How much does a michael jordan signed basketball cost

Since Nike and Adidas pay great attention to casual clothes and shoes, and basketball players turn out to be a kind of conduit between the worlds of sports and fashion. Below are the athletes in question.

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Michael Jordan - $130 million

Basketball legend Michael Jordan has been with Nike for many years. The sports giant signed him to a five-year contract at the age of 19.84, when Michael Jordan was still a student basketball player at the University of North Carolina. Under his first sponsorship contract, the novice basketball player received $ 500,000 a year. Last fall, he introduced the world's first ever laceless basketball shoe, the Air Jordan XXXIII. They fix the foot with a system of threads that are attached to the sole and tightened from above.

LeBron James (Nike) — $32 million

At the end of 2015, LeBron James signed a lifetime contract with Nike. In an interview with GQ magazine, his business partner Maverick Carter said the deal was worth more than $1 billion. To make $1 billion, LeBron James will have to promote and star in Nike sneakers long after his professional career ends. The first time he signed a contract with Nike for seven years and made $ 9 on it0 million

Kevin Durant (Nike) — $26 million

According to Kevin Durant's business partner Rich Kleiman, Nike sells more KD signature shoes in China than in North America. In 2019, sales of Nike's collaborative sneaker collection grew in double digits, according to data from Cowen & Co.

Stephen Curry (Under Armor) — $20 million

Under Armor signed Stephen Curry in 2013. Then the basketball player became his main ambassador. Billionaire Kevin Plank's company struck a deal with the point guard just in time. At that time, he was not even invited to the NBA All-Star Games. However, since then, he has won the MVP of the NBA regular season twice and the NBA champion three times. Last year, Stephen Curry forced Under Armor to release a women's line of his signature sneakers because a small basketball fan wrote him a letter asking him to do so. In March of this year, the famous NBA player personally presented 9Riley Morrison's first pair of women's Curry 6 sneakers.

Kobe Bryant (Nike) - $16 million

Last weekend NBA fans celebrated the so-called Black Mamba Day. Every year on August 24, basketball fans celebrate Kobe Bryant, as the legendary Black Mamba used to wear the numbers 8 and 24 for the Los Angeles Lakers. Despite the fact that Kobe Bryant ended his professional career three years ago, Nike took part in the honoring of the athlete and released a limited collection of personalized basketball shoes. Kobe Bryant is still idolized in China. His signature sneakers are in great demand there.

James Harden (Adidas) — $14 million

In 2015, James Harden extended his contract with Adidas for 13 years. With all the royalties and bonuses, the Houston Rockets basketball player will earn about $ 200 million on it. This week, the whole world learned what his next signature shoe will look like. During training, he was filmed wearing the new Harden Vol. 4.

Zion Williamson (Jordan) — $13 million

Zion Williamson has not yet made his NBA debut and has not scored a single goal, but he has already become one of the most followed basketball players on Instagram - he has 4.1 million subscribers there. Nike signs Naismith Player of the Year Award winner 2019year among students, offering him a better deal than Adidas and Puma.

Dwyane Wade (Li-Ning) - $12 million

Dwyane Wade signed with Chinese brand Li-Ning in 2012. Early in his career, he collaborated with Converse and Jordan. Last year, ahead of his retirement, the three-time NBA champion signed Li-Ning to a lifetime contract to create the Way of Wade signature shoe.

Russell Westbrook (Jordan) — $12 million

In 2017, the eight-time NBA All-Star extended his contract with the Jordan brand for another 10 years. Last year, he unveiled his first signature shoe, the Why Not Zer0. This summer, the Oklahoma City Thunder traded Russell Westbrook for point guard Chris Paul, who also signed with Jordan.

Kyrie Irving (Nike) — $11 million

Brooklyn Nets' new point guard's signature shoe has been a bestseller for five years now. This summer, Nike partnered with Nickelodeon to create a collection of SpongeBob SquarePants x Kyrie sneakers. Kyrie Irving is a big fan of SpongeBob SquarePants. The color schemes of the collection were inspired by the images of the characters of the cult animated series.

