Chapter 90: Leading the team alone before the All-Star Game

Jonny was able to get his own sneakers before the All-Star break, and this speed has already shown Nike's sincerity, and Jonny quickly signed the contract, a two-year 1600w contract, the same price as this year's champion Allen Iverson.

And when it comes to the All-Star Game, Jonny's expectations are even more sufficient, you must know that with Jonny's current performance and the popularity from the Celestial Empire, it can be said that Jonny's selection for the All-Star Game is a certainty. And Jonny's current All-Star vote is actually ranked second among Eastern defenders, second only to Michael Jordan, and even surpasses his teammate Anfernee Hardaway, which is very surprising.

After a media investigation, it was found that the vast majority of Jonny's votes were from China on the other side of the ocean, and the first family with a computer voted for Jonny by going over the wall, and there were local Chinese and even Asian Americans in the United States, who all voted for Jonny, which led to Jonny's current votes surpassing Anfernee Hardaway.

After the Magic played the last game in 1996, their record became 17-9, which made the Magic ranked sixth in the East, behind the Chicago Bulls, Miami Heat, New York Knicks, Atlanta Hawks, and Detroit Pistons, and for the Magic, the next month's schedule is their biggest challenge, after all, without Anfernee Hardaway, only Jonny alone, The record is certainly not as good as the previous results led by Jonny and Penny.

On the first day of the new year, Nike and Jonny Lee released a news that surprised the whole United States, Jonny and Nike actually signed a 2-year 1600w huge sneaker contract, which has been tied with this year's champion Alan Iverson! What's more, Jonny's contract is obviously more valuable, you must know that in the current NBA, Nike's status is higher than Reebok's, and the contract given by Nike is the same amount as Reebok's contract to Iverson, but Nike's contract is more valuable.

What surprised the reporters even more was that there was a clause in this contract that made them a little unbelievable.

"He actually got the rights to build his own brand from Nike!?"

"This right is only available to Michael Jordan in the NBA!"

"That's right, that's right, even Hakim Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing don't, they don't!"

And the name of the Jonny sneaker announced by Nike at the same time also surprised these reporters: "Legendary-Lee? Legend? "That's right, it's legendary, Jonny thought that this name didn't take too long, in his previous life, as a League of Legends player, he skipped class all day, and remembered that the most familiar English is legendary, that is, the super god in League of Legends, but the real Chinese translation of legendary should be legendary."

This is why this group of reporters will show surprise when they hear this word, legend, this word is not for Jonny to be used as a rookie, a rookie player dares to call himself a legend, which obviously makes this group of reporters a little not optimistic, they even have the idea of spraying Jonny now, but when they think of Jonny's recent achievements, they don't dare, no one knows if Jonny will suddenly break out to give them a hard blow.

In fact, if this group of reporters really criticized Jonny's words in magazines and newspapers, Jonny would really have taught this group of reporters a lesson, because the East Region Rookie of the Month in December was released again, although Jonny's data is still a little far from competing for the best player of the month, but the best rookie of the month can't run, this time Jonny won the honor of the best rookie of the month, and the rookie of the month award for the first two months was won by Jonny.

Originally, Jonny still hoped to win the Player of the Week from December 22 to December 28, but because the Magic's record was worse than that of the Bulls led by Michael Jordan, he finally lost to Michael Jordan, who was slightly inferior to him.

However, winning the rookie of the month brought a little energy point to Jonny, plus a lottery opportunity, and Jonny used up all his last inventory in the Knicks game, Jonny's harvest this time is obviously related to Jonny's later play, but the energy point Jonny will be saved, and the lottery opportunity is naturally the same, after all, in recent times, there is really no need to use up these two things.

On January 2, the first game of 1997, all the new signings of the Magic were in place, and coincidentally, the opponent of the Magic in this game happened to be the Raptors, and before this game, Nick Anderson, who was humiliated because of the trade, tried to get back to the court, but was doused by Jonny with 6 three-pointers in a single game to extinguish the fire of revenge.

