Chapter 354 The Big Deal

  On the 5th, after the Suns defeated the Grizzlies at home, the Suns flew to Denver on the 7th and challenged the Nuggets on the road on the 8th.

   This is the second game between the two teams this season. The Suns lost the first game at home. It was useless for Pharaoh to smash 50+.

   On the road, Mutombo called to make an appointment for dinner, and Pharaoh readily agreed.

   "Laomu, how much did you spend at the K martial arts hall?" He asked casually at the dinner table.

   He set the spending limit for these VIP customers, at least US$100,000 a year, otherwise he might not make any money, so when I meet them, I always like to ask.

   "Fifty-eight thousand dollars."

   Mutombo blurted out, predictably he had a deep memory of the number.

After he finished speaking, he complained with a miserable face: "Old K, I only entered V in the playoffs. It has only been half a year since April, and I have already consumed so much. Can your VIP service be cheaper? I can't afford it a little bit."

"Stop talking, why don't you spend your salary of more than three million dollars a year? I tell you, money is what you spend it on. If you put it in the bank, it's someone else's." Wang Yu persuaded earnestly.

   "Old K, don't mess with me, I will spend it and it will become yours."

   Mutombo was stunned, and immediately sobered up. After retorting, he said with a face of suffering: "You should know that my hometown is very poor, and I need to help them."

Lao Wang was a little helpless, what kind of person is this, crying and crying on his head, he said bluntly: "Lao Mu, just say what you want to do, you can help me, if you can't help me, I will Please."

Mutombo smiled helplessly, and smiled honestly: "Old K, according to media reports, you donated more than 100 primary schools in your hometown, I hope you can participate in my charity plan in my hometown. "

   "Your hometown is not my hometown."

   Old Wang slandered, but since Lao Mu opened his mouth, he definitely couldn't refuse, so he had to pay attention anyway, nodded and said, "Okay, I donate fifty thousand dollars, is that enough?"

"awesome!"

   Mutombo was not too little, and quickly expressed his thanks.

   "Don't publicize it, or you will come to me, and I will go bankrupt in less than a month. If you ignore my warning, the donation will be cancelled."

Lao Wang gave a casual warning, and then immediately started selling: "Lao Mu, there is a party in the K martial arts hall recently, and all VIP customers will be invited. We have a medicinal diet to promote to you, which can condition your body and slow down Aging, even eating for a hundred years can make you immortal, you look so old, I think this medicinal diet is the most suitable for you."

   "I'm not very old, I'm already very old."

Mutombo touched his old face, laughed at himself, and then complained: "Old K, I think it's best to grow old slowly, this way has the strongest sense of experience, otherwise I won't be able to experience the passage of time, then Live in vain."

   "You idiot!" Old Wang laughed and scolded irritably.

   Mutombo didn't even bother to ask about the price of the medicated food. He knew that it must be expensive. If he gets a big contract in the future, he can try it. For now, let's forget it.

   "By the way, Laomu, your rookie contract is not over yet?" Pharaoh asked.

   "Contract year."

   Mutombo said with an uneasy expression.

   "Nima's, no wonder he played so hard, he wanted to step on me to get a big contract!" Pharaoh scolded secretly and asked, "Don't the Nuggets plan to renew the contract in advance?"

"Ugh!"

  African Mountain couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He really wants to stay in the home team. The agent has been working hard to communicate with the management. He has also worked hard after the start of the new season. He just hopes that the parent team will give him a contract that satisfies him. Unfortunately, the management The willingness to renew the contract in advance is not strong, and he was very disappointed by rejecting the contract of the manager.

   Pharaoh didn’t ask again. He led his team to sweep the Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs last time. This should be an important reason why the Nuggets didn’t want to renew Laomu in advance.

   And Laomu's weakness is obvious, his offensive ability is not enough, but in defense, there is no way to defend him alone, and he needs the help of his teammates, which is a bit tasteless. If Laomu can hold him in single defense, he thinks the Nuggets should be more generous.

   But he thinks that after the end of this season, Laomu should have many teams rushing to grab him. If the Nuggets don’t renew the contract, they are free agents. They can get a top defensive center at no cost. Who doesn’t want it?

   For example, the Spurs, get Laomu, create a double tower tactic, one attack and one defense, the world is invincible!

   There is also Magic, Laomu and O'Neal partner, the big sharks don't like defending and rebounding the most now.

It's just that there is a salary cap limit, Laomu obviously won't accept small contracts, and these teams don't have Laomu's bird rights, so there is no way to introduce him. Laomu will only go to a team that has enough space and is not strong. 's team.

   "How much of a contract do you want?" he asked gossiply.

   Mutombo thought for a while and said: "A long-term contract is for sure, at least four or five years, with an annual salary of more than 10 million yuan. I don't expect a 100 million yuan contract, but the next contract can't be less than 50 million US dollars."

