Chapter 514: 513. The Grizzlies Really Want to Win
"Ace, your promotion is great! Many Chinese fast food brands in Atlanta and the San Francisco Bay Area approached me and asked me to contact them with Coca-Cola! Wow, I didn't expect Ace to be able to do talk shows... ..."
On the phone, Schwartz was very excited. Compared with many balloon stars, although Liu Mang has a good exposure rate, but this kind of publicity is very little. Other balloon stars have a full schedule even during the season. Today Going to this specialty store for activities, and going to the flagship store to promote a wave even when playing away games, and Liu Mang, since signing a 7-year 90 million US dollars endorsement contract with Nike, his appetite has picked up. Although the endorsement contract continues to be fulfilled, the newly signed endorsement will start with at least a million dollars before agreeing to sign, and many endorsement opportunities have been lost.
The main reason is that there are very few commercial promotions of this kind, and the commercial exposure rate is far less than that of most All-Star starters. Even Duncan has three or four commercial promotions a month, while Liu Mang has none most of the time.
Some sponsors are hesitant when they want to find Liu Mang as an endorsement, worrying that he does not have that kind of publicity talent.
I didn't expect Liu Mang to be so talented in entertainment, and even had a talk show that was broadcast live across the United States!
Although there is only one game, and it seems that there will be no next game from the end, at least this is a good sign. Schwartz feels that Liu Mang has opened up his mind and no longer resists propaganda as before. Oral broadcast, suddenly became popular in the United States!
And there are TV stations in Hong Kong and Taiwan who want to buy the copyright of this talk show. As for the mainland... there are websites that have already started broadcasting it.
"... Ace, do you know, ESPN really wants you to continue this talk show, half a month or even a month is fine, the price they give is 200,000 an episode! God, Ace, you can even retire Get involved in the entertainment industry!" Schwartz exclaimed, he was looking forward to more opportunities for Liu Mang to perform and show his talents like this, and then he would have more exposure and more endorsements...
"...Actually, I started playing basketball purely by accident. My original goal was to become an outstanding actor." Liu Mang said speechlessly. He didn't expect the ratings to be so high! Rubbing the ear that was almost torn off by some teammate, it still hurts after most of the day.
The herd! Picking places that hurt and will leave marks but will not really hurt, there are marks around the two eyes that have been drilled by electric drills, and these bastards actually scratched the soles of their feet! It's crazy!
Liu Mang was surprised that this show was so popular.
8.3 ratings! A morning talk show on a sports TV station actually reached the average ratings of last season's finals! Damn it!
The main reason is that Liu Mang is a very topical character in the first place, and the program is only about ten minutes long, and it happens to be April Fool's Day plus Sunday, all kinds of factors are combined.
But this is also exaggerated. American talk shows appeared very early, and the ratings of very popular talk shows are only 3:00 to 4:00. More than ten minutes, not a real program, but it has already surprised ESPN. Not only ESPN, a friendly cooperative unit, wants Liu Mang to start a real talk show, but also some professional entertainment channels. I need to discuss this matter with Liu Mang's manager.
But Liu Mang is not that interested in this.
In Liu Mang's opinion, if you are in the entertainment industry, it's either for money or for fame.
In terms of fame... Is there anything more famous than him becoming an NBA superstar? In the future, Kobe, Jordan, Yao Ming, and James will all be famous around the world after retirement. Even people who don't know basketball will know their names.
Money...For the sake of money, Liu Mang is not very interested in the mixed entertainment industry, so he might as well invest in it. After this season is over and the first year's endorsement fees are all settled, he will have money to invest in something.
Chatting with the excited Schwartz about how successful the talk show was, Liu Mang didn't care too much, packed up his things and left New York early with the team.
The Eagles' schedule is so strange, from mid-January to March, it is desperately tight.
But in April, it was all too easy, giving the Hawks a perfect time to prepare for the playoffs.
On the 1st and 2nd of April, we rested, and on the 3rd, we challenged the Grizzlies in an away game. It was quite a comfortable schedule, neither too long nor too tired.
Originally, the Eagles planned to take a day off in New York and then go to Memphis. It's all a rest. New York is of course much better than Memphis.
However, a certain man who was ravaged by his teammates so that his face, neck, arms, legs and other exposed parts were full of "scars" did something again. The superstars hacked all over, and the media blocked the Hilton Hotel. The Eagles had to run away and came to Memphis ahead of schedule.
New York is the largest city in the world and the financial center of the world. Naturally, there are a large number of media from all walks of life stationed here, but in Memphis, there are not many media who come with them. After all, it is just a small event on April Fool's Day, which is really eye-catching , But it’s over, they don’t have the time to spend too much resources on an off-court chore at a time when the regular season is about to end, which is one of the times when fans pay the most attention to the NBA. It is important to go for interviews with eight classics.
However, Liu Mang's incident this time has created a new way of thinking for many media. This kind of black and white program not only attracts attention, but also seems to be a win-win!
