With three points at the start, Nash begged for a maximum salary to renew his contract

At the end of the first round, James led Wang Chao by 16 votes, which is a relatively large gap.

However, with the announcement of the results of the second round of voting, Wang Chao not only successfully surpassed James in the second round, but even led James by nearly 20 votes in the total number of votes!

In the second round alone, Wang Chao got nearly 40 more votes than James!

what is this concept?

So far in the regular season, he is currently averaging 34 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists per game. Mavericks guard James Harden, who tops the scoring list, received 43 votes in the first round and 47 in the second round.

Wang Chaoguang surpassed James' votes in the second round, and almost caught up with Harden's overall votes!

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Harden has never played for the Rockets and has lost a large number of fans who should have come from Huaguo. The next star, a strong contender for the MVP of the regular season, Harden's popularity is still so, let alone other stars.

Except for a few top stars such as Antetokounmpo, Curry, and Durant, most of the stars are not as popular as Harden.

This can fully prove how exaggerated the number of votes Wang Chao won in the second round of voting.

Although there will be another round of voting in the league to finally determine the results of the All-Star voting, when the results of the second round of voting are announced, both James himself and the fans who support James already have a sense of despair that they are powerless to fight again .

Wang Chao's fan base is too large, especially in the case of Huaguo with a population of 14 billion, it is difficult for others to have an advantage over Wang Chao in terms of the number of fans.

This result also made many James fans in the United States and even fans of other players extremely dissatisfied. They protested one after another, suggesting that the league should dilute the weight ratio of votes from overseas. A situation like Wang Chao is too unfair to other players in the league.

But the league officials also have misery.

"Dilution of overseas voting weights? Do you think I haven't diluted it? If I haven't done it, why is James only 20 votes behind Wang Chao?"

In fact, the league officials have tried their best to weaken the role of Huaguo fans in the All-Star voting, and it has not started recently. As early as Dayao was elected as the league's vote leader for two consecutive years, the league has realized that Huaguo fans Fans have hacked into the league's voting mechanism and made adjustments.

But even so, Wang Chao's fan base is still too large. Unless they ignore all the votes in the Asia-Pacific region, Wang Chao will be invincible in the All-Star voting!

And just like that, another week passed quickly, and the third round of voting officially ended.

In the third round of voting, even though they knew it might be cold, James fans still actively voted every day, and called on other people around them to vote for their own stars.

In the end, the total number of votes for James at the end of the three rounds of voting was 516 million votes.

This number of votes has already broken the previous record of personal votes in the All-Star voting, and has also set a new record by a large margin.

On the one hand, it is because of the active operation of James and his team and the strong support of the fans. On the other hand, in order to increase the fun of the All-Star voting, the league has added a five-day double counting rule. It will double, and this will increase a large number of votes out of thin air.

But even in this case, James lost, and he lost badly.

With a record high of 516 million votes, he met Wang Chao who got 602 million votes. In the All-Star voting, Wang Chao won James by a full 86 votes!It is almost the same as the famous garbage brothers in the east, Kyle Lowry and Jamal DeRozan, who got close to the total number of votes after three rounds.

Obviously, this is a crushing victory without any suspense. Outside the arena, Wang Chao defeated James again, even though he himself didn't even care about this matter at all, and he didn't ask for tickets, but that's it Inexplicably, he became the league vote king.

And the ticket king in the east is the thriving Antetokounmpo Antetokounmpo.

With his explosive style of play, luxurious personal data and outstanding team leadership this season, Antetokounmpo's popularity has soared, surpassing Curry Durant, and becoming the most popular star under Wang Chao and James.

After three rounds of voting, Antetokounmpo won 430 million votes. Although there is a big gap compared with Wang Chao and James, he is the only star other than these two with a total of more than 400 million votes.
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After the voting results were announced, everyone thought that the All-Star East and West vote winners were determined to be Wang Chao and Antetokounmpo.

