basketball never sleeps

Chapter 90 The mysterious power of the East

After easily defeating the Grizzlies at home, the Heat will usher in a wave of four consecutive visits to the Western Conference, facing the Nuggets, SuperSonics, Kings, and Lakers respectively.

And the game against the Lakers happened to be the Christmas game.

Although judging from the current records of the two teams, the strength of the Heat and Lakers is already obvious, the president still spares no effort to invest resources in publicity.

There's no way, who asked him to arrange another Christmas game where the Pistons beat the Pacers.

He just decided on the Pistons-Pacers deal two days ago.

Two players were suspended indefinitely - Ben, as the initiator of the incident, received an additional five-game ban on top of the existing suspension; while Artest was suspended for the remainder of the season for assaulting a fan and accidentally injuring an innocent fan.

Whether he can participate in the entire regular season and playoffs depends on his performance in the subsequent 100 hours of community service.

Taking into account the previous penalty decisions that have been issued, the penalty result of the Palace of Auburn Hills this time is much lighter than the original penalty result in history.

Artest may return in the playoffs, and there is still hope for the Pacers' playoff journey.

However, what surprised everyone was that Artest did not show much regret at the hearing of the Auburn Hills battle, and even continued to promote his album that was originally scheduled to be released on November 23 in subsequent interviews.

This is not the first time that Artest's brain has jumped like this. As early as the beginning of the season, Artest had a conflict with Carlisle over this album. This fool actually asked Carlisle to reduce his playing time.

, allowing him to get more rest to focus on his album.

The two had a fight in the locker room, and eventually Larry Bird sided with his friend and suspended Artest for two games before the matter came to an end.

In the battle at the Palace of Auburn Hills, his teammates were beaten, and those who were suspended were suspended. They all showed their loyalty, but after Artest was suspended, he did not want to improve his performance, train well, and help the team in the playoffs.

Instead, he went to work on his album, which made the Pacers brothers feel a bit chilled.

On the other hand, Milicic, who was "forced" to play recently, also performed well with the Pistons.

Although he is still a bit lacking on the defensive end, on the offensive end, after he became a stable substitute for Rasheed Wallace, he averaged more than ten minutes per game and his data has risen to 9+5.

After seeing his value, Dumas now goes to Milicic for dinner and chat every three days, talks to him, recalls the Pistons' efforts to help him leave Serbia and Montenegro, and helps him look forward to the future.

But Milicic just didn't let go. Even though there was a tendency to be reused and he had relatively stable playing time, he still wanted to leave.

He is no longer the ignorant newbie. Larry Brown's contract with the team is still four years long, which is longer than his contract. Staying with the team for the New Year is already his limit.

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"Oh, don't worry, it's hard to say whether you will win or lose the game, but why is it difficult to guard against him? You don't think that my brother will fall down after being shaken like that idiot Marion, right?

Normally I don't like to defend, but if I really get serious, Artest is just a ball, no, not even Artest, the guy who was knocked down with two punches. I remember when I was fighting against others in Baltimore.

When the gun was fired, that kid probably hadn't learned how to fight yet."

The melon with the watermelon head on his head waved it with his fingers as if he was still reminiscing about his glorious days, but when he thought of a bullet hole that appeared on his body, he couldn't help but shudder.

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"Okay, no more chatting. Don't forget the great health care you promised when I go to Cleveland for a game in two days, hehehehe."

After hanging up the phone, Melon also put away her smiling face.

In the locker room, there were two posters that he pasted behind the locker door like wanted posters.

One is from James that he posted last season, and the other is from Mo Wen that he added after this season.

This is the "kill list" he gave himself.

Two big crosses have been drawn on James' poster, which is proof that he defeated James twice last season.

But this time, his hunting target became Mo Wen.

On the evening of the 17th, the Heat's plane landed from the Denver Plateau. The setting sun dyed the clouds they passed by red. There was no time to appreciate the beautiful scenery. The winter and the chill of the plateau made the players wrap up their clothes tightly.