  Pharaoh nodded, the Suns couldn't afford this contract anyway.

  In addition to Laomu, after this season, the contract between Dameng and Barkley is also over. That is, the three top stars are going to enter the free market, and they will break their heads.

  On December 8th, around 10:00 in the morning, a news suddenly spread from Los Angeles to all over the United States, and major TV stations broadcast the news temporarily. The newly appointed president of CAA, Jemarone, committed suicide.

   "Lance, what's going on?"

  Wang Tiejun didn't watch TV, but when a teammate saw it, he told him, and he quickly called Hoxman.

   "Old K, too bad, his choice was a mistake, a terrible choice, alas!"

  Hoxman's mood sounded very low, but it was quickly controlled, and the two chatted for twenty minutes before ending the call.

  Hawksman told him that this incident would not affect the operation of CAA, nor would it affect him, so that he should not be affected by this incident.

   In addition, Hoxman also told him that, affected by his crazy performance in the finals, the operation of Mammoth has improved a lot in the past few months and can survive.

   It's just that the situation is still not very good. There is no way to deal with the backlog of shoes. However, the factory plan on the Chinese side is advancing, and the land issue has been negotiated with the local government in Fujian.

   "In 1993, they said they wanted to set up factories in China. It's been almost 1996 years, and they haven't even made a film yet. Sooner or later, this Mammoth company will end."

   Lao Wang scratched his head, it's not that he didn't want to change the brand, but his Mammoth K series has been launched for several generations, and it is not easy to change the brand.

  Now Mammoth wants to make its K series brand an independent brand, just like Jordan's MJ brand, and then drive the sales of other brands of the company.

  Company means setting up an independent K company, giving him a part of the equity and enjoying permanent dividends.

  Jordan owns two-thirds of the brand in MJ, that is, 66.6% of MJ's annual dividends belong to Jordan, and now Mammoth wants to do the same.

  The Mammoth Company has no other way to go. It cannot tie him up. Once he is poached by other big companies, the company will only go bankrupt.

Originally, this was a very good thing. If he did it, he would be the second NBA player to enjoy a lifetime contract, and he had the same company shares as Jordan, but he did not trust the management of the Mammoth Company very much. They haven’t made a name for themselves in the past few years, and sooner or later the company will be tossed into bankruptcy by them.

Now Hoxman is ready to drag Mammoth again. The contract will not end until the All-Star Weekend, and there are still more than two months left. During this time, he is communicating with his boss Roman Weeks, hoping that Mr. Weeks can form a more capable management to speed up the construction of factories in China.

   That night, the Suns beat the Nuggets to avenge their loss, going 15-2 and winning eight straight after losing to the Blazers in the last back-to-back game.

   At the same time, the Bulls also beat the Spurs at home on this night, also 15 wins and 2 losses.

   The Mosaic team was sidelined because of a minor injury to Barkley, lost to the SuperSonics, and fell to the top of the league. The Suns tied for the first place in the league with the Bulls.

After the post-game press conference, the Suns rushed back to Phoenix overnight, and the team will face the Miami Heat back-to-back on the 9th.

  The Heat made a big deal in the offseason, and general manager and head coach Pat Riley took the opportunity and showed great courage.

   Hornets' center Alonzo Mourning debuted for three seasons and performed very well. Although he was overwhelmed by O'Neal and old K since his debut, he can also be called the sixth super center with his performance.

It's a pity that the conflict between him and Larry Johnson is deepening, and it has reached the point of incompatibility, and then the Hornets have no way to provide him with a big contract, because the Hornets gave Larry Johnson the billion-dollar contract. , there is absolutely no room for him.

Whether he wants to stay with the Hornets or not, the reality is that if he wants to get a big contract, he can only be traded, go to another team to get a big contract, or after the four-year contract ends, as an incomplete free agent leave.

   Wasp chose to trade.

Pat Riley used the team's core Glen Rice as the main chip and created a big four-for-three trade, sending Glen Rice, Matt Geiger, Califs and a first-round pick in exchange for Mourning, Leron Ellis and Pete Meyers.

This trade is not good or bad at present. Glen Rice is the boss in the Heat. The No. 4 pick in the first round in 1989 became the team's third scoring point in his rookie season and the second scoring point in his second season. , and then the next 4 seasons are all the first scoring points of the team, and the strength is very strong.

  The Heat promised Mourning a seven-year, 100 million yuan contract before the transaction, which is a prerequisite for completing the transaction.

  The Heat after completing the transaction had 11 wins and 5 losses before, and their record is not bad, especially in the East.

In this back-to-back game at home, the Suns don't want to lose again, because they lost to the Blazers in a back-to-back home game last time. Losing at home is the most demoralizing thing. Fans buy tickets to enter the stadium to watch a victory, not I want to see how the home team loses.

