Coach, I don't want to retire yet

Chapter 445 The slowest free throw in history and the hero who saved the NBA

The Lakers defended for three seconds and the Celtics executed free throws.

At this time, the ball is in James' hands.

At this time, the whole world's eyes seemed to be focused on James.

Did Garnett really defend for three seconds?

This actually makes no sense, because even fans who are not so professional and have not watched many finals know that in NBA games, defending for three seconds is not easy to happen.

In such a game, at such a moment, there is such a whistle, which is very telling.

This is what the referee Foster is doing, trying to break the 90-90 tie.

There are no penalty kicks in basketball games.

As long as the basketball game is tied, the game can continue to be played.

Therefore, facing an open whistle like Foster, as long as both teams have a tacit understanding and the score is evenly divided, they can resist softly!

In fact, this is not only Soft Resistance Foster, but also the people behind Soft Resistance Foster.

David Stern believed that DB would affect the healthy development of the sports industry. At that time, everyone from professional sports leagues to fans and even players, even players like Jordan who loved DB, believed that sports betting was harmful. profit.

The on-site commentators, the on-site Lakers DJ, and anyone who could make a sound were shouting like crazy at this time.

Listening to such noise, listening to such madness, Foster on the court, Adam Silver on the sidelines, and the representatives of capital on the sidelines were on pins and needles at this time.

In order for the game to continue, the NBA bosses, even if they continue to support Adam Silver, have no choice but to authorize David Stern to come back and take over the game.

In other words, if he is the real boss, the Lakers and Celtics players will also know that their tacit resistance will have no effect.

Since then, Stern has led the NBA and the other three major sports leagues in the United States to implement it resolutely without any space.

"Three non-sticks, please use these three non-sticks to tell those people that you now belong to the Justice League!"

The longer the abnormal fourth quarter of this game continues, the greater the pressure will be on them.

Not to mention other things, just keep spinach out of the NBA forever, which will cost the NBA close to 2 million US dollars.

"The Hukai battle is so great, and the yellow-green battle is so exciting. We don't need anyone to tell us how to play the game. Before the decisive battle, please clean up all the people and factors that affect this game!"

Until Adam Silver took office he had a completely different attitude towards legalizing sports betting.

The resistance of the Lakers and Celtics players on the court is telling the real boss of the NBA, David Stern, that the time has come for you to intervene!

Players from these two teams are using this method to create opportunities for David Stern, the guardian of the NBA, to create opportunities to wipe out a certain group!

The other three major sports leagues are still firmly banning gambling.

"Now, LeBron, it's time for you to tell the world that you are truly saying goodbye to the past!"

No, the real biggest variable is Celtics head coach Miracle Monty!

David Stern has always wanted to find an opportunity to destroy Adam Silver, but there was no chance.

However, no one expected that the Celtics would become the biggest variable this season.

Most of these bosses don't like David Stern.

Driven by gambling companies, the NBA was the first of the four major professional leagues to open its arms and express its willingness to be a promoter.

There was no chance in the finals of the year before last or the finals of last year.

But Adam Silver has begun secretly cooperating, legal ban?

Oh, I can lobby the Supreme Court to declare the gambling ban unconstitutional.

What happened between the Lakers and Celtics in the past three minutes not only made Foster angry and horrified, but also made Adam Silver break out in a cold sweat in the audience.

In this year's finals, David Stern has no chance, and Adam Silver is even smarter.

"Only the team of Fantastic Monty and Coach D in this world can do such a thing!"

Otherwise, they can only support David Stern.

The NBA is a business league, an alliance of interests. Adam Silver can bring benefits to everyone and he can get support. With so many sponsorship contracts and such a large broadcast contract, all bosses can support Adam Silver.

"Who would have thought that Amazing Monty is as great a man as Coach D!!!"

Don't think this number is small, because this is only Adam Silver's third year in power. According to the predictions and calculations of many experts, betting companies can directly and indirectly bring billions of dollars in revenue to the NBA in the future.

Unless these NBA owners want the NBA to be dissolved directly.

Everyone knows who is behind Foster. Facing the soft resistance of the two teams in the Finals, even David Stern will be under great pressure, let alone Adam Silver.

As long as a professional sports league stands up and says that this kind of ban hinders its business interests and competes with the public, it will basically be clear.

David Stern is too strong and blocks too many ways for them to make money. With David Stern on stage, they have too much money that they cannot make.

As the current actual manager of the NBA, the performance of both sides in the finals is a slap in his face, and it is also an ultimate pressure on the NBA.

David Stern has been blocking such a huge profit before. You are the owner of the NBA, can you bear it?

This was indeed the case in previous years.

There is a famous bill in Amercan law, the PASPA (Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act), which prohibits the legalization of sports betting. This bill was proposed by Bill Bradley and passed in 1992.

