I was determined to be bad, but I went straight to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Chapter 166 An Abnormal Person (Part Three)
Min Congda recently became the manager of the team and the general manager of Otaku.

In the middle of the season, the team's performance can be said to be good or bad.

Although Curry's performance in January was amazing, he won the best of the month.

But 8 wins and 3 losses in the 5 consecutive away games, and Min Congda was given another [-] US dollars in salary.

The team's record came to 26 wins and 22 losses, although it broke the 50.00% winning percentage.

But in the fiercely competitive West, it still only ranks ninth.

There is a gap of 2.5 wins with the eighth Spurs in the West, and the Rockets and Hornets are chasing after them.

The team's combat strength is unstable, losing consecutive games, and the main point guard Baron Davis is affected by a knee injury. The situation in the playoffs is not optimistic.

As long as he doesn't make the playoffs, Min Congda thinks everything is easy to talk about.

He's been devoting most of his energy lately to running his NBA-Batman account.

Because of the continuous release of some insider information with a nose and eyes, the number of fans of this account has increased rapidly.

With the spread of viral social networks, after more than a month of fermentation, it ushered in an outbreak period.

When Min Congda opens his Twitter account every day, he can see a large number of new fans and private messages in the background.

He and Fan Chen jointly operated this account. Of course, Fan Chen was very curious about Min Congda's identity, and even more curious about where he got the news from.

But he never asked, and kept his mouth shut to the people around him, which became a secret in his heart.

Now in the middle of the season, rumors of various NBA transactions are everywhere, and it is time for various sources to show their magic.

Most well-known sports reporters have sources on each team who can provide first-hand information.

As second-hand news dealers, these sports reporters get fans' attention by publishing news in the first place.

To put it bluntly, it is a middleman, and the news itself is worthless. Whether a team trades or not, who signs and waives, it will be made public sooner or later.

What is really valuable is time. Whoever can publish the news first, or even predict the news in advance, will get the most attention.

After all, news news, the key lies in a "new", once everyone knows, this news is worthless.

Why don't NBA teams make direct announcements themselves?
If NBA teams disclose all kinds of information at the first time every time, there will be no living space for gossip and sports media.

Similar to factory direct sales, there is no middleman to make the difference, and the profit margin has indeed increased.

But without middlemen to promote products and expand the market, the sales of manufacturers' products will also decline.

Therefore, many manufacturers will establish good relationships with middlemen, protect middlemen, and make money for everyone.

The relationship between the NBA and the media is the same. If I send a message directly to the fans, the media will not be the drummer.

Without the media as advocates, how can fans have consumption stickiness, and how can they deeply participate in this game?
Therefore, NBA officials have always attached great importance to the relationship with the media, such as setting a media open day, every game must accept post-match interviews, and various cooperation with the media, etc.

This ensures the development and growth of the NBA in terms of public opinion. Otherwise, no matter how good your Jordan and Kobe games are, and no one promotes them, who cares whether you are good at playing?

It is an unspoken rule of the industry for insiders of the team to leak information to the middleman media.

It didn't break the rules of the entire league, and at the same time gave the team room to operate in private.

Sometimes some news has a great impact on transactions, drafts, and signings.

It is common to release news, whether it is false or true, true or false, raising prices or tearing each other down.

It fully reflects the ups and downs of the mall, and has also become a part of the NBA's excitement.

But Min Congda is not a simple insider, he is directly the general manager of the team!

He doesn't do any leaking of news. He acts as a spy and source of information himself, and asks a domestic college student to help him set up an account to tweet.

Anyone who is a little bit normal can't do this, so why would a dignified team manager do such a thing?

If it is found out by NBA officials, it will lose face and job, and there will be no income, so no one will do this.

But Min Congda is obviously not a normal person, he is too fucking abnormal.

Those media middlemen who blindly tout the league's teams and players are not what he wants.

Before Ruiqielai entered the office, Min Congda was still sitting in front of the computer happily watching NBA-batman's account tweets and replies.

In order to prevent the IP address from being tracked, Min Congda did not dare to log in to the account at the Clippers headquarters, but returned home and used a VPN to log in and post content.

Or send articles and tweets to Fan Chen and let him operate and publish them.

After all, the influence of the account is getting bigger and bigger, and it has attracted the attention of the authorities.

There are also quite a few NBA players, and the reporter followed this account.

A few days ago, Fan Chen pleasantly told Min Congda that Baron Davis followed NBA-Batman.

Min Congda thought to himself, no matter how awesome you Yankee is, you can't reach out to China, the Chinese police are not used to you.

This account only involves NBA team news, and does not involve national security, commercial secrets or political content, so the safety factor is still very high.

Even if the NBA's internal risk control and public opinion department wanted to investigate, it would be difficult to find out about Chinese college students, and it was even more difficult to find out about Min Congda.

The phone rang suddenly, and Ada told Min Congda that Mr. Richley had something to report.

"Let him in, and pour me a glass of lemonade, Ida, by the way, thank you."

As soon as Rickley entered the office, he shouted: "The big thing is wrong, Mr. Smart, our team has encountered a lot of trouble in public opinion!"

When Min Congda heard it, trouble?That's a good thing, how can you call a big thing bad.

"Don't worry about Rob, if you have something to say, nothing is a big deal except the bankruptcy of the team."

"Well, going bankrupt is not a possibility, but our team's image is at risk of being damaged! Uh, from this perspective, image bankruptcy is also bankruptcy."

"Stop talking nonsense, talk about the key points, what's the matter?"

Rickelle wiped his sweat and said, "Recently, a mysterious account appeared on Twitter. It knows a lot of inside information about the NBA. Recently, the trade deadline is approaching, and he has received more and more attention."

"So? What does this have to do with us, I'm not ready to trade."

Min Congda already knew it in his heart, but pretended not to know anything.

"This account also often publishes news related to the Clippers, but...but it is all negative and non-existent content. If such content is mixed in, the impact will be very bad!"

Seeing Ruiqielai getting angry in a hurry, Min Congda chuckled inwardly, knowing that his method was right.

He coughed lightly, controlled his expression, and said: "The United States is a society of free speech, everyone is free to express their views and opinions, as for the impact, the public should judge for themselves, right? ?”

Rachel picked his face and said, "Uh... that's what I said, but we still need to clarify those remarks that are obviously biased."

"Then make a clarification, don't care what others say, let's just be ourselves."

Rickelle felt that what Smart said seemed to make sense, but he was different from such a large-scale person, and he looked at problems from a particularly high-level perspective, and there was no trace to be found.

He who was still in a hurry to get angry was persuaded by Min Congda with a few words.

At this time, Ada came in with lemonade, and Min Congda said, "By the way, Ada, book me a ticket to New York. Tonight, I'm going to New York."

Ada's face darkened, and she said, "Are you going to see your secretary?"

Min Congda smiled and said, "It's not the secretary, it's Daddario. The movie she starred in is about to premiere. I was invited to attend."

Ada put the lemonade on the table with a bang, and went out to book a ticket for Min Congda.

(End of this chapter)