"Kwame, what are you doing?" Liu Mang watched Kwame Brown walk around, his head growing.

After arriving in Miami, Liu Mang took a nap and came to the hotel's gym to prepare to train his back muscles.

"Boss, I'm going to fight O'Neill tomorrow!" Kwame Brown said excitedly, he was now panicking!

"I know, we're here to visit Miami! The coach forbade us to go out tonight. ”

"Boss, you're going to fight O'Neal!" Kwame-Brown said it again like a repeater.

"I know! It's not me and him, it's my business! Liu Mang said impatiently.

"Uh......" Kwame Brown felt like she had been stabbed in the heart.

However, he can't blame Liu Mang yet, because Kwame Brown is now very surprised, in addition to a panicked beep!

At 9 a.m. today, the vote count for the first phase of All-Star Weekend voting, which ends on January 2, was announced.

In the number of votes for the Western center, Yao Ming ranked first with 970,000 votes, and it is also the All-Star ticket at this stage, almost breaking one million votes in the first stage like Liu Mang last season.

After Yao Ming traveled east in O'Neal, there is no doubt that he is the best center in the West, the key is that he doesn't know when he started, he has become more "self", not like before to play with his head stuffy, he knows how to fight blindly, play more when he feels good, and ask for rest when he feels tired, although the playing time has dropped from 33 minutes last season to 31 minutes, but the data has increased to an average of 21 points, 9 boards, 2 blocks and 2 assists per game.

Among the active players who really play center in the NBA, only Yao Ming, O'Neal and Duncan can average 20 points per game, and there is no fourth, and even since the new century, the three of them are really center players, and they have averaged 20+ per game.

Mo Ning suddenly suffered from kidney disease in 2000, and at the beginning he made a mistake in the examination and thought it was ordinary kidney disease, and he failed to receive timely and correct treatment and delayed three years before replacing his kidney, which is indeed a pity, otherwise there would have been a fourth.

Yao Ming ranked first with 970,000 votes, and Brad Miller, Marcus Camby, Wang Zhizhi, and Dampier from second to fifth did not add up to Yao Ming.

Wang Zhizhi entered the squad this year, and the Lakers really couldn't find a few players who were listed as All-Star starting candidates, but with Yao Ming here, Wang Zhizhi didn't get many votes from Chinese fans.

In terms of Western forwards, Double 21 dominated the screen again, both of them had more than 700,000 votes, the third was Richard Jefferson's 550,000 votes, and there were no more than 300,000 votes after that, and Nowitzki and Anthony both had 300,000 votes.

Richard Jefferson hitched a ride on Yao Ming's car, and like Francis in the previous two years, his popularity soared in China, that is, the popularity of Double 21 was stable, and Francis couldn't shake Kobe, Richard Jefferson couldn't shake Double 21.

In terms of Western defenders, Kobe Bryant still ranks first in the number of Western defenders with 790,000 votes, followed by Francis with 410,000 votes and Nash with 390,000 votes...... and so on are more than 200,000 votes, except for Kobe, the competition for another position is very fierce.

After Francis left Yao Ming, his popularity was not so stable.

In terms of Eastern defenders, Liu Mang ranked first with 920,000 votes, Iverson was second with 860,000 votes, James was third with 560,000 votes, and Jason Terry was fourth with 540,000 votes.

Liu Mang and Iverson's All-Star starters are still very stable, Liu Mang is defending the title season and is the scoring champion again, Iverson is still as stable as an All-Star starter in the last season of the 2009-2010 season at the age of 35.

In terms of Eastern forwards, cousins continue to occupy two starting spots, Maddy 940,000 votes, is also the temporary vote king in the East, Carter is second with 740,000 votes, and Raheem and Grant Hill are both more than 600,000 votes, close behind Carter.

Here in the Eastern Center, it is Kwame Brown who was surprised and panicked, and Kwame Brown ranked first in the Eastern Center with 790,000 votes! O'Neal with 620,000 votes! Ben Wallace, who is third, only has 190,000 votes, and the votes for the center position in the East are basically concentrated in Kwame Brown and O'Neal, and the fans are doing something.

According to the unreliable gossip media, this vote has a lot to do with the unusually enthusiastic participation of California fans in the All-Star voting, and there are bursts of sinister laughter in the training hall of the Toyota Center in Los Angeles in the morning.

But whatever the reason, it was Kwame Brown who profited, and his words in his previous interview were the trigger for all this.

When Kwame Brown saw that she had won the vote over O'Neal, she felt her hairs blow up!

At that time, with the urge to become an all-star starter, he was fooled by Liu Mang, and now breathing the air of Miami, he seems to feel O'Neal's anger.

Seeing Liu Mang's appearance of hanging high and unconcerned, Kwame Brown was so sad and angry, but the thief ship was already on board, and the other party was estimated to be chasing and killing when he jumped into the river, and he might chase and kill even more, Kwame Brown could only grit his teeth and go on.

Kwame Brown continued to cheekily say to Liu Mang: "Boss, don't say that, I was defeated by O'Neal, so what should I do if I can't get into the All-Star starter?" We don't have three All-Star starters on our team! ”

"Why can't you get into the All-Star starters? Don't you already have more votes than O'Neill now? Absolutely. Liu Mang gave a small encouragement to Kwame Brown.

