Vol 2 Chapter 470: All-stars and new hidden missions

The 2008 NBA All-Star Game is a very special All-Star Game.
According to the original plan, the 2008 NBA All-Star Game was held in New Orleans.
This is after the New Orleans hurricane, the NBA League care for the city of New Orleans.
No matter what the city's attitude towards the NBA is.
It doesn't matter whether the city needs such care.
The NBA has always been quite proactive in showing the value of humanity.
Where there is disaster, where there are sick fans, where there are community activities, you can always see the figure of the NBA.
This is an important part of David Stern in order to enhance the NBA's past gambling image.
In fact, David Stern did quite successfully in this regard.
The NBA's image throughout the United States has also been slowly improving.
Setting the home field of the 2008 NBA All-Star in New Orleans is David Stern's generous effort in humanistic care.
What just embarrassed David Stern was that the New Orleans Hornets were sold to the Oklahoma Consortium in the summer of 2007.
According to the plan, the New Orleans Hornets will move back to New Orleans in the 07-08 season after spending two seasons in Oklahoma in the 05-06 and 06-07 seasons due to the hurricane.
This has not been moved back, but was directly acquired by the Oklahoma consortium.
How could the Hornets move back?
The Oklahoma consortium, the owner of the Hornets, could not let the Hornets move back.
The Hornets boss Chris Paul is also reluctant to move back. After he entered the NBA, he stayed in Oklahoma most of the time. His feelings for Oklahoma are much higher than New Orleans.
For Chris Paul, Oklahoma fans are the best fans.
As for the players who have stayed in New Orleans, David West also doesn't want to go back.
What ball market is New Orleans, and what kind of enthusiasm are New Orleans fans, do they still know?
Can it be compared with crazy Oklahoma fans?
In this case, after the New Orleans Hornets were acquired.
The name change and the move of the address are incredible.
The whole team is willing to change their name, they are willing to move the team to Oklahoma, can you be happy?
If this were changed to Seattle, even if Seattle's ball market was normal, it would probably take a long time.
Not to mention New Orleans players, even New Orleans fans don't care so much about it.
New Orleans's ball market is not that good, plus the Hornets have moved their home to Oklahoma for two years. Although in these two years, the Hornets will also play in New Orleans from time to time. .
In the final analysis, New Orleans fans' enthusiasm for the Hornets has not been that high in the past two years.
Most people are basically the mentality of leaving.
Under such circumstances, the 2008 NBA All-Star in New Orleans really can't do it.
The main contractor, the New Orleans Hornets have turned into Oklahoma City Thunder.
Without the full support of the New Orleans Hornets, is it like the All-Star last year, let New Orleans be completely taken over by the city like a casino?
New Orleans has that kind of heart, but it really doesn't have that power.
How can the city of New Orleans now compare to a casino.
What's more, the citizens of New Orleans may not be willing to spend a lot of energy in their cities to run the 2008 All-Star.
Originally an All-Star in 2008, David Stern wanted to express his good intentions.
But in the end he found out that his kindness was directly caused by the change of the New Orleans Hornets.
No way, since New Orleans has no intention, it can only change the city.
In addition to the city of New Orleans, there are many cities and teams willing to host the All-Star team.
Yesh knew that Seattle also competed.
But in the end David Stern gave the Oklahoma City Thunder the right to host.
This decision by David Stern surprised even the Thunder.
David Stern, the supremacy of interests, actually made the worst choice.
However, this is where David Stern respects.
David Stern likes the supremacy of interests for the alliance.
But at the same time, he also likes to balance some fairness and justice, likes to support some small teams, and is willing to help some small cities.
At this point, it is really quite rare.
If the 2008 All-Star is hosted by Seattle, the NBA may receive hundreds of millions more dollars than Oklahoma.
In any case, the 2008 NBA All-Star Game became the Ford Center Arena, home of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
This is also the rare all-star replacement venue in NBA history.
