Under enormous pressure, Holt had also tried to seek out Popovich for a solution.
But his old friend kept avoiding him.
He had truly reached the point where everyone had turned against him.
And it was not just him personally who had been affected. This scandal over his interests had driven his reputation to an all-time low.
HoltCat, the company he had built from the ground up, had also suffered a massive crisis of brand credibility.
The reality was simple: if he did not resolve the crisis in front of him soon, he might lose not only the Spurs, but also the company he had founded with his own hands.
After losing to the Trail Blazers, the Pelicans welcomed their second matchup of the season against the Hornets.
This time, it was on the Pelicans' home court.
Though there had been reasons behind their previous loss, the Pelicans players had been holding back their frustration, and they vented all of it on the Hornets.
The Hornets did not even score 60 points for the entire game, and the final score was 128-59.
Those 59 points set a new record for the lowest score in the league this season.
And the 69-point margin also broke the NBA's all-time record of 68 points, set by the Cavaliers and Heat in 1991, 148-80!
Just like that, the Hornets became the biggest backdrop in history.
The shorter the news, the more miserable Jordan looked.
Fortunately, Holt was still there to take the bullets at the crucial moment.
A week after the medical institution incident continued to escalate, Holt was finally forced by outside pressure to put the Spurs up for sale.
At the same time, he also resigned as HoltCat's CEO.
Though he was deeply unwilling, Holt ultimately faded from the league stage just