NBA: I have 3, no D, and I can't dribble

Chapter 61 [61] Nike is about to move, Lin Fei is on the starting lineup!
After the first game of the finals, the Timberwolves and the Pistons both got two days to rest. The G2 finals will start on June 6, and the venue will still be the Target Center Arena.

A strong start to the finals, coupled with Lin Fei's outstanding ability to defend Hamilton,

This quickly increased the probability of the Timberwolves winning the championship to 76%, and the Pistons were only 24%.

At the same time, in ESPN's finals MVP rankings, Kevin Garnett continued to rank first, "Madman" and Billups ranked second and third.

Lin Fei, on the other hand, scored 1 points with 7 three-pointers in the finals G26, airborne No. 4 in the FMVP list, and is expected to continue to climb.

It is worth mentioning that.

The scene of Lin Fei hitting a three-pointer at a 1-degree angle on the right with a nosebleed after flying to save the ball in G0 of the finals also became the cover of the latest issue of the American "Sports Illustrated".

This is the first time that a Chinese player and an NBA undrafted pick have been featured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated", and the popularity of "Linsanity" among American fans has rapidly heated up.

In the authentic jersey sales stores around the Target Center arena, because Lin Fei's Minnesota Timberwolves No. 22 jersey has insufficient reserves, there has been a situation in which a large number of them are in short supply.

This led to collective dissatisfaction and complaints from the Timberwolves fans.

The Nike Group, which is officially cooperating with the Timberwolves team, has already placed orders in surrounding factories to quickly produce a brand-new Lin Fei No. 22 Timberwolves jersey, with a total of more than 10 pieces.

Celestial side.

In some small garment-making towns in the south of the Yangtze River, a group of far-sighted workshop owners have seized the business opportunity and are already rushing to produce Lin Fei's No. 22 Timberwolves pirated jersey...

Well-known domestic sports brands such as Li Ning, Anta, and Tebu have also started calling Lin Feiyuan's agent in the United States, Qin Dongmei, to discuss the endorsement of sportswear.

USA, California, Stanford.

Inside a Starbucks on the Stanford campus.

An Asian beauty with a slender figure and delicate features is sitting at a table by the window, carefully flipping through the documents in her hand, and recording something with a pen from time to time.

This Asian beauty looks 22 or three years old. She wears straight-leg pants with a pair of white canvas shoes on her lower body, and a blue sweater with a V-neck on her upper body.

A pair of brown-rimmed glasses, the latest Gucci women's style, are placed on the bridge of the tall white nose.

The Chanel gold ladies watch worn on the left wrist is also of great value.

This Asian beauty was none other than Lin Fei's manager, Qin Dongmei, a top finance student at Stanford University.

Qin Dongmei's facial features are quite similar to Tong Liya in the entertainment industry in her previous life, but she has the noble temperament of the CEO of a listed group, with sharp thinking and vigorous action.

Before the NBA Finals, the reason why Qin Dongmei hoped to finalize a big team contract for Lin Fei in advance was that he was afraid that he would perform poorly in the Finals, or even not get playing time.

Although Qin Dongmei has been silently supporting Lin Fei's career in the NBA, she has always judged problems rationally and never blindly confident.

But after the end of G1 of the finals, Qin Dongmei's situation was completely opened up. He saw a miracle that the NBA had never seen in Lin Fei.

And this miracle is still going on unreasonably and unscientifically...

With Lin Fei playing his worth in the first game of the finals, the defensive end is no longer useless,
The contract offers from various NBA teams have also risen with the tide, wave after wave.

The ensuing business endorsement negotiations are also in an endless stream...

Qin Dongmei was naturally busy with both hands and feet in the past two days, receiving at least 50 calls every day.

While comparing the price and terms of the star contracts signed by major sports brands such as Nike and Adidas in the history of the document, the ringtone of the Samsung mobile phone that was put aside rang again.

"The sparrows outside the window are talking too much on the telephone poles. You say this, it feels like summer..."

The title song of Jay Chou's latest album sang the taste of summer and first love. This is also the most distinctive music label in the streets and alleys of Tianchao in 2004.

Qin Dongmei quickly connected the phone, and the voice of the general manager of an NBA team came from the other end.

After patiently listening to the other party, Qin Dongmei responded in a neither humble nor overbearing manner in proficient English:

"Mr. Thomas, are you sure it's $2 million for two years? I'm really sorry, but with Lin's current worth, this contract offer is no longer competitive!"

Qin Dongmei was very busy, while Lin Fei continued his daily training step by step.
Including individual strength and endurance training, shooting drills, and team tactical training.

The ten times the strength, endurance and speed training of the system have allowed Lin Fei to achieve greater talent improvement in personal training, which can be said to be a slow transformation.

In terms of the latest bench press strength, Lin Fei has increased from 74 kg to 75 kg.

In terms of the speed of the 11.2-meter sprint, Lin Fei also increased from the previous limit of 11.09 seconds to [-] seconds.

Although it is only an improvement of 0.11 seconds, for many professional sprinters, this may be an insurmountable gap in a lifetime.

The 45 points of training in the three days, plus the 1 points of free attributes for winning the G200 finals,
Lin Fei added a total of 245 free attributes to defense before the second game of the finals.

