Chapter 234: 2.51 million votes!

During the press conference, it was reporters who bombed the audience.
When the news is over, the whole basketball circle is fried.
"Sorry, I don't think there is any problem with Sun, the All-Star ticket king!"
"This time I fully support Sun Dang Piao Wang. No one speaks well!"
"If Sun isn't the ticket king this year, I'll be anxious with him!"
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In the forum in the United States, the fan's wind direction has changed by 180°.
Jordan's press conference did not mention a single sentence for Sun Hao, but what he said was more effective than a hundred or even a thousand sentences.
Because Jordan is the youth of almost all fans!
It was Sun Hao who gave them the opportunity to relive this youth!
Stern was dumbfounded when he saw the news at night.
He was a little confused as to whether what Jordan said was the truth, but simply to fight him, or to win over Sun Hao.
Because there are possibilities in each.
It may even be more than one, but several possibilities are mixed together.
But no matter what the reason, what Jordan said at the press conference completely changed the current public opinion orientation.
Although it made him feel uncomfortable, it has already helped him solve his immediate predicament.
At least this year he won't have such troubles again, and again next year.
Thinking of this, he called Jordan back and said some words of thanks to him.
A big man can bend and stretch, otherwise he would not be able to knock on the door of the Chinese market.
Sun Hao was a little confused when he saw the news.
Although Jordan only tells the facts, it is difficult for him to not have a good impression of Jordan by doing this kind of thing at this time.
Not to mention anything else, when his contract with Adi expires, he will have to struggle for a while.
When the time came to mid-January, the results of the All-Star vote were released.
Eastern starters: Iverson, Jordan, Carter, Antoine Walker, Yao Ming.
Carter was elected as the Eastern vote leader for the third consecutive year with 1.5 million votes.
Yao Ming's final vote was fixed at 1.1 million votes, and he also succeeded in becoming an All-Star starter in his rookie season.
And he also has reasons to be selected. In addition to the Chinese player background, he has averaged 14.5 points, 10.1 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game so far this season, ranking among the best in the Eastern Conference.
Jordan got 1.05 million votes, and as he said, he became an All-Star starter when he came back.
And he averaged 23.5 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game. Although his field goal percentage is lower than his career average, his selection is not just about feelings.
Not to mention that the Wizards, led by him and Yao Ming, are currently ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference and have great hopes of reaching the playoffs.
Western starters: Sun Hao, Kobe, Nowitzki, Garnett, O'Neal.
Nowitzki finally got 900,000 votes, overwhelming Garnett with 50,000 votes and ranked first in the Western Forwards list.
Kobe and O'Neal received 1.23 million votes and 1.27 million votes respectively.
Together, the two have exactly 2.5 million votes.
Then, Sun Hao's final votes were...2.51 million votes!
No more, no less, just 10,000 more votes than the OK combination.
Moreover, his vote result also broke Jordan's previous record of 2.45 million votes!
This result was also expected, and even many fans are ready to spray.
But because of Jordan's press conference, there was a burst of cheers on the forum.
Basketball is a worldly human, and in this incident it showed the best.
Of course, nothing can satisfy everyone.
After the result of this vote came out, Popovich expressed his dissatisfaction in his own way.
"You tell me Tim Duncan is not a Western Conference All-Star starter?"
Popovich used an extremely ironic remark to express his dissatisfaction in front of the media.
"In the future, many fans will ask, why did Tim Duncan not appear in the All-Star starting lineup at the peak of his career. I told him because he didn't have a Chinese teammate?"
This is Popovich's way, Iverson is another way.
After the end of the game with the Wizards, Iverson innocently missed the press conference after the game.
This incident is also considered by the league as a protest against the voting results, because the 76ers' Mutombo was not elected as the starting center of the All-Star.
On the second day, he received a $10,000 fine from the league.
In a subsequent interview the next day, Iverson said he was misunderstood.
When asked if he needs the league to understand him, he shook his head and said no.
