Legendary star

Chapter 232 All-Star Voting

After the hustle and bustle of the Christmas game ended, all teams in the league began to enter the mid-sprint sprint. The period from the Christmas game to the All-Star Weekend will basically determine the final playoff ranking.

After finishing all the games in December, Kobe Bryant was undisputedly elected the player of the month. Throughout December, the Lakers achieved a record of 12 wins and 12 losses, while Kobe averaged Can get 11 points, 3 rebounds and 37.5 assists, and the shooting percentage reached 4.9%.

On January 2001, 1, after the home game against the Pistons, the official NBA website announced the results of the first round of NBA All-Star voting this season.This year's All-Star is a very special year. In the post-Jordan era, the league launched a crazy star-making campaign. In the summer of 6, the league launched the "Four Power Forwards". The result of "big shooting guard" is becoming more and more obvious. Duncan, Webber, Garnett, Nowitzki, Kobe, McGrady, Carter, Iverson, these people are undoubtedly the most popular representatives of the new generation of players in the league. Therefore, the final vote champion will definitely come from these eight players.

However, when the league announced the results of the first round of voting, it was surprising, because after the announcement of the first round of voting results, San Antonio's small forward Meng Xu ranked first in the league with 69 votes, leading the ranking. Vince Carter came in second with nearly 20 votes.With Meng Xu's outstanding performance this season, and Nike's continuous momentum behind him, his popularity has skyrocketed in the United States. What's more, behind Meng Xu, there are almost tens of millions of fans on the other side of the ocean. Support Meng Xu.So when David Stern announced the start of the All-Star voting, countless emails from across the ocean almost paralyzed the server of the NBA official website, and Meng Xu's 69 votes were still directed by David Stern. The staff in the background artificially classified many votes as invalid, otherwise Meng Xu's votes would have been even more astonishing.

This year's All-Star voting, the Western Conference is undoubtedly the most competitive, especially for the forward position. The "Four Power Forwards" are all crowded in the Western Conference. Raheem, at the small forward position, has Pippen and Hardaway in the front, Meng Xu and Antawn Jamison in the back, and Meng Xu's teammate Sean Elliott ended the first round of voting After that, he unexpectedly ranked 7th in the forward position.After the first round of voting, Meng Xu ranked first in the western forward list with 69 votes, followed by Tim Duncan with 35 votes, Chris Webber with 33 votes, and Kevin Garnett with 31. Ten thousand votes.Looking at this year's All-Star from the current situation, the Spurs are likely to take the two starting forward positions. In addition, David Robinson is also very likely to be selected as a backup center for this year's All-Star. If this is the case, Then the Spurs will have three players enter the All-Star at the same time in history.

Unlike the fierce competition for the forward position, the guard position is a little easier. At present, Kobe and Kidd are far ahead of other guards with 39 votes and 36 votes respectively. Among the candidates, 5 are in the Eastern Conference, so Kobe's selection can be said to be without suspense. After all, in the second season of his career, Kobe was selected for the current season by virtue of his high popularity accumulated in high school. The All-Star of the season started, and it was the former boss of the Lakers Eddie Jones who played him as a substitute in the All-Stars. Kobe played Eddie Jones as a substitute for Eddie Jones for two seasons when he was in the Lakers.As for the position of the center, it is basically O'Neal's first gear, and everyone else's first gear. All the centers in the West can't pose the slightest threat to O'Neal, even David Robinson, who is ranked No.4, and No. 2. Divac and Ewing, who ranked fourth, did not have as many votes as O'Neal.

A little different from the West is that after the first round of the Eastern Conference’s All-Star voting, the results are already very obvious. The number of votes for Iverson and McGrady at the guard position is behind them Tim Hardaway, Ray Allen and Reggie Miller more than double that.And Carter's registration position for this All-Star voting is small forward. At present, Carter has also won 50 votes, second only to Meng Xu.The most surprising thing is undoubtedly Grant Hill. Although he has been reimbursed for the season due to injury, Hill still won 39 votes, second only to Meng Xu and Carter, and ranked third in the total vote list.At the center position, Mourning has been confirmed to miss the entire season.Still got the most 3 votes of any East center.

