From today on is the king

Chapter 1540 1539. A Hooligan in Desperation (ask for a monthly ticket)
Since she was going to New Orleans with Liu Mang, Little Loli asked for leave at the beginning of school.

This made Liu Mang once again lament the corruption of capitalist countries!

Junior high schools in the United States can actually take travel leave very easily.

"Isn't it in our Chinese tradition that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles? How can they do better in the United States, which has a history of only more than 200 years?"

With the Hawks playing seven games in the first 2 days of February, there are only four games left after the All-Star break.

From the 15th to the 22nd, it is the Eagles' All-Star weekend holiday, a total of eight days, and there are four games from the 23rd to the 29th.

This is the easiest time for the Eagles after the All-Star Weekend in the past six years. There are 7 games in 4 days. The opponents are the focus of the Lakers at the end of the All-Star Weekend.

Seeing the two girls packed boxes after boxes of luggage, Alexia, who had learned a lot of weird things from Liu Mang's mother, was worried and wanted Liu Mang to take everything. Although most of the things...were not used in the end, Liu Mang was quite happy.

There is no rush to go to New Orleans to play the All-Star this time, because there are no commercial activities to do.

This All-Star Weekend is non-profit.

The new arena of the Hornets has been rebuilt in December. The name is still called the New Orleans Arena. It has been expanded to a certain extent. The number of seats has changed from more than 12 to more than 19000.

The first time it was used, it was used as a venue for the All-Star Weekend. The Hornets will not move back here until the season is over.

This All-Star Weekend is a charity event jointly organized by NBA officials and the Louisiana State Legislature. There is no charge for tickets for this All-Star Weekend. A total of 2500 local families who returned to their hometown in New Orleans were invited. A total of 1 people came to watch the game live.

There are also volunteers from more than 30 other states in the United States who came here to help rebuild, as well as fans who have participated in the lottery since the beginning of the season. The NBA provided free tickets, and a total of 9000 tickets were given out.

Although it does not sell tickets, volunteers from other places and fans who get tickets by lottery will definitely stay here to help New Orleans revitalize the tourism industry.

Since the beginning of 2007, the reconstruction of New Orleans has actually been going well. Some hotels have been opened one after another, and tourist facilities have been gradually repaired and newly built. However, there are too few tourists who have just returned to rebuild.

NBA officials want to take this opportunity to help New Orleans, of course, the main purpose is to improve the image of the NBA league.

The remaining more than 2000 cards are of course given to team officials, league officials, media reporters, experts and players who participated or did not participate in the All-Star Weekend, as well as the family members and friends of the players.

After the hurricane, New Orleans was basically in ruins. At present, there are no large shopping malls or commercial areas. Moreover, being a commercial endorsement in a city that is being rebuilt will also have an impact on the image of the players. The agents of the major stars are very resistant, so simply, all the commercial activities of Liu Mang’s All-Star Weekend are cancelled, and they will go to BJ in the summer...

Liu Mang has a lot of endorsements and a promotional agreement once a year. It is natural for them to wish for it before the BJ Olympics.

However, Liu Mang can't wait until the 18th to watch the rookie game. There will be a charity event arranged by the alliance on the 17th, so he has to go tomorrow, which is the 16th at the latest.

Although the two girls were helping Liu Mang pack his things on the 15th, Liu Mang's family had a day off, so they didn't have to think about anything. They could watch TV, go shopping, and have afternoon tea together. They were not in a hurry.

On the afternoon of the 16th, Liu Mang's family took Wade, McGrady, Kwame-Brown, Rondo, and Gortat to New Orleans on the chartered flight that Levia had already booked.

This All-Star Weekend, none of the Hawks players who did not qualify for the All-Star Weekend did not want to go to the host city of the All-Star Weekend, which is quite rare.

The hurricane in 2005 flooded 80.00% of New Orleans, almost completely destroyed the entire city, and cost more than 2000 billion dollars. This was the case when the US federal government notified the local people in New Orleans to evacuate in advance, and the valuables had already been shipped away.

Fortunately, modern science is advanced, predicting the course of the hurricane in advance, and notifying residents to evacuate early, and the hurricane that eventually destroyed the entire city only killed more than 1800 people in New Orleans.

However, New Orleans originally had a population of 73. Even if the U.S. government spent a huge amount of money to rebuild New Orleans, a tourist city on the south coast, in 2006, there were still less than 2007 people who returned to New Orleans in 20, just like a ghost town. New Orleans used to be the largest city in Louisiana, and its GDP once accounted for a third to a quarter of the entire state. Of course, they want to revitalize this tourist city, so they joined hands with the NBA to organize this public welfare All-Star Weekend.