"I won't beg others to understand. My mother understands me best. Maybe I will die in front of her. If that is the case, I will let her engrave the word'misunderstanding' on my tombstone."
What Iverson said was moving.
On the second day after the voting results came out, the Magic and Wizards game, Jordan was absent due to injury, and then McGrady scored 50 points and 10 rebounds to lead the team to win.
No one knows if he broke out because of his failure to make the All-Star starter.
What the fans can see is that Jordan watched McGrady's performance on the bench, and his eyes were full of love.
A week after the results of the All-Star vote came out, the replacement lineup selected by the league head coach and the list of other individual events were also released.
Eastern Substitutes: Francis, Kidd, Pierce, Ray Allen, Alonzo Mourning, O'Neal Jr., Mutombo;
West: Payton, Szebiak, Peja, Karl Malone, Chris Weber, Rashid Wallace, Brand;
There were discussions when the first came out, and naturally it was indispensable when the replacement list came out.
The Pistons star Stackhouse broke out a strong dissatisfaction.
"We are third in the East, but none of us are selected? Just because we are a Detroit team? It's just a mess of shit!"
Stackhouse's complaint is not unfounded.
This season he sacrificed his shots for the team and gained more victories, but he still couldn't get the recognition of the league, uh, and coaches.
No one will be convinced by this.
But in fact, similar things have happened in the NBA in the past and will continue to happen in the future.
In the 15-16 season, the Heat led by Dragic and Whiteside ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference before the All-Star Game, and no one was selected.
Of course, these are all episodes that are staged every year before the All-Star Ticket Game.
Popovich’s protests will not have any effect. Iverson’s fined by the league has become an established fact. Stackhouse...Unless a player is injured, he also lost his chance to be selected as an All-Star.
Controversy, bead, this is the eternal topic of NBA All-Star Weekend.
The league invited Sun Hao to participate in the three-pointer contest and the dunk contest, but he declined.
He is not Curry, and he is not so interested in this kind of game.
Of course, the more important thing is that now his three-pointer level has been crushed all the way to the three-pointer contest.
He will not participate again until there is no strong enough opponent to come out.
As for the dunk contest, forget it, let's talk about the next topic.
The next topic is related to Nash.
With Francis being traded to the Bulls, there is actually a slight vacuum for the Western Conference guard.
Stockton is getting old, Payton is also 31 years old, and further down, Marbury and Bibby.
But the Suns have a poor record, and Bibby's data is inconspicuous in the Kings. Nash theoretically has a good chance of being selected.
But in the end he was not selected.
This is related to the fact that the Mavericks have already made two selections, and it is also related to Nash's poor defense.
But anyway, as brothers, Sun Hao and Nowitzki need to do something after Nash loses the election.
They know Nash's character very well.
At this time, Sun Hao's role as a traverser came.
He remembers that O'Neal and Carter did not play the All-Star Game due to injuries.
Don't ask him why he knows that Jordan will return this year in history, and no one will miss such an All-Star game.
In other words, there will be one more place in the West.
There are enough inside players on the bench list, and there are too few point guards.
Nash has this opportunity.
Of course, the premise is that Nash can play well enough before the opportunity comes.
Speaking of it, they have done this kind of thing twice before, and it can be said that they are familiar with it.
They had done it before for Sun Hao and Nowitzki.
So this time, they got started quickly.
And speaking of it, it was the two of them who had a great influence on Nash.
Give up part of the shot and try to hit Nash's pass as much as possible. The method is simple and effective.
They did exactly that.
When the time came to February, the Mavericks continued to maintain a stable performance, and Nash's data rose.
A very intuitive statistic. Before the All-Star list was released, Nash's average per game was around 14+8.
But half a month after the list was released, his average data per game was 17+10!
At this time, the Lakers announced that O'Neal would miss this year's All-Star Game due to a relapsed left foot injury.
The league didn't need to think about it, so Duncan replaced O'Neal as the starting center.
Now looking back at Popovich's sour words, it will make people feel very unnecessary.
