I would prefer to watch the offseason NBA over the official game.
Endless lineup reverie, endless deals and signings, proper court drama.
Exciting, good looking.
Players need to focus on individual training and the field, and don't know or have as much energy to sit at the negotiating table and negotiate contract details with the savvy team management.
Therefore, in the professional league, the role of the agent is indispensable. How to choose a reliable broker, this is learning, but also luck.
If the agent's operation is questionable and does not achieve the desired effect, then the recent contract extension between Zhou Qi and the Xinjiang men's basketball team is the best example.
Today in the NBA, there was another single agent-related news, flanked by Knicks center Noel and well-known agent Rich Paul.
Rich Paul is a close friend of James, and through James's influence, he has gradually grown into a well-known agent in the NBA, and has many big-name stars.
The more stars he has, the more weight Rich Paul has at the negotiating table.
The reason is very simple: I have so many stars, the team wants to bring in one of them, it has to have a good relationship with my Rich Paul, I want to recommend some not so good players, the team side to accept, as a big star to join the head.
In the jianghu, Richie Paul really became friends with many stars with "righteousness".
Calling Rich Paul a "American Sui Ran" is also quite worthy of his style of doing things.
Today Rich Paul suddenly rolled over, and his former client Noel began to sue him, believing that he was not careful enough about the client's brokerage work, making the client less money.
In the well-known basketball game 2K series, Noel can be said to be a "god general", because his arm span is long, the cap value is very high, and the game is a very useful character.
However, in real life, limited by height, injury and physical strength, Noel's performance can only be said to be average.
Such a player can actually get a big contract through the smart operation of the agent.
For example, taking the initiative to let the wind blow, revealing that there are multiple teams chasing themselves and raising prices with each other to achieve the purpose, which is the basic operation of the agent.
However, Noel believes that Rich Paul is not at all concerned about his own things, and he has "released the cannon" for himself.
Summarizing the situation revealed by Noel, it can be roughly divided into four points:
1, Rich Paul did not give Noel real advice after the opening of the free agent market in the summer of 2018, the latter joined the Thunder because George and Westbrook are recruiting, Rich Paul did not do anything to take a 2% commission;
2. Noel signed a 1+1 base salary contract with the Thunder in the summer of 2018, and did not execute the player option after the end of the 2018-19 season, and as a result, Rich Paul did not make any effort to fight for a big contract in the summer of 2019;
3. Noel later learned that the 76ers had contacted Rich Paul to negotiate a contract, but Rich Paul unilaterally did not reply and ignored the invitations of other teams;
4) In the end, the Knicks contacted Noel to sign a $5 million 1-year contract, and Rich Paul did not play any role. Noel believed that Rich Paul was only focused on serving large customers and did not provide quality services to "small characters" such as Noel, Norris Cole and Shabaz Mohammed, and finally chose to terminate the contract.
It has to be said that Noel has endured a lot of public opinion pressure in recent years.
He accepted only 4.1 million qualification offers from Dallas in 2017, rejecting a four-year, $70 million contract with the same team during the playoffs, seen as a very short-sighted act that endured long-term fan ridicule.
But Noel revealed that it was also what Rich Paul taught him to take a one-year short contract first, seeking a higher contract because "he told me I was a billion dollar sir".
In the end, Rich Paul did not make Noel Mr. Billion dollar, and the latter felt that Rich Paul had made himself lose about $58 million in the last four years.
Rich Paul has not responded at this time.
How this matter is ultimately resolved depends on the follow-up development.
But it has to be said that the players, agents and teams want to "harmonize", which is itself a false proposition, and tearing is daily.
A little "watching", and there are soap operas to chase!