king of defenders

Chapter 1194 Xiang Long and Doncic
"Congratulations, your votes have entered the top ten in the Eastern Conference."

"Xiang Long, come on, there is still a chance."

Heat players congratulated Xiang Long one after another.

In fact, Xiang Long had a lot of votes before. In this game against the Celtics, he shined, which made the fans feel bright. His votes also increased rapidly, and he entered the top ten in the East in one fell swoop.

You must know that the East is not weak now, there are so many stars, Meng Yun, Durant, Irving, Leonard, Walker, Antetokounmpo, Butler, Embiid, Griffin, Zhuang Sheng and so on.
It is not easy for Xiang Long to break into the top ten.

Now the number one vote in the Eastern Conference is Meng Yun, followed by Durant, followed by Antetokounmpo, Leonard, Irving, Walker, Embiid, Wade, Butler, and Xiang Long.

Ben Simmons was ranked tenth before, but now he has been surpassed by Xiang Long and has become eleventh.

But even if Xiang Long's votes enter the top ten, the chance of becoming the Eastern All-Star starter is very small. After all, there are only three forwards. Durant, Antetokounmpo, and Leonard are now firmly in the top three. , followed by Embiid Butler and others.

Of course, Xiang Long is not without chance, his number of votes is still increasing, if he performs well enough in the next period of time, he may not be able to counterattack.

In this regard, Xiang Long just nodded calmly, without much joy.

Of course he is eager to enter the All-Star starter, but he is very clear that his strength is not enough, at least not enough compared to Durant, Antetokounmpo, Leonard, and Embiid. The number of fan votes can counterattack, but what about the player votes?
For this kind of thing that requires luck, Xiang Longyi is very indifferent. He is not a person who likes to play luck, and everything depends on strength.

If he is strong enough, like Meng Yun, is there still a problem with being an All-Star starter?

So Xiang Long didn't care about these, and soon put his energy into training. This game gave him a chance. Coach Spoelstra has clearly told him that he needs to take on greater responsibilities in the future. In other words, his status in the team will improve, so he needs to work harder.

The Heat won and lost in the next few games, and the Heat lost one of the games against the Bucks.

Antetokounmpo played very well in this game, scoring 45 points and a large double-double with 16 rebounds. Middleton, Bledsoe and others also performed very well. The ratios were extremely high, and finally defeated the Heat 130:122.

The Bucks' style of play is completely different from teams such as the 76ers, Raptors, and Celtics, and they played well enough to make the Heat a little uncomfortable.

However, Xiang Long's performance in this game moved Coach Spoelstra. Although Antetokounmpo scored 45 points against Antetokounmpo, Xiang Long also scored 26 points, plus 11 points. rebounds.

The other few games were uneventful, with more wins and fewer losses.

In a blink of an eye, January is over, entering February, the All-Star Weekend is coming, and the atmosphere of the league has become a little different.

Soon, the All-Star fan voting came to an end.

This time the All-Star fans voted for Meng Yun in the Eastern Conference. There is no suspense. Durant ranked second and Antetokounmpo ranked third. The data is close to 30+10, and the fourth is Irving. Although Irving is now the team's old 2, the popularity accumulated over the years is still very impressive, and he is a proper starter.

The 76ers' Joel Embiid ranked fifth in the number of votes. He averaged 26+12 per game this season, which is also gorgeous.

Ranked No. 6 turned out to be Xiang Long.

Starting from the game against the Celtics, Xiang Long played better and better and rose rapidly. In the subsequent series of games, he was able to score 22+10+3 per game on average. Compared with Bo, he is much inferior, but because the Heat are in full swing and they are Chinese players, the number of votes has increased very fast, from tenth to sixth.

It's a pity that the competition in the East is fierce, especially for the frontcourt players. Durant, Antetokounmpo, and Leonard have firmly occupied the top three since the first round of voting, and the others have no chance.

As for the West, James is the undisputed top voter.

Followed by Luka Doncic.

Yes, the second-ranked fan vote in the Western Conference turned out to be this less than 20-year-old first-year rookie.

However, Doncic's performance this season really shocked everyone. As a rookie, he averaged 20+6+5 per game, not even much worse than Meng Yun's rookie season.

It can be said that if it weren't for Meng Yunzhuyu's leadership, Dongcic's performance might appear even more dazzling and his popularity is extremely high, but it still surprises people to be ranked second in the West.

Then there are Curry, George, Rose, Harden, Davis, Westbrook, Adams, Thompson, etc.
Xiang Long in the east and Doncic in the west are the highlights of this All-Star voting. Both of them turned out to be out of nowhere, and the final number of votes somewhat exceeded people's expectations.

But this is just a fan vote.

The NBA All-Star voting is divided into three parts, fan voting, coach voting, and player voting.

Fan votes only account for 50%, coach votes and player votes each account for 50%, so even if it is the top three frontcourt players and top two backcourt players in the east and west fan votes, it is not necessarily an All-Star starter. Subject to change.

For example, in the West, Curry and Rose are now the top two in the frontcourt in the West. Curry's popularity is extremely high, and it is basically not a problem to enter the starting lineup.

But not necessarily Ross.

Rose has more fan votes than Harden, but the advantage is not big, and he may lose to Harden in coach votes and player votes, and may eventually lose the All-Star starter.

Soon, coach votes and player votes were released one after another.

NBA officially announced the 2019 NBA All-Star East and West starting lineup. The five starters in the East are Meng Yun, Irving, Antetokounmpo, Leonard, and Durant.

The five starters in the West are James, Curry, Harden, George, and Davis.

Then the players selected for the All-Star bench in the East and West were also released. In the East, there are Embiid, Walker, Simmons, Bill, Griffin, Vucevic, and Middleton.

Westbrook, Jokic, Lillard, Thompson, Aldridge, Don, Rose.

In the end, neither Xiang Long nor Doncic was selected for the All-Star.

(End of this chapter)