Just when the entire league was crazy about the All-Star voting, the Spurs set off for the East again. This time, the Spurs will play against the Heat in 6 consecutive days, 76ers, Bucks and Raptors, 6 4 games a day, two consecutive back-to-back games, this also makes the Spurs have now begun to complain about the league's schedule, and in this consecutive back-to-back games, the Spurs once again rested David Robinson, Mario Eli and Sean For the players like Elliott, of course, the reason for this rotation is not food poisoning, but groin strain, ankle sprain and so on. Team, Popovich directly chose to give up strategically.

After experiencing a very comfortable schedule in December, the Spurs directly played 12 games in January, including 1 back-to-back games alone. At the same time, due to the fact that the Alamo Stadium will hold a livestock exhibition this month , The Spurs only had 16 home games throughout January, and the remaining 8 games were all away games.

On January 1th, the Spurs played away against the Heat. Pat Riley and Popovich may be the two best defensive coaches in the league. Although they lost Mourning, the Heat still showed their outstanding performance in this game. Defensive ability, facing the inside twin towers composed of Duncan and Lieve LaFrentz, Pat Riley sent a purely small lineup in this game. The tallest player on the field turned out to be Bryan at 9 meters - Grant.And this game was accompanied by constant fouls and timeouts, and the rhythm of the court was also fragmented. In the four quarters, neither team scored 2 points in one quarter. In the end, relying on Meng Xu's 05-pointer one minute before the end, the Spurs won. He defeated the Miami Heat 20 to 1. In this game, Meng Xu’s image was the No. 3 Bruce Bowen of the Heat. Although he only scored 72 points and 70 rebounds in 12 minutes, Bruce Bowen’s defense Under Derek - Anderson made 30 of 2 shots and scored only 4 points.

After leaving Miami, due to the impact of the intensive schedule, the Spurs struggled very much in the next few games. Therefore, the Spurs also ushered in their first 3-game losing streak this season. The away trip made almost all the Spurs players exhausted physically and mentally.But now Meng Xu has a different feeling. Since he won three consecutive milestone rewards in the game against the Lakers, after the game ended, Meng Xu directly increased his physical strength to 3 points. In every game, Meng Xu played more than 100 minutes, but Meng Xu still feels that he still has more energy.

After finishing the game with the Raptors, the Spurs returned to the West again. In the next week, the Spurs will play against the Kings and Jazz again, and they will also play two back-to-back games with the Clippers at home.On the day the Spurs arrived in Sacramento, that is, January 2001, 1, the league announced the voting results for the second round of the All-Star Game.

After the results of the new round of voting came out, those stars who had weak successors began to gradually fall behind. Although there are still about 10 days to vote, the results of the All-Star voting are now very obvious.

In the East, the number of votes for Vince Carter has risen to 135 million votes. As the top voter last season, Vince Carter's final votes are likely to be close to or exceed 200 million votes. After Vince Carter, Alan Iver Sen ranked second with 110 million votes, followed by Grant Hill with 2 votes, McGrady with 3 votes, and Mourning with 5 votes.

After fierce competition in the West, the final result is becoming more and more obvious. Meng Xu continues to lead the league with 149 million votes, and Meng Xu is likely to become the second All-NBA player to receive more than 2 million votes after Jordan. Stars, after Meng Xu, are O'Neal with 200 million votes, Duncan with 110 million votes, Kobe Bryant with 105 votes, Kidd with 98 votes, Webber with 96 votes, and Garnett with 95 votes. Now the only suspense in the Western Conference All-Star voting, It is whether Webber and Garnett can reverse Duncan at the last moment and become the All-Star starters. In addition, the players behind are basically not a threat to those who are ranked high because of the large difference in votes.It can be said that the league's hype for the "four major shooting guards" this season is very successful. If nothing else, Kobe, Carter, McGrady, and Iverson will all appear in the All-Star starting lineup this season.

"I'm very happy to be the top voter at this stage. I think the final voting result will be announced in a few days." The entrance of the training hall, and Meng Xu is undoubtedly the focus of this All-Star voting turmoil.

　Thank you for the two monthly tickets of the obedient little Pippi, thank you.

　　
　
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