Rookie against Jordan, I became the god of basketball

Chapter 124 All-Star First Round Ticket Champion!
After Christmas, the Sonics have two remaining games to play in December, an away game against the Kings and a home game against the Celtics.

In an away game against the Kings, the Sonics won easily, 121:106... You can tell from the score that the Sonics didn't encounter much resistance.

Last season, the Kings introduced Richmond from the Warriors, and their record has improved significantly in the latter part of the season.

But with the management's operation, the Kings lost the spirit of last season...

Richmond gave up Bird's right to transfer from the Warriors to the Kings, which made the management of the Kings very excited and gave Richmond enough respect.

During the offseason, the two sides completed an early contract extension. Richmond and the Kings signed a 5-year 1800 million contract, which will take effect from the 92-93 season.

In the absence of Bird rights, Richmond still got a big contract, which is a good thing for him, but it is undoubtedly bad news for the rest of the King.

Richmond filled up the salary space, and the team also brought a talented rookie Billy Owens, the pressure on the rest of the Kings to renew the contract suddenly increased!
In order to play a good number and stay in the NBA after the rookie contract is over, the Kings are playing more and more chaotically. Everyone wants to brush up the numbers, and they will never see the subtle cooperation of last season.

Richmond couldn't say anything about his teammates' rebellion. After all, he also had a certain responsibility, so he had to bear the bitter fruit silently.

Although in this game, he scored a game-high 20 points with only 32 shots, it didn't help. The Kings team only had 17 assists. There was no cooperation at all, and it was a single when he got the ball.

The Kings' current record of 7 wins and 19 losses is also very pessimistic. Fortunately, the quality of the rookies in the class of 92 is very good. It is not a bad thing for the Kings to send someone away.

In the last game in December, the Sonics played against the Celtics at home.

After Bird let himself go, he played better and better, and there was a tendency to come back, and he played even better than last season.

和超音速的这场比赛，他15投11中，三分球5投4中，罚球2中2，高效砍下28分10篮板4助攻，另外还有4抢断！

Lu Feng is convinced, once the Big Beeping Bird beats the bulls, the guys in Chicago bully the birds, and they are old and weak, and when they encounter supersonic speed, the old birds talk like teenagers...

Is this a performance that can be played by a semi-disabled person who is about to retire?

Of course, this is just a joke, purely due to the different defenders. In terms of defense alone, the clever combination of Perkins and Kemp is no match for Pippen and Grant's bat snake (Batman + Cobra) combination.

Fortunately, Bird was the only one who performed well in the Celtics, and everyone else played averagely. The next Celtics leader was defended by Lu Feng, who scored 14 of 6 shots and only scored 15 points. He looked like a role player.

With a score of 110:118, the Sonics won another victory at home, with 19 wins and 9 losses, and the victory is about to break through the 20 mark.

After the game in December, the league announced the best player of the last week of December, the best player of the month and the best rookie of the month on time.

The last week of December was the best, and the officials were very troublesome, and it was given to Scottie Pippen of the Bulls!
The Chicago fans are dumbfounded. The Bulls have played so hard this season. They have only lost 4 games in the past two months. As a result, they have not won their first award until now.

And the winner is not Jordan, who averaged 35 points per game, but Pippen, who is super god and super ghost?Why should he!
In the past week, the Bulls played 3 games and won all 3 games. Pippen averaged 25.7 points, 8.7 rebounds and 8 assists per game, and also had 4.7 steals and 1.3 blocks... Well, it does look a bit powerful.

The shooting percentage is also good, 54%+0%+28.1%... But compared with Jordan, Pippen's data is still not enough!
Even if Jordan didn't play well in the Christmas game, he still had an all-around performance of 28.3+8.6+7 per game. His defensive data averaged 3.3 steals and 2.6 blocks per game, and his three shooting percentages were all higher than Pippen!
Taking advantage of Jordan's sleepwalking in the Christmas game, Pippen's data is similar to that of Jordan, so he quickly gave the award, right?Good for you!
Knowing the news that Pippen won the best of the week, Lu Feng almost spit out...Danzi has been miserable this season. The pressure of public opinion is too great. The league has never dared to give him any awards. It will only get better after the star votes.

