After Jordan, the program in which a team of more than a hundred people pleaded with Wang Yi to come back finally came to an end.
The footage from the program spread around the world at nearly the speed of a shock wave.
American fans were shocked, but thought everyone was making a mountain out of a molehill.
"Are these NBA legends and owners really lowering themselves this much? It's downright embarrassing."
"If they can't make money, they can't make money. Is the league really going to fall apart without that Chinese guy?"
But some neutral fans were also quite impressed.
"The NBA is really serious this time. Looks like Wang Yi's influence really is huge."
Meanwhile, over in China, netizens saw the livestream footage and were all a little excited.
"More than a hundred NBA owners and legends are making a nationwide live broadcast to ask Brother Yi to come back. That's quite a spectacle."
"Going to all this trouble just to ask one person to return—this must be a first in NBA history."
"Just as expected, Brother Yi is invincible!"
"I heard today's nationwide NBA broadcast was supposed to show the Lakers-Grizzlies game, but they suddenly gave up on the game and broadcast the owners asking Wang Yi to come back instead. They're really showing him respect."
Meanwhile, Wang Feng, who had planned to release a new song that day, was secretly delighted.
Good thing he'd gone to see a fortune-teller earlier and had his fortune told. The prediction was that today wasn't a good day to release a song.
Otherwise, he would have lost the headlines again.
According to the fortune-teller, any day in the coming week was fine for releasing a song, except today.
But Wang Feng thought he'd hold off tomorrow, too, and let