The 2008 NBA All-Star Game was a very special All-Star Game.

As originally planned, the 2008 NBA All-Star Game was held in New Orleans.

This is the NBA league's care for the city of New Orleans after the hurricane.

It doesn't matter what the city's attitude towards the NBA is.

It doesn't matter if the city needs such care.

The NBA has always been quite proactive in showing human values.

Wherever there is a disaster, where there are sick fans, where there is a community event, the NBA can always be seen.

This is an important part of David Stern's efforts to enhance the image of pornography, gambling and drugs in the NBA in the past.

In fact, David Stern has been quite successful in this regard.

The NBA's image in the United States has also been slowly improving.

Setting the home of the 2008 NBA All-Star in New Orleans is David Stern's big deal in human care.

Just to David Stern's embarrassment, 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 for the 07-08 season after spending two seasons in Oklahoma in the 05-06 and 06-07 seasons due to the hurricane.

Before they could move back, they were directly acquired by the Oklahoma consortium.

How else could the Wasp move back?

There's no way the Oklahoma consortium, the owner of the Hornets, will let the Hornets move back.

Hornets boss Chris Paul is also reluctant to move back, he has spent most of his time in Oklahoma since entering the NBA, and his feelings for Oklahoma are much higher than in New Orleans.

For Chris Paul, Oklahoma fans are the best fans.

As for David West, players who have spent time in New Orleans, they don't want to go back either.

What kind of ball market is New Orleans, what kind of enthusiasm are New Orleans fans, and what kind of enthusiasm do they still know?

Can it be compared to the crazy Oklahoma fans?

In this case, the New Orleans Hornets were acquired after that.

The renaming and relocation were incredibly fast.

The whole team is willing to change the name and move the team to Oklahoma, can it not be happy?

If this were Seattle, even if it was Seattle's ball market, I am afraid it would take a long time.

Not to mention the players in New Orleans, even the fans of New Orleans don't care that much about it.

The ball market in New Orleans is not so good, and the Hornets have moved their home court to Oklahoma for two years, although in the past two years, the Hornets will also play a game or two in New Orleans from time to time.

But in the end, New Orleans fans really haven't been that enthusiastic about the Hornets in the past two years.

Most people basically have a go-and-go mentality.

Under these circumstances, the 2008 NBA All-Stars really couldn't do it in New Orleans.

The main force of the host, the New Orleans Hornets has turned into the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Without the full support of the New Orleans Hornets, would it be necessary to let New Orleans be completely taken over by the city like the casino like last year's All-Star?

The city of New Orleans has that heart, but it really doesn't have that power.

How could the current city of New Orleans compare to a casino city.

What's more, the citizens of New Orleans may not want their city to spend a lot of effort to host the 2008 All-Star.

Originally the 2008 All-Star, David Stern wanted to show his kindness.

But in the end, he found that his kindness was directly lost because of the change of ownership of the New Orleans Hornets.

There is no way, since New Orleans has no will, then it can only change the city.

In addition to the city of New Orleans, there are many cities and teams in the league that are willing to host the All-Star team.

Yaes knew that Seattle was also competing.

But in the end, David Stern handed over the hosting rights to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

David Stern's decision surprised even the Thunder themselves.

David Stern, who puts interests first, actually made the worst choice.

However, this is also what David Stern is respected.

David Stern likes to put profit first for the sake of the alliance.

But at the same time, he also likes to take care of some fairness and justice, likes to support some small teams, and is also willing to help some small cities.

At this point, it's really quite rare.

If the 2008 All-Star is hosted in Seattle, the NBA will probably earn hundreds of millions more than Oklahoma.

Regardless, the 2008 NBA All-Star Game was held at Ford Center, home of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

This is also a rare All-Star change venue in NBA history.

And the rare change in the venue in history has also become a very special beginning for this All-Star.

In addition to the temporary change of venue, the rules of the All-Star Contest have also been changed in the method of all-star voting.

In an effort to increase fan engagement and also to provide fans with more freedom to vote, David Stern eliminated the previous 'candidate' system for All-Star voting.

In the past, not everyone was eligible for the NBA All-Star Vote.

There are only two people on a team, and there are only 60 people in total who can compete for the All-Star starter.

The 60 were selected by the media panel, and fans could theoretically only vote for the 60.

Of course, fans can have other options, but the way of voting is quite troublesome and there is the possibility of invalidating tickets.

The 60-man system of All-Star voting is clearly not keeping up with the NBA's development.

In order to make it easier for fans to vote and to enhance the influence of the NBA, David Stern naturally took the opportunity to cancel this outdated system.

David Stern's idea is very good.

However, this season, when voting for all players was opened, making it easier for fans to choose who they wanted, problems arose.

If no one says it, I'm afraid it's hard to imagine who the guard is right now in the No. 1 All-Star voting in the East.

Iverson? Wade? Arenas?

Or Ray Allen or the Hawks Joe Johnson, who has shone in the past two seasons?

Neither!

Now the player voted first in the Eastern All-Star guard position is the starting point guard of the Wizards, Sun Yue!

In the third round of NBA All-Star voting announced on January 1, 2008, Sun Yue ranked first among Eastern defenders with 2.1 million votes, ahead of his teammate Arenas with 2.05 million votes and Heat guard Dwyane Wade.

Amazing, right?

So far in a season, players who have averaged 6 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 1.2 steals, 1.2 blocks, and a shooting rate of only 28% can become All-Star starters!

Who would dare to imagine this before Sun Yue appeared?

Last season, the influence of Chinese fans in the NBA was already validated.

Ye Si and Yao Ming's votes really shocked the entire league.

And it wasn't until Sun Yue's appearance this season that fans and media across the United States realized how much influence Chinese fans now have on NBA voting.

