In the All-Star Game, the first thing announced was that Liu Mang won the All-Star vote king with 3.92 million votes, increasing the all-time vote record of the All-Star vote king by more than 1 million votes.

As for the vote king, Liu Mang actually determined the position of the vote king when he voted in the second stage, and there is no possibility of being shaken.

Ratliffe was selected as an All-Star starter with 2.18 million votes over Ben Wallace's 1.9 million votes, and the Hawks players were the most excited, and someone invited them to play, most of the Hawks players were rookie contracts, and it was a luxury for them to go to Los Angeles for a week, and it was also an All-Star weekend plus a big event day in Los Angeles winter, if it was a first-round show, it was fine, and the second-round show basically didn't have that money to play.

But these things to say, can only be regarded as expected happy things, the most surprising is the last announced All-Star starting guard candidates, in addition to Liu Mang won the vote to be selected as an All-Star starting guard in the East, another point guard of the Hawks was selected as an All-Star starter, John Stockton with 1.85 million votes, overtaking 1.78 million votes Allen Iverson was selected as an All-Star starter!

Stockton was selected to the All-Star Game for the eleventh time in his career!

By the day of the All-Star Game, Stockton's age reached 41 years and 10 months, and Stockton broke the record held by Abdul-Jabbar for the oldest age to participate in the All-Star Game at 41 years and 9 months!

The most important thing is that Stockton is still an All-Star starter! Broke Jordan's record for the oldest age to be thrown into an All-Star starter by fans at the age of 39!

Originally, Stockton just came to accompany the young players and wait for the announcement of the All-Star starters, and when the votes for the second phase were announced, he was still nearly 400,000 votes short of Iverson, and it was basically impossible to overtake, but I didn't expect that in the end, he actually overtook it!

Stockton pinched his thigh, it hurt!

It's true!

Rao has been playing in the league for 20 seasons, and Stockton can't stop the ecstasy in his heart!

All teammates went up to hug and congratulate Stockton, more players in their own team were selected as All-Stars, which represents a higher degree of attention, even if it is a player who has nothing to do with the All-Star, they will also enjoy the benefits, because there will inevitably be more reporters interviewing, and it may be wiped out by the way, Stockton can't control his expression, he can't stop laughing, and the posture of his usual calm predecessors is completely invisible.

The Hawks have three players selected as All-Star starters!

In addition to these three people, the two forward positions of the Eastern All-Star starters were occupied by cousins, Maddy's 2.54 million votes topped the first Eastern Forward without any suspense, Carter averaged only 16 points per game in the Raptors' 30 games, and averaged 22.9 points per game in the more than 20 days after coming to the Nets.

Raheem is third in the Eastern Conference forward with 1.71 million votes, just short of being named an All-Star starter for the second time in his career.

On the West side, Garnett won the Western Conference vote king with 2.71 million votes, Duncan ranked second in the Western Forward with 2.31 million votes without any suspense, Yao Ming 2.32 million votes beat O'Neal with 1.91 million votes and was once again selected as an All-Star starter, Kobe Bryant ranked first with 2.57 million votes and Francis ranked second with 1.65 million votes, and the two were selected as All-Star starters for the third consecutive year, but compared to Kobe, Francis's popularity is getting lower and lower. The gap in votes for Parker and others is getting smaller and smaller.

Unlike Liu, after Stockton was selected as an All-Star, he offered to give a car to each of the team's rookies as long as he won the championship this year.

Although Stockton's two-year contract is insecure for the second year, due to his playing age, the minimum contract he got is $1.75 million, and Atlanta's state taxes have been low in recent years, plus deducting federal taxes and players' association dues, and there are $1 million in hand.

In fact, for Stockton, the 1 million US dollars is an unexpected income, he was going to retire, he lived like an ordinary person in his life, he lived well but not luxuriously, and he was not short of money with a career salary of up to 60 million US dollars, so he was very proud to send the car directly.

This is more than anything surprising!

Raheem, Jason Terry, Ratliv Rashid Wallace and other players with big contracts definitely don't care about the hundreds of thousands of dollars in cars, Stockton didn't say to send them the car, they don't mind, let the team's teammates who don't make too much money have a face-saving car when they go out, no need to drive a second-hand car, although the current bottom players are much better than in the seventies and eighties, but compared to the players who take the middle class and above the contract, the Hawks have several rookie players in the contract, Except for Barnes, who Liu Mang and Carter gave the car, everyone else also drove second-hand cars.

