When Ray Allen saw that the logo on Wang Yi's chest was blocked, he secretly thought 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 any NBA player 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 cover the jersey logos they did not want to wear.
For example, Harden, Curry and Thompson were not contracted players by Nike at that time, but the equipment of the NBA team was provided by Nike and had the Nike logo on it.
What Curry and Thompson did was to roll down the socks with the Nike logo so that the Nike logo could not be seen.
Anyway, the NBA doesn't stipulate that players can't roll their socks down.
Harden was more radical and directly cut off the Nike logo.
But since Nike spent 8 years and 1 billion US dollars, they naturally did not want to see this happen, so they reported this problem to the league.
In the past two years, the league has also increased penalties for blocking logos.
The fine was only US$25,000 at first, but now it is US$5,000.
If the circumstances are more serious, it is likely to be suspended.
If Wang Yi is suspended, you can imagine how big the impact will be on the Kings.
But Ray Allen is a smart man. Although he discovered this problem immediately, he did not say it out loud.
Everyone's focus is on the game itself, so no one else has noticed it yet.
NBA President David Silver also came to the scene today.
He is sitting in the box on the fourth floor today.
He glanced at the tablet computer brought over by the female secretary next to him. It showed the current number of NBA viewers.
According to the curve above, when the show is about to open, the number of viewers has reached 30 million.
What is this concept?
In Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals, when Jordan defeated the Jazz, the number of viewers was 35.89 million.
It was the most watched game in the entire NBA history.
And now it has reached 30 million before it even starts.
You can also see that the numbers above continue to jump rapidly, and the curve continues to rise.
When the two sides jumped the ball in the center circle, the number had reached 36 million.
It has surpassed the game between the Bulls and Jazz.
And this number is increasing rapidly.
According to estimates by professional data analysts, the number of viewers of this game worldwide is expected to reach more than 300 million.
What is this concept?
There are currently more than 7.5 billion people in the world.
In other words, one out of every 25 people in the world is watching today's finals.
This number is extremely exaggerated.
You know, football matches, the world's largest sport, always attract a lot of spectators.
In the 2018 World Cup final, the number of viewers worldwide reached 1.1 billion.
Now, this is only the first game of the NBA Finals, and it is expected to reach 300 million. This really makes Xiao Hua very excited. This is a level that has never been reached in the NBA before.
He is even looking forward to it. If the game can be postponed to g7, how many spectators will there be then?
500 million?
700 million?
1 billion?!
Thinking of this, Xiao Hua couldn't help but smile.
Just like Xiao Hua's nymphomaniac smile when he thought that the boy he liked just glanced at him one more time.
Handing the data panel to his assistant, Xiao Hua continued to look down at the game on the field.
Both sides started jumping the ball in the center circle.
As soon as the game started in the first quarter, the Kings attacked fiercely.
They took a 12-point lead in just 5 minutes.
It was only five minutes into the game, and the Bucks had already called two timeouts.
But no matter how many timeouts they called, they couldn't hold down the Kings' three-pointer.
Today Wang Yi hit three three-pointers right from the start, and James Paul and Xiao Qiao also scored three-pointers.
The Bucks coach was already feeling slightly anxious at this time.
If this continues to develop, it will be fine.
Doug Laimbeer, who was on the bench of the Bucks, was not focused on the score. His eyes were fixed on Wang Yi.
In his eyes, he has only one opponent.
Now James and Paul are not worthy of being his opponents. His opponent can only be Wang Yi.
At this time, the head coach saw that he could not limit the Kings' three-pointers, so he simply replaced him with Doug Laimbeer.
Doug Granbill only did one thing after he came on the court.
When he passed by Wang Yi, he showed a strange smile to Wang Yi.
However, he didn't talk trash at all, but went straight to the referee and said to the referee:
"Man, I want to file a complaint against that guy. Didn't you notice that the logo on that guy's chest was blocked? According to this year's league regulations, this will require a fine."
The referee also noticed this.
So he came to Wang Yi and pointed to the piece of black tape on his chest: "Wang, it's best not to do this. You know, according to the rules, you will be fined after the game. If you play next
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 speechless: I knew you would change it.
This is a typical "I admit that I was wrong but just don't change it".
But for these multi-millionaires in the NBA, the referees can only say so much.
Anyway, they have plenty of money.
Not to mention the fine of 50,000 US dollars, even if it is 500,000 US dollars, it is only equivalent to one 20,000th of Zhang Dashuai's fine.
Marshal Zhang claims to be worth 20,000 yuan. If there is one or two less, it doesn’t matter at all.
So the game between the two sides continued.
At this moment, Xiao Hua, who was in the box, received a call.
Xiao Hua saw that the caller ID was from Nike executive Larry Miller.
He couldn't help but have a smile on his face that never seemed to disappear:
"Hello, Mr. Miller. Are you watching the finals? The estimated number of viewers today can reach 300 million. It will be very helpful to increase the popularity of Nike."
The tone on the other end of the phone didn't sound very good: "There's help that I can't see."
Xiao Hua sensed that there was something wrong with this tone, so he quickly asked cautiously: "Mr. Miller, is there something wrong?"
"Didn't you find something wrong with Wang Yi's jersey?"
When Xiao Hua heard this, his heart trembled.
I quickly went to see the footage of Wang Yi on the big screen.
No one reminded him before, so he didn't think anything of it yet. After such a reminder, he immediately realized something was wrong.
The smile on his face froze.
Damn Wang Yi, what kind of logo is covering up in such an important game?
Thinking of this, he immediately apologized on his phone:
Chapter completed!