At 8 o'clock that night, the Staples Center had become a sea of ​​gold.
All 18,000 fans wore gold T-shirts.
Even the beauties on the cheerleading team are all golden, and even their hair is dyed golden.
Purple Lakers!
Today's gold represents their extreme confidence in the Lakers.
Represents their desire for the golden championship trophy.
Before the game, fans were distributing flyers to these spectators.
Send them a message: Tonight we are going to make noise all night long and make the Staples Center echo with the voices of the traitors all night long.
This is obviously a lesson learned from the last time.
The last time was during the regular season, when the Kings visited the Lakers, they just started calling Wang Yi traitor, but every time they shouted, Wang Yi hit a super long three-pointer, which scared them so much that they never dared to call again.
But this time they have made up their mind, just like the fans in Salt Lake City, they will shout from beginning to end.
They want to shout until Wang Yi collapses.
They want their voices to press on Wang Yi's head like a mountain, and to drown him like a tsunami from all directions.
In short, they want to use their voices to kill Wang Yi.
During the warm-up, Wang Yi looked around the stadium.
There were already many fans holding signs with the word "traitor", shouting and cursing, and twisting their bodies proudly.
Before the game even started, some spectators on the sidelines spontaneously encouraged other fans to shout traitors.
"traitor!"
"traitor!"
"traitor!"
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Wang Yi turned to look at the audience.
Hilde asked Wang Yi: "Boss, are you okay?"
Wang Yi turned around with a smile on his face: "Do you think something's wrong with me?"
Hilde nodded: "Something happened. But it should be something happened to them."
As he spoke, he glanced at the audience.
At this time, the starting lineup for this game was already displayed on the big screen.
After the loss in the last game, the Lakers began to change their formation.
They put Tucker in the starting lineup.
So their starting lineup at this time is:
Point guard: Westbrook;
Shooting guard: Tucker;
Small forward: Gua Ge;
Power forward: James;
Center: Thick eyebrows.
As for the Kings, since Barnes is not playing, Mitchell should have been the starter, but Mitchell is too short. If he were to start, the overall height of the Kings' starting lineup would be too short.
So Walton let the taller rookie Danny start, replacing Barnes as the starting small forward.
Point guard: Hield;
Shooting guard: Wang Yi;
Small forward: Danny;
Power forward; Bagley;
Center: Holmes.
Bagley and Holmes are both over 2.1 meters tall.
And for people over 2.1 meters tall, the two of them are very fast, so this lineup ensures both height and speed.
At this time, Wang Yi's eyes were fixed on Westbrook.
He has to find a way to beat Westbrook first so that the Kings can have a chance of winning.
In this game, the commentators on the sidelines were Reggie Miller and O'Neal.
When Reggie Miller saw the starting lineup, he shook his head.
"The Kings are already weak. Now that Barnes is not playing, the Kings' strength has weakened a bit."
O'Neal stared at the data on the tablet: "Let's take a look. Yesterday's predicted probability of the Kings advancing was still 5.6%. But this time, with Barnes not playing, the Kings' probability of advancing has been updated again, only 3.2%.
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Reggie Miller also looked at the data and said: "Barnes is indeed a very important part of the Kings. Among the five starting players of the Kings, except for Wang Yi, Barnes has the strongest defensive ability. With him defending Anthony,
It made Anthony unable to take action at all. And when he defended James, he was the best at guarding James among the five starting players on the Kings."
"Although the rookie Danny who replaced him played very hard on defense, his body was too thin. He couldn't guard James at all. Even guarding Anthony was very difficult."
"For the Kings, this battle at Tianwangshan will be an extremely difficult game."
In a certain ward at Sacramento Central Hospital.
Barnes turned on the TV on time.
Both brothers stared closely at the screen.
Bass's eyes kept flashing when he heard the analysis from Reggie Miller and O'Neal.
His brother Chris Barnes said in a weak voice: "Brother, I delayed you and the Kings."
Barnes shook his head: "Don't worry, since Wang Yi reminded us to watch this game, we will definitely see a shocking performance."
Chris Barnes nodded slightly when he heard this.
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At the same time, in China, Tencent NBA Live Room.
The female anchor of this game is still Mina, a die-hard fan of James.
Whenever there is a Lakers game, she is the anchor for more than 70% of the games.
The other two male commentators, one is Ke Fan and the other is Director Zhang Weiping.
Regarding Barnes not playing, Zhang Weiping also expressed concern for the Kings and Wang Yi: "If the Kings want to win this game, Wang Yi must score at least 50 points, and at the same time, the Kings' mad dog-like bite must be maintained for a long time.
But obviously now the Lakers have taken the Kings seriously. It will be very, very difficult for the Kings to win."
While the two were analyzing, Mina interjected: "The number of viewers in the live broadcast room of this game has exceeded 100 million, and the peak number of people online at the same time is 20 million!"
What is this concept?
During this period of the 2017 Finals, the number of viewers of Tencent’s NBA live broadcast room reached 175 million.
The peak number of people online at the same time is 20 million.
This has set a record for the number of viewers on the global live broadcast platform.
And now it's only Game 5 of the first round of the playoffs.
And before the game even started, the number of viewers had already exceeded 100 million.
This shows how much Chinese fans attach great importance to this game.
At Staples Center, the game is about to start at 7:55 pm.
James is spreading magnesium powder again.
Life should have a sense of ritual.
James' game is even more ritualistic.
Magnesium powder must be sprinkled before every game.
In the past, when he was spreading powder, other Lakers players would make funny moves next to James, holding the camera to take pictures. Everyone was enjoying themselves, which was so disharmonious.
But today they didn't.
Instead, everyone looked at James with serious expressions.
James didn't have too many exaggerated expressions when he applied magnesium powder. He also had a serious expression.
This is enough to show that the Lakers attach great importance to the Kings today.
At 8:00 pm, the match between the two sides finally started.
All the Kings players gathered in a circle, raised their fists high, and roared two words.
"hope!"
"hope!"
"hope!"
For them, this is a battle of hope.
Not just the hope of their team, the Kings, but also the hope of Barnes' younger brother, Chris Barnes.
The moment Wang Yi stepped onto the court, the system prompt sounded in his mind again.
Chapter completed!