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Chapter 249 Crazy fans(1/2)

The NBA League has never lacked popular balloon stars, and the popular social media has become an important basis for judging the popularity index of the star.

Espn recently counted the 25 stars with the largest number of new fans since 2010, among which Wu Huang ranked first with absolute advantage, Kobe second, James third... Stoudemire ranked tenth, Iguodala ranked twelfth, and McGrady ranked 20th.

This list is based on the total number of new fans of each star on the two major social networking sites of Titter and Fae Pok, in 2010. Wu Huang ranked first with 1.66 million new fans. There is no doubt that Wu Huang has gradually become the most popular star in the league. After leading the Knicks to the Eastern Conference semi-finals this year, he began to gradually replace Kobe who is aging among young fans. Even James of the Mesozoic generation is not as strong as him.

Although Kobe doesn't like to interact with fans on social platforms, he is still the most popular star in the league today. If Pan hadn't opened his own social platform in March this year, Wu Huang wouldn't think he would be the opponent of 33-year-old Kobe.

There has been a debate about who is the No. 1 star in the league before. Although there has been no conclusion, in terms of popularity, James has lost to Kobe. It seems that even if he wins the regular season MVP, Kobe still beats James in popularity. If it compares honors, let alone, Kobe has just led the Lakers to defend the title successfully and won the fifth championship ring of his career. If James wants to surpass Kobe, it seems that the chance is no longer great.

Following behind third place was MVP LeBron James, who not only had excellent personal data, but also led the Cavaliers to play only 60+ record in the regular season. However, the Cavaliers finally stopped in the Eastern Conference semi-finals. Coupled with all the breaks in the summer, James' popularity also dropped sharply, and he was surpassed by Kobe, who had just opened Facebook and Twitter for a few months.

In addition, former Suns star Amare Stoudemire ranked tenth with 690,000 new fans. Although he led the team to the Western Conference Finals last season, he obviously did not have an advantage in popularity. Some netizens also sarcastically said that perhaps the recent joining the Knicks will make his fans soar, otherwise he would not even have as many fans as Iguodala.

As for McGrady, who was once quite popular with Kobe Bryant, he is now ranked 20th with only 280,000 new fans. In the past three seasons, McGrady has been reimbursed early due to injuries. The injury and age issues have caused his competitive state to decline. Although McGrady was not injured last season, it was related to his inability to play. Since he has not appeared on the court for a long time, people's attention to McGrady declined. Another person who shares his illness is Iverson, who is only one higher than McGrady, and these two are really in trouble. At the same time, it has once again proved the cruelty of competitive sports. No matter how glorious you are, once you are old and weak, not many people will remember you, unless you can become the best one in history.

September 25th, the year of Gengyin [Year of Tiger], the month of Yiyou, and the day of Wuyin. It is advisable to be alone, pray for blessings, and set up a bed; it is advisable to play with fire, touch water, and go to the room.

Emperor Wu is about to start his trip to Asia tomorrow. Yesterday he had defeated Christine and Emma Watson one after another and would get on the plane tomorrow. Before leaving, he is about to take action against Taylor Swift.

"Silly girls, please let my brother go, otherwise I'm not polite." Just at 7 o'clock in the evening, Emperor Wu was browsing the news in his laptop on the bed, and suddenly he found someone bullying his brother below. The bitch was a little too anxious.

"I'm so worried about your head. I'm going to Europe to perform in October, so I might as well lend me your brother."

"You can say such words, why don't you lend me your sister?"

Emperor Wu suddenly thought of something, pushed Taylor Swift away, and snatched his younger brother from her mouth. Then he ran into the kitchen with a very unhappy look from the singer, turned around and came out with a large bucket of ice.

"Are you sick? Why do you get so many ice cubes?"

"It's still a cup of hot water."

Emperor Wu put down the ice, walked back and took a cup of hot water, then stood in front of the bed with a righteous expression, raised his head and said, "This is my new game. I will teach you how to play it before leaving."

