On January 31, 2001, the Spurs finally ended a hellish January with an away win over the Grizzlies, losing eight of their 16 games in January, more than all in the first two months of the season, and the Spurs now sit in fourth place in the West with a 29-14 record.

On the day the Spurs returned to San Antonio, the official website of the NBA and the major media in the United States announced the final results of this season's All-Star votes, Meng Xu became the vote king of this season with a total of 2.14 million votes, and Meng Xu's total votes of 2.14 million votes are also the second player in NBA All-Star history to get more than 2 million votes after Jordan in the 9697 season, and after Meng Xu, Tim Duncan defeated Chris Webber with 1.57 million votes, Ranked No. 2 in the Western Conference forward position. In this year's All-Star Game, Duncan and Meng Xu from the Spurs will occupy the two starting forwards.

In the guard position, Kobe Bryant and Kidd unexpectedly won two starting spots in the West, with 1.43 million votes and 1.07 million votes respectively. And at the center position, O'Neal received the second-most 1.59 million votes in the West and became this year's All-Star starter. However, just before the All-Star starting lineup was announced, the Lakers announced that O'Neal would miss this year's All-Star weekend due to a torn ligament in the game against the Nets and would be out for at least a month or so. O'Neal was injured at this point in time, and with O'Neal's various strokes this season, it is also very easy to think of something.

In the East, Vince Carter became the top vote in the East with 1.75 million votes, while the other starting forward spot was taken by Grant Hill. At the guard position, Iverson and Maddy became the All-Star starting guard in the East with 1.51 million votes and 870,000 votes, respectively, and at the center position, Mourning became the starting center with a total of 910,000 votes. This year's Eastern All-Star voting also presented a very strange scene, at the beginning of the season, Hill and Mourning, who had already been reimbursed for the season, were still voted into the All-Star starting lineup by their own fans.

At the same time, the results of this season's All-Star voting are also what the league wants to see the most, and several players in the league are currently touted, Duncan, Kobe, Carter, Maddy, and Iverson have all entered the full-name starters of this season, and after O'Neal announced his injury, the league decided after deliberation to use Chris Webber, who ranked 4th in the total number of votes in the West, but was squeezed out of the starting position by Meng Xu and Duncan, to replace O'Neal as the All-Star starter this season. At the same time, Garnett and Nowitzki, who have performed well this season and are quite popular, are also likely to become All-Star substitutes this season, so in this way, the "Big Four" and the most popular of the "Big Four Scoring Guards" in the league will all enter this season's All-Stars, and it is foreseeable that the league will soon enter the situation of competing for the best.

At the same time, this season's East and West All-Star head coaches, until now have not been determined, in the East 76ers and Bucks The battle for the first place in the East has reached a white-hot state, the win gap between the two teams is always within one game, and there are still 3 games between now and before the All-Star Game, this time the All-Star head coach of the East is George Carr or Larry Brown, it depends on the last 3 games. At present, the two teams with the best records in the West, the Trail Blazers and Kings have been several wins ahead of the Lakers and Spurs behind them, so in the end, the All-Star head coach of the West will also be produced between Mike Dunwiley and Adelman.

After returning to San Antonio, the first thing Meng Xu did after returning to the apartment was to enter the system space, because of winning the All-Star Ticket King, Meng Xu once again won a milestone reward, and at the same time, after working hard to brush the data for such a long time, Meng Xu's efforts finally paid off, Meng Xu's points have now exceeded 3000 points, you can go to the advanced training center to try it, and learn a ball control skill that you dream of.

In the 43 games that have ended this season, Meng Xu has played a total of 37 games, averaging 16.7 points, 8.3 rebounds, 9 assists, 3.3 steals, and 1.7 blocks per game. At the same time, Meng Xu and Duncan are now also called "Wake Forest Double" by the American media, and what is even more exaggerated is that it is said that Wake Forest University is already considering retiring Meng Xu's No. 5 jersey, as players from Wake Forest, Meng Xu and Duncan are the only two Wake Forest players who have won the NBA championship, but when he thinks of his past sitting on the bench in Wake Forest, Meng Xu will blush unconsciously.

