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This year's All-Star Game, league president Jordan made changes to the All-Star Game in order to bring a new atmosphere to the newcomers and to celebrate the epidemic.

The All-Star Game has been changed from a confrontation between the Eastern and Western divisions to a confrontation between the top vote-getters.

The top vote-getters in the Eastern and Western Conferences each become the leader of the team and then select players for their own teams.

Because of the confrontation mode of the previous All-Star Game, even with the presence of a basketball god like Chen Xiao, the All-Star Game has become less and less intense.

Stars are also becoming less serious.

Even seniors like Chen Xiao can't compete with juniors in the All-Star Game.

Under normal circumstances, young people want to kill everyone in the All-Star Game. As they grow older, it is inevitable that they will take the All-Star Game less and less seriously.

There is indeed no way around this.

This is also the deadlock of the NBA main game. The NBA All-Star Game is a performance game, not a main game.

The All-Star Game cannot be turned into a main game.

In this case, in order to solve this dead situation, Jordan has been thinking of ways, among which the All-Star vote winner is a transitional plan.

I will use it temporarily for the next few years and change it later if there is any feasible solution.

As for this kind of All-Star voting, the most exciting thing is actually the selection stage.

This can also be regarded as a way for Jordan and the league to attract traffic for the All-Star Game.

After all, choosing people is about choosing grudges. Whoever has a good relationship with whom will definitely be chosen first. Whoever is stronger will definitely be chosen first.

In any voting, there will always be grudges. As long as players have grudges, they will have to prove themselves and play seriously when they face off.

It can be said that Boss Qiao is indeed a master of psychological warfare. In this kind of selection of people for confrontation, it can be said that he can control people psychologically.

For this year's All-Stars, the top vote-getter in the West is Chen Xiao, while the top vote-getter in the East is James.

This year's All-Star Weekend is in Cleveland. James's popularity is already high, both in China and the United States. James knows how to manage himself better than Wade. After so many years, James can be interviewed in Chinese when interviewed by CCTV .

And because he has almost no black spots in his career, after leading the Cavaliers to a championship in 2020, his fans are extremely loyal and his popularity among passers-by is also very good.

In addition, it is a local battle in Cleveland. It can be said that neither Curry nor Durant nor Rose can compete with him.

In fact, the person whose votes were close to James was Gao Bo. In this year's Eastern Conference All-Star voting, Gao Bo's votes were quite astonishing.

In recent years, Gao Bo can be said to have gained a large number of local fans in the NBA.

Even when China's votes were compressed, it still launched the most violent threat to James.

Yes, because Chinese fans are so enthusiastic about participating in the All-Star voting, and in order to take care of the motivation of fans from other countries to vote, the number of votes cast by Chinese fans is compressed.

Of course, it’s not just about Chinese fans.

According to NBA official rules, the United States is used as a reference, and votes in the United States are not compressed.

In countries with a lower population than the United States, votes are not compressed.

Countries with larger populations than the United States have their votes compressed proportionately.

For example, China has more than 1.4 billion people, which is four times the population of the United States. So it is compressed according to the calculation of 4 votes per vote.

Well, of all the countries in the world, only China and India have more people than the United States.

And India is not very obsessed with the NBA.

In this case, the rule is specifically formulated for China.

However, there is nothing we can do about this, it is still to prevent some unnecessary controversies, just like the historical incident between Garnett and Yi Jianlian.

If Yi Jianlian finally defeats Garnett and is selected as an All-Star, this will not only hurt the NBA but also hurt Yi Jianlian himself.

If a country can control the All-Star voting, then it is unhealthy for individuals and the league.

Compared with the direct vote counting of China in history.

In this time and space, 4 tickets count for one ticket in China, which is actually very considerate of Chinese fans.

After all, this is official recognition that Chinese fans and American fans have the same control over the All-Star voting.

After all, even if China's votes count to 1, it cannot be compared with other countries. The only one that can compare with China is the United States.