Taylor Swift lay on the bed and held his chin. After hearing how to play, he was about to call him shameless, but then he thought of something and looked at him with a bad look on his face and asked, "Bitch, where did you learn this game?"

Emperor Wu was stunned when asked. Such a shameful and perverted game, it would be more than anything else. Of course Emma Watson taught him. But he couldn't let the little singer know that in addition to Christine, there was a girl with a heavy taste hidden outside. He immediately said with a serious look: "Don't think about it, I learned it from the website, and I watched genuine videos."

"Look at your slut. Before I mentioned who that bitch was, you know who I was talking about?" Taylor Swift picked up the pillow beside him, smashed it hard at Emperor Wu, and continued to ask: "Tell me quickly! Did you learn from that ****? You played some disgusting tricks with her without hiding it."

Emperor Wu avoided the attack of the pillow and said solemnly: "I have told you ten thousand times. I am not familiar with her at all. If you don't want to play it, forget it, I have other games."

Taylor Swift's eyes rolled and suddenly sneered: "Why not play? Such a fun game must be played." After that, he climbed out of bed with his hands and feet, and ran to the kitchen, not knowing what the hell was going.

Emperor Wu was full of suspicion and didn't know what the stinky woman had to do, but she always felt that it was not very good!

After a while, Taylor Swift returned with red eyes and a bottle of "Sprite" in his hand.

"Maybe you are planning?"

"Yes, this thing is also iced, it should be easier to use than your ice cubes, right?"

"The words are correct, but will it be a little too exciting?"

Taylor Swift's expression was clearly laughing at the moment, but there seemed to be tears in her eyes, looking like she was holding it hard.

When Emperor Wu saw it, he felt even more strange, but before he could ask anything, Taylor Swift had rushed up and caught his brother.

"Okay, although this is a little exciting, I should be able to hold on." Emperor Wu was overjoyed. Yesterday, Emma Watson coaxed his younger brother to no avail. Today, with the help of this bottle of Sprite, his younger brother should be happier.

"Is that so? I don't know if you can hold on or not. I can't hold on anyway." Taylor Swift quickly said the words that made Emperor Wu confused. Before he could react, his younger brother was swallowed by the little singer in one bite, and then... his younger brother caught fire!

"So spicy...ah!" Emperor Wu only felt the pain of his brother's fire and needle pricking, and quickly snatched it back, screaming and jumping three feet high!

"Bitch, you are going to murder your husband!" Emperor Wu's jump was nearly 40 inches, and his vertical bounce height was estimated to be close to 100m.

"I deserve it, now I see if you die... I'm so spicy." Taylor Swift hurriedly opened Sprite and poured it into her mouth. She was given spicy by chili oil. After drinking half a bottle of drinks, Taylor Swift continued to scold: "You bastard, I let you play games. This is the retribution you deserve. Today, let you know what the real 'ice and fire' is."

"There is fire, but what about ice! I feel the fire now, and it's almost burning me to death!" At this moment, Emperor Wu really felt that his younger brother was burned, and tears of pain came out.

Taylor Swift grinned when he saw Emperor Wu's pain, and his anger faded away, and he soon regretted it a little, because her relationship with Emperor Wu's younger brother was also extraordinary. If she really had a few shortcomings, she would not get any benefits.

"Okay, seeing you are so pitiful, I'll give you a icy ice... Don't move! Don't jump around!" Taylor Swift took a mouthful of frozen Sprite and leaned forward. With a "sharp" sound, Emperor Wu seemed to hear the sound of the flames being extinguished, and shouted in his heart: "I will never play this kind of game with this girl again!"

On September 26, the Knicks team went to Beijing. Four days later, their first game of the new season was the Houston Rockets, who also came to Asia to make money.

"Boss, you don't look good?" Garlinari sat with Emperor Wu on the plane. Emperor Wu's face was more than bad. The Italian couldn't help but ask.

