From today on is the king

Chapter 991 990. Too sinful!

After reaching a verbal agreement with Calderon, Korver, and Kwame Brown, Liu Mang's offseason officially began.

On July 7th, Liu Mang bid farewell to San Niu, left Atlanta for Greece, and started a sneaker tour with six stops in Asia and three stops in Europe.

When I went to activities a few times before, the first stop was with San Niu. It was the first time I went out alone, and I was still a little unaccustomed.

In China and the United States, Yao Ming teamed up with Kobe, which was a sensation, but in Europe, it was relatively ordinary. Liu Mang, as the defending champion, and the feat of leading the team to kill the US team last summer, the promotion in the three major basketball countries in Europe was still very successful. There was a wave of advertisements for the Ice III boots that were just released on July 7.

But when I returned to China, I found that the limelight had been robbed...

The influence brought by Yao Ming's joining the Lakers continues to affect the basketball circles in China and the United States.

The Lakers once again had a dominant center and became the championship favorite.

David Stern was overjoyed. Yao Ming has arrived in the most suitable city to be a star. Los Angeles can maximize Yao Ming's commercial value.

The Lakers and Yao Ming, these two names grabbed everyone's attention after the free market opened.

The signings of other teams did not cause any waves.

The madman Sprewell yelled for tens of millions of contracts, but no team paid any attention to it and was ignored.

Payton's veteran basic salary continued to embrace O'Neal's thigh, and the Heat spent a lot of money. The Grizzlies first signed and then traded for White Chocolate Jason Williams in three years, and the Celtics poached Antoine Walker from the Celtics for a fat contract of 3 million in four years.

The Eagles spent $500 million in the free market to find someone, but they didn't attract attention.

Sam Cassell and Cardinal Mobley joined the Clippers together to complement the Clippers' weakness of strong insiders and scumbags outside. With the capital to hit the playoffs, they were also ignored.

Other large and small transactions and signings did not attract much attention.

……

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"Today's event is over here, thank you for your participation, next is the lucky draw..."

After finally hearing the conclusion, Liu Mang waved to the fans and walked towards the backstage aisle.

"Ace... Ace..."

The fans at the event were still shouting Liu Mang's English name loudly, but this is not the first time Liu Mang has carried out a promotional activity. When the fans called his name for the first time, he couldn't help staying for a while. Now... a bit numb. It's not that he doesn't pay attention to the enthusiasm of the fans, but that he is too tired.

There are more and more sites for promotional activities, and now there are 9 sites. In 13 days, I have been promoting in 6 cities in 9 countries, and I am exhausted physically and mentally.

Finally, the publicity campaign for the last leg of the Imperial Capital Station is over, and Liu Mang can finally start the real offseason.

"Ace, are you going to go home next? Go to Shanghai with me?" Schwartz asked.

"I'll stay in BJ for two days." Liu Mang hasn't visited the imperial capital well yet, and he's ready to go out for a stroll, and has made an appointment for a dinner party with a few teammates of the national team.

"OK, I still have things to do. The promotional activities of Dwyane, Kwame and Tracy are still going on, and the endorsement of Chris' sneakers is still being discussed. My plane in the afternoon will go to Shanghai first, and I will ask someone to help you book a hotel."

"Um……"

……

"Hurry up, Lianmei, why do you walk so slowly with such long legs!"

"Boss Ace, you told me not to call me Lianmei!"

"Okay, okay, I understand, Sister Lian."

"..."

Yi Jianlian was helpless, he didn't know why Liu Mang had to call him Lianmei, and his objection was useless.

"Ace, is it okay for you to go shopping?" Yi Jianlian asked worriedly.

"It's okay, Lianmei, the fans' attention is now on Dayao. Those who are not basketball fans probably don't know us. At most, they think we are tall. I am wearing a hat. Look, there is another poster of Dayao and that blacksmith." Liu Mang moved his peaked cap with his left hand, and pointed to the poster of the shopping mall next to him with his right.

"A blacksmith?" Yi Jian thought of Kobe's appearance of eating people when he was playing in the NBA live broadcast. When he heard the adjective Liu Mang, he thought that Kobe's shooting percentage was not very good...Yi Jianlian once again realized why Liu Mang was so hated by the stars, and his mouth was too poisonous!
"Oh, there's a Nike store over there, go and see my shoes, Lianmei, I'll send you a pair..." After searching for a long time, Liu Mang finally found his own poster and ran towards the specialty store.

