In the basketball world, starting from the 99 World Youth Championship

Chapter 12 The agent is confirmed, and the Sky Team is established

With the Chinese team's qualifying in the group stage and Zhang Tian's performance in the World Youth Championship, he has become a favorite in the eyes of many agents. Although this guy has signed up for the draft, he is still There are no brokers.

So in these days when the Chinese team is preparing for the knockout round, many sports agents are around Lisbon.Because the next three games of the Chinese team will be played here.

Zhang Tian is definitely a great discovery in this World Youth Championship. Of course, besides him, there is another person who also performed well, but it is a pity that that guy already has an agent.And compared to Zhang Tian, ​​that guy has more than two years of professional game experience, so in terms of draft prices, that guy is much better than Zhang Tian.Zhang Tian's current draft pick is in the middle of the first round or the second round, while that guy is in the lottery, in the middle of the first round.

But coincidentally, the opponent's team is in the same group as the Chinese team, and Zhang Tian will have a direct dialogue with him. If he wins that person in the direct dialogue, it will be of great help to Zhang Tian's improvement in the draft. .

After Yue Pengfei and Li Lin were scolded by Wang Fei for a few days, their attitudes improved a lot. Maybe they were not convinced in their hearts, but they still listened to the order of the head coach. The group stage is completely different, which will directly affect their future careers.

Zhang Tian didn't get carried away by the Portuguese media's praise, and felt that he was really the No.1 of this World Youth Championship. In addition to Zhang Tian, ​​there are two future NBA All-Star players in this World Youth Championship.

That's why the system issued that task. He didn't say to force the Chinese team to win the championship, because the MVP of the World Youth Championship is not based on the results, but based on your influence on the team and the improvement of the team's previous record.Therefore, although the U.S. team won many championships in the U19 World Youth Championship, this is the reason why there are so few MVPs.Who made it impossible for their upper limit to increase.

"Xiao Zhang, you're still training. It's really hard work. When I saw you, I thought of us at that time." Zhang Tian finished another group of shooting training, sat down to drink water, and Zhang Lili brought the two of them over. .

Zhang Tian didn't know the two middle-aged people, but Weiping Bryant immediately introduced them, "These two are agents in our circle, he is Xia Song, and this is Zhang Mingji , but there are players under the flag, Xiao Xia has Dazhi and Daba, and Xiaozhang has Dayao and Liu Wei. They are both very interested in you. So I brought them here."

Ever since Zhang Weiping got acquainted with Zhang Tian, ​​he has come here whenever he has something to do. Compared with Su Junyang and others, this player-born basketball media person is more willing to let Zhang Tian get in touch with some people.

"Hi, you two. Why do you two want to choose me, especially Manager Xia, isn't your Wang Zhizhi in the same draft this year, and his market is much better than mine."

Zhang Tian is telling the truth. Although he led the Chinese team to make a big splash in the World Youth Championship, after all, this is just a child's play, not a professional arena. Wang Zhizhi's draft price is in the middle or end of the first round, and he will not fall second round.

Zhang Mingji is not as enthusiastic about Zhang Tian as Xia Song is, because Yao Ming in his hand is much better than the former. If Yao Ming participates in the draft this year, not to mention the number one pick, at least the lottery is still safe. Today, he was just pulled by Zhang Reasonable It's just that he came, and the person in charge of the Yao team in the future doesn't think much of this relationship with the National Youth Team.

Xia Song pursed his lips, organized his words and said, "Although your current draft market is not as good as Dazhi, I still want to gamble on you, because you are still young, even if the NBA is not selected, you can return to the domestic league to develop. , but I think this kind of situation is unlikely to happen, if I miss you, I will regret it for the rest of my life."

Xia Song knew that the cards in his hand were not as good as Zhang Mingji's, and Zhang Mingji had no interest in Zhang Tian, ​​but there were many agents in China who were interested in Zhang Tian.

Zhang Tian knew about Xia Song. If Wang Zhizhi hadn't had that incident back then, maybe his status in the basketball circle would not be lower than that of Zhang Mingji.And Zhang Mingji obviously came here to make up the numbers.

"Okay, then we can talk about the specific agreement." Xia Song was relieved by Zhang Tian's words, while Zhang Mingji found an excuse to leave. In the eyes of the latter, Xia Song was a waste of time. Since Wang Zhizhi participated in the draft Well, why not focus all your attention on the former, why are you doing such nonsense.Do you really think Zhang Tian, ​​a guy who has never played a professional game, can be selected by an NBA team?How blind that team must be.

Zhang Tian and Xia Song came to the hotel where they were staying. At the door of the hotel, they met a man. This man was a black man with a height of only about six feet one. The most striking thing about him was that his eyes were particularly bright.

"Hello, Zhang Tian, ​​I'm Rich Paul, an agent from Cleveland, can we talk?"

Agent from Cleveland?This Zhang Tian is much more familiar than Xia Song, James' right-hand man in the future, and Xia Song felt a crisis, "Okay. Then let's talk inside."

Xia Song was a little discouraged, but he was not one to give up lightly, so he followed.

"Let me introduce to you, this is also my agent and will become the head of my agent team in the future, and you are only in charge of my business in the United States, is there a problem?"

Zhang Tian didn't circle around at all, and cut straight to the point. Rich Paul was a little confused. He was actually here to try his luck. He had just graduated from high school for less than a year. Although he had an agent license, he didn't have a single player under him. This year's World Youth Rich Paul didn't like any of the guys from the US team in the game, because he felt that none of them had any star appearance.

And coming to Zhang Tian's side is just a matter of luck. After all, Zhang Tian still has a reputation in the American broker circle. Perhaps David Falk is not interested in predatory brokers, but some mid-level brokers are not interested. The agent is quite interested in this swingman from the far east.And Zhang Tian directly agreed to this guy who was an empty-handed white wolf, which made Rich Paul feel grateful. If he failed this time, he would have to do other jobs to make ends meet.

Rich Paul took a deep breath, "Aren't you afraid that I'm a liar if you trust me so much?"

Zhang Tian smiled inscrutably, "I trust my intuition." Zhang Tian's words made the atmosphere in the whole room a lot easier.

In this way, the three men began to discuss in the hotel, and Zhang Tian borrowed the operating model of Team Yao from his previous life. Although Rich Paul is currently a newcomer in the circle of American agents, No matter what, he has a wider network than Xia Song, a domestic agent.And the name of this team is - Team Sky.

(End of this chapter)