Derrick Rose (Adidas) — $11 million

2011 NBA Regular Season Most Valuable Player started last season well with the Minnesota Timberwolves but missed many games due to injury. Since he tore his cruciate ligament during a Chicago Bulls game in 2012, he has been frequently injured. However, sales of his signature Adidas sneakers have not fallen since the German sportswear and footwear brand signed a new 13-year contract with the point guard in 2012. Under a previous deal, he received $1 million annually from Adidas. Released in January, the D Rose 10 is his tenth signature line.

Giannis Antetokounmpo (Nike) — $10 million

The 2019 NBA MVP began earning a lot more when he signed a new contract with Nike in late 2017. Under his previous contract, he received only $20,000 a year. The first personalized shoes of a basketball player nicknamed "Greek weirdo" were presented in June this year.

Damian Lillard (Adidas) — $10 million

Damian Lillard's signature sneaker, created in collaboration with Adidas, became the most popular shoe last year after sneakers from Nike and Jordan. The Portland Trail Blazers selected point guard in the 2012 draft. Two years later, Adidas signed him to a 10-year sponsorship deal. Over the past four years, he has been named to the 1st or 2nd team of the NBA All-Stars three times.

Clay Thompson (Anta brand) — $9 million

During the 2014-2015 season, the Golden State Warriors shooting guard terminated his contract with Nike in order to make a deal with Chinese company Anta. In 2017, Thompson extended his contract with Anta for another 10 years. The basketball player travels to China every summer as part of a sports brand marketing campaign. The public enjoyed his trips so much that the hashtag #ChinaKlay appeared on social media.

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"He's destroying his own club.

" Why Michael Jordan is such a loser

One of the most obsessive stereotypes about the NBA is that all the obsession with results that propelled Jordan the player to unattainable heights has long been out of character for Jordan the man. “The big cat has played enough,” and as the owner of the NBA club, he is only engaged in golfing, lying in the sun and enjoying the capitalization of the club.

It is this thesis that most often explains the fact that Jordan made his way into the top three worst owners of the NBA and is now in a fierce fight with Vivek Ranadive and James Dolan. In his 14 seasons, Charlotte has gone to 464 wins and 651 losses, made it to the hapless Eastern Conference playoffs only three times, and hasn't won a single series. . At the same time, unlike his direct competitors, Jordan also seems to be indifferent: he never paid a luxury tax, did not arrange a feverish change of managers and coaches, at worst he did not even offer tactics with four defenders and one player under someone else's basket . ..

Jordan bought the club for $180 million in 2010. And he is quite happy that Charlotte is currently valued at $1.5 billion.

And at the same time, Jordan, who regularly slips into insiders, can be called anything, but not indifferent.

Which other owners consistently have the final say in draft picks?

Who else is at war with a former coach through the press after complaints about being fired?

Who else is involved in team training?

Who else had a fight with a close friend because of criticism of the club and club politics?

Who else so actively persuades not only stars, but also any free agents to go to him?

Who else regularly gives advice to the team, for example, to be more critical of each other?

Who else berates judges?

And who else treats the players with cuffs?

#Hornets owner Michael Jordan wasn't too happy with Malik Monk after he ran onto the court before the game was over and got called for a technical 😭😂@WCCBCharlotte pic. twitter.com/575UlSeZNz

— Zach Aldridge (@wzaldridge) December 13, 2018

Success with Charlotte is clearly as important to Jordan as anything that came before. But he doesn't succeed.

Why?

Jordan either trusts the incompetent or does not trust the competent

It is believed that Jordan, of course, understands basketball (at least no one has claimed otherwise), but he does not have enough time to fully immerse himself in business. Therefore, he handed over control to those who are not so much concerned about the result as the very closeness to the body.

For example, former Charlotte Coach Larry Brown put it this way: “A lot of the time you have to deal with the people around Jordan and not with him. They are completely incompetent and do not try to challenge his opinion. There are people around him who don't understand a damn thing . The coach, the general manager and the president must all work together. And here it felt like you were always being spied on and reported to him. ”

Charles Barkley fell out with Jordan because of similar conclusions. “I think that there are no people around him whose opinion he would listen to. When you are famous, it is very important who surrounds you. You pay for everything, and these people always agree with you because they want you to pay more. They want to fly in a private jet, they want to eat expensive steaks, so they don’t tell you anything.”

