Chapter 37: Father and Son

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Right up to the halftime break, the fans at the venue were still immersed in Gan Guoyang's 360-degree slam dunk.

Tonight's game was not broadcast nationwide, only local TV station KOIN-TV was transmitting the signal to the Oregon area.

In fact, for this regular season, CBS and the NBA had signed a contract for nine nationwide broadcasts (excluding the All-Star Game leaves only eight), one more than last season.

The Trail Blazers, as an emerging team in the Western Conference that had garnered attention, were allocated one of the eight games, but the date was April 7, 1985, in Los Angeles against the Lakers, which was already at the end of the season.

The league implemented the so-called "Less is more" strategic policy (actually because no one was watching), and Stern stated that he wanted to present the best teams and the best games to the national audience, to win back the hearts of the NBA fans.