Atlanta, a big city, people have strong consumption power.

After Phoenix finished the last game before the All-Star Weekend, the next day, on the morning of February 3, Zhang Hao brought Hu Weidong, Kassel, Ben Wallace, Jason Williams, Artest and others to Atlanta and started a business activity.

At present, Hu Weidong, Artest, Jason Williams and others promote the no.24 series.

Zhang Hao and Daben’s sneakers are selling well this year, although other sneaker brands are running XSports, including Nike, which cooperates with XSports.

But it still cannot stop x Sports’ own sneakers from 2002 to 2003 to exceed 100 million.

Although this is the series, the Truth Series, the Big Ben Series, the Silver Horn King Series... and so on, we can ensure that the annual sales exceeds 100 million, this is already an excellent achievement.

After all, in the summer of 2000, x Sports officially launched its first sneakers.

However, even if the annual sales exceed 100 million US dollars, it is difficult to make a profit. The main profit of x Sports now comes from the high-tech insole technology that is always faster than others and the global endorsement fee that Zhang Hao endorses Nike.

Sneaker sales hit a new high, and advertising investment almost used up all profits.

But this is only in Europe and the United States.

In China, we have been profitable for a long time, and we have even started to make profits before we start to launch our own sneakers.

The domestic market is the solid backing of x-Sports for siege cities and villages around the world.

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After the day's business activity ended, when he returned to the hotel, Zhang Hao and others learned about the deal between the Bulls and the Magic.

"The Bulls' management really...has an idea!" Zhang Hao didn't expect the Bulls to solve the problem from this perspective.

Jason Williams responded: "There are many teams who offer Malone, Mavericks, Suns, and Spurs all want Malone, but the Bulls refused. Sure enough, they want to try to ease the conflict and keep this season on."

As Jason Williams said, the Bulls' operations cannot be said to be a solution to the problem. This operation shows that the Bulls do not intend to solve the internal strife of the three superstars.

The conflict between the three is almost irreconcilable, but Malone's contract is about to end this season. Malone still averages 19.6 points, 8 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game this season, attends all 48 games, has strong offense, excellent passing, and online defense...

Zhang Hao said: "It seems that they want to drag this season over, temporarily cover up the conflict, and make another year. In fact, this is the most correct way to do it. Malone is not the future of the Bulls. Now it should make good use of its value rather than a lose-lose situation."

Jason Williams said: "I just didn't expect them to find a breakthrough in this direction. I heard that Bryant's agent recommended Phil Jackson to coach again."

Zhang Hao replied: "Rivers also has his advantages. He is good at dealing with interpersonal relationship issues in the team and is good at empathizing with ideals..."

The NBA has some people with distinct characteristics, including management and coaching staff, the reality of the Pistons' general manager Joe Dumas, the calculating of the Supersonics' general manager Larry Harris, the stinginess of the Rockets and Clippers' boss, the stinky mouth of former Bulls coach Larry Brown, the coffee of Supersonics boss Howard Schultz, the small boss Michael Jordan always follows a Cuban model to help cut cigars... and the ability of former Magic coach Doug Rivers to draw cakes.

These are the characteristics that fans can think of when they mention them.

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The trading curtain before the end of this year's trading day actually opened up from the two head coaches' swaps of bosses, which made people feel very interesting.

Sports should be more serious, but professional sports should not be so serious.

This kind of development is unreasonable, but it makes fans feel comfortable.

Before the All-Star Weekend game started, fans saw various off-court activities of the stars.

For example, the lawsuit between Kobe and Adidas has begun. Adidas sued Kobe for helping competitors to promote their products. Kobe said that he confiscated the endorsement fee and wore whatever he liked. Not only did he wear the No.24 generation, but he would also wear Nike sneakers in the All-Star Game and change a pair of them in each quarter.

It's very chaotic, but Kobe's operation actually attracted a lot of fans.

What happened around Kobe in the past two years has become more and more sexy. Not long ago, I was hit by the big shot and lost 2 million to complete the out-of-court settlement... But the popularity is constantly increasing.

On February 6, the All-Star Weekend officially began.

The rookie competition was very lively. Although they were mixed in the first and second grades, Arenas' personal ability can still beat everything, scoring 36 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals, leading the Western Conference rookie team to defeat the Eastern Conference rookie team 104-97, and won the rookie match MVP that he was worried about last year.

On February 7th, the comprehensive event day.

The Skill Challenge attracted enough attention, but in the first session, there were frequent mistakes... Kidd finally defeated Kassel, who had completed the final in 50 seconds with a time of 41 seconds, and won the first Skill Challenge championship.

In the three-point competition, Peja won the championship this time basically without any suspense. He scored 24 points in the preliminary round, 7 points higher than the second place, and easily won the championship in the finals with 19 points.

In the slam dunk contest, Jason Richardson relied on the slam dunk that paid tribute to the essence of human movies to complete the title of the slam dunk contest.

But Dominic Wilkins, a judging member of the Eagles, did not give too high scores, but just kept laughing.

In 2000, gods and immortals fought.

In 2001, the light faded.

2002, no sight.

Now, there are calls for the league to cancel the dunk contest...

To be more extreme, the league canceled the overall event day directly.

The three-point competition and the dunk competition were both destroyed by Zhang Hao. The newly added skills challenge was not very good. The new game was not really used yet, and the fans' viewing experience was average.

After the comprehensive event day ended, several media called Zhang Hao, asking for advice on how to solve the crisis of the comprehensive event day. Zhang Hao hung up the phone directly afterwards.

On February 8th, the All-Star Weekend Game Day is here.

Today's game was a casual time for Kobe and Duncan, who led the Eastern Army to defeat the Western Army 134-122.