Charlotte's management (or among Jordan's freelancers) is dominated by his friends. The president of basketball operations in the early years was Rod Higgins, one of the closest people to Jordan, his teammate in Chicago. The second person at the club is manager Curtis Polk, who has worked as an assistant to David Falk, Jordan's agent, since the 80s. The vice-president of the club is Fred Whitfield, who has been friends with Jordan for over 40 years and previously represented his interests in the Jordan Brand.

All of them have been with Jordan since the Washington days.

Jordan himself denied that he was not listening to anyone: “It is absolutely not true. People who say this have never seen our meetings. The idea itself has nothing to do with reality. Curtis has worked with me for over 20 years and has no problem telling me no. Rod has no problem telling me no. Fred has no problem telling me no. And Rich is as sincere and direct as can be."

Rich here is Rich Cho, former general manager of the Hornets. One of those who were supposed to bring innovation, analytics and other technologies to Charlotte that are poorly represented in this circle of friends under 60. But over time, he disappeared along with the rest.

Because he's not hiding: Jordan has had trust issues since his playing career, and whatever his involvement, he leaves the decision to himself anyway .

It's this desire to take the final shot under the siren that leads Jordan to some of the most memorable mistakes he's ever made in running the club.

This is Malik Monk's 2017 draft pick. Head coach Steve Clifford begged the front office to pick Donovan Mitchell.

This is Frank Kaminsky's 2015 draft pick. Boston offered for 9th pick Hornets four picks.

This is Noah Wonle's 2014 draft pick. Chicago gave two picks for the 9th pick of the Hornets (16th and 19th), and Rich Cho insisted that Doug McDermott should be taken (left under 11th after Denver switched with the Bulls), and kept an eye on Rodney Hood.

In all cases, it is known that Jordan ignored the advisers and imposed his own vision.

It can be assumed that all these well-known cases are not exceptional: even people from close circle - emphasizing in every possible way that "he is not a dictator and stands for a healthy discussion" - do not hide the fact that he always has the last word.

Of particular interest here is the story of Adam Morrison's third pick in the 2006 draft.

There is a myth that it was not Jordan who chose him at all. The ceremony took place a few weeks after he purchased a stake and received the position of President of Basketball Operations. Rod Higgins later claimed that general manager Bernie Bickerstaff was still in charge, and Jordan personally could not prepare for the draft in such a short time.

Here are just a few people at once told how Jordan came to such a choice. The sale, of course, was not carried out spontaneously, and all preparations for the draft were made in advance.

"Michael consulted with me a lot in the beginning," said Jim Stack, former assistant general manager Jerry Krause at Chicago. – I remember we discussed Adam Morrison a lot. He was a very talented offensive player. Then, due to diabetes, he started having problems. He was immediately a weak boy, but the NBA schedule finally finished him off. We talked about him with Michael. They spoke frankly. It's just that at that time there was no obvious candidate in the draft. It was a bad draft."

“I said, 'Michael, I think you should take Brandon Roy',” Charles Barkley explained. - And he told me: "We like Adam Morrison." I told him, "Adam Morrison can't play." I told him: can I ask you one thing - were you the first to say the name of Adam Morrison, and the headquarters agreed with you, or did they think of it themselves? He asked, "What do you mean?" I told him: “Michael, no one wants to go against you. You are a very powerful figure, and no one, especially your lackeys, as I call them, will argue with you. “Adam Morrison is a good guy. But he can't play in the NBA."

When Jordan first became an owner, he was expected to learn how to delegate responsibility. But the same distrust of partners, unwillingness to give decisive shots, self-righteousness that let him down at the start of his career, were clearly manifested in the management of the club.

