Stephen A. Smith, as one of the victims of Wang Yi's bets.
In this article, he listed all kinds of crazy bets Wang Yi had made.
Bets of millions of dollars, houses, and cars were all small potatoes.
The craziest one was when he bet his entire career.
No top star in the world would dare to bet their entire career.
But Wang Yi did.
What was most astonishing was that Wang Yi had won every one of these crazy bets.
He had never lost a single one.
It was truly incredible.
The article concluded:
"He's a crazy gambler like that. His life is on cheat mode!"
In the next game, Wang Yi again fielded a three-tower lineup. The three towers stopped King Arthur and Barton from driving inside, forcing the Lakers to shoot threes from the perimeter.
And this time, their three-point shooting wasn't touched by the same sudden flash of brilliance as in the previous game.
They shot a dismal 5-for-30 from three over the course of the game.
The Kings, meanwhile, kept shooting threes at their usual level.
The three towers focused on rebounding inside, while the two sharpshooters on the perimeter focused on shooting threes.
They went 20-for-35.
With such a massive gap in three-point shooting, the Kings naturally won by a large margin.
They won 135–107, taking a 2–0 series lead.
This was beyond everyone's expectations.
Before the series began, almost 99% of people had counted the Kings out. But reality had given them all a harsh wake-up call.
Even now, they could hardly believe that the Kings were up 2–0, but the facts were right there.
With the Kings winning two straight, their odds of winning the series had also risen sharply among the bookmakers.
According to the bookmakers' predictions, before the series