Because of the flowing style of the game and the fighting power of the scoring king level in the heyday, coupled with the long-term partner Yao Ming in the period of slight decline, and the experience of playing in the CBA in the twilight of his career, Tracy McGrady has accumulated a fairly high popularity in China and has become a good memory of youth for many elderly NBA fans.
Like many retired NBA stars, Maddy also started a second life, and will regularly go overseas to participate in events or programs to meet NBA fans and just for dinner. However, because of the epidemic, many retired NBA stars have not been able to go overseas to meet or communicate with fans in the past two years, and there is less information about their recent situation.
What has Maddy been busy with in the last two years?
In this article, the author will sort it out a little and take you to the senior NBA fans who are still interested in him.
During his NBA career, Maddy's cumulative salary was $162 million, plus advertising endorsements and other income, and the cumulative income was $200 million to $300 million. From the perspective of expenses and financial management, Maddy has always been a relatively intelligent NBA star. After retiring, especially in the two years of the epidemic, Maddy began to make serious efforts in commercial actions, frequent actions, and mostly related to the old basketball.
The first thing to mention is that Maddy and his friend Dubrick joined hands to start a business and launched an APP called SOLCial, the positioning of the APP profit is a platform for well-known athletes to auction such as jerseys, sneakers, commemorative jerseys, and special gifts, and the profit model is Maddy's company pumping.
From the current point of view, this APP has just started. In order to support the promotion of the APP, Maddy did not hesitate to score 13 minutes of the year when the Rockets jersey was hung as the treasure of the town store, at the same time he and his friends are busy promoting the app, and successively absorb well-known athletes from all walks of life.
As for the idea of this APP, Maddy said that when he recalled his career, he found that many of the souvenir items at that time were taken away for the agent company to liquidate, and he only got a small part of the return, but he did not know how many knives were slaughtered by the company and the agent behind him, and the value of these goods itself was attached to the experience and story of the players. To borrow Maddy's words, take ten thousand steps back, then it is the predecessors who have been careless and poor, who want to sell their NBA championship rings, and he also hopes that there is a platform that can help them sell a good price.
As a result, Maddy has the idea of making his own platform, and the draw will be an open and transparent number. In addition, due to the background of the NFT auction form in recent years in north America, Maddy plans to introduce token payments to its own platform in the future.
Maddie is more active in recruiting student players than famous athletes. Because the United States recently passed a development regulation that favors student-athletes, the NCAA officials cannot restrict the commercial operations of student-athletes. Moreover, the SOLEcial platform is actually a match for Maddy's other big tea.
Back at the end of last year, Maddy teamed up with nemesis O'Neal Jr. to officially found player agency Seven1 Sports Group and Entertainment. Seven1, referring to 7+1, O'Neill Jr. (Player No. 7) and Maddy (Player No. 1) are strongly combined.
Seeing that in the current NBA league, the degree of agent discourse has reached a historical peak, and even reached the point where many NBA teams can buy people in the future free market, and the salary of players has risen, and the well-known agents in the major NBA, such as James's good brother Paul, make money like a pig cage into the water, Maddy and O'Neill jr. are very moved.
In this company, Maddy plays the role of investor and player advisor, while O'Neal Jr. prefers the contributing party. Because during the period when his retirement disappeared from the public eye, O'Neill Jr. has been studying in the brokerage company, and last year he passed the exam and obtained the broker registration qualification.
Incidentally, O'Neill Jr. and Maddy are both NBA stars who came over from high school players. Now that the roles have changed, standing in the role of guides and drawers, they should have a lot of say and experience in signing young players and playing their behind-the-scenes military on the road of basketball.
In addition to the basketball field, Maddy also entered the catering industry this year, of course, fat wheat itself is also a foodie. In March of this year, he founded HomeCourt, a food and beverage brand based in Florida, USA, positioned as a family-style food stall chain.
From the linkage investment between the SOLID platform and Seven1 brokerage company, it can be seen that Maddy's mind is not simple, and it is not just idle money to play casually. Maddy, who wears a suit to transform the boss, still has the vague and lazy color of the past, but his vision has been revealed, and perhaps he will achieve better results in the business field than the athlete era.