The Kings players looked at Wang Yi in surprise.
Usually, whenever anyone else on the team got bullied or got into a scuffle on the court, their leader would rush over at once to stand up for them.
But today, Doug had been punched, and now someone was sitting on top of him.
Not only was their leader not stepping in to help him, he was holding them back.
Wang Yi lowered his voice and roared at the players, "All of you, get back! If you stand up for him, he'll just call you idiots!"
The players paused, then turned to look at Doug, who was lying on the ground.
Doug had his face covered, but he wasn't fighting back.
With Doug's personality, if someone had really hit him, how could he not hit back?
The only reason he wasn't retaliating was that he was doing it on purpose.
All the Kings players were stunned.
By then, the referees had brought the situation under control, and security had pulled Carl to his feet.
But Carl kept lunging toward them, hurling the vilest insults.
The referee didn't even need to review the footage. Carl had sat on top of Doug while Doug never fought back, punched him several times, and continued ranting and trying to lunge at him after being pulled away. The referee gave him a second-degree foul and ejected him on the spot.
The ejection left the fans in the arena with nothing to argue about.
Even the children could see that their own player had thrown the first punch—and that he was the only one who had thrown any punches.
Only then did the referee review the footage from earlier.
In the end, he found that Doug had apparently trash-talked the guy.
As for what exactly he'd said,