But many fans who don't pay much attention to the NBA All-Star rules don't know that since the All-Star restructuring in the 16-17 season, the rules of the All-Star voting have changed. The ranking of the stars in the All-Star voting is not only the fans. The total number of votes is calculated, as well as player votes and media votes. The three are combined for a comprehensive ranking.

Although Wang Chao was far ahead of James by a few blocks in the fan voting session, which can be called a crushing victory, but when the player votes were announced, Wang Chao won 203 votes from the league players, and James received 216 votes, with a slight advantage. Surpassed Wang Chao and became the number one frontcourt in the Western Conference.

In the media voting, James won 99 votes, higher than Wang Chao's 97 votes, and once again ranked first in the frontcourt of the Western Conference.

The result is that in the final competition, Wang Chao’s fans voted first, the players and the media got the second vote, and he was overtaken by James in a corner... No, to be precise, it should be a direct card bug and go to the background program to achieve an almost impossible overtake. Become captain of the west.

Wang Chao was stunned for a moment when he learned of this. Like most fans, he thought that he was the Western Conference champion by voting far more than James in the All-Star vote.

After he carefully understood the new all-star voting mechanism, he immediately remembered what was going on, and couldn't help but sneer.

"It's quite fun."

Compared with the voting process that requires a large number of fans to vote repeatedly, the method of finding more than 300 players and hundreds of media to vote is much better in secret.

Wang Chao has long been disliked by the media in the United States. Even if they admire Wang Chao's strength, there are still many media who deliberately do not vote for him.

The media is still like this, let alone the players.

Of course, Wang Chao has been in the league for so many years. He has many enemies and friends, but he is still a little worse than a well-rounded guy like James.

All-star team leaders and starters were all determined in this way, and Wang Chao was not the only one restricted by this strange mechanism.

Wade in the East and Doncic in the West have also suffered from it, and they have been more affected than Wang Chao. After all, Wang Chao just lost the position of the All-Star Captain in the West, which he didn't care about. Both Qiqi and Qiqi obviously got high votes, but they fell out of the starting lineup because of the low votes of the players and the media.

Especially Doncic, as a first-year rookie, after he was selected by the Memphis Grizzlies, he quickly became the absolute core of the team, his statistical performance exploded, and he gained a lot of popularity. With 420 million votes, the highest number of votes in the league after James and Antetokounmpo has dropped to about 390 million, but it is still the highest number of votes in the league under Wang Chao, James, and Antetokounmpo.

However, among the strikers in the West, Doncic's players and media votes are not high, which seriously lowered the ranking. . under George.

Wade's situation is similar. Relying on the popularity blessing brought by his retirement tour, Wade received 200 million votes. Although it is not high, it is second only to Irving among the backcourt players in the Eastern Conference and ahead of Kemba. . Walker got 81 votes, which is about the same gap as Wang Chao and James.

But it was Kemba Walker who was finally selected as the starter for the Eastern Conference All-Stars.

After all, this increasingly commercial alliance has reached the point where even the All-Stars have to operate in secret.

After the East and West All-Star starters and the captain were confirmed, James seemed to be proud of himself. Although he lost miserably in the fan voting, what did it matter?

When interviewed by the media, James had a smile on his face and said with a smile: "This is my first time participating in the All-Stars in the West. I believe this will be a wonderful experience. I am very grateful to the fans for pushing me to the West." As the captain, I will try my best to bring you a wonderful All-Star Game!"

When Wang Chao's fans heard this, their noses almost crooked.

Is it the fans or the league who pushed you to be the captain of the Western Conference? Don't you have any clues?How dare you lick your face and say such a thing?

But James just said so, and in the live TV selection session on February 2, James never chose Wang Chao for three consecutive rounds. In the end, Antetokounmpo chose Wang Chao in the fourth round.

Wang Chao didn't know about this until later.

If the previous incident can still be regarded as a clown's funny performance and choose to ignore it, then doing things in the selection process is a bit of a slap in the face.