"If you eat too much chili oil, you will get angry!" Emperor Wu said angrily, but his heart was secretly aching!

Yesterday his younger brother was like an Indian-Divine Oil. Although it was as hard as iron, he had no sense of consciousness and was just hard. That was useless! In the end, although he asked his younger brother to teach Taylor Swift's sister a lesson, he could not get any feedback from it.

Until this morning, his younger brother fought with Taylor Swift's sister for two more rounds, and then he regained some consciousness, but he didn't know if there would be any sequelae. In short, this stinky girl is too unreasonable, no matter how hard it is, he will feed Taylor Swift's sister with some chili oil next time.

The Knicks' trip to Asia has a total of seven games, and the first game will be held in Beijing. The venue is naturally at the "Wukesong Stadium", which is also the main venue for the Beijing Olympic basketball event.

NBA players have always been unwilling to run outside the United States before the season. The team will gain more benefits from it, and the league can also take the opportunity to expand its influence, but it will be a problem for players to keep flying and fly and the jet lag.

The Knicks coaching staff thought of the fastest "time difference" method. The flight landed in Beijing in the morning of local time. The Knicks players deliberately did not sleep before boarding the plane and waited for takeoff before sleeping. It was exactly the morning when they got off the plane. At this time, the "time difference" was almost half reversed.

"Boss, do you recognize beautiful girls in China?" Garlinari got on the plane and stopped going to sleep, asking such boring questions.

Wu Huang knew why he asked this. The Knicks' trip to Asia stipulated that players should not bring girls together. If they could not meet women for half a month, this would be a big challenge for a group of energetic NBA players.

"Idiot, Amare and Shaquill's girlfriend took a flight early in the morning and left first. Don't tell me you would naively think that the team would limit the players' private lives?" Wu Huang stared at Gallinari like a fool. He doubted whether this guy was silly.

Emperor Wu looked at Garlinari, who was stunned and shook his head in his heart. Emma Roberts used the excuse of handling the operation of Panda Video in China yesterday to go to China first. This time he had a premonition that no one could stop him from eating shredded radish.

But before eating shredded radish, Wu Huang still had several activities in Beijing. This time he had to follow the team to carry out activities, and he also took time to help UA promote his UA and signature sneakers.

UA sold three signature sneakers for Wu Huang last year, and finally sold US$25 million in the United States. This sales are not much, but in the Asian market, Wu Huang is still among the top, with sales in Asia reaching US$40 million, and it is the top in the Chinese market. His first signature shoe sold a total of US$82 million worldwide as of the end of September.

What is counted here is not the annual sales of sneakers, but just the sales of Wu Huang’s first generation signature shoes. This pair of sneakers will not be produced after the second generation is launched.

UA has started to clear the inventory of the first generation of sneakers last month. After all inventory is cleared, Wu Huang's sneakers can sell about US$90 million worldwide, ranking third among all the NBA's active stars. Kobe and James are still ahead of him.

Kobe's basketball shoes sales in the United States are at least five times that of Wu Huang, and James's sneakers sales in the United States are three times that of Wu Huang. In Asia, although Wu Huang surpassed these two, his lead is not much.

The new episode of "Fox Sports" predicts that Wu Huang's total sneaker sales in 2010 will reach US$100 million to US$120 million, ranking first in the top three in the sales of active players' sneakers. Kobe will still rank first in the sales of active players' sneakers, and stimulated by the successful defending title, his sneaker sales are likely to increase to more than US$250 million. James is affected by the failure to win the championship and summer transfer. Not only will his sneaker sales and Kobe's sneaker sales not only will not narrow the gap, but will further widen. In 2010, the annual sales may drop from US$200 million last year to about US$150 million, and the sales of his and Wu Huang's sneakers will also shrink as a result.