"But I know myself very well, and I'm no match for O'Neal......" Kwame Brown is quite self-aware.

Really, Liu Mang glanced at Kwame Brown helplessly, this guy has self-knowledge, and he has a very good mentality, but he is too impulsive of the "whimsy" of young players.

After thinking about it, Liu Mang had a way, and said: "Kwamei, you were blown up by O'Neill, it doesn't matter, you just work hard, do your best, even if you are blown up, don't give in, that's enough!" ”

"Huh?" Kwame-Brown didn't get it.

"You're stupid! Don't those fans who voted for you know that O'Neill is the No. 1 center? What they like is that you are not afraid of O'Neal, and they like the fighting spirit that you have been fighting even if you are beaten by O'Neal on the field, otherwise why would they vote for you? Liu Mang: This is to the point.

The increase in the number of votes brought by Liu Mang to his teammates is mainly concentrated in Maddy and Jason Terry, Maddie's votes are higher than Liu Mang's, which makes Liu Mang unhappy to see Maddie now, and Jason Terry is also ranked fourth among Eastern defenders.

Kwame Brown also got some votes bonus because of Liu Mang, but it was mainly his interview that made a difference, as well as Kwame Brown's gratifying progress, and his attitude of doing his best every time he met O'Neal, so that those fans wanted to see how Kwame Brown would be abused by the angry O'Neal......

As long as Kwame Brown keeps his momentum, even if he falls behind in the confrontation with O'Neal, as long as he faces O'Neal and keeps doing his best, let O'Neal go all out to abuse him, fans will always want to see this scene......

Although it is a little different from what Liu Mang said, fans may not really like Kwame Brown, but this kind of ambiguous words, Kwame Brown believes it!

"I see, boss, I'm going to try not to disappoint you and the fans!"

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The next day, Jan. 5, the day the Hawks took on the Heat on the road.

After Liu Mang participated in the team meeting in the morning and tactical training in the afternoon, he discussed with Maddy, Prince, Iguodala, and Calderon how to deal with the Heat's guard line, while Prince focused on single defense, and Mourning on the inside side was like Ratlif last season, bringing a few young teammates to discuss how to deal with O'Neal.

Dealing with the old club, Mo Ning will not be soft.

Especially about O'Neal, Mourning racked his brains to teach Kwame Brown how to deal with O'Neal.

At 6 p.m., the Eagles had eaten a nutritious meal and went to the American Airlines Center to prepare for the game, which began at 8:30 p.m. and was broadcast live by ABC Television and China's Imperial Court Sports and Time Warner Cable.

When the Eagles were warming up, a huge fat man was stopped outside the away team's training ground, constantly shouting.

That's right, this person is O'Neill.

When O'Neal arrived at the arena, the first thing he did was to find Kwame Brown.

It's impossible to fight, he just wants to scare Kwame Brown to vent his resentment.

But when he came to the door of the away team's training ground, he was stopped by security!

"Let me in! This is our team's arena. O'Neill said angrily, and the two security guards actually stopped him from letting him in.

"This ......" security also has a headache!

"Let me in! Otherwise, I'll let Pat Riley fire you! O'Neill yelled.

"We ......"

Someone on the Eagles' side has instructed them not to let O'Neal in, if they let O'Neal in, the Eagles complain about them, they will be fired, but if O'Neal is not allowed to enter, O'Neal goes to complain about them, they probably may also be fired.

Now the two security guards don't know what to do, so they can only stop O'Neal hard, O'Neal complains, they can still have an explanation, it was the Heat team management who arranged for them to protect the Eagles players, and the Eagles players are their current protection objects, and the words of the protection object must be listened to, let O'Neal in, as long as he is complained, he will definitely be expelled, because of violating the content of the work.

But O'Neill complained about them, and they still have an explanation, and the likelihood of being fired is a little lower.

"Ah, hello, Shaq."

At this time, Liu Mang came, he had long expected this scene, and asked the security guard to stop O'Neill, which was what he ordered, but in order to avoid the two innocent security guards from being retaliated by the cautious fat man, he kept waiting, as long as there was a quarrel at the door, he immediately went over and pushed the door open, and said hello to O'Neill.

Sure enough, when O'Neill saw Liu Mang coming, he forgot about the two security guards.

"Ace, what do you mean by not letting me in and catch up with you and Tracy?" O'Neill spat at Liu Mang.

Liu Mang hid to the side and pointed to the door: "Shaq, look there!" ”

O'Neill hadn't noticed anything on the door before.

O'Neal looked at what was written on the piece of paper on the door and read, "Hawks makeshift training ground, no entry for people weighing more than 310 pounds — Kwame Brown...... Damn it, I'm going to blow you up tonight! Make you lose your dreams of basketball! ”

310 lbs...... Before Yao Ming gained the heaviest weight, O'Neal was the only one in the NBA who weighed more than 310 pounds, which was obviously aimed at him!

After watching it, O'Neill yelled into the training ground.

