"Yeah, you just don't understand. In the NBA, medical teams and organizations value players' health more than their record. Especially when it comes to superstars, teams would rather win two fewer games, lose a playoff series, or even miss out on a championship than let a player return before he's fully recovered. Forcing a comeback can affect his entire career."
"NBA medical teams put players' health ahead of their record. Got it?"
But fans were still just fans. When it came to what went on inside a team, especially a player's physical condition, all they could do was speculate based on what was officially revealed.
In reality, Wang Yi's foot injury had recovered to only about 65 percent at most.
At the press conference, reporters asked Wang Yi how he would respond to the things the Ball family had been saying over the past few days.
Wang Yi had only one word:
"Fight!"
He said it in Mandarin.
Most of the reporters at the scene looked completely baffled.
Only a few reporters who understood Chinese nodded to themselves.
That was right. That was Wang Yi's personality.
Just then, a Canadian reporter asked Wang Yi:
"Wang, what you just said sounded like Chinese. How would you translate it into English?"
Without a moment's hesitation, Wang Yi blurted out, "Fuck!"
That left the reporter even more bewildered.
He had no idea whether Wang Yi was cursing at him or at the Ball father and sons.
The reporters at the scene all stared at Wang Yi in shock.
The few who understood Chinese exchanged glances.
When Wang Yi had said "fight," they could still interpret it as a defiant challenge: You picked a fight with me, and the Ball father and sons have been running their mouths, so of course I'm going to