nyslfriends Chapter 640 Helping others is the foundation of happiness
Chapter 640 Helping others is the foundation of happiness
In the bustling area of the commercial street on the Bund, another flagship store of Feiyue is about to open, which is also the largest flagship store opened by Feiyue Sports in China.
The entrance of the Feiyue flagship store was already full of water, countless girl fans gathered here early in the morning, holding f4 posters in their hands, waiting for the arrival of their idols.
This time, Feiyue's new store opened without inviting NBA stars, because the NBA has not yet reached the offseason, and the stars signed by Feiyue Sports are all busy in the playoffs, so there is no time to come China.
So Li Weidong invited Chairman Yao to attend.
At that time, Chairman Yao had just helped the Dongfang team win the A-League championship, and Gu Gu and the bus also went to the United States. In the domestic league, Chairman Yao didn't even have a decent opponent.
In addition, Li Weidong also invited the popular f4 group over.
Although f4 is not the brand spokesperson of Feiyue Sports, coming to participate in the opening of the Feiyue flagship store can only be regarded as an ordinary business trip.
But in terms of popularity, f4 obviously crushed Chairman Yao. Although there were many fans of the Eastern team present, they were instantly overwhelmed by the screams of countless female fans.
To put it another way, with so many young girls around, no normal fans would stare at Chairman Yao!
Just like the current NBA live broadcast, when the break is suspended, no one will really watch the fans leave messages, right? It must be the legs!
Finally, f4 appeared in the eyes of fans. .
Ah! Zizai!
Zaizai! I love you!
Many female fans began to scream, and the front of the Feiyue flagship store instantly boiled up.
In terms of good looks at the time, Zhou Yumin was indeed slightly better, so there were more female fans who liked him.
The scene was even time-controlled, and the police patrolling nearby had to come to maintain order.
Chairman Yao, as the official spokesperson, was completely ignored like a big light bulb, and could only stand aside with an embarrassed face.
An assistant came up to him and said, Mr. Yao, please go in and have a rest. We have specially made a few new pairs of sneakers for you. You can try to see if they fit you.
Any player will be very interested in new sneakers.
What's more, Chairman Yao wears size 53 shoes, which he couldn't buy in the first place. The usual sneakers are the ones customized by the manufacturer. The new sneakers are basically out of his reach. Now that I heard that there are special new sneakers, I can't wait to try them out.
In the flagship store, Li Weidong was chatting with an old man.
Chairman Li, handing Feiyue into your hands was the most correct decision I made in my life! If Feiyue continued to be in the hands of our Dafu factory, I am afraid that it would have ceased production just like the factory. Look now Seeing that Feiyue Shoes can do so well, I feel relieved. The old man sighed.
This old man is the director Wang of the Dafu Rubber Factory.
When the production raw materials were in short supply, the factory manager Wang went to Huanghai Petrochemical for help in order to obtain rubber raw materials. Li Weidong.
After many years, the Dafu Rubber Factory was finally unable to recover and entered the stage of bankruptcy and rectification. The factory manager Wang has already reached the age of 60 and has lived a retired life.
The Dafu Rubber General Factory was built in the Huxi Industrial Zone on the upper reaches of the Suzhou Creek, which is also the location of Putuo District. It is now the central urban area, not far from the Bund business district.
So this time when the Feiyue flagship store opened, Li Weidong invited the factory director Wang to witness the re-emergence of the national brand Feiyue.
Dafu Factory, as the original owner of the Feiyue brand, is now invited to participate in the opening ceremony of the Feiyue flagship store, and it also has a feeling of giving up the ancient throne.
And Li Weidong also wanted to take this opportunity,
Let's show off our inheritance of the Feiyue brand.
Since the mid-1990s, foreign sports brands such as Nike and Adidas entered China and quickly occupied the high-end market. Afterwards, domestic brands such as Anta and Xtep continued to make efforts, and quickly divided up the low-end market.
In this fierce market competition, traditional state-owned old brands such as Huili and Double Star began to survive in the cracks.
If the Feiyue brand still stays in the Dafu Rubber Factory, it is estimated that it will be buried with the entire rubber factory.
Li Weidong can make the Feiyue brand bigger and bigger. For Director Wang, he may seek peace of mind.
