【Chapter 1091】 Season Eve (Subscription Requested!)
After the launch of the 'Sunshine Action', the follow-up work was naturally taken over by the 'Ginkgo Foundation', 'Ginkgo Hospital', local governments, major media, etc., although Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao were the main conveners of the foundation, they did not have to worry too much about specific affairs.
In fact, charity activities like 'Sunshine Action' that are on the table and have a lot of media coverage are the easiest to operate, after all, no one will get in the way.
In the next two years, the Ginkgo Foundation will work with the All-China Women's Federation, the Youth Federation, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Red Cross, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other government departments to select eligible children nationwide to receive them in Ginkgo Village for treatment. Of course, if the Ginkgo Foundation can raise more funds for the Sunshine Action, the number of children rescued will increase.
Don't look at the 'Ginkgo Foundation' this time, it raised more than 100 million US dollars in a lump sum, but for the high cost of treatment for thalassemia and leukemia and the large number of children, everything seems to be a drop in the bucket.
In fact, this is also an important reason why Xiao Feng strives to expand the international influence of the 'Ginkgo Foundation', and only by calling for more forces to join can philanthropy do better."
After the first batch of children arrived at Ginkgo Village, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao took the children to visit them at Ginkgo Hospital and gave them gifts and school supplies.
For the children of the Xiao family, wealth is not something they need to worry about, what they need to cultivate from an early age is love and a good attitude of controlling wealth, which Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao have done very well.
In the case of not having to run for a living, only a more calm psychology can make the 'Jinghu Group' and the Xiao family have a longer glory.
The news that Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao visited the children in the hospital was widely reported by the various media who were interviewing, which also made more people pay more attention to the 'Sunshine Operation'. Many of the children's applications for assistance also flew to the 'Ginkgo Foundation' like snowflakes, so that this action has won a wider public base.
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Handle the launch of Operation Sunshine. Xiao Feng's main purpose for returning to China for a vacation this time is to be successfully completed, and then he will fly to Yangcheng to participate in the preseason games of the Lakers and Raptors, and then move to Xiangjiang for the last game of the pre-summer game, Lakers VS Knicks!
This year's China Summer Pre-Tournament has set a new record in terms of scale and host city. More than 200,000 fans watched the NBA teams clash live, while the TV broadcast received more than 5% of the viewership and reached 30% of the market share.
Outside of the Olympics and the World Cup, this is also the highest viewership of sports in China, and the huge and frenetic basketball market not only makes the NBA league ecstatic, but also makes advertisers make a lot of money.
At present, Huaxia already has three NBA stars, Xiao Feng, UAE and Zhou Qi, and the development of the domestic CBA league has also entered a virtuous circle.
The success of basketball has undoubtedly stimulated the football field. During this period, the teams of the Chinese Super League were constantly connecting in series, trying to establish a professional organization similar to the CBA League, and snatching the dominance of the league from the hands of the Chinese Football Association and the Sports Federation, which was surging for a while.
Xiao Feng is not interested in the changes in the domestic experience, although Xiao Ma, Xu Jiayin and others have also communicated with him about the Football Professional League, but he will not come out. At most, when he was talking on the phone with the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of culture, education, and sports, he made some suggestions that sports should be more than a national system. It can also have a market-oriented situation.
However, Brother Xiao Ma and Xu Jiayin just wanted Xiao Feng's words. After all, Xiao Feng has much deeper connections at the top than the two of them, which will also play a decisive role in the establishment of the Huaxia Football Professional League and the dominance of the football league.
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On October 7, the last day of the National Day Golden Week, the Yangcheng Basketball Stadium welcomed the Lakers and the Eastern Conference powerhouse Raptors, which will also be the third NBA preseason game held in this week.
This basketball hall was specially built for the basketball competition of the 2010 Yangcheng Olympic Games. It can be regarded as a first-class basketball hall in China, and it is on a par with the Wukesong Basketball Stadium in Beiping.
In order to make the audience feel like they are in the NBA, the NBA has carried out a comprehensive renovation of the basketball hall two weeks before the game, and decorated it accordingly according to the characteristics of the participating teams.