Wu Huang's UA. sneakers were launched in the United States on September 15th. After the preseason game started at the end of September, it will be distributed throughout Asia. He also has to bear the responsibility of promoting his sneakers during this trip to Asia. Who said that he did not go around the world like other stars in the summer, so he can only find opportunities to take advantage of the situation.

On September 27, at 9 a.m., the Knicks team successfully landed in Beijing. Thousands of fans who had undergone security reviews came to pick them up outside the airport.

Of course, these fans are almost all fans of Wu Huang. Although Sir and O'Neal have a certain reputation among Chinese fans, they are insignificant compared to Wu Huang. Now in China, even those who don't watch the game know who Wu Huang is.

Wu Huang has only been to China once. This is his second time to Asia and China, but his fame is no worse than that of a star who conducts commercial activities all day long. Who said he is the most outstanding in the world's sports field among the yellow race? Unless the yellow race has a C Ronaldo and Messi-like figure in the football world, Wu Huang will always be the representative of Asians in the sports world.

The tradition of Chinese people who like to watch the fun is once again promoted today. The original 1,000 fans were still very orderly under the security measures that had been prepared and would not cause stampede. But if thousands of pseudo-fans who had made temporary plans at the airport were added, the scene would soon become uncontrollable.

Wu Huang originally saw the crazy fans who kept shouting to him in the waiting hall and even cried in excitement. He felt that he had a unique face in front of his teammates, because 90% of these fans were wearing his jerseys.

But soon, Emperor Wu discovered that some unorganized people were mixed into the originally organized crowd.

There were suddenly more than twice as many fans in the waiting hall, and the airport security guards couldn't control it. Once there were too many people, it was not something you could keep in order just because there was not enough space. As long as someone pushed you, you would definitely hit someone else. This was a chain reaction. It would be difficult to control it without using a machine gun to shoot.

When Wu Huang saw the fans getting closer and closer to him, the originally orderly scene began to become more and more chaotic. He hurriedly notified the team to withdraw quickly! At the same time, he brought four big men, namely the bodyguards, quickly surrounded him to protect himself.

Just kidding, his life is very precious. Even the insurance company can't afford to lose even if it is broken. When he sees something wrong, he is of course the first to run away...

The Knicks also have their own security team when they come to China this time. Current superstars or former superstars like Wu Huang, Xiao Si, O'Neal also brought their own bodyguards. This is the so-called "wrist", not just a realistic need. How can big names like them go without a chance?

The Knicks team ran away very quickly, and with the leadership of Emperor Wu, he evacuated safely from the airport and headed straight to the booked hotel.

Emma Roberts stayed in the hotel early in the morning, but Wu Huang didn't have time to do bad things now. The team had a group activity tonight. The afternoon was originally a rest time for players, but Wu Huang, O'Neal and others also had their own arrangements.

Wu Huang was originally scheduled to arrive at the Peking University Stadium at 2 pm to conduct an exchange activity with the Peking University basketball team. This was an activity to enhance his image, and was arranged by Brandon's agent company for him.

When students from Peking University heard that Wu Huang was present, they were very popular. After lunch time, the scene was crowded with fans and spectators, with about thousands of people. Many people climbed to the roof to watch, or climbed through the window and entered the stadium, and the order on the scene quickly lost control.

At about 2:00 pm, the Volvo car carried by Emperor Wu was welcomed by the lane. Every time the car drove, it would be a big man to open the road, and it would take about 1 minute to drive 10 meters. According to the plan, the car would park at the entrance of the stadium. Emperor Wu got off and entered the stadium, but because there were too many people on the scene, the security guard had to close the door. At this time, many students rushed towards the iron gate of the stadium.

Later, Emperor Wu entered the stadium. As soon as the door opened, the students crowded towards the gate. Several security guards and police formed a wall to maintain order. However, during this process, some security guards were knocked to the ground and the people behind rushed forward. The worst stampede occurred at the scene. Afterwards, at least a dozen people were injured.

