After losing Game 2, the Kings were already down 0–2.
At this point, sportsbooks had adjusted the odds of the Kings winning the series to 27-to-1.
The higher the odds, the less confidence they had in the Kings.
If you bet one dollar on the Kings and they ultimately won the championship, you would get your dollar back and win an additional twenty-seven dollars.
On the other hand, if you bet twenty-seven dollars on the Bucks and they ultimately won the championship, you would get your money back and win just one additional dollar.
According to calculations based on all kinds of probabilities and formulas by professional analytics firms, the Kings' chances of winning the championship had fallen to 3.2%.
At this point, all the people who had never liked Wang Yi or the Kings began to come out of the woodwork and taunt them.
Some Kings fans also jumped ship.
They expressed their disappointment with the Kings and Wang Yi.
According to a report from the globally renowned analytics company Equinix, 1.7% of Kings fans had jumped ship after Game 1.
By the end of Game 2, that number had already climbed to 9.5%.
Even many fans back home expressed their disappointment with the Kings.
Then came Game 3.
The Kings played a little better and ultimately lost by only twenty points, 108–128.
It was their narrowest loss of the three games.
By then, the Kings were down 0–3.
A disastrous start!
In NBA history, since the playoffs adopted a best-of-seven format, teams had fallen behind 0–3 on 166 occasions.
Not once had a team come back.
Three teams had managed to win the next three games after falling behind 0–3.
But all three lost in Game 7.
That showed just how difficult it was to come back from