Basketball: Starting from the Rodman template

Chapter 108 The End of December (Woman, Self-jumping)
Johnson made more than a dozen calls to Woody that day, all with good news.

First, "Sports Illustrated" planned to shoot a set of magazine covers for him.

Then the NBA's official basketball Spalding Basketball wants to cooperate with Woody and issue Woody's limited edition signed basketball.In addition to the 2 million endorsement fee, Woody also enjoys a 10% share, 10 basketballs, and each basketball is priced at $30, a total of 30 points difference.

Among the more than a dozen commercial endorsements Woody has received so far, this can only be regarded as medium.

But because Spalding Basketball is an official partner of the NBA.

The meaning is different again.

At present, Woody has collected the two major buffs of NBA jersey partner Adidas and NBA basketball partner Spalding, plus the rumors that David Stern is committed to opening up the Chinese market, this third BUFF...

Now Woody is hotter again!

The $5 he pledged to donate caused a lot of noise in Akron, which led to subsequent reactions from the outside world.

Upon seeing this, Johnson immediately suggested an additional donation of about 20 knives in the future.

At the same time, it is going to create a company for Woody and set up a department to deal with this matter.

Of course, it is also to cope with the upcoming "tax season".

The tax exemption policy for companies in the United States is quite favorable.

These donations can be counted as expenses to offset taxes.

In addition, Johnson founded the company in Alaska, a state with slightly higher land taxes, but no personal income tax or sales tax. It is a relatively tax-friendly city.

Due to the influence of the donation from the outside world, Woody's establishment of the company did not encounter any resistance, and it was completed quickly.

But Woody is very clear that even so, the bulk of the tax exemption is still on his personal consumption.

It's a bit like the United States makes money, and the United States spends money. They want to take it home.

For this situation, Woody's approach is also very simple, gradually transferring part of the income to the country.

At present, in his personal account in China, he already has nearly 5 million US dollars, which is about 4 million RMB...

He knows very well that he will most likely return to China after retiring.

After all, the second elder is old and needs him to go back.

Compared with Wu's parents and Wu's mother coming to the United States to adapt to life, it must be more convenient for him to go back and adapt to life. Needless to say.

So even if he is only 18 years old now, even if he retires at 30 years old, there are still 12 years left, but he has already begun to transfer assets towards the country one after another.Who knows what will happen in the future.

For the United States, he is an outsider after all!
If you really want to do something in the United States, when you need money, the big deal is to transfer it back from China?
It must be more convenient to transfer from the United States to China.

But for Woody himself, he feels that the most rewarding thing must be achievement points.

Do you know how many achievement points he got in this game?
30分20篮板，对比8分3篮板2助攻……

Before opening the system panel, he knew that the achievement point gain this time would definitely not be low.

But he didn't expect...

3 points!

A total of 3 points!

Plus the 3 points you got from the first mission.

A total of 3 achievement points were credited to the account.

Adding the 5 or so achievement points that he had originally saved, Woody's achievement points had already reached about 3.

It is still 10 points short of the 1 achievement points needed to upgrade the system!

"Best Rookie" is now more and more biased towards him, and as expected, the 2 points will soon enter his pocket.

But in terms of the urgency of the missions issued by the system, Woody believes that he can collect 10 achievement points without waiting until the end of the season!
Among other things, the all-star voting channel is about to open.

How much commotion Yao Ming's rookie season caused, that is vividly remembered.

As for the feedback from Su Qun and Zhang Weiping from China, Woody is very clear that domestic fans are paying more and more attention to him.

Although he doesn't expect domestic fans to support him to the same level as Dayao.

But Miami itself is also a big city, with a population of over 5 million!
In the entire United States, there are not many cities with a population of more than one million.

Not to mention over 5 million!
These are potential "support votes".

With his popularity in Miami, if the city media follow up and promote it, some people who don't watch basketball will obediently send their tickets.