For example, everyone who Liu Mang hacked this time was surrounded by a large number of reporters and media, and the point of Liu Mang hacking was not how they played or their personal style, but from a tricky point of view. The stars were very angry at first. Later, I laughed angrily, although I was angry, but there was no hatred, and it also made those stars appear in the news again, and their popularity increased...
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Memphis is a good place. It is one of the few American cities in the United States that has become a friendly and cooperative city with domestic cities. Although Memphis is not well-known in the world, it is not very famous in the United States. Except for the Grizzlies, the NBA team In addition, there is not much attention, at most there is a FedEx headquarters, but as a domestic city that is rare in the United States as a sister city, Memphis has brought a lot of help to Mianyang, a famous big city in the western region of China. big.
Memphis is a well-known car and parts technology supplier in the United States. They do not produce parts, but they have excellent technology. The domestic auto industry has developed rapidly in recent years, which is inseparable from the fact that Mianyang and Memphis have become sister cities. of.
Friendliness is friendly, and that is only friendship between the governments. Every time Liu Mang goes to Memphis, he can’t feel the friendship of the people of Memphis. When he enters the FedEx Center, he only feels the boos of the fans.
Mainly because the Grizzlies have Pau Gasol, one of Liu Mang's three best rookies in the same class.
As for Battier, he was an all-around rookie who averaged 14+5+3 per game last season. This year's data has plummeted. Fans jokingly called him "past his peak", with an average of less than 10 points per game.
Battier is really a strange man. He averaged 39.7 minutes per game in his rookie season, which was the highest in his career in all aspects of the statistics. Afterwards, the statistics fell from year to year.
But the advantage is that Battier's ball possession rate has decreased, but his efficiency has not decreased too much. He is a very high-quality role player, but he is a little sorry for his status as the sixth overall pick.
Except for the decline in Battier's data, the Grizzlies have made little progress overall. Although the 2002 T1 rookie Drew Gooden was selected, the team's record has not improved. On the contrary, Gooden also affected Gasol's performance. After playing for half a season after the failure, Gooden was sent away. After replacing Mike Miller, a tall pitcher who can open up space for Gasol, the Grizzlies played relatively well. Sen-Williams is playing on a bad team, and people are tired of the fancy passing. What's the use of looking good and not winning? Under the pressure of public opinion, Jason Williams' edges and corners have gradually been smoothed over the past two years, and his playing has begun to be reasonable. In addition, the Grizzlies invited a coach Hubie Brown to come out and start to build for Gasol. In his system, the Grizzlies played relatively well in the second half of the season.
Of course, just playing better, the Grizzlies still haven't won many games, and they are now 20 wins and 54 losses.
On the morning of the game against the Grizzlies, Liu Mang and Gasol made an appointment to listen to an opera in the morning. When he returned to the hotel at noon to attend the team meeting, he got a new arrangement. For the next 9 games, he was called Put it in the starting lineup, and no rejection is allowed.
Liu Mang was a little surprised that this day came so quickly, but he knew that this day would definitely come, so he didn't struggle, just let it go, and started to adapt.
The minimum number of games required to play as a substitute has also been met. For Liu Wei, there is not much difference between starting and substituting in the rest of the games. Liu Wei thinks it is better to adapt in advance and play the starting lineup all the time. He can cooperate more with the starting lineup. time.
There were no surprises in the game. The Grizzlies can be said to be a one-man team. Only Gasol has a one-on-one advantage in facing the Hawks' starting lineup.
Gasol has been very mature since he entered the NBA. This year, his personal statistics have not improved much. In fact, his statistics throughout his career are almost 18+9. The main fluctuations are the number of assists, strong teammates, and a better team system. If it suits him, he has more assists, and the current Grizzlies are the worst two years in his career to show his organizational skills.
Originally, Jason Williams might have a certain advantage in facing Jason Terry, but now the Eagles' starting lineup has become the perimeter monster defensive lineup of Liu Mang, Prince, and Raheem. The defense of the lineup played a suffocating defense against the Grizzlies.
Gasol is not the kind of particularly powerful insider. His scoring ability is top-notch but not top-notch.
It's not that the Grizzlies don't want to win, it's that they really can't win! They really want to win because no matter how bad their record is, the pick could go to the Pistons, and the Pistons have the exchange rights to their first round pick...
The Eagles did not spend much effort in the game against the Grizzlies. After three quarters, they led 75 to 53 by 22 points. Liu Mang scored 19 points and 7 assists in three quarters, and clocked out.
In the end, the Eagles easily defeated the Grizzlies 99 to 75, and their record improved to 39 wins and 35 losses, consolidating their eighth ranking in the Eastern Conference.
After playing the Grizzlies, the Eagles flew back to Atlanta, followed by a back-to-back, and it was the kind of back-to-back home and away games that played the same team consecutively.
Against the Philadelphia 76ers...
In the game against the Grizzlies, the 76ers are likely to be the Eagles' opponents in the second round. Like the game against the Hornets, the Eagles attach great importance to this game!