What a simple thing.

Adam Silver, who has the support of most owners, can be said to have directly eclipsed David Stern in the NBA.

Then, just last year, the Aramco Supreme Court declared the gambling ban unconstitutional.

Because Adam Silver has made it impossible to continue this game.

If he is the real boss of the NBA, he is not afraid of such pressure.

Then, the gambling company quickly returned the favor. Just one gambling company, MGM Resorts International, signed a three-year, US$3 million sponsorship contract with the NBA. In the first year last year alone, the NBA earned US$3000 million. .

It may rise to billions of dollars every year in the next ten years.

If you don't give me sponsorship, you don't give me money, and you're not allowed to make NBA handicap, this is called intellectual property fee, not a purchase fee.

Adam Silver has promoted the legalization of NBA betting and hopes to cooperate with betting companies to take 1% of all bets. If we follow Silver's $4000 billion scale, then 1% is $40 billion.

This is just a commission and does not include protection fees and admission fees.

What a benefit.

If you were the owner of the NBA, would you support Silver, who earns you billions or even tens of billions more every year, or would you support David Stern, who is extremely poor and has capital but a bottom line?

Obvious things.

It can only be said that Adam Silver is indeed very powerful. Although fans don't like it very much, he is indeed very good at helping the bosses make money. He is not that strong and is a more professional manager than David Stern. .

Adam Silver knows very well that he is the boss's steward, making money for everyone, not managing or restraining the bosses.

As for David Stern, he always wants to work hard for his boss for his ideals.

This has been hard for many years.

Now, not many people are willing to suffer any longer for David Stern’s ideals.

Your David Stern ideals are not our ideals.

Our ideal is to make money.

At the very least, most NBA team owners have no ideals and only own teams to make money.

of course.

No one is willing to say that their league engages in match-fixing. Adam Silver also stated that the NBA will definitely not engage in match-fixing and firmly opposes match-fixing.

The bosses will certainly not say that they are betraying themselves.

But, do you believe it?

Now that Spinach Capital has come in, can it still just pay the 'intellectual property fee' and just open the market?

You've done all the fucking things, how can you still remain neutral?

You have become the banker behind the scenes!

So, firmly resist match-fixing?

Even fools don't believe it.

It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not. Fans cannot determine the future of the NBA. Reporters, celebrities, experts, and even players and coaches cannot determine the future of the NBA.

Most people just need to believe in the people who can determine the future of the NBA.

Therefore, in the past two years, Adam Silver has made the NBA Finals so angry, and in the end David Stern still has no way to deal with him. This is the reason.

Most of the current owners in the NBA do not welcome David Stern. What they now support is Adam Silver, a professional manager who is more professional and has no dreams of his own and no need for self-realization.

Therefore, in the past two years, Adam Silver has been so messy in the finals. In the end, David Stern could only send a few referees in, and there was no way to touch Adam Silver at all.

Because, although the finals of the past two years were unfair, they ended successfully, everyone still made a lot of money, and the NBA continues to operate.

But now, it's completely different.

The NBA is going to stop running!

At this time, it is not so easy to make the decision to continue supporting Adam Silver!

For Adam Silver and all NBA owners, whether the NBA can continue is the most important thing.

If the NBA can't continue, then nothing means anything.

Not only can they not make any money, they also have to pay crazy amounts of liquidated damages according to the contract, and may even go bankrupt.

This is definitely no joke.

Therefore, the past three minutes were definitely three minutes that made many people anxious like ants on a hot pot.

At this time, these ants on the hot pot almost stared at James standing at the free throw line.

The fans at the scene were clamoring crazily, "Don't touch anything, don't come in."

However, James knows that he must enter!

Does he have to make this shot?

Of course he wants to make the shot if he can.

Even if he loses all his dignity, is ridiculed by the whole world in the future, and is completely blackmailed, he will still make this free throw. Because he represents capital!

However, he is smart and knows that whether he wins or not, it actually means nothing.

because……

He is not the one who really controls this game.

But Magic Monty and Coach D...

As long as he makes a hit, he will be immediately stripped of his pretense of reforming his evil ways, and will be quickly replaced by Magical Monty.

Then, he had nothing left!

Those people will still be liquidated!

Yes, at this time, Foster and Adam Silver are already dead!

At this point, these people are hopeless!

Coach D and Miracle Monty completely controlled this game, and the two have reached a tacit understanding!

Because of the influence of two people, the two feuding teams and all the players of the two teams have reached such a tacit understanding!

Therefore, no matter what he did, it was meaningless.

He can't be buried with these people!

The capital he represents is not gambling capital.

The capital he represents is just one of Adam Silver's partners.