Jordan changes tactics at the wrong time

Running a club in the NBA is pretty easy. You just need to stay in the lower half of the conference until you have a more or less talented young backbone, then pick up moderately expensive veterans to them and hope that you guessed right and you're lucky. This in itself does not guarantee you a title: you can choose three MVPs and still remember Andre Roberson's three-point cramps later. But everyone lives according to this cycle: if you don’t know how to choose, you will be at the bottom a little longer (if you are “Sacramento”, then much longer), after fleeing to Los Angeles as a grown or past peak superstar, you will start again.

Michael Jordan does not want to live by these rules. Although there are only two people working in the NBA who have hacked the matrix.

This is explained by the fact that Charlotte is a unique situation where extremely sensitive fans do not believe in "process".

The Hornets have a really complicated history.

In '99, then-owner of the Hornets George Shinn got into court back when it wasn't fashionable. A lady from Charlotte accused him of having a billionaire put her in his car, forcibly drove her home and forced her to perform oral sex. He somehow fought off the “violence” item, but unauthorized physical contacts were recorded, and his reputation as the most pious person in all of basketball was lost on this.

Fans boycotted the team. And Shinn took and moved the club to New Orleans.

The Hornets are back after just two years. But the vindictiveness of the locals is such that Jordan fails to overcome Shinn's syndrome. The club is one of the worst in terms of attendance in the NBA, but it's not just about the results, the negative aura of professional basketball has not gone away, no matter what efforts the new owner makes in the field of working with the “community”.

“I talked to people and they all asked: How close is Jordan to the city? Did he buy a house there? – said former Hornets coach Sam Vincent. - It seemed to me that Michael's relationship with the fans started off well, but then something deteriorated. In my opinion that he could not get their support then, and still cannot, is due to the problems that were created by the previous management of the club.

It is obvious that this is not the case.

Charlotte made the playoffs immediately after Jordan became majority owner in 2010. But then he realized that to solve big problems, you need to roll back and look for a superstar in the draft, around whom a truly powerful team would be built.

Jordan blew up Larry Brown's team. And he did it not very skillfully: he missed Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton, exchanged the local favorite Gerald Wallace with a scandal, gave a big contract to Tyrus Thomas.

Exactly at this moment, relations with the fans escalated: Charlotte began to lose money annually and curry favor with the audience.

It is precisely because of this that Jordan holds on to half-measures and excludes full-fledged “plums” of the season. If the team has no chance at all, then Charlotte still puffs up, and does not remove from the roster everyone who somehow worsens their position in the draft. If the team has a free payroll and can fill it with unnecessary contracts and take additional assets with them, then Charlotte spends this place on signing some Gordon Hayward. If at least some glimpses are planned, then he immediately lays out a multi-million dollar contract to Batum and jumps into the playoffs. If only Walker looks like a person from the young, and the talent he has gained is clearly not enough to emerge for now, then this does not stop anyone. If it is clear that Walker does not need to be paid and that he should be changed and refused to be restructured, then the club continues to move somewhere by inertia.

The strategy is constantly changing even before the goals set at a particular stage are achieved. Where even the most short-sighted managers move with more or less a wide range (five years of bottoming, ten years of playoffs, and the rest depends on the quality of the players received), Jordan rows like a frog: a couple of years of proud swimming in the eastern swamp, a couple of years of fighting for the eighth place in the East, and again, and again.

Charlotte is the worst team of the 21st century. And at the same time, Jordan really “merged” only once, in 2012, “merged” so that the membranes tore – 7-59.

Just that year, he was terribly, unfairly unlucky: the first pick of the 2012 draft, a draft where there was a 100% superstar, ended up in New Orleans under very suspicious circumstances.

However, otherwise, this impatience, inability to adhere to a clear line, unwillingness to endure criticism leads to the fact that Jordan himself deprives all would-be managers of an invaluable advantage - he takes away such high peaks that would exclude mistakes by themselves. Therefore, in 2012, Charlotte was forced to strain their brains and take risks with Kidd-Gilchrist, the first among equals, in 2013 he received a high pick in a weak draft, and in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018- m and 2019-m chose in the region of the 10th peak.

To ignore the mechanisms by which the entire league lives, you need to either draft well, or masterfully change, or lure transforming superstars around.

