basketball never sleeps

Chapter 90 The Mysterious Power of the East

After easily winning the Grizzlies at home, the Heat will usher in a wave of four consecutive Western Conference games against the Nuggets, Supersonics, Kings, and Lakers.

And the game against the Lakers happened to be the Christmas game.

Although judging from the current record of the two teams, the strength of the Heat and the Lakers is already obvious, but the president still spares no effort in investing resources in publicity.

No way, who asked him to arrange another Christmas game where the Pistons beat the Pacers.

He had only settled on the matter of the Pistons and Pacers two days ago.

Two indefinitely suspended players-Ben, as the initiator of the accident, was suspended for 5 games on the basis of the existing suspension; and Artest was suspended for the rest of the season for the crime of beating fans and accidentally injuring innocent fans. Whether he can participate in all the regular seasons and playoffs depends on his performance in the follow-up 100 hours of community service.

Counting the previous punishment decisions that have been promulgated, the punishment result of the Palace of Auburn Hills this time is much lighter than the punishment result in the original history.

Artest may return in the playoffs, and the Pacers still have hope for their playoff journey.

But to everyone's surprise, Artest did not show much regret at the hearing of the Auburn Hills battle, and even promoted his album that was originally scheduled to be released on November 11 in a follow-up interview.

It’s not the first time that Artest’s brain jumps like this. As early as the beginning of the season, Artest had a conflict with Carlisle because of this album. This idiot actually asked Carlisle to reduce his playing time. , allowing him to get more rest in order to concentrate on his album.

The two quarreled about it in the locker room. In the end, Larry Bird sided with his friend and suspended Artest for 2 games before the matter came to an end.

In the Palace War in Auburn Hills, teammates were beaten, and those who were suspended were suspended. They all achieved loyalty, but after Artest was suspended, he didn’t want to improve his performance, train well, and help the team in the playoffs. Instead, he ran to work on his album, which made the Pacers brothers a little chilling.

On the other hand, Milicic, who was "forced" to play recently, also performed well in the Pistons.

Although he is still not interesting on the defensive end, but on the offensive end, after he stabilized as a substitute for Rasheed Wallace, he averaged more than ten minutes per game, and his data has risen to the level of 9+5.

After seeing his value, Dumas now eats and chats with Milicic twice in three days, and also talks to him, reminiscing about the efforts the Pistons made to help him leave Serbia and Montenegro, and painting cakes for him to look forward to the future.

But Milicic just didn't let go. Even if there is a tendency to be reused now and he has a relatively stable playing time, he still wants to leave.

He is no longer the guy who doesn't know anything. Larry Brown still has four years of contract with the team, which is longer than his contract. Staying with the team for the New Year is already his limit.

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"Oh, don't worry, it's hard to say whether the game will be won or lost, but what's so difficult about defending against him? You don't think that buddy will fall down after being shaken like that idiot Marion?
Usually I don't like to defend, I really want to be serious, Artest is a ball, eh, no, the guy who was knocked down by Artest with two punches is not good, I think I played against others in Balmore back then. When shooting, the kid probably hasn't learned how to fight yet. "

The melon with the watermelon head waved his fingers like a snatch, as if he was still recalling his glorious days, but when he thought of a bullet hole rubbing against his body, he couldn't help shivering .

"Okay, let's stop talking. When I go to Cleveland to play in two days, don't forget the health care you promised, hehehe."

After hanging up the phone, Melon put away her smiling face.

In the locker room, he pasted two posters behind the locker door like wanted warrants.

One is from James that he posted last season, and the other is from Mo Wen that he added after this season.

This is the "hit list" he issued to himself.

Two big crosses have been drawn on James' poster, which is proof that he won James twice last season.

But this time, his hunting target became Mo Wen.

On the evening of the 17th, the Heat's plane landed from the Denver plateau. The setting sun dyed the clouds they passed just now, and it was too late to appreciate the beautiful scenery. The winter and the chill of the plateau made the players wrap their clothes tightly.

Mo Wen turned his phone back on, thinking that nothing would happen as before, but the text messages that popped up one after another told him that things were not that simple.

After clicking on one of the text messages sent to him by Human, what he saw was a series of numbers with unknown meanings.

1131514
After scrolling through several text messages in a row, he seemed to understand the meaning of this string of numbers.

That's the total number of votes he received in the first stage of the All-Star Game.

If he remembers correctly, this year's All-Star voting should have 5 rounds...

The mysterious power from the east seems to have made things a little bigger this time.

Mo Wen turned off the phone silently, trying to pretend nothing happened, but as the staff and Wade and O'Neill connected to the phone, things still couldn't be hidden.

"Mo, can you introduce that hacker to me? In the season of the championship, we only got 100 million votes!" O'Neill whispered excitedly with his arms around Mo Wen's neck.

"Hacker? Do you think I still need to find those things?"

Mo Wen shook his head disdainfully, then pointed to his shoulder and patted him.

"Did you see it?"

O'Neill leaned his head and looked, but didn't find anything. "See what?"

"The expectations of 13 billion people and the attention of the whole of Asia."

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Anthony, who was still practicing in the training hall, asked the agent three times about his All-Star votes.

114514
To him, this number of votes is already quite a lot. With the Nuggets starting this year with more losses than wins, they have [-] more votes than last year. He should be very satisfied.

However, when he learned of the results of the first round of vote winners, his good mood suddenly disappeared.

Mo Wen's votes were not twice his, but ten times his!
Of course, Anthony wasn't the only one who was shocked by Mo Wen's vote. The first reaction of all the media and reporters who got the news was to confirm whether the vote was true.

In the original history, Dayao became the vote king this year, and he won an unprecedented 88 votes in the first round. People couldn't help but admire the "mysterious power of the East". The team won the bronze medal, which catalyzed the enthusiasm for basketball in China.

Because of Mo Wen's diversion, Dayao's votes in the first round did not increase but decreased compared to his previous life, only 82.

Most of the votes and hatred were transferred to Mo Wen.

Some people in the coalition advocated an appropriate "correction" of Mo Wen's vote, but Stern vetoed it.

As a master of tidying up, Stern is very strict about the psychology of the fans.

Although the introduction of Chinese forces may seem to disrupt the balance of the game, but Mo Wen's own strength is not bad, and he can barely hold on.

If you can hold it, there will be hot topics from time to time; if you can't hold it, then Dayao will be questioned last season.

Later, the NBA continued to reduce the proportion of Chinese votes, because the behavior of Chinese fans to support the UAE and Jeremy Lin was too outrageous, completely contrary to the original intention of the All-Stars, so the problem cannot be solved, so it can only solve the problem. .

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"Anthony swayed Butler away with a change of direction in front of his body, and then turned around and threw away Wade who was defending. Doriak had no time to return to the defense and dunked directly-BANG! Anthony showed a far superior performance tonight. The usual vitality."

"He was talking rubbish to Mo Wen on the bench, oh, Mo Wen took off his training uniform, is he about to play again?"

"The ball was dead, and the Heat really made a substitution. Mo Wen came on and went to Anthony directly. The two didn't look very friendly. The referee needs to pay extra attention to them."

"Anthony caught the ball and made a breakthrough... Anthony's breakthrough was blocked... Anthony was intercepted... Anthony fell down (crying)!"

　I still broke my promise, and I am guilty.However, there is still some progress. Try to advance the update time tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)