"Haozi, who do you think is the best basketball player in the world?"

"Uncle, you asked a very stupid question...Oh, me!"

The names of domestic media in front of the camera have begun to change. Zhang Weiping's only name is called nickname, and others are called names, and more are called Chinese translations of nicknames. They are no longer called English names like before, following Americans.

In domestic reports, earlier, they would use a more ‘fashionable’ English name to transliterate it, or directly use it. After all, many people in China think this is more ‘fashionable’.

Now it has begun to change.

I don’t care about some things very much, and it’s not a bad thing.

But in a whole new era, these things become very important.

It is not a matter of overnight development to build confidence for the Chinese people, but if you do it one day earlier, you will get the results one day earlier.

"The new season is about to begin. Do you think you can complete the title defense?"

"I don't know, and I don't want to know now. I hope that there will be opponents who are stronger than we last season, maybe we are stronger than last season, so I also hope that there will be opponents who are stronger than us now, and I hope that the opponents can work harder and become stronger and snatch the championship from me."

"You want a strong enemy who can defeat you? Your thoughts are really different from others."

“I have stepped onto the top of the mountain and felt the trough, both of which have benefited me a lot.”

"57 wins, averaging triple-double, MVP, is it a trough for you?"

"The 64 win is the lowest time, and at that time I didn't even have room to fight back against the defending champions."

"..." Zhang Weiping tried hard to relieve his emotions. This brat pretended to be really a big deal!

But what people are telling the truth is even more challenging.

To change the topic, Zhang Weiping asked: "In next year's World Championships, we will once again compete with major basketball powers in the world. What is your goal?"

“Win the championship.”

"We are already the number one in the world, and we only have the championship to target?"

"No, I, Xiao Ming, KING, Brother Hu, Xiao Li... 12 of us are the world's number one, but our country's basketball is not."

"What's the difference? You can't represent the country?"

"We can represent the country, but we cannot represent the overall basketball of our country. It's very cruel. Our group of people are special. I have a domestic team and I often pay attention to them. I can clearly understand that the overall strength of young domestic players is much worse than that of our generation. Our basketball foundation is too weak and we need to do more work. This is cruel, but it is a fact."

"You and Yao are basically still very young."

"Yes, so Xiao Ming, KING and I have other outstanding domestic players who need to work together. Taking advantage of the strong influence of our generation, we will lead the foundation of domestic basketball in the next 10 and 15 years..."

...

On October 30, 2001, on the morning of the opening match between the Supersonics and the Kings, Zhang Hao accepted an exclusive interview with the imperial sports station.

The content of the interview is very different from before.

The vast China has always been the first in its eyes.

The great man drew a circle in the South China Sea, and the great national rejuvenation has entered a stage of vigorous development.

But it has been weak for a long time, and the Chinese people urgently need an image of a nation to enhance their confidence.

This person is Zhang Hao.

In the past years, the country did not make up its mind that most things would not be stopped and let them die.

At the 2000 Olympics, Zhang Hao showed the national flag logo in front of hundreds of millions of TVs around the world, and finally led the Chinese men's basketball team to win the world championship... It started to be different. Last season, domestic media reported Zhang Hao with unprecedented strength!

This unprecedented reporting and promotion efforts began with the news broadcast of the imperial court comprehensive station.

The Supersonics won the championship last season. On the night of the domestic time, the News Broadcast took 3 minutes to report the news related to Zhang Hao's team.

At present, the NBA is preparing to use Jordan and Zhang Hao's international influence to increase efforts to explore the Eurasian and Chinese markets and reduce losses. This coincides with the turbulence of the United States, and domestic senior officials issued instructions to follow the flow.

Not only did it help the NBA open up the domestic market, further enhance Zhang Hao's image as a Chinese, but it even spent money to promote Zhang Hao in other countries in Europe, Asia and Africa to help enhance the international influence of basketball.

After years of "inspection", domestic senior officials have made up their minds to promote Zhang Hao as a Chinese icon and to the world!

The cultural and sports industry finally had a real world-class superstar, promoting Chinese culture and the country bet on Zhang Hao!

In this regard, people have been sent to China to have had many contacts with Zhang Hao's father and Henry Thomas of the agency team.

After years of development, the team behind Zhang Hao has become very large.

Zhang Hao decisively chose to accept this matter.

A transaction that is not lost money must be done.

Moreover, as time goes by, Zhang Hao's ideas have already undergone earth-shaking changes.

He knew that he was just a basketball player, and he hoped to help the country in his way. Now that the way is right in front of him, just take a step forward!

Become a Chinese sports figure’s facade! A world-class facade!

Zhang Hao is determined to become a representative of a country’s image!

...

...

With the strong promotion of the NBA, the opening match of the new season has received a lot of attention.