Without Adam Silver, he and the capital behind him can still achieve his goals!

It’s just that there is no help from Adam Silver!

Even without the help of Adam Silver, they now have the amazing Monty, and they still have a great chance!

James, whose mentality had already exploded due to pressure, now felt that he was relaxing in vain.

James stood on the free throw line and smiled.

At this time, the fans at the scene were already frantically urging referee Foster to rule James as a free throw violation.

"James' free throw time has exceeded 20 seconds!!!"

"Foster, you can count 3 seconds clearly, but why can't you count 20 seconds? Are you a primary school student?"

"Hahahaha, Foster, stop staring. LeBron James will not make this free throw. There is absolutely no way he will make this free throw!!!"

……

The fans at the scene were taunting wildly, which was much more lethal than shouting black whistles.

Calling a black whistle really doesn't scare Foster.

But the things they are shouting now can really scare Foster to death.

"LeBron James!!!"

With eyes wide open and extremely angry, Foster shouted at James!

James stopped standing there, James, free throw!

The smiling James tossed the basketball in his hand so lightly that it did not hit the basket.

Instead, he threw it directly to Foster on the other side of the baseline.

The basketball drew a not very beautiful arc, and hit Foster directly on the head with a bang.

what? !

Foster was dumbfounded.

The audience at the scene was also dumbfounded for a moment.

Then, a moment later, the entire Staples was filled with laughter!

then!

Just a moment later!

The entire Staples cheered for James! ! !

"King James!"

"King James!!"

"King James!!!"

……

Listening to the cheers for James from Lakers fans and Celtics fans, everyone in front of the TV and in the stands behind James breathed a sigh of relief. James did not lose his head!

Then Foster was stunned.

Adam Silver in the stands had dull eyes at this time.

Yes, he was abandoned by James.

Yes, he was abandoned by the regular NBA capital behind James and cut his seat.

Spinach is what Adam Silver and the NBA owners want, not what Hooks and James want.

I know you are dead now.

And I went to the funeral with you.

Do you, this bald guy, really think you are so charming?

At this time, the entire arena was boiling.

The expressions of Adam Silver and Foster appeared on the big screen and TV at the scene almost at the same time.

Then, the live camera focused on these two great people, Du Kang and Fantastic Monty.

"Just now we witnessed the longest free throw in NBA history!"

"Just now we also witnessed the greatest free throw in the NBA!"

"And now, we are looking at the two greatest heroes in NBA history. They saved the NBA!!!"

This is O'Neal, crazy O'Neal!

Du Kang and Miracle Monty, who were focused on by the whole world, turned their heads to look at each other almost at the same time. Then, after being stunned for a moment, they looked at each other and smiled.

This smile makes the entire NBA world seem to be in spring!

Old Nelson in front of the TV even stood up excitedly, wishing he could hold the TV and hug Monty Williams, his disciple, and Du Kang, his favorite back.

"Great hero, the hero who saved the NBA!!!"

Staples.

Looking at the magical Monty not far ahead, the smile on Du Kang's face came from the bottom of his heart.

Now, he finally has a helper.

Now, he is finally no longer alone.

Now, finally, someone can move forward hand in hand with him!

Now, finally, someone can hold the holy sword with him and stab the darkness of the NBA!

"Thank you, Amazing Monty, my greatest rival."

Dukan looked away from Monty Williams.

At this time, the entire scene had begun to cheer for Du Kang and Fantastic Monty.

And in the stands.

David Stern smiled and looked at the bald man next to him who had completely lost his look.

"Adam, maybe now we need to hold a temporary meeting of the NBA to make some very important decisions for the NBA."

Adam Silver finally came to his senses.

Then, there was a bitter expression on his face.

Looking at the smile on David Stern's face at this time, the bitterness on Adam Silver's face turned into a desperate bitter smile.

He knew that he had lost, completely lost.

In the end, he still couldn't defeat the man who single-handedly promoted him in the NBA.

In the end, he lost, and he lost so completely.

Now, with the support of Coach D and Miracle Monty, as well as the support of the Lakers and Celtics, and the support of all fans, public opinion, players, celebrities, and reporters, David Stern is invincible.

No one can stop David Stern from coming back again.

Even those bosses who are like insects can't do it.

Now, the NBA is about to enter the era of David Stern once again.

In the end, Adam Silver didn't say harsh words, he just looked at Foster, who was still crazy on the court, and nodded.

"Okay, boss, I understand."

Adam Silver smiled and chose the last bit of dignity.

Then he closed his eyes and sighed mentally.

Rick, I'm sorry, we still failed...

Rick Foster on the court is still performing like a clown at this time.

In the laughter, Foster is performing and collapsing...

The sky in Los Angeles seemed to be illuminated by stars at this time.

(End of this chapter)