Today, NBA commissioner David Stern felt that everything was not going well, first in the early afternoon, the NBA's official advertising department was working hard to promote the draft lottery, but suddenly a video came out and stole all the limelight, resulting in a lot of attention to the evening draft lottery.

Forget it, David Stern was expecting the No. 1 pick to be drafted by the Knicks and Bulls, two of the nation's largest and third-largest cities.

The Knicks selected Yao Ming, and the commercial value was definitely developed to the extreme.

The Bulls are the best and most likely to imagine, they have the same record as the Warriors 20-62, and the Bulls lost both games to the Warriors, so they are at the bottom of the league, with a 25 percent chance of getting the top pick.

The Bulls still have the strong basketball atmosphere left by Jordan, and Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, and the ball market is also ranked in the forefront of the NBA.

No matter how bad it is, it's okay to be drafted by the Warriors! Oakland's proximity to San Francisco, which is home to the largest Chinese population, also maximizes Yao's commercial value.

The bottom five Bulls, Warriors, Cavaliers, Knicks, Grizzlies, David Stern doesn't want Yao Ming to go, the Cavaliers and Grizzlies, and the other three are all successful.

In a way, it was fortunate that neither the Cavaliers nor the Grizzlies drew the top pick, but who would have thought that the Rockets, who ranked eighth from the bottom in the league, sent the team's star Steve Francis to draw the lottery, and they were stunned to win the lottery with an 8.9 percent chance of winning the lottery!

David Stern was going to cry at the time, and he could go to the Grizzlies and the Cavaliers! How can it be a rocket!

It's not that Houston is bad, Houston is too good, there are many rich people, and it is on par with Philadelphia in the race for the fourth largest city in the United States.

But the owner of the Rockets is a guy who picks the door to death, and the Rockets market is also extremely poor, and the attendance rate is about to catch up with the Nets!

Although the Cavaliers and Grizzlies are small cities, at least the ball market is good, and the boss is willing to spend money!

First of all, Liu Mang made the attention of the draft conference lower in the afternoon, and the publicity of the new season started unfavorably, David Stern was already very depressed, who knew that there would be such a show again in the evening.

I knew that I wouldn't have done any draft restructuring, and how good it would be to be the first to get the champion directly!

After the draft, David Stern went back to the office and sighed for a long time, it was past 12 o'clock in the morning, he was still thinking of a way but couldn't think of a way.

If it's a local American player, David Stern won't mind where he goes, because local stars don't need to be promoted so much, and talented stars with superstar potential can also drive the popularity of small city teams.

But overseas is different, especially in Asia, where it is rare to have two young players with good prospects in the NBA.

David Stern feels that his strategic prospects for the Chinese market are bleak, and the rookie who has been played out is getting into trouble all day long, and one of the most important little giants has been selected by a miser, this miser sees that Yao Ming's value is not squeezed to death, David Stern himself does not believe it, and this miser will definitely not consider anything about this champion sign.

But there is a saying that no pole Tailai, and just when David Stern thought it was a dark day, his secretary excitedly rushed into his office.

“Boss！ It's up! Boss！ It's up! The female secretary general, who was already gray-haired, in her 50s, completely lost her usual solemnity and calmness, and shouted excitedly.

Gone up? What's up? Affiliate Stocks? How much can those funds go up!

David Stern took the document from the Secretary-General's hand and looked at it, and Stern stood up in fright.

It's already past 12 o'clock, that is, less than 5 million live streams were sold yesterday morning, and by 1 p.m. yesterday when David Stern received first-hand information, the average live stream sales of the first four were less than 1.3 million.

This is still the time period when it should be the hottest after the finals matchup, only so many points, David Stern originally estimated that the average viewership share of this year's finals could be six or seven million.

Last year's 11% ratings were the lowest since the 1982 Magic Bird Championship, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to break 10 this year.

In fact, this year's Finals would have been 6.2 percent lower than the 8 percent rating of the 2005 Finals, not just a new low, but the lowest in history since the 1975-1976 season when the Finals were broadcast live in the United States! The previous all-time low was 6.7 percent for the Celtics in 1981 against the Rockets.

Seeing the unstoppable momentum of the Lakers, who are about to win three consecutive championships, make the NBA Finals feel dispensable, O'Neal was crowned the most dominant center in history, but not many people want to watch the game lose suspense.

But now David Stern has gotten the latest number of live bookings to 22 million! And the momentum of growth is getting stronger and stronger, from two o'clock in the afternoon, the number of prepaid fans began to skyrocket, and now, the average of the four games, each has more than 5 million live broadcast bookings!

The Grand Final starts on June 3rd, with two full days and one day!

With that much time to go, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to reach the ratings of last season's finals!

"Cheryl, what's going on?" David Stern was excited and wondered, could it be that the data was wrong!

