Fast forward a few days, and what's the hottest topic in the NBA ahead of Roy's record-breaking game against the Atlanta Hawks?

Without a doubt, that's the upcoming NBA All-Star Game.

The All-Star Game is highly anticipated, and the All-Star Vote, the most important part of the All-Star Game, is a topic of conversation among fans and the media.

That's right, the All-Star voting is a major event for fans and the media every year, and every time during the All-Star voting period, the media is desperately building momentum, fans are crazy about canvassing, and the diehards don't forget to tear up with other people's diehards, so the scene can be mentioned how lively it is.

And for those NBA stars who wear thousands of waists, All-Star voting is the best opportunity to prove their popularity, status, and strength, All-Star status is the best recognition of a player, and the annual All-Star vote king is the supreme glory of a star, a star among stars, for example, in the past two years, after Kobe Bryant retired, James took over the throne of the vote king and became the number one star unanimously recognized by the league.

Of course, some people are proud, and some people are frustrated, and the NBA All-Star Game is indispensable every year with regretful losers, some of these unfortunate losers have strength but lack popularity, some are popular but can't get into the shortlist, and some are unable to participate by various force majeure. I can only regret my absence.

The biggest bad luck in the All-Star Game in recent years is Damion Lillard, the new leader of Portland, a regular in the league's top 10 scoring list, and a big heart player who led the weak Trail Blazers to the playoffs in a row, which is really surprising, and it is precisely because of a situation like Lillard that Adam Shaw decided to reform the All-Star voting this year.

In fact, this year's All-Star voting event ended as early as January 13.

As mentioned earlier, this All-Star voting has changed the model of previous years with fan voting as the only basis, and added media voting and player voting.

In other words, the current fan vote is not all effective, whether a player can play the All-Star starter, in addition to the fan nod, you have to ask the opinions of the players and the media (the new All-Star voting stipulates that the fan vote accounts for 50%, the media vote and the player vote each account for 25%, using the ranking scoring method, the lower the score, the higher the ranking).

The impact of this reform of the league on the All-Star voting is far-reaching, and it is easy to figure out with your toes which fans will not be selected as All-Star starters because of this rule, and which powerful players will benefit from the new policy.

As it is, it is this reform of voting rules that has turned the fortunes of many players around.

The first victim was Joel Embiid of the Eastern Conference. "The Great" Embiid has always been very popular among fans, because of his open-mouthedness, because of his funny attributes, he has won the love of most fans, he ranks 3rd in the All-Star fan vote of Eastern frontcourt players, if it was last year, he could have prepared to pack up and report to New Orleans, but this time due to the new introduction of media voting and fan voting, Embiid's first All-Star Game in his life was lost. Given that he was only ranked 5th among Eastern Conference frontcourt players in the media poll and 8th in the player vote (which shows that big-mouthed players are not popular), he ended up ranking 4th among Eastern Conference frontcourt players with 4.75 points, losing to Jamie Butler, and unfortunately missed out on his first All-Star start.

After losing the All-Star starting lineup, "The Great" Embiid couldn't help but put a cannon on Twitter, he declared that "fan voting is useless", not only criticized Adam Shaw, but also hacked the new president of the United States by the way.

Then, the second victim of the new rule is "The Flash" Wade, although the old Wade is still very popular among fans (the Eastern backcourt players fan vote ranked second), but unfortunately due to his average performance in the Bulls this season, he only got 6th place in the media vote and player vote, unfortunately missed the All-Star start. With his form and performance this year, he basically announced that he was not selected for the All-Star bench, which will be Wade's first time missing the NBA All-Star Game since his rookie season, and his record of 12 consecutive Eastern All-Star appearances is over.

If Embiid and Wade's defeat is still embarrassing, the third unlucky guy surprised everyone. Who is he? How could he have such a high fan vote?

His name is Zaza Pachuria, yes, you heard it right, it's Zaza Pachuria, the Georgian coolie who averaged only 7.0 points per game in his career, what can he do to compete as an All-Star starter? This bad guy, who is known for his small actions, came to the Warriors as a starting center this year, but his statistics fell even more, but no one expected that it was this "scumbag" who actually ranked second in the fan vote of Western frontcourt players.

O, isn't it amazing? It's hard to imagine how many non-Georgian fans voted for Pachuria, you must know that the population of Georgia is only more than 3.7 million, except for the elderly and children, could it be that everyone else voted for the "scum"? But it was such an inconspicuous role player who almost became the starting point of the Western Conference All-Star Game, but almost became a joke in the history of the NBA All-Star Game. From this point of view, there may be some truth to this reform.

