Chapter 1365 Broadcasting Contract Negotiations Terminated

"Hammer, your fans have left 13 million messages on your Twitter. They want you to stay. Will you do what they want?"

an ESPN reporter asked.

Li Ba shook his head without hesitation and said: "The kind of game they hope to see, even if I stay, they will never see it again, so why should I stay? Raise my hands like a clown, and then look at others Projecting on my head?"

"What do you think of the illegal contact rules?" a reporter asked.

"Ugly rules, those are the rules that will make the NBA fall from the second position among the four major professional sports leagues in North America. Mark my words, that day is not too far away."

Li Ba sneered.

"Iron Hammer, the Suns are leading 2-0, will you try to sweep the Heat?" Yu Jia asked excitedly.

"A must." Li Ba smiled.

At this time the Heat players returned to the locker room.

Several forward players were ravaged by Li Ba and Drummond for the whole game, and they suffered great physical and mental harm. After returning to the locker room, they sat directly in the chairs without even taking a shower.

Millsap rubbed his chest, which felt like it had been run over by a wheel.

He lifted up his jersey, his whole chest was bruised and there was a dull pain in his bones.

There was a fear spreading in his heart, and he no longer wanted to stand in front of that beast.

"We can't continue like this. This kind of game is so disappointing. What are you afraid of?"

At this time, James's voice sounded, full of anger.

He glared at his teammates, but no one responded.

Disappointed, he angrily kicked over the trash can next to him, and then punched the closet with a loud bang, making a big hole.

"LeBron, don't do this."

Wade, who was standing behind James, quickly hugged him.

"What happened?"

The door was pushed open suddenly, and a security guard broke in from outside and asked.

"Get out, this is our internal matter!" Wade yelled at the security personnel.

He didn't want news of the team's internal strife to spread at such a critical time, and these security guards wouldn't keep secrets for them.

The security guard took one look at the smashed closet and said before exiting the locker room, "You'll be billed."

"We'll pay the bill, just send it." Wade shouted angrily.

At this time, Pat Riley and Erik Spoelstra came in. They saw the smashed wardrobe and the kicked down trash can, and they felt even worse.

After losing two games in a row, if there is another problem in the locker room, how will we play in the finals?

Pat Riley now regrets trading Gasol. The five forward lineup was not successfully built, but the traditional center lineup was dismantled. The inside height is gone. Now there is no one who can withstand the impact of that beast.

After having a diarrhea, the anger and helplessness in James's heart did not weaken and were still held in his heart.

There was no chance. He knew there was no chance to defeat Li Ba before he retired.

The Heat have no chance at all.

He dreamed of beating Li Ba in the finals, but unfortunately, he failed to seize this last chance.

This feeling of depression and helplessness made him want to vomit blood.

Wade's worries came true. Before the post-game press conference, the security guard sold the news to the media, and then the media immediately broke the news on the Internet, so when James and Wade were about to leave the locker room, they knew This news.

"Damn guy!" Wade cursed.

"The media will definitely focus on this matter, LeBron, don't go." Pat Riley said.

James nodded, he didn't want to go at all, this was just fine.

Pat Riley warned Wade again: "Dwayne, don't talk nonsense at the press conference and don't answer relevant questions."

"I understand." Wade said.

The press conference begins.

The news in the Heat locker room has become the target of media fire.

Li Ba watched the excitement for a while and felt that the Heat might not be able to sustain it next season.

In his opinion, Pat Riley's lineup has failed, and the Heat are not as strong as the Lakers.

Of course, the Lakers actually have the best regular season record in the league.

The next morning, the Heat reported through the media the injury of starting power forward Favors. He had a mild concussion. Although the injury was not serious, he would not be able to play in the finals.

In the afternoon, the Suns and Heat arrived in Miami one after another.

The G3 game will start tomorrow. After the Suns arrived at the hotel, they did not arrange any training and just rested in place.

Li Ba's family also came here this time, because if the team sweeps the Heat and wins the championship, they also want to be there to celebrate the last championship with Li Ba.

And just that afternoon, Stern received several messages, including TNT, ESPN, ABC and other major broadcasters, all of which unanimously informed the league and officially stopped negotiations on the broadcast contract.

The league's broadcast contract will end in 2016, that is, there are only two seasons left. Negotiations for a new contract are already underway. Stern has been leading this matter that is very important to the league, because with the return of the Hammers , the ratings have skyrocketed, so he has great expectations for this new contract. The league is likely to reach the top of the four major sports leagues with this huge contract.

The amount of the old contract was $850 million per year. With the rise of the Hammers, the ratings soared, making several major broadcasters earn a lot of money. Therefore, he expected the new contract to be at least 5 to 7 times the annual amount of the old contract, and the term would be preferably 10 years.

As long as this contract exceeds the NFL, the NBA will have the opportunity to become the largest professional sports league in the United States.

The negotiations were also quite smooth, and he was even confident that the amount of the new contract could be negotiated to more than $60 billion.

But unfortunately, Nike teamed up with nearly 20 teams to destroy it all.

When he received these calls, his hands were shaking and his heart was cold.

At this moment, he wanted to eat Nike.

But he knew that this was an opportunity to turn the situation around. I wonder how ridiculous the expressions of those team owners would be when they heard that the broadcasters had put the negotiations on hold?

He had just notified that the league would hold another board meeting on the 12th.

The league has already formulated the rules to restrict defense. The agenda of this board meeting is to finally finalize this matter and then implement it.

"Publish the board's message on the official website, and let the players know the progress of the matter." He finally instructed the staff.

Soon, the whole league knew the news. As long as the board passed, the defense restriction rule would be implemented.

"Great, our spring is coming!"

After receiving the news, a large number of outside players were extremely happy. As long as this rule was implemented, they could ignore those ugly defenses and shoot as they wanted.