The NBA All-Star Game began with the 1951-52 season, but it wasn't until the 1974-75 season that the NBA All-Star starters were selected by fans, and before that, the All-Star team was selected by the media and coaches. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The reason why the NBA made changes was closely related to the competitive situation at the time.

The emergence of the ABA has made the NBA no longer monopolize the basketball market, ABA attracts fans with its gorgeous style of play, and stars such as "Dr. J" who play for a lot of fun play in the ABA, which makes the NBA feel great market pressure.

The NBA's strategy was to expand from nine teams to 18 teams in eight years, which was completed in 1974 with the addition of the New Orleans Jazz (the predecessor of the Utah Jazz). With more teams, there are naturally more games, which is a means for the NBA to attract the attention of fans.

After the expansion in 1974, the NBA's next move was to reform the All-Star voting rules so that the All-Star starters were decided by the fans.

This is an important marketing tool for the league, and the All-Star is designed to be a basketball gift for fans, which is a game for fans, and it is natural for fans to decide who starts.

This innovation has successfully brought the NBA closer to its fans, allowing the league to have a more intimate interaction with fans by voting for All-Stars.

For the first time, fans voted for All-Stars, and center Bob McAdoo from the Buffalo Braves (the predecessor of the Clippers) became the top vote.

At that time, McAdoo was only a "third-year student" in the NBA, and he was still young, but he averaged 34.5 points, 14.1 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game in the 1974-75 season, and was the league's leading scorer.

The majority of fans love to watch McAdoo play, so they selected him as an All-Star starter, and things like qualifications are not considered by fans at all, which is the effect of the NBA's reform of the voting system, fans can choose their favorite stars as they like, rather than seniority.

All-Star starters are decided by the fans, which is an important "tactic" of the NBA in competition with the ABA, and this tactic has proven to work, and the NBA has gained wider fan support, laying the foundation for the eventual annexation of the ABA.

The Lakers didn't go all the way after five straight wins, and they quickly suffered two straight losses, losing to the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets.

There is no way to lose these two games, Zhang Mao has tried his best, but David Robinson, the core of the Spurs, is a powerful interior line that the Lakers can't limit today, and once the interior line is blown up in this era, it will be even more difficult to win.

Not to mention the Rockets, although the defending champions' regular season record is not particularly good, it is also a problem that the Lakers cannot solve in terms of lineup, especially Olajuwon.

Zhang Mao still performed very well in these two games, although he lost, the Lakers held on to the last minute in both games, and they were poor in their ability to score at critical moments, and they were always short of a breath at critical moments.

The Lakers have a huge gap between the tactical execution of the Rockets and the Spurs in key rounds, and there is no way to take a shortcut to this problem, and they can only pay some tuition to these strong teams to grow.

On December 7, the first phase of the 1996 All-Star voting was finally released, and Zhang Fu hurriedly searched the newspaper for his votes.

Although he is always pretending to be 13, saying that it is important to participate and not to force it, he also attaches great importance to whether he can enter the All-Star in his rookie season.

Of course, Zhang Qi wants to be a starter, not an All-Star as a substitute.

In fact, he knows that he can enter the All-Star no matter what, and with his current data, it is impossible to lose the selection, so his real goal has always been to enter the All-Star as a starter, which is the real difficulty.

In the history of the NBA, there are not a few players who have made it to the All-Star in their rookie season, but there are only six players who can start in their rookie season: Elvin Hayes, Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal and Grant Hill.

He wants to be the seventh player to start in his rookie season because he was given a new assignment before the ballot was released......

Main Quest (2) [Starlight] ——

"Rookie Season Rookie Tournament, Status: Uncompleted, Mission Reward: 1000 Arena Points, 200 Fame.

"Rookie Season Enters the All-Star Game", Status: Uncompleted, Mission Reward: 2000 Arena Points, 500 Prestige.

"Rookie Season All-Star Game Starter", Status: Uncompleted, Mission Reward: 5,000 Arena Points, 1,000 Fame.

【Warning】Failure Penalty - 5000 Arena Points will be deducted.

"Rookie season becomes the All-Star vote king, breaking the All-Star voting record", status: uncompleted, mission reward: 10,000 competition points, 2,000 prestige points. Reward Achievement - (Level 1) [Radiant]: Increases your partner's "Opinion" by 1, "Submission" by 1, and "Loyalty" by 1, increasing your chance by 20%.

【Warning】Failure Penalty - 10,000 Arena Points will be deducted, and the random loss of BUFF/Achievement*1 will be lost.

Zhang Qi saw that there was an achievement reward, and without saying a word, he chose the highest difficulty.