Jordan can't do any of the above. And by premature departures from an elementary, understandable course for a child, he deprives himself of even the privileges of an idiot.

But it is clear why this is happening: his policy of appeasement has led to the fact that attendance is still slowly, but increasing, and from season 13/14 Charlotte is in the black. In 2019, the income of the Hornets is 39 million .

Jordan doesn't understand how to draft

Bill Simmons has built a career on ridiculing the number of times the word "potential" appeared in Hubie Brown's draft reviews. Jokes aside, but everyone knows that the most important thing when choosing a young player is the ability to project his development over the years and see how his skills will take root in the basketball of the future.

Well, like everyone else.

Jordan almost always tries to take the safest option - people who have performed at the NCAA level and at least definitely won't fail. Such tactics lead to the fact that Charlotte a priori deprives itself of the opportunity to guess the future star, but it recruits endless role players. That is, he understands the draft exactly as it should not be understood.

Jordan has a clear PTSD. In his first draft, while still the boss of Washington, he proceeded precisely from the notorious “potential” and, under the first pick, chose the schoolboy Kwame Brown, as it turned out a little later, a crooked center with softness in all parts of the body.

Jordan injured Brown by calling him a "notorious fagot" and driving him to tears. But Brown also hurt Jordan - after such an experience, it is difficult to discern the skills of a future star in at least someone.

There was always the utmost caution.

2006 - Adam Morrison, NCAA top scorer.

2008 - DJ Augustine, NCAA Point Guard of the Year, First All-Star Team.

2009 - Gerald Henderson, ACC All-Star Team, NCAA All-Star Team Three.

2011 - Kemba Walker, NCAA Final Four MVP and Champion; and Bismac Biyombo, a defensive superathlete from Europe.

2012 - Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, NCAA Champion, SEC All-Star Team.

2013 - Cody Zeller, NCAA All-Star Second Team.

2014 - Noah Wonle, the best rookie and the third symbolic Big-Ten team.

2015 - Frank Kaminsky, NCAA Player of the Year.

2017 - Malik Monk, NCAA Shooting Guard of the Year, SEC Player of the Year.

2019 - P.J. Washington, SEC All-Star Team, NCAA All-Star Team Three.

It's not that in every draft there were people who were selected below and grew into stars. The principle itself is very transparent here: the main thing is no matter how something happens.

Surprisingly, when Charlotte did hit, then it missed. Shay Gilges-Alexander was drafted by the Hornets and traded for Miles Bridges, Tobias Harris for Corey Maggetti.

In Jordan's 14 years, Charlotte got only one star contender and he wasn't good enough to build an Eastern semi-final contender around him.

You could say the Hornets were unlucky in the draft. And it is true. But just as they did not try to make them lucky, in exactly the same way they did not try to guess the star in those who remained with them. During this time, with the worst chances, Phoenix dragged Devin Booker, Washington - Bradley Beal, Milwaukee - Giannis Antetokounmpo, Portland - Damian Lillard, San Antonio - Kawhi Leonard, Utah - Donovan Mitchell, Miami - Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro, Indiana - Miles Turner, Golden State - Clay Thompson . ..

The Hornets only had Kemba Walker. And that one is an exception.

This season, for the first time, Charlotte did it differently: in the draft, they took not a proven university horse, but an Instagram star balancing between genius and love for horses.

And doesn't understand that assets can't be thrown around

The Hornets' strangest decision in recent years is the Kemba Walker stalemate. The club did not even think about exchanging at least something necessary for at least a nominal star, waited for the summer and then did not offer him the maximum possible contract. As a result, the point guard, who single-handedly personifies almost all the positive associated with Charlotte, left without compensation.

There is a feeling that this is also connected with the complexes of previous years.

When Jordan decided he needed to "leak" and sent Gerald Wallace, the only All-Star player in the club's history, to Portland, he was accused of "betrayal. " The local press executed management for a perfectly logical trade, which resulted in the Hornets receiving two first-round picks (Tobias Harris and Shabazz Napier) and several bodies (Pgibilla, Dante Cunningham, Sean Marks). Stephen Jackson criticized perestroika so loudly that they had to get rid of him as well.

