NBA Backer King Chapter 220

   Chapter 220 The Oprah Show

   At 2:00 noon that day, Lance Hawksman rushed to Phoenix, and then had a meeting with the management, and confirmed the plan for the two sides to cooperate and send Wang Tiejun to the All-Star starter.

  Then the two sides started their own operations. The Suns contacted the local media and started to promote and build momentum. CAA also mobilized a few first-line stars to help Pharaoh.

  From the next day, some media in Arizona began to publicize Pharaoh's All-Star vote. At the same time, several influential Hollywood stars also promoted Pharaoh on various occasions.

  Pharaoh himself also contacted his old friend Julia Roberts and asked her for help.

   On January 4th, the Suns challenged the Supersonics, the No. 1 player in the Western Conference.

   After a few days of rest, the players were generally in poor condition, and Pharaoh himself played well and was defeated by the Supersonics on the road.

   On the second day, the league officially opened an account for the All-Star voting.

  From this day, the media in Arizona began to exert force.

   Generally speaking, except for the superstar with wide influence and popularity like Jordan, most of the votes of other people depend on the cities and nearby areas of all teams, and it is difficult to expand to the whole state.

   But the environment for the Suns is too good. It is a dominant player in Arizona and can focus resources on canvassing votes for the Pharaoh.

   What's more, the CAA shot, several big stars together to build momentum, more or less will also draw some votes for Lao Wang.

   So from the beginning, Pharaoh's votes surpassed other Western stars, including Big Dream, David Robinson, and Barkley.

   After the first week, he became the Western Conference All-Star voting leader with 240,000 votes, just behind Jordan's 350,000 votes in the league.

The second in the West is Barkley, who got 220,000 votes in the first week, the third is not the big dream, but the glider Clyde Drexler, the fourth is the big dream, the two votes are almost the same, both are 15 About 10,000 votes.

   Center position, he is the first, Da Meng is second, and he missed him by more than 90,000 votes in the first week.

   "Haha, if you vote like this, Lao Tzu's starting center in the West will be stabilized!" Lao Wang laughed when he looked at the first-week votes published in Phoenix Sports.

   "Iron Army, did you win?"

   Cousin Liu Changfeng can't read English, but he also stared at the newspaper with his head outstretched with a smile on his face.

   "Good start, look at the next three weeks." He laughed.

At this time in Houston, Da Meng was calling Barkley and complaining: "CAA actually does this, so who can do it like K? Charles, he has more votes than you, so maybe even Jordan will one day. Oh, it's too much, he's cheating."

"Okay, Hakim, who made him sign the CAA? I guess CAA took the initiative to run it for him. After all, he has become an All-Star, and the commercial value has improved. CAA is also very beneficial." It's easy to see, after all, he thinks he owes Pharaoh a little.

   "Charles, I heard that CAA is going to enter the sports world, do you have any news?" Da Meng suddenly said.

   "This? It doesn't seem to be there yet." Buckley said.

   "Old K said?" Da Meng knew that Barkley had nothing to do with Hollywood, so he guessed it right.

   "Well, he said that," Buckley said.

   "This kid has a bad luck, but CAA has taken a fancy to it." Da Meng complained.

He was very annoyed, because the first two seasons were only All-Star substitutes. David Robinson started the All-Star Game for two consecutive years. This season, Mosaic's record far surpassed the Spurs. A sap came.

  If he is robbed of the starting position by Old K this year, he will be a substitute for three consecutive years. Maybe he is not even qualified to be a substitute. As the strongest among the three super centers, where should he put his face?

  Buckley smiled, not too much to say.

   He knew that CAA signed the old K, which was actually recommended by Julia Roberts. It happened that CAA also wanted to test the NBA, so the two sides hit it off.

   Without Miss Roberts' recommendation, it would be difficult for Old K to be attracted by CAA, after all, he is not even an All-Star.

   To say **** luck, it should be said that old K hooked up with Roberts, that is **** luck.

  San Antonio, David Robinson put down his newspaper, expressionless.

  Although he is very unwilling, the data will not deceive people. This year's All-Star, he may not even have a chance to be a substitute.

   In the first two years, he grabbed the starting position from Da Meng in a row, but he didn't expect to be grabbed by a second grader this year. Is there any reason for this?

Far in the east, O'Neal also held a newspaper in his hand, and said to himself, "The number of votes is higher than mine, who is the American? All the Americans who voted for him are shameful traitors. ."