Mo Wen turned his phone back on, thinking that nothing would happen as before, but text messages that popped up one after another told him that things were not that simple.

He clicked on one of the text messages sent to him by Humann, but what he saw was a series of numbers with unknown meaning.

1131514

After reading several text messages in succession, he seemed to understand the meaning of this string of numbers.

This is the total number of votes he received in the first phase of the All-Star Game.

If he remembers correctly, there should be 5 rounds of All-Star voting this year...

The mysterious power from the East seems to be a little bigger this time.

Mo Wen silently turned off his cell phone, trying to pretend that nothing happened, but as the staff, Wade and O'Neal got on the phone one after another, the matter could no longer be concealed.

"Mo, can you introduce that hacker to me? This is amazing. There were more than one million tickets in the first round. When I participated in the All-Stars for the first time, I only got a total of 800,000 tickets. My buckle is getting it.

In the championship season, he only received 1.2 million votes!" O'Neal said quietly and excitedly, holding Mo Wen's neck.

"Hacker? Do you think I still need to find those things?"

Mo Wen shook his head disdainfully, then pointed at his shoulder and patted it.

"Did you see that?"

O'Neill took a closer look and found nothing. "What do you see?"

"The expectations of 1.3 billion people and the attention of the entire Asia."

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Anthony, who was still practicing in the training hall, asked his agent three times about his All-Star votes.

114514

For him, this number of votes is already quite a lot. After the Nuggets started this year with more losses than wins, there are 10,000 more votes than he had last year. He should be very satisfied.

However, when he learned the results of the first round of voting, his good mood suddenly disappeared.

Mo Wen's number of votes was not twice that of his, but ten times that of his!

Of course, Anthony was not the only one who was shocked by Mo Wen's vote. The first reaction of all the media and reporters who got the news when they saw the data was to confirm whether the vote count was true.

In the original history, Dayao became the vote king this year. He won an unprecedented 880,000 votes in the first round, which already made people couldn't help but admire the "mysterious power of the East." However, in this time and space, Mo Wen and Dayao led

The team won the bronze medal, which further catalyzed the domestic enthusiasm for basketball.

Because of Mowen's diversion, the number of votes Dayao received in the first round did not increase but decreased from his previous life, only 820,000.

Most of the votes and hatred were transferred to Mo Wen.

Someone within the league advocated making appropriate "corrections" to Mo Wen's vote, but Stern vetoed it.

As a master of manipulation, Stern has a firm grasp on the psychology of fans.

Although the introduction of Chinese power seems to disrupt the balance of the game, Mo Wen's own strength is not bad and he can barely hold it.

If you can hold it, there will be back-and-forth, topics and popularity; if you can't hold it, there will be a situation like Yao being questioned last season.

Later, the NBA continued to reduce the proportion of Chinese votes because the Chinese fans' behavior of praising Arab League and Jeremy Lin was too outrageous and completely contrary to the original intention of the All-Stars. Therefore, if the problem cannot be solved, it can only solve the people who caused the problem.

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"Anthony used a change of direction in front of his body to get rid of Butler, then turned around and got rid of Wade who was defending. Doliak had no time to return to defense and dunked directly - BANG! Anthony showed a far superior performance tonight.

The usual energy.”

"He was talking trash to Mo Wen on the bench. Oh, Mo Wen took off his training clothes. Is he going to play again?"

"The ball was dead, and the Heat did make a substitution. Mo Wen came on the field and directly came to Anthony. The two of them didn't look very friendly. The referee needs to pay special attention to them."

"Anthony caught the ball and broke through...Anthony's breakthrough was blocked...Anthony was intercepted...Anthony fell down (crying voice)!"

I'm guilty of breaking my promise. But I've still made some progress. I'll try to move up the update time tomorrow.

(End of chapter)