Chapter 174: What Friends Do You Want?
On January 22, the NBA's official website announced the starting lineup of the East and West for the 2010 Dallas All-Star Game. As expected, Wu Huang eventually became this year's All-Star Ticket King. Not only that, but he also reached a record-breaking 3.61 million votes, surpassing the All-Star vote record set by Dwight Howard last year and improving the record by 460,000 in one fell swoop.
Kobe Bryant is second in the West star leader, LeBron James is third in the league this time, and the position of the first brother in the East Division of the Little Emperor was first snatched by the Monsters last year, and this year even the first-year rookie can't beat it.
2010 All-Star Game East and West All-Star Starting Lineup -
West: Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, Cameron Anthony, Dirk Nowitzki, Amare Stoudamire.
East: Wu Huang, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard.
The ten All-Star starters have been released, although some media have long predicted that Wu Huang will enter the All-Star in the first season, but the first and second brothers of the league probably never dreamed that Wu Huang's momentum would be so fierce, and they directly came to us in the first year to usurp the throne.
Many American fans were the first to express their dissatisfaction with this result, believing that most of Wu Huang's votes came from China, which can only be said to be a demographic victory, not that Wu Huang's strength on the court really surpassed Kobe Bryant and James.
Just after the league announced the All-Star starting list, many media once again pointed the finger at several Chinese in the NBA.
Fox Sports experts wrote an article on the favorite and least favorite players of the league's 30 teams in the league, and Maddie became the favorite Rockets player for these fans and experts. And the least favorite is Yao Ming. And that's not all. Yi Jianlian also became the newspaper's least favorite player on the Nets. Wu Huang also became their least favorite Knicks player.
Commenting on the Rockets' favorite player, the experts said, "Although Maddy has been traded, it was because of Maddy's injury that the Rockets' game was boring before that. We love T.mac, his creativity on the court, his game deserves to be watched by basketball fans, and if he hadn't been injured, he'd have played like Kobe and Iverson. "Immediately after. When it comes to his least favorite Rockets player, there is no doubt that it must be Yao Ming. "Yao Ming's style of play is too soft, and he lacks domineering on the court. Just because he is Chinese, he robbed O'Neal of All-Star starters at least three times, and we will never forgive him, which is why many fans no longer watch All-Star games. ”
Such a big hat, casually moved his mouth and buckled it, quite the style of my country's ****. But that's not all, Fox Sports picks out the favorite and least favorite Nets players among experts and fans.
"Alston is a fan-favorite Nets player. People love his streetball style. Chris Douglas Roberts has also proved that the doubts about him are wrong, and Bobby Simmons is a good player. But Nets fans hate Yi Jianlian. He's one of the worst players in the league, but because he's Chinese, he's never been kicked out of the starting lineup, which is very unfair to his teammates. ”
These so-called experts obviously have a deep discrimination against Chinese, but this is not strange, only when you really go abroad do you know what patriotism is, since Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian joined the NBA, "Yao Hei" and "Yi Hei" can be seen everywhere, and from time to time foreign experts stand up and pick thorns.
Yao Ming has long been recognized as one of the most dominant centers in the league, and the fans have justice in their hearts for robbery or not, let alone three robberies? As for Yi Jianlian, he was hit by an injury at the beginning of the new season, but before the injury, the performance of the UAE still had some bright spots, and it is not an honorable thing to be a starter in a team at the bottom of the league, which will also be hated, it is better to directly go to the street and shout "I hate Chinese".
In the end, Wu Huang was naturally shot, these experts' criticism of Wu Huang is similar to Yao Ming, they all accuse the two of being too soft, Wu Huang will only float on the outside to shoot, and he also dominates the ball extremely, anyway, he doesn't pull or pull a lot of words, it's nothing more than Wu Huang's style of play is too unique, and the beautiful data is brushed out, he can't partner with any star, it's just a copy of Marbury, as long as the Knicks trade any All-Star, the two sides are bound to fall out.
Wu Huang originally thought that there should be nothing to do with himself, aren't there many fans in China calling him a banana man?
If you think so, you are very wrong!
Although some domestic fans think that he is a banana man, there are more fans in the United States who call him "Chinese Monkey", referred to as "Chinese Monkey", which refers to Monkey King in Journey to the West.
Of course, the American people don't know the domineering nickname and story of this monkey, they only know that Monkey King is an atavistic patient with ADHD, so nine percent of this nickname has a discriminatory connotation.
But this nickname is very good, if it is called "yellow-skinned monkey", it is naked racial discrimination, and the impact is not very good.
But it's no problem to change it to "Chinese Monkey", although to the ears of Chinese fans, there seems to be no difference between the two, they are both the same insulting names, and the ambiguity in them is exactly the same, not to mention that they say more than "Chinese Monkey", but "Chinese Monkey".
However, Americans think that this abbreviation is normal, and it is more intimate to call it, so it cannot be counted as racial discrimination.
