Never Expected: Daily Public Displays of Affection!
When Milton saw Wang Yue charging straight for the basket with no one in front of him to defend, he worried Wang Yue might throw down a dunk and lift his team's spirits, so he hurried after him.
But to his surprise, as soon as Wang Yue stepped inside the three-point line, he suddenly pulled off a textbook step-back and quickly launched a shot from beyond the arc.
After releasing the ball, Wang Yue didn't even look at it. Instead, he glanced at Yin Guo in the stands, then quickly ran back to his own half.
"Swish!"
Just as Wang Yue ran back, the ball he'd shot dropped cleanly through the net.
Seeing Wang Yue answer with a step-back three of his own—and make it—the crowd grew excited.
They loved this kind of back-and-forth shootout. They didn't like watching teams slug it out on defense.
Knicks fans had always had a motto: The team could lose, but the offense had to be beautiful.
So Wang Yue's three-pointer immediately fired up the home crowd. Even Yin Guo and Meng Xiaodong, sitting courtside, caught the excitement and cheered.
The cameras had already been following Wang Yue, and when he looked toward the stands, they automatically swung over to Yin Guo.
Yin Guo and Meng Xiaodong happened to be cheering together, so the commentators quickly introduced them to the audience.
Barkley, one of the commentators for the game, immediately seized on the topic and teased Wang Yue. "Was that shot Wang's way of answering James, or was he dedicating it to his girlfriend?"
Smith wanted to ask what it even meant to dedicate a shot to your girlfriend, but he'd looked into Wang Yue before the game and knew the guy was constantly showing off his