Chapter 63: The Attitude of the Other Side of the Ocean

I have to say that Li Shihao's popularity in the NBA is constantly improving, when he first entered this league, he was just a newcomer, and in the face of this new stage, even if he has always been calm, he is a little cramped.

Yellow people play in the world's most virtuous basketball hall, which is undoubtedly a bit eye-catching, just like Yao Ming, the little giant, as the only all-star player in China, is concerned about the joys, sorrows and sorrows of tens of millions of people in every move.

Li Shihao's agent Duffy has also received a lot of endorsement invitations.

When Li Shihao was identified as the core of the team by the Timberwolves, Bill Duffy specially set up a special management team for Li Shihao, which was specially used for packaging and promotion.

Facts have proved that Duffy's original approach was not wrong, Li Shihao adapted to the league very well, three years of college league experience, so that even in the NBA, he can know how to play correctly, and at the same time, good basketball awareness, so that he can more accurately seize the opportunity of the game in the game, which is the most commendable!

Compared with those jumping men with superhuman physical fitness in the league, Li Shihao has nothing more than honed basketball skills, and fans who have watched him play will involuntarily have a thought in their hearts: "This Chinese kid's movements are elegant and standard!" ”

Years of hard work on solid basic skills have made his basketball movements extremely standard, and even the most demanding basketball coaches can't find any thorns.

The Spurs' Popovich has long been concerned about this little-known Chinese rookie, but due to the Spurs' excellent record, they basically fail to have a top draft pick in the annual draft. Yes, Popovich, who was originally quite concerned about Li Shihao, was also a little helpless.

As we all know, Bobo is a coach who focuses on teamwork, and his tactics are bizarre, and he has special effects buffs that turn decay into magic.

If Li Shihao is really selected by the Spurs in the draft, he may not have high commercial value and exposure, but under Popovich's careful tuning, Li Shihao will definitely be able to become a sharp knife for the Spurs on the outside, and it may not be unreal to get a few championship rings in the future.

Now the number of Li Shihao's fans in the United States is growing, perhaps not as explosive as last year's Derrick Rose, but it is very stable, and the increase is not very fast, but according to the survey, the proportion of loyal fans in these fan groups is extremely high, far exceeding the fan base of Derrick Rose.

Minnesota is no better than the Windy City of Chicago, where the ball market has been developed by the basketball god Jordan, and those old fans who have experienced six championships are looking forward to a new leader in Chicago to lead the Bulls to rise, and the emergence of Rose just fills this void!

However, the growth of fans of the Chinese kid Li Shihao has made some marketing experts in the United States incomprehensible, not only in Minnesota jerseys bought out of stock, as a big city New York street, you can often see young people wearing the Timberwolves No. 11 jersey.

There are Chinese, blacks, and whites, and not only the audience is large, but also wide.

It's hard to imagine that this is a basketball effect brought by the Chinese!

American marketing experts who were aroused by curiosity began to conduct a research and investigation on Li Shihao, which took half a month.

With the results of this research survey, they believe that Lee Shihao is very likely to lead a basketball storm that is different from Kobe James, and the impact of this phenomenon may be very wide, from the United States.

First of all, Li Shihao, who is not much different from ordinary people's physical fitness, is more attractive than James Kobe, and for most fans, the basketball dream is just a dream, especially in the United States, the sport of basketball belongs more to the elders.

Los Angeles Lakers center Bynum once made 10 blocks in a game against the Denver Nuggets to help the Lakers win their first playoff game.

When the block count reached ten, he couldn't help but get excited, and in a post-race interview with Los Angeles reporters, he said, "I want to jump almost anything I see, and I want to finish this record." ”

Being the background of the record is something that no one wants to do. After the game that night, Nuggets coach George Karl said angrily: "Bynum has so many blocks, relying on the suspicion of not walking in the three-second zone and defending the three-second violation!" ”

In this regard, the boss Kobe Bryant only said calmly after hearing it: "No one can teach you about height." ”

As soon as these words came out, George Carr couldn't say anything more.

During this time, Li Shihao was concentrating on improving his skills, while Duffy and his team were busy, and how to use every resource in their hands to build Li Shihao into a new star has become their most urgent problem now.

And when the United States announced the start of the All-Star vote, a heated discussion erupted on the other side of the ocean.

The Basketball Association focused on the issue of Li Shihao, and they hoped to deal with the problem of this young man, and as Li Shihao played better and better, the exposure that followed was also getting higher and higher.

The Basketball Association's original intention to turn a blind eye was embarrassingly torn apart, and more and more domestic fans are asking whether Li Shihao can enter the national team and represent the country for the World Championships next year.

This is a question that has been put on the table, and there is no room for the Basketball Association officials to hesitate any longer, and the better Li Shihao performs on the American side, the more acute the problem has become.

In particular, fans in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are particularly concerned about the answer to this question, and major forums in China are filled with discussions from these enthusiastic fans.

Li Shihao studied in Zhejiang before high school, which led to his popularity in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

As a world-class agent, Bill Duffy has cooperated with Yao Ming for many years, and his network in Asia is extremely good.

Bill also put a lot of effort, and some of the resources he used were even more that he had been operating for many years and kept as the foundation of his life, but for the sake of Li Shihao, he still used it decisively.

As a top agent who has been in the agent circle for many years, he has an excellent vision, and he judges the commercial value of a player not only by his popularity, but also by the player's character.

Bill Duffy believes that no matter how good a player's skills are, if his emotional intelligence is too low and he doesn't know how to behave, then even if he becomes famous, he will still one day become an ordinary person.

And Li Shihao is a material to become a superstar in his eyes, with excellent ball skills and a calm temperament, such a player can be of great use, and there will definitely be a place in this league!

As it turned out, Duffy's vision was right, and he was still sharp and far-sighted.

Under the operation of Duffy, the basketball association in the far mainland began to have a sad face, they need to have a good talk with Li Shihao, and his influence has begun to spread gradually.

This question can no longer be avoided!