only a dozen or so stars can get such contracts at the same time.

The medium is the cash contract, and the league generally has 70 to 100 people who can get such a contract.

The lowest level is the commodity contract, which is signed by most NBA players.

Nike offered Li Lei the highest-level signature shoe contract.

With Li Lei's current strength, of course he is not worthy, and a large part of this is thanks to Yao Ming.

In 2002, Yao Ming just entered the league, and he also wore Nike in the first year.

When the contract was renewed in the summer of 03, Yao Ming's team wanted a contract with an annual salary of at least 100 million US dollars, but Nike only gave Yao Ming 4 million US dollars for 160 years.

You must know that at almost the same time, Nike gave James $7 million for 9100 years and Kobe Bryant $5 million for 4500 years.

When Yao Ming's team proposed a million-year salary, the person in charge of Nike also said: I think you are joking.

This sentence directly angered Yao Ming.

The competitor Reebok heard the news and immediately offered a 7-year contract of 5000 million US dollars.

When Nike heard about it, they immediately regretted it and added it to 7 million US dollars in 1.2 years.

But what is Yao Ming's temper?
Even if the price difference of 7000 million U.S. dollars is not wanted, it is also necessary to break with Nike.

Nike regretted it too late.

So this time, Nike has to sign Li Lei no matter what, to make up for the previous losses, and use Li Lei to open up the Chinese market, which is half a year late.

Just after Li Lei played for a month, Nike contacted Bill Duffy and offered him $3 million for three years.

Later, Li Lei scored the fourth youngest 30+ in history, and the price given by Nike was 4 million US dollars in 800 years.

Afterwards, Li Lei won the Rookie of the Month award in January, and his contract with Nike was $1 million for five years.

Until recently, the person in charge of Nike watched the game between the Heat and the Nets live, and the contract he gave was 5 years and 2500 million US dollars.

Coupled with the fact that Li Lei was selected as an All-Star in his rookie year, Nike can't wait.

Their bottom line is $5 million over five years.

Duffy couldn't bear it anymore.

So I decided to get the sneaker contract before this year's All-Star Weekend.

But Li Lei refused.

The reason is that the contract time is too long.

"Bill, I'm only willing to sign a two-to-three-year contract at most."

After deliberation, Li Lei told Duffy.

Duffy was stunned: "This is 3000 million US dollars. If you only sign for 2 to 3 years, the annual income will be much less."

Li Lei nodded: "I know, but I want to understand. After this contract, I can sign a new one."

Duffy: "..."

He understood, Li Lei was confident.

He is confident that he can make rapid progress in these two to three years and sign a bigger contract at that time.

what!
Young people, ambition is big.

Now that Li Lei has made a decision, Duffy can only follow the client's intention.

In the end, Li Lei signed a two-year, $2 million contract with Nike.

……

the next morning.

Li Lei's family came to the Staples Center early.

Su Qun also joined Li Lei.

In the next 4 days, Su Qun will record Li Lei's first all-star tour.

The first day is a basketball theme park event specially designed for fans, also called a carnival.

Fans can experience a variety of interesting basketball projects here.

For example, the organizer has collected a lot of footprints and handprints of stars, and fans can compare them, and they can intuitively feel that O'Neal's footprints are twice as big as their own.

You can also find reference players who are the same height as you from the 160:226 star drawing board from the 1cm "Little Bug" Boggs to the 1cm "Little Giant" Yao Ming.

This is called "comparison".

In addition, there are test, buckle, jump, fly, bounce, throw, match, fight, fight, chase, buy, buy, take a look , Take a photo and more than a dozen interesting activities.

Fans can participate in fun activities, play sports, play games, meet stars, and get prizes here.

Really cool!
If you still don't understand, just think of it as a Chinese temple fair.

(End of this chapter)