Back in 84, he became Jordan’s lifelong enemy!

Chapter 57 It makes sense for college students to defeat NBA bosses, right?
In the morning, when approaching the hotel, Su Wen walked out of the Space Needle elevator, feeling a little unsatisfied.

This is already the fifth famous Seattle attraction he has visited in the past two days.

In order to get familiar with the city, he had been wandering around outside almost all the time for two days.

When I was tired, I found a restaurant to sit down and eat. When I was thirsty, I bought some drinks on the street. When I was sleepy, I took a taxi back to sleep. I visited almost all the famous attractions in the city.

A series of shopping trips looks like a homeless person, a homeless person.

If you give him a tent, he can sleep on his head.

It was only because he didn't encounter any crazy fans chasing him along the way that he could go shopping safely.

Come to think of it, those fans who picked up the airport the day before yesterday were just a small group of fanatical fans, and not all fans are that crazy.

Reasonable people still make up the majority.

In other words, he is not well-known to the extent that everyone in Seattle knows it.

When they meet fans who recognize him, most of them just say hello, greet them, and let him go.

This time he was tired from walking and hungry, so he randomly found an alley to see if there was a Chinese restaurant.

He was really tired of eating Western food.

He ate in the school cafeteria and on the way to games. During the two days he arrived in Seattle, he still ate Western food.

Now I think it’s time to go back to Chinese food.

He walked from the street to the end of the alley, then turned from the end of the alley to other roads, and finally found a Chinese restaurant after more than ten minutes.

It's better to say it's a Chinese restaurant than a fly house.

Because the store is old and small, the yellow light sign has a few cracks, and the whole store looks dirty outside.

"Ruyi Restaurant?"

Very good, very Hong Kong style.

Su Wen didn't hesitate and walked in directly.

When he went in and took a look, he saw that the inside was only a few square meters in size, and it looked sinister and dark.

It was obviously early in the morning and the sun was shining brightly outside, but inside it looked like a 40s and [-]s style shop.

Very tasty.

"Hi there, what would you like to eat?"

Not long after Su Wen stopped, a middle-aged man wearing a scarf came out of the kitchen and greeted him.

The other person spoke broken English.

But Su Wen still understood.

"What's there to eat?" Su Wen responded in Cantonese, and his eyes glanced at the menu written on red Saxon paper in front of the bar.

Pork rice 1.2$;

Minced meat and eggplant rice 1.0$;

Wonton noodles 0.5$;

Chezi noodles 0.5$;

Preserved egg and lean meat porridge 0.3$;

B boy jelly.
The menu was full of regional specialties that he often saw in Xiangjiang, which suddenly brought him back to the past when he was in Xiangjiang a year ago.

The shop owner was surprised by his pure and fluent Cantonese, and then he hurriedly introduced him to some snacks, which were what was on the menu.

How can we go to a Chinese restaurant without drinking heavily and eating meat?
Su Wen decisively ordered pork rice and a roasted duck leg.

A total of $2.

To be honest, considering the current prices, it is really a bit expensive.

This is true even when comparing Xiangjiang at this time.

"Wait a moment." The shop owner immediately got into the kitchen after he finished ordering.

Su Wen sat and waited for about ten minutes before a large bowl of braised pork rice and a small bowl of roasted duck legs were served.

He was not in a hurry to eat, but asked the other party first: "Boss, there are not many people here."

After he came in, no one sat at the three small tables inside.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, no one came in.

There are obviously a lot of people outside.

"I can't help it, people here don't like to eat Xiangjiang food that's too bland."

The boss judged from Su Wen's accent that he was also from Xiangjiang, or had been, so he changed the language accordingly.

"Oh, I see."

Su Wen nodded, picked up the chopsticks and started eating.

Maybe there really weren't many customers, so the boss was free, so he simply sat across from Su Wen, "Little brother, are you here to travel, or are you an international student?"

"Why can't I be from here?" Su Wen asked with a smile.

"People here?"

The boss shook his head and replied confidently: "Old people living here will not come into this store."

