Chapter 252 Post-match Press Conference
After giving her impressive acceptance speech, Yang Mo turned around gracefully and walked off the stage holding the trophy amid the cheers of the audience.
Watching Yang Mo walking towards the bench facing the whole audience, David Stern's eyes were full of Michael Jordan's shadow. He had not seen such a charismatic player for a long time. In fact, since Jordan, only Super Yang in front of him could reach the level of making all the away fans cheer.
But David Stern is a little worried now, that is, the reason why Yang Mo can conquer all the fans now is more due to off-court factors rather than basketball level. Almost everyone knows Super Yang, but not everyone knows that Super Yang plays basketball, and a considerable number of people are not even interested in basketball. What David Stern urgently needs now is to use Yang Mo's super high popularity to attract more basketball fans. Turn Yang Mo's fans from simple fans into basketball fans.
Fortunately, Yang Mo set a record tonight, which greatly helped his marketing. After tonight, all relevant NBA media resources will report on Yang Mo's creation of a single-game scoring record. From then on, most of the channel resources will be used to build Yang Mo's star image.
This is undoubtedly a good thing for Yang Mo. Nothing is more important in the NBA than official support. LeBron James was able to quickly surpass Carmelo Anthony, who was on par with him in his rookie season, and gradually become the best player in the league. In addition to his own efforts, the more important thing was the official support. Almost all official resources were used to promote him, so it was difficult for him not to rise quickly.
Yang Mo is undoubtedly enjoying this treatment now. Originally, the leader introduced by NBA in 2008 was Derrick Rose. Now Yang Mo has emerged as a dark horse and has so many fanatical fans. Who else should be built if not him?
Yang Mo didn't know what Stern was thinking. After he left the court, he celebrated with his teammates and returned to the locker room. After washing up, he found that Westbrook and others were already waiting there. They were all anxious to have dinner with Christine.
At this time, the league officials came to invite Yang Mo to attend the press conference. Yang Mo wanted to refuse, but the officials said something exaggerated, as if it would be unjust for Yang Mo not to accept the interview since he had broken the record. Yang Mo had no choice but to let Westbrook and the other four go first, and he would go later.
It didn't matter to them whether Yang Mo went or not, they were having dinner with the big star Kristen, not Yang Mo. So they hurried out. Seeing this, Yang Mo shook her head helplessly and secretly spat, "These people have no humanity when it comes to the opposite sex and forget their friends when they see a woman."
After they scattered, Yang Mo followed the league officials to the press conference with the trophy in his hand, somewhat helplessly.
When we got there, we found that the small conference room was packed with people. As soon as Yang Mo appeared, all kinds of spotlights flashed wildly, and it felt like thunder and lightning.
Amid the flashing spotlights, Yang Mo walked to the front of the stage and sat down.
After the host made an introduction, the question-and-answer session officially began.
When the staff handed the microphone down, an argument broke out and a fight almost broke out. Seeing this, Yang Mo helped to maintain the peace and relaxed the interview conditions: "Calm down, stop fighting, stop fighting, you will all get one chance to ask a question. I will give you 20 chances to ask questions tonight, and everyone can ask the questions they want to ask."
After Yang Mo finished speaking, the two people grabbing the microphone immediately loosened their grip, and the person holding the microphone immediately asked: "Super Yang, you set a historical record tonight, how do you feel now?"
"Mood? I feel a little bit happy and a little bit excited. After all, I have done something that no one else has done." Yang Mo laughed, his attitude was very gentle, not as aggressive as before.
"Also, I want to know whether this was a premeditated event or a great feat that was accomplished unintentionally?" the reporter continued to ask.
"Before halftime, I had never thought about breaking the single-game scoring record. I was thinking about winning and getting the MVP. But at halftime, I found that I had scored 49 points just by playing casually. At this time, I thought to myself that since my touch was so good, it was time to set a record of my own. Finally, with the help of my teammates, I easily achieved this goal." Yang Mo said calmly. During his conversation, he did not regard 101 points as a very difficult task. In fact, Yang Mo did not encounter much resistance .
After asking these two questions, the reporter handed the microphone to the reporter who had almost fought with him. The reporter took the microphone and immediately asked a sharp question: "Yang, tonight we found that you never seemed to play with the other five opponents. You always played five up and five down. Is there any hidden reason behind this?"
"Haha." Yang Mo smiled and said straightforwardly, "The hidden truth is that the five of them don't want to play with me. They think my brilliance might overshadow them. So, every time they play, I resolutely sit on the bench and applaud . Actually, it's nothing. They played well. At least they didn't lose by 50 or 60 points."
"So, you had an internal conflict?" the reporter continued to ask.
"No, we didn't quarrel or argue. We all formed our own teams very peacefully." Yang Mo answered calmly: "Although they didn't contribute to the victory, at least they didn't destroy the chemistry between the other five of us. So, there is actually a tacit understanding between them and me, that is, I ignore them and they don't interfere with me."
As soon as Yang Mo said this, even a fool knew what happened. Those people must have offended Yang Mo, and Yang Mo resolutely drew a clear line between them and let them fight and play by themselves.
Next, the reporters asked a few more questions about basketball, and then asked about Girls' Generation's Kristen on the sidelines. Yang Mo either didn't answer or just brushed off the questions with a few polite words. Finally, a reporter asked Yang Mo to look forward to the expectations of tomorrow's All-Star Game.
Yang Mo thought for a moment and answered very carefully: "My expectations for the All-Star Game are very low. I hope I can score some points."
When the reporter asked why the expectations were so low, Yang Mo waved her hand to indicate that she had asked all twenty questions, then stood up and left.
After coming out of the press conference, Yang Mo called Kristen and then went straight to Jessica. After all, he had promised to give her the MVP trophy.
