The NBA had plenty of superstitions.
Take Rondo, for instance. Once, he wore his headband backward during a game and turned in the best performance of his rookie season.
For Rondo, who had never been a scorer first, that was extremely rare.
So in later games, he deliberately kept wearing his headband backward.
But the league eventually banned it, requiring him to show the NBA logo on his headband.
And there were plenty of other superstitions in the NBA: not shaving or getting a haircut during the Playoffs, wearing one long sock and one short sock, not eating beef on game day, and so on.
Mike Brown was feeling superstitious now. You always make a three whenever you're down by two? I'll put you down by three instead and see if you can still hit one.
After the Timeout, the Kings took the floor.
They ran the play beautifully, setting five consecutive screens in the middle to give Danny a chance to catch the ball at the top of the arc.
Danny caught the ball and shot immediately.
Up went the shot, and down it came.
Swish!
Three-pointer!
103–100.
The Kings led by three.
The head coach, Mike Brown, quickly turned his gaze to Wang Yi, wanting to see how he would react.
Wang Yi looked completely at ease, showing no reaction at all.
Once they got back to the frontcourt, Wang Yi kept moving off the ball and running around screens.
When he got a chance for a Corner Three, he caught the ball and shot.
He was just as confident and decisive as he'd been on all those earlier three-pointers when they were down by two.
Thump!
The ball slammed off the rim and caromed far away.
Little Danny reacted quickly and grabbed the rebound.
Then he immediately