Entertaining Children

  Chapter 688 The game begins

  At 7:30 pm on October 4th, this popular star charity competition officially kicked off.

  All the players in this star charity match are stars. Although there is no red carpet ceremony like the Penguin Masters in the previous life, it has the same process as the All-Star Game for introducing players.

   Accompanied by the dazzling lights and explosive music, the star players ran out of the player channel in turn under the introduction of the live host. When every player appeared, there was a loud voice shouting the names of the players in the audience. The players waved to the audience with smiles and stood on the court amidst the cheers of the audience.

  Among all the players, the two basketball superstars from the United States have attracted the most attention and received the most cheers. The second is that he received a lot of attention before the game, and he was predicted to be the most likely to get the MVP of the game. Zhuo Zhiyuan is extremely popular. A lot of his fans were obviously on the scene. When he was on the stage, a neat and loud cheering slogan rang out. More than a dozen of his name support lights were raised high by the fans, and they were connected in the audience. As a piece, it also attracted the attention of the cameras at the scene, and specially gave that piece of support light a shot.

  When Xiao Yao appeared on the stage, the cheers of the audience were not small, but compared with Zhuo Zhiyuan, the momentum was much worse. There is no sign of support, even the shouts are messy and disorderly, and they are unorganized and undisciplined.

  After all the star players appeared on the stage, the host with a microphone also walked up to the players standing in a row and interviewed several star players.

  The host first found two American basketball superstars. These two are both coming to China for the first time, and the host asked regular feeling questions. The two briefly talked about their feelings and impressions of Huaxia, basically from the good side, one praises Huaxia's culture, one praises Huaxia's food, and finally thanked the fans for their enthusiasm. Although the two answers were more polite and official, their attitudes were very friendly, which also aroused another huge cheers from the audience.

  The host interviewed Zhuo Zhiyuan for the third time. Zhuo Zhiyuan has always been developing in China, so naturally there is nothing to say about his feelings and impressions of China. The host asked him about his preparations for this game, and asked him to predict what he could win in this game. How many points do you get. Even standing next to three professional players, Zhuo Zhiyuan answered the host very domineeringly: "It's hard to say how many points will be scored, but I am here tonight for the MVP of this game!"

"At this time, you still take the initiative to say this. Do you still think this is the image packaging and promotion strategy his agency or public relations team made for him?" Hearing Zhuo Zhiyuan's domineering declaration, Guo Qi touched his elbow. Xiao Yao, who was beside him, smiled quietly.

"I came back from the best basketball country in the United States. It is normal to be confident and have a flamboyant personality." Xiao Yao replied in a low voice, "Who doesn't want to get the MVP? They just said what they were saying directly. "

   "Then if I interview you, would you dare to say that in public?" Guo Qi smiled and asked again.

   "What can't you dare to do?" Xiao Yao smiled.

"Very confident!" The host smiled and praised Zhuo Zhiyuan, and then noticed that Xiao Yao and Guo Qi were whispering, and he walked over and asked Xiao Yao, "Xiao Yao, you and Guo Qi seem to have a good relationship. Looks like, everyone is whispering, can you tell me what you are talking about?"

  A total of four players will be interviewed before the game. Each team has a professional player and a star player. The specific personnel are not designated, and the host is responsible for it. The host must be looking for popular interviews. Among the professional players, two American stars are more popular. In terms of acting stars, Zhuo Zhiyuan's live popularity of the red team is obviously more than that of others, while Xiao Yao of the blue team The popularity of the scene is not as high as Zhuo Zhiyuan, but the popularity is not low compared to other acting stars, and he himself is a very topical character and an excellent interview target.

  The host is interviewed by one member of each team in turn. After interviewing Zhuo Zhiyuan, the host should have interviewed a member of the blue team. Seeing Xiao Yao and Guo Qi talking, the host handed the microphone to Xiao Yao.

   "We are discussing tactics!" Xiao Yao replied with a serious face.

   "Huh? Discuss tactics? Now? You two?" The host was a little confused.

   "Well, that's nonsense. Our head coach and guards are responsible for the tactical arrangements," Xiao Yao couldn't help but smiled, "Actually, I was asking Brother Qi to pass the ball to me in a while."

  "Haha~" Xiao Yao's answer immediately caused a burst of laughter at the scene.

