My King

"Hey, Vince. You came to join the fun too?"

With the Lakers-Hornets series about to begin, North Carolina, once a backwater, had become the focus and center of the entire world.

Its unparalleled influence had not only driven ordinary fans into North Carolina in a frenzy; longtime NCAA fans had also come from all over to witness Jordan and Hill's championship feats once again.

"Antawn, I wanted to see for myself whether Kobe or Michael would win this championship." Carter spoke to his former teammate, Antawn Jamison. As far as he knew, plenty of active players wanted to watch the game, but very few had managed to get tickets.

Tickets for this series were impossible to buy at any price. Scalpers had driven prices to an astonishing level, yet even they did not have many tickets in hand.

Couldn't get them! They really couldn't get them!

Even ordinary fans were utterly unwilling to trade away their tickets for hefty compensation.

Unless the money kept going up and up and up...

It was terrifying! Courtside tickets had once been priced at a million dollars by scalpers!

Even seats near the edge of the arena had countless people willing to spend the tens of thousands of dollars they had saved over an entire year to buy them!

In a place like the United States, with so many wealthy people, once they began chasing the same thing, its value would rise without limit. The stock market was like that, and so were game tickets.

Only because Carter and Jamison had both attended the University of North Carolina had they managed to get tickets.

"So who do you think will win? Your boss Kobe, or our senior Jordan?"

Carter smiled but did not answer.

Jordan had once been his idol. He had joined North