beast basketball

There was no nationwide live broadcast of this game. The counterattack led by Stephen and even the final lore did not cause much sensation, but the coaching staff and professionals of all the teams remembered the name of Stephen and his indomitable spirit. Fantastic kill.

Although this game was not broadcast live in the United States, it was broadcast live in China. When CCTV [-] purchased the broadcast rights in December, it specifically requested a batch of Spurs games. There were no Rockets, Lakers and other teams on this game. The match was broadcast on CCTV [-]. At the same time, because it happened to be the weekend in China, the fans who watched the game created the highest ratings of the regular season broadcast except for the Rockets.

Especially Stephen's key performance in this game. The main players in the starting lineup were weak and the team was gradually falling behind. At this time, Stephen stepped forward and led a group of substitutes to play a perfect counterattack performance. At the end, especially those who watched the game know that although Stephen is just a rookie, he can command freely on the court, and he is full of domineering and calm at the same time. Seeing such a yellow-skinned outside player in the NBA arena. The black and white confrontation did not lose the wind at all, and in the end they miraculously killed.

Suddenly, Stephen's fans increased by several orders of magnitude, especially the huge backward three-pointer at the end, which was imitated and cherished by countless people, and many people even regarded Stephen as not inferior to Joe Johnson As Stephen's true strength, they all complained about Stephen's position in the Spurs, thinking that with Stephen's strength, the Spurs should be dominated by Duncan and Stephen, and Ginobili and Michael Finley should all be on the bench.

Someone suggested that the Spurs are too inhumane for such a top star to sign a contract with a minimum salary. They should have a maximum salary of tens of millions of dollars, at least according to Joe Johnson's contract. The fans are so cute. He doesn't consider business rules and actual conditions at all, but these are just floating clouds to Stephen. He never pays attention to the domestic media, but his agency has built a Chinese website, Chinese blog and so on for him. Handled it all for him.

After Stephen's high price scared away many chasing manufacturers, Adidas and Nike seemed to have lost their patience and never contacted him again. Only domestic manufacturers contacted Stephen's agent from time to time to see if they could negotiate. of.

After Stephen's lore, there was no movement from foreign manufacturers, but Reebok suddenly expressed interest in Stephen. They spent a lot of money to sign Yao Ming in order to expand the Chinese market, but the promotion effect was not ideal. At this time They also took a fancy to Stephen's dual identity as an outside player and Chinese, but after hearing the price tag, they also made the decision to give up.

On the contrary, domestic manufacturers showed great interest again. As Stephen's popularity in the country increased, several domestic brands came to him again and raised their prices. Unfortunately, there is still a certain distance between Stephen and the brokerage company's requirements. distance.

However, there is one manufacturer who is very smart. They themselves want to promote their sports products through the nba platform and seek an international market, but Stephen's requirements exceed their requirements. After all, they are not very confident about whether they can develop foreign markets. foot.

They are very familiar with the operation of the NBA and the team, so they quickly discovered that although Stephen himself can't sign, they can sign with the Spurs. The Spurs don't have a sneaker sponsor yet. Sponsoring a team, It's only more than $100 million a year, and a team like the Spurs can't even use that much.

The boss of this manufacturer named Wick is very intelligent. While organizing the commercial promotion department to negotiate with the Spurs, he also organized the design department to carry out the design. In particular, he found someone to investigate Stephen's favorite color, shape and other personal psychological characteristics, and then instructed the design department. According to this design, in addition to the color matching of the Spurs jersey, the department also specially prepared a color he likes for Stephen.

At the same time, they secretly collected old shoes worn by Stephen with a lot of money, and introduced the shape of Stephen's feet through the traces in the shoes. This is completely prepared for Stephen to create an exclusive signature shoe. There will be business opportunities in future negotiations. As for the rest of the Spurs, since several big names have their own endorsement contracts, they will not wear the sneakers provided by the team. Those role players will be fine if they have free shoes. Pick and choose.

These specially designed shoes are different from the high-end ones. When Stephen got the shoes later, although he felt that the shape and everything could be seen, he still sneered at this strange brand, threw it aside, and continued to wear his own Air Jordan. series, but everyone on the team responded well, and the representatives sent by the sneaker manufacturer were also very professional, so Stephen tried it on. The man sent by the manufacturer deceived his foot model, and secretly told him that there would be a hidden mark on the shoes specially made for him, and he could wear these shoes.

