NBA backer king

Chapter 220 The Oprah Show
At two 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 parties started their own operations. The Suns contacted the local media and started to publicize and build momentum. CAA also mobilized several first-line stars to support Lao Wang.

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

Lao Wang himself contacted his old friend Julia Roberts and asked her for help.

On January 1, the Suns challenged the No. 4 Sonics in the Western Conference away.

After a few days of rest, the players were generally not in good condition, and Lao Wang himself also played mediocre, and was defeated by the Supersonics in the away game.

The next day, the league officially opened an account for All-Star voting.

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

Generally speaking, except for superstars like Jordan who have wide influence and popularity, most of the other people's votes are based on the cities and nearby areas of all teams, and it is even difficult to expand to the entire state.

But the environment in which the Suns are located is too good. It is a dominant player in Arizona and can concentrate resources to canvass for Lao Wang.

What's more, CAA made a move, and several big stars worked together to create momentum, which would more or less win some votes for Lao Wang.

So from the very beginning, Lao Wang voted more than other stars in the West, including Dameng, David Robinson, and Barkley.

After the first week, he became the top voter in the Western Conference All-Star voting, with 24 votes. In the league, he was only behind Jordan's 35 votes.

The second in the West is Barkley, who won 22 votes in the first week. The third is not the big dream, but the glider Clyde Drexler, and the fourth is the big dream.

For the center position, he was first, and Dameng was second, and he was short of more than 9 votes in the first week.

"Haha, with this vote, my starting center in the Western Conference is stable!" Old Wang laughed as he looked at the first week's votes published in the Phoenix Sports News.

"Tie Jun, have you won?"

Cousin Liu Changfeng couldn't read English, but he was staring at the newspaper with his head stretched out, smiling nonstop.

"It's a good start, let's see the next three weeks." He laughed.

At this time in Houston, Dameng was calling Barkley, complaining: "CAA actually did this, so who can beat old K? Charles, he has more votes than you, and maybe even Jordan will surpass you one day. This is too much, he is cheating."

"Okay, Hakeem, who made him sign CAA? I guess CAA took the initiative to operate for him. After all, he became an All-Star and his commercial value has increased. CAA is also of great benefit." Barkley is quite open, after all, he thinks he owes Lao Wang a little.

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

"This? It seems not yet." Barkley said.

"What did Old K say?" Dameng knew that Barkley had nothing to do with Hollywood, so he guessed it accurately.

"Well, he said it." Buckley said.

"This kid was lucky to be picked up by CAA." Dameng complained.

He was very annoyed, because the previous two seasons were just All-Star substitutes. David Robinson started the All-Stars for two consecutive years, and this season Mosaic's record far surpassed the Spurs.

If old K takes away the starting position this year, he will be a substitute for three times in a row. Maybe he doesn't even have the qualifications to be a substitute. As the strongest of the three super center forwards, where should he put his face?

Barkley smiled, not too much to say.

He knew that the signing of K by CAA was actually recommended by Julia Roberts, and it happened that CAA also wanted to test the waters of the NBA, so the two hit it off.

Without the recommendation of Miss Roberts, it would be difficult for old K to be favored by CAA. After all, he is not even an All-Star.

If you want to talk about shit luck, it should be said that old K hooked up with Roberts, that is shit luck.

"..."

San Antonio, David Robinson put down the newspaper in his hand, his face was expressionless.

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

In the past two years, he grabbed the starting position from Dameng consecutively, but he didn't expect to be robbed by a sophomore this year. Is there any reason for this?

In the far east, O'Neill was also holding a newspaper in his hand, and he said to himself somewhat calmly: "The number of votes is higher than mine. Who is an American? All Americans who voted for him are shameful traitors."

His number of votes is the second in the East, except for Jordan, who got 18 votes in the first week, even surpassing veteran super center Patrick Ewing. Ewing only got 12 votes, ranking sixth in the East.

He was very happy at first. Last year, he beat Ewing in his rookie season and became the starting center of the East All-Star. This year, he beat the veteran super center again. But when he saw that the old K surpassed him by more than 6 votes, ranking first in the Western Conference, his mental balance immediately became unbalanced.

This person is afraid of comparisons.

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

Ewing saw that he was overwhelmed by O'Neal again, and he had to be O'Neal's substitute for two consecutive years, and his aggrieved heart was indescribable.

But there is nothing he can do about being aggrieved. His personal data is a little worse than that of O'Neill, so he can only endure it.

