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Chapter 172 The preseason begins!Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription!
Chapter 170 The preseason begins!
The rise of the domestic basketball fever led to the fact that at the beginning, without any interference from anyone, the ticket prices for the scalpers in the four preseason games skyrocketed by ten times, or even more than 20 times.

Although the country soon intervened in the follow-up, the price of scalper fares was slowly suppressed.

But even so, the minimum ticket price for any preseason game is more than 1 yuan.

The ticket price for the sideline tickets where the first row can be photographed by the camera has been fired to more than 30.

Obviously, most of these tickets were won by the stars who wanted to show their faces in public, or the stars' agencies.

But it's hard to say about this kind of thing, who will suffer or who will gain
After all, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. The stars need the attention and exposure of this game.

So even if scalper tickets are already sky-high, these stars will still pay for such exorbitant tickets without hesitation.

Even, the ticket prices of many scalpers are hyped up by these stars or brokerage companies themselves.

After all, the more expensive the ticket price, the more attention it can attract!
In the whole process, the only problem is that the scalpers benefited and the stars gained fame, but in the end, only the NBA and the basketball management center, the two official organizations, seemed to suffer from this matter.

Of course, for the NBA, although the preseason preparations in China are not sufficient this time, the ticket price is a bit low.

However, the popularity and popularity of the Chinese market for the NBA's overseas preseason games has also given the NBA more confidence to make overseas preseason games, especially overseas preseason games in China, a regular event.

After all, as the country with the largest population in the world and the country with the fastest economic growth in the world in the past 20 years, everyone has seen the unlimited potential of the Chinese market.

And now that the NBA has the opportunity to get a share of the Chinese market, it will naturally not let it go!
In particular, after Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian entered the NBA, the number of Chinese players in the NBA has reached three, which has attracted more and more domestic fans to pay attention to the NBA.

This has allowed the NBA's influence in the domestic market to continue to increase!

More and more domestic manufacturers have begun to enter the NBA, which is the best proof.

And everyone believes that at least among the players of this Chinese men's basketball team, more players will enter the NBA in the future.

This ensures that at least the popularity and market of NBA preseason games in China will not weaken too much in the next ten years.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, after the NBA officially announced that it will hold four preseason games in China, and one of them will be played by the Spurs, the championship-winning team last season, against the Chinese national team.

Nike and Adidas, which signed Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian respectively, also chose this day to release new sneakers developed by the two after nearly three months of research and development.

There is no doubt that with the current popularity of Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian, once these two sneakers were released, they sold out in the entire Chinese market.

Especially the shoes of Xu Lang, the MVP of the World Championships, are basically sold out at any time.

This made the person in charge of Nike's China region sigh. After all, Nike has been stationed in China for several years, but there is no star sneaker that can be sold out as soon as it goes on the market like Xu Lang's shoes. An unsatisfactory state!
And not only in the Chinese market, the pair of shoes of the two have sold out.

In the US market, especially in Washington State, the sales of Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian's sneakers are also the highest in the league.

It is normal to say that, after all, it is rare in the history of the NCAA to win the championship. The status of Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian in the hearts of American basketball fans has already broken the restrictions of skin color!

At least in Seattle, Washington, Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian have a much higher status in the hearts of fans than all other NBA stars.

For example, Ray Allen, the star of the Seattle Supersonics, now looks at Xu Lang's position in Seattle, and feels a little helpless and delicious!

"Hey, why don't you find a chance to leave!"

Unbeknownst to everyone, Ray Allen, the supersonic star, had the idea of ​​leaving.

"Xu, you made a lot of money, you really made a lot of money, you and Alian made more money than your player contracts this time!"

When Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian's sneakers were sold all over the world, Dan Fagan was already happy!

After all, when Dan Fagan signed the player contract for Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian, he won a big contract for the two of them.

It also won the opportunity for the two to participate in the sharing of sneakers.

The sneaker contracts signed by Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian with Adidas and Nike respectively include a 5% commercial commission for some of the sneakers that are mainly marketed by them.

Although this rake is only limited to the Chinese market, it has already made the two of them a lot of money!

In China, the price of the new shoes of the two is set at about 100 US dollars per pair of shoes. Millions of dollars in sales.

And this is not the end, just after the news of the release of the new shoes of the two became more and more widespread, the sales of the new shoes of the two are also rising.

In just one week, nearly one million pairs of Xu Lang's new sneakers have been sold.

