Pierce had said that because he'd seen Wang Yi's defense tonight, which had truly been airtight.
If that kind of defense were used against prime Jordan, it would make things very difficult for him, too.
However, Pierce's remark had brought hate not only onto Wang Yi, but onto himself as well.
Many of Wang Yi's fans thought Pierce was just a masterful hater, trying to make Wang Yi look bad.
After all, Pierce had always done nothing but criticize Wang Yi. He'd never had a good word to say about him.
Many of Jordan's fans also thought Pierce was talking complete nonsense.
So fans of both Wang Yi and Jordan flocked to Pierce's Twitter and other social media accounts and began cyberbullying him.
But Pierce made his living off this kind of thing. The more people attacked him, the more attention he got.
So he wasn't worried about it at all.
There was just one thing that genuinely made him feel wronged.
In the past, he really had criticized Wang Yi to get attention.
But ever since he learned that Wang Yi had killed two criminals with his bare hands, his attitude toward Wang Yi had changed considerably.
So he'd genuinely meant his praise. He hadn't expected so many people to think he was lying.
Was it really that hard to tell the truth?
Pippen also started mocking Pierce.
He posted on Twitter: "I think you're better off sticking to criticizing Wang Yi. But saying Wang Yi could guard prime Jordan is complete nonsense. No one in the world could stop prime Jordan."
A huge number of Wang Yi's fans then flocked to Pippen's post and started attacking him.
But that was exactly what Pippen wanted.
As the controversy grew, almost the entire internet was discussing one question that day: