The reason Jas did not receive this honor is related to his shoe sales in the first six years of his career not eting Nike’s psychological expectations.
Because during the first six years of his career, Jas’s sales in the United States were less than 100 million US Dollars annually, so even though his shoe sales still provided him with a considerable bonus, it was far from the psychological expectation Nike had hoped of him being the second Michael Jordan.
But now, Qin Yue’s shoes are not only selling hotly in the United States, but also in China...
Qin Yue’s shoes have beco a fashion symbol.
It turns out that Qin Yue’s consistently good cooperative relationship with Nike’s legendary shoe designer Tinker Hatfield has been the key to his shoes selling like hotcakes.
Because Qin Yue would never, like his good brother, arbitrarily change the designer’s drawings, nor point fingers at this legendary designer’s work...
Thus, a series of stylish and tiless "Overlord Series" soon proved with its market feedback that professional matters should be left to professionals.
In addition, the current Arican fans’ despair towards Arican basketball...
Also indirectly contributed to the booming sales of Qin Yue’s shoes.
This, in turn, reminded Qin Yue that if he could completely destroy the redemption battle of Arican basketball using the ho advantage in 2008 at his doorstep...
Then, the Arican fans, unable to dispel that despair through redemption, would undoubtedly develop an indescribable sentint towards him due to one of humanity’s nature — the admiration of strength.
As soone who has been through it, Qin Yue is well aware that the so-called 08 Dream Team is far from being as strong as the world imagines.
What’s more, on the FIBA court...
He would only be stronger than in the NBA?
Zone defense would greatly weaken the influence of Arican stars on the court then.
As long as he could maintain an excellent in-ga performance against the Dream Team, Qin Yue does not consider defeating that U.S. n’s basketball team an impossibility.
Although it is indeed very difficult...
But for Qin Yue, who is increasingly eager to achieve more honors and always stand at the center of the basketball world, no matter how difficult it is, he wants to give it a try.
Additionally, on the day of signing the new contract with Nike, Qin Yue imdiately shared this good news with his good brother Jas, who was once on equal footing with him.
To this, Jas, who had just produced a career-defining performance in the series against the Pistons by scoring 49 points in a single ga and consecutively scoring 26 points for the team in the fourth quarter and overti, could only describe his feelings as extrely complicated.
"Isn’t this just him showing off to you, Brown, don’t you think he’s never really treated you as a true brother?"
Randy Mims, who has always disliked Qin Yue, said to Jas after he hung up the phone.
Maverick Carter, who has close ties with Nike, reminded Jas, "Brown, I think Nike has declared the ssiah’s future flagship status with this new contract..."
Ever since Qin Yue entered the league, Jas has realized...
That if it has anything to do with Qin Yue, there can’t be anything good happening.
And what makes Jas feel hopeless is...
No matter how much he yearns to return to the spotlight, even after delivering a career-defining performance against the Pistons, he has only managed to snatch back a little bit of attention from Qin Yue.
This is not what Jas wants.
Because only when he is in the spotlight is he the Chosen One of Cleveland.
If before when Qin Yue flaunted and teased him about his rough skills with a superior tone, Jas would just think it was a joke between brothers.
But as ti went on...
Having long realized that he cannot coexist with Qin Yue, Jas’s current attitude towards Qin Yue can only be described as "surface brothers."
Jas knows very well that the reason he can still maintain a "surface brothers" relationship with Qin Yue is only because they haven’t torn faces in private or public yet.
But that day...
Jas feels it is drawing nearer.
May 31.
Ga six of the Western Conference Finals between the Warriors and the Supersonic moved to the KeyArena.
With match point in hand, the Warriors did not want to resolve the outco of this series in a ga seven battle.
But the league’s main director, David Stern, who didn’t want this highly topical and high-attention Western Conference Finals to end just like that, made things a bit more challenging for the Warriors in their match point ga.
Even though compared to the open performances of later years...
The chief referee of the ga’s night rely allowed both sides to play with the long-gone Hand-Check rule.
But when the Supersonic’s zone defense combined with the Hand-Check rule, and with their free throw attempts until the end totaling just 12 and 14 respectively for each team...
This ga, with its once again intensified confrontation and unprecedentedly brutal defensive scenes, where no whistle would be blown unless "human lives" were at stake, severely restricted the Warriors’ periter shooting ability.
From the start, feeling that the officiating was particularly unfavorable to the Warriors, Qin Yue did not take a single three-point shot on the night of the ga.
He scored a total of 25 shots, making 13 of them, with free throws of 8 out of 7, adding up to a ga-high 33 points, along with 14 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 blocks, and 1 steal for the Warriors.
But Qin Yue’s outstanding performance could not prevent the team’s defeat.
Because in this NBA version of the "Battle of Verdun," the Supersonic, with its twin towers in the paint, had an advantage.
Yao Ming scored 25 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists, and 4 blocks; Garnett scored 19 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 blocks, and 2 steals.
At the end, it was 70 to 74.
After the ga, looking at those who, in the ga, have beco bricklayers, Richardson going 0 for 7 from beyond the three-point line, and Davis with a total of 15 shots and just 3 makes throughout the ga, and those pegged by the team as key to breaking the ga, Deng Liwei with 2 for 15 in two gas combined...
Except for Artest, who still managed to score 13 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, and 3 steals under such ga intensity...
Qin Yue’s mood could only be described as wanting to burn Stern alive.
Although Qin Yue is well aware that the Warriors did have the possibility of winning against the Supersonic that night, he never expected that, with him playing injured, Stern would impose such great intensity on the Warriors at their match point.
But now that things have co to this...
Unable to burn Stern alive, Qin Yue is destined to focus his attention on the ga seven battle to be held at Oracle Arena on the night of June 3.
This will be Qin Yue’s first-ever ga seven in his career.
Having the ho court will be the Warriors’ only advantage in this ga seven battle.
Qin Yue knew that in this life-or-death ga, Stern would definitely not allow the referees to replicate the excruciating defensive intensity of ga six.
But even so...
To win this year’s Western Conference Finals, the Warriors must seize those open shots like they did on previous winning nights.
Prior to the start of this ga where anyone could beco the Western Conference champion, the ever-growing anger in Qin Yue since his injury has reached its peak.
The good news is, as Qin Yue is nearing recovery, his ankle is no longer as restricted as before.
One day before the ga.
Under the supervision of the team doctor, Qin Yue, who is moving more freely, was already as good as new.
Moreover, in the visible data of the Mountain Peak system, the attributes Qin Yue lost due to injury have all been restored, except for speed and jumping attributes which have temporarily deducted so ability points.
Undoubtedly, this will be Qin Yue’s healthiest ga in this year’s Western Conference Finals.
And it’s also a ga in which he desperately needs to unleash his pent-up anger.
Although a re Western Conference Final is far from satisfying Qin Yue’s appetite.
But only by conquering the West first...
Qin Yue can get a chance to erase his resentnt in the Finals.
Before the start of the Western Conference ga seven, the Cleveland Cavaliers, led by LeBron Jas, had already eliminated the Detroit Pistons with a 4-2 series victory, advancing to this year’s Finals.
Qin Yue knows very well that if he wants to attend that date with Jas...
He must lead the Warriors to defeat the Supersonic in tomorrow night’s ga.
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