Stephen has never enjoyed this kind of treatment. Could it be that this manufacturer thinks that everyone is Chinese and treats himself better. The manufacturer is the one with the best sincerity to sign Stephen. The endorsement fee has been negotiated, but there are still some differences on the contract period and other treatment. Their adoption of this method is also a strategic detour, as long as you do not sign other manufacturers , will naturally wear their sneakers.

"Hehe, you can promise him now that you can sign a one-year or two-year contract with him and let them pay a little more money." Stephen felt a little cheated about this, even with the shoes on his feet It was also a bit distasteful, and it suddenly occurred to me that I want to wear their shoes anyway, why not sign an endorsement, wouldn't it be a double income.

"Hehe, this is not bad. No matter how small a mosquito's legs are, it's still meat." After Mordance followed Stephen, at first he felt that it was a waste of his own ability to follow this guy, although it was out of professional ethics. , He didn't neglect Stephen's affairs, but he was not so enthusiastic and proactive after all, but with Stephen's reputation rising, coupled with his understanding of basketball, he felt that he had found a treasure.

These are things for later, let’s not mention them for the time being. After the away victory over the Atlanta Hawks, the Spurs continued to lead the league record. The team met for the first time, and it was also the first time Stephen and Coupard met.

However, the two of them only spent time together for a meal before the game. Regarding Stephen’s coming to San Antonio for so long and yet to even buy a house, Coupard murmured in his heart that the boss is so stingy, and felt that Stephen didn’t buy a house. It may be due to the low salary, but he kindly offered to lend money to Stephen to buy a house, but Stephen refused and scolded him.

It wasn't his agent who told Stephen that Coupard's money would be borrowed by his relatives who turned around. Hearing that Coupard had become a professional player, relatives who usually couldn't hit eight shots also flew over to talk to Kuppard. Pad borrowed money, and he didn't borrow much. There were hundreds of thousands of dollars. Although the money was not much, but he had a lot of family members, and if the former ones were borrowed, the latter ones had to be paid. In the end, Stephen made the loan. Strict orders made his agent to strictly control his spending to stop this evil trend, but even so, Coupard still lost $10,000+.

Coupard is still as obedient to Stephen as before. In addition to the authority he has developed, he also knows that Stephen is doing it for his own good. When it comes to the two teams, Coupard is a first-round pick again, but his attitude towards Stephen remains unchanged.

But on the court, both of them are on the bench. Although Coupard's position is on the inside and Stephen's position is on the outside, since most of Stephen's offenses come from the basket, there are not enough opportunities for matchups. Coupard But he refused to release water at all.

However, the problem of strength cannot be solved simply through hard work. Whether it is the main lineup or the bench lineup, although the current Clippers team has been the strongest and best Clippers team in the past ten years, it is still not the opponent of the Spurs. The lineup played almost the entire second half, scoring 24 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals. Just looking at the statistics, whether it is playing time, number of shots and various statistics, it is an obvious main treatment.

However, Coupard also performed very well in this game. He has a tough style of play and solid footwork. Although he is a little bit confrontational, he has the courage and confidence to dare to face the tough, even when he is facing Duncan. At that time, he also played with great courage, and finally scored [-] points and [-] rebounds. He was the second-best player on the Clippers side.

The head coach of the Clippers, Mike Dunleavy, actually likes Coupard very much. He really wants to form a twin tower combination between Coupard and Chris Kaman, but the core player of this team is Elton Brand , and Brand's performance is also very good, and he is one of the only four "20+10" players in the league, but after all, his height is too short.

Dunleavy didn't have the courage to drive the team's boss and core to the bench for a rookie player, and the team's management would not agree, so no matter how many ideas Dunley gave, no matter how ambitious he was, Can only be turned into a sigh.

The day after defeating the Clippers, the team was about to fly to Minneapolis, but just before boarding the plane, Stephen suddenly received a call from Catherine, telling him that the house had been found, and he hoped he could return to Minneapolis. When you get back, go and see her.

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