Live Bar, October 31 -today, two decades ago, Yao Ming ushered in the first NBA show. As the first leading player in NBA international players, he signed a contract with the Rockets for 4 years and 18 million dollars.
TA writer Rhiannon Walker recently wrote a story about Yao Ming’s entry into the NBA, in which there was a saying: “In the year when he (Yao Ming) was selected, china’s new rule is that any Chinese player playing in NBA has to hand over half of his income-including salary and endorsement income-to departments such as China Basketball Association (CBA).”
In fact, at that time, Chinese athletes paid more than Yao Ming’s income. Many of them did not pay all their income, and they needed to pay a certain amount to the institutions that trained them. For example, in 2010, it was reported that Chinese tennis players Li Na, Zheng Jie and others needed to pay 8% of the bonus received from participating in the competition to the network management center according to regulations. However, the network management center said that most people did not pay the money, and they did not require the specific amount hard and hard, and all of them were allowed to fill in by athletes themselves. The commercial development of Chinese track and field athlete Liu Xiang was fully managed by the Chinese track and field association at that time. According to the distribution policy of the State General Administration of Sports, the distribution principle of his advertising income is that athletes account for 50%, coaches take 15%, local sports bureaus that train athletes take 20%, and China Tian Association keeps 15%.
The original idea of the Chinese Basketball Association in Yao Ming’s income was to withdraw 50% per year. However, after being exposed by the media, the “lion opening” of the basketball association caused an uproar. After a series of negotiations, according to media reports, the final amount reached is about 3%-5% of the after-tax. According to this ratio, the Chinese Basketball Association may get 2.1 million-3.5 million yuan from Yao Ming every year. Yao Ming himself also said in his autobiography: “In the end, they only got a small part of my income.”