Chapter 13 Once famous, the world knows
"This morning's physical test has ended, everyone needs to leave a specimen, and the drug test results will be announced after the joint training camp is over."
After the staff explained the rules, they walked in front to lead the way, and the rookies followed without saying a word. They had to keep their specimens, otherwise they would have no evidence to prove their innocence when questioned.
And did they take illegal drugs to participate in the physical test, what is there to be afraid of leaving specimens?
After the rookies leave their specimens one by one, they can leave. Today is the first day of the joint training camp, and there are only two contents: physical test and drug test, so there is no need to come back in the afternoon.
Of course, those rookies who don't pay attention can really leave, but in the draft prediction rankings arranged by some media, the top-ranked rookies, or the rookies with more topical topics, can't leave easily.
Because they need to face the media that is already "hungry and thirsty".
These media waited outside the United Center arena early this morning, waiting for training camp to open, waiting to interview talented teenagers who are about to enter the NBA.
Russell's heart finally became happy, this first day's physical test was his weakness, although he had already been mentally prepared, but after it really happened, he found that this feeling was really uncomfortable.
He has always been the object of the camera, and he has been robbed of a lot of attention, making him feel like he has fallen from the top of the mountain to the abyss all at once. With such a big gap, I feel too uncomfortable.
Now there's hope of winning back a city!
Compared with popularity, he deserves to be the first in this year's joint training camp!
And that man with a bouncing body who can only bounce looks so girly, it is better to go to the entertainment industry! Basketball is a man's sport, how far the sissy rolls!
A large group of reporters gathered around Russell, the camera focused on him, and the flash flashed incessantly.
Things really went according to my will!
I'll just say, I didn't get the wrong script when I went out today, I'm the protagonist of the training camp! Those small details and episodes just now, there is no need to care, it's just that I opened it in the wrong way.
Russell cleared his throat, ready to return to the reporter's question. However, in the next moment, his mood immediately turned stinky.
Because he inadvertently glanced at it, he saw that not far from him, there were more reporters surrounding a rookie player, and that player was the Asian "sissy" he hated so much!
Looking at the reporters in front of them, not only are there more people than him, but most of them are beautiful reporters! But what about his side, black black, ugly ugly, and there are few female reporters!
This contrast is too obvious!
Shit!
Damn the sissy!
I know how to show off that little white face!
And those damn reporter bitches, all of them are nymphos!
Russell's heart was full of anger, and he actually pushed the reporter away and drove away. It's useless to call his agent in the back......
Now it's okay, and he can only let his agent make amends to the reporters in a low voice.
Journalists are known as the uncrowned kings and have great power to control public opinion. is like an "official" with two mouths, no matter how you say it, it makes sense. It's too easy for a journalist to want to hack someone. With a few strokes of the pen, you can concoct a lot of black articles.
Russell hasn't participated in the draft yet, and he's not a millionaire in the NBA, so he dares to be so presumptuous! It's just that I didn't pay attention to the reporter at all!
Even the emperor superstar who has been famous in the NBA for a long time needs to be polite to reporters, how old are you a little rookie?
Many reporters have already figured out what the headline is today:
High Ball Quotient, Low Emotional Intelligence? Russell left the scene angrily for what
Narrow-minded! The NCAA's No. 1 guard is unacceptable"
Where does embarrassment come from? America's best college guard was completely blown up! 》
If these news appear on the pages of major media tomorrow, Russell's draft market this year will undoubtedly be a huge blow. The lottery may still be able to hold onto the spot, but it will never be a serious contender for the top three picks.
Fortunately, he signed with an agency, otherwise if no one did public relations for him, these things would definitely happen.
After Russell made a name for himself in the NCAA, many agents approached him to sign the promising talented guard. After much consideration, he chose to sign with CAA.
CAA, or Creative ArtistsAgency (CAA), is the world's No. 1 elite talent agency, representing the most creative and successful artists in film, television, music, theater, sports, video games, the Internet and many other fields, and at the same time, CAA also represents many corporate clients, providing them with strategic marketing services such as entertainment marketing solutions.
CAA was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Los Angeles. Although its main business is mainly in the entertainment industry, the powerful CAA has already penetrated into the sports circle.