Lu Feng clearly remembered that in his previous life, before the All-Star voting was announced, Jordan kept trying to prove himself, but the league kept turning invisible, so he chose to deal with it coldly, and did not give him any personal honor once.

After the All-Star voting was announced, the league discovered that even though there were more and more criticisms and doubts about Jordan from the outside world, his number of fans was still a lot after the reduction, which was not comparable to others.

Jordan was under a lot of pressure before, mainly because most of his fans were unable and unwilling to speak out...

After discovering this, the league only made up for the lack of honor after the All-Star Game.

However, he knew that his commercial value hadn't dropped much. In the second half of the season, Jordan played harder and harder, his average data dropped sharply, but his personal honors increased.

Jordan's business sense is no worse than that of any star in the history of the league, and it is not comparable to other stars with low dual quotients in the same era.

Even compared with the future James, Jordan's business acumen is not inferior at all...

But the difference between the two is that while Jordan cares about his own commercial value, he can also easily win over the stars of the league, and the other... ahem!
The best player of the month was given to Jeff Hornacek of the Suns. After getting married, Hornacek became more and more courageous. The hit rate of the item is as high as 20%+5%+5%, and it has entered the 50 club!
In the past month, the Suns played only 12 games, and won 11 of them!
霍纳塞克场均上场40分钟，拿到22.6分5.7篮板5.1助攻，三项命中率分别为52.6%、48.5%、59.2%！

After 6 years in the league, Hornacek finally got his first personal honor, and it was the best of the month, not the best of the week...

So in the first game against the Eagles in January, Hornacek immediately rewarded himself with 1 of 20 shots!
Fortunately, the overall shooting rate is low, and the three-pointers are also good. 5 of 4 shots are extremely efficient, and he scored 20 points on 20 shots, but it is still not as good as Wilkins who scored 40 points. The Suns lost the game.

The first opponent of the Sonics in January is the Miami Heat. This is the fourth season for the Heat to join the NBA, but it has the meaning of a sudden rise in the West. Before the start of the game against the Sonics, the record of the Heat has come to 1 wins and 14 losses. , There is a chance to compete for a playoff ticket in the East.

The three high-ranking rookies selected by the Heat themselves are very up-to-date, and after a few years of running-in, they have achieved results and effects.

The future star of the Hornets, the champion of the Lakers dynasty, and the current third-year rookie Glenn Rice ushered in a breakthrough this season, averaging 22+5+2 per game, and his strength has reached the star level.

Lebanese center Ronnie Sekali averaged 16+12 per game, and his strength is also strong.

Grant Lang, in the fourth grade, reached the peak of his career, averaging 15+8+3 per game... The three of them supported the lower limit of the Heat team, with stable abuse and a strong team.

In addition, the Heat also has the nerve knife Kevin Edwards. Even if the top teams face them, they will overturn if they are not careful.

In the game between the Supersonics and the Heat, Edwards' nerve knife badge successfully lit up, shooting 14 of 10 shots, 3 of 3 three-pointers, 3 of 3 free throws, and scored 20 points in 26 minutes off the bench. The Supersonics almost overturned !
The Supersonics had an obvious starting advantage, but the rotation time was blocked by Edwards' runaway. The Heat overtook twice, and finally relied on Lu Feng to break through the ball and assist Perkins to win the game.

The Sonics will play 1 games in January. Although the schedule is intensive, fortunately, only the last three games are away games in the East. The flight time is not too long. The body may be tired, but the sleep time is guaranteed.

Every January is the season with the most intensive NBA schedule, and it is also the time when the so-called rookie wall appears the most intensive.

But in fact, rookies are not the only ones who are not playing well during this period. For any normal person, there will be first-line fluctuations in state during this period.

The reason why Lu Feng feels that January is not as difficult as December is that the Supersonics will have physical problems, and so will other teams.

In December, only the Sonics were tired, and the other teams had plenty of energy. Of course, the Sonics played more difficultly.

After losing the Green Kai and the Heat at home, the last opponent of the Sonics' three-game home game is the Philadelphia 76ers led by Fliggy.

Facing the 76ers who were in a mess inside, the Sonics won easily, and it was easier than dealing with the Heat.

