He looked at John Mara.
John Mara nodded, signaling for him to continue.
Howard Payne opened the file.
"We have only one core demand—" His gaze fell directly on Li Wei. "Li Wei, you are to take a temporary leave from the sport."
...
「Three days later.」
Outside the Giants' training facility, the early spring wind in New Jersey was bone-chilling.
ESPN field reporter Daniel Coleman had been staked out at the gates of the Giants' facility for three full days.
It was less a stakeout and more like an exile.
He was the most junior sports reporter at ESPN's New York bureau, only eight months into the job. Before this, his work consisted of writing press releases for high school basketball leagues.
He'd been sent to keep a remote watch on the Giants' training facility purely because his editor-in-chief figured there was little chance of any big news breaking here.
After all, it was the offseason. What was there to watch at a training facility?
