The NBA playoffs in the United States continue to play, the Rockets and Spurs have the fifth round of each other, in the first four rounds, the Rockets are 1-3 behind the Spurs, and each subsequent round is extremely important for the Rockets, and the Spurs can eliminate the Rockets as long as they win one of the next three games.

This round is back in San Antonio, Texas, home of the Spurs.

Huaxia Central TV broadcast the whole game live.

Before the game even started, Spurs fans couldn't wait to start cheering for the team, and the hot dance of the girls before the game brought the atmosphere of the entire stadium.

When the players of both teams came out, the excitement reached a climax.

Today is the home court of the Spurs, and the popular is the Spurs, but for Huaxia Central TV, there is no doubt that the Rockets are more noteworthy, because the Rockets have the No. 1 basketball player in China - Yao Ming.

When the commentator was introducing the two teams, the TV screen of the central TV frequently pointed to the Rockets coach's seat and Yao Ming.

What is clearly visible at this point is that when head coach Van Gundy explains the tactics, the players in a circle are holding a bottle of drink in their hands.

This is rare.

In the NBA arena in the United States, drinking water is provided by the club, and when most of the players just want to drink water, the staff will deliver water.

"It's funny, I don't know what the rockets are going to do!"

The Central TV commentator said.

Not long after, when the camera lens clearly captured the man on the water bottle, the narrator was immediately surprised, "It seems to be a drink produced in China." ”

"What brand? Let's see it a little clearer. ”

With the narrator's words, the camera lens zooms in, and you can clearly see the Chinese 'sheep sheep' and the letters 'YangYang' on it.

"Sheep and sheep? Does Huaxia have this brand? ”

"What kind of drink is this, it seems to be in a glass bottle, it looks a bit high-class......"

The central TV commentator didn't know him at all, he thought about it for a long time and didn't expect that there was a drink produced in China called Yangyang, "I do know that there is a sports city whose name is Yangyang, that is, Yangyang Sports Center, which is in Jiangcheng, but they are sports work, serving training, not manufacturing companies." ”

The pre-match commentators focused on the funny drink issue, and then it was game time and their energy returned to the game.

The Spurs lost the game in the last round, and in the post-game summary, everyone thought that the Rockets played too well, and several players on the Rockets team had red and purple hands, such as MVP McGrady, whose total shooting rate reached 87 percent, a very amazing statistic.

A player can't always have a touch, and a team can't always perform well, so in the face of the fifth round of the game, it is at home, the whole Spurs team is full of confidence.

But Spurs certainly couldn't have imagined that they were facing the same problem again.

As soon as the game opened, the Rockets played a wave of 8-0 mini-climax.

First, Yao Ming started with a hook hand and scored two points, and then McGrady hit two shots, and after the Spurs played a wave of offense in a bit of panic, the Rockets counterattacked, and Alstone received a pass from his teammates and made a layup to complete the fourth goal.

As soon as the game started, the Rockets scored eight points, which was not a good situation.

The Spurs are in a bit of a hurry.

They didn't expect the Rockets to come up and perform so well.

What they didn't expect was that the excellent performance of the Rockets lasted for the whole game, and they seemed to be in good shape for each player, especially the two cores - Yao Ming and McGrady, whose individual ability and cooperation made the Spurs, who have always been solid defensively, have no solution.

Watching the score get bigger and bigger, the Spurs head coach had two consecutive timeouts to no avail.

By the fourth quarter, the two sides had opened up to 18 points, which was even bigger than the previous game.

"How did the Rockets perform so well?"

"It's too fake!"

Many people think it is incredible, the performance of the Huaxia Rockets has been praised by the fans, the Huaxia fans support Yao Ming, supporting Yao Ming is equivalent to supporting the Rockets, and the Rockets' good performance makes the fans very happy.

Spurs fans, of course, are upset.

They weren't happy with the team's performance, but they had to admit that the Rockets were doing quite well.

The performance of the Rockets in this game was surprising, and the Spurs once again played a 'powerless', and the Rockets, who were supposed to be out of the playoffs, immediately attracted a lot of attention.

So it was easy for the media to find out that the Rockets had changed their game drink.

The NBA league has many sponsors, including beverage brands, and the main beverage sponsorship comes from Gatorade.

Gatorade was originally invented in 1965 by researchers at Florida State University to help players on the Florida Gators soccer team not get dehydrated when playing in swampy and hot fields. That season, Gators maintained an all-win record and earned the nickname "Second Half Team" because he always overtook his opponents in the second half of the game.