Female secretary general Cheryl Carter turned on the computer in front of David Stern, logged on to several large fan forums, and then took out a notebook and said: "According to the statistics of the TV station, there is a significant scheduled growth rate around two o'clock in the afternoon, and the growth rate is getting faster and faster, until it enters the late night at 10 o'clock, and there are still people booking before the suspension of paid reservations at 11 o'clock, and it is estimated that there will be a lot of upside potential tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." ”

Flipping through the pages, Cheryl Carter continued: "According to our investigation, Ace Liu's video was released at one o'clock in the afternoon, which sparked a craze on the Internet, and comments on many websites showed that most fans had ideas about this year's finals because of Ace Liu's video......"

Needless to say about the female secretary in the back, David Stern browsed through the various forums and saw it himself.

"Wow, this year's finals are in sight, Kidd will be angry when he hears Ace's words! How will he prove himself? Poor Kidd, O'Neill is too strong! ”

"Will Kobe Bryant want to prove that he's better than O'Neal and then play around and cause the Lakers to lose? It's so interesting......

"Ace-Liu stupid, Kidd will prove that you are a fool, I believe Kidd can win......"

"Ace-Liu is such a despicable villain! I want to shake the strength of our team! Although I can't afford to buy tickets, I still have to watch the live broadcast and cheer! ”

"Ace has offended both of them! I love this rookie so much, he always makes my boring moments interesting, and I'm going to have to see how Kidd and Kobe Bryant play in the game......"

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Such evaluations can be seen everywhere, of course, there are many who scold Liu Mang, or the ridiculing Kobe Bryant ridicules Kidd, but those David Stern can't take care of it, he focuses on the point!

David Stern, who was still quite dissatisfied with Liu Mang's love of causing trouble, now thinks that this rookie is really outstanding! Not only did the ball play well, the fans paid high attention, but also did things to increase the ratings when the ratings were sluggish!

David Stern completely forgot how he scolded Liu Mang in his heart before, and now he thinks this rookie is really amazing!

Although this grand finale will not reach the miraculous ratings of 1998 in any case, it will definitely be able to get out of the bottom ranks!

During the Magic Bird period and Jordan's six-time championship period, the NBA Finals ratings have never been lower than 15 percent, and the highest in recent years is 13 percent in 2000.

When the next day, when the news that the ratings of the finals might have increased greatly because of Liu Mang's video came out, Liu Mang was dumbfounded when he saw the news, he still has this effect?

That's! Co-authored yourself to become the best paid live salesperson?

For the gratitude of the NBA officials who can be felt thousands of miles away, Liu Mang's mood is the same as Miss Guo, who accidentally helped Mo Xiaobei to be admitted to the academy, he said: No thanks, embarking on the road of sales champion is purely accidental......

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Liu Mang's recent behavior has become the focus of attention for NBA fans.

Although neither Kidd nor Kobe Bryant responded to Liu Mang's previous spoof videos, Liu Mang still attracted the attention of fans.

Even if Liu Mang drove the ratings of the NBA Finals, the fans' attention to him seems to be higher than that of the Finals!

This has never happened before in the history of the NBA.

The next day, Children's Day, Liu Mang's return to the stadium for training also attracted widespread attention.

It's only been a few days off, and I've started training again, not only is he a hooligan and shameless, but he also works so hard and already has a certain strength, which has added a lot of fans to Liu Mang.

Most of the Eagles staff have been on vacation since May 28th, and many things on the other side of the game venue have been dismantled, and the Phillips Arena has to be rented out for some other activities during the offseason.

The training ground didn't have much of an impact, except for the fact that only the action personnel who were responsible for cleaning and tidying things up and even the trainers were on vacation, everything else was fine.

After a busy season, trainers, assistant coaches, head coaches, etc. have all begun to take vacation, until the start of the summer league, they are all on vacation, Coach Kruger went to Hawaii with his boss for a vacation, and did not return to work until the finals are over and the trade market opens.

The free market for the NBA season is open from July 1 to the trade deadline at the end of February, and no trades can be made at other times, although there are exceptions, that is, between the Finals and the draft, you can trade the draft picks with this draft, such as the Blacksmith Jr. being traded to the Lakers just after being drafted, and something like that.

And the trade after the draft will need to wait until the free market opens to officially finalize, such as the Rockets trade to get a big trade of 58.

After the free market opens, it does not mean that the signing or trade can be done immediately, but there needs to be a buffer period, and everything can not be officially completed until July 7, before which only free agents can be contacted and negotiated. In the case of a trade, the management of the two teams is unlikely to regret anything, but free agent signing is not necessarily, and there are still examples of anti-bone boys and Joe keeping promises.

Liu Mang's training didn't have any effect, he practiced his own, three-pointers, step-by-step layups that changed the rhythm after breaking through the layup, and Goran Dragic's fast low-handed layup skills.

Liu Mang's goal this summer is very clear, the first is to make the three-point score better, in order to break the current maximum three-point ability value of 88 earlier.

The second is to enhance the ability to score under the basket, that is, the success rate of breaking through the layup, and the ability to learn to play with Jordan.

Liu Mang's height is good among point guards, and his height of 1.93 meters does not suffer as a shooting guard.