There is a high probability that he can squeeze out a certain striker and become the starter in the Eastern Conference...

If so!
Those all-star players are all capable, can they really swallow their anger and watch themselves "shit and fart" on their heads?
Isn't this contradiction coming?

Contradictions come, can the mission be far behind?
Ever since he discovered that "contradiction is the primary productive force of achievement points", Woody has been looking forward to some conflicts every day.

Of course, the one who should be most grateful is LeBron James...

Without him, Woody couldn't have risen to fame so quickly in high school!
Without him, Woody wouldn't have gotten a second template the first time McDonald's All-Star weekend ended!
Including right now, Woody's momentum is soaring, and he has entered the league so far the largest achievement point income, all related to him!
Hi~
Really worthy of being my "good brother"!

For this "friendship", if LeBron can't win a championship in this league in the future, Woody really doesn't mind taking him to win a championship.

They are all "brothers"!
Is this still a problem?
LeBron James doesn't know that his "good brother" has planned for him a way out of not winning a championship, but he is really worried about his "good brother" now... After the game against the Heat, LeBron James, feeling a lot hurt, made a trip back to Akron, only to see a significantly larger number of Woody posters, and once again he got a ton of crit.

Whose hometown is this?
18 years ago, which baby fell to the ground here!
LeBron is a person with a strong hometown complex, especially when he wants to return to this land, it is even more...

Only at this moment, he felt the backstab of the Akron fellow.

He suddenly disliked Akron a little bit!

At the same time, Woody, who returned to Miami, boarded another private jet at the airport.

On the plane, Johnson was already waiting for him.

He received Mrs. Don's "Christmas Party".

"Man, this guy is very well connected, representatives from all walks of life can be seen at this party."

Johnson briefly introduced the host of the party.

After listening for a long time, Woody understood one word:

money!
He has received about 1500 million commercial endorsements so far.

They are all commercial endorsements in the United States.

As his domestic popularity continues to rise, many domestic companies have already contacted Johnson, but Woody has no idea of ​​accepting domestic advertisements for the time being.

As for the reason...

I'll find out later!

He is mainly based on the endorsement of the United States.

So his grades are pretty good.

How many endorsements signed by an All-Star player in a year is not as good as his income in the past few months of entering the league.

Like Ben Wallace.

The All-Star starter, the winner of the "Best Defensive Player of the Season Award", and the biggest endorsement contract up to now, that is, the sneaker endorsement contract of AND1, all of them are not worth as much as Woody signed with Adidas for one year.

However, in Johnson's view, this is not enough!

Woody's commercial value can't match his current popularity at all!

At this time, not only must "wait for the rabbit", but also take the initiative to attack, such as participating in more gatherings of local tyrants.

Even if it's just a "fate", those who have said hello before are much better than those who have never met before!

Just in time for Woody to take advantage of "Christmas" to relax.

Kill two birds with one stone, kill two birds with one stone, and kill two birds with one stone!
The party was held at the Pennsylvania Hotel in the heart of Manhattan, New York.

Opposite the hotel is the Empire State Building and Madison Square Garden!
The party time is the evening of December 12th.

Woody arrived in New York with Johnson in the early morning of the 24th and checked into this hotel directly.

After sleeping until around 12 noon, Johnson took two big wave girls to provide personal service for him and help him take care of and change clothes.

During the period, one of the big waves asked the other big wave to go downstairs to get something, and when there were only two people left in the room, she gave various hints to Woody.

Woody quit then!

Who do you take me for?
There are better nights!
And the "Eagle County incident" is still in sight, Woody doesn't need to take such a big risk.

When the sisters who were taken away came back, they had resentment on their faces, but she suddenly realized that she didn't smell anything like heather, and seeing her companions were itching their teeth with anger, her mood suddenly became better!

Hi!

After changing his clothes, Johnson first arranged lunch for Woody, and then went to meet with several business representatives in the afternoon, rejected two of them, and signed the other two. Woody was happy to raise $2 million a day.

