Chapter 462: Depressed Cleveland (Chapter 3)
Yi Jianlian was the vote king in the first stage of the All-Star starting voting.
In total, he received more than 938,000 votes, nearly a million votes.
"This is already a starter who can accumulate all the votes after four rounds in the past, and Yi can always prove his popularity in various ways!"
Charles Barkley was surprised by the total number of votes Yi received in the first round, and he never thought that anyone would get such a number of votes in the first stage of the All-Star Games.
"Yi's influence is already phenomenal, and this is only the fourth year of his career!"
"Obviously, this is the popularity of the Laureus Sportsman of the Year, voting has just begun, and it is very likely that Yi Jianlian's votes will increase even more surprisingly in the second phase of voting!"
All the experts were surprised by the number of votes in the first phase of Yi Jianlian, and Max Peirce, who was the first "easy to blow" in the league, also posted on Twitter: "It's time to create a new All-Star vote record!" Will the record of 4.56 million votes be broken by Yi himself this season? ”
Yi Jianlian won the All-Star Game two years ago with a staggering 4.56 million votes, and also refreshed the highest number of votes for the All-Star Vote King, at that time, many fans believed that this record would not be broken, but no one thought that this season's Yi Jianlian would win the Laureus Best Male Athlete Award, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of fans to vote for Yi Jianlian, and nearly one million votes in the first stage proved that 930,000 votes had exceeded the number of votes of Yi Jianlian at the same time that year!
Yi Jianlian is likely to hit a new high!
"5,5 million votes?"
This number, some experts dare not imagine, put it 20 years ago, 5 million votes was almost the total number of votes obtained by the entire All-Star starting lineup!
If Yi Jianlian can really get this number of votes, I am afraid that not only the NBA, but also the four major American leagues will be shocked by this!
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Yi Jianlian continued to lead the Knicks to the regular season in the spotlight.
After a four-game winning streak, they met their first back-to-back of 2011, away against the Cavaliers and at home against the Grizzlies.
This is the first time Yi Jianlian has come to the home court of the Cavaliers this season, and on the way from the hotel bus to the Quick Loan Arena, Yi Jianlian's biggest feeling is depression.
LeBron James's departure seems to have taken away the spirit of the city, and it was lifeless, especially when the stadium began to warm up in advance, Yi Jianlian felt particularly obvious.
The game was about to start, and a third of the seats in the entire stadium were not yet filled, and there was no boos in the audience, and there were even a lot of cheers from the audience when Yi Jianlian was seen shooting in the warm-up process, which made Yi Jianlian feel like he was playing in a neutral arena in the summer league that year.
At the beginning of the home ceremony, the arena finally regained some vitality and began to cheer, welcoming the Cavaliers players who entered the stadium, but the Cavaliers in this period really have no players who can make people shine, and after all, only the "actor" Vallejo can barely be called the core, but the "queen" still can't accept LeBron's departure, and complains on Twitter all day long that he misses LeBron, and he doesn't want to play well at all.
There are many reasons why the Cavaliers have such a lineup, one is that LeBron is leaving, and the other is that they have overdrawn their future for LeBron in the past two years, and they didn't have a draft pick in 2010.
With no new blood to add and a team left with a few role players that no one wants, it's incredible for such a team to have supporters.
In this game, the Knicks won easily, 109-83, and won the game with little effort. Every player on the court from the Knicks had a great time in this game.
Yi Jianlian continued to play well, got 30 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists in the third quarter of the game, clocked out early, it is worth mentioning that at the same time as he left the court, there was a shout of "MVP" at the scene, Yi Jianlian, who heard the shout, did not react at first, looked at the audience in astonishment, and then waved his hand in a daze.
Are these guys because they didn't have to scream this season?
So booed last year!
It's been so enthusiastic this year.
"Cleveland needs to be saved!"
Cleveland's local newspaper "Akron Beacon" reported on this episode in detail, and the words were full of indescribable sighs, "LeBron's departure made Cleveland fans angry for a while, but when LeBron really left, while continuing to enjoy the spotlight in other places, Cleveland fell silent again, as if forgotten by the whole world, this sense of loneliness made the fans of this city unacceptable, and they also hoped for the emergence of the next savior, if this situation continues, I think, The call for LeBron to return to the city is about to ring! ”
"Maybe it was at this moment that Cleveland realized that if LeBron wasn't born and raised here, he wouldn't be able to stay in this shabby town for seven years if no superstar wanted to come."
In a sense, this is the first time that a Cleveland newspaper has argued for LeBron's departure, and it stands to reason that such an article would be attacked by the Cleveland crowd, but this time, everyone was surprisingly quiet.
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At the same time as the "Akron Beacon" published the article, Knicks rushed back to New York overnight, and it was already 2 o'clock in the morning when he arrived at JFK Airport, and Dan Fagan was waiting at the airport early, but what Yi Jianlian didn't expect was that Liu Yifei and Sister Mei were also there.
"What, what's going on?" Yi Jianlian was stunned.
"Get in the car, stupid!"
Yi Jianlian got into the car and sat down as he said, Dan Feigen noticed through the rearview mirror that Yi Jianlian looked at him a little unkindly, laughed awkwardly, and explained: "Yi, it's not my fault, Liu insisted on coming!" ”
"Uh-huh!" Liu Yifei nodded again and again.
"......" Yi Jianlian had nothing to say.
"Wait, wait, take the phone!" Not long after the car drove away, Dan Fagan's cell phone rang, and the latter glanced at the caller, turned off the car and pulled it aside, apparently an important call.
"Hello?"
"What?"
“wtf?”
Dan Feigen put down his phone and turned his head to look at Yi Jianlian, his expression was a little shocked: "Yi, the latest news, Chris Paul will transfer to the Lakers to join Kobe!" The specific plan is not clear for the time being, I heard that it is a three-way transaction, and the three general managers have signed and submitted the documents, just waiting for the alliance to pass the review! ”