The Wizards' winning streak didn't last long, and a new round of buzz arrived.

The NBA has always been a business league for fans, and the eyeball economy is inevitable.

On February 9, 2003, the league will host an All-Star Weekend at the home of Philips of the Atlanta Hawks. There will be 12 players from each of the East and West who will compete in the All-Star Game on behalf of the best players from their respective divisions.

Historically, this was originally Jordan's curtain call, and in halftime, the famous singer Mariah Kelly wore the No. 23 jersey of the Jordan Wizards, and a song "HERO" sang and cried to Joe fans all over the world.

This is the end of an era and the beginning of a new era, in this game, Kobe, Iverson, Maddy, Carter are Jordan's hand-picked successors, and even Yao Ming is mentioned in the sixth place.

But now, the wings of Hu Qingniu's butterfly are constantly flapping, and the current Wizards team has changed greatly compared to history. Jordan is no longer in the wane, he is still chasing a championship, and for these young people, he is no longer an old-timer, but a-for-tat opponent.

Jordan, who could only rely on Vince Carter to give up his starting position in history, has now accumulated more than one million votes, ranking first in the East, only slightly behind the league's highly praised superstar Kobe Bryant. Probably because the Wizards' record has only recently been raised, but this gap can be surpassed at any time.

However, this is not the central topic of heated discussion, and what has caused countless fans and media to salivate is the issue of the replacement for the All-Star Game.

The most popular All-Stars in the East are:

Defenders: Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson, Tracy McGrady, Jason Kidd, Richard Hamilton

Forwards: Vince Carter, Jermaine O'Neal, Jamal Marshburn, Paul Pearce, Antoine Walker

Centre: Ben Wallace, Brad Miller

These 12 people are currently in high demand, and it is no surprise that they will be selected.

But the sudden rise of the Wizards was an accident, which made the fans of the two old guys, Barkley and Ewing, who already had a large base, start to liven up. They believe the excellent performances of Ross Barkley and Ewing deserve at least a substitute spot.

Barkley has won all 12 games so far, averaging a dominant 30.2 points and 11.1 rebounds per game.

Ewing also won all 12 games, and his statistics were also good, averaging 22 points, 12 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game.

Ross Barkley is a striker, and the contenders are the weaker Jamal Mashburn and Antoine Walker.

According to common sense, Mashburn and Walker are both in their early 20s, far behind Barkley. Even Barkley's record is currently leading, but the problem is that until the All-Star break, Barkley can only play in 16 games at most, and Mashburn and Walker both play more than 36 games.

Ewing is the same, the 20+10 super center data is better than Brad Miller's 13+8 data, I don't know how much, but the number of appearances is difficult.

It would have been a choice that would have been a good choice for both sides, with a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, and now nine hundred are supporters of Barkley and Ewing.

The problem is that the selection of the All-Star bench is up to the head coach of each team, and the coach has little advantage over the fans of the Wizards.

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In particular, if nothing else, the Eastern Conference All-Star coach is the head coach of the team that is No. 1 in the East, and after the Wizards upset the Pistons, the current No. 1 team in the East is the Pacers. And the coach of the Pacers is Isaiah Thomas, Jordan's sworn enemy.

Even if he is selected and Thomas is put in charge of Jordan, Jordan will be stuck in his throat. With Jordan's self-esteem, if Jordan is now not pursuing, as in history, it may work. It was just a compromise of fate on the part of a dying old man.

But there's absolutely no way the current Jordan would let that happen!

Now the Wizards have a chance to turn that around, and their next opponent is the Indiana Pacers. As long as they beat them, with only two games remaining, the Pistons, who have a win-loss relationship, will have a good chance of sitting at the top of the Eastern Conference, and the position of All-Star coach will become Rick Carlisle.

On February 2, the Washington Wizards will travel to Conseco Arena to take on the Indiana Pacers in what will be a game of the Dragons.

However, it is not the Raptors who are not the Wizards, and the Wizards are no longer the Wizards of the past.

Grant Hill and Anthony Hardaway were back from injury, but Hu's role as the team's chief doctor didn't want them to choose to return for this game.

It was too intense and dangerous for players who had just recovered and were not yet comfortable with the rhythm of the field. They still have to wait for a safe game against the small to come back and find their rhythm.

Jordan's old rival Isaiah Thomas is currently the coach of the Pacers, and Reggie Miller is still the nominal boss of the Pacers.

Isaiah Thomas's Pistons have dominated the East for many years in a row, and they have defeated the Bulls led by Jordan many times. The Pistons played Jordan as a mountain on the road to godhood, and the Playoffs Pistons' defense of Jordan can only be described as "chasing and fighting", and everything can be described as extreme. At that time, Jordan was questioned because he couldn't cross this hurdle.

It wasn't until later that Jordan was able to block Thomas from entering the Dream Team, which shows that he and Thomas have long been incompatible.

Reggie Miller was also Jordan's shining rival in his career, and the throat-cutting ritual that the world will remember is his masterpiece.

Miller's relationship with Jordan can only be described as a grudge for most of the time, not only because they attacked each other on and off the court, but not only because Miller once used his elbow to overturn Jordan; It's not just Jordan who once smashed the basketball in his hand into Miller's bald head, and then they turned the basketball court into a wrestling ring; is even more because Jordan blocked Miller in his prime from the Finals, and Miller almost made the Flyers' dream of a second three-game championship come to naught.

The Eastern Conference Finals in the 97-98 season was the peak of the feud between the two, and with the assistance of Dutchmen Rick Schmitz, Chris Mullin and others, Miller led the Pacers to the Eastern Conference Finals and met Jordan in a narrow way. The seven big fights between the two sides are definitely one of the most classic series in history. Miller pushed away Jordan in the final minute of Game 6 and hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer to take the game into Game 7.

If Miller was a great assassin, Jordan was an invincible king.

In Game 7, Jordan had 28 points, nine rebounds and eight assists. Jordan proved his greatness by beating Miller with his game, while also warning the world that the only way to crack the "Miller lore" is not to give him any chance. Because as long as there is a glimmer of hope, even if the time is only 0.01 seconds, once Miller seizes the opportunity, then it will be himself who will fall.