"Call our company account!"

The title given by Johnson is no longer Woody's personal name, but the full name of the company located in Alaska.

Then enter Woody's pocket from the company's account.

In this money, in addition to Alaska's land tax and Johnson's commission, Woody can get about 180 million knives.

Just sitting there and chatting for a long time can make so much money, Woody can only say:
Famous, really easy to do!
If he hadn't been famous for playing basketball, how long would it have taken him to earn so much money?
Or can't earn it in a lifetime?

You should know that the restaurant where his second uncle works, when the guests give generously during festivals, they can only earn about 180 dollars a day. Even if there are so many customers who spend such a high amount every day, it will take 1 days, about 27 years Half……

There is indeed a big difference between making money and making money!

In the evening, Woody, who had made money, happily appeared at the party organized by Mrs. Tang.

The scale of this party is still very large, about two to three thousand people!
Most of the men are in suits, which are after all the clothes that best fit a man's figure;

Although the choice of women is also a dress, but there are a lot of styles of dresses, all kinds of long and short, with zippers, and with holes...

When Woody entered the scene, he immediately attracted a lot of attention.

At first, standing next to him was "Entertainment Socialite" Johnson, who really had a wide network of contacts, and people from all walks of life came up to say hello to him;
Secondly, it is Woody's own heat!

Especially yesterday he just made a big fuss in Cleveland, and the reports about him are still going out one after another.

Johnson first took him to meet several multi-millionaires who had good friendships.

Woody looked at his girlfriend standing next to them.

One is more familiar than the other!
Obviously all the big names.

It's just that Woody doesn't have a deep understanding of the American entertainment industry.

Whether it's Megan Fox or Scarlett, he first got to know each other before he knew there was such a female star in the entertainment industry.

For others, he can only describe them as familiar.

Usually the more familiar, the greater the reputation. '

Of course, if he was at the level of Britney Spears, he must still know the name.

"Woody, you came to New York?"

A somewhat familiar voice came, and Woody turned his head to look, the long blond hair, and the short black dress that wrapped his whole body had obvious curves.

It was Lindsay Lohan who had met that day at the Staples Center.

It's just that tonight, she put on thick smoky makeup, she no longer looks sweet, but more like the name of the new movie that just announced her as the heroine of the movie. — Mean Girls!
To say that Lindsay is considered the biggest female star Woody knows, she was the first female star in the movie with Megan Fox, and now she has become the first female star in "Mean Girls", you must know this Behind the movie is Disney.

Seeing a woman approaching him, Johnson showed a signature smile and said to Woody, "Have a nice night!" Then he picked up the cup in his hand and raised his hand towards Lindsay who was leaning over. Then consciously left.

Woody greeted with a smile.

But she didn't go any further. Lindsay said hello and left. She mainly wanted to please a certain middle-aged man with a thick beard in the other group.Obviously, I came with a mission today.

But as soon as she left, two women quickly stood in front of Woody.

One of them is very expensive, Woody just took a look at it, LV, Chanel...

Just two words:

luxury!

Absolutely wealthy daughter.

Coupled with her good looks, the whole is a "Human Barbie".

Compared to her, the girl next to her is much "cheaper".

It's not that the clothes are not good, it's just that compared to the one next to her, the clothes are indeed not so dazzling.

However, in terms of appearance, she also belongs to the kind of facial features that can make people feel amazing, and she has a very good foundation.Unfortunately, like Megan Fox and Scarlett, she is not very tall, she looks only 1 meters.

The two women reported themselves.

The extravagant one is called Hilton, and the other is Kim Kardashian.

Woody had never heard of these two names, and they were not familiar with each other, but he also knew that in addition to local tyrants and celebrities, there was another type of people in this kind of party, that is, rich second-generation ladies from well-to-do families.

The two people in front of me should belong to this category.

