NBA: I really just want to be a second-in-command

Chapter 214

After winning the game against the Dallas Mavericks, the Los Angeles Lakers and the No.2 New Orleans Hornets completely widened the gap. With a proud record of only one loss, they occupy the first place in the Western Conference.

Not only are they No. [-] in the Western Conference, they are even the best record in the entire NBA.

This undoubtedly made the Lakers stand out for a while, and Lu Yusheng needless to say, he has completely become a figure that makes the entire NBA league crazy.

The commercial value has risen, and various commercial endorsement contracts have come one after another.

"Hey, Lu, I think you should think about it again. This burger company really offers a lot. And there are not too many strings attached." Meng Xia said to Lu Yusheng on the phone.

"Please, I'm an athlete, and I basically don't eat these things, so asking me to endorse this thing, isn't that deceiving consumers?" Lu Yusheng refused.

"Who cares about this thing?" Meng Xia said, "They only care about the photo of you printed on it. It's enough to see you eating that thing in the advertisement. Who cares if you eat it or not?"

"I still don't think so well."

"You don't usually use condoms, why do you want to endorse that thing?" Meng Xia asked back.

"Isn't that what you arranged for me?"

"But you didn't object at that time." Meng Xia said, "How come you can't do it here in Hamburg?"

"I don't think that thing is good for preventing AIDS, so I endorsed it."

"The hamburger company donates hamburgers to the homeless every month. This is also a contribution to the problem of human food and clothing. Why can't you see it?"

"I can't say enough about you, but Meng Xia, isn't the endorsement a bit too much recently?" Lu Yusheng said.

"It's quite a lot," Meng Xia said, "But I arranged it completely according to your previous request, without any release activities, without any promotional activities, just pure endorsement, shooting some advertising prints and commercials, that's all. "

"But I don't have so many endorsements for money," Lu Yusheng said, "Right now, I'm basically shooting commercials during my rest time. I'm sleeping and dreaming to look for camera sense. Meng Xia, this is definitely not enough, I'm too lacking It's training time."

"I know, but there is no good way. Brother, you are too popular recently, and there are too many merchants who have signed contracts with you, and the conditions they offer are really good. I really don't The reason for the refusal," Meng Xia said, "I want to be considerate of you, and you have to be considerate of me too, brother, they can be said to be holding a check and begging to sign a contract with you, and the conditions are casually mentioned, do you know that? , How tempting is this kind of condition for an agent? I really can't help it."

"Calm down, friend." Lu Yusheng said, "I'm still what I told you before, money is not enough to earn enough, but we have to figure out our goals, we can't put priorities in reverse, we have to know what I want now What is it?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, Lu, when you see so many checks dangling in front of my eyes, you have to think about my feelings. I can't even think about what you want, I can only think about what I want." Meng Xia laughed road.

"Okay, what you earn this year is almost enough to spend half of your life?" Lu Yusheng said, "People get enough."

"Then there is still the rest of my life." Meng Xia said, "Lu, I've been imagining a possibility for the past two days."

"What is possible?"

"Is it possible that we will only earn this year's money, and then we will relax a little bit about basketball, and then we will earn all the money in this year, which will never be spent." Meng Xia said.

"Be more relaxed about basketball? Then how can I attract these endorsement contracts?" Lu Yusheng said.

"That's why I said one year," Meng Xia said, "Think about it, those endorsement contracts are basically signed for one year. During this one year, no matter how poor your performance is, there is nothing they can do about it." , we can only pay money obediently, so we will accept more big contracts this year, earn enough money for the rest of our lives, and then we will retire and enjoy life, what a wonderful thing is this? Right? "

Lu Yusheng smiled, "It's a good idea, but what I want to tell you is, Meng Xia, we still have a long way to go in life, so we should have a long-term vision, and we can't be short-sighted and stare at the small profits in front of us."

"Please, do you call this small profits?" Meng Xia said, "Think about it carefully, brother, your manor was won by these small profits."

"Okay, if you like living here, I will give it to you, but Meng Xia, this matter is over, don't mention it in the future, the Christmas game is about to be played, this year we are playing the Suns, I have to win Get ready for this game, so don't bother me with these contracts for the next few days."

"The Suns? Isn't your first game against the Suns? Aren't they your opponents? What else do you need to prepare?" Meng Xia said.

"Come on, that's the beginning of the season. It's been two months since now. Every team has changed and matured. We played the Suns at the beginning of the game, purely because they just started the season. Everything They are still unfamiliar, if we fight now, we may not be able to win again."

"Aren't you all number one in the league? Who will be your opponent?"

"That's enough, that's enough, I won't tell you anymore. Anyway, I have to prepare for the Christmas battle these days. I really don't have the time and energy to engage in those contracts and endorsements. Push everything you can." Lu Yusheng said , ready to hang up the phone in a hurry.

"Wait a minute, Lu Yusheng." Meng Xia said suddenly from the other end.

"What's the matter? What else is there?" Lu Yusheng said, "Don't bring up the contract matter again. I really want to prepare for the Christmas battle."

"Christmas, don't you only have the Christmas war?" Meng Xia asked.

"Then what else?" Lu Yusheng was stunned for a moment, then said suddenly, "I almost forgot, I have to see Avril, she must really want to see me at Christmas. Oh, yes, I have to talk to my mother It's very important to go back and meet, you want to remind me of this?"

"Get out, hang up."

"Okay, okay, I know, you are also alone in a foreign land," Lu Yusheng said, "It is true that you need someone to accompany you, but I really have no skills at all, and I may only see Avril once. Even my mother may I can't even care about it."

