As we move into February, the NBA schedule has become more intense, and February is not just a regular season for the NBA, but also an All-Star weekend.

At this time, the second round of the All-Star voting has also ended.

In the East, as the host of the All-Star Weekend, Howard of the Orlando Magic has always held an absolute lead in the All-Star vote, not only at the center position, but also with the highest number of votes of all players in the league.

The top five players in the East are Howard, James, Curry, Rose and Wade.

Among them, Curry and Rose are extremely close in the number of votes, with only a few hundred votes apart.

Judging from the personal data and team record, it is clear that Curry is more dominant, the Wizards are currently firmly at the top of the league, and Curry has played the best individual performance of his career, averaging 31 points and 7 assists per game with top superstar statistics.

In contrast, although the Bulls' record is also very good, and Rose's average of 22 points and 8 assists per game is also impeccable, but it is still slightly worse than Curry.

It stands to reason that Curry should be a little higher than Rose in terms of popularity.

It should have been like this, but not long ago, when Curry participated in a sports talk show, he stabbed Lou Zi.

Curry, as one of the best new generation players in the league, is already a star player in the league second only to Kobe, James and other old superstars, and his delicate face and more popular style of play have made him gain a large number of fans.

While the popularity soared, various commercial endorsements and TV show invitations followed.

And in January, he appeared on a talk show on a New York sports television station.

This would have been normal, and people like Kobe, James, etc., often do it.

But Curry has one difference from other stars, and that is that he has a head coach from China.

When his opinion of Wang Xiao was mentioned in an interview, Curry used all kinds of praise.

Even when his brain was hot, he even said that in his opinion, Wang Xiao is the best coach in the NBA.

Wang Xiao is indeed very good, he led the team to the NBA Finals at a young age, but it is still too exaggerated to say that he is the best coach in the NBA.

The NBA has been established for decades, and there have been countless excellent and legendary coaches, not to mention Cardinal Auerbach, God Operator Pat. Riley and Phil, who recently retired. Jackson, even many head coaches who are still coaching NBA teams, are better than Wang Xiao.

Like Spurs head coach Popovich, who led the Spurs to 4 championships and led the team to 50 wins all year round, and Celtics' championship coach Doug . Rivers, and Carlisle, who just helped the Mavericks win the NBA championship not long ago.

You are a coach from China, and you haven't won any hard honors at all, and you can be called the best coach in the NBA just because you have a good regular season record in two seasons?

Of course, Curry's original intention was not that, what he said was that in his opinion, Wang Xiao is the best coach in the NBA, because his career has just begun, and he has only been in contact with Wang Xiao as a head coach in the NBA.

But what does the media and the audience do about you? In particular, many media outlets that like to take words out of context are eager to publicize this matter so that the entire alliance knows about it.

Unlike the circle of players, the NBA's circle of coaches is very narrow, and almost all the people who can mix in this circle are Americans.

As a Chinese coach, Wang Xiao was even secretly despised by many people when he first entered the league.

You are a coach from China, growing up in such a backward basketball league country, what skills do you have?

It turns out that Wang Xiao really has some ability, and he has made this team a league powerhouse in two years with the Wizards.

But even so, when many coaches in the league hear the media's remarks about Wang Xiao being the best coach in the NBA, they will still be dissatisfied.

As the initiator, although it was only an unintentional mistake, Curry's remarks still made many fans who supported him turn black.

"Kneel and lick the head coach of the team without a bottom line, I really misjudged you, you are not worthy of being my idol."

"Touting a coach from China as the best coach in the NBA, where do you put Popovich? A coach who hasn't even won an NBA championship deserves to be called the best coach? ”

It was just a casual sentence in a talk show interview, but it gradually began to change in an uncontrollable direction.

It is precisely for this reason that Curry's popularity has been affected, making Rose come from behind in the All-Star voting and almost overtake Curry.

Afterwards, Curry called Wang Xiao to apologize as soon as possible, and he looked very lost on the phone, he didn't expect things to develop like this, his own popularity was affected to the point that it didn't matter, but because he didn't go through the brain, Wang Xiao also fell into controversy.

In this regard, Wang Xiao seems very generous, he knows Curry's attitude towards him, so far, the highest value for him in the locker room module is Curry, Wang Xiao is sure, if he is ready to leave the Wizards to go to other teams, Curry will not hesitate to apply for a trade transfer.

The reason why he said that on the talk show was also out of sincere reverence for himself.

As a person who traveled back in 2019, he is too clear about the means of the media to provoke topics with rhythm.

"Boring trick."

The criterion for defining the success of a manager is results, not fame and controversy, so Wang Xiao completely ignored the reporters who raised relevant questions in the press conference of the next few games.

Wang Xiao's behavior undoubtedly disappointed many reporters, and not responding means that there is no topic and no news.

If this continues, the matter may soon die down.

However, a small episode made the matter start to ferment further.

On February 4, the Wizards defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 114-92 at home, although the Clippers got Paul this season and formed the All-Star combination of Paul + Griffin, but there are too many giants in the West this season, even with Paul, the Clippers can only shoot under the Spurs, Lakers, Trail Blazers and Grizzlies in the West, ranking fifth in the West, against the Wizards who are the first in the league, or on the opponent's home court, and losing is a matter of course.

However, the loss seemed to give Clippers head coach Vinnie Murphy. De Nagro felt very unhappy, and at the post-match press conference, De Nagro's speech was full of provocation and sarcasm, although he did not say it explicitly, but everyone could hear that he was targeting Wang Xiao.