Duncan entered the starting lineup, and theoretically would add another big man in, but there are too many big men in the West.
On the contrary, guards are very rare in comparison.
The final favorites are concentrated between Marbury, Nash and Mike Bibby.
After fully considering the record and data, Stern finally made a choice.
Steve Nash will be the alternate All-Star in the West.
The Mavericks ranked first in the league before the All-Star Game, and they also successfully selected 3 of the All-Star Game!
After this news came out, the whole Dallas was boiling.
This kind of scene is really unprecedented in history.
"This is the most glorious era for the Mavericks!"
Some fans even expressed such feelings in the forum.
All-star vote king, three people selected, the record league first, Nelson became the head coach of the Western Conference, everything is very good!
Against this background, Sun Hao is also full of expectations for the All-Star Game.
Last year, because he won a rookie of the year, he has always had a halo bonus this season, which is also an important reason for his huge performance improvement.
If this is to get an MVP in the All-Star Game, then he can expect a bigger bonus.
Originally this was just a matter of thinking, but it is really not impossible for two teammates and their own coach.
Everything is ready, just waiting for the All-Star Game.
But before that, Sun Hao also took care of the things that had been delayed.
He finally went to Cecilia's house.
Sun Hao actually thought a lot about Cecilia's family.
Cesiali seems to need money, and it can be inferred that his family conditions are average.
Even Sun Hao thought that she might come from a single parent family, which is very common in the United States.
There are not only rich people in the United States, but also poor people, and the gap between rich and poor is particularly wide.
But even if he had this expectation in his heart, Sun Hao was still surprised when he arrived at Cecilia's house.
The family conditions of Cecilia's adoptive father and mother are not bad.
However, Cecilia was adopted!
And it was a group of black couples who adopted her.
This is incredible in Dallas.
Sun Hao has lived in Dallas for so long, and he knows how much discrimination the city is.
It is no exaggeration to say that the kind of hatred that has lasted for more than four hundred years between black and white in the United States is in a state of wiping out guns at any time.
But Cecilia really subverted his perception a bit.
However, sometimes the skin color does not determine anything.
In Cecilia's house, Sun Hao could clearly feel that this black couple was a very kind person.
In fact, it is right, not kind, it is impossible to adopt a person of different skin color in this city.
When Cecilia went outside to prepare dinner, Sun Hao had a private chat with her adoptive father and mother.
He was actually curious why they adopted Cecilia.
We must know that if there is a white man among blacks, it will be a huge psychological burden for both blacks and whites.
"We didn't think so much. Who saw a child who was thrown away in a plastic bag with an umbilical cord on her body, who had the heart to watch her die?"
Sun Hao moved by the adoptive mother's words.
In fact, let alone the United States, there are such news all over the world.
Many men and women do not know what it means to have a child, are born and cannot afford to raise them, so they can only throw it away.
He still remembered a well-known domestic news that an old grandmother adopted a black child and finally raised him into an authentic Chinese.
After talking with them, Sun Hao suddenly became more concerned about the topic of "children" in his heart.
He has crossed, is famous and rich, but these things shouldn't just be used to enjoy.
In ancient China, it was emphasized that being poor would only be good for one's own sake, while greatness would benefit the world.
He belongs to Da, he can do something more meaningful.
Of course, his personal ability is limited, it is impossible to do everything.
But the child ~EbookFREE.me~ is what he can help.
Because children represent the future and hope, there are children like Cecilia and even some children in war-torn countries.
This idea emerged in Sun Hao's mind.
For a moment, he felt as if he had found another meaning in life.
After dinner, Sun Hao and Cecilia returned to the villa.
Sun Hao talked about giving Cecilia processing resources, and by the way, I would find another chef.
"Thank you."
Cecilia agreed, and thanked Sun Hao.
For the first time, Sun Hao didn't look down at Cecilia.
"By the way, I am actually curious why you are so desperate to make money, and your family conditions are not bad."
Sun Hao then asked.