Like what. The last preseason game held here was the Warriors vs. Thunder, and the main color was the Warriors yellow logo at home, and the next game was the home court of the Heat, and all kinds of Heat logos are everywhere.
Of course, in the publicity of the outer wall, Xiao Feng and other Chinese players are still the focus of the event publicity, after all, for Chinese fans, Xiao Feng and other talents have more intimacy.
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Xiao Feng flew to Yangcheng on the morning of the 7th to join the team, and there was no time for joint training, and it was only a preseason game, and the outcome did not matter.
Before 6 p.m., fans from all over the world had begun to surround the basketball stadium and the nearby Sports Road, with the largest number of fans wearing Xiao Feng's No. 23 jersey, followed by the No. 11 jersey of the United Arab Emirates. After all, the UAE is a basketball superstar who came out of Lingnan, and even when the UAE was worried about the CBA, he still has huge popularity in Lingnan.
As today's home team, the 'Flash' Wade, who is on the verge of retirement, also has many fans, and fans wearing the No. 3 Heat jersey also abound.
Born in 1982, Wade is already a 35-year-old veteran this year, and his work is destined to take a huge toll on his body, and the scars he was covered in in the NBA's 14 years are enough to say it all. Three championships, a scoring champion and a Finals MVP, Wade's achievements in the NBA are enough to induct him into the Hall of Fame after retiring.
Since James left the Heat, the Heat's record has been in decline, and Wade, who has been in a slump due to injuries, is also conservatively criticized. Although the Heat is still Wade's team, everyone knows in their hearts that the Heat can't rely on the aging Wade if they want to rise again.
Due to various factors, Wade finally decided to retire after this season. It means that the 15 years of his career will be spent with the Heat, leaving people with a back worth looking up to!
Perhaps today's preseason game will be Wade's last time playing on the court in Huaxia, so many of his fans have rushed to Yangcheng from thousands of miles away, and the scene is filled with a parting mood.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the game officially began, and Xiao Feng did not maintain normal training in the past few days. Didn't make his debut.
However, under Jeremy Lin's organization, the Lakers' performance is still eye-catching, gradually suppressing the Heat's offense, after all, the Heat, who are in the rebuilding stage, are not strong.
On the other hand, the Lakers, although Xiao Feng did not appear, but Mark, UAE, Zhou Qi and Jeremy Lin are all All-Star stars, and their performance will naturally not be too bad.
By the time Xiao Feng appeared on the court in the second quarter, the entire basketball arena was in a frenzy, and 20,000 players chanted MVP and Xiao Feng's name in unison. Let the rest of the players and the audience in front of the TV feel Xiao Feng's huge popularity in China.
In the end, Xiao Feng, who served as the team's sixth man, still led the team to win the preseason game with the Heat with his excellent performance of a triple-double, and won three consecutive preseason wins.
After the game, the fans at the scene were reluctant to leave, and they kept shouting the names of the players, until Xiao Feng came out with the opponent to bow and take a curtain call, and then they left unsatisfied.
The NBA's top brass saw it. It is also deeply felt that the NBA or the Lakers are hugely popular in China, which also strengthens their confidence in developing the Chinese market in depth.
After all. China's rapidly growing economy and huge population base, the development of the sports industry is promising, basketball is currently a leading opportunity, if the opportunity is missed, it is a pity for the NBA league.
In the past, NBA officials did not have an intuitive understanding of Xiao Feng's huge popularity in Huaxia, but this time, Huaxia's mass production preseason game allowed them to truly see the status of a super idol in Huaxia.
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After taking the Heat lightly, the Lakers had a night's rest in Yangcheng. The next morning, the whole team took a luxury bus to Hong Kong, which is also one of the most convenient modes of transportation between the two places.
The distance between Yangcheng and Xiangjiang is less than 200 kilometers, and if you take the waiting time at the airport and the various expenses to get to the airport, it will become slower.
There is a highway connection from Yangcheng to Xiangjiang, and the Yangcheng police also sent police cars to clear the way for the Lakers' convoy. Therefore, the team arrived in Xiangjiang in less than three hours.
