Chapter 33 Quasi-Celebrities
Chapter 33 Qualified Celebrity
When Jiang Jun rushed to the "Houde Restaurant" in the south garden of the school, it happened to be twelve o'clock noon.
At Ningdu University, there are three canteens, which are usually served for teachers and students in the school. Next to the third canteen, there is a two-story building named "Houde" restaurant, which means: "self-improvement and good virtue carry things" is not large in scale, mainly for the school to welcome and send to the school, and occasionally it can be used to make teeth and sacrifices for some students at gatherings.
Although this restaurant is inconspicuous, it has fine dishes and pure taste in Jiangnan. People who have eaten it often praise it. After Principal Chen took office, he stipulated that except for school celebrations and other activities with a large number of people, all social engagements and dining in the school must be held in this Houde Restaurant.
Jiang Jun had eaten in this restaurant several times because of the team. He knew that the reporters who entertained CCTV must be in the largest private room, so he knocked in the door without hesitation.
When I saw that there were already several people in the private room, they were all standing and chatting. Principal Chen Yue, school Youth League Committee Secretary Xu Ruoyan, coach Bian Kangxiong, teammates Yu Zixuan, Qiao Xiaodan, and three other strange faces, a middle-aged man, a stout young man, and a young beauty, probably all of them are from the crew.
Xu Ruoyan, secretary of the school’s Youth League Committee, was about 34 or 35 years old. When she saw Jiang Jun coming, she held up her glasses and nodded with a smile: "Jiang Jun, you are the latest. Let me introduce you to you. These are all major reporters from CCTV Sports Channel. This is Director Ma Yueshan, Ma, host Miss Chen Lili, and this is the camera reporter Wang Xuan. Three comrades, this is Jiang Jun from the school team, and a top student in the journalism department. Speaking of which, they are still with you."
Jiang Jun nodded and greeted the three guests with a smile. Xu Ruoyan whispered to the principal Chen Yue: "Principal, everyone is here." Chen Yue reached out to greet Ma Yueshan and said, "Director Ma, please!"
"Principal, please, please!" Ma Yueshan was a person who was raising his eyebrows and raised his eyebrows. Principal Chen Yue was not only a celebrity in the academic world, but also a senior official at the deputy ministerial level, and had a high prestige. Although the reporter was a senior official at the third level, he was just to scare grassroots officials, Director Ma never dared to put on airs in front of him.
Chen Yue no longer gave in. After sitting in the main seat, he called Director Ma to sit in the main guest position on the right. Director Ma hurriedly pulled Bian Kangxiong and said, "Don't dare, Director Bian is respected and famous. He is a superstar in the national basketball world. I interviewed you when I was in the national team before. This time we are here to interview the team. Director Bian and his disciples are the protagonists. Please ask Director Bian to sit in this position!"
Bian Kangxiong smiled and said, "Director Ma, I am no longer a player, but an employee of Ningda University. You are a guest from afar, so be polite." He forced Director Ma to sit in the guest position.
Principal Chen asked the beautiful host to sit in the seat of the deputy guest on the left, but the beautiful woman Chen Lili smiled and said, "You must ask Coach Bian to sit. Principal Chen, you don't know that 10 years ago, when I was in junior high school, I was a fan of Coach Bian."
Jiang Jun, Yu Zixuan and Qiao Xiaodan stood beside him. No matter what, they would be the last ones to be greeted, so they didn't care about it. Until a few people gave in for a long time, Director Bian sat in the position of the deputy guest. Xu Ruoyan, secretary of the school's Youth League Committee, sat to the right of Director Ma, which was the position of the main accompanying party. Then Chen Lili sat to Xu Ruoyan's right, followed by the young camera reporter Wang Xuan. After they sat down, Jiang Jun and the other three sat down in turn on the left of Director Bian.
After three rounds of drinking, the atmosphere on the table began to become active. Everyone began to introduce and chat with each other in detail. Chen Lili is 23 years old this year. She just graduated from the broadcasting and hosting major of Communication University of China last year. She has a sweet voice and is responsive. She made her mark during her graduation internship at CCTV and finally became a host hired by the Taiwan host. It is less than a year since she worked. Although this beautiful host is not as beautiful as Zhao Bingru, she is also a rare beauty. When she spoke, her voice was as crisp as a yellow oriole, she deserves to be a host. Jiang Jun looked at the host and showed a few words in his mind, which were beautiful, generous, dignified and elegant. Well, she is indeed a rare woman who values both beauty and wisdom.
Jiang Jun practices internal skills and has extraordinary skills in qi cultivation. He is calm and composed in any occasion, but Yu Zixuan and Qiao Xiaodan are a little timid. After all, they are reporters from the National Television Sports Channel. To be honest, it is rare for players like their cuba to show their faces in sports news, let alone make a special topic.
Ningdu University was able to shoot this special film, one because the team reached the NCAA final, and the other reason was because of Bian Kangxiong's fame.
Director Ma asked: "Guide Bian, I don't know what the chances of our Ningda Clan team will win this time?"
Coach Bian smiled and said, "I was a little worried a few days ago and felt that our team was a little worse. But now I have enough confidence to defeat my opponent."
Chen Lili said curiously: "As far as we know, the Jiangnan Division is very strong, especially their main point guard, who can be said to be super strong and will play CBA soon. Why is Coach Bian so confident?"