Anyway, in terms of Hilton's outfit, Woody just looked at it, and few can be more gorgeous than her.

If this "thigh" is hugged, it is true that you can lie flat directly.

Woody's attitude at the beginning was also more enthusiastic towards her.

Just chatting, he discovered that this woman has "princess disease", and he lost interest at that time, shifted his target, and looked at Kim Kardashian next to her.

Woody always likes to eat "soft rice" standing up.

Hilton, who was neglected, quit at that time, turned around and left angrily.

Kim - Kardashian was a little embarrassed whether she should catch up or not.

She has been playing with Hilton for a long time, the purpose is to get involved in Hilton's "socialite circle", but Hilton's temper is not easy to serve, she is basically a "little girl with bags".

It's the kind of servant who Hilton plays games with men in the car, and she guards the door outside the car.

And those men are all snobbish, and they are more willing to play on Hilton's "boat" when they hear that they are the daughters of "Hilton Hotel".

At first she thought Woody was another one.

Unexpectedly, while chatting, Woody suddenly showed interest in her.

She knows Woody's popularity, he is currently the hottest new star in the NBA.

Megan Fox and Scarlett, two young actors, were both related to him, and their popularity rose immediately.

just now……

Is it her turn?
This is definitely an opportunity, but the problem is...

Hilton left in a huff. If Kardashian didn't catch up, this "girlfriend relationship" would be over.

She has worked hard for so long...

"1105!"

When she was struggling, Woody gave her a house number.

Kim Kardashian was overjoyed and warmed by Woody's "understanding clothes". She gave a smile and hurried to chase Hilton, but on the way to leave, she "turned back three times", which is called a Reluctantly.

Eyes send telegrams frequently, and there are only two words when you connect them:
wait for me!

After confirming tonight's playmate, Johnson couldn't see him, so Woody found a corner to drink quietly, waited until the time was almost up, and left directly.

But not long after he sat down here, his eyes were attracted by a beautiful figure: long golden hair neatly coiled up, a pair of shining eyes under willow-leaf slender eyebrows, exquisite appearance, gorgeous red lips, matched with her Tonight's halter-neck red evening dress made her look full of femininity.

Most importantly, this woman is tall.

At least about 1 meters, and wearing a pair of high heels tonight, she looks even more slender.

It seems that there are still tall beauties in this country!
The eyes of the audience also focused on her footsteps.

Such tall beauties are indeed rare.

Woody looked at her, unexpectedly, at this moment, her gaze also came to this side, the two looked at each other, the woman smiled and walked towards him.

My damn charm!

"Can I sit here?" The woman looked directly at Woody, but asked.

This is not Woody's position, and Woody doesn't care if the dog sits there, but the woman is so polite.

Really are……

Good tea!

"Of course!"

Fortunately, Woody's good thing is a sip of tea!

During the conversation, Woody found out that this "beauty with atypical height" was named Yi**.

The host of this party, Mrs. Tang, is her father.

Also being the "daughter of a local tyrant", Mrs. Yi is much more talkative and knowledgeable than Hilton.Woody found it very interesting just listening to her talk.

After chatting for about half an hour, the waiter came to change the wine twice, and Mrs. Yi was about to leave, with ripples in her eyes, she said to Woody: "My house is nearby, I raised a cat Backflip cat, do you want to see it?"

Is it so amazing?

Respectful and fake?

Woody immediately showed interest, got into the Porsche of the "daughter of a local tycoon", and returned to her home.

Along the way, he always felt that he had forgotten something.

Yi ** went to the apartment she bought herself, and she was the only one living in it.

As soon as he entered the door, Woody looked into the room curiously, wanting to see what the backflip cat looked like.

But when the entrance door was closed, something fell lightly to the ground.

Turning his head to look, the twenty-eight beauty has only underwear left at the moment, and her fair skin glows under the light, Woody's eyes straightened:
"This cat... shouldn't be able to backflip, right?"

