Sun Yue was able to rank third in the first stage of the All-Star vote, such a result is not unexpected, his own performance may be a little far from entering the All-Star, of course, if replaced by a black or white man there is no hope, but as a Chinese player, he has the support of the majority of Chinese fans behind him, and it is natural to get such a number of votes.

Although Kobe, James and others are awesome, they are dark-skinned after all. It is difficult for Chinese fans and even Asian fans to have a real sense of substitution for them.

Secondly, the NBA did not treat Sun Yue like later generations treated Yi Jianlian. In order to prevent voting in China, even the names of players can be misspelled. Not only did he not set up obstacles to Sun Yue's alliance, but he didn't even do much to his votes, the reason is very simple, Sun Yue's performance and influence on the court far surpassed that of Yi Jianlian in later generations. Yi Jianlian in later generations is just an ordinary substitute player in the team, and Sun Yue has now become a core player of the Eagles, not to mention that there is a behemoth like Adidas standing behind him.

After the game with the Lakers, Sun Yue has played 12 regular season games, starting every game, averaging 30.9 minutes per game, contributing 15.7 points, 3.5 rebounds, 9.3 assists, 1.2 steals, 0.6 blocks and 2.9 turnovers, including 46.8% shooting, 39.6% three-point shooting, and 78.4% free throw shooting.

Although Sun Yue's data is still a little far from an All-Star player, now that the league's point guards are withering, there are few point guards in the league who can say that they are better than Sun Yue.

But being selected as an All-Star is a great honor for NBA players, and many contracts even have an All-Star option in them.

For example, the contract between Adidas and Sun Yue includes a reward of $200,000 if Sun Yue is selected for the All-Star team in the first year, a reward of $500,000 for becoming an All-Star starter, and a reward of $1 million for becoming an All-Star vote king.

While these rewards aren't particularly big for these stars who earn tens of millions of dollars, when you're an All-Star, it means you're a star-level player, and it means you can have some privileges that ordinary players can't.

However, there are only so many All-Star seats every year, and suddenly a rookie who comes out of nowhere snatches the cake in a way that can't convince everyone, some people will naturally be unhappy.

Yao Ming entered the NBA in 2002, and in the 2002-03 All-Star vote, Yao Ming received 1,286,000 votes, and O'Neal only got 1,049,000 votes, so Yao Ming became the starting center in the West, and O'Neal became Yao Ming's backup. Yao Ming is second in the West behind Kobe Bryant and fourth in the league.

O'Neal is still in his prime this season, averaging 27.5 points, 11.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.4 blocks per game. Yao Ming just entered the NBA, averaging only 13.5 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. At the same time, the Lakers' results are also better than the Rockets. But this contrast still can't stop Yao Ming from becoming an All-Star starter, which makes O'Neal haunted to this day.

"It's a political game, Yao Ming can't be better than me, but he was selected as an All-Star starter." Although the big shark with high emotional intelligence has a good personal relationship with Yao Ming, he also complained that he was not selected as an All-Star back then.

A New York Knicks player who did not want to be named said in an interview with the New York media: "Skipper's strength is really good, but I don't think he can be selected as an NBA All-Star, and there are other players like me who are more qualified to be selected as an All-Star." ”

"I don't mean to target the Chinese, but they are really keen to vote, perhaps because they can't choose their leaders on a one-person-one-vote basis." The player, who spoke on condition of anonymity, has elevated the issue to political level, and arrogant Westerners always like to condescend on these issues.

Fans can easily guess who the reluctant person is to be named, and the Knicks are the only one on the team. Marbury had a conflict of interest with Sun Yue in this vote. Crawford's stats are good, but his popularity is average, while substitute defender "Penny" Hardaway is still popular, but his performance on the pitch is not as good as before.

If Sun Yue is selected, Marbury has a good chance of not being selected. Iverson's position is unshaken, and among the rest, Wade, Carter, and Kidd are not surpassed by Marbury, and now there is Sun Yue, which makes Marbury's hope of entering the All-Star even slimmer.

If Marbury hadn't been selected as an All-Star this season, the All-Star option in his endorsement contract would have cost him more than five million, which made Marbury, who has always been used to spending lavishly, angry.

However, Marbury's complaints are symbolically echoed by the media in New York, and other experts and media do not believe that Marbury is more qualified to be selected as an All-Star than Sun Yue, and Marbury's average data so far this season is: 16.3 points, 6.4 assists, 2.9 rebounds, 1.1 steals, 2.6 turnovers, shooting percentage: 45.1%, three-point shooting percentage: 31.7%, free throw shooting percentage: 75.5%.

Compared with Sun Yue's data, Marbury is at a disadvantage except for scoring a little more, not to mention the comparison of the records of the two teams, the Hawks are already sixth in the East, and the Knicks are still at the bottom of the East.

However, many basketball experts said that the Eastern defender who should really be selected as an All-Star should be the Washington Wizards' "general" Arenas, this season's general's offensive firepower has only increased compared to last year, with an average of 25.5 points per game increased to an astonishing 29.1 points, and the Wizards' record is still above the Hawks.

Therefore, many basketball experts claim that if Sun Yue becomes an All-Star starter, but Arenas does not, it proves the failure of the current NBA's All-Star selection mechanism, which blindly uses player popularity as a measure and ignores the strength of the players themselves.

"Skipper, you're going to have to come up with the stats to shut them up in the next game." David. Mr. Falck told Mr. Sun on the phone that he didn't want his employer to be criticized by the media for being named an All-Star.

"Only if you play better and better can we carry out the next step of promotion." Adidas President Phil. Knight also emphasized.