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"Dingling ~Dingling ~"

Gan Guoyang was woken up by a phone call. He tried hard to get up and answer the phone, but found that he could not move at all while lying on the bed.

"Dingling~"

"Clyde! Clyde!" Gan Guoyang shouted Drexler's name loudly, but no one responded.

Gan Guoyang tried hard to get up from the bed. He felt every muscle in his body crack, and then someone squeezed a lot of lemon juice into it, which made him feel sore all over.

When he tried hard to pick up the phone, he heard Falke's anxious voice, "Gan, are you still in the hotel? What time is it now? You have to sign the contract tonight, sign the contract!"

Only then did Gan Guoyang remember that he would fly back to Portland today to sign a sneaker contract and return to the Trail Blazers to prepare for the training of the entire team.

He looked at the clock and found that the plane had passed the time of departure.

"Damn it, I actually slept!"

Yesterday, only one afternoon of training, Gan Guoyang, who had been practicing for two months, was exhausted. When he and Drexler returned to the hotel like dead dogs in the evening, Gan Guoyang almost fell directly at the door and fell asleep.

What's worse is that when he lay on the bed, Gan Guoyang found that there was no pain in his body. This pain caused him torture until midnight.

This sleep naturally overslept, and I missed the plane to Portland at noon.

Gan Guoyang endured the discomfort and woke Drexler who was sleeping in the next room. He was also entangled by Cooper yesterday, and he was a little staggering when driving at night.

"No wonder the Lakers can enter the Finals three times in four years, and the gap can be seen from training." Drexler said yesterday with emotion.

"Yes, I also understand a little, why the Lakers played offensive basketball but were able to win the championship because their opponents were exhausted." Gan Guoyang also understood why the Lakers' Show-time can be invincible in the NBA, which claims to have "winned the championship with defense".

After getting up and packing up, the two hurriedly made a taxi to the airport and changed their air tickets.

Despite this, when they boarded the plane, night had already arrived in Los Angeles. When they arrived in Portland, it was probably late at night.

On the plane, Gan Guoyang slept well again. When he arrived in Portland, Gan Guoyang's spirit and body finally recovered a little.

After arriving at Portland Airport, Falk was greeted by Gan Guoyang and Falke's cold and serious expression.

"Sorry, Mr. Falke, yesterday..."

"No need to say Gan, let me go, Nike's senior management is waiting for you." Falk said directly without listening to Gan Guoyang's explanation.

"But it's already very late now, and I still feel very tired. I yesterday..."

"Listen Gan! As a professional player, you need to have the credibility of a professional player. It is said that you signed a contract today, which is today!" Falke was angry rarely.

Gan Guoyang stopped talking at once. He knew that modern society was very credible. For those business people, time is money.

He is also a professional player now. Since he has handed over his business affairs to Falk to take care of, he should obey his arrangements and at least be on time.

In this way, Drexler and Gan Guoyang said goodbye first, while Gan Guoyang took Falke's car to the place where he signed the contract.

"Wait, Mr. Falke, which company do you think I want to sign a contract with? I didn't hear it clearly just now." Gan Guoyang suddenly remembered the company that Falke and he mentioned.

"It's Nike, Nike, not just you, another player under my command has also come. You must have heard of him." Falke said the name "Nike".

Gan Guoyang is now confused. Nike, this is the world's largest basketball shoe manufacturer in the future, and it is a giant in sports equipment.

Although now, Nike is only an Oregon shoe factory that has a place in the US market, it still weighs on many giants such as Converse, Adidas, Reebok, etc.

But on this night, Nike's fate will be completely changed due to two contracts.

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"Gan, how about the contract signing place last night?"

"It's okay, I met Robert Strasser, Phil Nate, Dinco Hatfield, Jack George, Bit Muller and Harver White... Well I know you don't know them all, but I remember their names, and that's the most meaningful thing I've done when signing the contract. I don't know what they're talking about at all."

"Oh, then at least you know how big a contract they gave you, right?"