You can write [-] characters, but as a brother, the night saved for everyone has passed. Early the next morning, Woody looked at Yi** who was still sleeping, got up lightly, left the apartment, and went to the airport.

It's not that he's dissatisfied with Mrs Yi.

Anyway, he must be much more satisfied than Megan Fox.

At least there are more poses.

But...

A woman's attitude depends on her reaction!
Now, dude, go ahead!

Back in the afternoon in Miami, Woody saw himself and E*** making headlines in the gossip media.

The accompanying picture is a photo of him getting into an Iraqi Porsche. Based on the shooting angle, Woody has reason to suspect that the "dog boy" in this shot was lying under the car at the time, otherwise, this weird angle would not be possible.

It's enough to fight for a headline!

Megan Fox also seemed to have seen the report and called him: "Are you in New York?"

"I was here yesterday, and I'm back in Miami today!"

"Okay, you're really busy!" A sour smell could be clearly heard, but that's all, Fox didn't say anything, and hung up the phone directly.

Woody felt that there was nothing wrong, so he drove to the arena by himself.

Idle is also idle, let's practice ball for a while!

The arena was on holiday today, and only the staff on duty were in the arena. He was very surprised to see him. After giving him the key, he immediately told Pat Riley about it.

Riley had just seen Woody's lace news on his forefoot, and now he immediately got such news. The little uneasiness that had just arisen in his heart immediately turned into great satisfaction.

The frequency of Woody's lace news is a bit too fast, and he is worried...

But now hearing the news from the staff, it is obvious that Woody finished playing yesterday and came back for extra practice today.

Obviously he knows what he should do?
What are you worried about!

He smiled and took out his mobile phone and dialed: "Woody, don't work so hard, today is Christmas, don't practice too late, go back for Christmas early, I have always been very satisfied with your performance, You are the best, and you will definitely be the best in this league in the future..."

"No, no, teach, coach, me, I'm Dwyane..." A somewhat simple and honest voice rang out.

"Oh, Dwyane! Sorry, I made the wrong call, Merry Christmas, Dwyane, I'll hang up first..."

Pat Riley hung up the phone after finishing speaking, leaving Wade alone in the wind.

This……

Has Pat Riley already praised Woody that much?
Although Pat Riley was interrupted by Wade before he finished speaking, it was because Wade couldn't listen anymore.

What else can I say?

Doesn't it mean that Woody will also be the best in this league in the future?
Originally, Wade felt that Pat Riley was satisfied enough with his performance.

But now it seems that Pat Riley's evaluation of satisfaction is also divided into grades.

Woody is obviously a 9th grade, he...

Above the third class, below the sixth class.

He is a "satisfied spare tire"!

When he received the call, he was having a "barbecue party" with his family on the outdoor balcony of the big villa he just bought. After the call, he lost his mood and drove to the arena in a hurry.

When I saw Woody who was practicing vigorously in the arena, his first words were:
"Woody, be human!"

Woody: "???"

ha?
On December 12, almost all sports news in the United States were reporting the "Christmas Game".

After all, last night, among the four major sports leagues in the United States, only the NBA had three games.

Every game gets huge exposure.

How about saying that David Stern has a brain!
Utilizing the typical thinking of "I have what no one else has", the "Christmas Game" has become a gold-lettered signboard of the NBA.

At the same time, this day is also the day when the NBA All-Star starting voting officially opens.

Woody takes center stage.

Last year's All-Star weekend was Michael Jordan's last All-Star trip, but if we want to talk about the real "blockbuster", it was definitely Yao Ming's election as the All-Star starter.

This is the first time that Americans have felt what "Chinese power" is.

As long as it's about people, you really can't lose!

This year Woody, as the same yellow skin, black hair, is obviously possible to do the same thing!

Many magazines, including "Bleacher Report" and "Sports Illustrated", are optimistic about Woody, becoming another player in the history of the All-Star Weekend this season.

If successful, Woody will make a lot of history.

