Kwame Brown's Freshman

Chapter 180 [-]. Signing with Nike
"Okay, okay, I will bring some thicker clothes. Although Denver is a plateau, it is not that cold. Yes, yes, I know, okay, go to bed early, you have to rest more after a busy day. Yes Yes! Yes, I’ll go to bed early too, and I’ll get up early tomorrow, good night.” Kwame quickly hung up the phone, calling Hillary every night was a routine job, another day passed, and after the physical therapy, he went back to It didn't take long for Hillary to call at home.As I said earlier, Hillary is a loyal fan of basketball, how could she not pay attention to such an important matter as the national team roster!Seeing Kwame enter the squad, although there is not much surprise, Kwame's strength this year is not included in the squad is really blind to the coach.But Hilary was still very happy for Kwame. He knew that Kwame would not refuse such a thing, so he called Qian Dingling and asked Kwame to know that Hilary was such a dick, and his heart was warm. However, he still couldn't match Hillary's fast singing, and hung up after saying a few words.

After a tiring day, Kwame soon fell into a deep sleep.

Early the next morning, Kwame woke up early again.Toasted a few slices of bread myself, got out a jar of peanut butter, and washed some greens.Then microwaved a large chunk of beef knuckle that had arrived the morning before.He heated up a large glass of milk and prepared his own breakfast.

Kwame is a typical American. Cut the whole beef into small pieces with a knife, spread the bread with peanut butter, put vegetable leaves and a few slices of beef that are intentionally thinly sliced, and put it on. Just six slices of bread. I made six, and then used a bread machine to sandwich the six-sided bread thinly.Then sit down with a newspaper in one hand and food in the other.

Of course, he watched his favorite "Hoop World". Recently, Kwame didn't use the computer very often. He was afraid that he would spend the whole summer in front of the computer playing games like in previous years, so he read newspapers more often. .

Sure enough, as Kwame expected, this time a large number of players announced that they would not participate in the America's Cup.

Kobe, Kidd, Duncan, Billups and other superstars announced their withdrawal from this training camp and will not participate in the America's Cup.Lamar Odom, Kwame Brown, Devin Wade, Richard Hamilton, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Joe Johnson, Antawn Jamison, Shaw En Marion, Elton Brand, Amare Stoudemire, Brad Miller, Tim Duncan, Shane Battier, Gilbert Arenas, Eighteen people including Chris Bosh, Dwight Howard, and Chris Paul.

There are still many acquaintances, he looked at the roster and counted in his heart, Odom, Wade, Anthony, James, Stoudemire, Duncan, Howard, Paul, half of them are acquaintances!

Kwame looked at the other news. This boring long draft period finally had some exciting news. A piece of news was reprinted from the "Sacramento" Daily and confirmed by ESPN. Fire and water are incompatible. After some trade-offs, the King's management finally decided to fire Adelman. In fact, this is not a difficult choice to make. The first thing they need to do is to stabilize Mike Bibby's box office guarantee.

For the two brothers of the Kings management who were so ruthless in turning the team into one of the most watched teams, they were quickly criticized by many celebrities.

"It seems that this crazy summer is about to begin." Kwame didn't care much about the Kings. This team is obviously not at the same level as the Lakers. He thought about the Suns and the Bulls. The boss who killed himself several times.

Although the offseason has been calm for so long, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is the calm before the storm.Not long after the start of the playoffs, there was news that the Bulls wanted to exchange Tyson Chandler, Ben Gordon and others for Kwame. The team can't rest this summer.Adelman dismissal is just a prelude!
As expected, good things happened one after another. In fact, it was not a surprise. It was decided a few days ago. Not long after Kwame finished eating, he was about to go out to the arena when Pekarin called.Seeing that it was Pekarin's call, Kwame knew that the signing was done. As Kwame expected, Pekarin asked Kwame to sign a contract with the CEO sent by Nike for the next seven years. contract.

"Kwame, your contract is settled, [-] million in seven years, after the coordination of this senior agent, seeing that we have directly rejected the other two companies in such sincerity, they raised the contract price to the same as Reebok, I Another extra income! Of course this is not important, the important thing is that you get the attention you deserve, and now you are the main star of Nike like Kobe and LeBron James!" What kind of nonsense is there in the professional Kwame's surprise? This is the last main star. Which player would not want to be the main star?As for the extra [-] million remuneration, it is not that important. Like Kobe Kidd, his bonus after winning the championship was donated to the "Kobe and Vanessa Charitable Foundation". The bonus of the three together is [-] million. This foundation was established after the Kobe Eagle County incident to coax Vanessa. Vanessa is a Catholic. This foundation mainly targets the orphanages and some elderly people adopted by the Catholic Church.

