Basketball: The Chosen Victim

Chapter 77 The Best Investment (Two in One, Please Read More!)
On the morning of November 11, Wu Di and Ariana took a Pepsi special plane to Newark Liberty International Airport, and then drove all the way to the Pepsi headquarters in Westchester County, New York.

Although Pepsi's headquarters is located in New York, it is not in the New York City area, but in the suburbs of New York State.

Therefore, its architectural style is not the kind of tall glass curtain wall building, but rather low, with only three floors.

With such a small number of floors, it occupies a large area. In addition to the larger garden outside the building, the car drove through the gate and walked around for at least 5 minutes before arriving at their destination, which is the global marketing department.

In fact, the entire signing process is very complicated for a contract with such a large contract value of 4 million US dollars in four years.

Take the signing contract itself as an example, it has a full 915 pages, divided into three books, densely packed with various obligations and clauses, it is frighteningly thick.

After all, 2000 million U.S. dollars, converted into RMB, has exceeded 1 million. With the clause of doubling the amount of winning the championship, the amount of this contract is even more frighteningly high, so it is not surprising that there is such a clause.

At this time, the importance of a professional agent is reflected. If Wu Di came to review it in person, the day lily would be cold after reading it, and it would be impossible to identify whether there are any pitfalls.

Fortunately, he now has Arina.

Reliable people can make complicated things simple, and the two soldiers divide into two ways and act separately.

Wu Di received a red, white and blue badge with the title of a very bluffing global image ambassador, and then went to listen to the marketing manager explain Pepsi's brand culture and company history.

Arina led a team of family lawyers to review the details of the contract.

While listening, Wu Di accepted the styling from the team of stylists. After listening, he took a few more photos, which Ariana also finished reviewing.

There are three main points of interest:

1. The endorsement fee is 500 million US dollars per year. Every time the team wins an NBA championship, the endorsement fee will double in the second year, and does not include the conditions for obtaining FMVP.

2. When attending the company's marketing activities, you can enjoy the same level of travel treatment as the company's CEO, such as cross-border special planes, super five-star presidential suites, exclusive work assistants, etc.

3. The right to attend the relevant meetings of the company's marketing department related to commercial advertisements and activities, and have the right to make suggestions on the specific form and content of relevant advertisements and activities.

There are quite a lot left, such as endless Coke, endless potato chips, endless new products to try, endless peripherals, etc.

There are even more obligations, such as avoiding criminal charges, avoiding damage to the company's image, avoiding using direct competitors' products, avoiding divulging the company's obligations, cooperating with the company to shoot at least 6 advertisements every year, and cooperating with other company spokespersons' publicity, etc.

Among them, Wu Di is more concerned about the terms of doubling the endorsement fee.

The doubling of the money was not given to him for nothing. The terms stipulated that for every $500 million, he would be allowed to endorse a product under PepsiCo.

For example, if he wins the championship next year, he will need to endorse Gatorade more, and if he wins the championship the year after next, he will need to endorse Lay's Potato Chips and Mirinda more.

After Wu Di finished reading, he just wanted to say that capitalists are worthy of being capitalists, and their calculations are clear and obvious.

If he can lead the team to win the championship, his coffee position will naturally be raised to the level of 500 million dollars.

In this wave of doubling of Pepsi, not only will it not lose money at all, but it will even make a lot of money.

Because of this clause, PepsiCo has locked in the signing rights of related products in advance, and will no longer face competition from other brands.

For example, if PepsiCo has Lay’s Potato Chips, Wu Di will no longer be able to sign a contract with Pringles Potato Chips.

However, Wu Di is still ready to sign this contract, which is actually what Pepsi deserves. After all, this is the first super brand willing to spend 2000 million US dollars to carry the sedan chair for him.

The signing conference was held in Pepsi's press center. After completing the signing ceremony with Megan, the media present threw him a series of sharp questions.

Such as "Do you think you are worth the $500 million annual signing fee", "Will sports stars endorse carbonated drinks will have a negative impact on teenagers", "How much of the signing success is due to the influence of the Rockefeller family", "Do you think you can win? What are the chances of winning the championship" and so on.

However, Wu Di and Ariana had already rehearsed these situations. After answering routine questions with longer brand standard answers, the press conference came to an end.

After being so busy, it was already time for dinner. After the celebratory dinner with Pepsi executives, Wu Di went to downtown New York, where the Cavaliers will challenge the New York Knicks in an away game tomorrow.