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

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

Pharaoh's vote count in the first week has already gained a great advantage. He doesn't need to coordinate and communicate with Mr. Stern for the time being. The resources of the Suns and CAA alone are enough.

But fans voted only 50%, 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 old K can become the All-Star starter.

Likewise, in Los Angeles, Lance Hawksman was all smiles.

Once old K becomes an All-Star starter, his popularity and influence will definitely rise to a higher level, and his commercial value will definitely rise to a higher 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 experienced NBA agent, he will undoubtedly gain the greatest authority and status.

By then, he is very likely to become the No. [-] agent in the NBA. In the style of CAA, he may even become the most powerful person in the NBA besides Stern.

Just like the current CAA president Michael Ovitz, who has become the most powerful person in Hollywood by means of packaging, he hopes to do that.

Opening the first drawer on the left hand side, there are more than a dozen sponsorship contracts he has prepared, all of which are world-class first-line commercial brands. This is what he prepared carefully for Old K. Every brand fits Old K's style. As long as he wins the All-Star starting position, he can enter the negotiation stage.

After pressing the stack of contracts and rubbing them for a while, he smiled and closed the drawer.

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

Jordan still continued to monopolize the All-Star voting. In his second season in the league, he won more than one million All-Star votes. Unfortunately, those two seasons were the era of Irvin Johnson. He was overwhelmed by the Magician. But after that, he started his own era.

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

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

In order to canvass votes and increase exposure, many stars took the initiative to accept interviews from some media and participated in some TV programs.

In this regard, CAA won the top resources for Lao Wang without the help of the Suns.

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

"what?"

One day Hawksman called and startled him.

Since its launch in 86, this program has long occupied the top ratings list of American talk shows. It is a weekly episode. According to ratings statistics, from 91 to 92, this program was watched by more than 200 million people in the United States. This rating even exceeds the ratings of most NBA playoffs.

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

For example, Tom Cruise, it is said that he has been on this show 6 times. If this show is not attractive, he will not go so many times.

On the morning of the 15th, he met Oprah at a coffee shop in Phoenix, accompanied by his agent Lance Hawksman.

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. She was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 86. Last year, she entered the top [-] Forbes global list. She is also the first black woman to enter the Forbes rich list. She is one of the legends of contemporary American women and the idol of countless women.

"Hi, Ma'am Oprah."

"Hello, old K."

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

This is a woman who has really climbed from the bottom of the United States to the top of society step by step through her own efforts. When she was young, she was disgusted by her grandmother and raped by her cousin, and then grew up with her grandmother. She has a truly inspirational life experience, which is Lao Wang's understanding of Oprah.For such a woman, he undoubtedly has great respect and needs to maintain respect.

And similarly, Oprah's understanding of Lao Wang is 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 only respects Lao Wang, not to the point of respect.

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

In the end, Oprah introduced the program recording of the evening, and then said: "Old K, I have selected some topics based on your experience in the United States..."

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

"Yes……"

Old 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 92 and landed in Los Angeles. He has been in this country for nearly 6 months.

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

At that time, he had just come out of the airport, and he had no money on hand. 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 attacking a young yellow woman passing by.

The white man was a fat man who was about two meters tall and weighed at least three hundred catties. The woman was no more than one hundred catties.

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

From the cursing words of the fat man, it can be known that he didn't know that woman at all, but because he hated people of yellow race, he beat and abused a passerby irrationally.

He had just suffered from being a good person, and this time he took a bystander attitude, but the fat man was unreasonable. Seeing him watching there, he actually made trouble for him again, first cursing him, and then beating him.

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

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

In addition to this, he encountered too much racial discrimination. Jiri Zhuala said a lot to Oprah, including when he entered the league at the end of 92, many media headed by the New York media made open racial discrimination against him, and some things about the two media people who sued him.

"These are terrible experiences, and it's hard to come to terms with these things, but they're so common here, it's frustrating, and you have to deal with it, even on a daily basis."

Oprah listened quietly to Lao Wang's experience, and after he finished speaking, he said: "Yes, old K, this is a very helpless concept, but we cannot change the concept. In fact, I have the same experience as you. I mean after I became famous."

"Will people discriminate against you after you become famous?" He asked in surprise.

Oprah nodded helplessly, and said: "I was in Switzerland once in 91. I have become the best ace talk show host in the United States. I have my own company. I am a billionaire with an annual income of tens of millions of dollars. I also have countless fans in Europe.

That 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 because she could not afford that bag.But she knows me, I'm sure. "

"Very nasty experience." Old Wang said.

