stadium ambition

Chapter 98 Losers Alliance

On July 4st, US Western Time, the door to the NBA free market opened, and various revelations came out one after another. Su Yang officially signed a 2330-year rookie contract worth 498 million US dollars with the Clippers, of which [-] million US dollars in salary for the first year was advanced in advance.

Immediately afterwards, Su Yang began to discuss the endorsement contract with KFC in the Greater China region. The two parties met at his villa on the hillside in Hollywood. The discussion lasted for three days. After repeatedly studying various details, the signing was finally completed.

After getting the endorsement fee, he added the previously advanced salary to make angel investment in WAPP, leaving less than a million dollars for daily expenses, such as sports cars, famous watches, luxury goods and other things that depreciate at a very fast rate. .

The selection of the general manager of the Clippers started at the same time. The inspection team headed by co-executive chairman Andy Russell first sent an invitation to the legendary godfather of the Lakers, Jerry West, and then asked the Nuggets to allow interviews with Masai Ujiri, The Rockets allowed Sam Hinkie to interview and asked the Suns to interview David Griffin.

Regrettably, Jerry West resolutely refused the invitation, and revealed through a reporter interview that it was hard for him to believe that Su Yang, as a young man, was able to convince Sterling's shameless old bastard that Sterling must have some tricks.

The Nuggets agreed to the Clippers' interview request, but Ujiri declined on his own initiative, saying that he had just been promoted and hoped to create a career with the Nuggets. David Griffin also declined to participate in the interview on the grounds of personal career planning.

In the end, only Sam Hinkie came to Los Angeles and excitedly participated in the general manager interview.

After two days of high-intensity talks, Hinkie successfully won the favor of Andy Russell's inspection team with his innovative data concept and detailed planning for the Clippers in the next five years, and officially became the new general manager of the Clippers.

After Su Yang got the news, he immediately tweeted to welcome Hinkie to join the Clippers.Hinkie also called him immediately, thanking him for recommending to the inspection team, and thanking him for providing advice to the team's head coach and player recruitment.

The Clippers' free market recruitment started quickly. In addition to talking with Matt Barnes, they also successfully allowed PJ Tucker and Wesley Matthews to join the training camp and represented the Clippers in the summer league.

Su Yang met the two in Las Vegas, and gave Tucker a pair of Kobe classic boots and Matthews a pair of LeBron classic boots, which directly won the initial trust and basic favor of the two, so that the training efficiency was greatly improved promote.

However, the game has not yet started, and Schwartz invited Nike, Jordan, and Adidas three major sneaker brands to negotiate.

Su Yang's offer of $7 million for seven years is the highest offer for a rookie's sneaker endorsement in NBA history. His confidence lies in his own strength and the huge market behind the Lakers. If he can't get it, he will turn around and sign with the domestic brand Anta.

After several negotiations, the two found out the prices of the three major brands, and the highest price was only 6 million in 5000 years.

Su Yang was unwilling to lower the quotation, and the three major brands were unwilling to increase the quotation, so the negotiation had to be suspended.

The news of his failure to ask for the price was revealed on Twitter, and soon attracted a lot of insults and ridicule. Even some Su Mi felt that it was inappropriate because LeBron was so tough back then, and the endorsement contract was only 7 years and 8700 million US dollars.

ESPN initiated voting statistics, and more than 95% of people think he is not worth such a big contract.

After the statistical results came out, Schwartz asked whether to change the strategy and ask the three major brands to provide incentive terms while lowering the quotation. That would be a step back for each, which would look good and have the opportunity to get the same amount of endorsement fees.

Su Yang is very aware of how much the Chinese market can bring, and he is also full of confidence in his own strength. He insists on continuing to make an offer of 7 million U.S. dollars for 8900 years, and by the way, let Schwartz contact Anta, so that his own people can spend less money.

Putting down his sneakers and endorsement work, he began to focus on summer league, and the Clippers opened against the Grizzlies.

Perhaps because of the relationship between Su Yang and Griffin, the game attracted thousands of fans, including Celtics leader Paul Pierce, who claimed in an interview with TNT that he wanted to see it with his own eyes. Whether Su Yang is really as awesome as the media reports, I don't believe LeBron and Paul's praise at all.

After the game started, Su Yang deliberately went one-on-one with Conley first, and then went to Mayo for a matchup. He also used the pick-and-roll to displace Griffin in military training. Although he only hit two goals, he felt that he was far behind his matchup with Wade Paul.

