Chapter 148: Once Upon a Time in America (3)

Fifteen days later, the five largest media outlets in the United States all made headlines on their front pages. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Oak Hill's series of challenges to the national high school basketball team officially ended in half a month.

Oak Hill High School fought 15 games without losing a single game, winning by an average of 31 points per game and successfully defending a massive $3 million prize pool.

As soon as this news was published, public opinion was in an uproar. For a time, people all over the United States were talking about Oak Hill and talking about the fifteen challenges.

Various reports about Oak Hill and the fifteen challenges have been reprinted by various media outlets.

Among them, Fox News focuses on the youth and potential of Oak Hill players, 3 78 players, 3 77 players, 2 76 players, and 4 75 players.

Draghi reported exclusively that three of the teams challenging Oak Hill were suspected of player fraud, using college players to impersonate their own players, and the Draghi report even listed the names of the three teams and the impostor players. Of course, these things will never be admitted.

In addition to the two, other newspapers also gave exclusive reports on this from their own perspectives.

On August 18, Long Zheng published another news in the newspaper that he personally set up the "Oak Hill Hope Fund" with a total of 32 million and 8 million US dollars in broadcast fees to fully fund Oak Hill students and help them tap their talents in sports, arts, and innovation.

In order to ensure that the fund is used reasonably, the official website of Oak Hill Middle School has set up a special channel for the Hope Fund, and any expenditure must be publicized on the official website before it can be officially disbursed.

The first disbursement of the Oak Hill Hope Fund, amount: $100,000; Purpose: Recruitment of basketball students; Procedure: Oak Hill Middle School recruits basketball students in the United States, from the first year of junior high school to the fourth year of high school students can participate, those who are willing to go to Oak Hill High School in Virginia for a week from August 21 to August 27 to register, head coach Steve Smith, assistant coach Jake and Hope Fund founder Long Zheng, three people form an evaluation team to conduct on-site assessment of applicants.

Students who successfully join through the assessment will be listed as special talents by the "Oak Hill Hope Fund" and receive a special grant of $100,000 per year from the Hope Fund.

As the news spread across the United States, countless basketball teenagers, accompanied by their parents, came to Oak Hill Middle School.

The $100,000 annual grant is a lot of income for any family, and what they value more than the $100,000 grant is the success rate of Oak Hill Middle School. The 12-player basketball team played 15 consecutive games against the nation's top teams, winning by 31 points each.

After all the hype around the series, Americans already know how talented and powerful Oak Hill's players are. In the outside world, many experts have said that as long as they enter the Oak Hill team, they will definitely be able to enter the NBA. In the NBA, the players there are mediocre and can make millions of dollars a year. Countless basketball teenagers came to Oak Hill with such a vision.

The assessment of the assessment team is also very simple, the applicant enters the basketball hall in turn accompanied by his parents, fills out a simple questionnaire, the staff will make a detailed physical examination of the applicant, height, weight, age, lung capacity, etc., and then, enter the interview process, the assessment team will ask the applicant some questions, such as how many years of basketball he has played, the position he has played on the court, what achievements he has made in basketball, etc.

Finally, and most importantly, a player of the same age and position on the field is selected from the first team to play a 10-goal bullfight with the applicant.

At the end of the seven-day registration assessment, a total of 189 applicants, only three successfully passed the assessment and successfully joined, but the assessment of Oak Hill was fair, just and transparent, and the parents of the students accompanied the whole process, and those who failed also knew that the problem was their own and that they did not meet the requirements of Oak Hill.

After seven days of recruitment, Long Zheng found three good seedlings, the three who remained. Steve Smith also valued the talent of the trio and gave them the remaining three spots on the first team.

No. 13, Eric Dampier, born in '75, plays as a center forward;

No. 14, Tracy McGrady, born in '79, plays small forward/shooting guard;

No. 15, Ramar Odom, born in '79, plays as a power forward/small forward.

After the three joined, the Oak Hill first team was officially built and the team name was changed to Tyrannosaurus Rex.

After that, the Oak Hill basketball team made it to the top of the charts in Virginia, averaging a net win of 60 points per game. Oak Mountain, which is lonely and seeking defeat, has set his sights on the top ten basketball schools in the United States.

After Christmas '92, the Oak Hill basketball team officially challenged Georgetown University.

In order to attract Georgetown University to come, Long Zheng personally took out a prize money of five million as a bet to decide the winner of the battle, as long as Georgetown University won the game, he could take away the five million prize money.

Sure enough, as soon as the news was announced, countless TV stations came to me, and the No. 1 high school in the United States played against the top ten colleges and universities in the United States, what a gimmick.

In the end, the broadcast fee of the game was sold by Long Zheng for a sky-high price of three million US dollars, and the three TV stations joined forces to obtain the broadcast rights of the game.

Dec. 31 at eight p.m. Countless Americans who spent Christmas watched the game in front of their televisions.

They often see NCAA (American College Basketball League) games, and this is the first time that a high school team has played a college team live on television.