New Balance Returns To Basketball Circle, Signing The First "Intern"

This is the new office of Darius Bazley in New Balance company: in the cupboard there are retro boots of James Voci's (James Worthy) in the cupboard, and the seat on the back of the window is carrying an English Premier Dario Basili's Jersey on the back of the Liverpool seat.

Compared with other interns of New Balance, Basili, 18, will earn a much higher salary than others. New Balance promises to pay Basili $1 million.

To be more precise, this internship is signed by New Balance and Basili.

Within the sponsorship contract.

If he will succeed in entering NBA in the future, he will receive up to $14 million in sponsorship from the contract.

This summer, Basili, who just graduated from high school, was admitted by Syracuse University, a famous basketball school in the United States.

In August 30th, ESPN conducted a computer simulation draft. According to the result of ESPN, Basili will be selected in the first twenty-sixth rounds of the NBA draft in 2019.

The tall 206cm, 95kg weight guard originally planned to represent NCAA at Syracuse University, and took part in the NBA draft in the summer of 2019. This is the way many American college students choose.

However, Rich Paul's career plan changed completely after signing Rich Paul.

(Ricci Paul's surrogate athletes include Lebron James, John Wall, Ben Simons, etc.)

Rich Paul revealed last week that he has helped Basili sign a sponsorship contract with sports equipment brand New Balance for many years, including a three month internship from New Balance in January 2019.

This means that Basili will not play the Syracuse University's NCAA match this season.

"The sincerity of New Balance touched me."

Basili is accepting "

"The interview said.

In October 19th, NBA made a reform of the league's Development Alliance: the development alliance will provide a $125 thousand "Select Contract" for elite players who have reached the age of 18 but have not yet reached the age of the draft.

That is to say, elite high school players can choose to play directly into the NBA Development Alliance after graduating from high school and wait until the conditions of NBA draft are satisfied.

But Basili and Rich Paul both think it is not a good choice to play league at the moment.

Although the development alliance may increase the exposure rate in the eyes of NBA team coaches, Rich Paul said: "no development alliance can really miss some opportunities.

But with respect to the genius of bath, no matter what he has done in the year, he will eventually enter NBA.

"Don't forget that many people in the Development League are fighting for a NBA's formal contract."

Rich Paul said, "the development alliance may be good for some people, but not for Basili."

Besides entering NCAA and Development League, after graduating from high school players, they can go overseas to play ball games or conduct private training, waiting for the arrival of NBA draft.

For example, New York Nicks guard Emanuel Mudie (Emmanuel Mudiay) played a role in the 2014 CBA Guangdong Hongyuan team and took part in the NBA draft in 2015. Utah Jazz guard Dante Aksum (Dante Exum) conducted a one year special training with private trainers after graduating from high school.

Basili chose an unprecedented way to spend the day before his NBA draft.

As an intern of New Balance, he has to spend three months learning the basic skills and working methods in the workplace, through the experience of team work in the company, to prepare for the better adaptation to the environment of the NBA team in the future.

Currently, Basili is training in Memphis with Mike Miller, a teaching assistant to the Grizzlies.

He will move to Boston in early January 2019 and formally open his internship at New Balance.

Basili will be in the company's marketing department, digital social media department,

Equipment design departments and sports laboratories and other posts rotation work.

Since James Voci's signature shoes in the 90s of last century, New Balance has not popularized the product of basketball shoes in the market.

However, the return of New Balance basketball shoes business has actually been a harbinger of this summer - Celtic star Gordon Hayward (Gordon Hayward) and Nike Boston.

When the contract expired, there was a news on the Internet that Hayward was going to sign a contract with New Balance, but eventually Hayward chose Anta, a Chinese brand.

This signing with Basili also announced the official return of New Balance's basketball business -- in such a way of "sword taking advantage".

This is a gamble for New Balance.

The last time Basili played a formal match still dates back to April 13th of 2018. At present, he can not participate in the formal competition until the NBA Summer League in 2019. It is not known whether the "window period" of 15 months will affect Basili's draft.

"That's the risk I face.

But I will persist in my approach, even if others will question it, I will succeed eventually. "

Basili is full of confidence.

In October 17th, under the arrangement of Rich Paul, Basili came to Boston Celtics home north garden garden to watch the opening of the 2018-19 season NBA.

One of the 76 players in the visiting Philadelphia team was regarded as Basili's template - Ben Simmons.

"Obviously his body is stronger than me," Basili said after watching Simons. "But I can feel that I am his type of player."

"For basketball kids and their families, they don't seem to have many options.

Although many people dare to challenge the inherent system, there is no real example of success.

And Basili has the chance to be the first successful story.

Rich Paul said.