Chapter 719: A Performance from the Audience

Jiang Fengjin is an actor who graduated from the Performance Department of Shencheng Drama Academy, at the age of 27, and was the senior brother of Da Xiao Yao's sixth class.

Although after the list of the Masters of Basketball was announced, many netizens on the Internet in Huaxia joked that it was because Xiao Yao did not participate this year that the organizers of the Masters Basketball Tournament would find him to replace Xiao Yao, in fact, it seemed to be true, but Jiang Fengjin didn't seem to mind this, and after seeing Xiao Yao, he still enthusiastically took the initiative to run to the audience to greet Xiao Yao and chat with Xiao Yao for a while.

The three major film and television colleges in Huaxia are an important source of film and television talents for the entertainment industry, although I dare not say that all the talents in the Huaxia film and television circle come from these three schools, but at least they also account for more than half. Over the years, Xiao Yao has met with many brothers and sisters who graduated from the Shenju Performance Department on various occasions, as long as it is not a bad reputation or a special personality that is not compatible after contact, Xiao Yao generally still cares about this incense of the same family.

Whether it is on American soil or in the arena of the Masters Game, Xiao Yao is much more familiar with Jiang Fengjin who came to the United States for the first time to participate in a basketball game, so in the process of chatting with Jiang Fengjin, Xiao Yao was also very enthusiastic to introduce Jiang Fengjin to the playing characteristics of some local American stars who participated in the game last year.

Although it was free time before the warm-up time stipulated in the game, the scene was a little chaotic, but the scene of a number of players wearing team uniforms running to the audience to greet and chat with an audience member still attracted the attention of the audience who arrived in advance and the on-site director.

The on-site director knew that the row behind the bench was the seats of the performers of the Masters' game, the big stars and the families of the players. Several star players in a row went to say hello, and it was obviously not the player's family, but a certain star, so the on-site director asked a camera on the scene to give a close-up of the area, and cut to the big screen on the scene.

The audience who came to watch the Masters game was basically people who were more interested in basketball and entertainment, and most of them also had an impression of last year's Masters game, remembering the Chinese star who won the MVP in last year's Masters and sang a sweet love song at halftime. Seeing Xiao Yao's picture on the big screen above the stadium, many spectators at the scene let out a burst of cheers.

The cheers at the scene alarmed Jiang Fengjin of Xiao Yao, who was chatting. Xiao Yao looked up and found that he appeared on the big screen at the scene, and immediately turned to the side, pulled Jiang Fengjin into the picture, and smiled and waved his hand in the direction of the camera.

Seeing Xiao Yao waving in the direction of the camera, the cheers of the audience were a little louder.

In this year's MLB All-Star Celebrity Game, the live broadcast on Haiyan Video began with the red carpet show. When the reporter of Haiyan Video interviewed Xiao Yao and the band members before, the picture also briefly cut away from the red carpet scene, and the live interview with Xiao Yao and others was live. At this time, the picture of Xiao Yao and Jiang Fengjin appeared on the big screen at the scene, and the live broadcast of Haiyan Video was cut again.

At this time, the live broadcast was not an interview with Xiao Yao and others, and the audio was naturally not the voice of the reporter and Xiao Yao, but the comments of the two Haiyan video commentators on the sidelines.

We saw the pictures of Xiao Yao and Jiang Fengjin on the big screen at the scene, and the audience at the scene let out a burst of cheers. Li Jun smiled, "It seems that Xiao Yao's popularity in the United States is really high!"

"Just now, our beautiful reporter Mia has already interviewed Xiao Yao. Zhang Yuan continued, "We know that although Xiao Yao did not participate as a member of the team this year, he was the guest performer of the halftime this year, so he also appeared in the audience today. ”

"Xiao Yao can make such a big splash when he sits in the audience!" Li Jun said with a smile, "Not only will he appear on the big screen at the scene, but the audience will cheer for him, I really don't know what kind of scene he will be when he performs at halftime." ”

"I heard that he will perform a rock song with the American band "Immortals" this year, and the atmosphere at the scene will definitely be very burning," Zhang Yuandao, "Let's look forward to it together!"

"Lao Li, correct you, it's not Xiao Yao and the "Immortals" band in the United States, but the "Immortals" band, it is said that Xiao Yao is still a member of that band. Li Jun corrected with a smile.

