NBA Ten Thousand Worlds Bishop

Chapter 315 Great Tang Tang Zhengdong

In fact, it has only been a few years since Chinese basketball took the path of professionalization. It was only after 95 that it began to take shape, and it has only been about four years now.

In the whole of Asia, the basics of basketball are actually not good. The best basketball commercialization is definitely not the Chinese men's basketball team, but the Philippines...

The professionalization of the Philippine men's basketball team started quite early, and it can be said that it is the second professional basketball league outside the NBA in the world.

The popularity of basketball in the Philippines is quite high, but the strength of the Philippine men's basketball team is not very good, and it is not very eye-catching in Asia.

So from this perspective, it may not be a good thing for basketball to go commercial.

But now the Chinese men's basketball team has to take the path of commercialization. The effect of training players in various provinces is naturally very good, but basketball is a sport that requires a lot of investment and little output...

Men’s basketball and women’s basketball add one piece to a total of two gold medals. Unlike sports such as weightlifting, table tennis, badminton, and diving, which are subdivided into many sports, you can get more gold medals. For example, Olympic gold medals.

Therefore, all provinces have basically given up on basketball, a high-input and low-output sport, and can only make basketball commercialized and self-sufficient.

The arrival of Davidson will undoubtedly provide the Chinese men's basketball team with a lot of advanced commercialization advice.

After staying in the capital for half a month, Jiang Xingquan took Davidson to Jiangsu to sign a coaching contract with Nangang.

Although Nangang is located in the affluent Jiangsu, it is actually not that kind of rich team.

To be precise, the current CBA has no rich teams.

Nanjing Iron and Steel's management respects Davidson very much, but they can't offer a big contract.

In the end, a contract with an annual salary of 100 million yuan was given, which must be a lot less than Davidson's salary in the NBA.

You must know that Davidson can get 500 million US dollars in the NBA. If it is converted into RMB, it will be close to 4000 million...

100 million compared to 4000 million, it must be pitifully small.

But compared to other CBA coaches, it is definitely a sky-high price. Not to mention coaches, not many players can win this high salary.

Players in the 90s, when the CBA was not established, the salary of the players was quite low.

Even in Davidson's opinion, it was ridiculously low.

For example, Gong Xiaobin of the golden generation has a monthly salary of only [-]...

That's right, it's 5000 RMB.

And Liu Yudong, a big player in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, doesn't even have a guaranteed monthly salary, and only 200 yuan a day for training.

This is not a matter of ancient times, but a matter of a few years ago. It is conceivable why everyone wants to play in the NBA, because the salary they earn is really not the same level.

Gong Xiaobin, the main force of the men's basketball team, only has a monthly salary of [-] dollars, and if converted into US dollars, the annual salary is almost [-] US dollars.

In the NBA, even with the lowest basic salary, you can at least get ten times or twenty times the salary...

Athletes eat their youth food, who doesn't want to make more money before they can't play, so as to find stability for the rest of their lives.

Now that they have embarked on the commercial route, the treatment of players is naturally much better. Last season, the CBA offered a sky-high contract.

BJ Aoshen gave Ma Jian a super contract with an annual salary of 100 million RMB.

This contract frightened many people, and directly made Ma Jian the most beautiful player in the CBA.

You must know that Yao Ming does not have such a high salary playing in the CBA now.

The high-end community on the third ring road of BJ is less than 200 square meters. Ma Jian's annual salary can buy a big house of [-] square meters in the third ring road of BJ.

Apart from Ma Jian, players with an annual salary of 50, let alone millions, are rare, and the entire CBA cannot find a slap in the face.

So it can also be seen from this that the Nangang team attaches great importance to Davidson, and such a salary gives Davidson the respect he deserves.

Davidson certainly didn't care about the salary. After arriving at the Nangang team, he first chatted with Hu Weidong, the leader of Nangang.

In the past few years, Hu Weidong was very brilliant in the CBA, but his record has not been very good. In addition to his injuries in the past two years, Hu Weidong's state has declined significantly.

He also thought about leading Nangang to a CBA championship before he retired, although the possibility of this is not very high.

Davidson patted his chest and promised to get Hu a championship ring before he retired.

After chatting with Lao Hu, Davidson approached Tang Zhengdong, a young center of the Nangang team.

Chatting with Lao Hu, Davidson is completely in a private capacity, while chatting with Tang Zhengdong, Davidson is in the official capacity of the team.

The Nangang team heard that Davidson was planning to train Tang Zhengdong into the kind of superstar who could score 50+20+10 in the CBA, so it was naturally up to Davidson to arrange.

A super center with an average of 50 points, 20 rebounds and 10 blocks per game makes Nanjing Iron and Steel's management excited.

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In the player's dormitory, Davidson sat opposite Tang Zhengdong.

"Da Tang, do you have any career plans for the future?" Davidson asked Tang Zhengdong with a smile.

Although Tang Zhengdong is extremely young now, his nickname is still Datang.

Similar to the nickname of young Yao Ming called Dayao.

Young Chinese insiders, because of their tall stature, are generally nicknamed big characters.

Dayao, Daba, Dazhi, Datang and even the later King Wang Zhelin...

As for outside players, they are nicknamed in small characters.

For example, Xiao Ding, Xiao Guo, Xiao Zhang, etc...

This is quite Chinese.

Of course, these big Yao Xiaoding will definitely not be called that when they are not young and become veteran players in the future. They will have to be called Brother Yao and Brother Ding in the team.

Now Tang Zhengdong's nickname is Datang.

Hearing Davidson's question, Tang Zhengdong smiled shyly.

"Coach, I also want to play in the NBA like them."

When Datang mentioned them, he was naturally referring to Daba and Dazhi.

Bus signed a five-year contract with the Kings before, with a total contract value of 800 million U.S. dollars!
This is because the coach felt that the team's salary was tight, so he deliberately lowered his salary.

You must know that for players like Daba, there are already teams in the league who are willing to sign with a salary of [-] million U.S. dollars for six years.

Seventy-eight million, and it's still in US dollars, this is an extremely huge temptation for any professional player.

Players like Datang, in fact, if you want to say how much they really love basketball, it’s not enough.

The high probability of going this way is because their height can only go this way.

If you can earn as much salary as a bus, even if it is only for one year, you will have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime.

Even if he doesn't get the same treatment as the bus, with Dazhi's current rookie contract, he can live comfortably for the rest of his life.

So Datang's answer did not surprise Davidson at all.

(End of this chapter)