"Three years, 150,000."

"Three years, 150,000? Oh my God, 50,000 a year? This is really a big number. You are still a newcomer, it's really jealous."

"It's not 150,000 in three years, but 150,000 in every year, and 450,000 in three years."

After Gan Guoyang finished speaking, he had already changed his clothes in the locker room, left Drexler, left the locker room, and prepared to start training in the stadium.

"If I told him that it was a five-year contract and I asked it to change it to three years, I don't know what Clyde would look like." Gan Guoyang thought secretly in his heart.

The signing of Gan Guoyang last night made him one or two big. He didn't expect that signing a sneaker contract would be more troublesome than signing an NBA contract. Both sides started a verbal battle over various details.

Of course, all this was done by Falke. All Gan Guoyang could do was to keep all the business cards of Nike's senior executives in his mind so that he could recognize everyone.

In the end, with Falke's efforts, Nike decided to give Gan Guoyang a five-year contract of 750,000 yuan. Falke mentioned the idea of ​​the Chinese market in the negotiations, which became Nike's last bargaining chip for making up his mind.

But when Gan Guoyang decided to sign the contract, he decided to only sign a three-year contract, which made Falk difficult to understand, and Nike's boss was wondering if this guy's brain was broken.

"I think in three years, I will definitely not only have this price." This is the explanation given by Gan Guoyang. In the end, Nike also accepted Gan Guoyang's contract amendment proposal. In fact, three years is exactly the time they like.

For this reason, Falke complained a lot to Gan Guoyang, but Gan Guoyang has been silent and looks confident.

Gan Guoyang was very satisfied with the contract. The only regret was that he failed to meet another spokesperson. He had signed a contract and left before Gan Guoyang came.

"You are so Gan. I heard that you were severely taught a lesson in Palm Springs the day before yesterday, right?" When I arrived at the training ground, Coach Ramsey, who had not seen him for a month, actually used this sentence to "welcome" Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang was stunned after hearing this, and then he realized that there should be connections between the NBA coaches, so he smiled and said, "That's right, his chest was pressed against my fist, and my hands still hurt."

Gan Guoyang's words were full of ridicule, and Ramsey was used to this guy's big or small, and even McAdu dared to fight. This kid would definitely be a tough guy in the future.

At this moment, other players of the Trail Blazers arrived one after another, changed their clothes in the locker room and came to the court to gather. This was the first gathering training for the Trail Blazers before the new season.

However, compared with last season, the Trail Blazers have changed a lot, with half of the players being replaced with new faces, so this training camp has become a good opportunity for the players to get to know each other.

"Okay, friends, you are no longer little kids in the school. You are all professional players with big contracts. We won't do the self-introduction. I believe we will be familiar with each other during training. In addition, the boss will come to see our training in the afternoon. We who work harder are the best, and it is not easy to make a living."

Ramsey's words made the new and old players present laugh. Some players who were not very familiar with Ramsey even thought that this old man must be a funny and funny guy.

But after an hour, the Trail Blazers players couldn't laugh, let alone think that Ramsey was a good guy.

Because in the morning Ramsey arranged physical training for the players, and it was a very intense physical exercise. He repeatedly turned back and ran around the field, tortured several players who had just finished their holidays to death.

However, Gan Guoyang and Drexler seem relatively easy. Their training has lasted for two months, so this amount of exercise is not a big problem for them.

Ramsey watched the performance of the two men, knowing that they were definitely not lazy in September.

"Hurry! How can you play in the NBA at this speed? The team exchanged you for not to make you cheer on the sidelines. Run, run!" Ramsey scolded every player on the sidelines like a slave owner.

He doesn't care who is a big name or a role player, he always treats everyone equally and scolds him when he deserves it.

When the two-hour physical training ended, the five rookies looked fine, while the other seven veterans, except Drexler, were a little tired.

But after all, they are all professional players, and it is impossible for this level of physical training to exhaust their energy. There are other training programs in the future.

