This was a common failing among reporters.
Many reporters these days lacked professionalism. As a reporter, you had to care not only about timeliness and buzz, but, more importantly, make sure your coverage was truthful.
Truthfulness had to come before timeliness and buzz.
It was the most important part of a reporter's professional integrity.
But these days, reporters chasing clicks and attention had long since thrown truthfulness to the dogs.
They said whatever would draw clicks, and did whatever would attract attention.
Some might say the reporting world was so competitive that without drawing attention and chasing clicks, how could you survive?
But no matter how many clicks or eyeballs you were after, you couldn't just make things up.
Wang Yi clearly already knew what these reporters were like, so he didn't care.
He no longer acted like he had when he was young, when someone said something harsh and he felt he had to fire back.
He simply said:
"If I'm going to respond to him, I'll do it on the court, not by running my mouth."
Another reporter asked:
"Over these twenty games, Noah has never taken the opposing team's star player seriously. Of course, his performance has justified that arrogance. So tonight, are you going to teach him some humility?"
Wang Yi gave the same answer:
"Everything will be decided by our performance."
The reporters rarely heard Wang Yi make bold declarations anymore.
They were all a little disappointed.
Many reporters said Wang Yi had lost the fire he'd had when he was young, that he no longer had that attitude of "I'm going to conquer the NBA."
In that sense, Wang Yi had grown old.
But they still didn't understand him. Not at all.
The reason Wang Yi no longer made bold declarations or said cutting