After trading "Magic," Hansen also imdiately launched the next sumr training camp.
Curry, Harden, Irving, Westbrook, those familiar faces basically all showed up.
For them, the key wasn’t in which location to participate in training, but rather that the training camp had Hansen.
It might sound strange, but the truth was that they had more opportunities to face each other in the training camp than during the season, and their skills improved more rapidly.
Especially when playing against Hansen, they also gained enormous benefits.
Irving was the first to arrive, and he seed incredibly excited, running over to Hansen like a child as soon as he saw him, then giving Hansen a high-five and a shoulder bump with great force.
"I finally understand what you ant by what you said last year!"
Irving was very excited, but Hansen was a bit perplexed.
He had said so many things and could no longer rember what he had said to Irving.
"You said, ’Keep working hard to improve yourself, things might change soday in the future,’" Irving reminded him.
Hansen paused for a second, then couldn’t help but laugh.
At that ti, he was just looking to encourage Irving who seed down, but fate had interpreted it in another way.
However, it seed not incorrect, because the Cavaliers’ destiny was about to change.
This training camp, in addition to old faces, had many newcors.
Klay Thompson, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Wiggins, Zach Raven, Aaron Gordon, Porzingis, Emmanuel Mudiay, Devin Booker, and others.
Among these people were mostly rookies in their first or second year, including so who were still playing in the NCAA.
Including Ding Yanyuhang and Zou Yuchen, who had previously participated in the "East University n’s Basketball Team Fund Program," also ca.
Hansen’s training camp was gradually making a na for itself, and inviting these newcors was also part of UA’s expansion plan.
Previously, their plans to chase after Irving and Harden didn’t go smoothly, with Nike considering Irving as the next core of their brand, and Harden having quite the appetite, so UA turned to bet on other newcors.
Of course, this arrangent was also approved by Hansen.
Passing is a skill that, apart from depending on the passer, also depends on the receiver.
Players with strong abilities can manage to save the ball even if your pass is slightly off.
But for newcors, it places higher demands on the passer.
If your passing isn’t precise enough, or if the timing isn’t right, they won’t be able to catch it.
Halfway through the training camp, the head of UA ca to chat with Hansen and ntioned their betting targets.
They intended to place a heavy bet on Wiggins.
Wiggins was the trading chip the Cavaliers used to get Hansen, and he naturally had a connection to Hansen, plus he took over Hansen’s position on the Grizzlies.
They didn’t expect him to reach Hansen’s level, but if he could make it to the All-Star ga, then UA would have their Third Giant.
Hansen hadn’t paid much attention before, but when the words "Wiggins" and "shoe endorsent contract" were directly linked together, so of his mories were awakened.
Wiggins was a good player but not a good endorser.
He was the type to endorse Adidas and wear Nike, endorse Anta and wear Adidas.
Hansen gave UA’s head two recomndations: Klay Thompson and Antetokounmpo.
Thompson was a rookie of the 2011 draft class, and his four-year rookie shoe contract with Nike would expire next sumr.
As for Antetokounmpo, Nike gave him a first shoe contract that was only worth $100,000 over four years.
Both of them not only would showcase great abilities in the future but were also very suitable as endorsers.
Especially Thompson, he was a model of a responsible endorser.
If UA could secure one or both of them later on, it would be very helpful for expanding their market.
Ti quickly moved on to the end of August, and after lasting a month, Hansen’s training camp also ca to an end.
The effects of this round of "Magic" training were significant, especially in improving the ability to control the ball with fingertips, which already allowed Hansen to perform so showy passes.
Moreover, during this ti, he inexplicably received a wave of hundreds of thousands of negative sentints.
He hadn’t issued any statents recently, hadn’t done anything in public, and even after checking social dia, he didn’t find anyone disparaging him there, which left him sowhat baffled.
It wasn’t until the end of the training camp when he and Curry started their UA China tour and landed to attend a fan et-and-greet, where soone asked about "War Wolf," that he realized the cause.
It turns out that at the end of July, the movie "War Wolf" had set its premiere date for April 2 of the following year and had released its first trailer.
The movie’s director had been filming for a total of seven years with high expectations, and for marketing effects, they had already included him in the trailer.
And that had a direct impact.
In a movie with intensely patriotic thes, there appeared an East University basketball athlete who had yet to compete for the national team—can you bla the situation for being criticized?
And it was just the trailer; if the movie was released later, Hansen feared he would be subject to a torrent of backlash.
Hansen originally just thought he could gain so negative attention due to the controversy of the movie; he hadn’t expected to catch such a big wave.
This ti their tour in Chengdu was well organized, with plans to visit the Panda Base.
For this reason, although the schedule was tight, Ajalee also ca along.
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