Therefore, in the current All-Star voting, the dominant countries are China and the United States, and China is even higher. After all, Chinese fans vote more enthusiastically than American fans.

Therefore, the unspoken rule of the league's All-Star voting is that only if China and the United States take both sides can you get high votes.

For example, James, Curry, and Rose are not only very popular in the United States, but also very popular in China. Therefore, they have been competing for the top vote in the past few years.

Of course, Gao Bo has made a comeback this year, mainly because his stable performance in the past four years has been recognized by American fans.

More and more people believe that he has surpassed Oden and Milicic and is competing with Embiid for the number one center.

One day, when he defeats Embiid and becomes recognized as the number one center in the Eastern Conference, he will start to dominate the Eastern Conference All-Star voting just like Yao Ming did back then.

Team voting for the 2022 All-Star Game will be held on February 3.

Chen Xiao and James selected players through live video broadcast.

The host who selected the players this time was Maizi, Chris Webber, O'Neal and Barkley.

I have to say that Boss Qiao still attaches great importance to the reform of this All-Star Game.

Therefore, it can definitely be said to be the best.

The top vote-getters select starters first, then substitutes.

The ten starters for this year's All-Stars are Gao Bo, James, Durant, Rose and Curry in the Eastern Conference.

On the Western side, there are Chen Xiao, Jokic, Leonard, Paul George and Morant.

And 14 substitutes.

The substitutes on the Eastern side are Antetokounmpo, Oden, James Harden, Embiid, Westbrook, LaVine, DeRozan

The substitutes for the Western Conference are Jimmy Butler, Chris Paul, Devin Booker, Big Eyebrow, Trae Young, Mitchell, Doncic

In this year's All-Star Game, the team with the most players selected is the Heat. The Heat have four players selected for the All-Star Game, including Goldberg, Rose, LaVine and DeRozan.

In addition to the Heat, three people were selected from the Bucks and Lakers, while only Chen Xiao and Morant were selected from the Warriors.

The Warriors' record this season is very good, but except for Chen Xiao and Morant, the scoring average of other players is still very average, and no player averages more than 20 points per game.

As for the Western Conference, other people's data and performance are indeed very good, and there is nothing that can be done about it.

Just talk about Trae Young and Doncic, both of them are averaging close to 30 points per game this season.

I have to say that the 2018 batch of rookies, represented by Gao Bo, Doncic and Trae Young, are currently performing amazingly in the NBA.

Because this is the first time such a selection drama has occurred in the NBA All-Star Game, this selection was broadcast live on TNT across the United States, and attracted a lot of attention.

Chen Xiao has more votes than James, so Chen Xiao chooses first.

As the god of basketball, Chen Xiao has eight players to choose from, and to be honest, these eight people are all old friends with Chen Xiao and have a very good relationship.

Gao Bo is his apprentice

Durant and Curry are half of his apprentices.

Rose and Morant, Jokic is the younger brother he brought out.

Leonard and Paul George are considered his nephews who he once taught. Their masters, Luo Ge and Wade, often brought them to Chen Xiao for training.

Therefore, when Chen Xiao saw this All-Star starting lineup, he actually smiled at the first time.

At the same time, it’s no wonder that Jordan said when the All-Star starting list came out that the NBA belonged to him, Chen Xiao, for the past two decades.

This is not just Chen Xiao's 20-year reign as the vote king. As long as you look at this year's All-Star starting lineup, you will have such a sigh.

Nowadays, all the superstars in the NBA are labeled as Chen Xiao.

To say that Chen Xiao is the current godfather of the NBA is really not wrong at all.

For Chen Xiao, such a choice is very difficult.

However, Chen Xiao still chose Gao Bo with a smile.

When Chen Xiao chose Gao Bo, Maizi, O'Neal, Barkley, and Webber were soon excited to start making trouble.