The NBA also uses this to enhance the image of the league.

After arriving in New Orleans, the Eagles and others rented five seaside villas, not far apart.

Liu Mang looked at the several bodyguards guarding outside the villa. There are also bodyguards at the gate and passages in the villa. The key is that most of these bodyguards have guns...

This is the first time that Liu Mang has had someone with a gun protect him against an All-Star...

These things were all arranged by Levia, who was much more thoughtful than Liu Mang thought.

The reason why no one in New Orleans wants to come back is that apart from the bad economic situation, the law and order here has been completely ruined. In 2006, the second year after the hurricane, it became similar to the crime city in Grand Theft Auto, completely out of control.

Last year, the state of Louisiana strengthened its security and vigorously eradicated the evil forces that took root here after the disaster. Otherwise, more than 1 people from all over the United States would not have been invited to this city to hold the All-Star Weekend.

But when you try your best to clean up such things as evil forces, they are often hidden, or they are changed to another place after a shot, who knows if there will be any leftovers.

Levia paid more attention to safety, and directly hired a security company with 40 employees. Among them, 20 people were inside and outside the yard of their villa, and 12 people were nearby on the road leading to their villa.

Liu Mang sighed that it was good to have a woman like Levia who had seen big scenes by his side, he didn't have to worry about anything, he took Levia to the second floor and locked them behind him, and praised Levia with loving applause...

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On February 2th, the two girls invited McGrady, Wade, and Kwame Brown's family to a party at their place, because Liu Mang, Wade, McGrady, and Kwame Brown are four All-Stars plus Rondo and Gortat, two of the six players who were selected for the second-year All-Star Rookie Team are going to do charity activities for the NBA.

Here in New Orleans, the two girls decided not to go to see how the rebuilding process is going, and safety is the most important thing, so that Liu Mang can rest assured.

However, Liu Mang and others also brought more than 10 bodyguards on their way to participate in public welfare activities.

When Liu Mang arrived at the newly renovated New Orleans Arena, he saw the same thing with Kobe, Yao Ming, James and others, surrounded by four or five bodyguards...

Everyone has the same idea.

The public welfare activities in the morning and after lunch went smoothly, and they were all arranged, such as voluntary shooting of promotional videos, helping New Orleans to revive tourism, caring for those who lost their homes due to natural disasters, and sending some condolences...

Everything went smoothly until the afternoon when everyone else left, only three All-Stars remained...

Liu Mang, McGrady, James!

League vice president Stu Jackson brought a guy to talk to them.

That person is Hornets player Tayshaun Prince!
Because there were high-level people in the league, Liu Mang, McGrady, and James just said hello to Prince and came to the conference room of the New Orleans Arena together.

Being so formal, Liu Mang had a strange feeling - it must not be a good thing!
"Hi everyone, I'm Stu Jackson, the executive officer of the NBA's publicity department, and I need your help with something very important," said Stu Jackson.

Both Liu Mang and Mai Di are at a loss, what can they do to help?

Liu Mang and Mai Di looked at each other, and through their eyes, they both understood each other's thoughts: "Should we ask us to donate money? Impossible!"

Of course, the two also felt that it was unlikely, and the alliance looked down upon their little money.

Liu Mang felt that something bad was about to happen, while McGrady was happy with the situation, and Prince seemed to have known about it long ago, so he didn't say anything.

But James, the youngest and shortest player among the four players, said angrily: "Stu, we are old friends, just let me know if there is anything I can do to help."

"Oh, thank you so much," Stu Jackson said with a smile: "This is a great thing. We have negotiated with the Dance Association. In order to help New Orleans revitalize the economy, we plan to take advantage of the All-Star atmosphere here after the All-Star Weekend to hold an All-American King of Dance competition here. The league hopes that you, the four NBA dance kings, will be guest performers in the All-Star Game to announce this event to the world, and hope that one of you can serve as the spokesperson for this All-American King of Dance competition."

As soon as Stu Jackson's words came out, Prince, who had known for a long time, had a gleam in his eyes, and both McGrady and James looked happy.

There was only one person, who was stunned.

"My little Zhan Zhan is the king of blissful dance. Although he is a bit of a girl, he is already one of the dance types of the American Dance Association; Mai Mama's Latin dance has always been a major dance type; the little prince's square dance is the world's largest dance type... But what the hell is this young man who is a pole dancer!"

(End of this chapter)