Neither team made any changes to their starting lineups.
By this point, both teams had figured out which lineups worked best against their opponents.
There were plenty of celebrities courtside tonight.
Stars like Beckham, Rihanna, and Daenerys Targaryen were already regulars at the Sacramento arena.
More than fifty Chinese celebrities had come, too.
Jaylen, Guo Allen, Yao Ming, Will Pan, Zhao Liying, Auntie Long...
After all, if the Kings won this game, they'd be crowned champions on their home court.
So all these celebrities wanted to witness it.
Of course, James, Wade, Paul, Anthony, and many other friends of Wang Yi's were also there to watch.
NBA President David Xiao Hua sat in a dark corner of the arena, sometimes glancing at the court and sometimes at the tablet in his hands.
The number of people watching the game live had already topped eight million, and the game hadn't even started yet.
As the game went on, that number was sure to keep climbing.
Just as Xiao Hua was thinking this,
both teams began making their way onto the court.
Xiao Hua glanced down. The figures on his tablet had already reached nine million.
He couldn't help feeling delighted.
You had to understand that the number of live viewers was different from the total number of views.
In the past, people would boast that a game had ten, twenty, or thirty million views. In reality, every time someone clicked in counted as one view. If someone watched on and off, leaving and rejoining twenty times, that counted as twenty views.
That was clearly a bit misleading.
But the figure on Xiao Hua's tablet was the number of live viewers: more than nine million people watching the game at that very moment.
Converted into total views, that would already be more