So when asked why Chen Xiao chose Gao Bo, Chen Xiao said: "In the NBA, I have been teammates with everyone else and played together. Only Gao Bo, I have never played with him. I want to try playing in the NBA." , the feeling of playing with him."

Chen Xiao's words left O'Neill, Maizi and other troublemakers speechless for a moment.

Of course, it also leaves those players who were not selected by Chen Xiao speechless. Indeed, in the NBA, they have either been teammates with Chen Xiao on the same team, or they have been teammates with Chen Xiao in the All-Stars. There is really no need to argue with someone like Gao Bo who has never enjoyed the experience of Chen Xiao's NBA teammates.

Of course, Gao Bo is Chen Xiao's teammate in FIBA, but FIBA ​​is FIBA ​​and NBA is NBA, two completely different basketballs.

In this kind of selection, the first one is often the most difficult.

Once you choose the first one, the rest becomes much easier.

After Chen Xiao was the first to select Gao Bo, James' first choice was Durant.

It can be seen that James wants to win in Cleveland.

Although James' life has been complete after winning the championship in 2020, he has no desires and desires and can pursue data without scruples and carry out the 411 project.

However, for James, this time the Cleveland All-Star is a reward given to him by the league, allowing him to be honored in front of his hometown fathers. In this case, of course he hopes to win.

Therefore, in this selection, in the starting stage, James will choose strong and reasonable players.

Chen Xiao, on the other hand, is very casual.

Chen Xiao's first choice was Gao Bo, his second choice was Morant, his third choice was Rose, and his fourth choice was Paul George.

Therefore, the starters for Chen Xiao's team are Gao Bo, Chen Xiao, Paul George, Rose and Morant.

The starting lineup for Team James is Jokic, James, Durant, Leonard, and Curry.

I have to say that Team James' starter does look invincible.

In the substitute stage, James' first choice was his Cavaliers teammate Oden.

This is for sure. After all, Cleveland's All-Stars can't live without Oden.

And Chen Xiao’s first choice was Antetokounmpo. The reason was, of course, that he had never been teammates with Antetokounmpo.

When Antetokounmpo entered the league and grew up, Chen Xiao had already left the Bobcats for the Warriors.

Therefore, Chen Xiao has never been teammates with Antetokounmpo in his career.

Therefore, when it came time to choose a substitute, James still based his principle on winning the draw, while Chen Xiao still aimed at collecting cards and seemed to want to be teammates with all the league's superstars.

So the substitute selector, James' team's substitute lineup is Oden, thick eyebrows, Chris Paul, Jimmy Butler, Embiid, Devin Booker, DeRozan.

The substitutes for Chen Xiao's team are Antetokounmpo, Trae Young, Doncic, LaVine, Mitchell, James Harden and Westbrook.

By the way, Westbrook didn't choose anyone in the end and automatically returned to Chen Xiao's team.

Well, Westbrook has really achieved a lot of statistics in the NBA over the years, but his reputation in the eyes of players has really fallen again and again.

After all, Westbrook has crushed all the statistics in the league.

Westbrook's career statistics are 26.6 points, 9.8 rebounds and 9.9 assists per game. He is about to play 1,000 games in his career.

In other words, Westbrook will be able to complete the astonishing milestone of 25,000+10,000+10,000 this season or next season at the latest.

In the history of the NBA, the only previous player to reach this statistic is Chen Xiao.

The one who is close to this data is James.

Everyone knows that Chen Xiao is the number one player in the history of the league and a god.

And James is a god with one crown, worthy of being among the top ten in league history, a false god.

Only with data like these two people can they be worthy of data like 25000+10000+10000.

How can Westbrook and He De be compared with these two people?

Over the years, Westbrook has been crazy about triple-doubles and statistics in the Knicks. He has made other strong superstar players look down on him. At the same time, ordinary All-Stars who are not very strong are angry with him.

Because of Westbrook's existence, those players in the league who were collecting statistics were unlucky. We were collecting statistics on a weak team and remained uncontested. Who were we to offend? Why should we be scolded along with it?