"Wait for me for a while, I'll pick you up right away, I'm already on my way, I'll be at your house soon." Pekarin hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

"..." He hung up the phone without saying a word to the other party, and Kwame was speechless.He was going to say something to thank him, but forget it.

More than ten minutes later, Kwame Pekarin arrived, and took Kwame to the high-end villa where Hilton's big house was located.

It can be said that the area of ​​the houses here is much smaller than that of Kwame, and the buildings are not as beautiful as Kwame, but the beautiful environment here is much better than that of Kwame's bare hill.I didn’t take a closer look last time, and it’s really much better than my own place, but Kwame still likes the quiet environment where I am. There is a villa every less than a minute’s drive here, which is a little crowded.

As expected of a vacation villa for Nike executives, the car was parked in front of a villa that was about the size of Kwame's house. To own such a villa in this place is not ordinary rich.

The big iron door outside was not closed, and there was already a beautiful woman who looked like a secretary waiting at the door. Seeing Kwame and Pekarin get off the car, she rushed up to meet them.Even though the contract they offered at the beginning was not the biggest, but they were the one that actively recruited Kwame.The successful signing of Jordan that year made Nike from a "small workshop" worth only [-] million US dollars to one of the three giants in the sports world, and once occupied more than [-]% of the sales in the huge market of the United States.However, after Jordan retired in [-], they fell into a period of downturn. At this time, adidas signed Kobe and McGrady, and Reebok signed Iverson. The younger generation played a strong role and became the mainstream of nba. like. Nike's market has been eroded by more than half.

Fortunately, after Jordan's second comeback, Nike's subsidiary, Air Jordan, became popular again. Afterwards, Nike's headquarters signed superstar LeBron James, and Jordan signed Devin Wade, finally bringing the situation back a bit.

This big cost to sign Kobe, the remaining budget is not much, but it still matches Reebok's contract, and it has already been seen that Kwame attaches great importance to it.What's more, Kwame's conditions are easier than Kobe's. Kobe has now been forced to develop overseas markets, and he only needs to go there next year, and he doesn't have to fly across the world like Kobe. He is much easier, only a dozen or so A city needs to be visited.

Mr. Mark Parker, the CEO of Nike, is a person who attaches great importance to efficiency. When Kwame walked into the meeting room under the leadership of the beautiful secretary, Mr. Parker also walked in at the same time, holding unorganized documents in his hand. It turns out that a job has just been completed, and the timing is really accurate.

The signing process was very smooth and fast. It took nearly an hour on the way here, and it took nearly 5 minutes to walk from the gate to the meeting room, but the signing process only took less than 2 minutes.Everything that needs to be discussed has been discussed. The future publicity and planning will be a matter of the planning department, and the signing of Kwame will also be handled by the public relations department. He is only responsible for checking the plans and completion status sent up by the following, and finally stamping the final conclusion.This time he was only in charge of signing the contract. After the contract was finally signed, Kwame only knew his name and position. During the whole signing process, Kwame and Mr. Parker did not speak more than [-] sentences.On the contrary, the beautiful secretary chatted with Kwame for a while after signing the contract, and kept winking at him and giving him physical hints.Although this woman looks pretty good, she is still far behind Hillary, Hilton and others, and he did not accept the other party's hint.

When Pekarin finished those polite words and ended the whole process, the two left, leaving behind the disappointed secretary.In the end, Kwame didn't even ask what the secretary's name was.

"Kwame, are you familiar with Chris Paul?" Pekarin suddenly said on the way to send Kwame home.

"Yeah, what's the problem?" Kwame looked up from the PS game.

"Let's discuss something!" Why did Pekarin's voice sound flattering?

"Say! What's the matter!" Kwame narrowed his eyes, it seemed that it was not a good thing!Otherwise, why such a tone?
"Oh, don't be so nervous! I just want you to help me contact Paul and introduce me to him as an agent! He doesn't have an agent yet. You know, he is the most sought-after rookie this year. If there is no acquaintance, I will There is not much chance of signing him!" Pekarin's voice became even more flattering.

"Okay, okay, stop talking! I'll contact you when we arrive at the training camp!" Kwame hurriedly told Pekarin to shut up, because Pekarin looked really awkward.

Knowing that she looked a bit wretched, Pekarin smiled sarcastically and closed her mouth.

A few hours later, Nike announced the formal signing of Kwame, and Kwame will be a player of Nike for the next [-] years. The Kwame series of sneakers is also officially established.

(End of this chapter)