In this game, Fliggy performed bravely, shooting 16 of 11 shots, 3 of 2 three-pointers, and 9 of 8 free throws, scoring 32 points and 13 rebounds efficiently. However, his teammates did not pass the ball and only took 16 shots.

Barkley played exceptionally well, but the score was 96:112. The away game was ahead and the home game was behind. The Sonics easily won by 19 points.

The 76ers took 85 shots and only scored 35 goals. This means that, except for Fliggy, the others only made 69 of 24 shots!
Playing so badly without passing the ball, the 76ers' guards are simply amazing!

This season, the 76ers' home occupancy rate dropped sharply. The fans used practical actions to support Fliggy and put pressure on the management, but even so, Fei Guan remained unmoved.

To some extent, the 76ers guard and the 76ers management team really match...

After three consecutive victories at home, the Sonics flew to the Denver Plateau to challenge the Denver Nuggets away.

It is confirmed that this season continues to be poor, and the Denver Nuggets are playing more and more boldly... To put it simply, they are playing more and more wildly, without any rules, and very casually.

But it was such a Nuggets team that let themselves go, almost punched the master to death, and caused the Supersonics to overturn in an away game.

The plateau environment caused a serious lack of oxygen supply to Camp's brain, which made his low IQ even worse. He committed 6 commits inexplicably before finishing the three quarters.

Due to the excessive play in the first half, Harper couldn't help but ran to the toilet and vomited once during the intermission. His body and spirit became sluggish, and Carlisle didn't let him play again.

The Supersonics lost two generals in a row, and the Nuggets played extremely bravely...

大龄新秀穆大叔13投8中，罚球13中11，砍下27分12篮板。

But this is not the best performance of the Nuggets. The best player of the Nuggets is Bo Kimbell who feels hot. He made 22 of 12 shots, 4 of 2 three-pointers, 6 of 6 free throws, and scored 32 points efficiently. 3 rebounds and 3 assists.

The problem is that these two scored 49 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists together, and the efficiency was very efficient. It is normal for the Sonics to play hard.

After the third quarter, the Nuggets even held a 4-point lead, but in the last quarter, the Nuggets, who wanted to play well, forgot how to play tactics, and finally failed to hold the point difference under Lu Feng's attack , was turned over by supersonic speed.

Lu Feng stood up after his teammates had a series of problems. After a long absence, he took 33 crazy shots, scored 18 goals, made 9 of 4 three-pointers, and made 9 of 7 free throws. One against two, leading the Sonics to win the final victory at 47:8.

After the match, Lu Feng, who had played for 46 minutes, greeted Kim Bell, ran back to the locker room bathroom without being interviewed, crouched down and vomited out...

With so many talents, Lu Feng couldn't handle it. One can imagine how tired he was in this game.

The price of Lu Feng's physical overdraft is that the next day, when he played back-to-back home games against the Big Boss Magic, he still didn't slow down. He only made 12 of 3 shots, and barely scored 10 points by relying on free throws. He kept scoring in consecutive double figures. .

Fortunately, although Lu Feng did not play well, the final score was 103:104, and the Supersonics narrowly beat the Magic by one point.

After losing to the Sonics, the Magic's record came to 6 wins and 26 losses. Hank Geithers was numb, and there was no hope of staying in Orlando.

In the 91 draft, there were a lot of talented players, but considering Gaithers couldn't afford to wait, after thinking about it, the Magic decided to choose a player with combat strength for him.

who?

Kill the white giant of the Australian League - Luke Longley!
Gaithus: I the fuck...

The biggest characteristic of Luke Longley is that he has a lot of meat, but he is nothing but meat.

His skills are rough, he doesn't have a basket, and he can't even grab rebounds. His only role is to be a meat shield.

Not to mention other things, he obviously has a good height, but he doesn't have any basket skills. He doesn't even know the most basic hook in his heart.

With more and more foreign stars playing in the NBA in the past 10 years, NBA teams have gradually extended their sights overseas.

But it is a pity that other leagues are not at the same level as the NBA at all, and many of them are not even as good as the NCAA. The stars who have killed indiscriminately in other leagues are completely lost after entering the NBA.

The Sonics' narrow victory over the Magic at home is just a small episode in the NBA. The real big event in the NBA is: the results of the first round of All-Star voting are announced!
In the East, Jordan overwhelmed everyone and got 43 votes, a full 2 votes more than No.5 Barkley!