After exchanging pleasantries with Director Wang, Li Weidong went to receive other guests.
A middle-aged man walked up to Li Weidong and whispered, Chairman Li, can you take a step to speak!
Lawyer Wang, please come here. Li Weidong pointed to a corner beside him.
The middle-aged man is Wang Xiaopeng, a lawyer and a member of the Yao Team, mainly responsible for legal affairs.
When the two came to the corner, Lawyer Wang said, Chairman Li, I want to talk to you about Dayao's entry into the NBA.
Is it because the Eastern team refuses to let people go? Li Weidong asked with a smile.
Chairman Li has already guessed it? Attorney Wang nodded in surprise, and then said: Last year, Dayao planned to participate in the NBA draft. At that time, the Philadelphia 76ers and Wizards contacted Over the Eastern team.
It's just that the conditions offered by the Eastern team at that time were relatively harsh, it was like a lion's mouth. They wanted to get Dayao's NBA team, and they needed to exchange for a player of comparable strength, so that the Eastern team would not lose its strength.
At the same time, this team also needs to hire a high-level coach for the Eastern team, and also needs to invest in building a basketball school and a modern gymnasium for the Eastern team. After this condition was made, the teams that were interested in Dayao at that time were scared away.
The conditions are not harsh. It is clear that they deliberately do not want to let people go! Li Weidong said with a smile.
You are right, so Dayao did not participate in the NBA draft last year. Lawyer Wang continued:
But it has always been his dream to play in the NBA, and this year he is 22 years old. According to the rules of the NBA, if he does not participate in the NBA draft, he can only join the NBA as a free agent.
And this year's League A, Dayao also helped the Eastern team win the championship, which can be regarded as an explanation to the team and fans. It's just that the Eastern team is still unwilling to let people go!
What conditions did the Eastern team put forward this year? Li Weidong asked.
They want a buyout fee of 30 million yuan. Lawyer Wang said.
30 million is not too much for a player of his level. The advertising endorsement fee should be able to be scraped together. If it doesn't work, I can also pay an endorsement fee in advance. Li Weidong said.
Li Weidong obviously thought that Lawyer Wang was here to ask for money, so he was not stingy and expressed his willingness to sponsor a sum.
However, Lawyer Wang said, The Eastern team wants US dollars!
30 million US dollars? That's too much! O'Neal's salary this year is only a little over 20 million US dollars, and he is the number one center in the NBA, and he has won two championships, so he has such a worth. Dayao hasn't gone yet. As for the NBA, the Eastern team asked for 30 million US dollars, so they don't intend to let them go!
Li Weidong shook his head with a smile, and continued: However, this is also understandable. The team has established a youth training system, and has worked hard to select and train players. Naturally, they will not let them go easily. What's more, Dayao just helped the Eastern team get the Champion of League A.
However, in commercial matters, everything has a price. Although 30 million US dollars is too much, I think we can bargain with the Eastern team! Asking them to make a 45% discount would cost more than 10 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to 100 million yuan.
With the current ball income of the A-League, relying on selling home tickets, I don't know how many years it will take to sell 100 million in income. Instead of holding Dayao all the time and letting him play A-A, it is really better to exchange 100 million RMB.
What you said is true, so we have been bargaining with the Dongfang team. Now the price has reached 18 million US dollars, and the Dongfang team is not willing to lower the price any more. Lawyer Wang said.
18 million US dollars is still too high, exceeding his current net worth. Li Weidong frowned, and continued: What does the Basketball Association think of this matter? Aren't they always encouraging players to go abroad to play and improve their level?
The Basketball Association said that if it is a matter at the national team level, they will definitely take care of it, but if it is the internal affairs of the Eastern team, it is difficult for them to intervene. After all, in recent years, they have been promoting the professionalization of the A-League. The Basketball Association is the maker of the rules, so it is inconvenient to take care of the team's affairs. Lawyer Wang replied.
It's true, you can't be a referee and a player at the same time! Li Weidong continued: Besides, this matter will also impact the youth training system of each team. If you let people go, who will engage in the youth training system in the future, there will be no successors for Chinese basketball!
