The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

The confrontation between Rose and Jeremy Lin can also be regarded as a focus battle in the league.

In the current league, point guards are full of talents.

There are two veteran point guards, Jason Kidd and Steve Nash, and three excellent point guards, Chris Paul, Deron Williams and Rajon Rondo. A large number of new generation defenders with unlimited potential.

Curry, Rose, Jeremy Lin plus Russell Westbrook, these four can be regarded as the strongest of the new generation of point guards.

Curry averaged 27 points and 6 assists per game, Rose averaged 25 points and 7 assists per game, Jeremy Lin averaged 18 points and 12 assists per game, and Westbrook averaged 23 points and 7 assists per game.

Although the four of them logged into the NBA at different times, they were all players born in 1988, and they are only 22 years old now.

There is no doubt that their future is unlimited, so the fights between these few people will also become the focus of fans and media attention.

Jeremy Lin played against Curry before, and the statistics of the two can be said to be a tie, while the Wizards defeated the Nets without any suspense.

In the duel between Jeremy Lin and Rose, it was Jeremy Lin who completely won.

Such a result made many people sigh that the disciples taught by Wang Xiao are really strong.

Jeremy Lin led the Nets to defeat the Bulls, which not only improved the Nets' record again, surpassed the Eagles to climb to sixth in the Eastern Conference, but also indirectly helped his mentor Wang Xiao and the Wizards secure the top trade in the Eastern Conference.

As time entered mid-January, the first round of voting for the All-Star Weekend has ended.

In the East, James has undoubtedly become the player with the most votes.

Although James was scolded as if he had become a street mouse because of "Decision 1" in the summer, the popularity of James who came to the South Coast was not affected at all.

Not only did he rank first in voting at the forward position, but he was also the highest in the entire Eastern Conference.

In guard voting, Curry still holds the lead, but the lead is in jeopardy.

Because Jeremy Lin has come from behind, surpassing Wade, Rose and others in a row, ranking second in the East, and the gap with Curry is extremely small.

Jeremy Lin's high number of votes is directly related to his identity as a Chinese American.

Although Jeremy Lin is an American in name, he is yellow-skinned and black-haired after all, with Chinese blood flowing through him.

When Yao Ming was unable to play due to injury and Yi Jianlian was in jeopardy in the NBA, the majority of Chinese people naturally poured their enthusiasm into Jeremy Lin.

In fact, the reason why Curry was able to beat Wade and Rose in the voting also has a very important relationship with him being a disciple of Wang Xiao.

But Curry and Jeremy Lin are different after all. Although Jeremy Lin's style of play is more gorgeous than Jeremy Lin's and his image is also good, his popularity in China must not be comparable to Jeremy Lin's.

In the next few rounds of voting, if the Huaxia fans start to work together, Jeremy Lin is likely to complete the overtake of Curry.

In addition to Curry, the Wizards have two other players who ranked relatively high in the All-Star voting this time.

One is Harden and the other is Jordan.

Harden ranked fifth in guard voting, behind Curry, Jeremy Lin, Rose and Wade, slightly higher than Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo.

Of course, it is impossible for this ranking to be selected into the All-Star Game, and it may be difficult for Harden to win against Curry, Jeremy Lin and others in the subsequent rounds of voting.

The All-Star bench lineup was voted by the head coaches of the league's 30 teams, and it has nothing to do with the current online voting.

On the contrary, Jordan's voting ranking at the center position is higher than that of Harden among the guards.

However, this has something to do with the lack of outstanding centers in the East.

Speaking of the centers in the East, Howard must be the first, and after Howard, there are very few star centers in the East.

O'Neal, who joined the Celtics last summer, has averaged only 9.2 points and 4.5 rebounds in the regular season so far this season due to his age and injuries.

The remaining powerful centers in the East are nothing more than these: Joakim Noah of the Bulls, Al Horford of the Eagles, Roy Hibbert of the Pacers, Brook Lope of the Nets Here... DeAndre Jordan of the Wizards.

Jordan, who has averaged 8.7 points, 11 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game so far, has not lost any of the previous players in terms of statistics, and the China market brought by Wang Xiao has more or less attracted some votes for him, so he is in the first place. In a round of All-Star voting, he actually ranked second in the Eastern Conference center, second only to Howard.

This made Jordan feel very surprised and shouted incredible.

It's a pity that although Jordan's ranking at the center position is higher than that of Harden among the guards, he, like Harden, will not be selected for the All-Star Game because there can only be one starting center for the All-Star. That is the player with the most votes at the center position.

Howard, who averaged 23 points, 14 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game this season, has completely secured his position as the league's No. 1 center. For the time being, no one can shake him. The position of the Eastern All-Star starting center must belong to Howard.

Jordan also understands this, but even so, he is happy enough, after all, he never thought he was so popular among fans before.

The first round of voting for the All-Star is just a small episode for the NBA. What really matters is the game.

In the first half of January, the Wizards played 8 games and won all of them. In the 9 games in the second half of the month, the team continued to make great strides, only losing 2 games and winning 17 games. With 15 victories, the record has also risen to 40 wins and 7 losses, still leading the league.

The Bulls, who had been chasing closely behind the Wizards before, finally couldn't keep up with the Wizards' rhythm.

In the January game, the Bulls had 16 games. They lost 5 games and got a record of 11 wins and 5 losses, with a record of 36 wins and 10 losses.

The two teams have completely different styles of attacking and defending, but the long season has proved that the dual-core drive of the Wizards is obviously more reasonable than the single-core operation of the Bulls.

"Derrick Rose is a very talented player. He has a very bright future. He is likely to reproduce the glory of the Bulls in the Jordan era. It is a pity that he is facing two equally talented opponents now. , although he is very unwilling, but he can only be temporarily defeated."

This is the media's evaluation of the ranking battle between the two teams.

And when the time entered the beginning of February, the Bulls, who were already 4 games behind in the ranking competition, finally ushered in the opportunity to challenge the Wizards head-on at home.