Honk!

As the Mavericks guard's final long-range three-pointer slipped off the left side of the basket a meter away, the whistle blew for the end of the game.

The score stopped at 112:109, and the players on the Rockets' bench and the team's coach rushed onto the court, and the audience was cheering and celebrating the victory.

"Win!"

"To Venus!"

The players didn't have time to celebrate, and media from all over the world were lining up to interview them.

"Thank you and I hope the next game goes well. After the reporter of the central station found his state in the second half of the interview, Harden, who killed the whole audience, suddenly saw the Black Hole band that was about to leave.

"Cao Wu!" the reporter shouted, and took the camera master to the Black Hole Band.

"Audience friends, this is our old friend, Black Hole Band, can you say hello to the audience?"

Cao Wu staggered half of his body, let all four members of the band stand in the camera, and said with a smile: "Hello viewers and friends of the sports channel, we are the Black Hole Band." ”

simply said hello and showed his face, but the reporter didn't intend to let them go: "Everyone knows that Black Hole's "Believe in Yourself" has been with us for several years with the CBA, and this time I actually saw you on the NBA stage, is it a coincidence?"

Cao Wu reacted, it should have been arranged by Minister Xu, which was really interesting.

"This time we were invited by the club to do a halftime show, and we are also fans of the Rockets, so we are very honored to be here to cheer them on," he said tactfully. Thankfully, we were lucky enough to be able to get the Rockets the final victory, and hopefully they can do it again. ”

Lele stretched out his fist on the side: "Team Rocket, come on!"

Before the reporter could ask a few questions, a staff member suddenly came forward and conveyed to Cao Wu and the others that Leslie Alexander, the owner of the Rockets, was in the VIP suite above at the moment, and he wanted to meet the Black Hole Band.

After saying hello to the reporter, Cao Wu and the others followed the staff to the elevator.

There was no plan to meet the Rocket boss during this trip, and it seems that he had an impromptu idea.

Above the arena, outside the largest VIP suite, the reception staff politely stopped Xiao Guo who came over, and only let Cao Wu and Xiao Zhang and Xiao Cai from the marketing department enter it together.

The floor of the more than 100-square-meter box is covered with soft Persian carpets, and stepping on it is like being in the clouds.

The huge floor-to-ceiling windows can clearly see the slightest detail on the court below, and on the sofa, in addition to the strange Leslie, there is also an acquaintance, Howard, the head of corporate communications at Columbia Records.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Leslie. Hello, Mr. Howard. ”

A bunch of people greeted each other in circles, and they were busy for a long time before they sat down.

"Great gig, can I ask what this song is called?" Leslie was nearly seventy years old and looked like an ordinary old American man.

"It's called The Final Countdown. Cao Wu replied with a smile.

And so it was. Leslie smiled and said, "A very nice song, is the copyright still in your hands?"

Such a direct inquiry made Cao Wu a little surprised, he paused, nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Very well, would you like to be the exclusive band of the Rockets this season?" Seeing Cao Wu's surprise, Leslie shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said, "As you can see, I don't have much left to live, so I prefer to talk directly to the point." ”

Cao Wu and Xiao Zhang exchanged glances, thought for a while, and asked, "What do you mean by exclusive band?"

"I love your songs, and at halftime, obviously the audience liked them too. In that case, why don't we invite you to be the exclusive band of Team Rockets? I want more Rocket fans to hear this song, and if you're lucky, you can even appear with the Rockets at the Finals, think about it!"

There is nothing to think about, the band's original publicity plan was to use the NBA's platform to promote it, which coincides with the band's wishes.

But this is not something that the Black Hole Band needs to worry about, Cao Wu looked at Howard and said to Leslie, "Interesting suggestion, I think Mr. Howard will help us deal with this." ”

"Of course. Howard nodded and said, "I will contact your company to discuss the details as soon as possible." ”

"Good, hopefully I'll see you on the court next Monday with the Nets. Leslie stood up slowly, waved his assistant and sent a stack of tickets: "This is the Rockets' package for this season, if you have friends who like basketball, they are welcome to come and watch the game." ”

It's really resolute! No wonder he dared to go bankrupt and buy Team Rocket, this old man is a bit interesting.

calmly took the ticket, and several people got up to say goodbye.

The package ticket for any team in the NBA for the whole season has to be thousands of dollars, not to mention the club package ticket given by Leslie, which is a ticket for a VIP seat.

As it turned out, Mr. Leslie's vision was quite sharp.

The halftime show was so good that Columbia had expected, and on the night of the game, countless people were asking for the names of the Black Hole bands, searching for information about them, and the attention was directly reflected in the album sales.

In just one day, the album directly entered the sales chart, and the single number of views of the song "The Final Countdown" alone exceeded one million.

Howard stayed in Houston, and Columbia sent another team to negotiate with him about Black Hole's own band.

At the same time, dozens of media outlets suddenly contacted Colombia to interview or invite Black Hole to participate in the recording of the program.

Colombia certainly won't refuse, and the Black Hole still has a slot to spare before the next halftime show.

Xiao Cai didn't contact other halftime shows, and if he could sign a full-season halftime show contract with the Rockets, he wouldn't have to compete with other local artists for halftime show opportunities, saving a lot of trouble that might offend people.

The negotiations not only require the Rockets Club and Colombia to be present, but Xinghai also has to send people over.

In this way, the Black Hole Band will have a blank schedule for more than a week, so Cao Wu asked Xiao Zhang to contact Cologne to free up this week and seize the time to continue filming the MV.

There's no problem on Cologne's side, and the two sides make an appointment to meet in Detroit.

According to the shooting plan, this time it was the MV scene of the eighth song of the album.

Colon once said that the first time he heard a sample of the song, he had in mind the deserted and overgrown factories, empty streets and dilapidated homes of the bankrupt downtown Detroit.

In his opinion, this song is the truest psychological portrayal of people under the Great Depression in Detroit.