Chapter 337: Feelings, Dreams, Reality
Atlanta, April 2, 2007.
After a year, Yass is here again as an NCAA related person.
He is now not only an NBA superSonics player in American basketball, but also the official face of the NCAA's 70th anniversary.
Atlanta is a city with a very NCAA vibe.
Last year, Atlanta hosted the NCAA Championship Division Finals, the Elite 16 and Sweet 8.
This year, Atlanta is hosting the final stage of the NCAA Championship Tournament.
This year's NCAA Final Four and Finals were held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
During the week of the NCAA finals, the entire city of Atlanta sat on a carnival car.
This year's final four teams are the University of Florida, Ohio State University, UCLA, and Georgetown University, which eliminated the University of Washington.
The University of Florida defeated UCLA and Ohio State defeated Georgetown University, and the two teams met in the finals.
Both teams in this year's NCAA Finals, the University of Florida and Ohio State, have many Yees acquaintances.
Noah of the University of Florida and Oden Conley of Ohio State sent Yees an invitation as soon as they reached the finals.
But this time Yes came to see the NCAA finals, and it was definitely not just because of Oden Conlinoah.
This can be seen from Yes's current official status in the NCAA.
Also inviting Yes was NCAA officials.
It was still a surprise to receive such a formal invitation from the NCAA official.
NCAA tickets are hard to get.
If he really wants to sell all the tickets behind the team's bench that the NCAA official gave him, he can sell hundreds of thousands of dollars.
What surprised Yes was not so much about money, but about attitude.
It's official, it's a ticket, and then there's a bunch of co-op plans.
When did the NCAA have such a close relationship with an NBA player before?
Aren't they all disliked and cut in general?
However, after a little surprise, Ye Si can understand.
The rise of the NBA this year has been phenomenal.
David Stern's operations in the NBA put a lot of pressure on the NCAA.
It's not once or twice that David Stern wants to make a move against the NCAA.
At the beginning, he played the Hornets in North Carolina, the NCAA base camp, and then cooperated with Jordan in North Carolina to play the Bobcats, but he didn't have any good intentions.
It's just that the effect is very average regardless of whether it is a wasp or a bobcat.
The NBA and NCAA audiences don't overlap that much.
The NCAA has never been worried about David Stern's gouging before.
In terms of the overlap of NBA and NCAA audiences, even in the Jordan era, it is not that high.
But this year is different.
The fact that he can have such high ratings in every game in the NBA is due to the NCAA audience!
After Magic, he was the first superstar to have such a huge impact in both the NCAA and the NBA.
And the magician is very different from him.
Although Magic FMVP in his rookie season, to be honest, Magic's first season was definitely not as attractive as him.
Most of the NCAA viewers didn't follow the Magic into NBA viewers, and after sending the Magic away, they turned back to the NCAA.
The magician did not make a real debut to the top.
The real debut is the peak, and the first minute of the debut in the NBA game is the peak!
What the magician didn't do, he did.
From the first minute of the NBA's first game against the Trail Blazers, the first second, in the eyes of others, he was at the top.
This is his real debut, which is the pinnacle!
Debut is a supergiant!
Therefore, the first game he played in the NBA attracted and retained those NCAA fans who were supposed to see him off!
"As long as Hurricane Garfield continues to blow for one day, I won't take my eyes off him!"
That's what a lot of the NCAA audience thinks right now.
A lot of NCAA viewers are curious to see where Hurricane Garfield, which they've watched for a year, end up blowing.
It's scary for these NCAA viewers to think like this!
There is overlap between NBA games and NCAA games.
There is also a habitual problem with watching games.
As many NCAA viewers get used to watching NBA games, will their attitudes towards NCAA games change?
The NBA has better players and a better viewing experience.
The NCAA doesn't have any advantage over the NBA in terms of competition.
The NCAA's greatest strength is actually feelings.
David Stern has been digging into the NCAA audience, but the NCAA officials have never been worried.
It's because of feelings!
Feelings are the biggest weapon of the NCAA!
But now, the biggest sentiment in American basketball is in the NBA!
In the past, as long as the average NCAA player entered the NBA, the NCAA would take the initiative to cut the player.
The NCAA doesn't need these commercial and copper odors.
Maintain the purity of the NCAA.
Generally speaking, stars who have made a name for themselves in the NBA will come back and lick the NCAA in a different way.
And the NCAA is often a copy of the goddess is very pure and ignores it.
Don't think you want to write a name on me just because you have a few stinky money!
As for whether the NCAA is really pure, only they know.
But it was a success!
Compared with the NBA, the NCAA is a pure goddess.
The NCAA has also succeeded in creating a feeling that I am more noble than the NBA.
Pure basketball, pure blood, pure dreams.
This was also the biggest emotion before the NCAA.
But these are now available in the NBA!
And it's purer, more passionate, more dreamy, and even more beautiful!
