Chapter 588

Chapter 588: Super Carrying Capacity.

“Hmm… Hmm… Congratulations then! … Yes, I’m also overjoyed… I will help with the promotion.”

Chen Huan spoke for a bit before he hung up the phone and smiled.

Chen Huan received a call from Watnard when he got off the plane at noon.

Watnard excitedly told Chen Huan that the two million shirts were sold out in 10 hours.

Especially in China, as the 200k t-shirt sold out three hours after the game ended.

If it was counted from when it hit the shelves, then it sold out in an hour.

It was also very popular in Japan and Korea as the 400k shirts in their territories were sold within 3 hours.

Next was the 500k shirts in Europe where it was all taken away before noon.

Then there was the 700k in North America and 200k in South America who got all sold out an hour before noon.

It was especially the case in California, the home of the Lakers as well as the home of Chinese immigrants, there were 100k shirts for sale there but it was sold out at record speed!

The enthusiasm from the fans couldn’t be stopped even if it was limited to two shirts per person in California.

Many parents brought for their children with them as they bought one for them and one for their children.

It was still alright for twelve or thirteen years old as they could wear the small size for 160cm.

However, the seven or eight years old had no choice but to put the shirt under the pants to barely wear them.

The clerk would actually persuade those children that there was no need to buy it now and they could wait for a couple years.

However, children were one of the most stubborn types of people in the world so they would just insist on buying it, especially after seeing that Chinese teenager wear it last night and thinking it was cool.

Just like that, the shirts were all sold out before it arrived for more than a day.

Although the next batch with 3 million shirts were in the process of transportation, it would take at least three or four days before it would arrive in various countries.

China, Japan and Korea didn’t receive any preferential treatment at all as the first place to be distributed was North America and Europe before the rest.

This made many Chen Huan fans mad and went to complain on the official website of Adidas, scolding them of shamelessly making money!

Why was there no home court advantage at all!?

Watnard was feeling the pain and was still very happy.

President Dougen was even happier.

Agreeing for Watnard to sign Chen Huan took risk even though there would be no problem right now but after he ended his career in the NBA next year, it would be easy to find fault in the lifetime contract.

Adidas was still a sports product company even if Chen Huan was one of the best mathematicians in the world. It would be a bit awkward if there was no relation to sport.

Looking at it now, Chen Huan’s ability to promote good was great!

2 million shirts were sold in less than a day and another 5 million were already booked, not mentioned those who called to inquire.

This was just the shops in big cities as Adidas shops in small cities couldn’t receive the goods as the big shops cut them off and stole the goods.

The sales would grow if the goods could make it to the third tier cities.

The Chinese market alone had a demand for more than 2 million shirts.

So Dougen simply ordered the production department in China to increase the order to 10 million shirts more.

It was 20 million shirts now in total.

They would make 1 billion USD in sales if it was all sold out!

This was without mentioning the shirt of Chen Huan proving the Fermat’s Theorem, which would be released soon and Dougen already sent the release number at 3 million shirts.

They planned 1 million shirts at the beginning but it seems now that it wouldn’t be enough.

It was a shame they couldn’t increase more than 3 million shirts otherwise it would lack the specialness.

Of course, the price of it would be more expensive as the special shirts would have some symbol from Fermat’s Theorem and the day of proof at the back of the shirt. The price would go up to 100 dollars.

3 million shirts was 300 million USD in sales.

As a limited edition, it looked like it was too much fan service at the first glance.

However, with Fermat’s Theorem behind it, it definitely wasn’t basketball fans who would buy it but it was still unknown how many young people would buy it.

Actually, Adidas made a survey and one-fifth of the people who bought Chen Huan’s shirt weren’t basketball fans and that number was 50% in China.

This showed the following base Chen Huan had.

Dougen would be pleased and without complaint if they could sell 20 million of the basic model and 3 million limited editions for 1.3 billion USD in sales. Nobody would have anything to say about them signing Chen Huan.

This was also what Watnard thought as he called Chen Huan in a joyous mood.

Chen Huan was on his way to San Francisco when he received the call.

San Francisco was right next to Los Angeles and was also a port city where the Chinese first landed in the US more than 100 years ago so there were many Chinese people here.

The home court of the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco and not some Golden State as Golden State referred to San Francisco.

The distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco was around 600 kilometers.

This kind of travel, even if there was a fly line for it, Chinese people would take the bus or the high speed train.

But Americans were different as they flew everywhere.

They went to the airport in Los Angeles at 10am and arrived at noon in San Francisco. Then they took the bus to the hotel.

The Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Lakers were the symbol of the two cities and even if they were on the same state, it was impossible for people to support the two teams at the same time.

But for Chen Huan, San Francisco was also his home court.

He received the news that more than 10k tickets from the Oracle Arena were bought by Chinese people.

The Chase Center was still under construction so the old Oracle Arena could usually accommodate 20k people with the maximum of 25k.

Now, 40% of the tickets were bought by the Chinese, who were they going to support?

It was no wonder the Lakers team and Little Buss laughed before they departed.

How could they not be happy since the Golden State Warriors were losing half of their home court advantage?