The entire program group seemed to be wound up, and all the work kept going down.
After taking the publicity photos of the contestants in this side, the official website of the other side was launched. Several promotions were so busy that they sent one article after another.
It's just that the website hasn't been officially opened yet. When the audience clicks over, they can only see the countdown on the homepage. The photos of the contestants are all covered with black masks, creating a silhouette effect.
In the middle of the website is a well-designed program logo, with the name of the exclusive title provider - Feiyang Sports Drink on the top.
Flying sports drinks
Why have I never heard of this brand before
Yang Xiao stopped the mouse and turned to ask the business colleague next to him, "What's the background of our program team's sponsor?"
Huacheng Satellite TV is firmly in the top three of the national star channels, and "The King of Rebounds" is the key program of satellite TV this year. It is built with the strength of the whole channel.
Business looked around and saw that no one was paying attention. He quickly came over, lowered his voice, and said mysteriously: "This is a long story. In fact, when the program was first approved, Teacher Zhou went out to sponsor a circle. A big company was finalized, and it was about to sign a contract, but as a result, the team left, and the sponsorship was snatched by the Kiwi website.”
Yang Xiao couldn't help but scolded.
Just stealing ideas, that group of people actually prying away the sponsors, it's really cheap.
After the sponsorship went viral, Zhou Hui couldn't care less and immediately started a new round of operations.
Only this time, there are obstacles.
First of all, before Zhou Hui, no one had done a similar variety show, and it was difficult to guarantee the ratings. Those sponsors don't see the rabbit and don't throw the eagle, how could they throw so much money into an unknown show? Secondly, they all heard about the team leaving, and they became suspicious of Zhou Hui. They were worried that the program was halfway through, and then there would be some scandals about the incompatibility of the generals. The third thing is that several companies have joined forces to reduce the price. They want to reduce the sponsorship fee and come to the satellite TV's wool and find it cheap.
Please, their satellite TV also has to force it! Then they want to title the show for a little money, why don't they dream
With that, the sponsorship thing stuck there.
At a critical moment, a manufacturer named Feiyang Sports Drink was born. It has a lot of money. It took out a lot of cash and smashed it down, and it didn't bother with the minutiae of the contract. It only asked for a little - it is said that their boss likes basketball very much, even in the They also set up a basketball team in their company, recruited a group of good players, and often went out to play games with other companies. Most of the team are retired CBA players. The sponsor hopes that the program team will give the company a few places so that they can participate in the program and show their faces.
This is not an excessive request. For the sake of money, Zhou Hui readily agreed.
Business shrugged and said, not surprisingly, "This is normal operation, just like some brokerage companies will send their own trainees to talent shows. However, I am the first to send players to basketball variety shows. See you once."
Yang Xiao was quite curious. He took the list of players bound into a book on the table, turned to the group of retired athletes, and asked, "Who is here from the sponsor?"
The businessman took the brochure and flipped a few pages: "Well, from this page to this page, it's all."
Yang Xiao: "…"
There are nine retired athletes in total, and the sponsors sent six!
Unexpectedly, the business has turned to the front again - "And this, the active cba athlete 'tattoo brother' Ding Man, he also sent it, it is said that he signed a personal endorsement contract."
Yang Xiao was really surprised this time!
What is the origin of this sports drink company, even active players can get involved? For the sake of effect, the show specially invited three "eagles", but one of them actually had a sponsor on its back
Yang Xiao had heard of Ding Man. With a height of two meters and one or two, he is known as the CBA "Devil Guard". He has a fast offensive and a secret ball path, and Ding Man loves tattoos. From his fingertips to his shoulders, his arms are densely covered with patterns! And those patterns are very scary and have a strong deterrent effect on the field.
For some reason, Yang Xiao felt that something was wrong.
Is she sensitive
She persuaded herself not to go to the horns, but she couldn't help but ran to search for the background of this sports drink.
The official website of their company is very simple. It turns out that this is a beverage company with a long history. It is registered in a small 18th-tier city. It used to make copycat orange juice and copycat cola. It was acquired by a major company a year ago and started making sports drinks, but it doesn't seem to be selling well and it's not well known.
In general, this company reveals two words - pheasant.
And it is such a little-known pheasant company that can actually spend so much money to sponsor the programs of the satellite TV channel!
Just after it was acquired by a big company, it began to form its own basketball team. The new owner, who loves basketball, hired a group of retired players to fight.
The names of those games are also difficult to describe.
What xx township basketball game; xx land temple basketball game; xx great man's birthday basketball game... Yang Xiao couldn't help but wonder, would anyone really watch this kind of basketball game
Out of curiosity, she clicked on the basketball game news on the company's website. The whole "news" looks like it was written by a layman. It's dry and without writing. The beginning is a certain day in a certain year, a certain month, in a certain place, the basketball team of our company and the basketball team of such and such area played a unique basketball game. The game, the final score is a few to a few...
Judging from the news, there are wins and losses in the game, and there are several photos in the news, all of which are group photos of the players on the court.
Yang Xiao scrolled the mouse wheel and browsed the photos.
