71. This agent is very discerning
The Heat and the Big Three are undoubtedly the Heat and the Big Three, but for agents, the ones that benefit the most are actually those players who are second-level than the Big Three. Many teams have freed up their salary space for James, Bosh and Wade, but the Big Three are grouped together. The other teams cannot find a place to use the salary space, and they can only give players in the second-level high salary. The second-level is always better than no one, but they have generated many premium contracts and garbage contracts, which have become one of the reasons for the suspension in 2011.
When Zhang Hao saw his news, it was the news that the three Heat went to celebrate his birthday together.
Just meet him. Zhang Hao also understands the energy of his agents. In the future, the Lakers will rely on James and James' brother Ritchie Paul to turn the slogan "Lakes Championship" into reality.
That's 24 years after the players have greater control over themselves!
At this stage, although the David Falcao agency, which once owned more than half of the players in the league, has declined, the energy of agents cannot be underestimated.
Although Zhang Hao has his own ideas, he still has to meet him when he should meet him.
The shutdown has ended. I guess I have to go to Rutherford Town at most half a month to handle these things well so as not to have trouble returning to the team.
And he also wants to go to the team for more professional training. The NBA team's stadium and equipment must be the most advanced basketball stadium in this era, and the training facilities must be the most complete.
The most important thing is training beyond shooting training, so that NBA teams can have more professional guidance.
It seems that the Nets have no possibility of a big deal. Coleman sent it away, and Kenny Anderson is left, so he will definitely not continue to send it away. After responding to Pelinka's proposal to meet, Zhang Hao said: "Robert, please help me collect information about the players the Nets have now. Thank you..."
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Looking at the middle-aged man who was like an old American farmer in front of him, Zhang Hao could not tell that this honest-looking man actually played the teams in the summer of 2010.
But after the meeting began, Zhang Hao knew why this agent could play those teams in a row. He felt that Henry Thomas's speech was "real" and it might be because of his image and temperament. Henry Thomas had the advantage in this aspect in nature, that is, it felt real, and whether it was really real, at least it felt real when he heard him speak.
"...I think Aix, you should be the first goal of being at the right foot in the rookie season. I believe that your shooting ability and athletic ability can occupy a certain playing time for the Nets, but you have to be patient. The NBA is different from high school. It is difficult to have the core position like that in high school. However, I will help you communicate with the team and let them know your abilities. I will also help you in other aspects. Alan Houston is also a player under our company. I can help you ask him to practice shooting together. He is very helpful..."
Real, what he said, the suggestions made were very realistic, Henry Thomas showed his character everywhere - real.
However, Zhang Hao was very calm. Even if he didn't know that Henry Thomas could play all the teams in the future, he was also very calm about these things for other reasons. On the one hand, he had several years of work experience and was not an ordinary 18-year-old high school child. On the other hand, he had only more than 300 days to live, so he had to deal with many things in his career more calmly.
After Zhang Hao and Henry Thomas finished his advice and growth plan for him in the next year, he said: "Mr. Thomas, my rookie contract has been signed, and I may not be able to get the next contract in the future. You must be very clear about the average career length of NBA players. Even if I am a rookie in the lottery zone, the average career length of a rookie in the lottery zone is not particularly long. Are you afraid of working for me for a few years?"
"I'm scared," Henry Thomas responded without hesitation, and then continued: "But I believe that salary is only part of your income. I know that your cooperation with Starbucks will not let others intervene, but I think your business value is underestimated. As long as you can make it, I believe that with the vast Chinese market and the Chinese market around the world, your endorsement income will definitely not be low. Although there are risks, I think you are worth my efforts in Aix."
Henry Thomas's words made Zhang Hao's eyes lit up.
After meeting so many agents, Henry Thomas is still the first person to be so keen in the Chinese market!
Before Yao Ming entered the NBA and helped Houston bring huge commercial benefits, NBA teams and agents did not pay attention to the Chinese market.
These days, Zhang Hao’s comments on China in the news he saw were very bad. Not to mention now, even more than 20 years later, American news rarely says that China is good.
When Zhang Hao met with the agents who wanted to sign him before, the other party clearly just wanted to sign him to try his luck and see if he could make a comeback and whether he could sign a contract in three years.
For those big-name agents, he has signed a rookie contract and is worthless, but there are still many bad agents who want to sign him.
But no one has mentioned "market value".
Zhang Hao knew that as long as he made a move, the market value would not be low, and the endorsement fee would come naturally, but none of the brokers who came to meet mentioned this.
Even without a vision in this regard, it is difficult for Zhang Hao to believe their abilities.
Although he chose this way to eliminate a large number of people, so that no agent came to him before Starbucks exposed his cooperation, he didn't care because those who came to him were not doing well.
If he wants to attract agents with his commercial value, he must find a powerful agent. If he is not capable enough, he may bring him many pitfalls. He does not have the spare time to deal with those things.