The two on-site commentators sent by Haiyan Video this year are still last year's Li Jun and Zhang Yuan, who were deeply impressed by Xiao Yao's performance in the Masters last year and were more familiar with him.

Zhuo Zhiyuan, who was sitting on the bench of the Western Celebrity Team, looked at the two people on the big screen at the scene and pouted unconsciously.

After showing his face on the big screen, Jiang Fengjin also got up to say goodbye, left the audience, and went to the bench.

It didn't take long for all the players to arrive and everyone was on the pitch to warm up. When warming up, those star players who were full of expressiveness began their own performances, Xiao Yao looked around, and did not find a player who warmed up with the same honest practice of free throws and fixed-point shooting as he did last year.

After the warm-up time, it's time for the opening show. This time, the "Immortals" band was a halftime performer, so the opening performance had nothing to do with Xiao Yao and others, and everyone sat comfortably in the audience to watch the performance of a famous American singer and two American professional basketball cheerleading teams.

After the performances, it was followed by the coaching staff and players of both teams. This year's appearance was the same as the red carpet from the bench to the center of the court, with the coaches and players of the two teams working in pairs, one on one side and one on the other.

Although this appearance ceremony is relatively fixed, due to some changes in the star candidates every year, the atmosphere on the scene is very warm every year, and Xiao Yao and others also watch it with relish.

Both captains were the last of the team to play. After they appeared, the on-site host also conducted some interviews with the two captains about the expected results of the game as usual, and the two captains naturally did not give in to each other.

After the ceremony, all the players from both teams returned to the bench. After two minutes of preparation, the referee team took the game ball onto the field, and the starting players of both teams also came to the field, and the game officially began.

This year's competition is still a mix of two retired male professional players, a current female professional player, and other male and female stars. In the starting lineup, neither coach sent the strongest lineup, but left a professional player on the bench each.

In the opening jumping session, this year, the two teams did not send the shortest player among the starters to jump the ball as they did last year, but chose the two tallest male stars among the non-professional players on the court to jump the ball.

At the beginning of the game, the offensive and defensive speed of both sides played very fast, back and forth was very intense, and both sides had a lot of fast attack opportunities, but because the former professional players were not very active in running, the participation in the fast break was not high, and the other star players lacked a sense of the overall situation and a sense of passing Very good organizers and passers, the scoring rate of both sides was not very high. It wasn't until the second half of the first quarter that the coaches of both sides replaced all three professional players on the court, and the technical and tactical content and scoring rate of this game increased.

However, as an exhibition match, the audience is not most concerned about the technical and tactical level and scoring rate, but the performance of those non-professional players. The stars played hard, the game looked exciting and intense, and the atmosphere on the scene became enthusiastic.

As an audience, Xiao Yao is also very involved in watching it. Whenever there are wonderful shots, passes, and even defenses on the court, Xiao Yao shouts in the audience regardless of his image, and his body language is also very rich. Only in the first quarter of the game, when the live large screen replayed the performance of the audience in the stadium during the pause, Xiao Yao was twice given the picture of Xiao Yao raising his hand and cheering in the audience.

Midway through the second quarter of the game, the Eastern Celebrities led the Western Celebrities by thirteen points. This double-digit point difference is already a big difference in the exhibition game, and the coaches and players of the Western Celebrity Team are a little anxious, which obviously strengthens the enthusiasm of the competition on the court.

During an attack by the Eastern Celebrities, two Western Celebrities players suddenly defended the ball carrier. The ball-holding player of the Eastern Celebrity Team who was caught in the air was in a hurry, jumped up and vigorously passed the basketball to the left side of the court.

The Eastern Celebrity passer was affected by two Western Celebrity players, and it was completely a sensory pass to the basketball, but the direction in which the basketball flew out was more than a meter away from the position of the teammate on the sideline, and the teammate on the left sideline did not catch the pass, and the basketball flew straight outside the sideline.

The Western Celebrity team's half of the first half was where the Eastern Celebrity bench was located. Outside the left sideline of the Eastern Celebrities' offensive direction is the Eastern Celebrities' bench.

The pass was very powerful and very fast, and the downward trend of the basketball after flying off the sideline was not obvious. The basketball flew to the Eastern Celebrity bench beyond the height of the bench seat, and the bench seat on the flight path happened to be empty, so the basketball flew over the Eastern Celebrity bench and flew directly to a female spectator in the back audience.

