NBA: Starting with a Three-Point Experience Card
Chapter 2534

He Was Going to Be on the Sports Illustrated Cover Again

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But the Pacers wanted to create trouble for the Raptors off the court, so they didn't care about any of that.

They said the referees should have called at least one technical foul on Wang Yi during the game.

That way, the Pacers should have gotten another free throw, and the two teams should have been tied.

Some Pacers fans even demanded that the game be replayed.

That demand really got Wang Yi riled up.

Since the matter involved Wang Yi, the league handled it very quickly.

They added a technical foul to Wang Yi's record and fined him $25,000, but rejected the Pacers' appeal for a free throw.

The reason was that when Wang Yi made that somewhat aggressive gesture, time had already expired and the game was over. So even if he had been called for a technical foul, there wouldn't have been a free throw.

Even so, many Pacers fans were still unhappy.

They thought it should have been a free throw.

Before the Raptors' third game in Indiana, a reporter asked Wang Yi what he thought of comments like that from Pacers fans at the team's pregame press conference.

Wang Yi gave a cold laugh and replied, "If that's the case, I might as well let them win one."

So in the third game, Wang Yi sat out, citing discomfort in his ankle.

Without Wang Yi on offense, the opposing team focused even more on double-teaming Pang Bo.

And without Wang Yi to limit Haliburton on defense, the others had a hard time containing him.

Haliburton finished with a triple-double of 35 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists, leading his team to victory.

Raptors fans told Pacers fans, "Brother Yi let you have a win. Satisfied now?"

But Pacers fans and Wang Yi's haters insisted

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