The Grizzlies' championship parade greatly improved everyone's impression of the city of Memphis.

It turns out that not everyone in Memphis lives in dire straits. It turns out that basketball also has a strong appeal in Memphis. It turns out that there is actually no difference between there and most places.

Memphis fans have created a fanatical summer with their passion.

Of course, for everyone, this fanatical summer is just beginning.

The NBA Finals ended, and the new NBA champion was born, and Link, the new king, also took off the crown from James' head.

But at the same time, a new round of journey is already undercurrents.

The war has actually begun since the draft.

On June 27, 2013, a new round of drafts was held at the Barclays Center in New York.

Generally speaking, champion teams don’t have too many scenes in the draft. After all, champion teams have never needed potential rookies to join, and there is no room for potential rookies to develop.

In addition, the Grizzlies do not have a first-round draft pick this year, so their presence in the draft is even more terrible.

Now all the Grizzlies are still immersed in the joy of winning the championship, who cares about the draft?

Besides, in Link's opinion, this year's draft is a real New Year's draft in his opinion.

The top three players in the draft, Bennett, Oladipo and Otto Porter, are the only ones who deserve their name in Link.

Needless to say, Bennett, he probably didn't expect that he would be selected as the No. 1 pick. After all, in the predictions before the draft began, he only ranked 6-10.

There is really no one to choose. Noel, it is injured. Oladipo, and the positions of Waiters and Irving are overlapping. It is really embarrassing to have a No. 1 pick but no player to choose. Finally, because Bennett was very polite during the trial, the Cavaliers signed the No. 1 pick to Huoha.

As for Otto Porter, his strength is actually not weak, but Link knew very well that he would not meet people's expectations for him in the future.

This year's draft is really worth watching. In the tenth pick, the Trail Blazers selected C.J. McCollum and the 15th pick. With the help of Link's manager Jeff Austin, Jannis Antetokounmpo was called by David Stern!

Austin has been really busy lately because Antetokounmpo is his next heavyweight client, and he must have been very worried about the trial training of "Antetokounmpo".

But now, I believe Austin must have let out a big sigh.

The defending champion Grizzlies didn't finally show their face until the second round. In fact, Robert Pera actually asked Link if he had any suggestions or ideas for the draft before the draft. He did what he said and gave Link a lot of authority.

But Link did not give any advice, because to be honest, the Grizzlies really don’t have any suitable candidates to choose for this year’s draft.

Link's suggestion must be reasonable first, and within a reasonable range, even if the Grizzlies pass the trade, they can only get a draft pick in the middle and back of the first round. The only one worthy of winning in the middle and back of the first round is Frenchman Rudy Gobert.

But considering that the Grizzlies already have Gasol as the best defensive player, there is no need to pick Gobert. Therefore, Link simply did not give any suggestions.

This permission should be used until it is useful.

In the second round, the Grizzlies selected Jamal Franklin, a junior swingman from San Diego State University.

When he was in his junior year, he averaged 17 points, 9.5 rebounds, 3.3 assists per game. It seems that he is very powerful, but he did not perform in college in junior year, which shows that he could not play the same level of data in the NBA, so it is no wonder that he fell into the second round.

Moreover, Link is not familiar with this person's name and appearance. If nothing unexpected happens, he may not have survived in the NBA in the future.

Link thought to himself that he might not meet this rookie next season. Because it is very likely that he will go to the Development League to report directly.

It seems that some selected players may not be much better than losing the draft.

In this way, Link watched this year's draft live broadcast with Rachel on his own sofa.

Rachel was already leaning on Link's shoulder and fell asleep. After all, it was the New Year of the Draft, so it was really hard to inspire people's interests.

Less than ten minutes after the draft, Link's cell phone rang. The caller ID was Jeff Austin's name.

Link smiled. This guy was quite efficient. He just finished the draft and remembered himself.

"Congratulations, Jeff, I saw Jannis Antetokounmpo, he was selected in the 15th pick. I think you should be very satisfied with this result." Link just picked up the phone and congratulated Austin.

"It's expected, it's expected. Compared to your winning championship, there's nothing to be congratulated. By the way, Link, will there be time tomorrow?"

"Of course, what are the instructions?"

"Come on, I can't command the King of Memphis. If you have time tomorrow, let's finalize the sneaker contract. There are a lot of things this summer, so you have to hurry up and solve them bit by bit."

As soon as Austin finished the draft, he planned to join Link's sneaker contract.

In the past few days, Link has been snatched in the sneaker contract market! According to the rules of the sneaker market, Link is now equivalent to a restricted free agent, and all sneaker manufacturers can quote Link. If Nike does not want Link to be poached, he can only match the quote or offer a higher price code.

As a result, major manufacturers began their money offensive one after another.

The first one to launch an offensive against Link was naturally Nike's old rival Adidas. They offered astronomical figures of 185 million in 10 years, which was full of sincerity.

You know, Adidas and Ross signed 185 million yuan at the beginning, but Ross' deadline was 13 years, while Link only had 10 years!

Afterwards, the Chinese brand Li Lin also offered a price of 200 million yuan for 10 years. Moreover, it also comes with some shares.

There is no doubt that during this period, Chinese local brands have also begun to move up the road. And they have begun to be willing to spend money to find spokespersons. Li Lin’s quotation is already quite tempting. There are not many people in the league who can get such a price!

Just when people thought Li Lin was going to take Link, Under Armour's strong joining directly gave Li Lin and Adidas a dimensional reduction blow!

Under Armour, a young company that was established in 1996, has developed quite rapidly in recent years, although it has only been less than 20 years old.

After continuing sports tights and American football equipment, Under Armour also decided to enter the basketball field and intends to get a share of the pie.

When a new brand enters the basketball field, in addition to having excellent products, it naturally needs a spokesperson with enough weight to support the brand value.

Link, who just led the Grizzlies to the championship, is undoubtedly a spokesperson with enough weight.

So Under Armour offered a 10-year offer of $285 million to Link! This time, Adidas and Li Lin directly quit the group chat with cursing.

Link has been at home for the past two days and has always seen the offer of hundreds of millions of yuan, and he feels dreamy. This kind of thing has never been thought of before!

The outside world almost unanimously believes that Nike has lost Link. Because in this era when most of the stars' shoes contracts are no more than 200 million, Under Armour suddenly offered a price of nearly 300 million, which is really exaggerated.

However, even in the face of Under Armour's dimensionality reduction quotation of 285 million, Link was not moved. Mobile::

Because Nike is determined to renew his contract with Link, they do not allow a future superstar player to be poached like this.

Link led the team to win the championship alone in the third grade, and no one knew what else he could do in the future.

So, Nike finally gave Jeff Austin a 310 million figure in 10 years! It is higher than Under Armour's 285 million!

In this way, Link's annual income from sneaker contract is $30 million!

In order to express sincerity, Nike has even formed an ace R&D team for Link to design signature shoes specifically for Link.

If this price code is exposed, the whole world will definitely be shocked.

When Link thinks about the money war that major sneaker manufacturers have fought for themselves in recent days, he feels proud.

In just one year, his sneaker contract has gone from a little over 200 million at the beginning to nearly 300 million and now it has become more than 300 million! This may be the bonus brought by the championship to a player.

"Will you sign a contract with Nike tomorrow? Well, I'll make coffee at home and wait for you, Jeff."
Chapter completed!