But the price of 18 million US dollars is really too high. The key is that we simply can't afford so much money. The biggest endorsement contract signed by Dayao in recent years is Feiyue Sports. What is the price? Director Li Mr. Wang must be the one who knows the most. Where are we going to raise the 18 million US dollars! Lawyer Wang sighed.
That is to say, in terms of price, the Eastern team has to continue to make concessions. Li Weidong said.
Last year, the Eastern team refused to let people go. We feel that if we still can't reach an agreement this year, the chances of the Eastern team releasing people will be even slimmer. Dayao even said that if he can't make it to the NBA, he would rather Retire and go to college! Lawyer Wang said.
This is talking out of anger! Even if Dayao doesn't want to play for the Eastern team, the national team still needs him. Li Weidong thought for a while and said, But going to college is a good idea.
Lawyer Wang was taken aback for a moment, and then said, Although there is a college league at the university, it is still several grades lower than the A-League. Dayao has no rivals in the country. It would be a waste to play in the college league. !
Besides, the training level of the college league is definitely not as good as that of the A-League. If he really goes to college to play for a few years, his level will not improve, but will decline.
I didn't really tell Dayao to go to college, but I used this excuse to negotiate with the Eastern team and force them to lower the price. Li Weidong said.
Lawyer Wang thought for a while and said, Nine out of ten times this strategy will be seen through by the Dongfang team. The best years of athletes are in these few years. If you miss it, you will never go back!
Dayao is 22 years old this year, and he is just beginning to reach his peak. If he misses this period, more than half of his sports career will be directly ruined. In the end, he will lose the most.
So even if we tell the Eastern team that Dayao will go to college, the Eastern team will think that we are deliberately scaring them, and they will not relax their position.
I didn't say to go to a university in China, but to a university in the United States. Li Weidong replied with a smile.
Is there any difference? Attorney Wang asked.
Of course there is a big difference. Li Weidong continued: If you go to an American university to study, you can receive basketball training from an American university, and you can also play in the NCAA league of an American university.
I don’t need to introduce more about the basketball strength of the United States. It is no exaggeration to say that the comprehensive level of American college basketball is definitely much stronger than our A-League, and the NCAA League is also higher than our A-League.
I can find a way to help Dayao get an admission letter from a famous American basketball school. You can use this letter to negotiate with the Eastern team and force them to make concessions.
If they really are bastards who have taken the weight and become determined, they will let Dayao retire directly, and then go to the United States to study, train in American universities, and play in the ncaa league.
In the famous basketball schools in the United States, both the coaches and trainers are at the NBA level. There are even many NBA coaches who go to teach American college basketball.
Therefore, if Dayao goes to the United States to study in college, he can still receive training at the NBA level, and it can be regarded as not wasting this great time in vain.
And Dayao can drop out of school at any time to play in the NBA. Although joining the NBA as a free agent, the salary is not as high as joining the NBA through the draft, but at least he can choose the team he likes.
Furthermore, if one can achieve results in the ncaa league, even if one enters the nba as a free agent, one's worth will also increase. Maybe you can emulate Sabonis of the Trail Blazers!
Avedas Sabonis of the Trail Blazers is a Lithuanian athlete and an athlete from the former Soviet Union. In the late 1980s, he was known as the world's number one center.
At the same time, there were also excellent centers such as Olajuwon and David Robinson, so the title of world number one will definitely have some controversy.
However, Sabonis led his team to win the 1982 Columbia World Championships and the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, which at least shows that he is absolutely qualified to compete for the world's number one center.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Sabonis led the Lithuanian team and won the bronze medals in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games. He played in the professional leagues of Russia and Spain successively, and won six European Players of the Year and two European Basketball Players.
It is said that the US team worked hard to form the Dream Team 1 and Dream Team 2 because they could not beat Sabonis in the 1988 Olympics.
In the early 1990s, Sabonis was also the least favorite player of the Americans, because Sabonis, who was at his peak, was always an unsolvable opponent for the US team.
When Sabonis was 32 years old, he finally entered the NBA with a knee injury. Two years later, he scored 1610 and led the team to the Western Conference Finals, where they lost to the Spurs. He made it to the Western Conference Finals again the following year before losing to the Lakers.