After more than four months, Wu Di came to the Big Apple City again, and he specially booked the presidential suite on the top floor of the Marriott Hotel that he stayed in after the draft.

The same black and gold tone night scene, the difference is the mood of watching the scenery.

Now he has a check for 500 million dollars in his hand, and an elegant beauty in his arms.

In that mood, Pepsi can give you the taste of Romanee-Conti red wine!
The second leg of walking on two legs finally opened, and it was a good start!

This is just the beginning. For the sneaker contract, Reebok has already started to quote 1200 million US dollars per year to follow up with Pepsi's contract price!
In other words, by December 12st, it would be enough for him to use the money from the sneaker contract to krypton static talent!
The money won from the competition and other brand endorsements can be spent on other talents without any psychological burden...

He opened the system panel again and checked his data:

[Host: Wu Di]

【Age: 18 years old】

【Physical talent】

【Height: 196cm】

【Armspan: 211cm】

【Weight: 103kg】

【Extreme Speed: 83 (83)】

【Strength: 85 (85)】

【Waist and abdomen: 5 (5)】

【Flexible: 2 (2)】

[Bounce: 88 (88)]

[Explosive Power: 85 (85)]

[Physical fitness: 92 (92)]

【Technical talent】

【Possession: 88 (88)】

[pass: 81 (81)]

[Vision: 81 (81)]

[Layup: 3 (3)]

[Dunk: 91 (91)]

【Rely on hitting: 3 (3)】

【Near shot: 83 (83)】

[CIC: 84 (84)]

[Long shot: [-] ([-])]

[Jump shot: 7 (7)]

[Steals: 80 (80)]

【Rebounds: 1 (1)】

[Defense: 87 (87)]

[Blocks: 87 (87)]

【medal】

[Punching Master (Purple Diamond): Increase rebounding ability by 20%, reduce sprint take-off distance by 20%]

[Flying Badge (Purple Diamond): When jumping, there is a chance to trigger the flying state. In the flying state, the ability to stay in the air +0%, the ability to layup +[-]%, the ability to dunk +[-]%, the ability to jump shot +[-]%, the ability to block shots +[-]%]

[Comprehensive rating: SS level, NBA superstar player]

[Wealth value: US$4662315, which can be exchanged for 4 SS-level talent points]

[Main task: "Championship" (in progress, after completing it, you can get a no-injury badge)]

After deducting the 75 dollars share for Ariana and adding some of the original remaining money, Wu Di's wealth value came to 466 million dollars.

It's not that he didn't think about investing in the past. For example, recently, Bitcoin began to rise from 0.1 US dollars to 0.2 US dollars, and it will rise sharply later.

Now buy it for 0.2 US dollars, sell it when it is tens of thousands of dollars later, and Wu Di has a principal of several million dollars, which is enough to become the richest man in the world. How can he play basketball?

In fact, we really have to fight, we really have to continue kryptonite.

The increase in Bitcoin sounds scary, but the actual transaction volume is very small now, and the total transaction volume per day is only a few hundred dollars, which is only a few thousand coins when converted.

Such a small plate, with a pure buying order of [-] US dollars, can directly pull the price to a few dollars or even tens of dollars a piece, making him miss the increase of dozens or even hundreds of times in an instant.

And at that time, he only had a few hundred bitcoins that he could buy that day at most, most of which were not in his hands, and he was completely carrying the sedan chair for others.

Therefore, we can only keep the price stable and continue to purchase by buying some every day.

But it will take a few years to enjoy the benefits, and there is no way to solve the problem of next year's finals.

The same is true for stocks. Wu Di only knows some well-known stocks, such as Moutai, Apple, Tesla, etc. These stocks are long-term holdings to see returns.

The same applies to real estate. Now that the aftermath of the subprime mortgage crisis has not yet passed, real estate prices around the world are still going down.

When there is profit, the Heat have already won two consecutive championships, and Lao Zhan will decide 2!
At that time, no matter how much money you have, you can't buy the lost youth.

Besides, if a local tyrant is like Boss Cai, why can't he win the championship?
Therefore, the best investment right now is Krypton himself.

A game, played well, earned hundreds of thousands of dollars!

You can also sign endorsement contracts worth tens of millions!

