Min Congda recently became the team's hands-off shopkeeper and otaku general manager.

Entering the middle of the season, the team's results are not bad or bad.

Although Curry had an impressive performance in January, winning the best of the month.

However, he won 3 wins and 5 losses in 8 consecutive away games, and gave Min Congda a salary of 10,000 US dollars.

The team's record came to 26-22, although it broke the 50 percent win rate.

However, in the fiercely competitive west, it can still only rank ninth.

There is a 2.5-win gap with the Spurs, who are eighth in the West, and the Rockets and Hornets are chasing after them.

The team is unstable, losing consecutive games, and the main point guard Baron Davis is affected by a knee injury, and the situation in the playoffs is not optimistic.

As long as he doesn't make the playoffs, Min Congda feels that everything is still easy to say.

Lately he's been spending most of his energy running his NBA-Batman account.

Because of the constant release of some insider information with noses and eyes, the number of followers of this account has increased rapidly.

With the spread of viral social networks, after more than a month of fermentation, it ushered in an explosive period.

Min Congda now opens his Twitter account every day, and he can see a large number of new followers and backstage private messages.

He and Fan Chen jointly run this account, and Fan Chen was of course very curious about Min Congda's identity, and even more curious about where he got the news.

However, he never asked, and kept his mouth shut about the people around him, which became a secret in his heart.

Now in the middle of the season, with all sorts of trade rumors rife in the NBA, it's time for sources to do their tricks.

Most well-known sports journalists have informants on each team and can provide first-hand information.

These sports journalists, as second-hand news mongers, get the attention of fans by publishing news as soon as possible.

To put it bluntly, it is a middleman, the news itself is worthless, whether a team trades or not, who to sign and who to cut, sooner or later it will be made public.

What really values is time, and whoever can post the news first, or even predict it in advance, will get the most attention.

After all, the key to news is a "new", and once everyone knows about it, the news has no value.

Why don't NBA teams just post the news themselves?

If NBA teams are the first to disclose all kinds of information every time, there will be no room for gossip and sports media.

Similar to factory direct sales, there is no middleman to make the difference, and the profit margin has indeed improved.

But without middlemen advocating products and expanding the market, the sales of manufacturers' products will also decline.

Therefore, many manufacturers will establish a good relationship with middlemen, protect middlemen, and make money together.

The relationship between the NBA and the media is the same, if I send messages directly to the fans, the media will not come and be the drummer.

Without the media as a drummer, how can fans have consumption stickiness and how can they be deeply involved in this game?

Therefore, the NBA has always attached great importance to the relationship with the media, such as setting up media open days, each game must be interviewed after the game, and various cooperation with the media.

This ensures the development and growth of the NBA in public opinion, otherwise you Jordan and Kobe Bryant are awesome at playing, and no one promotes it, who cares if you are good at playing ball?

And the team's insiders leaking news to the middleman media is an unspoken rule of the industry.

It didn't break the rules of the league, and at the same time gave the team room to operate in private.

Sometimes news can have a big impact on trades, drafts, and signings.

Putting the news out, false and true, true and false, raising each other's prices or tearing each other down is a common thing.

It fully reflects the ups and downs of the mall, and it has also become a wonderful part of the NBA.

But Min Congda is not a simple insider, he is directly the general manager of the team!

He doesn't leak any news, he is a spy and source himself, and asks a domestic college student to help him set up an account to tweet.

But anyone who is a little more normal can't do this, so what is a team manager trying to do such a thing?

If it is found by the NBA official, it will be a loss of face and a loss of work, and there will be no profit, so no one will do it.

But Min Congda is obviously not a normal person, he is too TM abnormal.

The middleman media that blindly touted the league's teams and players was not what he wanted.

Before Riccelle entered the office, Min Congda was still sitting in front of the computer happily reading the tweets and replies of the NBA-batman's account.

In order to prevent the IP address from being tracked, Min Congda did not dare to log in to his account at the Clippers headquarters, but returned home and used a VPN to log in and post content.

Or send articles and tweets to Fan Chen and let him operate the release.

After all, the account is becoming more and more influential and has attracted the attention of the official.

There are also several NBA players, and the reporter followed this account.

A few days ago, Fan Chen was pleasantly surprised to tell Min Congda that Baron Davis was following NBA-Batman.

Min Congda thought to himself, no matter how awesome you Yankees are, you can't reach out to China, the Chinese police are not used to it.

This account only involves NBA team news, and does not involve national security, trade secrets or political content, so the security factor is still very high.

Even if the NBA's internal risk control and public opinion department wants to investigate, it is difficult to find the heads of Chinese college students, and it is even more difficult to find the heads of Min Congda.

The phone rang suddenly, and Ida told Min Congda that Mr. Riccelle had something to report.

"Let him in, and pour me a glass of lemonade Ida, thank you."

As soon as Riccelle entered the office, he shouted: "It's a big deal, Mr. Smart, our team is in a lot of trouble in public opinion!" ”

Min Congda heard it, troublesome? That's a good thing, how can you call it a big thing.

"Don't worry Rob, what is there to say, except for the bankruptcy of the team, nothing is a big deal."

"Well, it's not going to go bankrupt, but our team image is at risk of being damaged! Well, from that point of view, image bankruptcy is also bankruptcy. ”

"Less nonsense, to the point, what's wrong?"

Riccelle wiped his sweat and said, "Recently, a mysterious account appeared on Twitter, it knows a lot of NBA insider information, and he has been getting more and more attention as the trade deadline approaches recently. ”

"So what? What does this have to do with us, I'm not ready to trade. ”

Min Congda already knew it in his heart, but he pretended not to know anything.

"This account also often posts news related to the Clippers, but... But it's all negative, non-existent content. If such content is mixed in, the impact is very bad! ”

Seeing that Riccelle was a little anxious, Min Congda snickered in his heart, knowing that he had used the right method.

He coughed lightly, controlled his expression, and said: "The United States is a society of free speech, everyone can freely express their opinions and opinions, as for what kind of impact it has, it should be left to the public to judge for themselves, right?" ”

Riccelle picked at his face and said, "Uh... That being said, we still have to clarify those statements that are clearly biased. ”

"Then make a clarification, don't care what people say, we just do our best."

Riccelle felt that what Smart said seemed to be very reasonable, he was just different from this big person, and he looked at the problem from a very high angle, and there was no trace of it.

He was still in a hurry, but he was persuaded by Min Congda in two words.

At this time, Ida came in with lemonade, and Min Congda said, "By the way, Ada, book me a ticket to New York, tonight, I want to go to New York." ”

Ada's face sank and she said, "You're going to see your secretary?" ”

Min Congda smiled: "It's not a secretary, it's Daddario, the movie she starred in is about to premiere, and I was invited to participate." ”

Ida put the lemonade on the table with a "bang" and went out to book a plane ticket for Min Congda.

(End of chapter)