At this point, the famous Big O has the same mood. Oscar Robertson didn't do anything. He was lying there, his historical status was slowly dropped by Westbrook's triple double.

This makes Oscar Robertson irritated when he looks at Westbrook now, and he will criticize Westbrook in the media when he has nothing to do.

Faced with this situation where everyone is the enemy, most people's mentality has long since collapsed.

As for Westbrook, I have to say that his mentality is indeed good. No matter how you criticize me, I will just play my own basketball.

With the maximum salary, the statistics, and the All-Stars, no matter whether you are seventh or eighth every season, you can still make the playoffs.

Therefore, you can criticize Westbrook's statistics, but you cannot criticize his dedication and contribution to the Knicks.

Without Westbrook, could the Knicks have made the playoffs for so many consecutive years?

Moreover, the Knicks are now Westbrook's single-core team leader, and they are still in the Eastern Conference.

Being able to lead the team into the playoffs in the Eastern Conference with a single core, Westbrook's strength is definitely superstar level. When he is accurate, he is even a super giant. Even when he is accurate, he can drive the team and is an All-Star level. of.

The upper limit is super giant, and the lower limit is ordinary All-Star. A player of such strength should not be treated like this.

It can only be said that his data is really eye-catching.

Averaging a triple-double per game for N consecutive seasons, this kind of data is really not something that a player of Westbrook's level can get involved in and grasp.

An ordinary man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying a jade. This is what he means.

If Westbrook doesn't have a triple-double every season, but his statistics are worse, his performance in leading the Knicks over the years will make his evaluation at least one level higher.

It will not be reduced to the current situation where there are no candidates for the All-Star selection.

The most embarrassing candidate for this All-Star Game is Westbrook.

Of course, the happiest person must be James.

Durant, Curry, Leonard, Jokic, they are all his teammates, how can they lose?

However, no one noticed the angry look in Westbrook's eyes when he clenched his fists at Westbrook's home in New York.

Let's put it this way, he is mentally prepared for this All-Star voting.

However, he really didn't expect that when such a moment came, he still overestimated his generosity.

He really couldn't stand this.

Especially because he couldn't stand the fact that after all the choices were made, Maizi, Barkley and O'Neal were still talking about him.

To be honest, in these years in the NBA, he has never felt that he has improved his statistics.

He feels that everyone in the NBA is targeting him.

The fact that he can get such data is a combination of his strength and playing style.

His shooting is unstable, and he doesn't grab backcourt rebounds from his teammates to launch an offense. Is he looking for death when he falls into position?

His passing vision is not good, he doesn't rush so hard, and disrupts the opponent's defense. How to organize it?

With this style of play, mistakes are inevitable.

He led the team with a single core and led the Knicks to the Eastern Conference playoffs for N consecutive years. In the entire league, apart from God, how many people can do better than him?

As for a round trip every year, you can show me if I can easily do this in a single-core round trip in the east.

To be honest, if you look at it from Westbrook's perspective, he has indeed made great contributions to the Knicks.

Even the Knicks themselves feel that Westbrook's contribution is greater.

When you give up competing for the championship and instead play with Westbrook, Westbrook is indeed a good leader.

Westbrook doesn't have high requirements for his teammates. You don't need to pay luxury tax and can easily meet the requirements of his teammates.

The Knicks haven't paid the luxury tax in years.

He pays the most luxury tax in a year, gets the most severe beatings, and gets the most scoldings.

Now, without paying the luxury tax, we can make the playoffs every year.

If you are a Knicks management and fan, you will also be satisfied.

Of course, the prerequisite for satisfaction cannot be high requirements. We cannot say that we have entered the playoffs this year and will have to go to the second round next year.

You don't have to think about this. When you have Westbrook, you have a passable lower limit and a fixed upper limit.

In short, Westbrook is very angry now.

This year's All-Star Game, he will definitely cause trouble!

Angry turtles are scary!