Of course, there must be some local tyrants who will buy many pairs by one person, but this is also terrifying.

Moreover, this is not the end. Although the sales of Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian's sneakers began to decline after the fiery situation of the first week passed, they both maintained a daily sales rate of nearly [-] pairs.

If we look at this trend, although Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian have not played any games in the NBA.

However, the global sales of two-person sneakers are likely to rank at least the top five among all NBA players.

"The next James? No, it could be the next Jordan."

"Nike made another great signing."

"The new sneaker sales champion, the No. 2006 pick in 2006, Xu Lang has already booked the league's sneaker sales champion in [-] before he has played an NBA game."

Although the praise from the major media is somewhat exaggerated, it has to be admitted that the commercial value of Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian in the domestic market is not weaker than that of Yao Ming.

Even the commercial value of Xu Lang, an outside player, has surpassed that of Yao Ming, a center player.

And when Xu Lang's commercial value became more and more vivid, more and more manufacturers or luxury brands naturally began to find Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian.

This made Dan Fagan start busy again immediately after solving the contract issues of many newly signed players.

And when Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian made a lot of money individually, they chose the Trail Blazers and Eagles respectively, and they also made a lot of money.

In fact, since the Trail Blazers and Eagles signed Yi Jianlian and Xu Lang, many Chinese manufacturers have contacted the business departments of the two teams to discuss related sponsorship matters.

And after Xu Lang and Yi Jianlian led the national team to win the championship, and further proved their influence in the basketball market.

There are also a large number of domestic manufacturers waving banknotes, hoping to occupy a place on the playing field between the Trail Blazers and Eagles.

Of course, for Paul, the original purpose of signing Yi Jianlian was not to make money. After all, the three melons of the Trail Blazers were not considered by Paul at all.

However, for Eagles owner Michael Geelong, half of the purpose of spending such a high price to sign Xu Lang is to make money.

And now that Xu Lang started to help the Eagles make money like crazy, it will naturally make Michael Jilong laugh from ear to ear!
Then, Michael Gillon, the owner of the Eagles, began to happily come to the training arena from time to time, booing and greeting Xu Lang.

"Xu, how are you doing? Are you comfortable? What's wrong with you? Be sure to tell me."

Looking at his own team owner, he looked like a dog's leg. , asking this and that beside Xu Lang, asking about the cold and warm, in a slightly obscene form.

Both Josh Smith and Josh Childress were a little fortunate that they had defected to Boss Xu's side a long time ago.

At the same time, during the recent training period, Anthony Johnson, who was increasingly at odds with Xu Lang, naturally began to look ugly.

Although he didn't think that Xu Lang, the No. [-] pick, was selected to assist him like Ricky Davis did three years ago.

But Anthony Johnson never thought that he would continue to be a substitute player in the Eagles, a team with a big belly!

After all, after Joe Johnson left, this Eagles team has completely entered the process of rebuilding.

This led many to believe that the Hawks had booked a high pick in 2007.

But the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is very skinny. After Xu Lang showed extremely strong personal strength through Josh Smith, Anthony Johnson did not think that he must squeeze Xu Lang to the bench.

But just when Anthony Johnson planned to honestly coexist with Xu Lang in the starting lineup, and then seek another home, he heard some rumors during the recent training match.

It is said that Xu Lang suggested that the coaching staff put himself on the bench or trade away.

Although I don't know if this is true or not, in the recent training games, Anthony Johnson found that many times he cooperated with players who were destined to sit on the bench this season.

This makes Anthony Johnson have to wonder if these rumors are true.

This caused Anthony Johnson to dislike Xu Lang in the recent training match.

And Xu Lang gave up resolutely after several successive overtures to no avail, and continued to entangle with Annie Johnson.

Except for Anthony Johnson, other Eagles players may not necessarily have much respect and recognition for Xu Lang, but most of the players have no hostility towards Xu Lang.

Josh Smith, Josh Childress, Jose Calderon, and Paul Millsap have become the younger brothers behind Xu Lang.

This led to Anthony Johnson, who was at odds with Xu Lang, unconsciously becoming an isolated player of the Eagles!

This is really not because Xu Lang is stingy and deliberately isolated Anthony Johnson, but because Xu Lang's prestige in the Eagles is getting higher and higher.

Naturally, other Eagles players, especially those who want to make a difference in the Eagles and get more playing time, unconsciously and subconsciously stay away from Anthony Johnson.

"Counting Tyronn Lue who submitted the deal to us two days ago, plus Anthony Johnson.

