Basketball: The Chosen Victim

Chapter 78 The Meeting with Jordan (Read More!)
The next day, Wu Di went to Madison Square Garden with the team.

Madison Square Garden is the earliest large-scale dedicated basketball arena in the United States. The NBA's annual draft is held here, and a series of classic games such as Miller's moment have been staged.

So although the Knicks have never established a dynasty, it is still known as the holy land of basketball.

It is now November 11th, and Melon has not been traded yet. The Knicks' star player is Amare Stoudemire, also known as Stoudemire, plus the stocky point guard Raymond Felton.

They were called the Felton-Dun-Stoudemire combination.

Their previous record was 3 wins and 3 losses. Like the Cavaliers, they ranked seventh in the Eastern Conference.

This result is not very good, but the fans are very enthusiastic, and there is no lack of some big stars to support the scene, such as the great director Spike Lee, the new pop queen Taylor Swift and so on.

But Knicks head coach Mike D'Antoni has misery.

Because his acclaimed bombardment tactics are very unstable in this lineup.

When he was in the Suns before, his bombardment tactics were only accused of "showing off in the regular season and stopping in the playoffs."

After coming to the Knicks, even the regular season was reduced to [-]-[-].

They can also increase the speed, attacking every 7 seconds, but Felton and Nash are the same as the sky and the ground.

Felton is 1 meters tall and weighs 85 kilograms. As a stocky defender, he runs very fast. He is a flexible and fat man with a high golf quotient and can quickly find breakthrough routes.

When he dribbles to the outside line, he often lowers his head and can use the blind spot of the defender's vision to get to the basket to score.

But that's it, his overall shooting percentage last season was only 42%, and his finishing ability is very average, far from Nash of the 180 club.

Moreover, he met Williams who is also 1 meters today, and the advantage of the blind spot of vision is gone.

These two people are not only similar in height, but also have similar salaries.

But Williams deserves to be the more sought-after bargaining chip in the market right now, and quickly overwhelmed Felton.

His overall shooting percentage is 3% higher than Felton's, but the two shot choices are completely different.

Williams' shooting accounted for 70%, breakthroughs accounted for 30%, Felton's projections accounted for 20%, and breakthroughs accounted for 80%.

Based on the height of the two of them, it is obviously more difficult for Williams to choose a shot, and the technical content is higher, but the shooting rate is higher.

And the higher proportion of shooting means that Williams has a certain ability to contain the ball and can put more pressure on the Knicks' defense.

This is also the reason why he is more popular in the trading market.

The outside shooting rate is poor. Inside, the Knicks only have Stoudemire fighting against Jordan, Hickson, and Jamison under the basket. Wilson Chandler and Danilo Gallinari are all floating outside. striker.

After three quarters, the Cavaliers had 9 more rebounds than the Knicks, 7 of which were offensive rebounds.

The Knicks originally wanted to train the knights today, but they found that the more they fought, the more tired they were, but the more energetic the knights were, they trained themselves.

So, when the final whistle sounded, the Cavaliers won the game 109:102, ending their three-game losing streak.

Six players in the team scored in double figures, and Williams scored 31 points, 10 assists and 5 rebounds in a luxurious double-double.

If this statistic didn't highlight Williams' tactics, it was developed by Wu Di and Scott together. He would have to consider whether his position is stable...

But fortunately, this tactic did work, and the value of Williams as a bargaining chip has been increased a bit. Leaving aside the offers from other teams, the Timberwolves' management has begun to loosen their asking prices...

……

Portland

Nike Headquarters President's Office

"Trash, it's all trash! Wu was the first one to find out! I quoted four rounds of prices, but I still haven't signed it! What use are you for!"

Nike CEO Mark Parker yelled at Pierre and Fessanoti, but he was still unhappy, and then yelled in the east direction:
"It's just an abandoned talent show, 500 million won't be signed, who the hell do you think you are? Yellow Jesus?"

Pierre glanced at Fesanoti beside him, and his heart was full of anger. It was because the latter was half a step slower every time, which caused Wu Di's price to rise all the way.

If Wall's offer of $500 million had been matched from the beginning, Wu Di might have signed the contract long ago.

Fesanoti was also upset. Now Wu Di's market situation reminded him of the mistake he made to Dayao before.

Although his position was saved later, it was because of the merits of signing James at the same time, and the merits and demerits were balanced to keep his position.

But if he messes up again this time, where can he find James now...

Fesanoti said somewhat unwillingly:

"Boss, why did Pepsi sign him at such a high price..."

"Idiot, can't you see it now?!"

Mark Parker directly took off his leather shoes and hit him. Before he could react at this time, Fessanoti was hopeless!
After Wu Di signed a contract with Pepsi, the number of Twitter followers directly doubled to nearly 2000 million. What does this mean?
It shows that Wu Di can undertake the superstar contract!
If he didn't have this coffee position, no matter how much Pepsi injected traffic, it wouldn't have the same effect.

