Chapter 741 [Five-Ticket King, Las Vegas Weekend]
At the end of the Star Game voting, Guo Xu once again won the All-Star vote king, and his popularity is unmatched, and he is the only star with more than 3 million votes.
James ranked second, with only 2.51 million votes, a full 600,000 less than Guo Xu. The NBA is all about success or failure, and the two stars who reached the Finals are the most popular. Stars with poor records are hardly popular unless they have good scoring statistics.
Nike is very happy to see this result, and the East and West ticket kings are all their stars.
In the honor of the number of All-Star votes, Guo Xu also showed the potential to become the No. 1 in history, this is the seventh season of his career, he has made six All-Star starts, and has become the vote king five times, and only Michael Jordan is in front of him.
In 1987, Jordan was elected as the All-Star vote king for the first time, and since then he has begun a monopoly on the All-Star vote king for 7 consecutive years. Jordan scored 40 points in the 1988 All-Star Game and won the All-Star MVP title for the first time. In the 1997 and 98 seasons, Jordan won two more votes.
As long as the star does not die and his record is guaranteed, his popularity will not drop sharply after he soars. Experts predict that the sun will not disperse, and Guo Xu will be the ticket king every year.
The nine-time All-Star vote king previously seemed like an impossible record to be beaten, but it was not difficult for Guo Xu to break it, because he was still very young, and God knows when his form would decline. No matter which aspect you compare, Guo Xu is another superstar who dominates the league after Jordan.
Western star starters: Guo Xu, Kobe, Garnett, Duncan, Stoudmire.
Bench seven: Memet Oku, Nowitzki, Joe Johnson, Allen Iverson, Carmelo Anthony (Nuggets), Garnett, Josh Howard (Timberwolves).
The West is star-studded, with Oku and Howard being selected for the first time in their careers.
The Jazz have a good record and deserve to be an All-Star. Oku is not the core of the team and is not responsible for the ball-handling offense, but his stats this season are very impressive, averaging 18 points, 8.2 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, shooting 46% from the field and 38.4% from three-point range.
Howard also performed well after joining the Timberwolves, becoming the team's second-best player, averaging 18.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. He helped the Timberwolves finish fourth in the West, and there is no suspense about getting a big contract in the summer.
There are still many All-Star pearls in the West, and any individual who pulls them out to the East may be selected as an All-Star.
Elton Brand, Mike Bibby, Ray Allen and others have good stats and failed to be selected as All-Stars because of the team's record. The Grizzlies have suffered serious injury problems, with core Pau Gasol having an injury record outside the playoffs and no one making the selection.
Zach Randolph's stats of 20+10 are beautiful, but he is not a star who is good at leading the team, mainly relying on one-on-one play and rarely assisting teammates.
Gasol wasn't there, the Grizzlies couldn't play in the cross, and Randolph looked a bit like the cancer he had with the Trail Blazers. Interestingly, both Gasol Jr. and Gasol Jr., who will enter the NBA in the future, are good at handling passes, which is very suitable for partnering with Fat Lan.
The Suns' Marion and Roy have only lost one game so far, and they have not been selected because of their short playing time and ordinary statistics. Many fans expressed dissatisfaction, believing that the Suns' record was terrible and that only two of them should be All-Stars.
David West, Deron Williams, Chris Paul and others have data, are not famous, and cannot be selected.
Maddie ran for the election as a guard, but failed to compete for Guo Xu and Kobe Bryant in the starters, and failed to be selected as a Western All-Star this year. The coaches opted to bring Iverson, who had a slightly lower vote than him, and didn't consider him.
Maddy shot just 42.2 percent from the field and 32 percent from three-point range, which was too low. After Yao Ming's injury, the Rockets' record began to decline, and wing defense was a big problem.
The starting five in the East: Arenas, Wade, James, Boozer, O'Neal.
Seven substitutes: Billups, Hamilton (Pistons), Nash, Vince Carter, Chris Bosh, Caron Butler, Dwight Howard.
The Heat still had two starters with poor records, and the All-Star starters were a symbol of popularity, and Nash, who had weak scoring ability, could not compare to the "big general" who competed for the scoring title with Kobe.
Boozer's popularity has skyrocketed as he reached the Finals with the Cavaliers, who had never been selected as a starter in his previous life, and has surpassed O'Neal Jr. and Bosh with a poor record this season.
O'Neal Jr. missed the All-Star Game due to injury and was selected off the bench by teammate Butler, which left Kobe Bryant lying on the gun, and some Lakers fans said he was a teammate. This is obviously wronging Kobe, when there are more stars in the team, as soon as everyone shares the ball, the data will definitely decline to varying degrees.
The Pistons "team soul" Ben Wallace failed to be selected as an All-Star, and the defensive statistics of "Warcraft" Howard are also vigorous, and his scoring ability is much stronger than that of Big Ben.
In the past, he was a representative of low salary and high energy, but this season he has become a high-salary and low-energy, and it is not easy to blow if the cost performance is gone.
The All-Star jewel in the East is the Hawks' Josh Smith, who averaged 18.2 points, 8.6 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.4 steals and 2.9 blocks per game in the run-and-gun system, shooting 45.6% from the field, and was very well-rounded except for not being able to shoot three-pointers.
Smith was always overlooked, not as popular as the Pistons' Prince, and the coach didn't choose him.
Roy is also participating in All-Star Weekend and is the most popular rookie and the only attraction in his first year.
The 2006 NBA Draft was admittedly poor, with only four players in double figures, including Roy, Bagnani, Adam Morrison, and Aldridge, two of whom were still the bottom teams.
The sophomore rookie has a few players with excellent stats, but none of them have been selected as All-Stars, and the gimmick is seriously lacking.
The league knew that it was difficult to attract fans without big-name players participating in the first two days, so they wanted to arrange a show and contacted Guo Xu.
Guo Xu pushed it off without thinking about it, whether it was a concert or a musical, he had to spend a lot of time practicing and rehearsing. It's enough for him to do this once to prove that he can do it, and he doesn't want to do it a second time.
It's like Jordan likes to play baseball and golf, it's okay to play, it's impossible to make a career out of that.
Guo Xu also did not participate in the next day's activities, and the invitations to the skills competition, slam dunk competition, and three-point game were all turned down. He just wanted to relax outside the stadium this celebrity weekend, because the venue was Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is the only city in history that has hosted an All-Star Game without an NBA team, and they hope to find a team to settle here, and the league has applied several times to disagree, fearing that it will cause massive betting. The big four leagues all think so, there are no teams in Las Vegas.
However, Las Vegas, which does not have an NBA team, has always had a close connection with the NBA. Since 2004, it has hosted the NBA Summer League, which is the latest summer league, but it is the largest and most influential in the league.
Guo Xu is ready to call Meghan to the casino to play and gamble.
Gambling among NBA players is widespread. Big-name celebrities are often treated as guests at the Grand Las Vegas Casino, spending thousands of dollars to win or lose. Celebrity gambling is best known for Jordan's gambling habits, and Jordan has lost a lot of money in casinos and golf games; Barkley was even more greedy for gambling, and tens of millions of dollars disappeared from the table.
Guo Xu doesn't gamble, but he often participates in gambling in the time loop, and his skills are not bad. In the loop, he plays bigger, and when he comes out, he won't do this, and it's not good to form a habit.