We should be able to trade for a good shooting guard and add a good big man. "

Mike Woodson looked at Xu Lang, who was about to become the leader of the Eagles, and muttered to himself.

Long after Xu Lang showed the strength and potential to become a top point guard player.

Mike Woodson has been thinking about how to reduce the number of players who are relatively crowded on the team's back line.

And now with Tyronn Lue's agent applying for a trade, Anthony Johnson and everyone on the team are not dealing with it.

It can be regarded as a disguised form to help Mike Woodson make some trading choices in advance.

Let's not talk about Anthony Johnson, after all, he already seems out of place with the entire team.

Regarding Tai Lue's application for a transaction, it's not that he has any opinion on Xu Lang.

It's just a pure feeling that I am in this Eagles team, it is difficult to have a lot of playing time and performance opportunities.

Especially after Jose Calderon showed better and better field control ability in the training game, and after he has such a close relationship with Xu Lang.

Tyronn Lue has completely given up his plan to stay with the Eagles.

And as the start of the preseason gets closer, most of the Eagles' players have returned to the team.

Except for the three-way deal that the Eagles traded to Xu Lang, Zach Randolph and Theo Ratliff were incidentally traded.

Theo Ratliff still needs to wait at least one to two months before he can officially return to the team because of his previous injury.

However, Zach Randolph was completely crazy playing outside and had no intention of coming back to play the preseason.

At least according to the news from Zach Randolph's agent.

Zach Randolph has no intention of returning to the Hawks before the start of the preseason.

Obviously, as a top NBA power forward player who was still able to play close to 20+10 in the Trail Blazers last season.

Zach Randolph is capable, but now it seems that Zach Randolph, who has been in the chaotic Trail Blazers team for several years, does not seem to have a good professionalism. !

Especially since Zach Randolph has just signed a new big contract, and it has not been two years, it makes him not very worried that he has no ball to play and no money to take!
This has led to Zach Randolph becoming more and more lazy in the past two years.

The professionalism is getting lower and lower, which is one of the important reasons why the Trail Blazers will trade Zach Randolph, a high-quality power forward player who is young, has good statistics, and has great potential. .

After all, Paul wants to form a team like the Washington Five in the NBA.

A guy like Zach Randolph, who is obviously a cancer on the team, is naturally unlikely to be kept by Paul in the Trail Blazers.

And looking at the news that Zach Randolph's agent has suspended his return to the team, Mike Woodson felt that he might have to add a power forward deal to the deal for the new season.

It's just that compared to Anthony Johnson and Tyronn Lue, two high-quality trading partners, Zach Randolph, a player with a big contract who is covered in negative news and has been blacklisted by many balls, is more difficult to trade. Much higher.

Fortunately, because Xu Lang brought huge commercial value to the Eagles, the Eagles, which had been losing money for the past two years, have completely entered the profitable stage.

This makes the pressure and performance requirements of the Eagles management represented by Michael Giron on Mike Woodson less urgent than in the previous two years.

Therefore, Mike Woodson still has enough time to adjust the team lineup.

Soon as time goes by, the 2006 NBA preseason is about to start.

Before the start of this year's preseason, Xu Lang still has one more important thing to do, which is to release his first single in his life on YouTube and major billboards in the United States.

With nearly a month of publicity and fermentation, Xu Lang will release the news of his first single, not to mention letting everyone in the United States know, at least most of the fans already know.

Although most fans pay attention to the release time and status of Xu Lang's single, the main purpose is to prepare to use their eloquence and word art, and spray Xu Lang well.

October 2006, 10, 13:5 pm.The first single in Xu Lang's life was officially released on YouTube and on major American music charts and billboards.

However, when the fans who followed the information and status of Xu Lang's single, excitedly clicked on the single released by Xu Lang, they were full of question marks.

"Uh, is this a song sung by Xu Lang? Is this a song composed by Xu Lang? Are these lyrics written by Xu Lang?"

"Although I don't want to admit it, this song seems to be okay."

Then amidst the astonishment of the crowd, Xu Lang's single began to quickly become popular on the major billboards in the United States.

This made a group of people in the music industry in the United States feel as if they were being provoked!
A Chinese, a basketball player, actually made a song that almost killed the charts, and those professionals who specialize in music are hit hard!
And just when Xu Lang's song was making waves in the American music world.

Xu Lang himself has already left the United States and returned to China, preparing to start his first NBA game this season, although it is only a preseason game.

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