He feels that his image is much better than last year's vote king Grant Hill, his stats are currently better than Hill this season, and the Lakers have a better record than the Pistons, so there is no reason why he can't compete with each other.

However, as soon as the first round of voting came out, it gave him a solid slap in the face!

Not only did he not overtake Hill, but he was also weighed down by several guys who didn't expect it beforehand.

Eastern Striker First Round Votes: Grant Hill 339501 votes; Scottie Pippen 332412 the ticket.

Eastern Defender First Round Votes: Michael Jordan 335355 votes; Anfernee Hardaway 262615 vote.

Eastern Conference Center First Round Votes: Shaquille O'Neal 322647 votes; Alonzo Mourning 161974 vote; Patrick Ewing 103568 vote.

Western Striker first-round voting: Charles Barkley 317049 votes; Zhang Qi 301123 votes; Sean Kemp 255346 votes; Carl Malone 246507 the ticket.

Western Conference Guard First Round Votes: Clyde Drexler 267,510 votes; Jason Kidd 262486 votes; John Stockton 205926 vote.

First round voting for Western center: Hakim Olajuwon 310082 votes; David Robinson 259311 vote.

Overall rankings: 1, Grant Hill 339501 votes; 2. Michael Jordan 335355 votes; 3. Scottie Pippen 332412 votes; 4. Charles Barkley 317049 votes; 5. Hakim Olajuwon 310082 votes; 6. Zhang Zhu 301123 ticket,

"Damn, I'm only in sixth place? Didn't even get in the top five? ”

As soon as Zhang Qi saw this result, he almost fainted with black eyes.

"Impossible, what about my female fans? What about the millions of Chinese who said yes? Los Angeles is the second largest metropolis in North America, so there are only 300,000 votes? ”

He couldn't accept such a result, and thought that the reward for this mission was given for nothing, because Los Angeles alone would be more than just counting votes, so he didn't let the league cheat, right?

In this era when the Internet was just beginning to start, the all-star voting method was still relatively old, ninety percent of them got the voting leaflet from sports newspapers, magazines, or McDonald's, and then cut out the voting form from it, filled in the name of their favorite star, and finally completed the voting by mail.

The voting process was cumbersome, so it wasn't until two years ago that the NBA vote king had just surpassed the million votes.

Zhang Zhu can get 300,000 votes in the first stage, Jordan's comeback indirectly makes Pippen also stained, and Hill is very popular in the United States, O'Neal and Barkley's personalities are naturally easy to attract fans, Olajuwon has accumulated popularity during the two consecutive championships, so he is not wronged at all as the 6th, and the gap with the previous five is not large, and it is very likely to complete the overtake in the second stage, because he is on the rise.

But Zhang Wei felt that he couldn't bear it, and once he couldn't complete this task, he would be punished.

After he threw the "Bangyan Buff" into the gambling machine, there was only one "Koala Baby" buff left, wouldn't it be clean and slippery then?

"Is there any way not to do it?" Zhang Yu asked the rabbit butler for help.

"Absolutely!" The rabbit butler happily found him a card.

Gold Level [Famous Card] - Worth 2500 Competitive Points, Card Effect: After using the card, you should be able to hear people talking about you, if you don't think it's loud enough, you might as well use a few more cards, you will become a household name, and it will allow you to win any close contest (which can create a stacking effect).

"Does this card work?" Zhang Wei is a little lacking in confidence now, he thought that he would fight Jordan in the ring at most, but he didn't expect that Hill's popularity to be so high?

The rabbit butler didn't pay attention to him at all, and when did the cards in the system not work?

Zhang Yu thought about it and called Trim again, he was very dissatisfied with the result that he was only ranked sixth, and now he had to have a good chat with his agent, this is a loss of time.

Trim has some egg pain, but he has to carry this pot, and the trump card of Zhang Qi is played like this, and he can't take responsibility.

Nike also quickly received a call from Trim to split the pot, but Nike said it would not answer the pot.

They have just finalized the contract and are planning to promote it with great fanfare, and plans such as TV commercials and image building are still in the stage of negotiation, so they will not care about all the problems before the All-Star Star, and they will not have time to care, at most they will give some help in the last vote. But until then, I'm afraid it will all depend on Trim's own ability.

Wu Huang and Trim also know that even if Nike is willing to spend so much money to sign Jordan after his comeback, they will only treat him as the No. 2 person in the first few years, at least until Jordan retires or has a significant decline in ability, they will not help him take the initiative to change the dynasty.

In a word, in Nike's eyes, Zhang Qi is the crown prince, but Jordan is still in power.