The all-star lineup of the East and West has already been announced.

Because of the fault in the West Lafayette before, the number of West Lafayettes who were selected as All-Stars this year is not particularly large.

With the All-Star restructuring, the center position has become a thing of the past.

Yao Ming undoubtedly continued to occupy the position of the ticket king, and properly got a position as a frontcourt starter for the Eastern All-Star.

O'Neill can be said to be extremely lucky......

When Yao Ming first entered the league, he was in the West, avoiding the embarrassing situation of playing Yao Ming off the bench in the All-Star Games.

When he arrived in the East, the All-Star was restructured, and he ranked third in the Eastern Conference frontcourt with the number of votes.

In second place was James, but he didn't get much more votes than O'Neal, who had 2.19 million votes to James 2.2 million.

Yao Ming had a terrifying three million votes, and directly beat O'Neal and James......

Richard feels that the day when the alliance will limit the flow of Chinese votes should not be far off, and it may be an opportunity after Yi Jianlian enters the alliance in 07.

Chinese fans play such a game, and in the future, every All-Star ticket king may be Chinese, so it is strange that the old American local players can be happy.

China's population is so large that the number of fans may not be as large as in the United States, but the main reason is that American fans are scattered by the stars.

And if there are 20 million fans in China, maybe 10 million of them are Yao Ming's fans......

And if Lao Mei has 20 million fans, it is impossible for a certain player to have 10 million fans.

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The three starting frontcourts in the East are Yao Ming, O'Neal and James.

A rather bizarre lineup, they actually have two historic center forwards in their starting lineup.

To say that Yao Ming is a historical-level center is not an exaggeration at all.

Won a regular season MVP in the first two years of his career and two finals MVPs, which is not a historical level......

As for the backcourt in the East, Iverson got the most votes with 2.02 million votes, and the Heat's Wade had 1.5 million votes, and the two of them got the opportunity to start the Eastern backcourt.

In previous years, there could have been three West Lafayette players in the starting five, but this year there were only two.

Seven substitutes, Pierce, Vince Carter, Billups, Milicic, Arenas, Gerard Wallace and Dragon King Bosh.

With the exception of Bosh and Carter, the remaining five players on the bench are all Silafayette players.

The Pirates had only one Pippen selected as an All-Star last season, and this season after Pippen arrived at the Bulls, he just played a game, and he was directly reimbursed for the season, scoring 2 points on the court......

After Pippen left, Milicic was successfully selected as an All-Star this season, and speaking of which, Paul's statistics are actually enough to be selected as an All-Star.

It's just that the competition in the backfield of the eastern side is still quite fierce.

Richard naturally felt that it was a pity that only one member of the team was selected as an All-Star for a person like himself......

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As for the western side, it's still the same people for the most part, and it hasn't changed much.

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Richard pondered that he finally got a chance to lead the team to an all-star, and it would be a pity if he didn't get the supergiant suit.

And if you want to get the supergiant set parts, in addition to Richard has to lead the team to an all-star, the All-Star MVP must be a player he has coached.

With this hard requirement, Richard can't help but be careless.

Under normal circumstances, this season's All-Star MVP is won by LeBron James.

But now Richard definitely can't let him take it, no way, who made him not a West Lafayette player?

The supergiant suit is related to the future of his children and grandchildren, and Richard has not been generous enough to abandon it.

The only headache for Richard is that this All-Star is held in Cleveland, and if he really presses James on the bench at that time, I'm afraid those fans will have opinions.

However, if there is an opinion, there will be an opinion, and Richard still cares about the feelings of the fans of other teams at the moment.

Under normal circumstances, this All-Star was held in Houston, but because Yao Ming was cut off by Richard, although Maddie was still sold to the Rockets by Magic at the moment, the starlight was not so bright, and I don't know what Stern thought, and finally changed the All-Star venue to the small city of Cleveland.

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In the Rookie Challenge, the first-year team led by Chris Paul, and the second-year team was led by Howard, who defeated the second-year team last season and was won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge by Iguodala.

I didn't have so much luck in the first grade this year, and finally the MVP of the rookie game was won by Warcraft.

After the day's game, Richard called out a group of West Lafayette players for All-Star Weekend and got together.

More than 20 people gathered in a French restaurant in Cleveland.

Among them, there are thirteen All-Stars, four more in the rookie game, and a few more in the miscellaneous game.

Many Cleveland fans were stunned when they saw such a grand occasion.

Those who don't know about it think that there is an official event......

Insiders know that this is a gathering of West Lafayette, but this formation is also really terrifying.

More than 20 men with a height of two meters gathered together, even if they are not football stars, it is shocking enough.

And what shocked these fans the most was that if you think about it carefully, it seems that these more than 20 people are not all of West Lafayette.

There are more than a dozen people who did not get the opportunity to participate in All-Star Weekend.

Even after Richard recruited these people, he was stupid.

How big is the West Lafayette gang today? It seems that I can't count the exact number of people.

Consider that the Kings alone have four West Lafayette players!

The Spurs now have three West Lafayette players on their roster, Ginobili, Bowen and Barry Jr.

The Suns have only one Nash.

The Mavericks now have two players, Nowitzki and Josh Howard, who was traded to the Mavericks the other day.

It's really that the Pistons have some overcrowded frontguard players.

As far as Richard knew, not only Josh Howard, but Ragabel was also put on the shelf.

Even so, the Pistons still have Gerrard, singles Joe and Prince at their disposal.

Their front line is nothing short of extravagant.

This is all the wealth that Richard left them......

The Grizzlies have one, Mike Miller, who is now Pau Gasol's second-best player, and the Grizzlies have a good record this year, at least making the playoffs.

The Clippers also have two, Brand and Mobley.

The Lakers are also two, Kobe Bryant and Odom.

Jazz's Kirilenko and Boozer.

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Richard calculated carefully, the number of West Lafayette players on the western side alone is not less than twenty!

In the East, the number is even higher, because Richard has played two teams in the East, so the number of West Lafayette players is definitely higher.

There are also twenty-five people on the eastern side.

Richard gasped, good fellow, the number of the West Lafayette gangs he created is already more than forty!

What is this concept? You must know that there are only 400 resident players in the NBA, and West Lafayette occupies one-tenth of them!

On average, there are about one and a half players on each team, who belong to West Lafayette.

And the most terrifying thing is that these one and a half players are definitely the top combat power of their team, and any team without this one and a half West Lafayette players will definitely have a big impact on their strength.

Richard felt that he was gradually taking control of the lifeblood of the alliance.

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In the miscellaneous competition the next day, Richard also went to the scene to watch.

It was mainly Iguodala who participated in this year's slam dunk contest.

It turned out to be a little painful for Richard, and the dunk king was taken away by the little potato Nate Robinson......

This slam dunk contest is arguably the most constipated miscellaneous game Richard has ever experienced.

Because there is no set number of attempts in the current slam dunk contest, as long as you don't dunk it, you can do it again, but the little potato was dunked for half an hour, and finally dunked ......

It is precisely because of this that next year's slam dunk contest began to limit the number of attempts made by participating players.