   His votes were second in the Eastern Conference, except for Jordan, who received 180,000 votes in the first week, even surpassing veteran super center Patrick Ewing, who only received 120,000 votes, ranking sixth in the Eastern Conference.

I was very happy. Last year, he defeated Ewing in his rookie season and became the starting center of the Eastern Conference All-Star. This year, he defeated the veteran super center again. Ranked first in the West, the psychological imbalance immediately.

   This man is afraid of comparisons.

   He was unhappy, and someone was more unhappy than him.

  Ewing saw that he was pushed on the head by O'Neal again, and he had to substitute for O'Neal for two consecutive years.

   But there is nothing he can do about the grievances. His personal data is a little worse than O'Neal.

   And his character is not liked by fans. As long as his performance is abnormal, there will be a lot of New York fans booing him at home.

  Suns headquarters, Colangelo put down the newspaper with a smile on his face.

  Pharaoh's first-week votes have already achieved a great advantage. He doesn't need to coordinate with Mr. Stern for the time being. The resources of the Suns and CAA alone are enough.

But the fan votes only accounted for 50%, and the players and coaches each accounted for 25%, that is, the final result is still in the hands of the league officials, so in the end, it is necessary to communicate with Mr. Stern to ensure that the old K can become a All-star starter.

   Likewise, Los Angeles, Lance Hawksman is all smiles.

  Once Old K becomes an All-Star starter, his popularity and influence will definitely rise again, and his commercial value will definitely rise to a new level. This is the best news for CAA's plan to enter the NBA.

   Once CAA officially enters the NBA, as CAA's most successful and qualified NBA agent, he will undoubtedly gain the greatest authority and status.

   By then, he is likely to become the first agent in the NBA. With CAA's style, he may even become the most powerful person in the NBA besides Stern.

  Like current CAA president Michael Ovitz, who has become the most powerful man in Hollywood by packing, he hopes he can.

Open the first drawer on the left hand side, there are more than a dozen sponsorship contracts prepared by him, all of which are world-class first-line commercial brands, which he carefully prepared for the old K, each brand is in line with the style of the old K. , as long as you win the All-Star starting position, you can enter the negotiation stage.

   pressed the stack of contracts, and after rubbing it for a while, he smiled and closed the drawer.

   The schedule continues, and so does the All-Star vote.

Jordan still continues to monopolize the All-Star vote. In his second season in the league, he won more than one million All-Star votes. Unfortunately, those two seasons were the era of Erwin Johnson, and he was overwhelmed by Magic. , but after that, he started his own era, and for seven straight seasons, he was the All-Star vote king.

   And this time, no one can shake his status as the vote king.

  The number of All-Star votes represents the popularity and influence of a star, and indirectly also represents the commercial value. This is why CAA wants to push Lao Wang to the starting center position in the West this time.

   In order to canvass votes and increase exposure, many stars have taken the initiative to accept some media interviews and participate in some TV programs.

   In this regard, CAA won the top-level resources for Pharaoh without the Suns taking the initiative.

   "Old K, get ready, you will be a guest on the next Oprah talk show."

"what?"

   This day, Hawksman called and shocked him.

Since its launch in 1986, this show has long occupied the top spot in the ratings of American talk shows. It is once a week. According to viewership statistics, from 1991 to 1992, this show was watched by more than 12 million people in each episode in the United States. This rating even exceeds that of most NBA playoffs, and its TV audience is more than 150 countries around the world, and it is more popular overseas than the NBA.

   Even in Hollywood, this show is the top resource for those top stars.

   Tom Cruise, for example, is said to have been on the show 6 times, and if the show wasn't attractive, he wouldn't be there that many times at all.

   On the morning of the 15th, he met Oprah at a cafe in Phoenix, accompanied by agent Lance Hoxman.

Oprah Winfrey is undoubtedly one of the most successful black women in the United States. She is 40 years old this year. She is an actor, host, and producer. In 1986, she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Last year She is one of the legends of contemporary American women and an idol of countless women.

   "Hello, Aunt Oprah."

   "Hello, old K."

   The two met, greeted each other, sat down, and looked at each other curiously.

This is a woman who really climbed to the top of society from the bottom of the United States through her own efforts. She was hated by her grandmother when she was young, raped by her cousin, and then grew up with her grandmother. She has a truly inspiring life experience. This is what Pharaoh knows about Oprah. For such a woman, he is undoubtedly very respectful, and he needs to maintain respect.

