The NBA is a commercial league, and in order to attract more fans, the league's top brass has been looking for all sorts of addictive gimmicks, one for Christmas and another for All-Star Weekend.

This season's All-Star Weekend is scheduled for the 50th All-Star in NBA history at the MIC Center in Washington. Although the official start will not be until March next year, the global voting has already begun. As the leaders of the East, it stands to reason that the 76ers should have multiple stars in the list, but the results of the first round of voting were humiliating, only Iverson was in the top three of the same position, Mutombo was fifth, and the others were not even in the top ten.

However, in Chang Wei's opinion, this is a very normal thing, not to mention the team's substitute lineup, just from the starting lineup, Iverson is indeed the only player who has both strength and superstar appearance. Looking at a few others, Snow and Lynch are typical 3-and-D players with an unpretentious style of play, which the head coach likes but fans don't necessarily buy. As for Lewis, well, he's still a nobody, at best, up-and-coming, and not famous enough to support an All-Star position.

If you really want to talk about it, Mutombo is an outlier. Although his autonomous offensive ability is about zero, the image of him flapping opponents and shooting and then shaking his finger has become a scene in the league, and second, he is the only African star in the league who appears regularly, and Africans and Africans from all over the world are naturally willing to vote for their fellow countrymen. Of course, the number one in the center forward position did not surprise Chang Wei, Alonzo Mourning, although not included in the four center forwards, but the gap is not large.

Mutombo's votes reminded Chang Wei of the time when Yao Ming was selected as an All-Star for the first time in his previous life, which was simply pushed up by the majority of Chinese fans, and it is said that the votes from China have flooded the league's official mailbox, which is also a concrete example of proving the strength of the Chinese. Although many experts criticized this practice at the time and believed that Yao Ming was not eligible to be selected as an All-Star, the selection of others was completely in line with the rules, and it was useless for you to beep.

Fortunately, with the momentum of the 76ers, Brown can be said to have locked in the head coach of the Eastern All-Star in advance, which is a collective honor for the 76ers, after all, the head coach of the Eastern and Western All-Stars is the head coach of the top team in the Eastern and Western regions at the end of the All-Star voting, if a head coach served as an All-Star head coach last season, then the head coach of the second-ranked team will be replaced, and the head coach of the Eastern All-Stars last season was Van Gundy Jr., so it has no impact on Brown.

Although this All-Star seems to be only related to Brown and Iverson, or the addition of a Mutombo, this does not prevent others from talking about All-Star Weekend in private, especially some rookies who have not been in the industry for a long time, and even affect the team's daily training. This made Brown, who was strict with the army, very angry, but before he could start cleaning up discipline within the team, something unexpected happened.

The team's backup defender, Rodney Buford, lost his foot in training because he was distracted, which was not a big deal in itself, but after a detailed examination, Brown's face was clouded: Buford had a structural ankle injury that would require surgery, and even if the surgery was successful, he would need to be out of action for two to three months.

When Chang Wei walked into Brown's office, the old man was sitting alone in a chair sulking. Indeed, with his coaching style, this kind of thing is absolutely not allowed to happen in the team, and the player sprained his ankle in the process of training due to lack of concentration, and Brown was embarrassed to pass it out, for fear of losing his old face.

Seeing his puffed up look, Chang Wei smiled and said, "Coach, now is not the time to be angry, we have to quickly find someone to fill Rodney's position." Although he is averaging less than 15 minutes per game, he is still an important rotation player on the back line, and if he doesn't make up for it, the normal rotation order may be disrupted. ”

Brown pinched his eyebrows and said tiredly: "Of course, of course, I know that we need a guard who can come in handy right now, but there are very few good guards left in the free agent market, and it would be too hasty to trade......

Chang Wei couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead: Do you really dare to think that your old man is just a substitute, and you still want a good defender? In fact, with Chang Wei's idea, it is almost the same to sign a medium-level guard to top the top, there is no need to get a high-level guy to put on the bench, and there is no such player for the 76ers to pick up the leaks now.

What made Chang Wei feel even more helpless was that Brown began to habitually dump the pot again: "Chang, during this time, I approve you to spend less energy on player training and more to see if there are any good guards worth signing in the free agent market." I believe in your vision of selecting players, and I don't bother the two masters, so I'll leave this matter to you. ”

Sometimes Chang Wei really regrets that he has nothing to do with digging calves everywhere, but being able to cultivate future stars is a very fulfilling thing. Since the head coach has spoken, he is naturally not qualified to protest, so he can only take over the task with a helpless face, and is ready to look at the list of free agents on the Internet when he goes back.

After being reborn, Chang Wei is still very impressed with some future famous stars, but he can only select them in the draft, if it comes to Taobao in the free agent market, it is basically a black eye, because he has no idea who among the future famous stars is still trying to fight for a contract at this time, which can only be determined after reading the list. And Chang Wei didn't have much hope, in his opinion, Taobao might as well trade with other teams!

Back in his office, Chang Wei turned on his computer and began to search the Internet for players who were still free agents. Of course, the scouting department will also give him some information support, at least he doesn't have to work so hard for Chang Wei alone.

Just as he was about to give up, a familiar name popped into his eyes. Chang Wei subconsciously rubbed his eyes, and called up the complete information of this player and carefully browsed it, the experience was indeed lackluster, but Chang Wei didn't care at all, he only cared about the face that was a little immature but still looked very familiar.

Hell, how could this guy be a free agent?