A game requires twelve players, five starters and seven substitutes. In the photo, everyone looks exhausted, but in addition to exhaustion, there is a murderous aura.
Suddenly, a piece of news came into Yang Xiao's eyes.
— "Mr. Xing came to the basketball game to cheer for the players"
Mr. Xing? It looks like he's the president of this eccentric company.
Yang Xiao opened the news, and a photo popped out impatiently.
In the photo, twelve strong men about two meters in height surrounded a man in his thirties. The man was mature and handsome, wearing a straight and high-end suit, and his eyes were full of arrogance.
The moment he saw the man's face clearly, Yang Xiao's fingers trembled unconsciously.
She knew him - his name was Xing Fei!
He is arrogant, arrogant, and always decides everything for himself. The thing he does most often is to deny others and never allow those around him to make any decisions against his will.
... And he happened to be Yang Xiao's first boyfriend.
Yang Xiao doesn't want to call him "first love", because his existence is simply the biggest insult to this word!
At that time, Yang Xiao had just graduated from school and stepped into the society. She was a fledgling and met Xing Fei in an interview on a news channel. The domineering president immediately started a series of romantic ways of chasing people. At that time, Yang Xiao had no experience in knowing people, so he was fooled by him.
He left Yang Xiaobin's psychological shadow, especially the sentence "pregnancy first and then get married, if you don't have a boy, you don't get a certificate", it's a straight male cancer to the point of giving her goosebumps. Fortunately, she woke up in time and ran fast enough, so she didn't waste her youth on such a fool.
Unexpectedly, after going around in such a big circle, she actually met this scumbag on her own show!
…
"Okay, Fanzi, I heard you're going to be on TV?"
Just after training, the teammates gathered around and started to congratulate Meng Yufan.
To say jealousy, there must be some, but beyond jealousy, there is more admiration. After all, on the basketball court, it depends on strength. Meng Yufan is capable and unassuming. Everyone is convinced of his performance on the court. Therefore, after they heard that Meng Yufan had participated in the variety show of Huacheng Satellite TV, they were all beaming and happy for him.
"From now on, I'll be the star's classmate!" Teammate Huang Xiaoke put his arms around his neck and raised his phone, "Big star, take a few selfies with me, record a small video, and when you become popular, these may all be possible. Selling for money!"
Meng Yufan reluctantly escaped from his claws, but turned his head and bumped into the hands of captain Liu Fangzhou again.
Liu Fangzhou said teasingly: "Fanzi, don't forget about wealth and honor! You are the hope of our team!"
Meng Yufan was dazed by their jokes, and when he finally escaped from the crowd, a thin layer of sweat rose on his forehead.
He turned around and walked to the dormitory, but at the door of the dormitory, he met Xu Dong who was about to go out.
Seeing this former good brother, Meng Yufan felt an indescribable embarrassment in his heart.
Xu Dong's suspension period has passed, but he still faces a situation without the ball to play. Cuba stipulates that the players in the national competition must be players who have participated in the regional qualifiers. Xu Dong missed the qualifiers and naturally cannot show his face in the cuba national competition.
And athletes who can't play in cuba have no chance to sign up for the cba draft.
It can be said that Xu Dong has announced in advance to leave this career path. Every basketball boy dreams of entering that glorious arena, but now, Xu Dong's dream is over.
Both of them are forwards with similar skills. Originally, they were both qualified to compete for the draft spot... But now, the situation of the two people is completely different.
If time could be reversed, Meng Yufan would definitely persuade Xu Dong not to set foot on the field and not to joke about his professional life; but he also knew that if Xu Dong didn't make money by playing field, his grandfather's medical expenses would be lost.
This is a multiple choice question with no correct answer.
Compared with Meng Yufan, who was in a complicated mood, Xu Dong was more calm, and he had already accepted the reality. When he saw Meng Yufan, he smiled and said hello calmly: "Have you finished your training?"
"It's just over." Meng Yufan also pretended to answer naturally, "Are you going out?"
"Yeah." Xu Dong paused for a few seconds, but said it anyway, "The boss asked someone to go to the game."
"… "
They know who the boss is.
On the field, there are few fixed teams. The "owners" contact the players through field scouts (most of them call themselves agents), and the players don't even know who their opponents are or who their teammates are until they arrive at the stadium. There is no so-called cooperation between wild ball players, and they don’t talk about strategy and assists like in regular games. Everyone is dedicated to shooting, dedicated to expressing themselves, and even using some dirty little tricks.
After all, scouts will only think of you when there are other games if you win this one.
They are like a group of driven hyenas, where they go without thinking.
Meng Yufan hesitated, but in the end, only solemnly spit out a few words: "...their methods are too dirty, you pay attention to safety and protect yourself from injury."
Xu Dong nodded and said sternly: "I always remember this point, even if the score is less, I will not confront those people head-on."
The two hurriedly said a few words, and Xu Dong left on the grounds of time constraints. Meng Yufan looked at the figure of this old friend who was getting farther and farther, and felt all kinds of discomfort in his heart, but he didn't know what to say.