The changing venue, which is rare in history, has become a very special beginning for this All-Star.
In addition to temporarily changing the venue of this All-Star Game, the rules of the All-Star voting method have also been changed.
In order to increase the participation of fans and also provide a higher degree of freedom for fans to vote, David Stern canceled the previous 'candidate' system for All-Star voting.
In the previous NBA All-Star voting, not everyone is eligible.
There are only two players in a team, and a total of 60 people can compete for the All-Star starter.
These 60 people were selected by the media team, and the fans could theoretically only vote for these 60 people.
Of course, fans can also have other options, but the voting method is quite troublesome and may be invalid.
The 60-person system for All-Star voting is clearly not keeping up with the development of the NBA.
In order to make it easier for the fans to vote, and to increase the influence of the NBA, David Stern naturally canceled this outdated system.
This idea by David Stern is very good.
But this season, the voting for all players was opened, which made it easier for fans to choose the players they wanted to choose, and the question came up.
If no one said, I am afraid it is difficult to imagine who is the first defender in the Eastern Conference All-Star voting.
Iverson? Wade? Arenas?
Or Ray Allen or the eagle king Joe Johnson who shined in these two seasons?
neither!
The first player to vote in the Eastern All-Star guard position is the Wizards' starting point guard, Sun Yue!
In the third round of NBA All-Star voting announced on January 1, 2008, Sun Yue led his teammate Arenas with 2.01 million votes, and the Heat's defender De Huai En Wade, ranked first in the Eastern Guards.
Isn't it amazing?
So far in the season, he has averaged 6 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 1.2 steals, and 1.2 blocks per game. Players with only 28% field goal percentage can actually become All-Star starters!
Who dare to imagine this before Sun Yue appeared?
Last season, the influence of Chinese fans in the NBA has been verified.
Yesi and Yao Ming's votes really shocked the entire league.
Until this season when Sun Yue appeared, fans and the media across the United States did not know how great the influence of Chinese fans now on the NBA vote.
The enthusiasm of Chinese fans for the NBA All-Star start is indeed very high.
Because of the outstanding performance of Yesi and Yao Ming in the NBA, the influence of the NBA in China is really huge.
Coupled with CCTV's long and exhaustive reports.
Chinese fans intended to vote for Yesi and Yao Ming.
Only some of the fans are willing to vote for Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian, which directly leads to this result.
Sun Yue ranked first in the eastern defender position. He was under the pressure of Arenas, Wade, Ray Allen, Joe Johnson and many other strongmen.
In the west, the big names that Yi Jianlian suppressed at the striker position were equally dazzling.
Yi Jianlian is now the number one vote in the Western Forward position.
In second place is McGrady, followed by Anthony, Duncan, Nowitzki and others.
Is Yi Jianlian doing well now?
Of course it is outstanding.
As the biggest rookie encountered by the defensive team, as one of the most highly praised rookies now, Yi Jianlian's performance in the Timberwolves is quite amazing.
But Yi Jianlian's performance in the Timberwolves this season is definitely not in the top ten of the Western forwards.
Not to mention McGrady, Duncan, Anthony, Nowitzki and others.
Not even Boozer, Marion, Josh Howard, or even the supersonic Durant.
Durant is the best rookie in the league for two consecutive months in November and December.
No matter how controversial Durant's performance is.
He is indeed the scoring leader now.
Even in order to maintain the glory of the league's scoring champion, the league gave him the title of best rookie of the month for two consecutive months.
A rookie scoring leader, with the team can rank third in the league, there is no reason to give the best rookie of the month to others.
If the Supersonics does not have Yes, Durant takes the Supersonics to the top three in the league as the scoring leader. Now the first person in the league's MVP ranking is Durant.
The combination of scoring king + playoffs is the lowest in the history of the NBA to make the best lineup, of which more than 70% are in a burst.