The enthusiasm of Chinese fans for NBA All-Star starters is indeed very high.

Because of Ye Si and Yao Ming's outstanding performance in the NBA, the influence of the NBA in China is too huge now.

In addition, CCTV is reporting at length again.

Chinese fans were meant to vote for Yes and Yao.

Just some of the fans were willing to vote for Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian, which directly led to the current result.

Sun Yue ranked first in the guard position in the East, and he was pressed under him by Arenas, Wade, Ray Allen, Joe Johnson and other strongmen.

And in the west, the big names that were suppressed by Yi Jianlian in the forward position are equally jaw-dropping.

Now the No. 1 voter in the Western Forward position is Yi Jianlian.

In second place is Maddie, followed by Anthony, Duncan, Nowitzki and others.

Is Yi Jianlian doing well now?

Certainly outstanding.

As the biggest rookie of the defensive team he has encountered, and as one of the most acclaimed rookies now, Yi Jianlian's performance in the Timberwolves is quite amazing.

But with Yi Jianlian's performance in the Timberwolves this season, he definitely can't rank in the top 10 of Western forwards.

Not to mention Maddie, Duncan, Anthony, Nowitzki, etc.

Not even Boozer, Marion, Josh Howard, or even the supersonic Durant.

Durant was the league's Rookie of the Month award for two consecutive months in November and December.

No matter how controversial Durant's performance is.

He is indeed the current leading scorer.

Even the league, in order to maintain the glory of the league's scoring champion, reluctantly gave him the title of Rookie of the Month for two consecutive months.

A rookie scoring champion with a team that can be ranked third in the league, there's no reason to give Rookie of the Month to anyone else.

If the SuperSonics didn't have Yes, Durant would have entered the top three in the league with the SuperSonics as the scoring champion, and the person who is now at the top of the league's MVP list is Durant.

The combination of scoring champion + playoffs is the lowest in NBA history to make the best team, and more than 70% of them are in the first team.

In short, if it weren't for Sun Yue's star-catching all-star voting, the player who is now being ridiculed by the All-Star media and fans across the United States is Yi Jianlian.

Now the media and fans across the United States are calling on all American basketball fans to come out and vote for Sun Yue to be ousted from the starting position.

But what embarrassed these people was that from the first round, the voting gap between Sun Yue and Arenas and Wade was still widening.

The media across the United States, and even the media around the world, really don't have Chinese fans to play in the All-Star voting right now.

So, according to the current trend, the 2008 NBA All-Stars will usher in four Chinese starters!

Special, right?

In the history of the NBA, there has never been such a special situation.

Four foreign starters for the U.S. and NBA?

It's something that can't be imagined.

It would be nice to say that these four players are all All-Star players.

The key is that there are two of them, let alone the all-star level, even if they are quasi-all-star level, they can't reach it.

Although the NBA is for fans to choose their favorite players to be All-Stars, such a player who has no All-Star strength at all is naturally not what David Stern wants to see.

But David Stern finally found out that he really had no way to deal with the current situation of this year's All-Star vote.

He is a principled person, there are no rules, he will make rules that are beneficial to himself, and for this he will do whatever it takes.

But 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 the fans cast these two according to the rules he set, he couldn't have used some special way to get them down.

This is not in line with his character, nor is it in the interests of the NBA, and now the Chinese market is indeed inseparable for everyone.

The horror of how much Yes Sports' Yes generation sold in China has left the world jaw-dropping.

There's no way the NBA can offend such a huge market for two All-Star starters.

In this case, David Stern can only find a way to add some rules in the future to prevent this kind of thing from happening again.

This year, Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian seem to have been set for All-Star starters.

In the NBA, many players who aspire to the NBA All-Star starting spot seem to have resigned themselves to their fate.

At the same time, when the results of the third round of the All-Star voting were released, and Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian were really only one step away from the All-Star, they had a huge and incredible envy for these two people.

For example, Yess's current teammate Durant.

The league's leading scorer, he received 10,000 votes in the All-Star Poll.

Durant's All-Star votes were 14th for the SuperSonics.

It's lower than Marry Cross, who is on the verge of retirement and has largely not played.

With Durant's current status as the league's leading scorer, this vote is really humiliating!

Malikros has more than 50,000 votes, and he is only in his early 10,000s.

In the first two rounds of voting, Durant's performance was the worst, and he admitted it.

But lately, he's the second-best player in the SuperSonics after Yes.

But on the all-star ballot, there was no improvement.

Who can bear this?

Anyone facing such a situation will be full of resentment.

Yees felt Durant's resentment.

Ye Si couldn't feel it if he wanted to.

Hidden Mission: I'm a Goose City All-Star.

Job description: I want to be an all-star! If you can do it for both SUN and Yi, I can do it too!

Mission Requirements: Durant becomes a 2008 NBA All-Star.

Mission Reward: Durant's mid-range shooting potential.

Durant's mid-range shooting potential?!

Three points: 80 (90).

Looking at this three-point shooting potential from Durant, Yes can be sure that Durant's mid-range shooting potential will definitely not be worse than his three-point potential!

That's a value of 90 or more!

This means that completing this hidden mission is equivalent to getting a four-star card.

Yes wants, wants it!

But how do you push Durant to the All-Star this year?

Starting?

Looking at Durant's pitiful votes, it's basically no fun.

Fill someone's shoes?

With Durant's current reputation in the league, it's even more unlikely.

Headache!

Ye Si had a headache.

In the headache, Ye Si and the SuperSonics also completed the last game of the 7-day, 5-battle devil schedule.

After a day off on New Year's Day, the SuperSonics lost 106-114 to the Phoenix Suns on January 2, 2008.

After this loss, the 28-5 SuperSonics basically lost the qualification to compete with the Rockets and Suns for the first place in the league.