By 8 p.m.
The moment everyone had been waiting for had arrived.
By then, across China, the Wushuang Platform app had reached ten million downloads.
Some might say ten million downloads wasn't all that impressive.
TikTok had passed one billion downloads long ago.
But there was one thing to keep in mind: Wushuang had only been available for download for five days.
And during those five days, it hadn't even been operational. People could only download the app and register accounts.
Another thing was that Wang Yi had said Wushuang Platform would initially focus on live basketball broadcasts.
That meant most people who weren't interested in basketball wouldn't bother downloading it.
Even so, it had reached ten million downloads in five days—an average of two million a day.
That was already staggering.
Of course, the downloads were so staggering because of Wang Yi's influence.
By now, true basketball fans were practically itching with anticipation.
Who wouldn't want to see Shaquille O'Neal take on Jokic, if they had the chance?
Who wouldn't want to see Shaquille O'Neal take on Wemby?
Who wouldn't want to see Wang Yi take on Jordan?
Now, virtual reality had made all of that possible.
The game was bound to become the center of everyone's attention.
Although everyone believed Wang Yi was better than peak Jordan, there were always die-hard Jordan fans who felt Wang Yi had simply been born in a better era. The NBA was clearly less physical now, they argued, and scoring had become easier.
So, on paper, Wang Yi seemed stronger than peak Jordan.
Just think about it: in the old NBA, teams averaged only eighty or ninety points a game, and even reaching a hundred points was difficult.
Some home teams had even introduced a promotion: if the team scored over a