Americans always have to find something to relieve the pressure. Not every American is worried about being attacked by terrorist attacks, but the stock market is falling, the Federal Reserve opens the gates and releases water, interest rates are lowered, inflation pressure is increased, prices are rising... Different people have different pressures.

Watching sports games is a good way to relieve stress.

Among them, the regular season opening game of the defending champion Supersonics team was of great attention.

On the afternoon of the 30th, 24 sports cars with wool green color were lined up in two rows and drove to the square outside the Seattle Key Stadium.

On the hoods of the two leading cars, one stands with 23 glowing golden light and the other stands with 24 glowing golden light.

The third model of Zhang Hao’s customized champion sports car!

The difference between Zhang Hao's own car and Jordan's car and other cars is that the two numbers that can be retracted or displayed are the same as others.

The last two digits of the license plate number are jersey numbers, 0X or XX. On the steering wheel, on the right side of the rear, there are words that are plated with the 2000-2001 Supersonics championship and the player's name.

The players who won the Supersonics last season, except for three players who changed teams, all came to the event.

In fact, there are more than 30 cars in total, and 4 cars are sent directly to the city where the former teammate who changed teams are located. April, Britney, and Little Loli are sent directly to their homes.

April and Britney’s may be open, and the little loli’s is used as the landscape of the manor being built…

The boss and the car in charge of each department was sent directly to his home, leaving 24 cars, 11 cars were the players who won the championship last season, and 13 cars were the coaching staff, trainers, and directors of each department.

This event, Ferrari, Tesla, and Supersonics, attached great importance to all three aspects and had already started publicity. Tens of thousands of onlookers came to the scene. For such things that could make people go out, the Seattle City Hall arranged a large amount of police force.

People may have consumption when they go out. Since September 11, the consumption intention of Seattle locals has been so sluggish...

The 7 new players, three of them, are very envious! If they want this car, only Chandler, the No. 3 pick, will not be too heartbroken, and the other two will be heartbroken so much that they can't breathe.

The four veterans made a lot of money. Ewing may have a financial crisis, but he made a lot of money in his career, and there are several cars and garages at home.

They didn't have much thought about this.

But the atmosphere on the scene made them involuntarily have an idea - boss, we also want a sports car!

...

At 7:30 pm, players from the Kings and the Supersonics entered the stadium of the Key Stadium one after another.

There were many celebrities on the scene, some wanted to watch the game, and some wanted to watch the camera.

The league has promoted the star representatives all over the world, led by veterans, Jordan, young superstars, and Zhang Hao. Both of them are on the same team. There are many countries that live broadcast this opening game.

Four retired stars, Hornersek, Much Brecklow, Schramf and Sam Perkins, were also invited to the stadium after the Supersonics entered the court.

Amid the cheers of more than 17,000 fans at the scene, the Supersonics raised the second championship flag in team history.

Zhang Hao originally wanted to send the ring, but the boss said no! He wanted to come in person!

Lelin, the baby daughter who was taken to the stadium by Howard Schultz, despised her father's fancy dress today...

Originally, Howard Schultz, in time and space, was full of confidence when he first bought the NBA team, otherwise he would not have been able to buy a team after the NBA suspension ended, Jordan retired, and the prospects for the NBA were unclear... Decisively spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a team.

But the original Supersonics team in time and space have become increasingly difficult since Howard Schultz bought it, and then they simply cannot make it into the playoffs... Howard Schultz feels that he is not the boss, but he just happened to meet a "local businessman" with an amazingly good talent with a young manager with an amazing talent in draft. He predicted that Chris Paul would be more talented and powerful than the top three geniuses in 2005. The new season was fulfilled, and Howard Schultz would be confident in selling the team to this "local".

But as a result, as soon as they bought the team, they applied to the league to move, because Seattle City Hall did not agree to pay for the money and land in the rookie arena. Howard Schultz went to sue and wanted to buy the team back, but failed, and eventually became the culprit for losing the team in the minds of Seattle basketball fans.

And here, Howard Schultz feels that he is the best boss in the world!

2 years of age, 1 champion!

50% chance of winning the championship, who else!

Zhang Hao looked at Howard Schultz, took the ring that belonged to him, and walked to the farthest end of the crowd...

Every time my father Zhang Weidong and Howard Schultz finished talking about business, he would return to Zhang Hao to sigh at how powerful Howard Schultz is, allowing Zhang Hao to learn more with Howard Schultz.

Learn this?

On the other hand, Kings players came to Key Stadium in the morning and saw the Supersonics celebrated variously.

At first, the team staff organized an event for fans outside the stadium, and in the afternoon I saw a customized sports car.

The current pre-match activities are simple and simple, but they are the most envious of Kings players!
To be continued...