   So the Suns team played very active and hard, although the body was very tired, but the spirit was good.

  Wang Tiejun led by example, played 44 minutes on the court, only rested for 4 minutes, scored 42 points, 17 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals, 4 blocks, 4 turnovers and 5 fouls. All-round data, the shooting rate is 59%, which is not high, and led his team to defeat the Heat.

  Mourning didn't play against him. He was matched with Kevin Willis, the 11th overall pick of the 1984 Diamond Generation.

   But Mourning exerted a considerable amount of help defense on him, sending 5 big caps in the whole game, 3 big caps were given to him, and he also stole his ball in help defense twice.

   Being capped three times by Mourning, who is not as tall as him, Pharaoh is also a little annoyed, but there is no way. Mourning's defense speed is really fast. If he is not careful, he will come out from behind Willis.

After    9-game winning streak, the Suns defeated the Hornets led by Glen Rice at home on the 12th and won 10 consecutive victories.

   The next game is on the 16th, playing the Mavericks on the road, the No. 13 team has a holiday, the training session is arranged on the afternoon of the 14th, and the flight to Dallas on the morning of the 15th.

  On the 13th, in order to promote and promote the immortality and longevity of the rooster, K Martial Arts Hall arranged a party in Phoenix, and the guests were VIP customers of the Martial Arts Hall.

This is also the first time that K Martial Arts Hall has held a party. This kind of high-class party is a large-scale high-level social place, which is very attractive. Not only local rich people are competing to participate, but many rich people from other places are also very interested. .

There are many businessmen and companies who were not invited because they are not VIP customers of the K martial arts hall. In order to enter this party to find opportunities, they simply paid to join the VIP of the K martial arts hall, so the VIP customers of the Phoenix branch in the past two days have one. explosion.

At the    party, the martial arts hall arranged for the tasting of medicinal foods.

   The slogan of this medicinal diet is to prolong life and beautify the face.

  When hundreds of bowls of medicinal food were placed on the long table, the aroma made these rich people start to drool before they could eat it, and their appetites soared.

   Without publicity and guidance, the party's attention quickly focused on the medicinal food, and they all walked up and started tasting.

The price finally proposed by Lao Wang was three thousand dollars a piece. The positioning of this thing is a top luxury, that is, it needs to be of high grade and style, giving these rich people an impression that only they can afford it, and they are willing to pay. Money, the more expensive it is, the more high-end it feels, and the effect of medicated diet is really good, suitable for everyone, and its market should be bigger than medicated bath and medicated oil.

   Now it’s just a kind of medicated meal, and he can’t open a restaurant. He can only place orders from VIP customers. After making them, they can be delivered to the door. The service scope is much smaller and can only be carried out in the cities where the three branches are located.

   He felt that he should find a team to help him take care of these business affairs. There is Bai Changsheng in Fengshen Street for the time being, but K Martial Arts Hall still needs to find a real manager.

   "Old K, you're too stingy, that's all?" Kevin Johnson wanted to take another bowl after eating one, but unfortunately there was none. He just tasted it and didn't care about being full.

   "Don't worry, I'll stay later, I've kept a few cans." Old Wang whispered.

   "That's about the same." Lightning put down the bowl and asked again, "Is this really as advertised?"

   "Of course, immortality and longevity." Lao Wang is 100% sure.

   "You just blow it."

  Lightning pouted in disdain.

   But he has to admit that this bowl of chicken is really delicious, the soup is even better, and the aftertaste is endless. It's just too expensive. In the future, I can only eat it with old K, and I can't afford it.

"Eat it a few times and you'll know the benefits, it will definitely keep you puberty longer. If you don't eat it, let your wife try it, it's better than any beauty product, and let her buy less of those things in the future and eat more A second child."

  Pharaoh knows that Lightning still doesn’t believe in it, so he didn’t say much about it. This thing needs to be eaten more to be effective.

   "Old K, is this food really good for beauty?" A lady in her fifties came over and asked with interest.

Pharaoh recognized this woman, the director of a major pharmaceutical company in Phoenix, with a net worth of at least hundreds of millions of dollars. She should be called Mrs. Hawke. He immediately nodded and said: "No, ma'am, its function is not only beauty, it is to improve your inner , make you younger, regain vitality and youth."

   "Looks like I'm going to try." Mrs. Hawke smiled.

After Mrs. Hawke left, Wang Tieshan walked over and said: "Tie Jun, Mrs. Hawke spent more than half a million dollars in our branch, and has been buying medicated baths and medicated oil massage services for a long time, and I am very satisfied with the effects of our products. "

   Lao Wang smiled and said, "She has tasted the benefits of medicated bath and medicated oil, so she is willing to believe our medicated diet."

The    party was a success and the LA branch will have a party the next day, and then the New York branch is on the 15th.

   (end of this chapter)