This is obviously a big joy for several rookie players on the Hawks' contracts! More hungry for the title!

Stockton also enjoyed the rare feeling of being complimented by the young players, but an untimely guy came up to Stockton: "My dear teacher, I also have a base salary, does the car have my share?" ”

Stockton raised an eyebrow and said a very gentle word: "Get out!" ”

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Stockton's selection as an All-Star starter caused a sensation not only within the Hawks, but also in Atlanta, Georgia, and even the United States and the world!

Even Liu Mang won the All-Star vote king with the highest all-time vote record of more than 1 million votes far more than everyone else, and was suppressed by the limelight of Stockton being selected as an All-Star starter.

Experts and media analyzed and analyzed, and finally concluded that Stockton's selection as an All-Star starter mainly came down to four points.

The first is that Stockton is a very popular veteran, he has been selected as an All-Star starter three times, all of which were selected by the popular scoring guard Dragger, and now Stockton has come to play on a strong team, and the exposure is back.

The second is feelings, Stockton is basically sure that this is the last season, and last season Stockton is likely to continue to play, this year Stockton changed teams, regardless of whether they can win the championship or not, there will be no next season, so fans will take special care of such veterans.

The third is driven by Liu Mang's popularity, because Liu Mang's votes are surprisingly high, and voting for Liu Mang, you have to vote for nine other people, some fans voted specifically for Liu Mang to participate in the vote, maybe they don't like other stars, so by the way, Stockton's name was filled, it may be because he likes Liu Mang, so he likes the Eagles and elects Stockton.

Fourth, this is the most critical point, Iverson has been reluctant to undergo surgery to treat his injury in the past two years, and he doesn't want to delay his game, he is very stubborn, but he somehow suddenly figured it out, and chose to undergo surgery last summer, to recuperate for eight or nine months, until the end of the All-Star voting, he has not been able to come back, is doing rehabilitation, and has not played a game so far.

A player who didn't play a game actually occupied an All-Star position for two rounds of voting, and Iverson's popularity can be said to be against the sky.

But in the end, No. 22 Stockton played 10 points and 12 assists, which made people see his old and strong strength, especially when he and Mark Jackson stood together, although there was no real match, but that feeling could not be stopped, in the 96-97 season, it was Mark Jackson who ended Stockton's record of nine consecutive assists, Mark Jackson won the assist king that year, Stockton ranked second, and Mark Jackson stopped Stockton from setting a record of ten consecutive assists. The pairing of the two men was very popular with fans after the 96-97 season, and when it was time for both to retire and stand together, the old fans ran to vote for Stockton.

In addition, Stockton, as Liu Mang's teammate, has skyrocketed in popularity in the Hawks this half season, and he was selected as an All-Star starter for the fourth time in his career and an All-Star for the eleventh time in his career, which has become an unexpected and reasonable thing.

Stockton was selected as an All-Star, and his former opponents and teammates sent congratulations, including the Lakers' Big Four, and Malone burst into tears during an interview.

But there's one guy who's going to vomit blood, and that's Kidd of the Nets.

Kidd's votes obviously have nothing to do with the All-Star starter, but Iverson basically can't play as an All-Star this year, and his comeback is delayed by a month than expected, mainly because he has too many small injuries on his body, and he was originally just completely cured of the injury that has been bothering him with a cracked toe bone, but when he was carefully examined before surgery, he was checked out for knee problems, elbow problems and shoulder dislocations, and his toe had fully recovered in December and is now being treated for the rotator cuff injury.

Since he hasn't played for more than half a season, the 76ers are also very patient to let Iverson slowly recuperate from his injury, and by the way, he is a high-pick rookie.

Iverson can't play an All-Star, and if he is selected by the fans as an All-Star starter, there must be a player on top, and that choice is undoubtedly Kidd.

Kidd All-Star starters can't get in, but the bench will definitely go in, and there is no one more suitable to replace Iverson than Kidd among the Eastern All-Star backup guards, whether it is strength or league status, Kidd is the most suitable, unlike last season when the Eastern All-Stars collectively gave way to Jordan.

But now that Stockton has been selected as an All-Star starter, he almost didn't Kidd to death!

The news of Kidd's outburst of anger over this matter was quickly exposed by the gossip media, and coincidentally, on January 31, the Hawks will play the Nets for the fourth time in the regular season this season, and the attention of the Nets' new Big Three and the Hawks continues to increase!