At last, two days later, on June 15.
The Finals Game 7, a do-or-die battle, arrived.
After two days of league hype, the game had been called both the Finals do-or-die battle and Wang Yi's farewell game.
So fans across the whole world were paying even closer attention to it.
At this moment, the eyes of everyone around the whole world converged on the Detroit Pistons' home arena.
No professional sporting event had ever gripped people's hearts like this one.
This was not merely a Finals Game 7 that would determine the Champion.
It was also the final chapter of legendary star player Wang Yi's twenty-year career on the court.
With those twin halos layered together, this NBA Finals Game 7 completely shattered every viewership record in the history of human sports.
According to real-time pregame statistics from authoritative global sports data agencies.
At this very moment, the number of fans following this Peak Showdown online and offline around the globe had surpassed two billion.
Two billion live viewers.
What a terrifying, staggering number.
Looking across the century-long history of world sports.
Never had a single sporting event achieved such terrifying reach.
The World Cup final, held every four years, and Olympic Peak Showdowns had long been recognized as the ceiling of sports traffic.
But those premier events drew their popularity from dozens of sports and dozens of games combined.
Yet today.
It was just one basketball game.
One Finals Game 7 between the Detroit Pistons at home and the Los Angeles Lakers.
And it had single-handedly crushed the historical records of every sporting event.
The global population was 9.7 billion.
That meant one out of every five people on Earth was watching this game intently.
Whether in the bustling, prosperous supercities of Europe and America.
Or on remote, tranquil