"Now we are buying up our professional players," the host also smiled, and then asked, "You let him pass the ball to you more, that is, you want to have more performance opportunities and you can score more points, right? Have ideas for the MVP of this game?"

   "No." Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "I am the youngest of all the players. There are so many brothers, sisters and uncles..."

   "Hmm~" Zhang Yi, who was standing next to Xiao Yao, turned his head to look at Xiao Yao, and stared at Xiao Yao with a "hmm".

Seeing Zhang Yi staring at himself, Xiao Yao quickly changed his words, "No, no uncles, so many brothers, sisters and seniors are present, everyone is playing very well, I played with a learning mentality today, and can play It’s enough to be happy and play well. I didn’t have the idea of ​​playing MVP."

  Zhang Yi is nearly fifty years old and is the oldest player among the players. He is the only player over forty years old among all players. He is a bit older than the others. Even when compared with two retired American basketball stars, he is also more than ten years older. However, he has always maintained the image of a tough guy on the screen and on the screen. He is in good shape and physical condition, and he is not convinced by his old personality. He has warned others not to call him uncle during training.

  Looking at Xiao Yao's clever changes under Zhang Yi's gaze, the audience laughed again.

   "Pretend!" Only Guo Qi rolled his eyes with contempt, and said in his heart.

"A very clever and humble young man," the host also laughed for a while, and then turned to Guo Qi next to him, "I just noticed that Guo Qi's expression is very interesting. Do you have any different opinions? "

   "No," Guo Qi shook his head, "Xiao Yao is relatively modest, but he actually plays well."

   "Oh? Did you play with him?" the host said, "In my impression, I haven't seen Xiao Yao play."

   "Well, I did!" Guo Qi gritted her teeth and nodded.

   "Actually, I don't play too much." Xiao Yao took the initiative and said, "That is to say, I played with my classmates in school. I didn't play on TV. It's normal if you haven't seen it before."

"Oh?" Guo Qi was not the host's intended interview target. He just inserted these two sentences. Hearing Xiao Yao's words, the host also took advantage of the situation and put his focus on Xiao Yao again. "Playing in school , Have you ever been on the school team? We must know that we were the captain of the school basketball team on the court today."

   "No," Xiao Yao said, shaking his head, "I just played casually, and I have never been in the school team."

After Xiao Yao participated in the school basketball game in high school, the school basketball team had the idea to recruit him into the basketball team, but it didn’t take long for Xiao Yao to decide to go to the United States as an international exchange student. When he came back, Arrived in the third year of high school, where the study is more intense. China does not have a national high school basketball league. Xiao Yao's Yanjing No. 2 Middle School is also a well-known school for its enrollment rate. There is neither tradition nor attention paid to basketball, so Xiao Yao was not recruited into the basketball school team in the end.

China has a national college basketball league, but Shenxi is a film and television academy and art school. It doesn’t care much about basketball. It will not and will not be impossible to recruit basketball talents. The regional preliminaries are grass-cut every year. Object. Xiao Yao enrolled as a famous star. He took a lot of leave during his freshman year. It is hard to get the time for class. Whenever there is time to participate in school team training, he naturally missed the basketball team.

"Oh," the host nodded, "Although you haven't been on the school team, it doesn't mean that you are not playing well in basketball. If you can be invited to participate in the game, it means that your basketball is also good. We are also looking forward to yours. which performed."

  Speaking of this, the host looked at Miao Cheng of the blue team next to him with some guilty conscience, and said in his heart: "At least in terms of body, it should be stronger than Miao Cheng and Cai."

  All the players will be able to play basketball this time, but to say that they are playing well, it is necessary to add a basic element to the front. Because this time, one of the red and blue teams has played poorly. The blue team’s Miao Cheng and the red team’s Cai Yue are both comedians, only about 1.734 meters tall, and they are fat. It's not that fat people who are not too tall will definitely not be able to play basketball, but judging from the images and skills shown in the stage performances and film and television works of the two, they are not like basketball players.

  The short interview is over, and the next part is the warm-up of the players before the game. The host retired, the staff sent some basketballs, and the two teams also occupied half of the court to warm up before the game.

  The warm-up before the game is more casual, the head coach does not stipulate the action, and the players are also free to play. As a result, this warm-up time before the game has become the first time for the players to perform. In addition to ordinary practice shooting to find the feel, some players also performed fancy dribbling and fancy layups, which also caused cheers from the audience.