But the most frightening thing is that Jordan is not the star with the most votes in the league. The one with the most votes is Lu Feng, who won 80 votes in the first round!
In the first round, they won 80 votes, almost double that of Jordan. Other stars are completely eager to see through, without the slightest desire to catch up.

In this era, there is no such thing as telephone voting or online voting. Voting is all done by mail. Asian fans don't pay much attention to the All-Stars. The basic North American fans who vote for Lu Feng.

Lu Feng has more fans than Jordan?
Of course not, some of the votes Lu Feng got came from his fans...

That's right, fans!
After the Oprah talk show, Lu Feng rushed to produce and release the album of the same name that he released under the stage name "Merick"...

I was only interested in making an album of 1 copies before. After the second release, relying on the influence of Oprah's talk show and Lu Feng's perfect scene, it swept the sales of 300 million in just one month!
Of course, there are also reasons for Lu Feng's personal influence and good song selection.

Achieving triple-platinum sales in one month, a bunch of singers in the pop music world were beaten to the point of crying by Lu Feng's chaos.

And looking at the trend, platinum is not the upper limit of Lu Feng's first album, and there is every chance to hit the tens of millions of sales required by the diamond album!
After discovering Lu Feng's influence, Columbia Corporation brandished US dollars and took a strong stake in Lu Feng's entertainment company. It was also because of Columbia Corporation's production capacity that Lu Feng's "Miracle Man (Merick)" album became so big. of circulation.

Brent Merritt, a former teammate of Lu Feng, used the money from his family to start a company with Lu Feng in partnership, and lived by dawdling every day. He became a millionaire worth tens of millions in a daze, and became a family member for no reason. Old Merritt couldn't speak loudly to him now that he was home.

However, the one who earns the most is of course Lu Feng himself. Lu Feng did not expect that the way to achieve wealth and freedom is not by basketball, but by singing...

The impact of amphibiousness is that every time the Supersonics play, no matter home or away, there are all kinds of fans with strange styles.

What did Ugly Entertainment fans look like in the 90s?
One word can describe it - rice!

Ugly country's fan culture has been popular for a long time. The Baiyoushou aesthetic and fan culture that will sweep Asia in the future will first be introduced from Ugly country to Japan, then from Japan to Korea, and finally from Korea to China.

Ugly Country's fan culture has been developing since the 70s. After 20 years of development, it will enter the peak 90 years from the 10s, and it will gradually weaken in the future.

Fortunately, Lu Feng has repeatedly emphasized in interviews that playing basketball is his main business. Singing is purely a hobby. Whether he will sing in the future depends on his mood, and he will not be affected by fans after he corrects his mentality.

But even so, Lu Feng had to increase his investment in personal security. Ugly Country fans are scary, and Ugly Country paparazzi are even more scary...

After the results of the first round of voting were announced, Draxler was the first to stand up and say: "This is completely unfair to us, this is the NBA's vote, and there should be no other things involved!

Even those who don't understand football can vote, so what about others, if I announce that I am running for president, will the voters who support me also vote for me in the All-Star Game? "

Ah Hua's bewildered speech, not to mention Lu Feng, anyone with a brain in the league was stunned by him.

A Hua, you don’t have a beep count, forget about the All-Stars, how many votes do you think you can get in the election?

Lu Feng: Cough...don't say too early, someone will prove with actions in the future that elections can also be entertained.

Before the others had time to comment, Draxler was immediately besieged by Lu Feng's fans after he spoke.

Let alone basketball, Lu Feng has been arguing with other stars, and fans are happy to see it.

But saying that fans are not eligible to vote, who does Ah Hua think he is, and who gave him the courage?
I won't say what the fans did specifically, in short, they tried to find ways to disgust Draxler.

But Draxler's heart is big enough, or he has no heart, and he doesn't feel like being targeted. At most, it's just a little less endorsement fee... There are not many things in the first place, so if there is less, it will be less.

At the beginning, the league was also hesitant to reduce Lu Feng's ticket, which was too unfair to other stars in the league.

Lu Feng got more votes in one round than the others in the three rounds combined. How does this make other people play?
But after Draxler and Lu Feng's fans made such a fuss about "fans' votes count as votes", the alliance did not dare to act recklessly, silently tacitly acquiescing that fan votes are also valid.