Of course, no matter how the rules change, those players who should make it to the All-Star Game will still go.

Through a combined vote of fans, media, and players, the starting lineup for the 2017 NBA All-Star Game is as follows:

Eastern Conference: Kyrie Irving and DeMar DeRozan in the backcourt, LeBron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jimmy Butler in the frontcourt.

Western Conference: Stephen Curry and James Harden in the backcourt, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard and Anthony Davis in the frontcourt.

After the All-Star starting lineup was determined, the head coaches of the Eastern and Western All-Stars teams, Steve Kerr and Brad Stevens (according to the regulations, the Eastern and Western All-Star coaches will be the coach of the No. 1 team in the Eastern and Western teams, but the same coach cannot serve as the All-Star coach for two consecutive years, so the East team was replaced by the second-ranked Celtics coach Stevens in the East and the first-ranked Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue) also selected their respective teams' All-Star bench players on January 27.

The Eastern Conference All-Stars bench players are: Isaiah Thomas, Kyle Lowry, Kemba Walker, John Wall, Paul George, Kevin Love, and Paul Millsap.

The Western Conference All-Stars bench players are: Russell Westbrook, Klay Thompson, Gordon Hayward, Draymond Green, DeMarcus Cousins, Marc Gasol and DeAndre Jordan.

It is worth noting that former All-Star regulars Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Blake Greenfin were not selected for various reasons, while Hayward, Jordan Jr. and Kenward Barker were selected for the All-Star team for the first time.

Roy had just won the All-Star Game against the Hornets when the All-Star Game roster was announced, where he taught All-Star Game rookie Kenwall Buck a lesson, and two days later, he beat another All-Star, Paul Millsap, with an even more powerful performance.

Defeating two All-Star players in a row made Roy's mood feel a lot easier.

If it weren't for the miserable game against the Hawks, he would have had a chance to beat third All-Star John Wall.

However, it doesn't matter, Roy has forced the All-Stars to steal the spotlight with his performance, and his name has spread throughout the basketball circle once again after Roy once again broke his own record for the highest scoring of a player this season.

Now the media and fans who have been crying out for Roy are back in the dust, and it is also true that it is a bit unreasonable to let a super rookie who scored 70 points twice in his rookie season miss the All-Star Game.

Roy would have had a chance to become the next player in David Robinson (24.3 points, 12.0 rebounds, 3.9 blocks in his rookie season), Shaquille O'Neal (23.4 points, 13.9 rebounds, 3.5 blocks in his rookie season), Grant Hill (19.9 points, 6.4 rebounds, 5.0 assists in his rookie season), Tim Duncan (21.1 points, 11.9 rebounds, 2.5 blocks in his rookie season), Blake Griffin (22.5 points in his rookie season, 12.1 rebounds) and Yao Ming (13.5 points, 8.2 rebounds in his rookie season), the seventh rookie player to be selected to the All-Star Game in his rookie season, but a single ticket from the league shattered the hopes of Roy and Roy fans.

Without Roy, the All-Star Game will inevitably lose a lot of color, Adam Shaw certainly understands this truth, but he has no choice, the biggest concession he can make is to invite Roy to participate in the All-Star Rookie Challenge, but unfortunately it was also rejected by Roy's team.

Roy didn't care about the All-Star Game for a long time, and as time went by, Roy's anger gradually subsided, anyway, he was still young, he still had time, anyway, Embiid, who was clamoring to compete with him for the best rookie, wasn't Embiid also selected, anyway, Anthony, who plays big names every day, wasn't he selected, anyway, Wiggins, who think highly of themselves, and Lillard were not selected, but they just missed an exhibition game, as long as Roy wanted, every day was an All-Star Game.

Roy really has what it takes to turn the regular season into an All-Star Game.

A day after losing to the Wizards, the Knicks returned to New York and traveled across the river to Brooklyn to take on the Brooklyn Nets on the road.

In this game, Roy turned the game into his own All-Star Game in a high-profile manner. Roy played 32 minutes in the whole game and scored 31 points, 11 rebounds, 12 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks of superhuman data.

Driven by Roy's brilliant performance, the Knicks won the key game 95-90 despite the lack of major generals.

Wins are always good, at least Hornacek can continue his life, and at least the Knicks still have a chance of making the playoffs.

Playing against the Nets means that the NBA season has officially entered February, which is the day of the All-Star Game and a watershed moment in the NBA game, and after the All-Star Game, it means that teams will have to start a sprint for playoff spots.

It's time to sprint, it's time to push hard, and Roy and the Knicks' second opponent in February is the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers, who have been talked about all over the league......