: 609: The war in the sneaker market

The Grizzlies' championship parade greatly changed everyone's impression of Memphis.
It turns out that not everyone in Memphis lives in dire straits. It turns out that basketball also has a strong appeal in Memphis. It turns out that there is no difference from most places.
Memphis fans used their enthusiasm to create a feverish summer.
Of course, for everyone, this feverish summer is just the beginning.
The NBA Finals is over and a new NBA championship is born. Link, the new king, also took off the crown from James.
But at the same time, a new round of journey is already undercurrent.
Since the draft, the war has actually begun.
On June 27, 2013, the new round of the draft was held at the Barclays Center in New York.
Generally speaking, championship teams don't play too much in the draft. After all, championship teams have not always needed potential rookies to join, and there is no room for potential rookies to develop.
In addition, the Grizzlies have no first-round picks this year, so their presence in the draft is even more terrifying.
Now all Grizzlies members are still immersed in the joy after winning, who cares about the draft.
Besides, this year's draft can be described as a genuine draft in Link's eyes.
The top three players in the draft, Bennett, Oladipo and Otto Porter, are only Oladipo worthy of the name in Link's eyes.
Needless to say, Bennett did not expect that he would be selected as the top pick. After all, in the predictions before the start of the draft, he only ranked 610.
The Cavaliers really have no one to choose, Noel, it's hurt. Oladipo, it coincides with Waiters and Owen again. It's really embarrassing to have a No. 1 pick, but no player can be selected. In the end, because Bennett was very polite during the trial, the Cavaliers gave the No. 1 pick to Huo Huo...
As for Otto Porter, his strength is not weak, but Link knows very well that he will not meet people's expectations of him in the future.
This year's draft is really worth seeing with the 10th overall pick. The Blazers selected C.J. McCollum. And the 15th overall pick, with the help of Link's manager Jeff Austin, Yangnis Antetokounmpo, who was pronounced by David Stern!
Austin has been really busy recently, because Antetokounmpo is his next heavyweight customer, he must have been bothering to try out "Brother Antetokounmpo".
But now, I believe Austin must breathe a sigh of relief.
The defending champion Grizzlies did not finally show up until the second round. In fact, Robert Pera really asked Link if he had any suggestions or ideas for the draft before the draft. He did what he said and gave Link a great deal. Permissions.
But Link did not give any suggestions, because to be honest, the Grizzlies really don't have any suitable candidates for this year's draft.
Link's suggestion must first be reasonable, and within a reasonable range, even if the Grizzlies trade, at most they can only exchange for a pick in the middle and late stages of the first round. The only thing worth taking in the second half of the first round was the Frenchman Rudy Gobert.
But considering that the Grizzlies already have Gasol, the best defensive player, there is no need to pick Gobert. Therefore, Link did not give any suggestions at all.
This permission should wait until it is useful.
In the second round, the Grizzlies selected Jamal Franklin, a junior swingman from San Diego State University.
In his junior year, he averaged 17 points, 9.5 rebounds, and 3.3 assists per game. It seems to be very powerful, but he did not dominate in college in his junior year, indicating that he is impossible to achieve the same level of data in the NBA. No wonder it fell to the second round.
And Link is not familiar with this person's name and appearance, not surprisingly, which means that he may not survive in the NBA in the future...
Link thought to himself that he might not meet this rookie next season. Because it is very likely, he will report directly to the Development League.
It seems that some of the selected players are not necessarily better than losing.
In this way, Link watched this year's draft live broadcast with Rachel on his own sofa.
Rachel has fallen asleep leaning on Link's shoulder. After all, it's a draft pick, it's really hard to passionate people's interests.
Less than ten minutes after the draft was over, Link's cell phone rang. On the caller ID, it is Jeff Austin's name.
Link smiled, this guy is quite efficient. Just after finishing the draft, I remembered myself.
"Congratulations, Jeff, I saw it. Yannis Antetokounmpo, he was selected with the 15th overall pick. I think you should be very satisfied with the result." Link just picked up the phone. Congratulations to Austin.
"As expected, as expected. Compared to your victory, this is nothing to congratulate. By the way, Link, will you have time tomorrow?"
"Of course, any instructions?"
"Come on, I can't command the Kings of Memphis. If you have time tomorrow, let's finalize the contract for the sneakers. There are so many things this summer, and we have to deal with it a little bit quickly."
Co-author Austin just finished the draft and decided to join Link's shoe contract.
In the past few days, Link has been snatched up in the sneaker contract market! According to the rules of the sneaker market, Link is now equivalent to a restricted free agent, and all shoe manufacturers can offer Link. If Nike doesn't want Link to be poached, it only has to match the offer or offer a higher price.
As a result, major manufacturers have begun their money offensive.
The first offensive against Link is naturally Nike's old rival Adidas. They have set an astronomical figure of 185 million in 10 years, which is full of sincerity.
You know, Adidas and Rose signed 185 million, but Rose's period is 13 years, while Link only has 10 years!
Later, the Chinese brand Li Lin also offered Link for 200 million yuan in 10 years. Moreover, some shares are attached.
There is no doubt that China's local brands have also begun to go uphill during this period. And, he was willing to spend money to find a spokesperson. Li Lin's offer is already quite tempting. Few people in the entire league can get such a price!
Just when people thought that Li Lin was going to win Link, Under Armour's strong joining directly dealt Li Lin and Adidas a dimensionality reduction blow!
Under Armour, a young company established in 1996, has a history of less than 20 years, but it has developed quite rapidly in recent years.
After continuing to sport tights and American football equipment, Under Armour is also determined to enter the basketball field, intending to get a share of the pie.
When a new brand enters the basketball field, in addition to its own products, it also needs a spokesperson with enough weight to support the brand value.
And Link, who just led the Grizzlies to the championship, is undoubtedly a strong enough spokesperson~EbookFREE.me~ So Under Armour made a 10-year quotation of $285 million for Link! At this time, Adidas and Li Lin quit the group chat directly.
For these two days at home, Link looked at the quotations of hundreds of millions at every turn, and he felt dreamy. This kind of thing, I couldn't even think about it before!
The outside world almost agreed that Nike has lost Link. Because in this era when most of the planet's shoes contract did not exceed 200 million, Under Armour suddenly made an offer close to 300 million, which is really exaggerated.
However, even in the face of Under Armour’s 285 million dimensionality reduction, Linke was unmoved.
Because Nike is determined to renew the contract with Link, they will not allow a future Uranus superstar player to be poached.
Link led the team to win the championship alone when he was only in the third grade, and no one knew what he could do in the future.
Therefore, Nike finally gave Jeff Austin the number 1 higher than Under Armour’s 285 million!
Calculated in this way, Link's annual revenue from the contract of sneakers is 30 million US dollars!
In order to express its sincerity, Nike has even set up an ace R&D team for Link to design signature shoes specifically for Link.
If this price breaks out, the whole world will definitely be surprised.
Link feels proud when he thinks of the money wars that the major sneaker manufacturers have fought for themselves over the past few days.
In just one year, his contract for sneakers went from a little more than 200 million at the beginning to close to 300 million and now it has become more than 300 million! This may be the bonus that the championship brings to a player.
"Do you sign a contract with Nike tomorrow? Okay, I'll make coffee at home and wait for you, Jeff."
Link is in a good mood, the championship is really a good thing.
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