At the press conference, it was the reporters in the audience who blew up.

By the time the news was over, the whole basketball circle was fried.

"I'm sorry, I don't think there's any problem with Sun, the all-star ticket king!"

"This time, I fully support Sun as the king of votes, and no one can speak!"

"If Sun is not the ticket king this year, I will be in a hurry with him!"

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In the forum on the American side, the wind direction of the fans has changed 180°.

Jordan's press conference did not mention a word about canvassing 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 stunned when he saw the news at night.

He couldn't tell whether what Jordan said was the truth, but simply to fight him, or to win over Sun Hao.

Because there are possibilities in each of them.

It may even be not just one, but a mixture of several possibilities.

But no matter what the reason, what Jordan said at the press conference completely changed the current direction of public opinion.

Although it made him uncomfortable, it had already helped him solve the dilemma in front of him.

At least he won't have such troubles this year, and it will be next year.

Thinking of this, he called Jordan back and said some words of thanks to him.

The eldest husband can bend and stretch, otherwise he would not have been able to knock on the door of the Chinese market in the first place.

Sun Hao was a little stunned when he saw the news.

Although Jordan just told the facts, it was difficult for him not to have a good impression of Jordan by doing this kind of thing at this point in time.

If nothing else, when his contract with Adi expires, he will have to struggle for a while.

The time came to mid-January, and the results of the all-star voting were released.

Eastern starters: Iverson, Jordan, Carter, Antoine Walker, Yao Ming.

Carter was voted the Eastern Conference vote for the third year in a row with 1.5 million votes.

Yao Ming's final votes were fixed at 1.1 million, and he also managed to become an All-Star starter in his rookie season.

And he also has a reason to be selected, in addition to the background of Chinese players, he has averaged 14.5 points, 10.1 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game so far this season, which is also among the best in the Eastern center.

Jordan got 1.05 million votes, and as he said, he became an All-Star starter as soon as he returned.

And he averaged 23.5 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game, although the shooting percentage was lower than his career average, but the selection was not just feelings.

Not to mention that the Wizards are currently fourth in the East under him and Yao Ming, and have great hopes of making the playoffs.

Western starters: Sun Hao, Kobe, Nowitzki, Garnett, O'Neal.

Nowitzki eventually got 900,000 votes, and he took the top spot in the Western Conference forward with 50,000 votes, ahead of Garnett.

Bryant and O'Neal received 1.23 million and 1.27 million votes, respectively.

Together, the two have exactly 2.5 million votes.

Then, Sun Hao's final vote was ...... 2.51 million votes!

No more, no less, exactly 10,000 more votes than the OK combination combined.

Moreover, his voting result also broke Jordan's previous record of 2.45 million votes!

This result was also expected, and there were even many fans who were ready to spray.

But because of Jordan's press conference, there was a round of cheers at the forum.

Basketball is a human sophistication, and it was shown in this incident to the fullest.

Of course, nothing can be pleasing to everyone.

After the results of this vote came out, Popovich expressed his displeasure in his own way.

"You're telling me Tim Duncan isn't a Western Conference All-Star starter?"

Popovich expressed his displeasure in front of the media with an extremely ironic discourse.

"In the future, a lot of fans will ask why Tim Duncan didn't show up in the All-Star starting lineup at the peak of his career, and I told him because he didn't have a Chinese teammate?"

That's Popovich's way, Iverson is another.

After the game against the Wizards, Iverson was innocently absent from the postgame press conference.

The incident was also seen by the league as an act of protest against the results of the vote, as the 76ers' Mutombo was not selected as an All-Star starting center.

The next day, he received a $10,000 fine from the league.

In a follow-up interview the next day, Iverson said he had been misunderstood.

When asked if he needed the alliance to understand him, he shook his head and said no.

"I'm not going to beg people to understand, my mom understands me best, maybe I'll die before her, and if that's the case, I'll let her engrave the word 'misunderstanding' on my tombstone."

Iverson's words were moving.

On the second day of the voting results, in the game between the Magic and the Wizards, Jordan missed due to injury, and then Maddy scored 50 points and 10 rebounds to lead the team to victory.

No one knows if he broke out because he didn't make the All-Star starter.

What fans can see is that Jordan watched Maddy's performance on the bench, and his eyes were full of love.

A week after the All-Star voting was announced, the bench selected by the league's head coach, as well as the rest of the individual tournaments, were released.

East subs: Francis, Kidd, Pierce, Ray Allen, Alonzo Mourning, O'Neal Jr., Mutombo;

West: Payton, Szczebiak, Peja, Carl Malone, Chris Webb, Rasheed Wallace, Brand;

There was talk when the starters came out, and naturally there was no shortage when the substitute list came out.

The Pistons' star Starter House broke out with strong dissatisfaction.

"We're third in the East, but we don't have a single one to make the cut? Just because we're a Detroit team? It's a ball of shit! ”

Stackhouse's complaint is not unfounded.

This season, he sacrificed his shot rights for the team and won more victories, but he still did not get the approval of the league, the coaches.

No one will be unconvinced.

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 team led by Dragic and Whiteside ranked fourth in the East before the All-Star break, and no one was selected.

Of course, these are all vignettes that play out every year before the All-Star Ticket Game.

Popovich's protests won't do anything, and Iverson's fine by the league is a given, Starker House ...... Unless a player gets injured, he also loses his chance to be an All-Star.

Controversy, missing pearls, this is the eternal topic of NBA All-Star Weekend.

The league invited Sun Hao to participate in the three-point contest and dunk contest, but he politely declined.

He's not Curry, and there's not as much interest in this kind of game.

Of course, the more important thing is that now his three-point level, going to the three-point contest is all the way to crush.