Sarmeen Smith was startled when he saw a basketball flying towards him very quickly, and subconsciously leaned back, while holding a palm in front of his face and closing his eyes.

However, the basketball did not hit Sarmien's hand or body, but was stopped by a hand that suddenly stretched out next to him. Sarmien opened his eyes and found that it was Xiao Yao who was blocked by her from flying basketball.

No matter how fast the basketball thrown by hand is, it can't be compared to a tennis ball hit with a racket, and the size of the basketball is much larger than that of a tennis ball, for Xiao Yao, it is not much different from receiving a quick pass from a teammate when he is playing on the court. So Xiao Yao didn't hit the basketball out, but caught it directly with his hands.

"Tick!" the referee on the court blew the whistle to signal the basketball to go out of bounds. After indicating the direction of the ball, the referee turned around and waved to Xiao Yao in the audience, meaning to let him throw the basketball back.

Basketball is not like football, there is only one game ball, and it will not be replaced unless there is any accidental damage. Of course, even if there is a football match with multiple match balls, there is a caddie on the sideline holding other balls to replace them, but that is only to save time, and the football spectators who are kicked into the stands by the players cannot be taken away, and must be thrown down to the caddies who come to the sidelines.

However, Xiao Yao did not throw the basketball back into the court directly, but stood up with the basketball in his arms, held the basketball with both hands, jumped up in a standard shooting posture and threw the basketball out.

The basketball thrown by Xiao Yao drew a big parabola in the air, and finally fell into the basket of the Western Celebrity Team's defense.

To tell the truth, Xiao Yao just threw one on a whim, and he didn't expect that this ultra-long-distance shot could be thrown, but his reaction was very fast, and when he saw the shot hit, he immediately raised his hands proudly, made two "four" gestures, and stood in the audience as if he had scored a game and made a celebratory action.

In this year's Masters game, the organizers marked a blue arc as a "four-point line" about one meter outside the top of the three-point arc on both sides of the court, which means that a shot shot behind this arc will be counted as a four-point line. Xiao Yao's shot was separated from the sideline by a whole bench, and the distance of this ultra-long shot was obviously beyond the distance of the four-point line marked on the court, so Xiao Yao made this four-point gesture.

On the big screen and broadcast screen at the scene, the camera flew out of the sideline with the basketball and then cut back to the court, giving the picture of the referee on the court. After the referee waved to the audience after the penalty was played, the camera followed the referee's gaze to the audience. As a result, all the viewers watching the live broadcast of the game in front of the TV and computer saw Xiao Yao standing in the audience and shooting the basketball as clearly as the audience.

When Xiao Yao shoots, the camera lens quickly cuts out a long shot, showing the whole process of the basketball flying out of the audience and falling into the basket. When the basketball falls into the hoop, a half-length close-up of the person in the audience who shot the basket is quickly given.

When the basketball fell into the hoop, there was a huge cheer from the audience. And when Xiao Yao's gesture of holding his hands high and standing in the audience with a triumphant face appeared on the big screen at the scene, the cheers on the scene immediately rose to a higher level.

"Di~" In the cheers of the audience, the referee on the field blew the whistle in his hand again, and then raised his arms and swung in front of him continuously, indicating that the goal was invalid.

A ball thrown by a spectator from the stand, of course, the goal is invalid, and this does not need to be decided by the referee at all. However, in the Masters, it is not only the players who have the desire to perform, but also the referees who are very entertaining. Seeing that the referee was actually making this judgment seriously, the audience burst into laughter again.

Xiao Yao saw the referee's gesture, the smile on his face disappeared, his raised arm was also put down, and he sat back in his seat with a stupid expression.

The coaches and players on the court and on the benches on both sides were also shocked by Xiao Yao's ultra-long-distance shot. When the audience cheered for Xiao Yao's shot, there were also many players who cheered for Xiao Yao and gave him a thumbs up.

After Xiao Yao sat down again, the coaches and substitutes on the bench of the Eastern Celebrity Team even stood up and turned around to pull Xiao Yao, who was sitting behind them, forward. Judging from their actions pointing to the court, it seems that they want Xiao Yao to play as a player.