  Xiao Yao moved his body. After moving all the bones and joints of his body, he picked up a basketball on the sidelines, walked to the free throw line, and practiced free throws properly. And after the warm-up time, Xiao Yao would take two shots by the way except when he went to the basket to retrieve the basketball and walked to the free throw line. Except for a regular dribble, he didn't do anything else and only practiced free throws.

   "Hey, do you want to be so low-key, just practice free throws?" Guo Qi leaned over again.

   "What do you practice? Dunk?" Xiao Yao looked at Guo Qi and said, "You don't want to play air relay dunk right now? Isn't that our secret weapon?"

"Of course we don't expose our secret weapon now," Guo Qi said. "Even if you want to save energy and don't want to dunk, you still play dribbling under the crotch, making jump shots and changing hands to the basket for the audience. take a look."

"No need," Xiao Yao said, shaking his head, "I'm going to practice 20 free throws first, and then practice shooting and ordinary layups. When playing flowers and waiting for the game, I will honestly warm up now. "After that, Xiao Yao practiced free throws again.

  Fifteen minutes later, the pre-match warm-up was over, and all the players returned to the bench to sit down. The staff quickly cleaned up the basketballs used for warm-ups, and placed musical instruments, sound equipment and microphone stands in the center of the court to prepare for the pre-match performance.

Although this star charity competition was also organized for the reconstruction of the earthquake-stricken area, more than a month has passed since the earthquake, and it is the festive day during the National Day. The environment is no longer so sad and depressing, so this time The Star Charity Tournament is also more lively and more entertaining. Not only there were lively appearance ceremonies, but also cheerleading performances were arranged during the long timeout, inter-festival and intermission of the game, and a pre-match performance was specially arranged before the start of the game, and star singers were invited to sing live.

  According to Chen Yang, I originally wanted Xiao Yao to be the guest of this opening performance. After the opening performance, change your clothes and play on the court. It is feasible in terms of time. Xiao Yao's physical strength is enough to cope. However, some of the star players on both sides are developed simultaneously in the film and music circles, and there are also those who can perform live singing. For several of them, Xiao Yao felt that it would be too special for both the opening performance and the playing on the court, so he did not agree to Chen Yang's requirement of "getting an inch."

Chen Yang, who had searched for four or five songs from Xiao Yao, did not reluctantly. At the same time, because Xiao Yao gave the reason that he wanted to concentrate on playing and did not want to be distracted, they did not invite other star players to be the guests of the opening performance. Instead, a popular singer was invited for the opening performance.

  The singer named Lin Jin who was invited to do the opening performance is a very talented male singer-songwriter. He is also one of the fastest male singers in recent years. He also participated in the "Singer" program last year. Although Xiao Yao is not so enchanting this year, his performance is also very good. Seeing the little-eyed male singer and his band appear in the center of the court as the opening performance guest of this game, the audience also broke out with a burst of warm applause.

   may have been influenced by Xiao Yao’s performance of the original innovative song every time in public. This time, Lin Jin, who is also a singer-songwriter, performed an original innovative song that he has not released yet. The song is very good, and the reaction from the audience is also very good. During the performance, the applause of the audience was basically uninterrupted. When the rock song sang the chorus climax, some audience members stood up from their seats excitedly and cheered loudly.

"I heard from Brother Yang that he originally wanted you to be the guest of opening performance. Now looking at him, do you regret it?" Guo Qi sitting on the bench chair pointed to Lin Jin who was cheering from the audience. , Asked Xiao Yao with a smile.

"What is there to regret about this?" Xiao Yao smiled, "If I am a guest performer, I have to go back to the dressing room to change clothes after the performance. Then I can only be a substitute for this game, and I will definitely not be a starter. I would rather do it. For the team's starting players to play first." Before the opening, Wei Zhiping announced today's five starting players, Xiao Yao is one of them.

  After Lin Jin’s song performance was over, the staff quickly came up to remove the audio equipment and musical instruments, and cleared the venue. The lights on the scene were bright, three referees stepped onto the court to take their place, and the five starters of the red and blue teams all stood up from the bench seats and walked onto the court amidst the cheering and encouragement of the substitutes.

  This star charity basketball game has officially started.

  (End of this chapter)