In short, if it weren't for Sun Yue's all-star voting, it was too eye-catching. Now the player who is being ridiculed by All-Star media and all American fans is Yi Jianlian.
Now the national media and national fans are calling on all American basketball fans to come out and vote, and we must drive Sun Yue from the starting position.
But what embarrassed these people was that from the first round, the gap between Sun Yue, Arenas and Wade's votes was still widening.
Media in the United States, and even media around the world, are really no Chinese fans in the All-Star voting.
Therefore, according to the current trend, the 2008 NBA All-Star will welcome four starters who are Chinese nationals!
Special?
In the history of the NBA, we have never seen such a special situation.
For the United States and the NBA, the four foreign national starters?
This is something I dare not even think about.
It doesn't matter if these four players are all-star players.
The key is that there are two of them, not to mention the All-Star level, even if the quasi-All-Star level can not be reached.
Although the NBA is for fans to choose their favorite players to enter the All-Star, such a player who does not have all-star strength to enter the All-Star is naturally not what David Stern would like to see.
But David Stern finally found out that he really has no way to deal with the situation in this year's All-Star voting.
He is a principled person, without rules, he will make rules that are in his favor, for which he will do whatever he can.
However, since the rules have been formulated, he is also a person who likes to follow the rules. According to this year's rules, Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian should be the starters of the All-Star.
Unless according to the rules he made, the fans cast the two men down, otherwise he could not use some special methods to get the two men down.
This is not in line with his character, nor in the interests of the NBA, and now the Chinese market is indeed inescapable for everyone.
The horrible quantity of Yes Sports' Yes ​​generation sold in China has made the whole world dumbfounded.
It is impossible for the NBA to offend such a huge market for two All-Star starting positions.
In this case, David Stern can only find ways to add some rules to prevent this from happening in the future.
This year, Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian seem to have set the All-Star starter.
In the NBA, many players who are interested in the starting position of the NBA All-Stars also seem to admit their fate.
At the same time, the results of the third round of the All-Star balloting of these players, whether they were confessed or not, were released. When Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian were really only one step away from the All-Star, they produced an incredible amount of money for these two players. Envy.
For example, Yance's current teammate Durant.
The league's scoring leader, he won 10,100 votes in the All-Star vote.
Durant's all-star votes were the 14th supersonic.
It's even lower than Maricross, whose team is on the verge of retirement and has basically not played.
As Durant is now the league's scoring leader, this vote is really humiliating!
Malikros got 50,000 votes, but he was only in the early 10,000s.
In the first two rounds of voting, Durant's performance was the worst when he was admitted.
But in recent times, he is second only to Yes in second-best performance.
But there was no improvement in the All-Star ballots.
Who can bear this?
Anyone facing such a situation will be resentful.
Yesh felt Durant's resentment.
Yesi didn't want to feel it.
Hidden mission: I am the goose city all-star.
Task description: I want to be an All-Star! SUN and Yi are both, and I can be too!
Task requirements: Durant became the 2008 NBA All-Star player.
Mission reward: Durant's CIC potential.
Durant's CIC potential? !
Three points: 80 (90).
Looking at this three-pointer potential from Durant, Yers can be sure that Durant's CIC potential will never be worse than his three-point potential!
This is a value above 90!
This means that completing this hidden task is equivalent to getting a four-star card.
Yesi wants ~ EbookFREE.me ~ I really want it!
But how do you push Durant to an All-Star this year?
Starting?
Looking at Durant's pitiful votes, it was almost impossible.
Substitute?
As Durant is now in the league's criticism, it is even more impossible.
headache!
Yers has a headache.
In a headache, Yes and Supersonics also completed the last game of the 7-day 5-game Devil schedule.
After a day off on New Year's Day, the Supersonics lost 106-114 to Phoenix Suns on January 2, 2008.
After this defeat, the 28-5 supersonics basically lost the qualification to compete with the Rockets Suns for the league first.