The third is strength training, enhance confrontation, this has to be learned from the iron-blooded Malone, how can you be so old and still able to carry Duncan while the iron-blooded jump shot is so accurate.

The fourth is to learn pick-and-roll skills from Stockton.

He has the miracle of blocking and demolition, but the method of using it is so clumsy that Liu Mang can't stand it anymore after beating the East Duel, and he is far worse than Kidd, let alone Stockton.

When Liu Mang and his teammates block and dismantle, except for his teammates who receive him in the gap and shoot the ball will be very accurate, the others are gone, and it is difficult for teammates to have a gap, most of his ability to use the master of blocking and dismantling is to use the speed bonus and strength bonus of the master of blocking and dismantling, and the ball is extremely poor, and he is blind to this skill.

It's unlikely that you can accomplish all of these goals in one summer, but at least you have to learn them all and practice them yourself in the future.

The fiasco of the Eastern Decisive Battle, although Liu Mang could think about it, but the blow to him was not small after all, and seeing it and being hit were two different things.

And often people who can see it will work harder to improve themselves.

Seeing open is not the same as getting by, being obedient is not called being open, that is called weakness, seeing open is to be clear about yourself, accept reality, and work hard to fight back!

The blow of this East Final, the desire for the future, and the fact that the two opponents, who were already strong opponents in the next few years, have become even more hostile, and Liu Mang is full of endless motivation for boring training.

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After Liu Mang trained for two days early and returned late, the time came on June 3, and the time for the first game of the NBA Finals arrived.

Early in the morning, just after dawn, it was only six o'clock, and Dina ran down to wake up Liu Mang.

"Dinah! Why are you arguing with me so early......" Liu Mang was so painful that he put the quilt on his head.

"Uncle said that he would take Dinah to the Six Nations Park today!" Dinah forcibly lifted Liu Mang's quilt.

"I'll see, it's only six o'clock! Little children need to sleep more to grow taller! Liu Mang shouted angrily.

"It's okay, Dinah's parents are very tall, don't worry about growing tall!" Seeing that Liu Mang was still lying on the bed, Dina began to grab Liu Mang's face with her hands and pull it around.

"Why did you go and get up so early at noon!"

"Of course you have to be early, uncle, aren't you going to meet the guests in the morning, get ready early, and we will go to the park early after meeting the guests!"

"Okay, okay, I'll get up, you go wash up, let's go have breakfast......"

Liu Mang was so sad that he got up to brush his teeth and took Dinah to breakfast.

This day was the day when Liu Mang made an appointment to take Dinah to the Six Nations Playground in Cottage, Georgia.

The Six Nations Playground in Seatlanta is a park that has been established in the colonial period, called the Five Nations Park in those years, and it is a place for the imperialist "aristocrats" to play, namely Spain, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Principality of Georgia supported by the colonial countries at that time.

The name was changed to Six Nations Park is the American Confederate State established here by Jefferson Hamilton Davis during the American Civil War, and then the end of the four-year American Civil War, in order to commemorate the hundreds of thousands of people who died due to the war, it was renamed Six Nations Park, more than 100 years later, Six Nations Park was developed next to it, and the playground was developed using the tourism resources here, and the visitor flow has been very good.

Dinah has always wanted to go here to play, but Levia is lazy, just don't take her there, so she has been pestering Liu Mang, it just so happens that today Liu Mang is a day of rest after Liu Mang has trained for two days, there is an important meeting in the morning, you can take Dinah to the playground at noon, and you can watch the finals when you come back in the evening.

The important meeting was a phone call received on the 1st, the members of the 2002 World Championships special team of the Blue Association had already arrived in the United States, and began to conduct preliminary investigation and study of Indianapolis' safety and facilities very early, and the officials they sent to negotiate with Liu Mang had arrived in Atlanta yesterday, and the team led by Wang Fei, the current head coach of the national team, had a meeting at the Savannah Hotel at half past nine this morning.

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Liu Mang got up and took Dinah to breakfast, and then came back and put on a suit, put on a tie, a handkerchief in his chest pocket, and dressed very formally.

When the time was almost up, Liu Mang drove off and arrived at the Savannah Hotel, just after nine o'clock, there was no problem to arrive a little earlier, and he seemed to be sincere.

Playing for the country always has a sense of national honor, and of course Liu Mang also wants to join the national team, so it's a good thing to show his sincerity early.

Liu Mang went to the front desk to ask if there was a Chinese to book the conference room, the female staff at the front desk looked at Liu Mang so excited, now Liu Mang's popularity in Atlanta is extremely high, higher than Rahim and Terry, signed a group photo, and finally inquired clearly that there are indeed Chinese people who have booked the conference room, and then the front desk called to inquire, and brought Liu Mang to the conference room, Liu Mang waited for a few minutes, Xu Jicheng of Xinhua News Agency and a man with little impression of Liu Mang and a few people who looked like they were domestic officials at their age.

After a friendly and harmonious greeting, Liu Mang saw the strange clause that made people frown.