In the same way, Oprah's understanding of Pharaoh is also similar. This is a person similar to her, but Lao K's current social status in the United States is far inferior to her, and she is too young, so she has a good understanding of Pharaoh. Just respect, not to the point of respect.

   Next, the two chatted, covering a wide range of topics, just like the Oprah talk show, everything in the world is all-encompassing.

   Finally, Oprah introduced the recording of the show at night, and then said: "Old K, I have selected some topics based on your experience in the United States..."

   Seeing Lao Wang nodded, she continued: "First of all, about racial discrimination, this is the first problem you face in America, right?"

"Yes…"

   Lao Wang nodded, he recalled the experience when he first landed in the United States.

   He arrived in the United States at the end of June 1992, landed in Los Angeles, and has been in this country for nearly 20 months today.

   His original plan was to live in Los Angeles Chinatown, but the first day he got there, he ran into trouble.

At that time, he had just come out of the airport, and he had no money on his hands. He walked along the road to the city center on two legs. After walking for two hours, he saw a white man on the street suddenly attack a young yellow woman passing by. .

   The white man was a fat man who was almost two meters tall and weighed at least 300 jin. The woman was no more than 100 jin. The fat white man beat each other and kept scolding him, all of which were racist words.

   That was the first time he saw racism and was shocked.

   From the words that the fat man scolded, we could know that he didn't know the woman at all, just because he hated yellow people, so he beat and abused a passerby without reason.

   has just suffered from being a good person. This time, he adopted a bystander attitude, but the fat man was unreasonable. Seeing him watching, he actually troubled him again, first scolding him, and then attacking him.

   This was unbearable. He beat the white fat man violently, but he didn't dare to stay in Los Angeles. He ran to San Francisco, where he found a tourist bus and left the West. After many places, he finally landed in New York.

   But this experience must not be talked about, otherwise, if the fat man had called the police at the time, if he said it now, maybe the police in Los Angeles would come to him.

In addition to this, he encountered too much racial discrimination, and Jiridrala told Oprah a lot, including when he entered the league at the end of 1992, many media, led by the New York media, publicly racially discriminated against him, and Some things about the two media people who had a lawsuit with him.

   "These are terrible experiences that make it hard to accept them with equanimity, but they're so common here that it's so frustrating that you have to deal with it, even every day."

Oprah listened to Pharaoh's experience quietly, and after he finished speaking, he said: "Yes, Old K, this is very helpless, but we can't change the concept. In fact, similar encounters, I'm like you. I mean after I became famous."

   "Will someone discriminate against you after you become famous?" he asked in surprise.

Oprah nodded helplessly and said: "One time in Switzerland, it was 1991, I have become the best ace talk show host in the United States, I have my own company, I am a billionaire, and the annual income In the tens of millions of dollars, I also have countless fans in Europe.

  The other day I took my pet dog, a Chihuahua, to a store for shopping, I wanted to see a handbag, but the clerk who received me refused my request, her reason was that I couldn't afford the bag. But she knows me, I'm sure. "

   "A very annoying experience," said Pharaoh.

"Yes, a lot of unpleasant experiences of one kind or another have happened to me. Even when I was walking down the street in New York once, a homeless discriminated against me just because he was white." Opp La smiled.

   The two chatted for nearly two hours. Pharaoh invited him to lunch and made an appointment to record the show in the evening.

   That night, Wang Tiejun and Hoxman came to the recording site of the show.

   There were hundreds of local viewers at the scene, and they participated in the recording of the program throughout.

   The whole program is divided into two parts, the first half is Oprah discussing some social issues, and in the second half, Pharaoh is invited.

   "Clap clap clap..."

  Pharaoh is undoubtedly the most influential sports star in Phoenix at present. As soon as he plays, he is welcomed by the audience off the court.

In fact, Lightning Kevin Johnson has been with the Suns for so many years, and his strength has been strong for a while, and his influence is also great, but Pharaoh's style of play is too exciting and eye-catching, often in the paint area by himself. So it only took more than one season to catch up with the Lightning.

   "Hello everyone, and you too! Aunt Oprah, you too, you are beautiful tonight!"

  Pharaoh greeted the audience, greeted the camera again, and sat opposite Oprah.

   "Old K, I really want to know, are you really complimenting me?" Oprah said suspiciously.

"Of course, hardworking women are always the prettiest. You are just like my two sisters, who were admitted to key universities in our country this summer after being suspended for three years. Well, it's the best university over there. , is also a world-class prestigious school. So you are all the most beautiful women, and also women I need to respect, you all exude a kind of light from the inside out." He said with a smile.

