Fortunately, Zhang Yu returned for Game 3.
But perhaps because Zhang Yu had sat out two games, he couldn't immediately find his rhythm.
He went 1-for-6 from three-point range in this game.
Tagore's three-pointers weren't falling either.
And in the third quarter, Wang Yi sprained his ankle, and this time it was a particularly bad one.
Even though Baiyin treated him in the physical therapy room with all kinds of procedures, including Bloodletting Therapy and ice packs,
the swelling in Wang Yi's foot still hadn't gone down completely by the latter half of the fourth quarter.
Normally, he couldn't have played under those circumstances, but Wang Yi insisted on taking the court, and no one could stop him.
However, when he came on, there were only four minutes left in the game, and the Raptors were already down by 20 points.
Even with Wang Yi on the court, he gave it everything he had and scored 17 points in those four minutes.
In the end, they still suffered a heartbreaking nine-point defeat.
As a result, the Raptors fell behind 1–2 in the series.
After the game, Wang Yi's limping figure as he entered the Player Tunnel was a painful sight.
But many haters claimed Wang Yi was faking it, pretending to be injured because the game was already lost, just to win people's sympathy.
After the game, a reporter snapped a photo of Wang Yi's right ankle in the locker room. It was swollen like a loaf of bread.
Many haters had been ripping into Wang Yi, but when that photo came out, a lot of them fell silent.
His foot was swollen like that, yet he'd still scored 17 points in the final four minutes.
Honestly, even the haters couldn't help being moved.
What worried Raptors fans most was