He won't go again until he doesn't have a strong enough opponent to come out.

As for the slam 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 bit of a vacuum for defenders in the West.

Stockton is getting old, Payton is 31 years old, and further down, there are Marbury and Bibby.

However, the Suns' record is too poor, and Bibby's stats are inconspicuous in the Kings, and Nash theoretically has a good chance of being selected.

But in the end, he didn't make the cut.

This has something to do with the fact that the Mavericks already have two selections, and it also has something to do with Nash's poor defense.

But anyway, as brothers, after Nash's defeat, Sun Hao and Nowitzki need to do something.

They are well aware of Nash's character.

At this time, the role of Sun Hao, a traverser, came.

He remembers that both O'Neal and Carter missed the All-Star Game due to injury.

Don't ask him why he knows, Jordan is back 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 interior players on the bench list, and there are too few point guards.

Nash has that opportunity.

Of course, the premise is that Nash can play well enough before the opportunity comes.

Speaking of which, they have done this kind of thing twice before, so it can be said that they are familiar with it.

For Sun Hao and Nowitzki before, they have already done it.

So this time, they got started very quickly.

And speaking of which, it was the two of them who had the greatest influence on Nash.

Giving up some of the shots and hitting Nash's passes as much as possible was simple and effective.

And they did.

In February, the Mavericks continued their consistent performance, and Nash's stats rose.

A very intuitive statistic, before the All-Star list was released, Nash's average data per game was about 14+8.

But in the half a month after the list was released, his average data per game was 17+10!

It was also at this time that the Lakers announced that O'Neal would miss this year's All-Star Game due to a recurrence of his left foot injury.

The league didn't need to think much about it, so Duncan replaced O'Neal as the starting center.

Looking back at Popovich's sour words now, it would feel unnecessary.

Duncan is in the starting lineup, and theoretically there will be another big man coming in, but there are too many big men in the West.

On the contrary, defenders are scarce in comparison.

The final favorites were concentrated between Marbury, Nash and Mike Bibby.

After considering the results and statistics, Stern made the final choice.

Steve Nash will be an alternate All-Star in the West.

The Mavericks have the best pre-All-Star record in the league, and they also managed to have three people selected for the All-Star Game!

After this news came out, the whole of Dallas was boiling.

This kind of scene is really unprecedented in history.

"This is the Mavericks' most glorious era!"

Some fans even expressed such feelings in the forum.

All-Star vote king, three people were selected, the record was first in the league, the old Nelson became the head coach of the West, and everything was beautiful!

In this context, Sun Hao is also full of expectations for the All-Star Game.

Last year, because he won the rookie of the year, he has been with a halo bonus this season, which is also a big reason for his huge improvement in performance.

If he can win an MVP in the All-Star Game, it is foreseeable that he will get a bigger bonus.

Originally, this was just a matter of thinking, but with two teammates and their own head coach, it's really not impossible.

Everything is ready to wait, just wait for the All-Star Game to arrive.

But before that, Sun Hao also did the things that had been delayed again and again.

He finally went to Cecilia's house.

Regarding Cecilia's family, Sun Hao actually thought a lot.

Ceciali seems to be in need of money, and it can be inferred that his family conditions are average.

Even Sun Hao thought that she might be 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 the rich and the poor is particularly large.

But even if he had this expectation in his heart, when he really arrived at Cecilia's house, Sun Hao was still surprised.

Cecilia's adoptive father's and mother's family conditions were not bad.

However, Cecilia was adopted!

And it was a black couple who adopted her.

It's just incredible in Dallas.

Having lived in Dallas for so long, Sun Hao knows just how discriminatory the city really is.

It is no exaggeration to say that the kind of hatred that has lasted between black and white in the United States for more than 400 years is in a state of misfire at any time here.

But Cecilia, this is really a bit of a subversion of his perception.

Sometimes, though, skin color doesn't really mean anything.

In Cecilia's home, Sun Hao could clearly feel that the black couple was the kind of people who were very kind.

Actually, yes, it's not kind, it's impossible to adopt a person of different colors in this city.

When Cecilia went out to prepare dinner, Sun Hao chatted privately with her adoptive father and adoptive mother.

He was actually curious as to why they adopted Cecilia.

You must know that if a white person is born in a black person, it is a huge psychological burden for both black people and white people.

"We didn't think about it that much, who saw a child who was discarded in a plastic bag with an umbilical cord on her body, who could bear to watch her die?"

Sun Hao's adoptive mother's words moved him.

In fact, not to mention the United States, there is such news all over the world.

Many men and women don't know what it means to have a child, and they are born without the ability to raise it, so they have to throw it away in the end.

He still remembers a well-known news in China about an old grandmother who adopted a black child and finally raised him into an authentic Chinese.

After chatting with them, Sun Hao suddenly paid more attention and understanding to the topic of "children" in his heart.

He's crossed, famous, and rich, but these things shouldn't just be enjoyed.

In ancient China, the poor were good for themselves, and the good were for the world.

He now belongs to Da, and he can do something more meaningful.

Of course, his personal ability is limited, and it is impossible to do it in all aspects.

But the child 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 came to Sun Hao's mind.

For a moment, he felt as if he had found another meaning in life.

After dinner, Sun Hao and Cecilia went back to the villa.

Sun Hao talked about raising Cecilia's salary and finding a chef by the way.

"Thank you."

Cecilia agreed, and thanked Sun Hao.

For the first time, Sun Hao looked at Cecilia's gaze and didn't move down.

"By the way, I'm actually curious why you are working so hard to make money, and your family conditions are not bad."

Sun Hao then asked. Diagram of the Avenue of the Heavens