Oprah laughed too happily, "Congratulations to your two sisters, they are amazing! So old K, now the show is on, I'm very interested in what you said just now, I want to know more about your family ,is it okay?"

   "Of course, my family is not mysterious." He laughed.

   "How about you, are you interested?" Oprah asked the audience.

   "Yes."

   Hundreds of viewers answered very uniformly, and no one objected. These fans wanted to know more about Lao Wang.

   "I come from a rural family with five members and about 1.6 acres of land. Our family makes a living by farming.

   In order to support my martial arts practice, of course, I switched to playing basketball after I entered junior high school. The family, which was already very difficult, could be said to be tight for me alone.

   Well, how do you say it, for example, in order to increase nutrition for me, my parents and two sisters will save their rations just to buy me more meat to eat. "

   "Is it so poor?" Oprah was surprised, as were the rest of the audience.

  It is difficult for them to understand, because it is relatively easy to eat meat in the United States, even in very difficult families. Except for the homeless on the street, it is difficult for ordinary people to want to be hungry, and the cost of survival is not high.

   Old Wang nodded and said, "Yes, my two sisters have never eaten enough in those years."

   Having said this, he suddenly asked: "Aunt Oprah, you can guess the height of my two sisters."

  Oprah thought for a while and said, "You are 215 cm..."

   "It's 216 now, I just tested it recently." He said.

   "Then your two sisters are at least 180 cm." Oprah said with certainty.

   "No, they are all only about 165 cm." He shook his head and said.

"what?"

  Oprah was shocked, the difference between siblings was 50 cm, how is this possible? There is only one possibility, malnutrition.

   "Actually, I always thought my two older sisters were better than me, but unfortunately they were girls."

"Sexism?"

"No, it's just an ancient tradition. Because in the countryside, men can do more work and have more crops, so they are more valued. I think it's a natural selection for the living environment, like a matriarchal society. It's the same as developing into a patriarchal society. Compared to this tradition, I hate racism more.”

   "Yes, racism..."

  The duo brought the topic to the topic of racism tonight, which is a social issue, and the audience was also very interested and reacted strongly.

  In Phoenix, racism is not strong, but in many parts of the United States, racial discrimination is so serious that it is so serious that it is open to deportation of people of color.

   After talking about this issue, Oprah changed the topic and introduced the topic to the last session, discussing the issue of how to get rich.

Basically all the bottom people are very interested in this question, they want to know how some celebrities manage their money and how to accumulate wealth, maybe they can get some inspiration from it, so this question has always been the main question of Oprah's talk show One, the heat is very high.

   "Old K, I heard that you have already received tens of millions of dollars in business income. How do you manage these wealth? Put them in the bank? Or do you invest?"

   Lao Wang is ashamed, he really planned this at the beginning, but after being told by Yu Feihong, he started a real estate plan for Fengshen Street.

"No, I'm still somewhat business-minded. I have a street in the center of our country's capital, it's more than three hundred meters long, I bought it, and it's under construction now. I'm going to build it in three years, Develop it into a commercial district centered on style…”

   He began to sell himself and boast, and would take the credit of Feihong to himself.

"Oh…"

   Hearing his business investment, the audience off the court made exclamations and exclamations from time to time.

Oprah was also surprised. She never thought that a player who had only played in the NBA for more than a year, not even an All-Star, would have the money to buy a 300-meter-long cable car in the center of a country's capital city. Street, and this country is not a small country in Africa, it is a big country with a billion people.

   "Old K, the recording was quite successful."

After the recording was completed, Hoxman said happily: "There are still several first-line programs to participate in the next time. These programs will help you increase your popularity and influence in the United States, and even in the world, you can also improve a lot. Reputation."

The next day, on January 20, the third phase of fifty medicated oil massages and medicated baths was completed. His physical potential increased by one level. When he reached level 98, his ability and potential to resist injuries and diseases also increased by one level, reaching Level 90/98.

   A few days later, the second week of voting ended, and Jordan was still the king of votes, with 500,000 votes.

And Wang Tiejun's votes are still strong, reaching 450,000, only under Jordan, the first in the West, the second Barkley only has 370,000, not to mention the center position, the dream only got 260,000 votes after half a month , David Robinson has only 190,000 votes, he can basically determine the starting position of the Western All-Star center.

   (end of this chapter)

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