He decided to do his best to play for his teammates on the spot, and Wesley Matthews and PJ Tucker played brilliant performances in a row with his assists, and Jordan was like a wolf into a herd of slaughter, completely false. Gasol Jr.

It's a pity that as the Grizzlies collectively improved their defense, his assist efficiency was also dragged down.

After the game, the Clippers regrettably lost, and his personal data was only 9 points and 11 assists. Compared with Griffin, who scored 15 points and 11 rebounds on 27 of 12 shots, it was the difference between an All-Star and an ordinary starter for a weak team.

People in the industry can see that he is keeping his playing and deliberately helping players who are fighting for contracts. After all, even Gordon doesn't pass the ball very much, but the media of good things still focus on "the Clippers may regret it" as the core of their reports.

Pierce also jokingly said that Su Yang is nothing more than that, and probably cannot adapt to the high-intensity confrontation in the NBA.

The neutral fans and Su Hei who like to watch the heat used Pierce's words and media reports, all kinds of ridicule to slander Su Yang will become another parallel import champion, and Su Mi was so angry that they reported collectively, and became the public enemy of all major basketball forums for a while.

Schwartz found Su Yang with the report and suggested that he make a crazy show, which would not only eliminate fans' doubts, but also better ask the three major sneaker brands for prices, and by the way, increase a wave of popularity, so that he can receive more commercial endorsements.

Su Yang neither refused nor agreed. He only said that it depends on the situation. The current priority is to establish a culture that the team is willing to share, laying the foundation for the impact of the playoffs and even the recruitment of free agents. Fans' doubts are not worth mentioning.

The key fans will always have doubts. Sooner or later, a one-game theory will develop into a half-time theory, or even a one-quarter theory and a one-goal theory. If every question is answered, then there is no need to do other things, and it is not a game for the fans.

With such an attitude, he finished the rest of the game, the Clippers won and lost, Wesley Matthews and others' data became more and more attractive, but his data was always in a position that did not match the No. [-] pick, while Griffin Become the Summer League MVP.

However, as the game ended and most fans couldn't see him, the taunting also decreased.

However, the three major sneaker brands made a fuss about Xialian data, not only asking him to lower the price, but also modifying the terms of the contract to provide signed sneakers in the first year.

Su Yang ignored it completely, and went directly back to China to rest for five days, and then joined the national team for training.

After helping the national team win the Asian Championships in August, he returned to the United States and began closed training.

During this period, the management headed by Sam Hinkie recruited Van Gundy Jr. as the team's head coach, and the chief assistant was Brad Stevens recommended by him. One was in charge of defense and the other was in charge of offense. .

The Clippers also completed a deal with the Hornets to get guard Raschel Butler by sending a 10-year second-round pick, and signed Matt Barnes, PJ Tucker, Wesley Matthews, and Steve Novak. At the same time, veterans Ricky Davis and Marty Collins were laid off, and a 13-man roster was successfully formed, and the training camp was held in advance.

It's a pity that the training time is too short. When the preseason starts, the coaching staff tried multiple lineups and tactics to solve the problem of backcourt and outside line coordination and the team's rhythm. The data of everyone in the team was affected. burden.

Su Yang did not play at the level that the champion should have at all, while Griffin was brave and invincible.

Many fans dug out the outrageous speeches made by Su Yang in the draft, and made them into funny pictures and humorous jokes, and FOX Sports News reporter Chris Bunty claimed that the Clippers belonged to the Losers League and could not do anything.

"Look at their owners, who haven't led the team out of the quagmire for more than ten years; look at their head coaches, who have never proven a tactical system that can be successful; look at the free agents they signed, all of which were given up by other teams; look at them. Look at their player leader, a guy who is good at using the media to brag about himself, don't say anything, he prefers assists to drive his teammates, since he wants to get the highest salary endorsement contract, he should play better than LeBron's rookie season."

After Chris tweeted it, it received more than 2000 retweets within half an hour.

Fans ridiculed and humiliated Su Yang personally, and gradually escalated to the Clippers team, while rapper SNOOP, a diehard Lakers fan, tweeted that the Clippers can only rank last among the major sports teams in Los Angeles.

When Su Yang saw these discussions, he just came out of the video analysis room.

He had previously discussed with his teammates and coaches how to deal with the first opponent of the new season, the Los Angeles Lakers. As a result, he gave up the preseason attempt to balance the internal and external offensive weight lines, and decided to focus on outside offense.

After reading several comments, Su Yang tweeted: "I now solemnly warn those who discredit the Clippers, I am your father!"

(End of this chapter)