Although Wang Chao felt that in an exhibition game like the All-Stars, it was a bit of a big fuss, and it was not interesting, but since someone deliberately put their face on it, there was nothing they could do about it.

Since James is jumping around like this, he doesn't mind being serious on the All-Star stage after a long absence.

They all took the initiative to stretch their faces over, so don't blame them for beating hard!
In the end, the distribution of players between the two teams is the five starters of the James team: Irving, Harden, James, Durant and Anthony Davis.

The starting five of the Antetokounmpo team are Curry, Kemba Walker, Leonard, Wang Chao and Antetokounmpo.

From the lineup, it can be seen that Antetokounmpo is the Eastern Conference champion for the first time, and his experience is obviously lacking. He was crushed by James' IQ in the selection process. The starting lineup chosen is completely different, with Walker and Curry on the back line. As a point guard, thanks to Curry, he can barely play as a combo guard as a guest shooting guard.

But at the forward position, Antetokounmpo had to stand at the center forward position, otherwise no one would be available.

James' first choice, he chose the thick-browed brother Anthony Davis, because he knew very well that due to the restructuring of the All-Star voting system, the original traditional center position was canceled, and it also made it difficult for centers who were not popular enough to enter. to the All-Star starting lineup.

Although the thick-browed Davis is mainly a power forward, he can also play the center position. He is the most worthy of the first choice among the eight starting players.

Fortunately, in addition to the five starters, the two teams each have seven substitute players.

Antetokounmpo failed to select a suitable insider in the starting lineup, and chose James' previous partners, center Joel Embiid and Cousins ​​of the Lakers, to make up for the lack of center positions.

Speaking of All-Star substitutes, I have to mention that the Clippers have perfectly inherited the glorious tradition of the Nuggets this season. Except for Wang Chao, none of the team was selected as an All-Star.

This is actually normal.

Even in the original 18-19 season of the Clippers, Lu Wei, Harris and Gallinari were all able to contribute 20+ points per game, but they were not selected as All-Stars, let alone Wang Chao joined the team. Chuan, the data of the three players are all affected by Wang Chao, and none of them has scored 20+ points so far.

Just in this way, it further highlights Wang Chao's dominance on the field.

With only Wang Chao as an All-Star, the Clippers have always ranked first in the league, and gradually widened the gap with the Warriors, Bucks and other teams.

The All-Star voting process, that is, the Clippers continued to maintain a high record in January, using magic ball tactics to educate the league's teams with exaggerated three-point shooting.

As of the beginning of February, the Clippers' record has unknowingly reached 2 wins and 47 losses, with a winning rate of 9%. Because of Gallinari's large absence, the record has fluctuated slightly compared to the previous two months. Although they want to break through the season 84 It is almost impossible to win, but the winning percentage is still higher than other teams in the league.

The most embarrassing of the All-Stars this year is obviously the Los Angeles Lakers. Three of them were selected for the All-Stars this time. In addition to the Western Conference captain James, the inside twin towers Cousins ​​and Downs were both selected.

The Lakers have also become the only team with three active All-Star players this season.

Even if it is as strong as the Nets, only Durant and Jokic were selected as All-Stars this season, and Paul and Booker both lost.

But the record of the Lakers, which has three All-Stars, is obviously not satisfactory. It just barely hangs in the upper half of the Western Conference, completely failing to show the dominance that the league's top teams should have.

According to the current winning percentage, I am afraid that the Lakers will barely get 50 wins by the end of the regular season.

At this time, the Lakers fans are still chanting the slogan of the Lakers championship, but they have not mentioned the regular season record at all.

In their words, the regular season is just a training and warm-up session, and our Lakers didn't play seriously at all. It's the time to go all out in the playoffs, when the Lakers can really shout "The Lakers Champion" slogan!
For this statement, the Lakers fans believed it, but others scoffed.

They lost a lot of games they shouldn't have lost in the regular season, so how can they win in the playoffs?think too much. (end of this chapter)