Some reporters desperately took pictures of the riot scene. A policeman was lying on the ground with blood on his face. The entrance to the stadium was filled with shoes, bags and other items left behind.

When Emperor Wu saw such a big scene, he was almost scared to death. He got off the car and hurried back into the car, asking the bodyguard to surround him and save his life first.

Finally, Wu Huang canceled the activities of Peking University and quickly left under the protection of police, security guards and bodyguards. Several policemen took down the billboards on the side of the court as stretchers and carried the injured out. The riot lasted half an hour after Wu Huang left, and the scene was still quite chaotic. The hospital had called 120 and more than a dozen ambulances rushed into Peking University.

"Damn, there are too many people, right?" Emperor Wu had never seen so many crazy fans. He would go to the "China Century Monument" to promote UA tomorrow. There would be no stampede incident at that time, right? He finally returned to his hometown once. When he left, he would definitely let dozens of compatriots be trampled to death. Then he didn't know how to deal with the aftermath.

"Boss, you have to pay us a salary." Wu Huang was thinking, and his security captain spoke with a depressed look on his face.

Emperor Wu turned around and saw that his security captain, who was nearly two meters tall, had two scars on his face at this moment, and his clothes were a little messy, just like he had just been caught by someone.

In the evening, Wu Huang followed the team to visit the Beijing Youth Palace and interacted with the children on the court there. Afterwards, the Knicks team appeared at Wukesong Stadium, bringing bloody dunk performances to the fans on the scene, as well as Wu Huang's magical super-long-distance shooting.

This event was much more orderly. The most interesting scene happened during the interaction between players and fans. A female player who got close contact with Wu Huang could not suppress her excitement and fell in his arms and cried bitterly, which scared Wu Huang again.

If female fans are too emotional and are prone to cry, there is another male fan who actually cried during the event.

A male fan finally saw the outline of Emperor Wu through many people. In fact, he couldn't even see his appearance clearly, and he was so excited that he burst into tears. In an interview, the crying brother even cried: "I am really so excited to see Emperor Wu. I couldn't help but cry, and I kept crying, and I couldn't help it now."

On September 28, the day after Wu Huang came to China, UA Company held an Asian media summit at the "China Century Monument" and grandly launched UA. basketball shoes. This sneaker is the most innovative new basketball shoes among Wu Huang's signature shoes. Wu Huang and sports shoe designers attended the summit.

UA. basketball shoes are designed to provide maximum comfort and stability. The sneakers use innovative cushioning technology launched by UA. Compared with the previous generation of basketball shoes, the upper technology of the new sneakers uses special fibers with higher tensile strength.

Wu Huang has been wearing his UA Basketball Shoes at the event, holding a pair of them in his hand, and said loudly: "UA.'s innovative technology has pushed my signature shoes to a higher level. My requirements for the game are gradually increasing. UA has designed and developed new sneakers for me as always, helping me succeed on the court."

UA. basketball shoes will be available in Asia on October 1, with a suggested retail price of RMB 1,290 per pair, while in the United States, it is US$199. There are only three pairs of signature shoes that can be sold at this price in the entire NBA. One pair belongs to Kobe, the other pair belongs to LeBron, and the last pair naturally belongs to Wu Huang.

When introducing the sneakers made from the latest technology and materials, UA shoe designer said: "When we conceived UA, we thought of a basketball shoe that was both firm and comfortable. The sneakers we designed perfectly blend excellent performance and gorgeous styles, while highlighting the personal style of Hugo. Wearing it will make you faster and more flexible."

Wu Huang himself also thinks that the UA generation is indeed a lot better than the previous generation of sneakers, especially this new shoe uses a 360-degree air cushion unit. This is the first technology launched by UA specifically for basketball, aiming to meet the requirements of modern basketball players to move and change positions on the court in multiple directions. It has extremely excellent comfort and can provide excellent cushioning function for needed parts.
To be continued...
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