Speaking of the All-Star votes, except for Lu Feng who was far ahead in the first round of voting, the difference between the others was not too big, and the competition was extremely fierce.

At the center position in the East, Ewing fault leads Moses Malone, and Moses Malone fault leads the Cavaliers' Brad Doherty.

However, compared with last season, Ewing's votes for the same period this year were nearly 1/3 lower. The impact of being swept in the first round of the playoffs last season was very obvious.

In addition to joining the league these years, Ewing's confusing speeches have angered many fans and reporters, and his personal image has been in decline...

As for the center position of the Western Conference, Admiral David Robinson was the leader in the first round of voting. However, as last year's Western Conference vote leader, he only ranked seventh in the Western Conference after the announcement of the first round of voting this year. Ewing is still in the Eastern Conference. sixth!
With Jordan winning the championship, fans are more and more fond of watching the defender's play with both power and ornamental.

Compared with the outside players, most of the inside players have nothing but hooks to score.

Lu Feng is also one of the people who benefited from Jordan's championship. He knows very well in his heart that since then, the league's publicity center will be more and more outside, and the rules will be more and more outside.

David Robinson's votes are not much different from Uncle Mu's second, only a few thousand votes behind. It can be seen that the fans are very optimistic about this African mountain, and the league is also interested in it.

However, it is useless for fans to be optimistic. Manuel Poll has precedent. If Uncle Mu cannot surpass Robinson after the four rounds of voting, I am afraid that the All-Star substitute selected by the coach will still be a big dream.

Uncle Mu and Boll have a lot in common. They are both big spider-men, both are from African tribes, both are good at blocking shots, and they are both obsessed with age.

After one or two years of Bol's glory, he fell due to his decline in form and injuries. The management of each team in the league was very worried that Uncle Mu would become the next Bol, and they were not optimistic about his future development.

At the forward position, the top three voters in the East are Flying Pig Barkley, Bird Bird and Batman Pippen.

Barkley faults ahead of Bird, Bird faults ahead of Pippen, Pippen faults ahead of everyone else.

Lu Feng remembered that Bird was reimbursed for the season because of a relapse of his head and back injury before the start of this All-Star, and he didn't know if it would be like this in this life.

In comparison, the voting competition for the western forward position is more intense...

Karl Malone is slightly ahead of Kemp, and Kemp is slightly ahead of Mullin. Malone only has more than 1000 votes more than Mullin. I am afraid that before the voting ends, fans will not know who the two Western All-Star starting forwards will be.

The fourth-ranked Perkins has a significant gap with the top three voters, and the starting lineup is hopeless, and it is estimated that the substitute will not be selected.

The competition for the linebacker position is fiercest, both in the East and West.

As for the guards in the Eastern Conference, Jordan doubles the No.2 Isaiah Thomas, but apart from Jordan, the competition for the remaining three guards is extremely fierce, Isaiah Thomas, Michael Adams, Reggie Miller, Reggie Lewis, Joe Dumars...

Except for Michael Adams, the others definitely have star-level strength.

Most of Michael Adams' votes belong to the traditional art of the NBA. Every year in the All-Star voting, there will be one or two players with a height of less than 180 centimeters who get a particularly large number of votes.

He is useless except for his short height, his speed is not fast, his shooting is not accurate, his strength is not strong, his organization is not good, his defense is not good... nothing is good.

In the voting of the guards in the Eastern Conference, Lu Fengyaoyao led the No.2 Draxler by 45 votes, and the rest were not far behind.

Draxler ranked third in the West with 35 votes in the first round, slightly less than Malone, and slightly higher than Kemp and Mullin.

After Draxler, there are Maggie, Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond, Kevin Johnson, John Stockton, Jeff Hornacek, and other defenders in the West. Even Harper got quite a few votes!
Although Maggie retired, the league opened up the eligibility of fans to vote for him in the All-Star voting.

The official also has a lot of hints, hoping that Maggie can appear in this year's All-Star game and officially give a farewell performance.

In the first round of voting, Maggie only got the third place in the Western Conference guard, and he was a little short of the starting lineup. However, since the league dared to put Maggie in, we knew that the Western All-Star coach would choose him.