"Boss Ace, wait for me..." Yi Jianlian hurried to catch up, the young boss of the national team, his personality is too out of character!

Today is July 7nd. Liu Mang took a day off at the hotel yesterday. Tonight there is a dinner with several teammates from the Athens Olympics. Yi Jianlian arrived at BJ yesterday. Today he is responsible for accompanying Liu Mang to go shopping. Besides, he has to protect Liu Mang’s safety.

Fortunately, Yi Jianlian is still an 18-year-old boy with good athletic ability, otherwise he would not be able to keep up with Liu Mang's footsteps at a height of [-] meters.

Liu Mang came to the door of the Nike store on the ground floor of this square building, looked at his own poster on the glass wall, and admired it. After Yi Jianlian caught up, he saw Liu Mang's narcissistic look, so narcissistic!

At this moment, a saleswoman in a Nike clerk T-shirt came up from the door.

"Sir, we have the latest basketball shoes of NBA star Liu Mang, which are sold in limited quantities, and there is also a [-]% off event price..." The salesman came up and introduced.

Seeing that Liu Mang and Yi Jianlian are so tall, and one is taller than the other, everyone will think that they are playing basketball, no matter whether they are professional or not, and they are so tall, the first impression is that they play basketball, and they are still looking at Liu Mang’s poster. There must be a chance to sell shoes.

The female salesperson continued to introduce: "...This new version of basketball shoes uses Nike's new technology, which has good ankle protection. Sir, you can come in and have a look..."

Speaking of this, the female salesperson raised her head to look at the faces of the two, and the tallest one she looked at first... didn't know each other...

Then I looked at the one who was shorter but still tall... This face is so familiar!

I turned my head and looked at the poster, and then turned my head to look at the shorter and taller one...

The saleswoman covered her mouth in shock, for fear of screaming.

Liu Mang was intoxicated for a while, and he also heard what the salesman said, and replied: "Okay, let's go, Lianmei, I will give you a pair of shoes, choose whatever you want."

Yi Jianlian really wanted to cover his face and be called Lianmei in front of people... Be sure to choose the most expensive pair!

Liu Mang walked into the store. There were not many people in the store. There were more shop assistants than customers. Some of them wanted to buy his sneakers. They had already bought them during the event the day before yesterday, and there were relatively fewer people behind.

The main reason is that now, the price of Nike is considered very expensive among sports brands. Even in the imperial capital, it is impossible for children to have a pair of feet.

And this early in the morning, the passenger flow was very low, otherwise Yi Jianlian would not have agreed to take Liu Mang out for a stroll.

When Liu Mang walked into the door of the store, he saw his own sneakers at first sight, but... beside him was the Nike Kobe version of the little blacksmith...

Really annoying!
This blacksmith lingers on!
Seeing Liu Mang go in, the female salesperson immediately followed, repeatedly compared the posters pasted in the store with the big man in front of her, and finally confirmed that it was him!

After hesitating for a moment, which is more important, work or star chasing, and thinking that a job as a salesperson can be found anywhere, he immediately walked over and said, "You...you...are you Ace?"

Finally someone recognized the young master!Liu Mang pretended to be shocked, looked at the saleswoman, lowered his hat and said, "Did you recognize me? That's right, I am Liu Mang."

Yi Jianlian at the side was speechless, isn't it just to be recognized and show off by your undisguised attire?After walking for half an hour, it was a miracle that I was not recognized!

After confirming that the person in front of her was Liu Mang, the female salesperson jumped up excitedly and quickly covered her mouth when she wanted to shout out.

Liu Mang didn't pay attention to this female salesperson before, the height... there is a certain gap, now I have a closer look at this female salesperson... No, it should be a little girl, too young, she looks like a high school student.

But that bun face...

"Ace, can you sign it for me? Wait..." The bun-faced girl went to get a poster next to her sneakers, took out a pen from her pocket, and handed it to Liu Mang excitedly, regardless of whether Liu Mang agreed to sign it or not.

Liu Mang didn't refuse either. He pressed the ballpoint pen and asked tentatively, "What's your name? I'll write some blessings."

"I... I... My surname is Zhao!" The bun-faced girl didn't expect this benefit, and hurriedly said, "My name is Zhao Liying!"

"Zhao Liying..." Although Liu Mang was already immune to celebrities, he was still a little surprised, and wrote on the poster without stopping.

I actually met Zhao Liying at such a young age.

"Okay, it's signed." Liu Wei casually wrote a paragraph of blessings, and handed it back to Zhao Liying.