"They're always picking on me."

"and then?"

Su Wen looked like, "You keep talking, I'll keep listening."

The boss smiled and continued: "The second-generation immigrants here have almost lost their language. A Cantonese sentence always needs to be mixed with English words to appear international."

"Either he is a good boy who doesn't go out often and has his own specific circle."

"More." He looked at Su Wen with burning eyes and said with a smile: "Many Chinese people mostly live in Chinese circles and Chinese communities, and few of them go out alone to this area."

It turned out to be the case.

Su Wen understood instantly. No wonder the boss immediately mistook him for a tourist or an international student.

After thinking about it, he continued to eat meat.

The boss just sat like this, looking at him for a long time, and then asked: "It's rare to see someone as tall as you, little brother."

"Are you really an international student?"

"I play basketball." Su Wen said frankly: "I come here to play basketball."

"Come here to play?" The boss looked at him in surprise, "Football? Volleyball? Or basketball?"

"basketball."

Hearing the boss ask this, Su Wen knew that the other party was not a fan, at least he didn't usually watch football.

"Play basketball?"

The boss nodded, "This is the first time I've seen Chinese people playing basketball here."

You will see me more often in the future.

Su Wen said nothing and continued to cook.

After almost finishing the rice and pork in the bowl, he said to the boss: "Please have another bowl, it's not enough."

"Uh."

The boss glanced at him in surprise. Looking at his slender legs and upright figure, he understood.

No wonder people are so tall, they can eat it.

He didn't say anything, stood up and went back to the kitchen.

But this time, he came out in 2 minutes.

Seeing Su Wen's confused look, he explained: "I heated the pork belly for a few minutes before, because I was afraid that it would be too cold for you to eat."

Is that so?

Su Wen nodded silently, took the bowl, and started working again.

After finishing the second bowl, he felt full in his stomach. Then he picked up the roast duck leg and asked the boss while eating, "Boss, you know that not many people come in here, why don't you change the place?"

“Can’t we drive into the Chinese community?”

The boss smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The rent is too expensive, I can't afford it."

“And you don’t know how screwed the landlords are there.”

"If you forget to pay your rent, your water and electricity will be cut off immediately."

"It's even too much. You rush into the store to chase away your customers."

Uh, when a fellow countryman meets a fellow countryman, two shots are fired in the back?

If two shots don't work, why don't I shoot you in the head again?
Su Wen roughly understood that the other party chose this small shop for Mao, which not many people liked to patronize.

It's cheap.

At the same time, there was no appetite for Chinese food here, so this gave him the opportunity to buy this restaurant.

Now the store is losing money, and it can't move anymore. Once it moves, it will suffer even more losses.

At least you'll have to pay double the penalty.

This does not include the decoration of the store and the furniture and appliances.

He thought for a while and then asked: "Boss, are you an immigrant, or are you?"

"They are considered new immigrants." The boss scratched his head with a sad look on his face. "After living here for a few years, I realized that the moon in foreign countries is also like a bird, and it is not as round or bright as the Xiangjiang River."

"The people here are also very indifferent. Neighbors who pass by and bump into each other after living here for several years are like strangers and are not willing to say hello to you."

“Regret that you immigrated?”

Su Wen asked with a smile.

"I can't say I regret it." The boss shook his head and sighed, "I'm just a little disappointed."

"The Chinese are not united at all in a foreign country, so that's it. They will try to trick you even more ruthlessly than foreigners."

"And the moves are very sinister."

Seeing the boss's unhappy and depressed expression, Su Wen didn't know what to say.

After he finished chewing the roasted duck legs in his hand, at the boss's signal, he went to the sink to wash his hands, and then said to the other party: "Thank you for taking care of me, boss. I will come to patronize you again when I have the opportunity." "Okay, okay. .”

The boss got up to see him off, and waved goodbye when he arrived at the door.

In this way, Su Wen left the attractions of the Space Needle and took a taxi back to the players' apartment.

Just when we arrived at the apartment, the phone rang.