After O'Neill yelled angrily, he vented a little, and his emotions began to stabilize a little, he felt that something was wrong, but before he had time to think about it, Liu Mang spoke again: "Shaq, how many points are you going to score tonight?" Let's be a little prepared! ”

"Huh?" O'Neill didn't expect Liu Mang to react like this when his teammates were threatened, he always felt that something was wrong, and now he feels even more wrong.

O'Neal came to Kwame Brown for a purpose, threatening Kwame Brown in order to undermine Kwame Brown's confidence in making baskets, but he didn't expect that he came here because his mentality was unbalanced.

Now seeing Liu Mang's appearance that he seemed to be very excited, O'Neill felt that something was wrong there, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, so he asked, "Ace, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Wow, Shaq, you're not as bold as Kobe, after Kobe Bryant lost to us last time, he said he was going to score 62 points in the next game against us, one more point than you." Liu Mang began to sow discord again.

"Huh?" O'Neill didn't expect Liu Mang to say this.

O'Neal calculated that the last time he scored 61 points, he made 35 shots, made 24 shots, made more than 20 free throws, and made 13 free throws to score 61 points......

So the question is, O'Neill doesn't know whether to make a bold statement now, or not to make a big statement?

He can come with his mouth open, but if the score to be lowered by the words, he will be one head lower than Kobe, if it is high, he himself will feel that he can't do it, and he will be embarrassed when the time comes!

O'Neill is also a thoughtful person, and immediately has a way, saying: "Hmph, I don't care to compare with that guy, Dwyane will get 50 points to blow you up in this game!" ”

O'Neill arrived at the stadium a few minutes later, and Wade, who wanted to come to Liu Mang to say hello, had just arrived, and when he heard this, his legs were weak!

"Boss Shaq, what do you say!" Wade didn't dare to go around the corner, "Boss Shaq is crazy!" ”

Liu Mang was also shocked by O'Neill's sudden shamelessness, a fellow practitioner!

Liu Mang and O'Neill glanced at each other, and they actually felt a sense of sympathy......

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Kobe turned on the TV and waited for a while to watch the All-American live broadcast of the Hawks and Heat, the Lakers didn't play today, and the next game was at home, so he could watch the game at home.

Who knew that when the TV was turned on, the commentator of Time Warner's live broadcast before the game was discussing the matter of "Kobe Bryant proudly said that he would score 62 points more than O'Neal next time he played against the Hawks".

Kobe Bryant's head was confused: When did Lao Tzu say this? Do you want to refute the rumors? Let's not refute the rumors......

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At 8:10 p.m., the Hawks' away game against the Heat is about to begin.

Mourning returned to Miami but was booed, mainly because he didn't come back to Atalanta when the Heat needed a bench inside.

Mourning felt congested, he expected that most of the fans here in Miami who could go as long as the game was not over was over, this is the virtue, but when it came to the real encounter, he was still very congested, he brought two best defensive players to this team!

Heat fans have always been known for their lack of affection, and after booing Mourning, they went to boo the five starters the Hawks played.

The fans in the stadium are enthusiastic right now because the Heat have risen and the fans in front of the TV are also enthusiastic about the game.

The conversation between O'Neill and Liu Mang outside the training ground, I don't know who leaked it, and it may even be that the two security guards who may be part-time "intelligence sources" leaked out.

This game adds a few extra highlights, as well as creating an attraction for the next Lakers game against the Hawks on the road.

The point of view of this game is, can Wade score at least 50 points against the Hawks?

In this regard, Wade jumped up and hung on the neck of the basket after entering the market and despaired for a long time before he regained his spirits, just do it!

Then there's the showdown between Kwame Brown and O'Neal, with O'Neal yelling to abuse Kwame Brown to the point where he doesn't want to play basketball, just like the center who was skipped by Carter and retired in less than two years.

That's what fans want to see, and under O'Neal's obscenity, can Kwame Brown hold on to being so aggressive?

That's what the human heart is like......

Liu Mang looked at the Heat team and observed the strength of the two strongest players on the other side.

O'Neal is still 96 ability evaluation, after the weight was reduced to 141 kg, the continuous output has become higher, but the absolute output is weaker, and he can play longer on the court, so far this season, O'Neal has averaged 38 minutes per game, reaching a new high since the 00-01 season, The average of 23 points, 11 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game is also the strongest in the center position, but the shooting rate is a career low of 56 percent, which is not as completely invincible as before.

O'Neal's side is expected, he will be 33 years old soon, it is normal for him to decline, and he has an ability evaluation of 96 at the age of 33, which is already a monster, this is a center.

Liu Mang attaches great importance to Wade.

Dwyane Wade, Ability Rating 90......

Sure enough, as Liu Mang expected, Wade was a little more powerful than James in the early stage!

In terms of data, Wade averaged 24 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists per game, which is a little worse than James, but his defense is stronger! In the case that the offensive evaluation is 92 and he is not good at long-range shooting, Wade's defensive evaluation of 87 is the key to his first step among the top stars!

But Liu Mang was still a little surprised, Wade......

Wade's side, the fat man said that, he can only fight, he has been training hard, isn't it just for this day!