Chapter 67: Should Buy a Ticket to Chicago

Jim Durham called the first NBA match-up between Jordan and Gan Guoyang the best basketball game.

After the game ended, press releases from reporters flew to major newspapers all over America like snowflakes, then were typeset and printed from that evening until the early hours of the next morning.

About the game's text and data, they were imprinted on steaming, black newspapers, delivered to thousands upon thousands of households.

Some business-savvy newspapers immediately went to press with the next day's editions more than an hour after the game ended and managed to sell quite a few by releasing them ahead of schedule.

In the 1980s, morning news broadcasts on television began including sports segments, with ESPN focusing more on gathering and broadcasting basketball news than CBS.