While Wang was taking his free throw, the big screen kept replaying his unbelievable shot.
In the Chinese livestream chat, the fans had gone wild.
They were so excited they couldn't type anything else. They could only send one number.
The screen was filled with it.
"666666666666666!"
"6666666!"
"666666666666666666666666666666666!"
And in the livestream chats on foreign websites,
aside from some fans shouting "Oh my God," the rest were all sending 6s.
Nowadays, thanks to the impact Wang had made around the world, wherever he showed up, Chinese fans were bound to flood the chat with 6s.
That had taught many foreign fans what the number meant.
And sending a single digit was a lot more convenient than typing things like "oh my god" or "holy shit."
So plenty of people on foreign websites were sending 6s, too.
"6666666!"
"6666666!"
"666!"
While Wang was shooting his free throw, Stephen A. Smith had already drafted a post on the American version of Xiaohongshu:
"51 points in the first half, against Wemby, this year's Defensive Player of the Year."
"What, you're calling Wemby elite? The elite are exactly who I play!"
The supposedly free United States of Big Beautiful,
had now banned the American version of TikTok.
For a country that claimed to champion freedom of speech, this was an enormous irony.
In a fit of anger, former users of the American version of TikTok had flocked to download Xiaohongshu.
In short, they refused to use American platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
As a result, many celebrities had recently opened Xiaohongshu accounts, too.
Just one minute after Stephen A. Smith posted that message, it already had over a thousand comments.
"The elite are exactly who I play!"
"6666666!"
"66666!"
"So you're the Defensive Player of the Year, huh?"
Meanwhile, at the arena,
inside