The team stayed at the Peninsula Hotel directly across from Victoria, one of the best five-star hotels in Hong Kong, and with the Lakers' superstars, it wasn't a grievance to stay here.
On October 9, the preseason game between the Lakers and the Knicks officially kicked off at 8 p.m., which was a matchup between the two NBA teams with the highest market value, which not only attracted tens of thousands of fans, but also many entertainment stars from Xiangjiang, Baodao and Huaxia appeared on the court.
Although the Knicks have a poor record over the years, they still have the biggest attention in the NBA and a large number of fans in the Far East. For example, 'Little Melon' Anthony, his super scoring ability and rich offensive means have made him quite popular in China, and when he is often, the roof of the stadium is almost torn off.
Of course, it was Xiao Feng and his teammates who got the most cheers, the defending champion had their own home halo, and all the fans chanted 'MVP' in unison throughout the game, which also made Xiao Feng gradually enter the state of official competition.
In the end, Xiao Feng handed over a quadruple-double of 33 points, 22 assists, 13 rebounds and 10 steals, dominated the whole game, played 40 minutes, and led the team to win bloodlessly.
Looking at Xiao Feng's majestic image, Anthony suddenly felt that his career might continue to be bleak, Rao was getting more salary and advertising revenue in New York, but the distance between him and the O'Brien Cup would be getting farther and farther away!
In fact, not only Anthony, but many top stars in the NBA have the idea of 'both Shengyu and He Shengliang', especially LeBron, who originally expected that Kobe Bryant would become the first person in the league after retiring, but who knew that Xiao Feng's bug flew out of the air?
In five consecutive preseason games, the Lakers defeated their opponents with ease and abnormality, Xiao Feng did not have much difference between the occasion and the absence, and the overall strength of the Lakers team was desperate. Although the teams in the preseason have not yet done their best, the Lakers are also not doing their best, which is a daunting discovery.
Perhaps, after Kobe Bryant's retirement, the Lakers can still maintain their dominance in the NBA!
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All five preseason games are over, and the Lakers' trip to China this year can be regarded as a successful end, through these games and a series of commercial activities, the team's popularity in China has increased to a peak.
Xiao Feng didn't pay much attention to the team's related reports, but when he saw thousands of fans spontaneously feeling that Xiangjiang was seeing off the Lakers, he knew that this trip to China was worth it.
This time, in addition to the Lakers' players, coaches and club staff, Xiao Feng and his family also went out to Los Angeles on the 'Meng Yao'.
The four children who spent a happy holiday in the 'Ginkgo Village' were reluctantly caught on the plane by Xu Mengyao, and they felt that they had not had enough fun.
Several elderly people have also stayed in 'Ginkgo Village' for half a year, so they can take this opportunity to stay in Los Angeles for a while to recuperate.
Because of the large number of people in the plane, everyone did not seem bored during the long flight, especially a few children, which added more joy to the cabin, and the journey time suddenly became very short.
When the 'Meng Yao' landed at Los Angeles International Airport, Xiao Feng stood on the gangway and looked at the blue sky of Los Angeles, smelling the slightly rubbery burnt air, and suddenly had a feeling of being out of the world.
It's been almost three months since I left Los Angeles in June, and a lot has happened in the intervening years, but it's still a bustling and noisy Los Angeles.
When the 'Mengyao' was still flying over the Pacific Ocean, Mark William had already arranged for the staff of the 'Dream Manor' to pick up the plane at the airport through WeChat call.
Because of the special status of Xiao Feng and other Lakers players in Los Angeles, the airport gave the green light to allow the pick-up team to enter the airport smoothly, and Xiao Feng and others were able to leave the airport smoothly, thus avoiding the many media reporters waiting at the airport.
But even so, the media reporters waiting in the "Dream Manor" took photos of Xiao Feng's motorcade returning to the manor, and published a comment on the title of "The Return of the King"!
With less than two weeks to go and the NBA regular season just around the corner, will the Lakers be able to build on their previous two seasons and make it three wins in a row? )
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