Although Lu Feng won the first round of votes, overall, the East is still more popular than the West, but compared with last season, the gap is not that big, which is good news for Western stars.

Popularity means appearance fees and endorsement fees. Lu Feng and Jordan participate in activities to maintain their popularity, while other stars are different, purely for making money.

Most people in the NBA are short of money. Ewing has a good saying-the more you earn, the more you spend!
This sentence blatantly expresses the anxious financial management ability of most players in the NBA. It is not just talk that bankruptcy means retirement.

After learning about the first round of voting for the All-Stars, Lu Feng and Kemp were very satisfied, especially Kemp, who is expected to start the All-Stars this season, which is very honorable for him!

Although Perkins and Harper also want to enter the All-Stars, they know that the probability is not high, and they also know that the biggest goal of the Sonics is to win the championship. Before that, other things need to be put aside.

Satisfied, the Sonics rushed to the next game, and their next opponent was the Dallas Mavericks.

This season, after thinking about it, the Mavericks played outside like the Sonics and the Bulls.

Rolando Blackman and Derek Harper served as the head and second head of the team respectively. Although the record has not had any ups and downs, currently only 12 wins and 21 losses, but because the game was played well and the tickets were sold well, the ball The team owner and management are satisfied with this.

Most owners in the NBA regard the team as an investment, and the task given to the manager is not to enter the playoffs or win the championship. Cost control and ticket sales are the most fancy parts of this type of boss.

He has been working on the team with passion, and he has always looked at the championship. So far, the only person who has succeeded is Old Bass. Most of the people who do this will end up losing a lot of money and leaving the game in dismay.

In this game, Lu Feng faced Rolando Blackman and defended the opponent so suspiciously that he only scored 20 points on 7 of 16 shots.

In addition, in the face of the Mavericks' strong outside line, in addition to the ability of single defense, Lu Feng's ability to assist in defense was also reflected. Although Derek Harper still scored 20 points on 9 of 24 shots, Lu Feng lost two points in the middle of the game. The opponent completes the block after assisting the defense for the second time.

The victory over the Mavericks gave the Sonics a 7-game winning streak, which looks unstoppable!

On January 1th, Lu Feng just won the best of the week because of four consecutive victories. After the four consecutive victories, the Supersonics won the third consecutive victories. If the Supersonics can beat the Rockets on the 4th, Lu Feng is expected to win the second consecutive Best of the week!
Although Lu Feng didn't play well in the Magic game, but with the 47 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists he scored against the Nuggets, Lu Feng has a great chance of being the best for the second consecutive week!

The main reason why we say that the chances are great and not certain is that the Bulls have played three games this week, and the last one has not been played. Like the Sonics, they won three games and three games.

路枫场均28+5+10，和乔丹的场均33+5+7有着一定差距，联盟知道乔丹球迷依然多后，对他的打压也不会像之前那般明显。

No matter how pressured the media is, can it be more important than making money?

But soon, Lu Feng no longer had such worries, because the Supersonic flew to Houston to challenge the Rockets on the 11th, and lost!
Why lose?

Because Olajuwon scored 45 points, 20 rebounds and 6 blocks in a single game!

In this game, Rockets coach Don Cheney took a day off due to illness and was replaced by assistant coach Rudy Tomjanovich.

It is very common in the NBA for an assistant coach to take over temporarily. Carlisle helped Jones once last season.

Unlike Cheney, although Tang Shuai also believed in one star and four shots, he valued the one star in the middle more than four shots.

Under the adjustment of Tang Shuai, Olajuwon was completely released. He kept holding the ball. Whether to pass or attack was completely up to him. The more he played, the more crazy he became!
Because the Rockets coach changed, all the pre-game preparations for the Supersonics were abolished, and the inside players were switched back and forth, using everything that could be used, and they couldn't prevent Olajuwon.

The only one who defended well was Kemp, but today Kemp did not roll the dice to a good number. He committed 3 fouls in 5 quarters, and left the field with 1 fouls after only 6 minutes in the final quarter.

Carlisle was convinced. Last season, KC Jones kept complaining about Camp, but Carlisle didn't pay much attention to it. As a result, after becoming the head coach this season, he didn't know what it means to be loved and hated.

(End of this chapter)