After physical training, Ramsey arranged free throw exercises for the players, so that everyone could adjust and stand on the free throw line to recover some physical strength.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

With the sound of basketballs hitting the basket three times in a row, Gan Guoyang stood on the free throw line and looked at his hand and shook his head helplessly.

"Gan, the brick you threw at the free throw line today is about to build a house for you in Portland!" said Ramsey on the side.

In later China, people often called not shooting a "iron-shot" but in the United States, not shooting a "brick throw" is used to represent "throw a brick".

Ramsey said that Gan Guoyang's turn head was able to build a house, which shows that Gan Guoyang's free throw was really bad enough.

"I don't know what's going on. I've tried to change my posture, but it's not. I used to be free throws in college, but I think my feel is worse now." Gan Guoyang's free throw shooting percentage has always been good, but today his feel is particularly poor.

Therefore, he repeatedly changed his shooting hand shape, and the result was that he could only get worse and worse.

"Try again!" Ramsey passed the ball to Gan Guoyang and asked him to do it again.

Gan Guoyang took a deep breath and pressed the basketball in his hand hard. He didn't want to become the center forward who fell on the free throw line like O'Neal in the future.

Moreover, his talent also determines that his free throws will not be bad, but all this requires continuous efforts.

Gan Guoyang bent his knees, raised his hand, held the ball with his left hand and raised his right hand. At the same time, his right elbow expanded outward. After reaching the highest point, his wrist exerted force.

"Bang!" The ball hit Blue's neck. The arc of the ball was too smooth and the attack was too stiff.

"Damn it, it seems that big hands are not a good thing." Gan Guoyang attributed the stiffness of the move to being too big.

If the hand is too large, it will indeed affect the feeling of shooting, because the fingers are too long, which makes the force point not concentrated, and the ball will be unstable when shooting.

"Who told you that if you have big hands, you can't shoot well?" A teammate next to you suddenly said.

Gan Guoyang turned around and saw that it was a white player in the team. He bent down and easily grabbed a basketball with one hand, stood in the three-point line, waved his arm, and the ball drew an arc and headed straight for the basket.

"Swish!" The ball entered, a beautiful long shot.

"Not everyone is Julius Irving, and not every big shot is not good." The player said after the shot.

This guy is wearing a 55th and a center number, but judging from his height, he should be a small forward.

"KiKi, otherwise you will teach this kid how to shoot. I don't want him to be with Clyde all day long, and he will eventually become like Clyde, who can't shoot." Ramsey said.

Drexler, who was standing beside him, looked obviously unswerving when he heard Ramsey's words.

"No problem, if he's willing to treat me to lunch, of course, if his shooting percentage can reach half of mine, then I'm willing to treat him to dinner." KiKi said indifferently, as if he's sure to win.

When he heard this, Gan Guoyang certainly would not retreat. He did not believe that his open shooting percentage would not even reach half of the opponent's. No matter how much his shooting ability was deteriorating, it would not be so bad.

"Okay, then let's compete, just in time I can restore my feel." Gan Guoyang said without hesitation.

However, in the middle of this small battle, Gan Guoyang felt that he was almost defeated.

The rule of the game is that Van dervich will shoot a ball anywhere, and Gan Guoyang will also shoot a ball from the same place.

Then Gan Guoyang discovered that although this guy was not good at shooting three-pointers like many players at that time, he almost made every move inward at the three-point line.

Well, in the competition with Gan Guoyang, he scored 15 goals in a total of 15 goals from the bottom line to the top of the arc and then to the bottom line.

Gan Guoyang only made 7, and one less hit rate can exceed 50%.

"Okay, I'll leave this meal to you at noon."

"Yes, but I want to have another competition after the training. Fifteen goals are too few." Gan Guoyang was not willing to give up.

"Okay, but if you can't beat me, you'll keep treating me to lunch. My request should also be raised to 70% and to 70% of mine."

"No, 70% of it, I want to surpass you in all respects, and there will be no shortage of a ball."
Chapter completed!