Others can't understand his confidence, but he is so confident in this regard.
On the other hand, Henry Thomas saw Zhang Hao's eyes change and felt serious, instead of the purely politeness before, he knew there was a chance!
"Aix, you can try to cooperate with me. I will tell you something that has not been made public yet. Falcao is ready to dissolve Falcao's agency. It's just that it takes time. He still has something to do, but he has notified me to build his own studio. I am preparing and can do it alone at any time..."
Henry Thomas is trying to promote himself, and he knows it is an opportunity, an opportunity to tie himself to a player who may have unlimited commercial value in the future, just like David Falcao.
David Falcao relied on Jordan to become a billionaire with a net worth of 100 million yuan and was about to retire. Henry Thomas also wanted to become such an agent.
He is not good at salary negotiations. He is good at using the method of players signing contracts to influence the free agent market and strive to get big contracts for players or promote the joint efforts of stars. For example, creating a free market year, allowing multiple big-name stars to expire in the same summer, allowing a large number of teams to free up salary space. When the stars have their own ownership, there are naturally some teams who still have a lot of salary space and can only sign "spare tires". Not so good stars can often take the opportunity to get big contracts. The agent only needs to make a noise that a certain team has given a larger contract.
He was actually quite frustrated. He was a savage in his 40s, but he had no choice but to use his interests to seduce Zhang Hao. Zhang Hao seemed to be completely uninterested in those things.
But in the face of frustration, he was excited!
After the news of Zhang Hao's cooperation with Starbucks was exposed, he received instructions from David Falcao to investigate the Chinese market and investigate Zhang Hao.
The former, after Henry Thomas investigated, it felt incredible! The rapid development of China has never known about it, and Zhang Hao's popularity in the sports circle in China is beyond his imagination.
The reason why he felt that this was an opportunity was actually the latter, that is, the investigation of Zhang Hao.
The basketball court of Inglewood High School can be visited by outsiders, but they did not affect Zhang Hao's training.
When Zhang Hao was training, people would occasionally take a look at the area outside the training ground.
This is one of the ways in which Inglewood High School enrollment is mainly in the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. After Zhang Hao was selected as a high school student, he naturally became a famous figure in the student circles of Los Angeles and even California. He trained here and became a life advertisement for school enrollment.
Henry Thomas pretended to be a student who came to inspect the school and went to watch. As a professional agent, Zhang Hao looked like an 18-year-old child except for his appearance and body shape.
He also used some small methods to learn about Zhang Hao's training from Jason Hart, a sparring training, and learned about the terrifying improvements during Zhang Hao's hard training...
Jason Hart is a potential stock in the eyes of his agents. He was well-known in California in junior high school. Inglewood High School, a strong team in California's high school basketball, there was no chance of performing in the first grade. However, after Zhang Hao and Pierce graduated, Jason Hart was the absolute core. It is inevitable to enter the NCAA in the future, and there is hope for entering the NBA.
But Jason Hart is much worse than Zhang Hao.
When you are selected at the age of 18, you are naturally talented.
After a more detailed investigation by Henry Thomas, he further confirmed that Zhang Hao was talented. Former Inglewood High School basketball coach Scott Collins brought a child back from China. He must have excellent talent to bring him back. If his talent is average, it would be better to find a high school student in the local area, which would not be so troublesome.
When Zhang Hao showed his athletic talent in McDonald's slam dunk contest and his shooting talent in Adidas training camp, he immediately had a draft market from the end of the first round to the early part of the second round. This draft market is not bad for a player who just graduated from high school! In the end, a team selected Zhang Hao with the 9th pick, which must be a gamble on talent.
With such talent and such self-disciplined personality, Zhang Hao is more likely to become a star! The biggest income of an agent is the player's salary. Currently, there are more than 600 registered agents in the NBA, and there are NBA players, but there are only about 100 people, of which the annual income exceeds 10,000 US dollars, less than 70 people. Many agents just make money for meals and have to work part-time on other jobs. Many players who are signed in the agent industry are not selected.
As the saying goes, "Diet to be in the water and die of thirst". Jordan's agent David Falcao has not received much salary, but he has to take more than 10 million US dollars from Jordan's sneakers every year. Henry Thomas is also doing well, but his income last season was only about 200,000 US dollars, which is not poor, but he is not very rich. He is already in his 40s. If he doesn't fight, he has to admit that he is mediocre.
Currently, the NBA salary market is in an upcoming stage of explosion. Henry Thomas is extremely optimistic about Zhang Hao's prospects, coupled with Zhang Hao's potential in terms of commercial value... It's worth a try!
After listening to Henry Thomas' self-promotion, Zhang Hao pondered for a while, and had an idea, and replied: "Mr. Thomas, you have a good vision and I really want to cooperate with you.
But I want to change the way. If you want to open your own brokerage company, it is better for us to open a brokerage company together..."
Chapter completed!