Chapter 238 [Chasing the stars, you can have some snacks】
Guo Xu left behind two bodyguards, agent Hapi Watles, and he acted with him. Megan Fox and Claire Taylor quietly joined Kobe's team and returned to the United States early that night.
As soon as his identity was exposed, Guo Xu no longer needed a makeup artist and showed his true face.
No one in the Chinese media paid attention to Meghan and only regarded her as an irrelevant person. Guo Xu said in an interview that his friends were not celebrities, so no one deliberately dug out their news.
The staff saw Megan and Vanessa together. Some thought she was the best friend of the sister-in-law, and some suspected that she was her own sister. Their skin color was very similar, their hair color was very similar, their hair was average, and their lips were a bit similar.
While waiting for the flight at the airport, Vanessa said to Kobe: "Look at how considerate Jason is and how good he is to his girlfriend? He knows that he will be bored when he is engaged in activities with fans, so he asked Meghan to go home first. Then look at you, if you climb the Great Wall, you will run away first. Is there a husband like you?"
Kobe smiled and said, "That kid does have many tricks, but don't you just like me?"
Meghan sat aside and looked a little red, but she did not refute that she was not Guo Xu's girlfriend. After meeting more times, she would no longer treat Kobe and his wife as an outsider.
Meghan walked very slowly when she got on the plane and was reluctant to leave. This was the most unforgettable experience she had in her life.
On the other hand, the leaders of the Basketball Association cordially met Guo Xu, a big-name NBA star who is related to China, and immediately advocated changing him to a high-end hotel.
Guo Xu easily gained everyone's favor by saying "No appearance fee".
"My agent is not for business negotiations. Hapi is my friend, so we went out for a trip together. My father has always told me about the beauty of China. I am very yearning for this place. Now I finally have the opportunity to come and see it. Since I am a traveler, not a commercial activity, how can I collect money? Let's talk about it when I have an endorsement event in the future."
Guo Xu is easier to talk to than those purely Chinese CBA players. Some CBA players play big names in activities to pull themselves to the sky.
Starting from the earliest Washington Bullets to China to play the exhibition match in 1979, NBA players’ visits to China are mainly divided into three categories: participating in NBA league activities, participating in sponsor promotional activities and participating in commercial exhibition matches. In short, they all come for fame and fortune.
Guo Xu became an exception. He did not pay attention to the show. The Chinese side directly recognized everything and expressed his satisfaction. The Basketball Association arranged three days of activities, and Guo Xu also agreed happily, with zero appearance fee.
On the first day, he met Chinese fans at the Dongdan Basketball Stadium in Beijing.
Before getting off the car, Guo Xu asked the event host to enter the venue to maintain order, because now the students are on summer vacation, so there are too many people coming, and there are people standing on the roof, and everyone is afraid that an accident will cause injuries to fans.
After confirming that there was no danger, Guo Xu appeared to meet the fans and chatted and interacted in Chinese throughout the whole process.
The host praised Guo Xu for being approachable and not being arrogant.
Guo Xu said: "I can get to this point today, which is inseparable from the support of the fans. It is precisely because of the many fans that there are stars and the development and growth of the NBA league. In my opinion, except for the game, fans are the first priority."
Guo Xu continued: "So, if there are stars who come to play big names in China in the future, no matter who they are, don't pay attention to him. In my opinion, no one is unattainable. All the popularity of stars is given by fans. Without the support of fans, stars are just ordinary people who play basketball well. Remember, you are very important!"
All the fans applauded wildly together. Who doesn’t like being valued?
Guo Xu's words may affect the financial path of some people in the future, but that is not his fault. Is it reasonable to be a big shot?
Guo Xu mainly targets the famous "basketball flyer" Michael Jordan. In his previous life, Jordan came to China for the first time in 2004, with extreme luxury and extremely mysterious.
He flew to Beijing on a Nike special plane and only ate food airlifted from Italy for dinner. It was as if the exquisite Chinese food prepared by the Chinese side was poisonous, as if he had never eaten fries, hamburgers and other junk food when he was young.
He stayed in a six-star luxury hotel for about $5,000 a night and rarely made public appearances during three days on the mainland.
In New York, Jordan could chat with fans for a few minutes on the spot, "Why didn't go to the Knicks in 1995?" But when he arrived in China, Jordan became a truly high-ranking god. He fell away in a hurry, bringing a whirlwind and rolling up some sand. He did not teach people to play basketball, did not accept interviews, but only let many people know how to sell shoes.
In the original plan, Jordan should have "received" Chinese fans at the Dongdan Basketball Stadium, but he eventually canceled the event, which made countless Chinese fans coming from all over the world heartbroken, and some even burned the No. 23 jersey on the spot.
Afterwards, Jordan's "hunger marketing" in China Tour was very successful, successfully shaping an unattainable image, further strengthening the concept of "God of Basketball" in China. In 2015, the leader of the Joe came to China for the second time as the boss and the Hornets. After 11 years, Jordan's identity has gone from a player to a boss, and what remains unchanged is his super high popularity.
In the eyes of many fans, Jordan is flawless. Jordan has indeed made outstanding contributions to the development of the NBA. The league has been praising Jordan for his life, erasing most of the black spots for him and creating a flawless hero image. But is this really the case?
Jordan in life is gambled, lustful, mean and stingy.
Everyone knows about his gambling and romantic sex, so needless to say.
When he was a player, Jordan scolded the team boss for being stingy and when he was a labor-management dispute, he scolded the capitalist. The league was in a dark battle that year, just to allow the Bulls to give him $30 million a season in the last two seasons of Jordan.
When Jordan became the owner of the Bobcats, he was the stingiest boss. In order to save money, he would rather trade the team's top player, Gerald Wallace, at that time, but the annual salary of "Elvis" is less than 10 million yuan, with a low salary and high energy.
When the league was suspended in 2011, Jordan was tough and unwilling to give in to the labor force. He didn't even want players to get a 50% share in basketball-related benefits. He hoped that the players would get 10-20 percentage points less than before. Many media criticized Jordan as a despicable and greedy ungrateful wolf.
Apart from Jordan, Iverson is the one who loves to be a big shot.
In Guo Xu's previous life, Chinese media repeatedly exposed the rude performance of this balloon star, but this could not stop Aimee from celebrating his worship. Iverson almost didn't speak throughout the whole time when he held an event at Xi'an Station. He accompanied Iverson the most on his phone and girlfriend. During the event, he always kept calls, and he looked like "Boss Ai" who was busy with trouble. Of course, fans still kneel down and cry as if they should!
Later Iverson found that Aimee's money was very easy to make. After publicly saying in 2015 that he "don't want to come to China again", he came to China to make money every year. He probably lost all gambling and needed to make more money back and continue to bet.
Even though Guo Xu has become one of the stars now, he can't stand the extreme style of star-chasing people. In reality, he cries like a star who dies when he sees a star. Is that as for it?
Guo Xu doesn't need to name a name now. He just digs a hole for those future big-name stars in China. Who can they blame when they jump in? Go to his hunger marketing and his unattainable.
He is not afraid of spoiling Chinese fans. Star chasers are not so easy to change, and most of them are cute.
Chapter completed!