The most important thing is that only by winning the championship can you get the "No Injury Badge"!
krypton!
Not only krypton, but big krypton!
Thinking of the offensive and defensive performance of the Mavericks yesterday, Wu Di scored 3 points for the jumper!
Immediately increase the jump shot talent to 100!

The jump shot is the most effective weapon against the Mavericks. When the height rises again, the finals will be over with Nuo Tianwang!
In addition, I will go to Charlotte to fight the Bobcats in two days. If I have the opportunity to fight with Danzi, I am not afraid that the actual index will not reach 100!

Save 1 point for flexibility, and increase the flexibility from 82 to 83. This attribute allows him to make larger movements.

And more importantly, it can reduce the chance of injury.

Now that his endorsement fee is so high, I don't know how many people in the NBA are jealous, so he has to protect himself more.

After finishing all this, Wu Di opened Twitter, and the first post on the home page was the promotion of Pepsi. The content was exactly the endorsement photo he just took today. The official announced that he became the new global brand ambassador of Pepsi:
"An international student who traveled across the sea, relied on his extraordinary talent and hard work to enter the NCAA and became the NBA's 2010 No. 50 show. In the case of being abandoned by the legendary godfather, not only did he not sink, but he also led the team to win three consecutive games. Victory, and broke the record that has been maintained for more than [-] years...He is Wu Di, the new global brand image ambassador of Pepsi!"

There are also ads that highlight the Pepsi brand tagline:
"Breakthrough desire, dare to compete for the championship! Wu Di has never been fighting alone. The young Pepsi generation is creating its own era!"

Ariana opened Facebook and other social platforms, and found that it was also his advertisement, and it was the same on some other large portal websites. The traffic from Pepsi was really fierce.

"Swipe the screen..."

He opened his twitter personal homepage and found that the number of fans had exceeded the tens of millions that had been limiting him before!
Moreover, the increase was very sharp, and within a few hours of growing up, his number of fans increased from a stagnant 800 million to more than 1500 million...

It is said that in addition to digital advertising, Pepsi will also roll out a series of media promotions such as his outdoor physical advertisements offline.

Basically after this wave, Wu Di became a well-known sports star in the United States.

Discussions about him on Twitter also exploded:

"Wow, I'm going to switch to Pepsi in the future, because Pepsi is really brave and Wu is really handsome!"

"Beyond desire, Pepsi's vision in choosing a spokesperson is really amazing!"

"In such a short period of time, from an unknown grassroots to a superstar, it is simply the wildest American dream!"

……

But not all netizens are optimistic about this cooperation:
"Made, why did you give Wu so much money? Pepsi's global brand ambassadors are all superstars, and only those like Beckham are qualified. An Asian Wu Di is not enough to be famous!"

"Disgusting, Chamberlain's record is just a rookie record, what's so great, first win this year's ROY (Rookie of the Year) and then brag!"

"What? Doubling the endorsement fee for the championship? Damn it, you really know how to talk about it. The Cavaliers dare to brag here. It is very difficult for young people to get ahead, but young people are not so desperate!"

"What's the difference between the lineup of 1 for 50 and Lamborghini's 5 yuan coupon?"

"That is, if there is any hope in this lineup, will Zhan Huang leave!"

"Don't keep talking about our Zhan Huang, okay, our Zhan Huang GOAT, this rookie that no one wants is simply incomparable!"

"Yes, it's a joke! After all, Pepsi tastes like the urine of a diabetic, and Coca-Cola tastes better!"

"Upstairs, how do you know that Pepsi is the same as diabetic urine?"

"...I had a friend tell me!"

"Damn it, it's terrible to be your friend!"

Of course, how can there be no conspiracy theories in the public opinion environment in the United States:

"Wu's agent's surname is Rockefeller! No wonder he was signed by Pepsi at a sky-high price in his rookie season. It was all manipulated by the Freemasons!"

"That's right, it must have been absorbed by the Freemasons. Damn, a good star has joined the evil Freemasons!"

"No, it should have been a senior member of the Freemasonry. It is estimated that this time it is just an exchange of interests with the Rockefeller family!"

"Isn't Freemasonry only for whites?"

"Those upstairs don't pretend to be ignorant. The core of Freemasonry is lizard people, and then transformed into white people, yellow people, and black people. If you don't believe me, look at the picture I posted. Wu obviously has lizard eyes..."

……

Wu Di laughed dumbfounded looking at himself with vertical pupils. This is the case on the Internet in the United States. No wonder some people still believe that the earth is flat...

(End of this chapter)