Seeing that neither Morey nor Alexander spoke, Harden urged again with a cold face: "Let me tell the truth, if you still keep him in the team, then I will go to another team. Of course, I will not break the contract.
Before the end of our contract, I will still play on the court, but work comes back to work, and whether I can contribute or not is not certain."
Morey and Alexander looked at each other, sighed, and said to Harden: "Do we have to let him go?"
"That's right!" Harden's tone was still strong.
Alexander said: "James, I'm a businessman and I can't throw away more than 10 million so easily. Let's find a compromise: We can't open Wen Hao immediately, but we can still keep him until the end of the season. But we can control his
Playing time, or even not letting him play. What do you think if we fire him after the end of the season?"
Harden looked embarrassed, thought for a moment, and said, "Okay, I promise you, let him stay until the end of the season."
Harden originally didn't expect to force Wen Hao out immediately. After all, it involved a lot of things, leaving immediately was impossible. All he had to do was put pressure on the boss and general manager to let them combat Wen Hao's "arrogance"
"Now that the goal has been achieved, he naturally has to stop. Otherwise, he will push the boss into a hurry and he will not be sure what he will do.
Harden thought for a while and continued to say to the boss and Morey: "I don't have to beat people to death with a stick and not let him play. You can let him play, but the playing time in each game must not exceed ten."
minutes, otherwise..."
When Morey heard this, he was secretly happy. He thought that Harden would not let Wen Hao play again, but now that they haven't fought for it, Harden has already given Wen Hao ten minutes of playing time, and they can't force him anymore.
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Morey looked at Alexander and saw that Alexander had nodded in agreement. He immediately said to Harden: "James, don't worry, I will tell the coaching staff that we will strictly control his playing time from the next game.
It will never take more than ten minutes."
Harden's brows relaxed, he took the coffee that Morey was drinking on the table, drank it in one gulp, and said to Alexander and Morey: "If that's the case, thank you. I won't give you this in vain.
If you ask, I promise that in June of this year, I will bring the golden O'Brien Cup to you."
After finishing speaking, Harden turned around and walked away.
Morey and Alexander looked at each other and smiled bitterly. They had nothing to do with such a player. Now they can only do what Harden said. I hope he can really win the championship trophy by then.
Although Alexander feels a little sorry for Wen Hao, he is a businessman and everything is based on money. Although if Wen Hao plays well in the future, the commercial value behind it will be immeasurable, but at least now his value is far less than Harden. Listen.
Wen Hao signed a contract with Nike a few days ago, but compared to the many brands Harden has signed with now, Wen Hao's "one brand" is too few.
Morey was already dialing McHale's number at this time, wanting to convey their decision to McHale.
At this time, the phone in Alexander's office rang. Alexander picked up the receiver and asked: "I'm Alexander, what's the matter?"
The voice on the other end of the phone said: "Boss, I heard through the grapevine that Toyota plans to hire Wen Hao as an endorser. This is a great good thing for us. We must seize the opportunity."
When Alexander heard the news, his head suddenly buzzed. If Toyota could sign a contract with Wenhao, the benefits to him would be immeasurable.
But the next moment, he suddenly thought of what he had promised Harden just now, and his mind suddenly felt like it was about to burst. How could everything be in the same place?
However, Alexander is the big boss after all. He has never seen anything like this before. He quickly came to his senses. Seeing that Morey's call had not yet been answered, he stopped him and said, "Stop calling. There is something new."
How savvy Morey was. When he saw Alexander's look, he knew there was something more important. He immediately hung up the phone and asked, "What's the matter?"
Alexander said with joy and melancholy: "Toyota will probably ask Wenhao to sign a contract."
"Ah!" Morey exclaimed in surprise. He knew what Toyota's signing of Wen Hao's contract meant. For the Rockets, Wen Hao's signing with Toyota meant huge wealth. You know, at the time, Toyota
When discussing the arena naming contract with Alexander, the players were involved
The issue of endorsing Toyota. If a player endorses Toyota, the team will receive the same amount of sponsorship fees as the endorsement fee. In other words, if Wen Hao signs a $10 million contract with Toyota, then the Toyota Center will also receive
Pay the Rockets $10 million.
But this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Nike and Toyota, two major companies in the sports and automobile industries, have approached Wenhao to sign a contract, which is enough to show how big Wenhao's market value is. And Morey and Alexander have both
They were wrong. Before that, they had already
They already knew about the signing between Nike and Wen Hao, but only one brand signed a contract with Wen Hao. They believed that this did not prove the value of Wen Hao, and it was not worth taking the risk for Wen Hao. But now, when Toyota wants to sign with Wen Hao
When they signed the contract, they finally came to their senses.