CAA's three NBA aces, the Big Three LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade gathered together in the Miami Heat that year, and it cannot be said that there is no CAA shadow behind this.
Russell signed with CAA, also thinking that it would be nice to enjoy the shade under the big tree, and with the big guy behind him, he could also mix in the basketball world.
After CAA signed Russell, they set up a special team for him, responsible for his business promotion, contract endorsements, team signings, and a series of things that have nothing to do with playing, all things that Russell, as a professional basketball player, is not good at.
The agents from CAA, as expected, were not vegetarians, and quickly settled the resentful reporters in their hearts. On the surface, of course, it seems to be settled.
Russell, who is "ignorant", is rude and unreasonable in the face of reporters' interviews, in contrast, Yi Feng on the other side is polite and personable, and can always answer questions fluently, even if it is some sharp questions, he can answer them perfectly.
Compare the two, and make a judgment.
So, when he was in the evening, the news came out.
New Star Shines Chicago! Who is he sacred?"
The American Dream for a New Era
"He is an angel who fell into the world, with a handsomeness and talent that does not belong to humans"
"Suffering makes him strong, and strength polishes his light"
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The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and other influential media outlets in the United States have published reports one after another, although the content is different, but they are all praised.
ESPN, TNT, NBC and other American TV stations got the video of Yi Feng's show before the start of the training camp from the joint training camp, and not only put this video on the official website for people to click and browse, but also inserted it into the TV program.
Now the crazy NCAA season has long since ended, and the NBA playoffs have entered the second round of contention. The fierce playoffs, although exciting, but the best-of-seven system made the schedule long, and the suspense was left in the second half. At the moment, not much of the attention paid to basketball in the United States is in the playoffs.
Like many teams that can't make the playoffs, they're keeping an eye on the upcoming draft. They are extremely concerned about the latest news from some of the rookie players.
So, in such an environment, Yi Feng became famous overnight in the United States.
What is the media reporting on the news pursuing?
They keep the news to the people in a timely manner, and the people have to pay money in order to get the news. Often, the more bizarre and unbelievable the news, the more people love it, and the stronger their desire to buy.
And the media, in order to make money, also prefer to report such news.
Therefore, even if Yi Feng was not popular in the United States and was worthless, even if Russell was already a talented defender in the United States, the media was more willing to report on Yi Feng's amazing performance today.
Not because he has an amazing performance, but because he is a yellow race, as a Chinese, he can actually have such an amazing performance.
In the United States, a country that stresses democracy, a place that strictly opposes racial discrimination, and a place where yellow people have a lower social status than blacks, there is actually a Chinese born out of thin air, overwhelming many geniuses!
Isn't this kind of news very explosive? As a "veteran driver" reporter who has been doing this for a long time, I already know before the news is sent out that this news will definitely be a big hit!
And the fact is exactly as they thought, the newspaper published news about Yi Feng, the newspaper sold well, and the website published news about Yi Feng, and the number of hits skyrocketed. Many of them are IP addresses from Asia, especially from China.
Many netizens in Chinese mainland have had the experience of circumventing the wall.
The so-called circumvention of the wall is to break through the "Great Wall of China" firewall through proxy servers or some software, and then you can log in to foreign websites. The mainland is very strict about the Internet, and many foreign websites are blocked in the mainland.
But it is impossible for thousands of netizens with magical powers to be blocked by such a wall to block their yearning for the outside world. As a result, various circumvention methods came into being.
Occasionally, after a netizen climbed over the wall, they saw the reports of major media in the United States, and then immediately spread the news to the hundreds, and such a news was spread all of a sudden under the conditions of a developed network.
Yi Feng already has a fan base in China, and when the media revealed that he secretly went to the United States to participate in the draft, it also caused an explosion of public opinion. And before the aftermath of this explosion subsided, news of him came from the United States.
It is like the Chinese expeditionary force that traveled thousands of miles to a foreign land, and as soon as it arrived on the battlefield, it made meritorious contributions and achieved a brilliant first victory. How can the Chinese people in the rear not be ecstatic?