Sabonis is also Dayao's only personally recognized idol. It is said that when Dayao plays a certain online game, the registered ID is Sabonis.
The later Sabonis, who played for the Pacers and was traded to the King, is the son of the old Sabonis.
Although Sabonis entered the NBA at the age of 32, he also won a big contract worth tens of millions of dollars.
At that time, the NBA's salary cap was only 40 million U.S. dollars, so a big contract with a level of 10 million was still very valuable.
At that time, there were very few cases like Sabonis who first played in leagues in other countries and then joined the NBA.
Later, with the increase of international players, similar situations also became more and more, such as Ginobili, Scola, Rubio, etc., did not enter the NBA immediately after the draft, but waited for several years before landing in the NBA.
If Dayao really goes to the United States to study in college first, and then tries to join the NBA, the best way is of course to copy Sabonis' path.
Not long after, Li Weidong got Dayao an admission letter from North Carolina.
North Carolina has always been a famous basketball school in the United States, especially the birth of the great god Jordan, and it has become the first yearning goal of American basketball teenagers, and its popularity surpasses that of Duke University.
With this admission notice, the negotiation with Lawyer Wang became much easier.
In the conference room, the representatives of Dongfang team and Yao's team started another intense negotiation.
As the negotiations between the two parties gradually heated up, Lawyer Wang finally showed his trump card.
If your Dongfang team keeps insisting on such conditions, then our Dayao will have to retire and go to college! Lawyer Wang said.
Go to university? That's good, go to school! Who is afraid of whom! The representative of the Eastern team snorted coldly, and then said:
The good times of athletes are just a few short years. If you go to college, you will waste a few years without getting professional training. When you want to come back to play, I'm afraid you won't even be able to play A-B!
Who says you can't get professional training if you go to college! Attorney Wang snorted coldly.
I don't understand the level of college! The most powerful college basketball team is not as good as our youth team! The other party snorted coldly.
After all, the university league is not a professional league, and its strength is really a notch lower than that of the professional league.
It can be seen when the cba drafts in later generations that many professional teams don't bother to draft at all, because the rookies who come out of college are really not up to the cba requirements. In the first few drafts, how many people can play in the CBA?
Those young people who dominate the college league may be very good on the field, but there is still an obvious gap between them and those who come out of the youth training system of professional teams.
In 2001, college basketball and professional leagues had just been established, and the gap was even bigger at that time. It is not bragging to say that the most powerful university in the country can't beat the youth training team of professional teams.
The youth training system of professional teams has spent more than ten years selecting and training athletes. If they are not as good as a college basketball player, then the youth training system should not be used at all.
However, Lawyer Wang smiled unmoved, and said, The level of domestic universities is indeed not very good, but we, Dayao, are not going to go to domestic universities!
Lawyer Wang said, and placed North Carolina's admission letter in front of the representatives of the Eastern team, and then said: This is the admission letter from the University of North Carolina. North Carolina, do you know? The famous basketball school in the United States, Jordan is that university graduated!
They have the world's top coaches and training equipment there, and the training level is much better than your Eastern team! Going to university there, instead of wasting time, can get world-class training!
Moreover, if you go to college in the United States, you can drop out of school to play in the NBA at any time, and you can still choose a team at that time! This is called getting the moon first, and your Eastern team can't stop it! At that time, you will not get a penny of benefits!
Looking at the acceptance letter from North Carolina, the Eastern team's negotiator's heart sank.
Before that, the worst outcome for the two sides is nothing more than a fight and two breakups. The Eastern team loses Dayao, and Dayao's career will also be ruined.
How short an athlete's peak career is! The Eastern team saw Dayao's self-destructive future, so all kinds of lions opened their mouths.
However, as soon as this North Carolina admission notice came out, the situation has completely reversed.
The worst outcome now is that Dayao goes to a famous basketball school in the United States to study in college. Not only will it not affect his training, but he still has the opportunity to land in the NBA. However, the Eastern team will have nothing. Not only will they lose Dayao, but they will not get any money!
The next second, the representative of the Eastern team sighed and said, I'm going to make a phone call!
Please! Attorney Wang smiled slightly, he knew that the other party was planning to compromise!
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