Alexander and Morey looked at each other for a moment, and Morey spoke first: "It seems that we still underestimated his market value and the market value of Chinese players."
"Yes, although his reputation in the NBA is far less than Harden's now, he has the support of hundreds of millions of Chinese people, and his market value is already comparable to Harden's," Morey said.
"Not to mention anything else, since Dayao came to the Rockets, the billboards from China on the side of the Rockets stadium have earned me tens of millions of dollars every year. Now that Wen Hao has become popular, we are making money.
The second wave of violence is coming again." The smile on Alexander's face began to brighten.
Morey seemed to suddenly remember something and said: "But, we just promised Harden that we would shorten Wen Hao's playing time. Now that Toyota is going to sign a contract with Wen Hao, the more playing time for Wen Hao, the better. Only
The more time he plays, the bigger his contract will be and the more revenue the team will earn. How do we do this?"
Alexander also frowned and said after a moment: "I'll leave this to you."
Morey really has a headache this time. The boss only cares about big decisions, and although these small things are not very important, they are very difficult to deal with, but he happened to encounter them.
"Forget it, let's take it one step at a time." Morey said in his heart.
At the same time, Wen Hao didn't know this. He was still working hard to complete today's task in the training hall. But he would know it soon.
…
The next morning, after he finished training, Yu Song called and said: "Wen Hao, I just received a call from Toyota's public relations officer, who said he wanted to discuss cooperation with you.
look……"
"No need to talk." Wen Hao blurted out without thinking while wiping his sweat with a towel.
"Don't you think about it?"
"There is nothing to consider. Tell them that there is no possibility at all. When Toyota asked Dayao to endorse it, Dayao did not agree. If I cooperate with them now, wouldn't I be scolded by the Chinese?"
"Well, I understand." Yu Song understood what Wen Hao meant, and he also supported Wen Hao. To establish a positive and positive image for Wen Hao, there must be no flaws. If he endorses Toyota this time, China
Fans are likely to be very disgusted, which will greatly affect his market value in China. Then it will be very difficult for him to cooperate with other Chinese brands.
Without hesitation, Wen Hao rejected Toyota's endorsement and walked out of Toyota Center and walked to his residence.
At the same time, Toyota's senior executives called Alexander's office: "We want to cooperate with Wen Hao, but Wen Hao seems to have some prejudice against us. Boss, can you help us get in touch?"
Alexander laughed twice: "This is the second time you have come to me for this kind of thing. The first time was because of Dayao, but Dayao didn't agree. I also feel very sorry. Don't worry, this time I will
You must do your best.”
After hanging up the phone, Alexander asked Morey to call Wen Hao and invite Wen Hao to the office.
More than half an hour later, Wen Hao arrived at Alexander's office. Alexander quickly stood up, welcomed Wen Hao in, and made a cup of coffee for Wen Hao.
Wen Hao was a little flattered, but he was not in a hurry to ask his boss anything, but waited for him to speak.
Seeing Wen Hao take a sip of coffee, Alexander smiled and asked, "How does it taste?"
Wen Hao honestly said: "There is no tea that tastes good."
"Oh, I didn't know you like to drink tea. If you knew, I would make tea for you."
"It doesn't matter."
"Wen Hao, I heard that Toyota wants you to be an endorser. What do you mean?"
"Oh, I don't mean anything, I just don't want to speak for them."
"Wen Hao, don't you think about it? This is a lot of money. I heard that they plan to sign a four-year contract with you for 80 million US dollars. I am a businessman, and businessmen will not refuse money.
Why should we let these 80 million slip away in vain?”
"No reason, I just don't want to." Wen Hao's voice was a little cold.
Alexander and Morey looked at each other and saw the wry smile on each other's faces. There is no such conversation. How can we talk about rejecting 80 million US dollars without any reason?
Morey thought for a while and said to Wen Hao: "Wen Hao, no one in this world can have trouble with money. Since you refused 80 million, of course it was not for nothing. We don't force you to sign with Toyota, but you have to give us
A reason.”
Wen Hao did not look at the two people, but looked at the cup in his hand, but the focus was not on the cup: "I am an athlete. I just want to play basketball well and don't want to talk about politics. But for those who have hurt our national feelings and still are
I don’t want to talk to those nations and countries that are still hurting us.”
After saying that, Wen Hao put the cup on the table, turned around and left without looking at Alexander and Morey again...
It took a while for Morey and Alexander to come to their senses. Morey seemed to admire him and said softly: "You have guts."
Alexander said: "Although I lost 80 million, I like this kid more and more."
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[Damn it, I thought it would be released at twelve o'clock in the evening, but I didn't expect it to be tomorrow afternoon. But I am afraid that people will be waiting, so I will post a chapter now.]