"Yes, many such or such unpleasant experiences have happened to me. Even when I was walking on the streets of New York, a homeless man discriminated against me just because he was white." Oprah smiled.

The two chatted for nearly two hours, Lao Wang treated him to lunch, and made an appointment to record the show in the evening.

That night, Wang Tiejun and Hawksman came to the program recording site.

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

The whole program is divided into two sections. In the first half, Oprah discusses some social issues, and in the second half, Lao Wang is invited.

"Clap clap clap..."

Lao Wang is undoubtedly the most influential sports star in Phoenix at present, and he was welcomed by the audience off the field as soon as he appeared on the stage.

In fact, Lightning Kevin Johnson has been in the Suns for so many years, and his strength and influence have been great for a while, but Lao Wang's style of play is too exciting and eye-catching.

"Hi everyone, and you too! Aunt Oprah, you too, you look beautiful tonight!"

Lao Wang greeted the audience, greeted the camera again, and then sat opposite Oprah.

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

"Of course, women who work hard are always the most beautiful. You are just like my two older sisters. After three years of suspension, they were admitted to key universities in our country this summer. Well, it is the best university over there, and it is also a world-class prestigious school. So you are all the most beautiful women, and women I need to respect. You radiate a kind of light from the inside out." He said with a smile.

Oprah smiled so happily, "Congratulations to your two sisters, they are amazing! So old K, now the show is on, I am very interested in what you just said, I want to know more about your family, can you?"

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

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

"Yes."

Hundreds of spectators gave a unified answer, and no one objected. These fans wanted to know more about Pharaoh.

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

In order to support my martial arts training, of course I switched to playing basketball after entering junior high school. The already difficult family, for me alone, can be said to be tight.

Well, how should I put it, for example, in order to increase my nutrition, my parents and two older sisters will save their rations just to buy me more meat. "

"Has poverty reached this level?" Oprah was surprised, as were the rest of the audience.

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

Lao Wang nodded and said, "Yes, my two older sisters never had enough to eat in those years."

Speaking of 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 tall." Oprah said with certainty.

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

"what?"

Oprah was shocked. The difference between the siblings is 50 centimeters. 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 are girls."

"Sexism?"

"No, it's just an ancient tradition. Because in the countryside, men can do more work and have more harvests, so they are more valued. I think this is a natural selection of the living environment, just like the development of a matriarchal society to a patriarchal society. Compared with this tradition, I hate racial discrimination more."

"Yes, racism..."

The two introduced the topic tonight's topic of racial discrimination. This is a social issue, and the audience is also very interested and reacts strongly.

In Phoenix, racial discrimination is not strong, but in many parts of the United States, racial discrimination is very serious, even serious enough to openly expel people of color.

After talking about this question, Oprah changed the topic and introduced the topic to the last session, discussing 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 they accumulate wealth. Maybe they can get some inspiration from it, so this question has always been one of the main questions on Oprah's talk show, and the popularity is very high.

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

Lao Wang was ashamed, he really planned this way at the beginning, but after being told by Yu Feihong, he came up with a real estate plan for Fengshen Street.

"No, I still have some business sense. I have a street in the center of our country's capital. It is more than 300 meters long. I bought it and it is now under construction. I plan to spend three years building it and develop it into a commercial district centered on style..."

He began to boast about himself, and took Yu Feihong's credit to himself.

"Oh……"

Hearing his business investment, the audience off the field exclamated and exclaimed from time to time.

Oprah was also very surprised. She never thought that a player who has 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 street in the center of the capital of a country. This country is not a small country in Africa, but a country with a population of one billion.

"Old K, the recording was quite successful."

After the recording was completed, Hawksman said happily: "In the future, there are still a few first-line programs that need to be participated in. These programs will help you increase your popularity and influence in the United States, and even in the world, it will also increase your popularity a lot."

The next day, January 1th, the third phase of 20 medicated oil massages and medicated baths was completed. His physical potential was upgraded to level 98, and his ability to resist injuries and potential were also increased by one level, reaching level 90/98.

A few days later, the second week of voting ended, and Jordan was still the top voter with 50 votes.

And Wang Tiejun’s votes are still strong, reaching 45, only under Jordan, No. 37 in the West, and Barkley in No. 26 with only 19, not to mention the center position. After half a month, Dameng only got [-] votes, and David Robinson only got [-] votes. He can basically determine the starting position of the Western All-Star center.

(End of this chapter)