Gan Guoyang and Jordan's scoring duel sparked a frenzy of spectatorship.
According to rough statistics later, over a hundred million people worldwide watched the game in front of their televisions just during the first half.
This figure far surpassed any previous NBA finals and far exceeded the NFL Super Bowl.
It created a miraculous viewership.
China's widespread television adoption in the mid to late 90s contributed significantly to this.
From 1984 to 1998, Gan Guoyang cultivated China's earliest, widest, and most loyal group of sports television viewers.
At the same time, in the mid to late 90s, many fans were attracted by Michael Jordan's wonderful and graceful basketball skills and became die-hard Bulls fans.
Thus, the duel between the Trail Blazers and the Bulls in China had extremely high attention as well, along with the large domestic population, countless viewers sat in front of their televisions watching the game that day.