So the question is no longer why Pepsi signed with such a high price, but why they didn't give Wu Di such a high price earlier!
He didn't bother to explain, no matter how much he didn't understand at this time, no matter how much he explained, it was useless:
"I have already discussed with Michael, he will personally recruit Wu on the day of the game between the Bobcats and the Cavaliers, and you fly over to help him! Remember, no matter what, you can't let Wu be signed by the two brands of Adidas and UA. !"

Fessanoti couldn't believe his ears a bit:

"Boss, are you sure you want Jordan to go out in person?"

Mark Parker shook his head when he heard the words. At this time, Fesanoti is still blinded by racial discrimination!

"At this level, it's natural to come up with a unique trick. Didn't LeBron get it done by Michael at the time? You should cooperate well and listen to Michael over there. The board of directors has approved him a five-year 5 million authorization. However, if you can Sign for less than that, and the money goes to Michael."

……

Time passed quickly, and the Cavaliers lost the next two games against the Trail Blazers and the Jazz.

Not many losses, one game 97:93, one game 101:97.
The problem still lies in the Cavaliers inside.

The inside combination of Jordan and Hickson relies on eating cakes for offense, and neither of them has low-post shooting skills.

Defensively, Jordan can only do one-on-one defense, and the effect of defending the opponent's center is good, but the awareness of assisting defense can't keep up. Hickson can't even do one-on-one defense well, and defends like a stance.

The Trail Blazers' insiders are Alder and Marcus Camby. Although Camby won the Best Defensive Player Award a little bit, but at least they have defense. The Cavaliers' inside combination is equivalent to cutting a big hole. Ad show.

Adelaide is also really giving face, all kinds of low hooks, turnaround jumpers, facing the Cavaliers, almost hooking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, almost making Grant cry.

In the second scene against the Jazz, the Jazz's insiders are Al Jefferson and AK47 Andrei Kirilenko. The skills of these two people are slightly inferior to the Blazers, but they are still much better than the Cavaliers.

But this time Wu Di was impressed by Jordan's performance.

Jefferson weighs 131 kilograms and has very delicate inside footsteps, which puts a lot of pressure on Jordan.

But he still resisted, even if he was bumped and fell again and again, Jefferson's singles would not be cheap.

Jordan's one-man mark still has potential, but unfortunately there is an AK47 next to him that can shoot and gouge, and Hickson is directly beaten into a sieve.

In the middle of the game, Scott changed the lineup and let Jamison play the power forward. The pressure on the inside has indeed eased, but in this way, no one can restrain Millsap...

With such a disadvantage inside, Williams' firepower was almost meaningless, resulting in two consecutive home losses, and the Quicken Loans Center even sounded the slogan "We want Wu back".

Wu Di is indeed almost recovered. He even started regular training two days ago. As long as his left wrist does not make large movements, there will be no problem at all.

But before the game against the Bobcats, after reading Wu Di's injury assessment report, Scott still refused him to play:

"You should come back when you play the Grizzlies next time!"

Scott patted him on the shoulder and continued:

"We don't have a lot of pressure to fight the Bobcats. You are on the cusp now, so we have to be safe!"

Wu Di had no choice but to agree, but to his surprise, Scott handed him the phone after communicating with him about the playing situation:

"This is MJ's cell phone number. You will call him later, and he said he wants to chat with you."

Looking at the note of "MJ" on the phone screen, Wu Di's heart beat faster for a moment.

"Michael Jordan, or Magic Johnson?"

He repeatedly confirmed that, after all, the relationship between Scott and Magic Johnson is also very good.

"Oh, you have to know that since Jordan appeared, there has only been one MJ, the magician I will call him the magician, or EJ."

Scott laughed, the magician's original name is Elvin Johnson, referred to as EJ.

Wu Di nodded, he is really Jordan, the god of basketball! ?
It wasn't long before Jordan bought the Bobcats at this time. Wu Di was still worried about how to build a relationship with Jordan, but now he took the initiative to use his relationship to find him.

But what would happen if Jordan came to him at this time?

Did his performance get his attention?
Or, because of the Nike deal?

After all, the quotation contract that Nike gave him now is to sign with AJ. According to Jordan's nature, it is not uncommon to have another interview.

After calling Ariana over for a brief discussion, she made a direct phone call:

"Hi MJ, I'm Wu, Wu Di."

Jordan's thick voice came from the other end of the phone:

"Well, son, I know you, I want to see you, tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock, my private jet will pick you up in Cleveland, is there any problem?"

"no problem!"

"Very well, see you tomorrow."

Jordan hung up the phone, simply and simply.

