NBA: Start with a three-point experience card

Chapter 1141 The finals also cause trouble

When Lei Allen saw that the logo on Wang Yi's chest was covered, he thought to himself that it was over.

You must know that the contract signed between Nike and the NBA stipulates that players must wear jerseys with the Nike logo.

Therefore, if a player in the NBA does not wear a jersey with the Nike LOGO, it is equivalent to a breach of contract by the NBA.

Before 2020, it was not a big problem for players to block the jersey logo they didn't want to wear.

For example, Harden, Curry and Thompson were not Nike's contracted players at the time, but the NBA team's equipment was provided by Nike, with the Nike logo on it.

Curry and Thompson's approach is to roll down the socks with the Nike logo so that the Nike logo cannot be seen.

Anyway, the NBA does not stipulate that players cannot roll their socks down.

Harden is more radical, cutting off Nike's LOG directly.

But since Nike spent 8 years and 10 billion US dollars, they naturally don't want to see this happen, so they reported this problem to the league.
In the past two years, the league has also increased the punishment for blocking the logo.

At the beginning, it was only a fine of 25000 US dollars, and now it is a fine of 5000 US dollars.

If the circumstances are more serious, it is likely to be suspended.

If Wang Yi is suspended, one can imagine how much impact it will have on the Kings.

But Ray Allen is a smart man. Although he discovered this problem at the first time, he didn't say it.

Everyone's focus is on the game itself, so no one else has noticed it for the time being.

NBA Commissioner David Silver also came to the scene today.

He is sitting in a box on the fourth floor today.

He glanced at the tablet computer brought by the female secretary next to him, which showed the current number of NBA viewers.

According to the above curve, the number of viewers has reached 3000 million when the show is about to start.

What is this concept?
In Game 1998 of the 6 NBA Finals, when Jordan beat the Jazz, the number of viewers was 3589 million.

It was the most watched game in the entire history of the NBA.

And now it has reached 3000 million before the start.

You can also see that the numbers above are constantly beating rapidly, and the curve is constantly rising.

When the two sides jumped the ball in the middle circle, the number had reached 3600 million.

It has already surpassed the game between the Bulls and the Jazz.

And that number is increasing rapidly.

According to the estimates of professional data analysts, the game is expected to be watched by more than 3 million people worldwide.

What is this concept?
There are currently more than 75 billion people in the world.

In other words, one out of every 25 people in the world is watching today's finals.

This figure is very exaggerated.

You know, football games, the world's largest sport, have always had a lot of spectators.

In the 2018 World Cup finals, the number of viewers worldwide reached 11 billion.

And now the NBA Finals is only the first game, and it is expected to reach 1 million. This really makes Xiao Hua very excited. This is a height that the NBA has never had before.

He is even looking forward to, if the game can be dragged to G7, how many spectators will there be then?
5 million?
7 million?
10 billion? !

Thinking of this, Xiao Hua couldn't help showing a smile on the corner of his mouth.

It's just like the nympho smile that Xiao Hua thought of the boy he admired when he took an extra look at his side just now.

Handing the data panel to the assistant, Xiao Hua continued to look down at the game on the court.

The two sides began to jump the ball in the middle circle.

As soon as the game started in the first quarter, the Kings went on a fierce offensive.

They took a 5-point lead in just five minutes.

It was only 5 minutes into the game, and the Bucks had already called two timeouts.

But no matter how many timeouts they called, they couldn't hold the Kings' three-pointers at all.

Today, Wang Yi hit three three-pointers as soon as he came up, and James Paul and Xiao Qiao also scored three-pointers.

The Bucks coach was already a little anxious at this time.

If this continues to develop, that's fine.

Doug Lambiel, who was on the Bucks' side bench, didn't focus on the score. His eyes were fixed on Wang Yi.

In his eyes, there is only one opponent.

The current James and Paul are not worthy of being his opponent at all, his opponent can only be Wang Yi.

At this time, the head coach saw that he couldn't limit the Kings' three-pointers, so he simply replaced Doug Lambiel.

There was only one thing Doug Granbier did when he came on.

When he passed by Wang Yi, he showed a strange smile to Wang Yi.

But he didn't spout any trash talk at all, but went straight to the referee and said to the referee:
"Dude, I'm going to file a complaint against that guy. Didn't you notice that the logo on that guy's chest is covered? According to this year's league rules, it's a fine."

The referee also noticed this.

So he came to Wang Yi, pointing to the piece of black tape on his chest like Wang Yi: "Wang, it's better not to do this, you know, according to the rules, you will be fined after the game. If you go to the next game If you still insist on doing this, you will probably be banned."

Wang Yi nodded: "I know."

Then he went back to the backcourt to defend.

The referee was a little speechless: I know you should change it.

This is a typical "I admit I was wrong but I just don't change it".

But for these multi-millionaires in the NBA, the referee can only say so much.

Anyway, they have plenty of money.

Not to mention a fine of 5 US dollars, even if it was 50 US dollars, it would only be equivalent to one-twentieth of that of Marshal Zhang.

Dashuai Zhang claims to have [-] Zhang, and it doesn't matter if one or two is missing.

So the game between the two sides continued.

And at this moment, Xiao Hua in the box received a call.

Xiao Hua saw that the caller ID was a call from Nike executive Larry Miller.

He couldn't help but have his smile that never seemed to disappear:
"Hello, Mr. Miller. Are you watching the finals? The estimated number of viewers today can reach 3 million. It will be of great help to your Nike popularity."

The tone on the other end of the phone didn't seem very good: "I can't see the help."

Xiao Hua heard that the tone was wrong, so he hurriedly and carefully asked: "Mr. Miller, is there something wrong?""

"Don't you find something wrong with Wang Yi's jersey?"

Xiao Hua's heart trembled when he heard this.

I hurried to watch the scene of Wang Yi on the big screen.

No one reminded him before, and he didn't feel anything. Now, after such a reminder, he immediately realized something was wrong after looking at it.

The smile on his face froze.

Damn Wang Yi, what logo is covering such an important game?

Thinking of this, he immediately apologized to the phone:

"I'm sorry Mr. Miller, this is my dereliction of duty. We are deeply sorry for the loss caused by your company. We will definitely punish him after the game. If it is serious, we will even suspend him."

(End of this chapter)