Can these pure basketballs in the NCAA compare to Yes's fairy tale basketball?!
Watching the NBA's commercial games before might indeed be said Low by noble NCAA fans.
But now, who would dare to spray like that?
Even the NCAA's die-hard alma mater fans who have never watched the NBA don't dare to say that now.
The NCAA has a lot of die-hard alma mater fans, and there are a lot of these fans, and they watch the NCAA just to support their alma mater.
But relatively speaking, the number is still too small.
Most of them are neutral fans who follow the trend.
In the past, the NCAA's attitude towards NBA stars was cut and aimed at neutral fans who followed suit.
But now, I don't dare to cut it at all!
Even Yes, who is now the most commercial player in American basketball, does not dare to cut it.
Not only did he not dare to cut, but he also had to advertise yes everywhere that fairy tale basketball belongs to the NCAA!
The fairy tale of Hurricane Garfield also began in the NCAA.
In addition to snatching his belonging, the NCAA is also ready to play a bigger wave on feelings.
Prepare to emulate the NBA's 50th anniversary, make an NCAA 70th anniversary, and prepare to select the NCAA's top 70 superstars at the jubilee.
In two years, the NCAA will be 70 years old.
This NCAA spokesperson on Yes is the spokesperson of this aspect.
The NCAA, which has always flaunted feelings and dreams, chose reality after feeling the breath of danger coming.
To the NCAA spokesperson, Yes is still willing.
No money, no salary.
But with tickets to give, it's important.
In the future, he doesn't have to worry about watching the NCAA finals.
Not only don't you have to worry, but his teammates and friends don't have to worry either.
There may not be many good locations, but the average location is basically full.
This year's Georgia Dome can accommodate more than 71,000 spectators.
More than 71,000 spectators is more than 71,000 tickets.
After coming to Atlanta with the superSonics, the other superSonics players were disbanded.
David Lee went to his fellow students at his alma mater, the University of Florida.
Rondo, Milicic and they went to feel the carnival atmosphere of the NCAA finals.
Now Atlanta is a sea of revelry.
But in such a carnival atmosphere, some people are licking their wounds sadly.
"Yes, Aaron has been sitting there all day."
At the hotel where UCLA was staying, Ye Si came here, and the UCLA players were surprised and moved.
Now the whole world is waiting for the coronation of Auden the Great.
Even the University of Florida, which defeated them, was only a supporting role for the Great.
What's more, a failed dreamer like UCLA who chases his dreams and fails?
Except for comforting each other, no one will really care about what they have sacrificed for this dream.
Jordan Famar sighed inwardly.
For the sake of this year's NCAA championship, for the sake of feelings and dreams, Aaron gave up the chance to enter the lottery last year, and he also gave up the chance to reach the first round last year.
But in the end, it still failed.
"Aaron wants to play for another year, but ......"
looked at Aaron Afflaro, who was sitting there in a daze not far away, and Westbrook, a turtle boy who was standing beside Afraro and accompanying him in a daze.
Yese was not surprised.
Since Afflaro is willing to give up the chance of last year's lotto, it is naturally impossible to give up easily.
But......
Last year's Afflalo's draft projections were in the top 10.
This year, it has fallen to about 20 places.
How much will it be next year?
Last year, Afflaro was a sophomore and led the team to the semi-finals, which was amazing.
This year, Afflaro is already a junior and a semi-finalist, with good results, but no improvement.
For these young players who want to participate in the draft, they are most afraid of being labeled as not improving.
This represents a loss of potential!
Let alone......
Jordan Famar can accompany Afflaro to pursue his dream for a year and feel for a year, which is already very good.
Jordan Famar had a first-round market last year, and this year it is already at the end of the first round and the beginning of the second round.
Feelings, dreams, realities......
When these three begin to conflict, it is the most painful time.
βYesοΌβ
Aflaro, who was pushed by Westbrook, saw that Yes had already stood beside him, and his already painful eyes lit up.
But soon, I don't know if I thought of something, and looked at Ye Si vigilantly.
"Yes, you're here to persuade me too?!"
This idiot!
What does it matter to me what happens to you in the future?
I'm going to come here to persuade you to participate in the draft or to keep chasing your dreams?!
"Here's for you"
"What is this?"
NCAA Finals Tickets?
Yes came to me to deliver me tickets to the finals?
"Yes, I have this, no ......"
"Remember to give me back."
Avlalo was interrupted by Yass before he could finish speaking.
Looking at Yes who waved his hand away.
I looked at the stunned master next to me again.
Westbrook looked puzzled.
The master will be fine, right?
Westbrook was worried.
"Master?"
Russell...... What would you do if you didn't feel good and couldn't shoot? β
"Keep casting, the master taught me."
"Yes, keep casting!"
"The next goal, it will definitely go in!"
Dreams, feelings, reality?
Ye Si looked back at the hotel behind him, turned and left......