[Ding, congratulations to the host, all 245 free attributes have been added to the defensive attribute, the defensive attribute +16, raised to 46 points]

Lin Fei nodded in satisfaction, and quickly clicked on the five small items of the defensive attribute:

[Single defense: 45]

【Co-defense: 45】

【Shift: 45】

[Steals: 60]

【Cover: 35】

[Comprehensive defense: 46]

Lin Fei did not expect that the stealing attribute would directly increase to 60 points of the passing line, while the blocking attribute was the lowest. It seems that this has a lot to do with the physical fitness of his guard.

Thinking that he played 4 playoff games, except for scoring, there were only 2 erroneous assists in other positive statistics, Lin Fei couldn't help but look forward to it.

In the next finals G2, can he contribute even one steal?

2004 6 Month 8 Day.

Target Center Arena.

It was [-]:[-] p.m. local time, an hour before the start of the game.

The Target Center arena was crowded with people, and the fiery atmosphere was even crazier than the previous one.

In the locker room of the home team,
In the loud voice of the DJ at the scene, the Timberwolves players are preparing for the appearance ceremony.

Usually, in the team's pre-match appearance ceremony, the last one to appear on the stage is the well-deserved core leader of the team.

Of course, this boss has a level of strength, as well as a level of spirit and totem.

If it is impossible to judge who the boss of an NBA team is, it can be seen in the pre-game appearance ceremony.

In the Miami Heat during the period of the Big Three in the original world, although LeBron James was the strongest, the finale of the team's pre-game ceremony was always Dwyane Wade.

During the Big Four period of the Golden State Warriors, the finale was Stephen Curry, not Kevin Durant.

Except for the players who played at the finale, there is no fixed statement about the other order.

But usually the first player to play is also an important role of the team. Many times it represents tonight's game, and this player will take on a big role.

A few minutes before the appearance ceremony, Philip Sanders in the locker room looked solemn, and his eyes stayed on Lin Fei:
"Lin, you and Szebiak will start tonight, Sprewell will play shooting guard, and Kevin and Olowokandi will continue to partner inside!"

This five-tiger lineup is the combination with the highest overall plus-minus value of the Timberwolves in the first game of the finals.

Flip Saunders wanted to get off to a good start so the home side could have a bigger psychological advantage.

In the visiting locker room,

Pistons coach Larry Brown patted Hamilton on the shoulder and said after careful consideration:

"Richard, you play more ball-handling tactics tonight, we have to completely expose Lin's defensive loophole!"

After hearing what the head coach said, Hamilton nodded solemnly, and other Pistons players also supported Larry Brown's tactical arrangement.

Although Hamilton is a master of running without the ball, his ability to hold the ball has also reached the average level of the NBA.

In the original world, especially after Billups was traded to the Nuggets for Iverson, Hamilton's ball-holding scenes in the 08-09 season increased significantly, and his average assists per game also increased significantly.

But in the face of an unpredictable and mysterious opponent, Hamilton can't guarantee that his relatively ordinary ball-handling and post-hitting skills can really pierce Lin Fei's "defense loophole"?

In a luxurious box on the roof of the Target Center arena.

Nike Group Chairman Phil Knight sat on the sofa, condescending, waiting for the fiery start of the second finals.

Looking at his opponents in this year's finals, Phil Knight was actually not happy.

Although Nike signed the "Little Emperor" LeBron James with 7 million in 9300 years, he performed brilliantly in his rookie season and is expected to become No. 1 in the league in the next five years.

But Kobe's Eagle County incident caused heavy losses to Nike, which just signed with the Black Mamba last year.

The key is that Kobe's Lakers haven't reached the finals yet.

In addition, Kevin Garnett, the hottest superstar in this year's finals, also just switched from Nike to and1 last year,

Finals stars such as "Madman" and Billups are also under Adidas.
This naturally made Phil Knight feel ashamed, and it also affected the sales efficiency of the group to some extent.

At this moment,

The beauty secretary, Selinda, gently pushed the door and walked in. Stepping on red high heels, she reported the sales ranking of NBA team jerseys that cooperated with Nike in the past week.

"Mr. Knight, Kevin Garnett climbed to the number one jersey sales this week, surpassing LeBron James!"

"In addition, No. 22 Lin of the Timberwolves, his jersey sales have skyrocketed. In the past week, he sold more than 2 pieces, but this is largely due to insufficient supply!"

"Mr. Knight, this Lin's performance in the Western Conference Finals and Finals has continued to be efficient, and he has won the attention of Timberwolves fans and many NBA fans at home and abroad!"

"Besides, like Yao, he is backed by the huge Chinese market, so whether to consider signing him, after all, if you sign now, the price is relatively easy to negotiate!"

Phil Knight looked down at the gorgeous lights on the court at this time, listened to the deafening music, and saw that Lin Fei, who was arranged to appear first in the Timberwolves' pre-game appearance ceremony, turned out to be the undrafted Lin Fei,

The deep-set eye sockets shone with wise brilliance. After a little thought, he nodded slowly and decided to take a small gamble:
"Then contact Lin's agent as soon as possible, try to offer him a shorter sneaker contract, no more than 4 years, and the total contract price should be controlled within 2000 million US dollars!"

(End of this chapter)