This afternoon, Roger Philip's office in Los Angeles.
"Ding ding ding..."
"Hello, this is Roger Philippe's number."
"Hello, Mr. Philip, I am..."
The phone rang, and he received a call from Mark Nason, the president of Skechers, and the two talked on the phone.
"What?"
After hearing what Mark Nason said, he was shocked and couldn't believe it.
Mark Nason on the opposite side said: "Yes, Mr. Philip, you heard it right, we will give Zhou Quan a signed sneaker contract for five years and US$2 million per year.
Of course, the contract amount will include some additional incentive conditions, which require negotiation, and I think you should be able to understand.
I hope you and Mr. Zhou Quan can carefully consider our contract. We are very optimistic about his future and hope to conduct our formal negotiations as soon as possible. "
"Okay, okay."
After hanging up the phone, Phillip waved his fist excitedly, wanting to notify Zhou Quan immediately.
He never thought that a newly established company would be willing to offer Zhou Quan a signed sneaker contract. It was simply unbelievable.
As far as he knows, Nike is currently negotiating with O'Neal, the top pick in the No. 1 pick. According to relevant news, Nike is not willing to give O'Neal a signed sneaker contract, and the negotiations between the two parties are not going well.
But now, Zhou Quan has such an opportunity, and the contract is not small. It is ten million US dollars in five years, which is definitely a big contract.
…
The Pistons have not played a game in the past two days. Zhou Quan is resting at home, but his daily strength training is uninterrupted.
"week."
"Roger? Oh, you didn't even notify me. What happened? Come in quickly."
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Philip arrived in Detroit from Los Angeles and went directly to the private training room rented by Zhou Quan, which shocked him.
"Hello, Hughes."
"Hello, Roger."
After Phillip came in, he greeted trainer Swelton.
"Just a surprise for you."
The training room was very simple. Swelton helped bring a chair over. After Phillip sat down, he said with a smile: "Guess what?"
Zhou Quan got Phillip a bottle of water, thought about it, and said with a smile: "Is there good news about the sneaker contract? Is there a company willing to give me an exclusive sneaker cash contract?"
Phillip's smile faded and he smiled bitterly: "You are just too smart, which makes me feel very unfulfilled."
Having said this, an excited smile appeared on his face again, and he said with a smile: "But Zhou, you guessed wrong, it's not a cash contract."
"What? Impossible." Zhou Quan was stunned.
On top of a cash deal, there’s only a signed sneaker deal, but is that possible?
"You guessed it right, they are signed sneakers. Are you excited? Haha!" Philip smiled excitedly.
"What?"
Swelton was shocked on one side.
Zhou Quan was also the same, murmuring: "Are they crazy?"
Phillip took a sip of water, and then smiled: "There are no changes in the other companies, you should know this, they are only willing to give an ordinary cash contract.
But Skechers has been willing to give you a cash contract for exclusive sneakers before, and you know that. However, this time they gave us a surprise, a big surprise. After your game with Jordan, they contacted me immediately yesterday, hoping to start formal negotiations. "
"Roger, how big is the contract?" Zhou Quan asked excitedly.
"Five years, so much."
Putting down the water bottle, Philip raised his right index finger, with a mysterious and excited look on his face, and added: "This is just the opening price, we should be able to continue negotiating."
"One million dollars?" Swelton next to him looked envious.
When he heard the figure of one million dollars, Phillip suddenly looked disgusted and rolled his eyes at Swelton.
"Ten million? Hiss!"
Swelton almost bit his tongue.
"How is such a big contract possible?"
The same goes for Zhou Quan. He never imagined that one day a sneaker company would offer him such a contract.
Philip said excitedly: "They made a bet. Nike bet on Michael Jordan, but Adidas didn't dare to bet, so Nike won.
Now Skechers is betting on you because you led your team to defeat Jordan's Bulls the day before yesterday. "
In fact, his guess was not correct. The reason why Skechers was willing to give such a contract was because Mark Nason saw Zhou Quan's strong personal style, which is the vision of a designer.
Although Zhou Quan was excited, he still asked calmly: "Roger, what's the quality of Skechers?"
Speaking of this, Philip also calmed down and said: "We have no formal negotiations at the moment, everything is still verbal.
We are completely unable to consider the quality of their sneakers because they have no official products yet and the company has just been established.
So I need to visit their company to see their R&D capabilities and their laboratory products.
They will provide some laboratory products for you to try. If the quality is not bad, we must sign them. This opportunity is so rare that it is almost impossible for you to get a signed sneaker contract from other companies. "
Zhou Quan couldn't help but nodded. If he didn't sign Skechers, he wanted to get a signed sneaker contract, unless he became a very influential superstar, which is a super giant in the true sense.
Roger Philippe stayed in Detroit for one night and rushed back to Los Angeles the next day to begin preparations for formal negotiations with Skechers.
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Magic Johnson, who was actively undergoing cocktail therapy that day, accepted a phone interview with reporters in Los Angeles. He talked about Zhou Quan
"I still pay close attention to the league and noticed the recent game between the Pistons and the Bulls. What I want to say is that the same point guard, Iron Fist, with a tonnage of 95 kilograms, can crush any point guard in the league. He even broke through with the ball. Broken two of John Paxson's ribs.
We can definitely say that he is a unique super-heavy point guard in today's NBA. He has his own unique dislocation advantage at the first position, and he plays in an unreasonable way.
I compared the difference between myself and him. I have absolute height at the 1st position, but he has an absolute strength and tonnage advantage in the 1st position. I can face any point guard at the 1st position and have height. Dislocation advantage, and he is in a similar situation.
So what I really want to say is, Jerry, go find a way to trade him. The Lakers should get him. He is a local player in Los Angeles. We did miss a very good guy. "
"Ervin, it's obvious that Iron Fist will continue to improve and his strength will become stronger and stronger. So do you have any suggestions for other point guards?" the reporter asked.
"Either you can develop faster speed, or you can only gain weight and increase your resistance ability." Magic Johnson finally said.
"Speed up? Gain weight?"
Not to mention the Western Conference, almost all point guards in the Eastern Conference are in a dilemma.
To increase speed, there is a limit to talent, and they are not Ferrari, so how can we improve it?
There is a ceiling to weight gain. Because Iron Fist has a door panel body, it can maintain a large tonnage without losing agility. But they can't. If they are too heavy and have too many muscles, the body will become stiff and lose agility and speed.
Anyway, since then, increasing speed and gaining weight have become headaches for Eastern Conference point guards, and some point guards with good height are trying to gain weight.
