"David, they said everything was ready and it was too late to cancel."

After making the call, Xiao Hua came back and gave Stern a reply.

Stern pressed his forehead angrily.

This James, why is he so ignorant this time!

After Xiao Hua left, he did another thing.

He directly contacted ESPN's Schipper, who was responsible for the live broadcast, and asked him to cancel the show.

Obviously, what he asked Xiao Hua to do was only part of it. As the leader of the league, he has his own unique channels.

This was a call that lasted more than 20 minutes. The final result was that Stern was persuaded by Skipa.

"ESPN has done too much, and the media should not have so much power."

This was Stern's initial attitude.

In addition to players and owners, there is now a tense power struggle between the league and the media.

For example, James has used or cooperated with the media more than once to fight for his own interests.

"We estimate that 10 million people will watch this live broadcast. There are 10 million people watching the live broadcast of your league players. What is the concept, David?"

It was this sentence that made Stern finally compromise.

There is more to basketball than just sports. Even basketball has a smaller market share in North America than football.

This is indeed a very good promotion opportunity.

Then, there are overwhelming predictions.

ESPN began to release various confirmed news that fans have been speculating for a long time.

James, Wade and Bosh will go to the same team, so this "decision" will not only decide James, but the Big Three.

This time, not only the NBA, but the entire sports circle is in trouble.

There are even some definite rumors starting to rule out the team.

The first to go out was the Cavaliers.

According to ESPN insiders, that is also quite heartbreaking news.

If James decided to stay, why would he make such a decision with such a big fanfare?

Of course, although Cavaliers fans were speechless, they certainly didn't believe it.

What if James wanted to surprise them?

Then the Clippers were eliminated.

This time it was news released by the Clippers management.

They already knew James wasn't coming to Los Angeles.

Of course, for the same reason, Clippers fans are not willing to believe this result.

This may be their only chance to comeback against the Lakers. Even if it is bad news, they will persist until the last minute.

But now, James' next home seems to have been narrowed down to the Heat, Nets, Bulls and Knicks.

And right now, the Knicks are the most likely place.

July 8, local time in the United States, is the day of the ESPN program live broadcast, attracting attention across the United States.

ESPN will spend an hour live broadcasting James and the final decision.

In the cities where the six teams have met, or outside the arena, or in bars, a large number of fans have gathered invariably.

They are all looking forward to James' arrival to save their team.

Outside the ESPN live broadcast building, a large number of fans gathered. They held up slogans like "LeBron, come to the Nets", and many even wore James jerseys with modified team logos.

The police have deployed a large number of police vehicles to maintain order.

If nothing else, this operation is truly unprecedented.

…

Sanya, Kobe, Durant, Lin Ying and Grover sat in front of the TV early in the morning and prepared to watch the live broadcast.

"Why am I looking at this kind of thing?"

Kobe frowned, but his eyes never left the TV.

Obviously, he found James's behavior boring.

"Then you go practice for a while first, and we'll watch first."

Lin Ying suggested.

"It should be soon."

Lin Ying was stunned by Kobe's next reaction, and then he couldn't help laughing.

Who isn’t a curious cat?

In fact, he also felt that James's decision, which was the same as in history, was boring, but he couldn't help but be curious.

Will James go to the Heat like in history?

Or did he say he would go to another team?

If it's the former, that's actually fine.

But if it's the consequences, it's really exciting.

And this show is really boring.

There were dozens of people sitting in the audience, and one surprise was that there was the famous singer "Kanye" Kanye West.

Then a reporter named Gray sat face to face with James on a small stage and started asking some irrelevant questions.

Things like what you did this summer, how many people know your results, whose opinions you listened to, etc.

A true appetizer!

But what is very interesting is that the real-time number of viewers will be displayed in the lower right corner of the live broadcast, and it has already exceeded 10 million in a short time.

Then they actually talked about such a boring topic for almost an hour!

This can be done in five minutes at most!

What was even more boring was that Lin Ying and the others just sat and watched for an hour.

Of course, they are not the only ones who are bored. There are a lot of people in North America who are waiting like this.

"So LeBron, what's your decision?"

Finally Gray asked the final question.

James finally announced his decision after diluting for long enough.

"I'm going to take my talents to the East Coast and I'm going to join..."

Of course, he still used the necessary pauses.

"New York Knicks."

Knicks!

"Fuck!"

Lin Ying's "fuck" sentence instantly attracted the attention of Durant and Kobe.

Wasn't it news that James was most likely to go to the Knicks? Why did Lin Ying react so strongly?

"I want to be quiet."

Lin Ying said as he walked out of the arena to take a breath and calm down.

Big reaction? How could it not be big?

James goes to the Knicks!

This is so different from history!

What happened in the middle!

Lin Ying definitely couldn't guess what happened.

But I just finished talking with Kobe about the issue of getting stronger opponents, and now I am definitely getting stronger.

Apart from anything else, the Knicks now have two first-class forwards, one is Wilson Chandler and the other is Danilo Gallinari, both of whom averaged 15+ per game last season!

These two are still on rookie contracts!

The Knicks have a lot of maneuverability.

And speaking of the same situation in history, the Knicks were the most likely next destination, but in the end James went to the Heat.

But it’s different now!
To be continued...