The SuperSonics management is very considerate and provides each player apartment with a landline phone to make it easier to find people.

As for this phone number, in addition to the management, Su Wen has already informed Barkley and Chuck Person in their hometown.

The person who called at this time was either the management or the two birdmen.

Sure enough, when I picked up the phone and listened, Barkley's voice came from the other side.

"Sue, did you hear that?"

"What did you hear?"

Su Wen asked in surprise.

Does this guy have any gossip to talk about?
"Sue, I got news from Milwaukee that Michael Jordan and his gang defeated a bunch of NBA big guys."

"My goodness."

"You know, Sue, their opponents were Larry Bird, Maggie, and Isaiah Thomas of the Pistons. They actually defeated a team composed of these big guys."

"Oh?" Su Wen was surprised and very interested, "How did they do it?"

"Where do I know how they did it? Anyway, they just won." At this point, Barkley curled his lips and said in a disdainful tone: "It turns out that the so-called NBA superstars are just mediocre."

"Didn't he get fucked by us college students?"

"Yeah." Su Wen immediately laughed when he heard his attitude, "Charles, you must be confident about playing in the NBA by now, right?"

"Of course, Su, I can't wait to torture those so-called NBA superstars."

"Michael Jordan is just your loser. They can't even beat him, let alone us."

Gone!

This guy is floating!
Su Wen laughed loudly.

After he finished dealing with Barkley and hung up the phone, he fell into deep thought.

In his previous life, he had seen reports on the college Olympic team led by Jordan, and knew that they had defeated one team after another as college students composed of NBA star players, including Bird Bird and Magic Johnson. team.

The coaches of these NBA superstar teams are also famous names like Pat Riley and Big 'O' Oscar Robertson.

Then later, this college Olympic team won all nine warm-up matches.

I heard that after they defeated the big guys in the NBA, the latter were very unconvinced and got really serious in one of the games, beating Jordan to blood.

I don’t know if it was at that time that Boss Qiao and the Smiling Assassin had a conflict, so that after various grievances and hatreds in the next few decades, they never interacted with each other until death.

The United States takes this college Olympic team seriously.

In addition to finding three-time NCAA champion coach Bobby Knight, they also established a 22-person assistant coaching team and assembled more than 70 elite college players to form an Olympic training team and conducted several rounds of rigorous training. selection.

Barkley, Malone, John Stockton, etc. were eliminated, which is too normal.

There are so many people this delegation can fight.

Jordan, Ewing, Chris Mullin, Elvin Robertson, who was selected by the Spurs this year, Sam Perkins, Leon Wood, Jeff Turner, Vaughan Fleming, etc.

This almost includes the geniuses of the 84/85 sessions.

So, to be honest, it seems quite reasonable that this group of people can defeat those NBA big guys.

Of this group of college students, only a handful of them fell through the cracks later on. Who among the others will become famous and influential bosses in the future?
Only Magic, Bird, and the Smiling Assassin entered the NBA a few years ago.

In the nine warm-up games, he defeated the league's superstar seniors. Not to mention, Su Wen was very interested in going to see it.

It's a pity that he won't have this opportunity.

This Los Angeles Olympics will open on the 7th at the end of July, and Jordan and others will start their first game on the 20th.

He didn't know if he would have a chance to go to the scene to see it.

The next day, in the morning, he received a call from the top management of the SuperSonics, um, it was Bill Pandy.

The other party told him that someone passed them and wanted to meet him.

In other words, I want to be his agent.

It made him curious.

Who on earth has such a big reputation that he can speak for himself through the team’s senior management?

But he soon found out.

When he was in the high-level conference room, he saw a group of middle-aged people in suits and ties who looked like successful people. After Bill Pandy's introduction, he learned that these people were managers from the CAA agency.

Currently, NBA agents are not yet organized, and there are not so many well-known individual agents.

Many stars sign contracts with old brokerage companies, and these companies send people to form brokerage teams to help the stars handle all contract negotiations and off-field matters.

In other words, you were originally an individual broker, but now the entire brokerage company is serving you.

