Chapter 156: Becoming the King of Votes
With the Lakers' winning streak, Liu Han's popularity of Liu Han has also grown, although Liu Han has a high reputation before, in the United States, basketball is not the most popular sport in the United States, in the United States, there are major league baseball, North American Hockey League and the National Football League and other professional sports leagues and NBA to grab spectators, these leagues are the world's largest professional sports platform for this type of sports, So Americans have the audacity to call the team that wins the league a world champion, which on the one hand shows that the United States is economically strong enough to sustain these leagues, and on the other hand, it also shows the diversity of the American audience.
However, the United States is a country composed of immigrants, they don't abide by the tradition too much, and worshipping the strong is the right thing, so with the Lakers' winning streak, not only Liu Han has attracted a lot of support, but even the other players of the Lakers team have also gained a lot of fans' love, not to mention O'Neal, his personality is likable, and he often makes some very funny things, so he is very popular with fans. Of course, Liu Han is still the most popular player on the Lakers team, first of all, his Chinese identity makes more than two million Chinese in the United States his fans, some of these fans may not have been exposed to basketball at all, but this does not prevent them from liking Liu Han, Liu Han's No. 24 jersey is the Lakers' current best-selling jersey.
Entering 98, the All-Star voting also began, in last year's All-Star Vote, Jordan proved his popularity, he received a total of 2.45 million votes, breaking the league's historical record, which also shows that the NBA is on the rise, but with the emergence of Liu Han and defeating the Bulls in the Finals made the Lakers win the championship, and he himself won the glory of the Finals MVP, which made Jordan's charm decline, he is no longer the unbeatable "god", Now there are new young people to challenge him.
After the All-Star voting event began on December 15 last year, Liu Han and Jordan began to throw off others and lead the way. After all, Jordan is the recognized king of the league, so he was once ahead of Liu Han before, but with the publicity of some Chinese newspapers and media in Los Angeles, the Chinese group, which accounts for 7% of the total population of the United States, began to vote for Liu Han together, but due to the limited conditions, the current voting method is still based on telephone voting, and there is no online voting, otherwise Liu Han's votes will definitely surpass Jordan early, after all, on this planet, the largest number of groups is still the Chinese group.
The league actually wants Jordan to fall from the altar, he is now 34 years old, and Jordan will be 35 years old in February, it's time to make way for young people, the league needs new idols, fans are already tired of the Bulls winning the championship, Jordan is a little tired of calling God a little tired. Although Liu Han's skin color makes the league a little uneasy, Liu Han is the only one who has shown his strength to surpass Jordan, and the story of Liu Han's "No. 24" surpassing Jordan's "No. 23" is also very in line with the league's idea of building the NBA.
On January 4, the Lakers defeated the Philadelphia 76ers again under the leadership of Liu Han, which made Iverson's popularity drop a lot, while Liu Han's popularity increased a little. As soon as Iverson entered the league, he attracted the love of many fans with his amazing speed and excellent ball skills and strong personality, although the appearance of Liu Han later made Iverson's popularity drop a lot, but there are still many fans who are discussing who is stronger Iverson or Liu Han, and many fans think that Liu Han is just because of the success of his teammates, and if Liu Han is changed to Philadelphia, it will be difficult for him to get ahead. However, with the end of this game, these discussions gradually disappeared, because everyone understood that Liu Han was much stronger than Iverson, so Liu Han's popularity also increased a lot with this game.
On January 6, the Lakers challenged the Vancouver Grizzlies away, and the game was in the hands of the Lakers from the beginning, and the Vancouver Grizzlies have been the league's top team since the team was founded.
Such a Grizzlies team will obviously not be the opponent of the Lakers, even if the Lakers collectively did not feel good today, and even Liu Han missed several balls, but in the end, the Lakers still won 100-82 against the Grizzlies with their strong team strength. Liu Han scored 30 points in the game, which was also the highest score for both teams.
Before the start of the game, the Lakers' management revealed to George Krent that they hoped that Liu Han could get a high score, and the Lakers' management hoped that this year's vote king could come from the Lakers, and now Liu Han's votes are only more than 10,000 fewer than Jordan's.
After thinking about it, George felt that this could be done, and now that the season is not even halfway over, Liu Han's physical condition has been maintained well, and George also hopes that Liu Han, the disciple he brought out, can become a real superstar.
At the beginning of the game with the Bucks, Liu Han was fed the ball by his teammates, covering, opening up space, etc., making Liu Han feel that he had arrived at the nursery and received all kinds of care.
With the cooperation of his teammates, Liu Han began to show his offensive means to the fullest, although Liu Han didn't understand why his teammates took such good care of him today, he felt that he couldn't live up to the kindness of his teammates.
Three-pointers, breakaway dunks, aerial relays, juggling layups, step-back jumpers, and all sorts of wonderful back-to-back footsteps, Liu Han directly turned into an offensive textbook in this game, giving an offensive skills training lesson to all Lakers fans and fans watching in front of the TV.
The Bucks didn't quite understand what their opponents meant at first, but by the time they reacted and began to contain Liu Han, the difference between the two teams had widened to 20 points.
Liu Han scored a staggering 48 points in the first half of the game, covering almost all of the Lakers' goals.
At the beginning of the second half, the Lakers continued to feed Liu Han, and Liu Han also lived up to expectations, and Liu Han began to tear up the defense with three points.
After 8 minutes in the third quarter, the Bucks gave up the game directly, thinking that the difference had expanded to 34 points at this time, and Liu Han had scored 66 points.
George saw that the other party had surrendered, and it would be a shame to let Liu Han continue to fight, so Liu Han also went to rest.
Although Liu Han failed to score 70 points in the end, the 66 points in the third quarter of the game were scary enough, and Liu Han's amazing shooting rate also made the Lakers fans present exclaim.
With the end of Liu Han's 66-point game in the third quarter, Liu Han's popularity has increased significantly, and with the help of the Lakers' public relations media and the league, Liu Han finally surpassed Jordan in the number of All-Star votes and topped the list. (To be continued.) )