However, Meng Xu has been criticized in some places now, and he was even pulled out and whipped day after day by those Meng Hei. After switching to a playmaker, Meng Xu's possession time became longer and longer, but due to the lack of support for ball control skills, and Meng Xu himself was not a talented player, Meng Xu averaged 4.7 turnovers per game this season, and the assist-to-turnover ratio reached 2 to 1, both of which are the worst among all point guards in the league. Therefore, after having enough points, Meng Xu is now very eager to learn a ball control skill.

But Meng Xu was a little hesitant after entering the system space, it takes 500 points to summon a legendary star for an hour, but a B-level skill only needs 2000 points, if he can't learn A-level skills from the summoned star, then his efforts in the past two months will be in vain.

"I didn't expect you to have a time to look ahead and backwards." Watching Meng Xu stretch out his finger and calculate back and forth there, Anna, who didn't know when she had appeared behind Meng Xu, gave Meng Xu her most merciless ridicule.

"Forget it, let's give it a try." Rolling his eyes at Anna, Meng Xu finally decided to summon a legendary star out of the advanced training center, and at the same time, for the sake of insurance, Meng Xu only spent 1,000 points to summon for two hours. The legendary star summoned by Meng Xu this time is Jordan's sworn enemy, the greatest playmaking guard in the history of the Pistons, Isaiah Thomas.

Although compared with Thomas, Magic Johnson's height is more similar to Meng Xu's, but when he saw that Magic Johnson's ball control skills were only B-level, Meng Xu gave up his plan to summon magicians, and finally chose Thomas, a smiling assassin with fingertip dribbling, one of the strongest ball control skills.

"Boy, your basic ball control attributes are very good, but because of your height, your body coordination when you have the ball is very poor, so it's easy to be tackled by others in the game, or make mistakes in the press." So many points are really not in vain, Meng Xu just dribbled a circle of balls according to Thomas's requirements, Thomas, who was still smiling, immediately pulled down his face, and pointed out Meng Xu's shortcomings when dribbling.

Because of his height, Meng Xu will deliberately lower his body's center of gravity when dribbling, especially when changing direction and breaking through, but Meng Xu does not have the kind of ball control feel of a defender, so it is easy to make mistakes when encountering a small defender pressing.

"Let me teach you what real ball control is today." Taking over the basketball from Meng Xu's hands, Thomas began to show Meng Xu his famous skills, fingertip dribbling, the kind of fancy dribbling like playing street ball, with Thomas's excellent sense of basketball control, also made Meng Xu fascinated, in Thomas's hands, the basketball is like a part of his body, at his command. Seeing Thomas showing his skills on the court, Meng Xu unconsciously rushed forward, wanting to have a one-on-one game with Thomas, but what surprised Meng Xu was that with Meng Xu's current defensive ability, he was helpless against Thomas, knowing that Thomas was going to change direction from the left side of his body, but he could only watch Thomas dribble and slip under his arm, especially the sideways of the body that was almost close to the ground, and at the same time controlled the basketball very low, which made Meng Xu unable to defend at all.

"This guy is probably the best guy in NBA history who combines dribbling and breaking." After ending the heads-up with Thomas, Meng Xu stood on the sidelines and looked at Thomas not far away.

"Ding, the 2-hour advanced training time is over, the host has obtained 2 points for agility attributes, 2 points for breakthrough attributes, congratulations to the host for obtaining A-level ball control skills and dribbling with fingertips." When the system's prompt sounded, Meng Xu, who was still stunned just now, jumped up excitedly.

"It's really a good person to frustrate, and he can step on shit every time." Anna, who originally wanted to ridicule Meng Xu, had to leave stupidly.

Skill Name: Fingertip Dribbling.

Skill level: LV6

Skill effect: Skill ball control skills, after learning this skill, it can effectively increase dribbling, changing direction, and body coordination when breaking through, and at the same time increase the host's agility, ball control, and breakthrough attributes by 10 points each.

Additional Effect: Innate ball sense, which can effectively increase the connection between the host and the basketball, increase the host's control of the basketball, and reduce the probability of dribbling errors by 50%.

Additional effects: Stadium pianist, visually picturesque.

"My shortcomings are now the same, let's see if you will hack me in the future, I have poor ball control and more mistakes." After adding all the remaining skill points to the fingertip dribble, Meng Xu also pinched his chin and thought with a cheap smile on his face, when he used this kind of Thomas stunt in the next game, those sunspots would drop their jaws in shock.

Thanks to the two monthly passes of the obedient little Pippi, thank you.