"Forget it, I guess she might not want to see you too much." Meng Xia said coldly.

"Nonsense, we haven't seen each other for a long time." Lu Yusheng said, "Okay, don't feel unbalanced, you should hurry up and find a partner for your Christmas, if it doesn't work, you can only come to see it on Christmas My game fueled me, it was so boring."

"Take care of your own affairs," Meng Xia said, "I have already found my partner, and I will have a good Christmas."

"Oh? Is something wrong with Ms. Meng?" Lu Yusheng said with a smile, "Which young man, can you introduce me to him?"

"You know him." Meng Xia said.

"I know you?" Lu Yusheng was taken aback, "My classmate? Or..."

"You'll know when the time comes." Meng Xia said, "Okay, I still have work to do, so you can do your work."

After talking, Meng Xia hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yusheng thought carefully, Meng Xia found a boyfriend he knew?

If he knew him, could it be his classmate?
But how did Meng Xia know his classmates?It doesn't make sense at all.

Then it could be an NBA player.

Who could it be?
Lu Yusheng felt a little puzzled, because Meng Xia has been very busy recently, how could he have time to meet NBA players?Never heard her mention it.

Of course, for Lu Yusheng, this is actually a good thing.

After all, Meng Xia has always been alone, apart from him, the only ones left here during the holidays are those colleagues.

And those colleagues, after all, they haven't known her for long.

I definitely can't spend the holidays with him, he also has his own life.

Lu Yusheng had been urging Meng Xia to find a boyfriend before. Anyway, at least she had a companion, but this girl always refused, and Lu Yusheng knew that she probably still had some thoughts on him, so Lu Yusheng I hope she can find a boyfriend quickly, and Lu Yusheng doesn't want to delay her.

Although Lu Yusheng never owed Meng Xia money, for some reason, Lu Yusheng always felt that he owed her a little bit. This may be because Lu Yusheng owed her emotionally.

Although this was not Lu Yusheng's fault, but the girl really fell in love with him, because he loved Avril deeply in his heart, so he avoided it.

Therefore, for Lu Yusheng, as long as he can find a boyfriend, Lu Yusheng himself is absolutely blessed.

In the following time, Lu Yusheng began to prepare for the Christmas battle.

The NBA's arrangement is always like this. When you became enemies in the playoffs last season, next season, he will arrange for you to play any game, the opening game, and the Christmas game.

There is actually not much historical grievance between the Lakers and the Suns. It is purely because last season, the Lakers were turned over with a 3:1 lead. Although the Lakers are really holding their breath this offseason, But at the start of the game, the Lakers won the Suns in the first game, which can be regarded as making everyone out of breath.

Therefore, in this Christmas game, the whole team did not have much momentum to win this game. First, the Lakers have indeed won too much recently. Since the start of the game, they have lost to the Spurs. , all other games were won.

Therefore, everyone seems to have become accustomed to the feeling of winning the next game, so they don't feel too eager to win.

Even Phil Jackson, the Zen master, did not ask everyone for a training camp in advance. He was just exposed by the media yesterday, and he had dinner with Jerry Buss and Jenny Buss. Moreover, the dinner seemed to be very unpleasant.

For some unknown reason, Phil Jackson quarreled with Old Buss at the dinner table, and Old Buss left the table angrily.

However, judging from his state, he doesn't seem to be affected by this incident too much, he is still happy, just like he is on the field, no matter what the situation is on the field, he is still happy Everything is stable.

There is only one person who is still training hard, and that is Kobe.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Christmas, this guy is usually like this.

After the game against the Mavericks, Kobe had an MRI immediately. Fortunately, he was fine and healthy enough to participate in the game against the Phoenix Suns.

This is of course good news for the Lakers, because Lu Yusheng knows that if Kobe is missing in the lineup, they can easily target themselves with the defensive ability of the Phoenix Suns.

As long as Kobe plays, then their main energy must be on Kobe and will never be on him. In this way, he will have more room to play.

As far as Lu Yusheng was concerned, the only bad news was that he couldn't get through to Avril Lavigne.

In the past few days, he has been unable to contact Avril anyway. If Avril hadn't called him back that night, the anxious Lu Yusheng might have called the police.

Of course, although Avril Lavigne called him back, it didn't make Lu Yusheng happy, because Avril Lavigne on the other end of the phone didn't seem to have the slightest joy of talking to her long-lost boyfriend. Instead, she sounded a little depressed and perfunctory, just chatting casually After a few words, she hung up the phone on the grounds that her mother was not feeling well.

This made Lu Yusheng a little disappointed, but he didn't have time to take care of these for a while.

He has to prepare for the game, and was even invited by the NBA official to shoot a Christmas promotional video.

The night before the Christmas game, Phoenix Suns general manager Steve Kerr walked into the office of Lakers general manager Kubchak.

"Hey, Cook, I don't see any reason for you to reject this deal," Steve Kerr said. In trouble, like our Steve Nash, no one rests for him, it will be a big problem, and Richardson, you should know, he will be a qualified backup for Kobe. We just use him for It's just a rookie of yours, and I think it would be a little too much for you to reject this deal."

Kubchak laughs, "Correct first, he's not from Lithuania, he's from Slovenia."

"never mind."

"Of course, it really doesn't matter, but, Cole, we are all businessmen. If you traded Richardson with me last season, I'm afraid I would offer everyone except Kobe. But now , It's different, Cole, although Lu Yusheng is a rookie, his...current value is far from what Richardson can match, so I think you came to me today to discuss this deal , it’s still a bit too much.”

(End of this chapter)