Why did Yao Ming give up the 100-million-dollar contract? Was it disrespectful or accurate?

When Yao Ming entered the NBA with its back to China’s huge market, why did it sign reebok, now unknown, instead of NIKE, the industry leader?

If everyone knew about Yao Ming before he entered the league, in fact, NIKE has been sponsoring a small number of domestic basketball players since the 1990s, and since 1997, NIKE has contacted Yao Ming to sign a contract with him, and provided basketball shoes and financial support. When the contract was renewed in 2003, nike thought that Yao Ming’s performance in the rookie season did not meet expectations, and the best rookie was also taken away by Stoudemire of the Suns. At the same time, it was also the time when the Platinum Age entered the league in 2003. Seeing that tomorrow’s superstars such as James, Wade and Anthony entered the nba, nike’s energy was naturally dispersed. After all, who didn’t want to have James at that time, NIKE gave James a super-luxury contract of 9,100 W for seven years at the same time, and the budget was not unlimited. NIKE could only offer Yao Ming, who needed to renew his contract at the same time, an insulting offer of 160w for four years.

In fact, there was an episode at the beginning. Yao Ming’s agent revealed that NIKE had signed a contract with it whenever the offer was raised to 3-4 million, but unfortunately, the NIKE brand department thought such an offer was like a joke, implying that Yao Ming was not worth the offer.

At the same time, reebok threw an olive branch to Yao Ming. At that time, reebok was not as down and out as it is now. Its stars included mvp players such as O ‘Neill and Iverson, and the offer made to Yao Ming was quite sincere for six years and 50 million yuan. After learning about the amazing offer made by competitors, NIKE has a legend that considering the influence of the China market, it re-offered an offer of over 100 million in seven years, which is the biggest offer contract in the whole nba.

But in the end, Yao Ming chose reebok, who was more sincere at the beginning, which was a little color for the nike team who despised themselves. It is said that Yao Ming was not won, and the nike representative who was in charge of the negotiation in that year was also dealt with by the demotion office. The reason was that he was robbed of Yao Ming by competitor reebok on the premise of absolute superiority.

In the 2004-05 season, reebok launched the only pair of signature sneakers reebok high post for Yao Ming. However, the tradition that the center does not sell shoes still exists, so the original sales volume was not ideal, and the domestic nba market has just been opened, and domestic consumers are not very willing to pay for this sneaker.

And Yao Ming also sustained injuries in the later period, drawing a question mark on the functionality of sneakers. If Yao Ming chose NIKE in that year, could he avoid some injuries by wearing his brand’s sneakers?

The latest situation in the Premier League: Manchester City is crowned three rounds ahead of schedule, Liverpool may miss the Champions League, and the relegation team chooses 2 out of 3.

In the 2022-23 season, the Premier League entered the 37th round, and the champion team had been produced in advance. As Arsenal lost 0-1 to Nottingham Forest, Manchester City, which had not played in three games, was crowned in advance. This round of Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Villa may not be able to play in the Champions League next season; In terms of relegation situation, Nottingham Forest won 1-0 and landed early.

The match between Manchester City and Chelsea was originally the Blue Moon’s championship campaign, but before the game was played, the Manchester City soldiers got a good news in front of the TV. Arsenal lost and let them be crowned three rounds earlier. Arsenal led the standings for as many as 248 days this season, but it was Manchester City that won the championship in the end. The Blue Moon became the fifth team to win three consecutive championships in the top leagues in England after Huddersfield, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United. Congratulations to Manchester City!

The championship suspense is gone, and the top four suspense is coming to an end. This round, Liverpool drew 1-1 at home to Villa, while Manchester United beat Bournemouth 1-0. This result means that Liverpool may miss the Champions League. They scored 66 points in 37 rounds, three points behind Manchester United and Newcastle United, but Newcastle and Manchester United both missed one round, which means that Newcastle and Manchester United can lock the Champions League tickets as long as they get one point in the remaining two rounds. Therefore, the teams that represent the Premier League in the Champions League next season are ready to go. Manchester City and Arsenal have confirmed that the remaining two teams are most likely Newcastle and Manchester United, and Liverpool will participate in the Europa League next season.

In terms of relegation, the original stalemate began to become clear in recent rounds. Bournemouth and West Ham landed first, and in this round, another team landed, and they beat Arsenal’s Nottingham Forest 1-0 at home. This season, this newly promoted team was once considered as a favorite for relegation, but they beat Brighton, Southampton and Arsenal in the sprint stage and scored 9 points. Nottingham Forest scored 37 points and was relegated ahead of schedule.

Southampton, which is at the bottom, has been relegated ahead of schedule, so the remaining two relegation places in the Premier League this season will come from Everton, Leeds United and Leicester. This round of Everton’s game has been played first. They drew with Wolves 1-1 away, while Leeds United will play against West Ham, who has already landed early. As the Hammers have to prepare for the Europa League final, this game is a good opportunity for Leeds United to score 3 points, and they have the opportunity to surpass Everton and escape from the relegation zone in one fell swoop. As for Leicester, it is very difficult for Blue Fox to score points in this round. Which two teams of Everton, Leeds United and Leicester will be relegated may have to wait until the final round to know the final result.

Publicly respond to rumors! Du Feng explains the dilemma of selecting candidates, the national team coach is not good!

During the previous CBA All-Star Weekend, Du Feng, the head coach of Guangdong team, was interviewed by relevant media, revealing many of his own stories and expressing his helplessness during his tenure as the head coach of China men’s basketball team.

During his time as head coach of the national team, Du Feng was under a lot of pressure, because he was also the head coach of the Guangdong team, so a large number of fans in a certain place in the north were picky about him, just because he was not pleasing to the eye, and they also fabricated many rumors, in short, they wanted to get Du Feng down.

Among these rumors of fans in a certain place in the north, one is fierce, and that is Du Feng’s "nepotism". In fact, this is the biggest helplessness of Du Feng as the head coach of the national team. After coaching the China men’s basketball team for three years, Du Feng has never had a neat staff, and his favorite insider Hu Jinqiu played one or two games for him, and most of the rest of the time was recovering.

In addition, it is also helpless for Du Feng to play the third guard, because the striker he wants can never be called up. For example, Wiliam is in the talent pool of the national three-person basketball team, not in the five-person basketball pool, so Du Feng can’t be called up. Du Feng once took a fancy to Cui Yongxi, a young talented player, but the latter was not in the talent pool, so Du Feng couldn’t use it either.

In addition, Du Feng has only a short training time at a time, and he doesn’t have enough time to build a new system. He can only arrange players to adjust quickly from CBA games and quickly enter his own preset tactical system. In order to catch up with the time, Du Feng can only use players who are most familiar with him and conform to the system, such as Hu Mingxuan and Wu Qian. Facts have proved that these players are easy to use, and later Jorjevich also continued to use them.

In the final stage of Du Feng’s coaching the national team, even before he finished the game, someone released the news that he was leaving, which was really inappropriate. When the media asked if the Guangdong team’s players knew first, Du Feng said that the Liaoning team’s players had known for a long time, which actually showed that this matter was not simple. Du Feng was forcibly taken down by the relevant personnel in a certain place in the north.