Min Congda recently became the team's hands-off manager, the otaku general manager.
Entering 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 and he won the best player of the month.
However, they had 3 wins and 5 losses in eight consecutive away games, and Min Congda was given another US$10,000 salary.
The team's record came to 26 wins and 22 losses, although the winning rate exceeded 50%.
However, in the fiercely competitive Western Conference, they are still only ranked ninth.
There is a 2.5-game gap with the Spurs, who are eighth in the Western Conference, and the Rockets and Hornets are hot on their heels.
The team's strength was unstable and they lost consecutive games. The main point guard Baron Davis was affected by a knee injury and played intermittently. The situation in the playoffs was not optimistic.
As long as they don't make the playoffs, Min Congda thinks everything is fine.
Recently he has spent most of his energy running his NBA-Batman account.
Because he keeps publishing some insider information, this account's popularity grows rapidly.
With the spread of the viral social network, after more than a month of fermentation, it ushered in the outbreak period.
When Min Congda opens his Twitter account every day, he can see a large number of new fans and background private messages.
He and Fan Chen jointly operated this account. Fan Chen was of course very curious about Min Congda's identity and even more curious about where he got the information.
But he never asked, and kept it secret from the people around him, making it a secret in his heart.
Now in the middle of the season, various NBA trade rumors are everywhere, and this is the time for various sources to show their magic.
Most well-known sports reporters have sources on each team who can provide first-hand information.
These sports reporters act as second-hand news dealers and gain fans' attention by publishing news as soon as possible.
To put it bluntly, they are just middlemen. The news itself is worthless. Whether a team trades or not, and who is signed and who is cut, will be made public sooner or later.
The real value is time. Whoever releases the news first or even predicts the news in advance will get the most attention.
After all, the key to news is "new". Once everyone knows it, the news will have no value.
Why don’t NBA teams just release the news themselves?
If NBA teams disclosed all kinds of information immediately, there would be no room for gossip and sports media.
Similar to direct sales from manufacturers, there is no middleman to earn the price difference, and the profit margin has indeed increased.
But without middlemen to promote products and expand the market, manufacturers' product sales will also decline.
Therefore, many manufacturers will establish good relationships with middlemen, protect middlemen, and everyone will make money together.
The relationship between the NBA and the media is the same. If I send messages directly to the fans, the media will not be the trumpet.
Without the media as a fan, how can fans have the stickiness to consume 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 up media open days, requiring post-game interviews for every game, 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 Jordan or Kobe are in playing, no one will promote them. Who cares whether you are good at playing basketball or not?
It is an unspoken rule of the industry for team insiders to leak information to intermediary media.
It not only broke the rules of the entire league, but also gave the team room to operate in private.
Sometimes some news has a great impact on trades, drafts, and signings.
It is common for news to go out, to raise prices or to undermine each other.
It fully reflects the vicissitudes of the shopping mall and has become a wonderful and beautiful part of the NBA.
But Min Congda is not just an insider, he is directly the general manager of the team!
He didn't do anything to leak information. He acted as his own spy and source, and asked a domestic college student to help him set up an account and post on Twitter.
No normal person would be able to do such a thing, so what would a dignified team manager do for such a thing?
If the NBA officials find out, it will be embarrassing and jobless, and there will be no profit, so no one will do it.
But Min Congda is obviously not a normal person, he is so damn abnormal.
Those middlemen media that blindly praise the league's teams and players are not what he wants.
Before Racheli entered the office, Min Congda was still sitting in front of the computer happily reading the tweets and replies from the NBA-batman account.
In order to prevent his IP address from being tracked, Min Congda did not dare to log in to his account at the Clippers headquarters. Instead, he returned home and used a VPN to log in and post content.
Or send articles and tweets to Fan Chen and let him publish them.
After all, the account's growing influence has attracted official attention.
There are also many NBA players, and the reporter followed this account.
A few days ago, Fan Chen told Min Congda in surprise that Baron Davis paid attention to NBA-Batman.
Min Congda thought to himself, no matter how awesome you Americans are, you can't reach out to China. The Chinese police are not used to being rude.
This account only involves NBA team information and does not involve national security, commercial secrets or political content, so the security 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 trace it to Chinese college students, and even more difficult to trace it to Min Congda.
The phone rang suddenly, and Ada told Min Congda that Mr. Racheli had something to report.
"Let him come in and get me a glass of lemonade Ada, thank you."
As soon as Racheli entered the office, he shouted: "It's bad, Mr. Smart, our team is in a lot of trouble with public opinion!"
When Min Congda heard this, he was troubled? That's a good thing. How can we call it a bad thing?
"Don't worry Rob, if you have anything to say, nothing is a big deal except that the team goes bankrupt."
"Well, bankruptcy is not a problem, but there is a risk that our team's image will be damaged! Well, from this perspective, image bankruptcy is also bankruptcy."
"Stop talking nonsense and get to the point. What's going on?"
Richele wiped his sweat and said: "A mysterious account appeared on Twitter recently. It knows a lot of inside information about the NBA. As the trade deadline approaches recently, he has received more and more attention."
"So? What does this have to do with us? I'm not prepared to trade."
Min Congda already knew it, but pretended not to know anything.
"This account also often posts news related to the Clippers, but...it's all negative and false content. When such content is mixed in, the impact will be very bad!"
Seeing Racheli's anxious and angry look, Min Congda snickered in his heart, knowing that his method was correct.
He coughed lightly, controlled his expression, and said: "The United States is a society with free speech. Everyone can freely express their views and opinions. As for the impact, the public should be able to judge for themselves, right? ?”
Racheli scratched her face and said, "Uh... that's what I said, but we still need to clarify those remarks that are obviously biased."
"Then let's make a clarification. Don't care what others say, we just do our best."
Racheli felt that what Smart said seemed to make sense. He was different for such a big-minded person. He looked at the problem from a very lofty and lofty perspective, leaving no trace behind.
He was originally anxious to get angry, but Min Congda persuaded him 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. I'm going to New York tonight."
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 stars in is about to premiere, and I was invited to attend."
Ada put the lemonade on the table with a thud and went out to book a flight for Min Congda.
(End of chapter)
