Legendary star

Chapter 813 Special All-Stars
2012年12月27日，就在圣诞大战的硝烟逐渐散去之后，NBA联盟的官方网站上公布了2012-2013赛季全明星正赛的第二轮投票结果。

In this season's All-Star voting, the NBA has made a major reform, which is to cancel the voting for the center position, and only retain the two positions of forward and guard. After Shaquille O'Neal and Yao Ming retired successively, the center This star-studded position that once ruled the entire NBA is now becoming more and more bleak. Except for Dwight Howard who can barely watch, the center position is really no successor. Therefore, in recent seasons, NBA The league has been discussing the reform of the All-Star voting. Finally, after more than half a year of planning, the NBA announced the final reform plan before the All-Star voting this season, which is to cancel the quota for the center position and set three Forward and two defenders.

The forward position has always been the most competitive position in the All-Star voting. There are five big forwards and Meng Xu in the front, and LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Durant and other rising stars. The rookies headed by George have also begun to rise, so the forward position has always been the most difficult position to get ahead. Therefore, when the NBA announced the voting plan for this season, the players who registered as forwards all expressed their support clearly. For them, this has added two starting positions!

Where there is support, there is opposition. With this reform of the All-Star voting, the players registered as center forwards undoubtedly became the most miserable group. A center was no longer visible, so after the results of the second round of the All-Star voting were announced, Dwight Howard, who had been elected as the All-Star starter for several consecutive terms, publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the reform. Afterwards, many players at the center position voiced their support for Howard one after another. After all, in the past, even if they could not become the All-Star starters, they still had the opportunity to be selected as substitutes. Now it is good, and there is no such thing as a center. position, they are afraid that they will bid farewell to the All-Star stage forever.

Over the past few seasons, fans have become less and less interested in voting for the All-Stars. In the All-Star voting last season, the top voters in the East and West only received 150 million votes, which is the highest number in the last dozen seasons. The vote king with the least number of votes, but with Meng Xu's comeback this season, the All-Star voting once again showed an extremely prosperous trend. After the previous two rounds of voting, Meng Xu won as many as 170 million votes votes, and Tim Duncan, who has missed the All-Star Game for two consecutive seasons, has also received nearly 130 million votes, second only to Meng Xu among all voting players in the Western Conference.

After Meng Xu and Duncan, Kevin Durant ranks third in the western forward position with 93 votes, while Blake Griffin, who is behind Durant, currently only has 40 votes With more than [-] votes, it can be said that the three starting places for the Western forward position can be determined after the second round of voting. And such a huge gap in votes can also show Meng Xu's influence in the hearts of fans. up.

Compared with the huge lead of Meng Xu and Duncan at the forward position, the gap at the guard position is much smaller. Kobe Bryant is firmly in the first echelon, and behind Kobe, Chris - The gap between Paul, Jeremy Lin, James Harden, and Russell Westbrook is very small. There is only one gap between the second Chris Paul and the fifth Russell Westbrook. There is a gap of tens of thousands of votes, and there is only a gap of tens of thousands of votes between them and Kobe, who is temporarily ranked first. It can be said that no matter which two of the above five players will eventually become the All-Star starters , are all possible.

Compared with the voting results of the Western Conference, which is still somewhat competitive, the voting results of the Eastern Conference All-Stars have no suspense at all. After the results of the second round of voting were announced, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wayne Germany, Kevin Garnett, and Rajon Rondo have already ensured that each of them will become the All-Star starter of this season with a huge lead. However, Rajon, who was selected as the first starter in the All-Star Game -Rondo, but it is very likely that he will miss the All-Star Game this season due to injuries.

This year's All-Star Game is the first All-Star Game after Meng Xu's comeback, so before the voting results of the All-Star Game are finally released, rumors have spread that this year's All-Star Game The game will be a special All-Star Game. It is said that the MVP trophy for this year's All-Star Game is different from the past.

Although this season's All-Star Game is held in Houston, the Houston Rockets, which are being rebuilt, don't have any superstars who can make a move. Even if the Rockets' current head star James Harden and dark horse Jeremy Lin can be selected for the All-Star Game, with Their qualifications are also unable to gain the support of all Western All-Stars to compete for this year's All-Star MVP.

No one on the Rockets can compete for the All-Star MVP, but the Spurs in Texas have. After O’Neal was traded from the Heat to the Suns, in that All-Star Game, the Western All-Stars worked together to promote the reunion of O’Neal and Kobe. , jointly lifted the Star of the Star trophy that day, so when Meng Xu chose to come back to the Spurs and was selected as this year's All-Star together with Tim Duncan, a certain high-level executive in the NBA moved to let Meng Xu and Duncan followed the example of O'Neal and Kobe, and jointly held the All-Star MVP trophy this year, which is a good way to achieve a good talk.

After the results of the second round of voting for the All-Star voting were announced, Meng Xu's mood also became better, because before that, Meng Xu was a little worried that he would be forgotten by the fans after his comeback like Jordan. It would be embarrassing to have to rely on others to make it to the All-Star Game as a starter.

In the same mood as Meng Xu, Tim Duncan has been absent from the All-Star Game for two consecutive seasons. Since the 10th season, Tim Duncan has gradually left the mainstream stage of the NBA. Jia, his personal data dropped sharply, and he missed the best team and All-Star consecutively. Even though Duncan didn't care much about these honors, in the voice of "Duncan is old, Duncan is no longer good." Tim Duncan There will be some loneliness to some extent.

(End of this chapter)