"Legalize Betting! Xiao Hua actually came up with that? Is he trying to sell the NBA outright?!"
"This is genuinely terrifying—more terrifying than anything else. Just imagine it: if betting companies and the NBA become partners, that means they can directly manipulate wins and losses based on the betting lines!"
"Exactly. Betting companies can avoid losses through the league, while the league can rake in huge dividends from betting!"
"Think about how terrifying it was when the league was controlled by referees! After this so-called Legalize Betting, it will only get worse!"
"That's businessmen for you! Those owners only care about dividends and splitting the money. They'll be happy once they've completely destroyed the NBA!"
"This is probably the main reason Xiao Hua was able to return. The owners don't care about your future; they only want money! And Xiao Hua can help them make all kinds of money!"
"That's our American tradition: only caring about what's in front of us and never the future! Sometimes I really envy Chinese people!"
"Poor fans like us can only watch this happen helplessly. Can't someone come out and stop it?"
"And it's not just Legalize Betting! Look at the shortened schedule! Fifty-eight games! The NBA's traditions are practically gone!"
"Why fifty-eight games? Why not fifty-seven or fifty-nine? Why?"
"Because there are thirty teams in the league, and every team plays the other twenty-nine twice each season. Two times twenty-nine is fifty-eight!"
"I understand the logic, but why does it have to be fifty-eight?"
"Damn, I think you're taking a shot at President CP3!"
"Stop picking on President CP3! The league is finished! They can't even keep an eighty-two-game schedule!"
"To be fair, if they had cut the schedule to fifty-eight games before last season, after Xiao Hua took office, I might have