The domestic media also reacted quickly, and after getting the news, they reprinted the news reports of their American counterparts one after another.
At this time, the Chinese people really had an in-depth understanding of Yi Feng.
Yi Feng has no father or mother since he was a child, and when he was a few months old, as an abandoned baby, he was picked up by an old hunter in the mountains of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province. The old hunter's name was Yi Jun, who had no children and no daughters, and God had mercy on him, so that when he was old, he picked up a little grandson in the river who obediently slept on a broken wooden plank and drifted with the waves.
Yi Feng, who has been floating in the river for I don't know how long, is also a fortune teller, neither knocked over by the waves, drowned in the river, nor eaten by the big fish in the river.
And that's not all, the real hard days are yet to come.
He lived with his hunter grandfather, and his life was very difficult. With the decline of prey, and later the enactment of animal protection laws, Yi Jun sometimes had to walk deep into the mountains for several days before he could get a harvest. Sometimes I finally got a harvest and was caught by the rangers. Not only did you not earn anything, but you also had to be fined. If it weren't for the fact that it was not easy for people to see Yi Jun, maybe he would have been sent to prison.
Since Yi Feng was three or four years old, he had to follow his grandfather into the mountains to hunt. It is precisely because of this that his physical fitness has been tempered.
Yi Feng and his small tribe have a population of only a few dozen. Originally, the tribe made a living from hunting, but after the state banned hunting, young people went out to roam, and only the old, weak, sick and disabled were left in the tribe, barely making a living by planting some fields.
And Yi Jun has no children and no daughters, and he has grandchildren to raise, so he can't afford to send his grandson to school at all. I can only take risks and continue hunting. It's a pity that misfortune still happened, in the year when Yi Feng was in junior high school, Yi Jun walked into the mountains and never came out again.
By the time Yi Feng returned from the weekend, his grandfather had already been buried.
Since then, Yi Feng has grown up eating hundreds of meals. But everyone in the tribe has a hard time, and sometimes they don't have the next meal. So when he had time, he secretly went into the mountains to hunt to earn some living expenses, and by the way, he also supplemented his nutrition.
His grandfather's hunting skills were all learned by him. Except that his physique is not big enough and his strength is not as strong as that of an adult, he is only less experienced than an old hunter. So he can also gain something from time to time.
Although life was hard, he did not give up his studies. If the tuition fee is not enough, you can earn it yourself, and if you don't earn enough, you can find the villagers in the tribe to make up for it......
In this way, he struggled all the way to college.
As for why he played basketball, that's another story.
When he was in elementary school, he was exposed to basketball by chance, and then fell in love with this orange elf uncontrollably. Relying on his excellent physical fitness, he was unrivaled in elementary school.
After his grandfather died, by chance, he learned that basketball could actually make money - going head-to-head on the field court. So he started practicing desperately.
Later, after he learned that professional basketball players could make a lot of money from basketball, he became even more active in practice. As he practiced, he also found that there were fewer and fewer people who could be his opponents. Walking on the road of basketball, he always feels a kind of loneliness of being alone and seeking defeat.
When Yi Feng was playing at CUBA, a reporter interviewed him, but he did not say his life experience. He doesn't feel that he needs to make up stories without stories like some talent shows, and force them to be miserable. On the contrary, he kept his origins as if he were keeping them a secret.
Therefore, even if he suddenly became popular in China before, people know very little about his life experience. The most I know is about his performance on the pitch.
And now through the American media, the Chinese people have learned about his background. As a result, Yi Feng's life experience suddenly became the focus of attention of the Chinese people, and his wonderful performance in the training camp was not so important.
Out of sympathy for Yi Feng, the Chinese people paid more attention to him. Even if he didn't show his strength in the NBA, he became the brightest star in Chinese basketball.
Unlike Chinese people, Americans do not focus on Yi Feng's life experience. Because of Yi Feng's miserable background, it is very common in the United States to become a football star in the end. Maybe there aren't many people as miserable as him, but that's not the point.
What they care about is, why is a mere yellow person capable of beating the best young people in the United States?
Where does this put the face of the people of the United States?
So, they didn't want to believe that this was true, and the overwhelming doubts poured towards Yi Feng.