In fact, it has not been a few years since Chinese basketball took the professional path, and it was only 1995 years later, and it has only been about four years now.

In Asia, basketball is actually not a good foundation. The best way to commercialize basketball is definitely not the Chinese men's basketball team, but the Philippines...

The professionalization of the Philippine men's basketball team has been carried out quite early, and it can be said that it is the second professional basketball league in the world outside the NBA.

The sport of basketball is quite popular in the Philippines, but the strength of the Philippine men's basketball team is not very good, and it is not very eye-catching in Asia.

So from this perspective, it may not be a good thing to take the commercialization of basketball.

But now the Chinese men's basketball team has to take the path of commercialization. In the past, various provinces trained players, and the effect was naturally very good, but the sport of basketball has large investments and small outputs...

The men's basketball team and women's basketball team only have two gold medals in total. Unlike weightlifting, table tennis, badminton, and diving, which are divided into many events, you can get more gold medals. For example, the Olympic gold medals, the number of gold medals won by each province needs to be counted. The province with more gold medals will naturally be rewarded.

Therefore, all provinces have basically given up basketball with high input and low output, and can only make basketball commercial and self-sufficient.

Davidson's arrival will undoubtedly provide the Chinese men's basketball team with many advanced commercialization opinions.

After staying in the capital for half a month, Jiang Xingquan took Davidson to Jiangsu to sign a coaching contract with the Nangang team.

Although Nangang is located in the wealthy Jiangsu, it is actually not a rich team like that.

To be precise, there are no rich teams in CBA right now.

Nangang management respects Davidson very much, but cannot give too much contract.

Finally, he was given a contract with an annual salary of RMB 1 million, which is definitely a lot less than Davidson's salary in the NBA.

You should know that Davidson can get five million US dollars in NBA. If it is exchanged for RMB, it will be nearly 40 million...

One million vs. 40 million, that must be pitiful.

But compared to other CBA coaches, it is definitely a sky-high price. Not to mention coaches, even players can not get a high salary.

Players in the 1990s, when CBA was not established, the salary of players was quite low.

Even in Davidson's opinion, it was already outrageously low.

For example, Gong Xiaobin, the golden generation, had a monthly salary of only 5,000...

You read that right, it's only 5,000 yuan.

Liu Yudong, a big shot in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, doesn't even have a guaranteed monthly salary, and only has a training fee of 200 yuan a day.

This is not something from ancient times, but from previous years. It can be imagined why everyone wants to play in NBA because the salary earned is really not the same level.

The main men's basketball team like Gong Xiaobin has only a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan. If converted into US dollars, the annual salary will be about 10,000 US dollars.

In NBA, even if you get the lowest basic salary, you can get at least ten times and twenty times the salary...

Athletes are a good meal for youth. Who doesn’t want to make more money before they can’t fight and find peace for the rest of their lives?

Now that we have embarked on the commercial route, the player treatment will naturally be much better. Last season, CBA issued a sky-high contract.

Beijing Aoshen gave Ma Jian a super contract with an annual salary of 1 million yuan.

This contract scared many people and directly made Ma Jian the most glorious player in CBA.

You should know that Yao Ming doesn’t have such a high salary even when playing in CBA now.

In a high-end community in the Third Ring Road in Beijing, less than 5,000 square meters, Ma Jian’s annual salary can buy a 200 square meter large house on the Third Ring Road in Beijing.

In addition to Ma Jian, let alone an annual salary of millions, even a player with an annual salary of 500,000 is rare, and the entire CBA cannot find a slap.

So from this we can also see that the Nangang team attaches great importance to Davidson, and such a salary gives Davidson the respect he deserves.

Davidson definitely didn't care about this salary. After arriving at the Nangang team, he first chatted with Nangang leader Hu Weidong for an afternoon.

Hu Weidong was very good at CBA a few years ago, but his record has not been very good. In addition to being injured in the past two years, Hu Weidong's condition has declined significantly.

He also thought that he could lead Nangang to win a CBA championship before he retired, although this possibility was not very high.

Davidson patted his chest and promised that he would get him a championship ring before Lao Hu retired.

After chatting with Lao Hu, Davidson came to Tang Zhengdong, the young center of Nangang team.

When chatting with Lao Hu, Davidson was completely in his private capacity, while when chatting with Tang Zhengdong, Davidson was in his official capacity as the team.

When the Nangang team heard that Davidson was preparing to train Tang Zhengdong to be the kind of superstar who could score 50+20+10 in the CBA, he naturally let Davidson arrange it.

The super center, who averaged 50 points, 20 rebounds and 10 blocks per game, was so excited that Nangang's management was extremely excited.

...

In the player dormitory, Davidson sat opposite Tang Zhengdong.

"Da Tang, do you have any career plans for the future?" Davidson asked Tang Zhengdong with a smile.

Although Tang Zhengdong is extremely young now, his nickname is still Datang.

Similar to the nickname of young Yao Ming, Yao Ming, is Yao.

Young Chinese inside players are usually nicknamed with big characters because of their size.

Dayao, Dabu, Dazhi, Datang and even later King Wang Zhelin...

For outside players, they are nicknamed with small characters.

For example, Xiao Ding, Xiao Guo, Xiao Zhang, etc.

This is quite Chinese.

Of course, when these Yao and Xiao Ding are no longer young and become veteran players in the future, they will definitely not be called that. The team has to call them Brother Yao and Brother Ding.

Now Tang Zhengdong's nickname is Datang.

Hearing Davidson's question, Tang Zhengdong laughed shyly.

"Coach, I want to play NBA like them."

What the Tang Dynasty said about them naturally refers to Dabu and Dazhi.

The bus signed a five-year contract with the king before, with a total contract amount of up to 78 million US dollars!

It was the bus who felt that the team's salary was tight, so he deliberately reduced some of his salary.

You should know that players like Dabu are already in the league who are willing to pay $100 million in salary for six years to sign contracts.

Seventy-eight million, and it's US dollars, this is an extremely huge temptation for any professional player.

Players like Datang, in fact, if you say how much they really love basketball, it won’t be.

The probability of walking on this path is that they can only follow this path with their height.

If you can earn so much salary from a bus, even if you only have one year, you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life.

Even if you don’t have the same treatment as the bus, you can live a comfortable life with Dazhi’s current rookie contract.

So Datang's answer was not surprising at all.
Chapter completed!