…
At six o'clock in the evening, Xu Dong rushed to the location that the wild ball agent told him.
The agent has cooperated with him many times. They communicated through WeChat. Usually, there is almost no communication. They only contact when there is work.
In fact, Xu Dong knew in his heart that the agent didn't like him - Xu Dong was from a serious academy, and unlike those savages, he played too cleanly and used little tricks. Head-to-head and hard work, resulting in not many points per game.
However, Xu Dong's advantage is that he is flexible in time, available on call, and the price is still low. Therefore, when the agent can't find someone, he will always think of him at the first time.
Xu Dong arrived at the scene, and his teammates for the game were already warming up. Some of them have met Xu Dong and played basketball together, and some of them are dealing with Xu Dong for the first time.
Several people exchanged names and said hello, but no one asked to exchange WeChat. Anyway, it's all a nod on the field, so there's no need to pretend.
Xu Dong was two meters tall and played as a power forward. He looked at his teammates this time. They were all older than him and seemed to be very experienced. Three of the teammates were black - all foreign players who came here to "make extra money".
On the field, foreign players, especially black players, are very common. Black people have developed sports cells and good physical fitness. Sports like basketball that test reaction ability and explosive ability have always been the world of black people. It is expensive for foreign players to play a game, and I don’t know who the boss is today, so generous.
"Where's the audience?" Xu Dong asked the agent.
"There is no audience for this game today." The agent replied without looking up.
Xu Dong: "..." He looked sideways, and sure enough, he saw several cameras around the stadium.
Then he understood that the game was not without spectators, but the real spectators were behind the cameras. In a corner of the Internet, there is a hidden basketball live broadcast room, and the group of people hiding behind the network are waiting with bated breath for this carnival.
And this kind of competition... is usually accompanied by money.
This is not the first time Xu Dong has played such a game. At the beginning, he was very disgusted by this. He didn't want to be a pawn of the behind-the-scenes dealer, let alone an accomplice of online gambling. But under his grandfather's increasingly high medical bills, he bowed his head.
In ordinary wild ball games, he would have to play five or six games in exchange for an imported medicine at his own expense. But this is enough for him to play two games.
So, he covered his ears and didn't listen, closed his eyes and didn't look, stopped thinking and didn't think... He just played with his head down and didn't think about every time he scored a goal, there was a rush of money flowing on the basket.
Just as Xu Dong was warming up on the sidelines, another team walked into the stadium, presumably they were Xu Dong's opponents in this game.
Xu Dong quickly looked at his opponent.
Well, there are several players in the opponent's hands. He has partnered on the field before. They are all brave and resourceful, and they will be a good breakthrough for goals. There were also a few who were born in the wild. The way was too wild and the methods were too dirty. Xu Dong drew a red circle for them in his heart, reminding himself not to confront them, and the farther away from them, the better.
The last person in the team was a tall, thin man that was far more than two meters tall.
He's wearing headphones and the hood of his hoodie is buttoned over his head. He lowered his head with a casual look, and even the warm-up was a little perfunctory.
Xu Dong could not see his face clearly, but faintly, he felt a sense of oppression from that person.
After the warm-up exercise, the man finally took off his hoodie—two thick arms full of ghost patterns, showing them in front of everyone!
Xu Dong breathed for a while and recognized the identity of the man.
"Is this a joke?" Xu Dong's temple was buzzing, "Is that 'Tattoo Brother' Ding Man? Isn't he an active cba player?? He came to play wild ball???"
Who is the boss behind this game
"Keep your mouth shut." The agent glared at Xu Dong, "On the field, there are only losses and wins, it doesn't matter who your opponent is."
Xu Dong was instantly quiet.
"And..." The agent beckoned and motioned for Xu Dong to approach.
Xu Dong pursed his lips and leaned over.
The agent whispered, "Don't guard against Ding Man during the game for a while."
"what… ?"
"Don't understand?" The agent gave him a sideways glance and slowed down, "No, yes, defense, Ding, savage."
On the field, when someone is attacking, there must be someone defending. Ding Man is an active cba player and is destined to be everyone's primary defense target to prevent him from scoring points.
But the agent said that all Ding Man's offenses should not be defended, which means that...
"—You asked me to play match-fixing?" Xu Dong's expression changed instantly, "I told you a long time ago, I'm here to play, I can do anything, but the bottom line is to never play match-fix!"
Xu Dong looked at the cameras around the arena and didn't dare to think about how many people were waving money and betting on the arena during the online segment. What he gave was not just one ball, but how many people's hard-earned money.
"Xu Dong, you are really interesting." The agent said coldly, "How clean do you think you are? Do you think you are a hero who protects justice? Are you still talking to me about not playing match-fixing? From you in my hands You've been a part of this filthy quagmire since the day you got your first paycheck."
"… "
"Think about it." The agent pulled his collar, like slapping a wild dog, and patted his cheek contemptuously, "You know, there are always some physical collisions on the court... You say, if If someone 'accidentally' bumps you while you're taking a jump shot, what the consequences will be, I'm not sure."