Wu Huang naturally will not accept such a title, he said in a previous interview, "I myself refuse this title, but they can still call me that, because this is their freedom, just like I have been attacked by hundreds of fans in the away stadium, in this free country, you can have the right to do so, I will not correct anything, because you can never change a person's inferior nature, let alone change a judicial system that is sometimes good and sometimes bad, so just smile." ”
Wu Huang has not had a very good impression in the eyes of the media outside of New York. This is thanks to the work of his mouth.
This time, the all-star vote was released. Many media outlets have begun to question the fairness of the coalition's votes again. The voice calling for the coalition to change the existing voting rules was hyped up again for a while. In fact, what they really want to do is to limit the number of votes outside Europe and the United States, especially for Asia, to set stricter voting requirements and reduce the number of votes of Chinese fans.
This can't be helped, the league is held by others, and the rules are also customized, so people can change it if they think it is not suitable.
When asked by a reporter about the All-Star vote, Wu Huang replied: "I should be worried about the criticism of those guys." Or should I reward the more than three million fans who voted for me? The answer is obvious, and for me, it's a no-brainer. My fans want to see me on the pitch and they have the right to vote for anyone. They've got me in the starting line-up now and that's an honour for me. If you give up the starter, won't you live up to their good intentions? ”
In fact, it is enough to say so much, but Wu Huang has to add two sentences that offend people, which is also a bit cheap, so I just heard him continue: "Besides, is there any star in the East who is performing better than me now?" My team is now third in the East. I'm one of the most versatile defenders in the league, and the fans who say I'm not qualified to be a ticket king and starter. Who do they think qualifies? ”
Every time he was discriminated against, Wu Huang was much more aggressive than Yao Ming, which also offended him to many media and fans.
But he doesn't care about the prosperity and decline of his fans in the United States, to be honest, he doesn't rarely see those male fans chasing him in his heart, how good it is that all female fans are good, his phone book has already accumulated a bunch of beautiful women's phones, if it weren't for the too many people in the backyard, Wu Huang would have not known how many self-esteemed American male fans would have given a green hat.
In this way, I don't know how many Chinese mixed-race geniuses will appear in the alliance twenty years later.
Emperor Wu sometimes feels ashamed when he thinks about it, how do you say that?
Well, with great power comes great responsibility. Isn't he not fulfilling his responsibilities and obligations, in case the NBA talent is exhausted in the future, he will bear the greatest responsibility!
On January 23, the Knicks faced the Lakers at home, which was a tough game and a highlight battle of the day in the league.
But it didn't work, and the game was still not broadcast live in the United States.
Before the game, many media deliberately provoked Kobe Bryant on the All-Star ballot, because the difference between the votes of the two was a full 1.1 million, which was indeed unacceptable in the eyes of the competitive and perverted Kobe.
After the All-Star vote was released, the media not only provoked Kobe Bryant and James, but other All-Star players in the league were also asked countless times for their thoughts.
How else can this feel? Especially those stars with less than one million votes, such as Rondo, such as Rose, such as Wei Shao, etc., these stars whose strength is no worse than Wu Huang are difficult to even enter the All-Star bench lineup, if you don't envy, envy, or be hostile to Wu Huang, you really have a ghost.
Gasol in the Lakers team is already a very open star, but he still has a deep jealousy of Wu Huang's vote, he has played in the NBA for so many years, Gasol counted with his fingers, and found that he didn't make it to the All-Star a few times at all, and he didn't even think about starting the game.
Wu Huang actually didn't do anything, his performance was enough to make him an All-Star, although the title of "Ticket King" is a bit exaggerated, but he deserves to be a starter, and there is really no guard in the East who can hold him down in terms of personal data and team records.
But no matter where there is no widowhood and unevenness, there are too few seats for all-stars, coupled with the promotion of the media, Wu Huang suddenly became a thorn in the side of other stars, and even Kobe Bryant's impression of him is not so friendly now, he didn't send him a text message to greet him like last time before the game, and Wu Huang didn't get a reply after sending a text message.
"You're in a bad situation right now, you're likely to be isolated by other stars, so you should try to keep a low profile in front of the media during this time and give less aggressive answers when interviewed, otherwise the media won't let you go." Brandon specifically told him before the game, hoping that he would keep a low profile during this time.
"No matter how low-key I am, they won't let me go now." Emperor Wu's nervous side flare up again, "As for those people isolating me, it's not because I became the ticket king, they are afraid of me, and they are even more jealous of me." I understand what you mean, after being isolated, I probably won't be able to make friends, but what does it matter?"
Wu Huang didn't take these things to heart at all, and said with a disdainful face: "Outside the court, it's enough for me to have a few friends like you, why do ordinary friends want so much?" As for the stadium, sooner or later I will become the emperor of this alliance, and the emperor has never had friends, only subordinates. Therefore, I don't need to be friends with them at all, and the newcomers who enter the alliance in the future can only become my subservants, and as for the batch in front of me, if they don't surrender, I will shovel them all into the trash sooner or later. (To be continued.) )