Just like the NBA's first "All-Star starting high school student"!
The cover of "Sports Illustrated" for Woody is "All-Star Weekend Special", which shows how confident they are.

In addition, this is a signal that they will definitely conduct crazy canvassing for Woody to facilitate this matter!

Obviously, unlike ESPN's bet on LeBron James, "Sports Illustrated" chose to bet on Woody...

The representative of Adidas also said that from January to February this year, Woody will launch two signature shoes one after another.

In addition to Woody's first signature shoe, there is another "All-Star Weekend Special".

With this treatment, the entire Adidas except McGrady, only Woody can get such a degree of attention.

But McGrady signed a lifetime contract last year, which involved various issues, and the scene had to be big.Woody has just started to fulfill the first year of the contract. According to Adidas' urine, he should have been cold for a while to grind his temper.But in the end, Woody's enthusiasm made many high-level officials unable to bear it.

Johnson shared both ideas with Woody.

The meaning is also very simple:
canvassing!

In fact, Woody thought so too.

At this moment, facing the reporter’s question about the All-Star starting, he also made no secret of his words: “As long as you are a player on that stage, you are eager to stand on it, and the sooner the better, if I can stand on it early, why not? ?”

"There's always going to be two guys going to be the All-Star starting forwards in the East, so why can't it be me?"

This is a declaration of war against all Eastern forwards.

The reporters who interviewed Woody at that time had bright eyes, and they already had a premonition that there would be a good show.

Woody saw their reactions, and knew that his fire was almost over. As for how big a pot of rice can be cooked, it depends on how much rice is willing to put in the pot!
On December 12, after a three-day break, the Miami Heat set off to Philadelphia to challenge the 27ers.

This is Woody's opponent in the first game of his career.

At that time, he played the "battle of fame".

This is even more so this time, because the "Big Dog" Robinson was injured before the "Christmas Game" and was reimbursed for the season. The only major signing of the Philadelphia 76ers this summer also ended in failure.

The team's immediate combat power is damaged, and Allen Iverson alone can't go far.

This game is a very typical losing style of the 76ers this season:

Relying on Allen Iverson's continuous shots, he bit the score, and then when Iverson's physical fitness declined and his efficiency further declined, the score was completely pulled away.

Woody lightly scored 21 plus 12 rebounds and 3 blocks, helping the Heat win the first game after the "Christmas War".

After this game, he also won the "Player of the Week Award" in the third week of December.

The main reason for winning this award is the "30 plus 20" he scored in the game against the Cavaliers!
This made Woody not only chanted another sentence in his heart:
LeBron, good brother!

How long are you going to help me!

It's just that the Heat suffered "back-to-back" again.

In the last "back-to-back", Stan Van Gundy chose the method of "grab a game, rest a game", trying to keep one of the victories.

But play off.

And this is "back to back". The mental exhaustion caused by physical fitness and schedule makes the probability of players experiencing instability much higher than usual.

This time the Heat had another "two-game losing streak."

On December 12, the last day of 31, they met the Lakers again.

In the previous game, the Heat's "weak victory over the strong" had some upset meaning. They reversed and won after being 11 points behind, which made the Lakers obviously suffocated that night. It's bad, but they still showed their basic qualities as players. Of course, mainly relying on the pent-up anger, they worked together to win the game cleanly with 100 to 89 and 11 points.

The Heat also led 2 times at the beginning of the whole game.

The rest of the time, the Lakers took the lead.

With the Lakers players playing normally, the difference in strength between the Heat and them is still obvious.

In this way, the Heat lost their last 12 games in December with a wave of "three-game losing streak".

Throughout December, their total record was 12 wins and 10 losses!
Just looking at their record in December, they can only rank fourth in the Eastern Conference.

Relying on the good foundation laid in November, they are still ranked second in the Eastern Conference.

However, it is currently leading the third-ranked Nets by 2 games...

(End of this chapter)