Chapter 744 If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight
"Lin Weirui?"
Xu Jie, who was sitting in the office with the air conditioner blowing on, raised his eyebrows when he heard Yu Bowen's words.
He didn't expect that Yu Bowen would give him such an unexpected answer.
What are he and Xie Pengpeng worried about now?
What bothers them is that the long preparations, the building of so many connections, and the use of so much funds have all turned out to be in vain.
If you want to support the operation and development of a professional basketball club, there are many links involved.
The home basketball stadium, club professionals, competitive coaches and players, market promotion...
Xu Jie and the others are really working hard to prepare for the establishment of a local professional basketball club in Zhongnan City.
Once the CBA's military expansion is completely stopped, they will really feel uncomfortable inside.
Yu Bowen actually told him that Lin Weirui could solve such an unexpected situation that even Xu Jie found very distressing and had no way to deal with it?
Xu Jie didn't understand the key points for a while.
Yu Bowen, who was on the other end of the phone, heard Xu Jie's doubts and didn't give in to him.
"Yes, Teacher Xu."
"If you want to solve your current troubles, I think only Lin Weirui can do it."
Xu Jie frowned and asked, "How to do it?"
Yu Bowen still had a calm accent and analyzed Xu Jie bit by bit:
"The CBA's expansion is essentially the Basketball Association's desire to better develop domestic professional basketball."
"Whether it is Chairman Yao or the top brass of the Basketball Association, they actually do not want the military expansion plan to be shelved or even permanently shut down."
"I think Teacher Xu should understand this."
Xu Jie nodded in the office.
Yu Bowen’s words are easy to understand.
In terms of early preparation and investment, not only the major provincial capital cities that do not have CBA teams are doing this, but the Basketball Association is also doing a lot of related work.
If the expansion plan is completely shut down, it will not be of any benefit to the Basketball Association itself.
And from the long-term perspective of basketball development, it will hinder the development of domestic basketball.
Xu Jie also recognized this.
At this time, he heard Yu Bowen say:
"Why is the military expansion suspended so urgently? I think Teacher Xu can also understand the difficulties of Chairman Yao and others."
"The fact that the Shanghai Men's Basketball Team and the Suzhou Men's Basketball Team have openly engaged in match-fixing is a certainty. Even the Basketball Association and even the General Administration of Sports must weigh the impact of such a bad incident on public opinion."
"It is better to guard against the mouth of the people than to guard against the river."
"At this time, we cannot suppress public opinion. We must let the fans vent their dissatisfaction."
"No matter how harsh the fans scold you, you still have to endure it."
"Under the pressure of public opinion, the military expansion will definitely be reconsidered."
"This is something that Chairman Yao and the others cannot take charge of."
If Chairman Yao had taken the initiative, the military expansion would not have been put on hold or shut down.
Xu Jie believes that Chairman Yao, who has been a professional player all the way to the present, understands what the domestic professional league lacks and what it needs.
But to put it bluntly, the chairman of a basketball association has not yet reached the point where his hands and eyes are all over the place.
There are many things that Chairman Yao cannot control himself.
The suspension of military expansion was naturally an order issued by a higher-level leader.
After all, military expansion was one of the reform plans led by Chairman Yao after he came to power.
How could he destroy it himself?
When Yu Bowen said this, Xu Jie had a little guess in his mind.
In the final analysis, is it because the two teams engaged in match-fixing that the expansion plan was shelved?
No.
The two teams blatantly engaged in match-fixing, which was just the trigger of the incident.
Essentially, it is a large number of basketball fans in the country who are dissatisfied with the stagnant or even declining development of the Dragon State men's basketball team in recent years.
This dissatisfaction has a long history.
After last night's match-fixing incident came out, it completely ignited the anger of fans and triggered public opinion.
Faced with the pressure of public opinion, who dares to mention the CBA’s military expansion at this time?
Isn’t that asking for death?
Xu Jie guessed that Yu Bowen mentioned Lin Weirui at this time, maybe because he wanted him to regain the confidence of domestic basketball fans like Chu Xiaoran, right?
If he were elected as the NBA's No. 1 pick now, he might be able to single-handedly change the current situation.
but.
Now Lin Weirui is only playing in La Liga.
Compared with football's La Liga, the influence of La Liga on a global scale is far inferior to that of basketball.
When Xu Jie thought of this, he expressed his thoughts.
Yu Bowen laughed on the phone:
"I didn't expect Teacher Xu to figure out the key so quickly."
"You're right."
"The reason why this incident caused such a big sensation in just one day is that there is already a lot of resentment in the hearts of domestic basketball fans."
"Old fans all know that everyone originally thought that 2008 would be the beginning of the rise of the Dragon Nation men's basketball team."
"But I never thought it would be the peak in the past 20 years."
"After all these years, has there been any top basketball star in China?"
"Not really."
"Even in the Asian arena, the Dragon Nation men's basketball team no longer has the dominance it had in the past."
"The current men's basketball team is almost on par with men's football team."
"Can we basketball fans not be dissatisfied?"
"So, in the field of basketball, we also urgently need a hero like Chu Xiaoran on the green field to boost the confidence and morale of the fans."
"And Lin Weirui is the best candidate."
"As for what you're worried about, Mr. Xu, about the lack of weight in La Liga?"
"This is not a fatal problem."
"As long as his statistics there are explosive enough, his performance is eye-catching enough, and his various shots and dunks are explosive enough, domestic fans will naturally raise the weight of La Liga on their own!"
"By then, the domestic Internet will be filled with a lot of arguments like 'La Liga is the best basketball league in the world besides the NBA.'"
"We must never underestimate how crazy basketball fans are."
After listening to Yu Bowen's analysis, Xu Jie's slightly frowned brows gradually relaxed.
Yes, as long as Lin Weirui can excel in La Liga, why do they need to praise him?
Domestic basketball media, self-media, and basketball fans will definitely take the lead in the charge and praise Lin Weirui to the sky.
Once the fans' resentment and anger have dissipated, won't the CBA's military expansion be able to get back on track?
However, Xu Jie, as Lin Weirui's mentor, couldn't bear to put all this burden on Lin Weirui alone.
But how could he not know the truth that "if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight"?
On the phone, Yu Bowen told Xu Jie a lot about the means he planned to implement.
For example, buy hot searches, hire online influencers, find big Vs... and so on.
Xu Jie also did not expect that Yu Bowen was quite familiar with the field of online public opinion building.
"At 3 a.m. tomorrow morning, Dragon Country time, Lin Weirui will start his first official game in La Liga in Madrid."
"Whether he can change the current domestic basketball public opinion depends on whether he can bring us enough surprises in the game tomorrow morning."