lakers championship

Chapter 134
Adidas' decline in the US market seems to have started from missing Jordan.

Fortunately, they signed Kobe and McGrady, two high school superstars, to get a little respite.

But a stupid team can't seize the opportunity even if it is in front of them.Therefore, they rejected Kobe's request for an increase in endorsement fees and a more scientific design of sneakers after his contract expired in 02.

Even though Kobe switched to Nike, Adidas still took the initiative in the sneaker market at that time.

Until they miss historic high schooler LeBron James.

The reason for the miss is very absurd. When they designed LeBron's signature shoes in advance and offered a maximum guarantee contract of 1 million US dollars in advance, they flinched at the last signing moment.

The reason for the retreat was that Adidas CEO Herbert Hainer was worried that LeBron would not be able to create a market value of $1 million.

It's like a man who exhausted all means, chased the goddess for three years, and immediately hit a home run, but worried that the goddess would not live well, then put on his pants and left.

How dare you believe it?

After losing LeBron, Adidas suffered a siege in the field of basketball shoes.Tracy McGrady, Billups, Duncan, Arenas, Garnett, and later Howard, Rose, and Harden failed to help them reverse the situation.

Now, Adidas has another chance.

As long as they sign SkyOcean, not to mention a complete turnaround, at least they have a very high hope of a tie with Nike.

So this time Adidas directly offered a 10-year contract of 3 million U.S. dollars, without considering the feelings of the current top star Harden, and issued a death order to sign Tianyang, completely treating him as Jordan.

It's a pity that Adi's confidentiality work was so poor that the details of the contract were easily leaked.

Of course, there may be false news, used to disrupt the thinking of Nike and other manufacturers.

In the Nike conference room, Phil Knight frowned, trying to discern the authenticity of the news.

He thought for at least 3 minutes before slowly saying, "You guys discuss it."

Eden said immediately: "If Adidas tries to deceive us, the best strategy should be to deliberately lower the price, let us also set a higher price, and then win."

Greg shook his head: "Not necessarily, maybe they are trying to scare us off, and then complete the contract with a relatively low price..."

Before finishing this sentence, Phoebe interrupted ahead of time: "Then they are too stupid. As long as we, Under Armour, and Reebok make an offer of nearly 10 million in 3 years, wouldn't they lose everything?"

"It makes sense..." Greg mused upon hearing this.

The discussion reached a stalemate again, but at this time Phil Knight suddenly asked: "I just heard that a contract was signed with Tianyang, what is the specific content?"

Eden quickly replied: "There is no basic salary and no upper limit. The money is paid based on the achievements of Tianyang. We have calculated with probability. Even if Tianyang starts to harvest honors from the rookie season, it will be about 1800 million a year on average."

"This contract is very well designed, why was it cancelled?" Phil Knight asked again.

Eden didn't dare to speak, but Greg said in a trembling tone: "Back then, Tianyang was seriously injured in the NCAA finals. I was worried that he would lose his ability to play in the NBA, so I proposed to cancel the contract, intending to save the company 100 million dollars... ..."

"Haha, it's funny to spend an extra 100 million now for [-] million." Phil Knight smiled bitterly and angrily, "You can go to the financial settlement tomorrow, and Eden didn't insist on signing the contract, and deducted half a year. Bonuses. Don’t worry about the signing, I’ll take care of it.”

As soon as this remark came out, the executives in the entire conference room looked ugly.

The old man, who has already retired, wants to do it himself, what's the use of them?
Phil Knight left the conference room, returned to his own office, and made a couple of phone calls.

The first phone call was to his son, asking him to put down his work and come to the company to help him.

The second call was to Jordan, asking him to come forward and sign Tianyang.

Because in 03, Nike offered Yao Ming a four-year, 4 million contract, which directly led to Yao Ming's switch to Reebok.

The loss of Yao Ming severely reduced Nike's share in the Asian market at the time.

And this time Nike canceled the contract when Tianyang was injured, it must be a great insult to Tianyang, and it may be even more serious than what happened to Yao Ming back then.

Even if Nike offers a 10-year, $10 billion contract, SkyOcean probably won't re-sign.

Instead of letting Adidas, Under Armour, and Reebok succeed, it is better to help the partners win SkyOcean.

If you can't eat meat, you have to get a share.

……

At 31:7 pm on the [-]st, the Lakers challenged the Thunder away and began a pre-match ceremony.

In the 16th season, the Thunder lost Durant, the team's top general, and sent Ibaka away in exchange for Oladipo and Sabonis. The Oklahoma City Legion that fought against the peak LeBron, only Westbrook was left.

Durant left, allowing the Thunder to choose to re-sign with Westbrook.

This seems to have inspired Westbrook's fighting spirit. In the first two games, he averaged a large triple-double of 30+10+10 per game, and led the team to two consecutive victories, heading directly for the MVP.

As for the Lakers, Tianyang also got close to 30+10 data in the first two games, and also led the team to two consecutive victories.

One is a long-established superstar, and the other is a rookie who has just entered the field. The encounter between the two added too much to the game.

But this is not over yet. After the pre-match ceremony was over and the lights were turned on, the Thunder fans suddenly found that in the auditorium on the left side of the field, there were the new CEO of Adidas Caspar Rorsted and the founder of Under Armour. Kevin Plank, and Reebok President O'Toole.

These three people are considered big names, but they are far behind the Nike founder Phil Knight and the basketball god Michael Jordan in the audience on the right side of the court.

It is obvious that all five of them came from the sky.

Wei Shao has such a violent temper, why can't he grab Tianyang's limelight?

There is one more aspect of the game.

In a blink of an eye, the game officially started, and Adams won the jump ball.

Westbrook took the ball to the frontcourt, reached the three-point line, took advantage of Clarkson's inattention, and directly rushed to the basket.

Too fast, too strong, too high, unstoppable, Westbrook scored with a one-handed dunk.

Changing the Lakers offense, Clarkson took the ball across the half court and wanted to pass it to Randall at the top of the arc, but the Lakers played too many offensive tactics in the last two games, the Thunder had already prepared, and he hadn't made a shot yet, Sabonis Standing in front of Randall, he froze for a moment.

Westbrook seized the moment when he was in a daze and jumped up again, knocking the ball away from his hand.

The basketball rolled quickly on the floor, and Westbrook, Tianyang, and Robertson ran over at the same time.

Westbrook grabbed the basketball with great skill and rushed to the frontcourt at high speed.But Tianyang did not give up, and continued to chase after him.

The two arrived at the free throw line one after the other, and Westbrook took another step and took off directly for a dunk.

Tianyang also jumped up. Although he was a step slower than Westbrook, he took advantage of his height and wingspan to slap Westbrook with a big hat.

This block made Jordan frowned on the sidelines, and he said to himself: "Could it be true that the rumor that this kid has increased his bounce due to injury?"

(End of this chapter)