Kobe scored 31 points and 8 assists, Duncan scored 29 points, 12 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks, and the two teamed up to win the 2003 Atlanta All-Star MVP.

Kobe and Duncan partner, which makes people feel that they are so co-star...

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On the All-Star Weekend, nothing special happened to Zhang Hao. He was very busy with work and he rested on the three days of the competition.

This year's Western Conference All-Star head coach is Doug Collins, who basically does whatever he wants.

I didn't do anything. I played for about ten minutes in the All-Star Game and applied for a break.

The main reason is that I really don’t want to play this year’s All-Star Game. The record has been very good this season, but from the perspective of hard work, Zhang Hao feels that it is the hardest year since he joined the Supersonics.

Teammates are better than the 99-00 season, but the biggest problem is not the strength of teammates, but the choice of playing style.

The 99-00 season was the worst year for Zhang Hao's teammates in his career, but that year he could do whatever he wanted and play whatever he wanted. Now it's different. He has to assume the responsibility of the leader. After enjoying the help of his current teammates for three years, he entered his peak period and started to repay the teammates and help his teammates grow. He was still patiently giving the ball rights when his teammates played poorly, and finally he had to get up to lead the team to win...

On the All-Star Weekend, after finishing work, I really want to have a good rest and recharge the second half of the season.

For the Supersonics, the entire All-Star weekend was calm and very calm.

Ginobili participated in the rookie match, Kassel and Parker participated in the skills challenge, Zhang Hao and Ben Wallace participated in the All-Star Game, and there were Supersonic players every day on three game days, which was quite satisfactory.

But on the last day of the All-Star Weekend, the All-Star Game is over, and the big thing is coming...

At 11 pm on February 8, 2003, Yahoo Sports columnist Wokin Navoski broke the news section of Yahoo.com, and the Supersonics and Raptors completed the transaction!

The Supersonics sent Tony Parker, the Pacers protected the draft pick in the top 8 picks in 2004, the first round pick in 2004, and the first three picks in the first round in 2006, and obtained the Raptors' Lamar Odom, and used the remaining space to eat the Raptors veteran center Greg Foster's $3 million contract in the last year.

Three first-round picks, plus a second-year genius point guard with outstanding talent and already began to exchange their talents for strength, and also helped the Raptors reduce their luxury tax and took Greg Foster's contract. The Supersonics did spend a lot of money to get Odom!

However, the transaction completed by the Supersonics and Raptors is only part of the transaction, and this part can be listed separately. It seems to be a separate transaction, but if there are no other transactions that have been negotiated, the transaction cannot be negotiated.

The Raptors don't want Parker, nor do they have so many draft picks.

The premise for reaching a deal is that the Grizzlies and Magic give the Raptors what they want.

After the deal between the Supersonics and Raptors was completed, the Raptors, who had obtained the chips, completed a three-party deal with the Grizzlies and Magic.

In general, the Raptors gave the Supersonics' first round pick to the Magic in 2004, and the Supersonics protected the draft pick to the Grizzlies in the first three picks in 2006.

The Grizzlies gave away talented rookie center Drew Gooden, veteran Wesley Person, second round pick Robert Archibald of the 2006 second round pick, and got the Supersonics' top three picks in 2006. Tony Parker, and with the dividends of multiple rookie contracts, Alvin Williams, whose annual average of 7 million US dollars was not expiring until 2006, was rewarded again and got Gordon Kirisek, the high-quality forward from the Magic.

The Magic sent Gordon Kirisek and took Antonio Davis, whose contract expired in 2006, and won the Grizzlies' talented rookie center Drew Gooden, and the Supersonics' first-round draft pick in 2004.

After the Raptors exchanged Odom for three first-round picks and Parker, they left behind the Pacers' draft picks protected by the first 8 picks in 2004, and the others were traded out.

Not only did the trades go out, but even the players in his team were not left behind, they brought back the second round rookie Robert Archibald, the 15th pick in the first round of 2001 Steven Hunter.

Antonio Davis' five-year, $60 million contract took effect last season, and the player option for the last year of the 2005-06 season has finally been given out!

Alvin Williams was also one of the big contracts signed in 2001.

That summer, the Raptors generously threw out a contract worth $200 million, giving Carter, Antonio Davis, Alvin Williams and Jerome Williams a high salary.

Then, in less than two years, Carter was the only one left in this group of people.

The Raptors took advantage of the Supersonics, Grizzlies and Magic, and gave away all the contracts of Greg Foster, Alvin Williams and Antonio Davis, a total of $22 million, and only got a contract of less than $2 million in salary. The Raptors' original $65 million salary this season has dropped sharply to more than $44 million!

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‘It seems that the impact of luxury tax on small-scale teams is too underestimated. Those small-scale teams that promote luxury tax are regretful now, which makes it easier to widen the gap in strength…’

Zhang Hao knew there would definitely be a deal when the team had a deal.

And before the transaction happened, Zhang Hao got news from the team.

In the end, the team decided to send Parker away and leave Kirilenko.

Judging from the current team structure, it is definitely better to stay Parker than to stay Kirilenko.

Zhang Hao didn't care about what the team decided on whom to stay or stay, but knew that if there was a suitable trading partner, the chips would definitely be one of them.

Of course, if you can get a very strong inside substitute or a very strong forward guard swinger, Ginobili and Chandler can also be used as bargaining chips.

Players with trading value, except Kassel, Zhang Hao, Artest, and Ben Wallace cannot move. They are core members and everyone else can put them on the shelves.

As for the team's final choice to stay, which would make the team's frontcourt bloated, Zhang Hao felt...

'Maybe Kirilianko said he wanted to stay and was willing to play as a substitute.'
To be continued...