Wu Di was so excited that he almost didn't fall asleep all night. Judging from what Jordan said, they probably didn't meet in Charlotte. After all, Charlotte doesn't need to take a private jet, he just flies there with the team's special plane.

Could it be that he was invited to visit the legendary Qiao family compound?

Also, Jordan is now 47 years old, I don't know how he is now, and how much are the rewards in the system worth?

However, the chances of Jordan's bullfighting with him are really not high. Jordan is very competitive. If it is an unsure game, he will not participate easily...

So I have to find a way to motivate him to fight...

Wu Di thought hard, if he got the money well, not only would he be able to perfect his jump shot, but he could also earn some windfall money...

The next day, Wu Di arrived at Cleveland Airport early in his Lamborghini Bat, reported the flight number to the airport gate guard, and was allowed to enter the airport apron. This is the treatment of a private jet.

The vision on the tarmac is very wide, and Wu Di is driving a bat again. He really wants to go for a ride, but it is said that it starts off at least 3 stars, so he can only drive towards the private jet lounge at normal speed.

Passing by the hangar, a North Carolina Blue Gulfstream G550 painted with the AJ logo stands out from the fleet, which is Danzi's private jet.

The waiting room of the private jet is a separate hall, luxuriously decorated to suffocate, even the world clock on the wall is Audemars Piguet, a series of six hanging.

After sitting for a while, a black beauty flight attendant came to welcome him to board the plane.

Taking a closer look, the hood of Jordan's private jet still has the words "N236MJ" written on it.
The flight attendant introduced that N stands for "North Carolina", 23 is Jordan's number, and 6 stands for 6 championships.

Well, it turned out to be the six-time champion, who didn't know!
Among the private jets, the Gulfstream G550 is considered the most luxurious model. Its most outstanding feature is not the cabin, because the cabins are all customized, depending on the taste of the owner.

The most amazing thing about it is that it can maintain the cabin pressure at an altitude of about 1800 meters when cruising, which is closer to the ground than the cabin pressure of an ordinary airliner at an altitude of about 2400 meters, so it is much more comfortable.

In addition, it is also capable of intercontinental flight. During the flight, Wu Di asked the pilot that this plane can fly directly from Cleveland to Huaxia Yangcheng, which is similar to the range of medium and large passenger planes.

If the needle is not poked, it will cost about 5500 million US dollars, which is not something he can afford now...

5500 million U.S. dollars, equivalent to nearly 4 million RMB...

Made, Jordan is so rich!
This wealth value is unmatched by many NBA stars!

Everyone knows that a star is well-run, and his salary is only a fraction of the endorsement fee.

But in fact, there are no more than 20 active players in the NBA who have their own signature shoes, and most of them are symbolic sponsorships of 2 dollars.

After Jordan retired, he could still buy a private jet. At the beginning of this year, he bought the Charlotte Bobcats at a price close to 3 million dollars...

If Wu Di had so much money, he would just throw it all away...

The plane landed quickly, and the destination of this trip was not Charlotte, but the Qiao family compound in Chicago. After getting off the plane, Wu Di was picked up by two extended Range Rover.

After getting into the Range Rover, Wu Di knew Jordan's purpose for calling him over, because the other two sitting in the car were Nike's Fezanotti and Pierre.

Along the way, the two are telling the story of Nike and Jordan, of course, the main focus is how much money Nike brought to Jordan.

The Qiao Family Courtyard has an extraordinary temperament, with the domineering side leaking number "23" hanging on the big iron gate, and tall and uniform cedar trees are planted around the yard, which can well block the privacy.

It is said that the transplantation of these pine trees alone cost 200 million dollars.

The main building is more than [-] square meters, designed like a castle.

The luxury of the interior decoration is also jaw-dropping, not to mention all kinds of furniture from designers, there are also thirteen super sports cars for display.

Among the thirteen supercars, Ferrari has the most, with six, including one in black, one in yellow, one in white, and three in red. Jordan is indeed a hardcore Ferrari player.

There are two Porsche 911s, one of which is a red Turbo S with an "Air" license plate.

A black Aston Martin DB9, the convertible version of 007.

A black Bugatti Veyron Black Blood Special Edition, worth $200 million.

A silver Mercedes-McLaren SLR 722 worth $300 million.

There are also two Chevrolet Corvettes that Jordan likes very much. These two cars are not particularly expensive, but they are rare and have a very design sense.

One word, trench!

Two words, really embarrassing!

Jordan was playing golf in the yard, smoking a cigar while swinging his club, how domineering and domineering he looked like.

"MJ!"

Wu Di greeted him, and Jordan stretched out his big hand to give him a high five:
"Hands are bigger than Kobe! But it's still not as good as mine, let's swing two shots!"

(End of this chapter)