Zhao Liying rolled up the poster excitedly, held it tightly and kept staring at Liu Mang.

Seeing Zhao Liying's excited look, Liu Mang thought it was quite amusing, and planned to tease the future star: "Hey, little sister, how much is your daily salary?"

little sister?Zhao Liying looked at Liu Mang, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with being called a little sister, so she quickly replied, "The daily basic salary is 80, and there is a [-]% sales commission."

"Uh..." Liu Mang was speechless, he really told all the details, it's too honest!

Liu Mang took out his wallet and took out 200 yuan from it: "Then little sister, I'll pay you a day's wages, how about you accompany me to lunch?"

"Ah...?" Zhao Liying felt like something had fallen from the sky!There is actually a big star who wants to invite her to lunch!

Yi Jianlian's mouth was wide open. He came out so early in the morning to flirt with a girl?

Yi Jianlian took a look at this Zhao Liying, and it looked... not an adult!
So sinful!

Think about the fact that Liu Mang has two girlfriends... Yi Jianlian didn't say anything, just carry out the task of bodyguard honestly.

However, Yi Jianlian still felt that it was too sinful!

"Aren't you free?" Liu Mang made a regretful look.

"No, I'm free, wait a minute, I'm going to change clothes..." Zhao Liying immediately rushed into the lounge that only the innermost employees could enter, a sales job, I couldn't find it anywhere, and had dinner with a big star!Can show off for a lifetime...

Zhao Liying has no idea that she is also a big star in the future...

After a few minutes, Zhao Liying came out with a change of clothes, but when she walked to the side of Liu Wei and Yi Jianlian, she saw the clothes on Liu Wei and Yi Jianlian, and then looked at the clothes she bought on the street stall, Zhao Liying hesitated.

Cheap, but clean and simple T-shirt shorts, and a small bag, this is what a high school student looks like, Liu Mang smiled and said: "Well, it looks much better than that ugly employee uniform, let's go!"

Seeing that Liu Mang didn't look contemptuously, Zhao Liying felt warm in her heart, and immediately followed.

As for the job... It was a child labor without a contract, so if you don't want it, you don't want it...

Liu Mang and Yi Jianlian came here by subway without driving. Zhao Liying saw that Liu Mang didn't have any airs of a big star along the way, so she took her around for a stroll, and finally let go of the big stone in her heart.

Originally, I just followed Liu Mang out impulsively, and then I started to worry about this and that. Later, I found that Liu Mang didn't seem to have any other thoughts, just took her out for a stroll...

While shopping and chatting, Liu Mang understood why this future big star was working as a salesperson.

Zhao Liying, born in October 1987, is now 10 years old in July 2005. She graduated from LF City Electronic Information Engineering School with a major in flight attendant. She dropped out of school because her family had no money and gave up becoming a flight attendant. Now she is doing sales to earn money to support her family.

That is, underage child labor...

But I didn't care so much, there was a future big star shopping together, thinking about it, Liu Mang thought it was quite interesting.

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"Here, Ying, go and try..."

Liu Mang took a dress and handed it to Zhao Liying.

"No, this is too expensive..."

"You don't need to spend money, try it, and you don't have to buy it."

"Then try?"

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"Ace, come and try this!" Zhao Liying took Liu Mang to a snack bar.

"This is?"

"Oden! Have you ever tried it?"

"Uh... We usually can't eat this, we have eaten it before, and almost forgot."

"Try it. I usually come to this store to buy one after get off work. It's delicious."

"That's fine, let's try it, Lianmei, do you want to try it too?"

"No, I have a national team match next month, and I'm trying to control my weight." Yi Jianlian held a lot of shopping bags in his hand, and stood far away, not wanting to stand with this guy who flirts with underage girls.

"You guys are so boring. What's so interesting about the Asian Games? Why do you and Dayao both go?"

"..."

"Ace, why are you called Alian Lianmei?"

"Look at him, he's as shy as a little wife, doesn't he look like a girl?"

"Ace, you are so bad!"

We got acquainted after chatting. Zhao Liying also saw Yi Jianlian on TV, but she didn't recognize him right away.

When mentioning basketball, Liu Mang thought of one thing: "Mei Lian, are you almost 18 years old? Are you still playing in the youth team?"

"No, I might go to the first team next season." When it came to business, Yi Jianlian was finally willing to say a few more words.

"Guangdong team... Ah Lian, you haven't played in a professional league, have you? Would you like to try going to the United States to study in college?"

　In the next chapter, about 10 minutes before and after seven o'clock.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)