Wang Yi said that next season, they would win all 82 games, then go 16–0 in the playoffs.
If anyone else had said that, people might have thought Wang Yi was joking.
How could any team go undefeated for 82 games?
Even the teams Wang Yi had led had won only 78 games at most.
That had already been an incredible season.
The second-best record was the Warriors' 73 wins.
Third place belonged to the Bulls, who had once won 72 games.
Some longtime fans had seen for themselves just how dominant those 72-win Bulls and 73-win Warriors had been. When they wanted to win a game, they almost never failed to do so.
In many games, they would spend the first two quarters playing around with their opponents, then turn it up a notch in the third and put the game away in a single run.
Wang Yi's 75-win season had been even more terrifying.
A lot of the time, he wouldn't even wait until the third quarter to play around with you. He would turn it on in the second, build a 30-point lead in one run, and more or less put the game away.
Yet even Wang Yi, leading a Kings team that powerful, had managed only 75 wins.
Now Wang Yi was saying they would go 82–0 in the regular season. What could that be but a joke?
Even if you set that aside and managed to go 82–0 in the regular season, you still had the playoffs to play.
Could you guarantee 16 straight wins in the playoffs?
Of course, Wang Yi had once gone 16–0 in the playoffs, but he had done it only that one time.
And now, on top of going 82–0 in the regular season, he wanted to go 16–0 in