Jordan has a less rich but equally bleak asset history. He became frustrated with Boris Diao even before he defended against LeBron in the finals. He gave Tyson Chandler to Dallas for an empty package that says "Fuck." Just like Walker, he let go of Raymond Felton. I also didn’t think that for the rehabilitation of Jeremy Lamb’s career, the Hornets deserved, well, at least some kind of crappy bun.

Here one can see a phenomenal inability to look two steps ahead. But there is a feeling that after the story with Wallace, Jordan fundamentally does not change the players native to the club, so as not to provoke anyone once again. This is part of the club's rebranding: the return of the name, logo, sting, purple flowers and other things - and also such a reverent attitude towards established players. Even if they stand with one foot on the exit.

Jordan does not create a coherent culture

The most annoying thing is that Charlotte is not a circus.

Here are Jordan's competitors really firing: Sacramento can't figure out how the collective agreement works, New York keeps coming up with new ways to spend a lot of money on unexpected purchases, Detroit is cornering itself with strange maneuvers, and then he looks for a way out, "Phoenix" uses goats at all ...

But everything is harsh in the "Hornets".

Jordan himself sets the working atmosphere - he offers to criticize each other and he obviously does not go into his pocket for words and kicks.

The coaches here are like a selection from the old guard. Larry Brown, Steve Clifford, and even the failed Paul Silas and Mike Dunlap are the standard type of sergeant who beats the crap out of his subordinates.

No signs of obvious decay were noticed: no conflicts between the players, no blues of the stars, no beefs with rappers, no Kardashians. Even Dwight Howard got kicked out after just one season of traditional farting.

All these years about the owner Jordan, from hockey players to former players, speak only enthusiastically.

“He was sitting in the front row and was completely absorbed in the game. ABSORBED! He thrashed the judges non-stop. “Hey you, you were a shitty referee when I was still playing and you still work here!” The referee saw who was talking to him, but did not look back in his direction ... Then we lost four times in a row, Jordan appears at the next training session. I don’t remember what he told us about Chicago, I don’t remember what else he told us. But he ended up like this: "You need to figure everything out, and not force me to fly to you from Florida." MJ lives only for victories” (Jeremy Lin).

“He works very hard to improve the team… He is valuable even to me because he watches every game and is not afraid to tell me where we can improve” (Steve Clifford).

“I've been working for quite some time and I'm good with people. And here's what I'll say: great athletes who have been great leaders win in the end. You can feel a magnetic aura around Jordan. At the same time, everything was very clear in it. Nothing superfluous: you need to work hard, work hard in training, give all the best. Everything is subject to victory ”(George McPhee).

The problem is that a serious attitude, if nothing comes with it, is just a guarantee of dullness.

This is not Miami - there are no physical overloads that reanimate role players' careers. This is not the Spurs - there is no development of young players and a family atmosphere. This is not Orlando, where at least there is enough talent for the same Clifford to pull the team into the playoffs on one drill. And this is not even any outsider of the West, where at least some prospect remains, at least the prospect of escaping to a decent place.

Charlotte brought in James Borrego specifically to fix this. To get a piece of the San Antonio magic.

No result yet.

The atmosphere may be working, but this does not affect the number of victories. And no special unity is visible.

Decent coaches, but the young Hornets don't turn into the ones they see. Although already what happened to Devonte Graham is perceived as a miracle.

Decay is not noticeable, but just as ten years ago the Frenchman Diao grew fat and degraded at Charlotte, so now the Frenchman Batum has grown thin and degraded at Charlotte.

Charlotte's strong point is still to do things the wrong way.

In the penultimate cycle, the Hornets invested in Al Jefferson and Gordon Hayward (who came in the form of Lance Stevenson). They did not wait for Walker to get stronger, and Wonle and PJ Hairstone to even remotely resemble basketball players. The task was set and successfully completed to gain a foothold on the playoff line.

In the previous one, the Hornets believed that if you throw a ton of money at Batum and Marvin Williams, you can build something nice around Walker, Kidd-Gilchrist and Zeller.

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