Wang Yi and Doug traded trash talk while working together on the court. It was truly a legendary moment in basketball history.
The commentators on the sidelines were completely baffled:
"These two damn guys are playing so well together that they've already taken the lead. So why do they look like they have a bitter grudge against each other? Every time they work together, they spend ages trash-talking each other!"
Watching from Los Angeles, James burst out laughing. "This is great!"
James found it amusing, but Rondo found it agonizing.
When other teams had players who worked together in perfect sync, he could always find a way to split them up.
But when it came to Wang Yi and Doug, he genuinely couldn't think of any good way to break them apart.
Their chemistry made no sense at all.
Who'd ever heard of two teammates constantly trash-talking each other on the court, yet still working together so seamlessly?
Because their chemistry was so bizarre and defied all logic, Rondo tried every approach he could think of and still couldn't come up with a way to separate them.
In the end, the Kings won this game in the strangest way imaginable, one nobody had seen coming.
They got off to a strong start.
127–122.
They'd won by just five points.
But no one had expected it.
Plenty of people had picked the Pelicans to win before the game, but hardly anyone had backed the Kings.
Now it was the Kings who had taken the first game.
There were two heroes behind the win: Wang Yi and Doug.
Wang Yi finished with 40 points, 13 assists, and 7 rebounds.
Zion, the Pelicans star who had traded baskets with him, had already scored 38 points by the end of the third quarter. But