This is why in the future, so many people will break away from various brokerage companies and work alone.

There are so many people but so little meat.

When a company signs a player, how can all the rewards received be distributed to everyone?

Isn’t it good to eat alone?

CAA is currently one of the three major agencies in Hollywood.

They were just established in 1975. In just 10 years, they have already built up a business, with annual revenue reaching US$9000 million.

Their business spans the United States.

Hollywood, various sports fields, and even cultural fields have their businesses.

What they do best is bundling.

First, gather a group of employers and find a good filming team such as directors, actors, screenwriters, etc., and then go to the production company to negotiate and ask for more profits.

Many Hollywood production companies are very dissatisfied with their behavior of organizing kidnapping and sales, but there is nothing they can do about it.

In the end, it evolved into a split situation in which the three parties involved each other and fought with each other, but in the end they had to cooperate.

Later, the three parties, the agency, the producers, and the investors, gradually worked together to form a tacit understanding, and created a Hollywood model that involved big fights and checks and balances at the same time.

Su Wen was very interested in the CAA agency that took the initiative to contact him and contacted him through the team's top management.

After all, their Hollywood business is so extensive.

If you want to get to know any actresses, they can take you to various occasions and help you get to know more.

If you want to find someone who is not famous yet, they are just a phone call away.

Of course, the premise is that you have to be a superstar and create benefits for them.

However, the prices charged by such brokerage companies are also very expensive.

Almost always it takes 10% of all your income.

Those 3% and 4% common agents in the future were created by David Falcao in order to compete with these big companies for people.

After David Falcao became independent from a large company, in order to survive in the industry, he found a new way to explore potential college players.

It was through this model that he met Jordan's coach, Dean Smith, and thus won Jordan.

Then through Jordan, he became famous, gradually reached the top, and became a big boss in the industry.

This has led to the creation of more independent brokers.

It's all Jordan's fault!
Starting from Falcao, 3 points and 4 points have gradually become a tacit and very common agency standard for agents and players.

Although Su Wen was very interested in CAA and wanted to meet Hollywood actresses, he was daunted by the 10% commission.

You know, this commission is all deducted from the player's own contract income.

Moreover, if you are an unknown newcomer, their asking price is higher, even as high as 30%.

Su Wen couldn't bear it.

He now loves money as much as his life!
But everyone has come, and he is also present, so let’s talk.

Ten minutes later, after some haggling, he expressed that he was not interested in cooperating with them and walked out of the conference room.

He has kept the commission to the lowest, and they still insist on 10%.

After returning to the apartment, he was just about to lie down on the bed to rest when there was a knock on the door.

When he opened the door, he saw that it was one of the people from CAA, a well-known agent named Funing Valante who claimed to be a senior member of the company.

"you are"

Su Wen was surprised by the other party's arrival and even wanted to call the apartment building manager to scold him.

Damn it, do you want to let someone in to find him?

This Funing Valante seemed to know that she was not welcome by him, but she simply stated her intention directly.

He first expressed regret that the company could not reach a cooperation with Su Wen, and then said that he admired Su Wen very much and was very optimistic about the latter's future prospects in the NBA.

He also said that he plans to become independent from CAA and look for business, and Su Wen is the first one he is looking for.

He swore that he had a very broad network of contacts and knew many big names in business, sports and Hollywood, not to mention female celebrities, not to mention female artists.

When Su Wen felt impatient, he finally got to the point - commission.

The commission can be reduced appropriately, even if it is only 3 points, he can accept it.

I just ask Su Wen to give him a chance.

3 points?

Su Wen instantly became energetic and invited him in.

After being invited in, Funing Valante looked around, as if she was afraid of being discovered.

　These two chapters are daily transition chapters.

　　I originally wanted to write more, but I might get trolled, so I’ll just cover a lot of things in one go.

　　After all, it's not an important plot.

　　Also, the Chinese restaurant owner at the beginning of this picture is also a very useful person. Don’t tell me that I wrote a useless plot.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)