The Raptors opened with the first possession.
Hachimura missed the three, and the other team immediately pushed the ball upcourt on a fast break. Wang Yi had already retreated, stopping at the free-throw line.
As Connie Connie and their power forward, Dute, charged toward the basket, Wang Yi first moved toward Connie Connie, who had the ball.
When Connie Connie passed behind his back to Dute, Wang Yi shifted toward Dute.
Seeing Wang Yi move toward him, Dute tossed the ball high into the air, intending to set up an Alley-oop for Connie Connie.
But to everyone's astonishment, just as the ball reached its peak, a huge hand shot skyward and snatched it out of the air, barely ten centimeters below the top of the backboard.
He caught it one-handed in midair.
The crowd needed only that spectacular interception to erupt in astonishment.
"Wow!"
"Wow!"
LeBron James, watching from the sideline, also let out one astonished cry after another.
"Wow, wow, wow..."
Stephen A. Smith turned to James in amazement. "Oh my! LeBron, how does that compare to you at your peak?"
LeBron James shook his head. "It's a completely different thing, a completely different thing! Even at my peak, I never made an aerial interception that crazy. When he caught that ball, his hand was probably less than ten centimeters from the top of the backboard. That's ridiculous!"
Even the South Sudanese players, whose physical abilities far surpassed those of ordinary NBA players, were inwardly amazed by Wang Yi's spectacular midair interception.
My God, what kind of monster is this?
The South Sudan National Team was full of long-limbed, high-flying athletes, and they were practically immune to extraordinarily gifted players by now.
But after seeing Wang Yi, they finally understood that there was still a difference between human beings