In 1983, the Quaker Oatmeal Company acquired the Stokely-Van-Camp Company, which included the Gatorade brand.

In 2001, PepsiCo acquired the Quaker Oatmeal Company, which also included the Gatorade brand.

The Gatorade brand sponsors the NBA league for a small amount of money, with only occasional Gatorade ads, but teams use Gatorade beverages by default, and based on more than 40 years of scientific research, Gatorade's "thirst-quenching" function and improved performance benefits are scientifically tested compared to other sports drinks.

Another brand is ADD sports drinks.

Gatorade is just the lowest, most common brand, and ADD is loved by the big stars in the NBA, and although a bottle sells for more than $50, there are still many stars who like ADD.

In the past, many NBA teams, including the Houston Rockets, were a mix of ADD and Gatorade, Gatorade was provided by the club, and ADD was purchased by the players themselves, but to put it bluntly, it was just drinking water to quench thirst, and every few players would care, even if they used ADD, it was just to prevent it from being in the seats.

The Rockets are different in the game, and the players each have a bottle of 'YangYang', which completely subverts the previous habits and will naturally be noticed by the media.

Immediately after the game, there were American media who looked up the 'YangYang' brand.

But they soon found out: they couldn't find it at all!

The next day, it was the customs staff who broke the news that the Houston Rockets had ordered ten boxes of 'YangYang' in Huaxia, and because it was not officially sold in the U.S. market, the drink was charged a symbolic tariff of five percent after passing the test.

‘YangYang’？

Beverages produced in Huaxia?

It's the first time Americans have heard that an American team will drink drinks produced in China, which is a bit strange to think about.

Also, is this a drink brought to the United States from Huaxia?

How expensive is that!

When many media talk about this issue, they call it unimaginable, such as drinks and food, even if they are labeled abroad, will be produced locally, because drinks and foods are relatively cheap, and shipping costs a lot of money alone.

For example, 'Double Coke'.

Of course, they are all American brands, but the 'double cola' that you buy on weekdays will definitely be produced domestically, or even around.

A company that did not invest in the United States to build a factory actually brought the drink to the United States through consignment for the Houston Rockets stars to drink, which is unbelievable no matter how you look at it.

That's what the British media see too.

On the same day, Chelsea played in the quarter-finals of the English FA Cup against Blackburn Rovers, who were away from home but did well to beat them 4-0.

Drinking water for Chelsea players during the match was also noted.

A Chinese brand?

Many media and fans can't imagine that after the game, the British media were analyzing the beverage problem, and then found out that it was consigned from a plane, and the tax was paid normally at the time of customs, and the British customs officers only symbolically collected the duty according to the minimum rate of beverages and food.

Then the British media lamented: why did Chelsea FC buy drinks produced in China through consignment 'so complicated'?

Two days later, the American media and the British media all got the answer: the company that produces the beverage is the beverage and food company under the Huaxia Yangyang Group, which is the first batch of products, and the consignment fee is from Huaxia, and the consignment fee has reached almost 30% of the price of the drink, but some insiders broke the news that the price of the drink has reached as much as twice that of the ADD sports drink, and due to the high price of the beverage, the beverage and food company still has a lot of profits.

The Houston Rockets were purchased out of a 'friendly' relationship.

It's the same with Chelsea.

Next, some European media found that Real Madrid's players also began to drink 'YangYang', they not only drank it in the game, the famous star Ramos also showed the media reporters his recent favorite 'refreshing drink' in an interview, "This is produced in China, the appetite is very unique, I like it very much." ”

Some Spanish media photographed other Real Madrid players quoting 'YangYang' on a daily basis, and while they gossiped about it, they were also very interested in 'YangYang' drinks, but unfortunately, no matter how they looked for information, they couldn't find anything about 'YangYang'.

The report of "As" newspaper is very 'hateful to the rich', and the text exudes a sour taste, "This may be a special drink for the stars, as long as they can drink it, ordinary people are willing to spend money to taste it, but they can't buy it at all." ”

What "As" did not expect was that this report was instead sought after by the wealthy people in Spain.

There are many channels of news for the rich.

They soon learned that 'YangYang' was produced by a beverage company in Zhengyang, Huaxia, and the price was relatively high, because there were no factories in other regions, they could only buy it through direct mail from overseas, and the weight of the drink could be imagined how expensive it was, and the price was quite amazing, equivalent to 100 euros per bottle......