Bian Kangxiong smiled and pointed at Yu Zixuan and Qiao Xiaodan and said, "These two players are our team captains. They can be said to be both offensive and defensive, and they are our two strong points. In addition, our inside line is also stronger than our opponents."
He pointed to Jiang Jun again and said, "And the key link in our victory is Jiang Jun. I believe that he can restrain the opponent's defender Tao Lei, at least he can exchange his son with him, as long as he can limit Tao Lei. We still have a slight advantage in other positions."
Chen Lili stared at Jiang Jun with pretty eyes for a while. She was really unbelievable. Jiang Jun looked gentle and didn't look like a professional player at all.
Director Bian smiled and said, "Just on the way here, I just reported to Principal Chen. At the same time, I also told you a big news that Jiang Jun is going to participate in this year's NBA draft!"
"Ah, is it true?" Director Ma said in shock: "Why have we never heard of it? It seems that we have never reported it?"
Even players like Xue Yuyang and Sun Yue are untenable when they come to the NBA. As long as they run for the NBA, it is news worthy of speculation. Jiang Jun is a cuba player. Strictly speaking, he is the first college student player in China to officially run for the election. Whether he is selected or not, it is a big news.
If CCTV reports such big news late and misses, it will be a laughing stock. Director Ma, a sports reporter from a dignified state TV station, naturally knows the news value of this matter.
"It's what happened this afternoon. I contacted the United States and had already reported the name. Tomorrow morning, the official website of NBA should be able to find it. The media has not reported this news yet."
Director Ma was trembling all over excitedly. What an opportunity! As long as he quickly made this news, he would definitely be praised by the leader. Chen Lili and camera reporter Wang Xuan were also very excited. Not everyone has such an opportunity.
As reporters of the sports channel, they naturally know the value of these sports celebrities and quasi-celebrities. When Yao Ming was not injured in the past few years, almost every game of the regular season was followed and interviewed by more than a dozen domestic media. Once the Rockets made it to the playoffs, this number would increase.
Although Jiang Jun is not a celebrity for the time being, it can be foreseen that as soon as the election for the NBA is announced, media reporters will flock to you immediately.
CCTV leaders attach great importance to reporters’ connections. For example, reporters who interviewed Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian in CBA before are generally allowed to continue to follow up and shoot, and there are many opportunities to go abroad for interviews.
Such accompanying journalists are not only famous quickly, but also have many subsidies and high incomes. Therefore, many journalists focus on establishing good relationships with players or coaches.
"Student Jiang Jun, we want to have an interview immediately after dinner. What do you think?"
Jiang Jun smiled indifferently and said indifferently: "I listen to the principal and coach."
"This Jiang Jun is still a blank piece of paper. I must seize this opportunity! If necessary, you might as well use a beauty trick!" Director Ma made up his mind secretly and glanced at Chen Lili with a slanted look on the corner of his eyes.
He had always coveted Chen Lili's beauty and hinted it many times, but Chen Lili didn't know whether she was pretending to be confused or too simple, so she never slandered him. Now with this opportunity, she might as well use her as a foundation to get close to Jiang Jun.
Chen Lili also knew the importance of her connections, so after hearing this news, she quickly reacted and knew that Jiang Jun’s strange goods were awesome.
Chen Lili smiled and said, "Once Jiang Jun runs for election, he will become a big star immediately! I just don't know if our principal will be willing to let Jiang Jun go to the NBA?"
Principal Chen smiled and said, "Jiang Jun will be famous when he goes to NBA. I will be 100% good thing like this! But I hope Jiang Jun will come home often to see you!" Everyone laughed.
Director Ma happily said: "Student Jiang Jun, if you enter the NBA in the future, we must ask the station to let us follow up and interview!"
Because of this news, Director Ma had no intention of eating and quickly finished it. After seeing the time, just one o'clock noon, Director Ma solicited the opinions of Principal Chen and Director Bian and decided to conduct an interview immediately.
Since Principal Chen had a meeting in the afternoon, he wanted to take a break at noon. Director Ma chose the woods next to the restaurant building as the background and interviewed Principal Chen. The branches and leaves of this forest were very dense, and people stood under the trees, and the sun could not shine in at all, and the light was very soft.
Principal Chen has been living under the spotlight in recent years. He is very eloquent and talks freely. From comprehensive education on strengthening the body and physical fitness to developing sports, revitalizing school culture, to cultivating talents, strengthening exchanges between Chinese and American countries, and their expectations for Jiang Jun, etc., he spoke for more than 10 minutes without any knots before leaving.
The light at noon was too strong, which was not conducive to shooting the school's outdoor scenes. Director Ma suggested that he go to the stadium for an interview first. Guidance Bian and Youth League Committee Secretary Xu Ruoyan naturally cooperated with all his strength.
When they arrived at the stadium, after Jiang Jun changed his clothes, Director Ma and the other three took some shots of Jiang Jun's shooting and training shots, and interviewed Yu Zixuan and Qiao Xiaodan. It was the first time these two people were interviewed by CCTV. They said they couldn't get a look in the mirror in the bathroom several times. They felt good about themselves, so they came out to accept the interview.
When interviewing Jiang Jun, Chen Lili asked: "Student Jiang Jun, can you dunk?"
Jiang Jun smiled slightly, patted the ball, ran up in two steps, grabbed the ball with both hands and jumped, and dunked the ball into the basket with nimbly.
Chapter completed!