They'd promised that the future would be his, but they still hadn't handed it over.
Damn it, if they didn't hand it over soon, his prime would be over.
Wemby was born in 2004, only four years younger than Wang Yi.
Wemby was already thirty years old.
If Wang Yi didn't get old soon, Wemby would be ready to retire.
And don't forget, Wang Yi had said before that he was going to win four consecutive championships with the Raptors. In other words, he still had to win at least two more titles.
When other stars said things like that, you could dismiss it as boasting.
But when Wang Yi said it, he was simply stating a fact.
By the time he'd won four consecutive championships with the Raptors, Wemby would already be thirty-two.
By then, rising stars like Pang Bo and Juan would be hot on his heels.
Wemby's chances of winning a championship after that would be even slimmer.
No wonder Wemby was so rueful.
Next, Wang Yi spoke with the Spurs players one by one. Once they had left the court, he and the Raptors players stepped onto the podium again.
When NBA President David Xiao Hua held out the trophy to Wang Yi, Wang Yi didn't take it.
Instead, he gestured for David Xiao Hua to give it to the team's two rookies.
Everyone else on the Raptors had won a championship last season.
Only the two rookies, Locke and Tagore, were in their first year as professionals and were winning their first championship.
Locke and Tagore clutched the championship trophy and wept in each other's arms.
They hadn't endured the setbacks and wasted years of stars who'd spent ten or twenty years in the NBA without winning a championship.
But ever since they'd first picked