140. O'Neill is strong, but I'm popular
On January 28th, the Bobcats had just arrived in San Antonio, and the final round of All-Star voting results were in!
This time it was O'Neal's crying and fainting toilet ending, and in the center voting in the East, Okafor beat O'Neal's 1.55 million votes with 1.65 million votes and was elected as the Eastern All-Star starting center!
O'Neill allegedly went straight to the gym after learning the news......
Although he had been leading before, after he was actually selected as an All-Star starter, Okafor was still stunned and called his mother as soon as possible. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Except for O'Neal who was once again selected as an All-Star starter, the starters at other positions were expected.
The starting forward in the East is LeBron James of the Cavaliers and Grant Hill of the Magic, Hill is worthy of becoming the All-Star vote king in his rookie year, and after receiving treatment from the "foreign aid" Suns team doctor this year, he began to play some games piecemeal, adding up to less than 20 games, averaging 15 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists per game, but he is still the player with the highest votes among the Eastern forwards. Hill led the Eastern Conference Forward with 2.15 million votes, and James won 1.97 million votes.
The starting guard in the East is Ye Han and Allen Iverson of the 76ers, the two have almost the same number of votes, Ye Han 2.75 million votes, Iverson 2.69 million votes, because the two almost all the votes of the Eastern District guards, Wade, who ranks third and fourth, only has 600,000 votes and 490,000 votes.
The center position in the West is outstanding, and O'Neal and Okafor share the number of votes for the center in the East Division, resulting in the difference between the two not getting high votes, Yao Ming broke the All-Star personal vote record, he got 3.01 million votes, becoming the first player in NBA history to get more than 3 million votes!
Ye Han and Yao Ming have played very well this year, and the enthusiasm for domestic voting is extremely high, although they are very strictly stuck by the NBA, making more than ninety percent of the domestic votes invalid, but they are still unstoppable to push Yao Ming to a position that breaks the historical record.
Just look at Amare Stoudemire, who is ranked second in the center of the West, with a pitiful 400,000 votes, not only domestic fans, but even fans on the American side voted for Yao Ming after O'Neal left the West.
The starting forwards in the West are a combination of Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan, who have been thunderous in recent years, Garnett is popular, and Duncan is relying on strength to conquer fans, with the two getting 1.87 million votes and 1.66 million votes respectively. The Western Forward is arguably the most competitive spot outside of the Eastern Center, with Carmelo Anthony at third with 1.4 million votes and Chris Webb at fifth with 1.37 million votes.
There was no suspense in the Western Conference for the West guards, with Kobe Bryant of the Lakers and Tracy McGrady of the Rockets elected. Bryant's 2.47 million votes were defeated by Maddy's 2.55 million votes, and the two were as handsome as the Eastern defenders, who were third Nash.
The dust has settled on the All-Star vote, and some people are happy and some are sad.
Okafor is happy and congested, if he really meets the Heat in the playoffs, he will probably be flayed alive by O'Neal. But if Okafor can choose, of course he will choose to become an All-Star starter, how many players can become an All-Star starter! Every year, those people occupy the starting position, and there are not many opportunities to be elected once!
When the Bobcats came to the University of Texas at San Antonio arena for training in the afternoon, a crowd of reporters surrounded Okafor and Ye Han.
Especially on Okafor's side, there are more reporters than Ye Han's side, and Okafor uses Ye Han's popularity to suppress O'Neal, which is a topic that attracts much more attention than Ye Han's election as an All-Star. There is no suspense about Ye Han's strength and popularity being elected as an All-Star starter, Okafor is interesting, plus the "grudges" between the Bobcats and the Heat this season, people can't wait to convey Okafor's current thoughts to O'Neal.
"I'm happy to be an All-Star starter, eligibility? Probably everybody thinks O'Neal is more of an All-Star starter, and I don't disagree with that, but it shows how much the fans love me, and I'm grateful to the fans who voted for me. Okafor's words are pertinent, but they can't stand the other interpretation of these journalists.
"O'Neill is a thing of the past, no longer the darling of fans"
"O'Neill is strong, but I'm popular"
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The media are not too big of a deal, they are all headline parties.
But many fans watch the news by looking at the headline, and start commenting without reading the content. Including O'Neill, who is also a well-known headline party, he is also the kind of person who only reads news headlines.
"Tell that kid to see you in the playoffs." O'Neal only said one sentence in an interview, and then went back to the gym to lose weight, his body shape is close to the time when he won the second championship in 2001, it is no longer the dead fat body of the last three years, the muscle profile is beginning to protrude, his goal is to return to the best body shape in 2000, get the first championship after leaving the Lakers, and slap everyone who didn't vote for him in the face.
In this regard, Ye Han said to Okafor: "Brother, you have to take care." ”
After the reporter's interview, Okafor, who is very popular in the team, was surrounded by the players.
Of course, it's for Okafor, a small town with a complex ethnographic composition and different ethnic customs, and the king of nightclubs like Capono doesn't have too much love for it.
The two of the team's All-Stars were certainly a joy for the Bobcats, but Bickerstaff didn't let the players celebrate in the first place, but suppressed their over-excitement.
"What are you doing together? Don't go to training yet! ”
Bickerstaff's roar came, and the players scattered like birds and beasts, practicing shooting and shooting, and physical fitness, each of them began to train under the guidance of an assistant coach.
Looking at this group of active young players, Bickerstaff felt a lot.
He is the first time he has been a manager of the team and has been working in a management position until then. When the team was first built, no good coach was willing to come here to accompany the mess, because the first thing that this kind of complete new team was to set up the mess, so he himself took on this unflattering position.
But who knew that with such good luck, the two draft picks in the first year were selected as the cornerstone of the team, and the strength on the inside was solid, and the talent on the outside was against the sky, and he became a strong contender for the playoffs in the first year.
Bickerstaff didn't know what to do about it, and with the players on the team so young, no coach had ever encountered his situation, probably the only manager in sports history to do so.
Bickerstaff can only take one step at a time, stick to the seriousness at the beginning, and push these children to improve.