And then, the Magic met the Bulls, the first in the league is already getting better, they have only lost four games so far, and this game Jonny led the team alone, naturally having to face Jordan, Pippen and Rodman's trio teamed up, but Jonny will not be afraid, this game is very important for Jonny, after all, the showdown with Jordan is related to Jonny to prove his strength.

In this game, Jonny seemed to work very hard, although he didn't use up the little energy point he finally get, but just used up the lottery opportunity, and got a trial opportunity for the policewoman of the Leather City Policewoman to snipe the skin, and then Jonny copied Michael Jordan's Q skill backward jumper, and throughout the game, almost everyone saw that Jonny and Jordan kept jumping, and the action was almost exactly the same as Jonny and Jordan, and even the audience and commentary at the scene had a feeling of being dazzled.

For Jonny to use the skill of the backward jumper in this game, the fans at the Bulls' home court were not surprised, and the commentators were not surprised, they were just surprised that Jonny actually used so many backward jumpers in this game, and the previous Jonny did not use the back-up jumper, among the skills of the Leather City police, there is an emergency stop jumper, and this skill can make Jonny make a backward jumper.

And in this game, Jonny's very standard step-back jumper surprised everyone, and at the end of the game, Jonny scored 45 points crazily, Michael Jordan also scored 42 points, and the battle between the two was addictive, although the Magic lost this game, but Jonny had only one word in his heart, that is, cool! The matchup with Michael Jordan finally made Jonny feel a little pressure, and Jonny has also met All-Star point guards in the league in his playing years, such as Mitch Richmond, such as Reggie Miller, or Alan Houston.

But Mitch Ridgemond is old and far inferior to Jordan, Reggie Miller is young, but the projection Reggie Miller can't make Jonny feel the refreshment of that confrontation, let alone Alan Houston, although he is a star scoring guard, the real strength is still a little far from an All-Star like Reggie Miller.

And the high-intensity confrontation with Jordan makes Jonny have a feeling of really finding an opponent, of course, if this game is not for Jonny's good condition, the result of this game must be Jordan's complete Jonny, after all, Jonny can't prevent Jordan at all, but Jordan has a chance to prevent Jonny, because one of the hidden attributes of the Picheng policewoman is that the play is unstable, and fortunately, Jonny's play in this game is very stable, and the shooting feel is very good, no matter how Jordan and Pippen defend, they can't stop Jonny from shooting.

After losing to the Bulls, the next Magic ushered in a wave of consecutive wins, in this wave of consecutive wins, Jonny's personal ability was undoubtedly revealed, and the 76ers game, Jonny scored 35 points, successfully avenged the previous revenge, proved his strength, the last duel used hand-check technology to prevent Jonny's Jerry Starkhouse, found that he could not stop Jonny at all, and then, the Magic defeated the Hawks at home, this game was very difficult, If it weren't for Jonny's three three-pointers in the final two minutes, the Magic would have lost this game.

After two consecutive wins, he met the Raptors again, and Jonny faced his former starting contenders, Gerald Wilkins and Nick Anderson, who started together, and single-handedly scored 48 points to win again. And the Magic, who won three in a row, soared directly to fourth in the East, and the Magic's record is getting better and better without Anfernee Hardaway, and the media has more and more praise for Jonny.

Then Jonny led the team to successive victories over the Nets, Mavericks, Hawks, Heat, Bullets, Bucks, and Celtics, and it was not until January 28 that they lost to the Bullets, ending their winning streak, and before that, their winning streak had reached 10 in a row! And after ten consecutive wins, the Magic rose one place in the ranking again, becoming third in the East, behind the Bulls and the Heat!

After losing to the Bullets, the Magic defeated the Suns at home, the 76ers on the road, and after the loss, they started the winning streak again, and after January, the excellent record of 30 wins and 11 losses has proved that the Magic are back in the ranks of championship contenders, and on January 31, the league also announced the All-Star Game appearance.

Because of the support of Celestial fans and Asian fans in the United States, Jonny defeated his teammate Anfernee Hardaway and became the starting point in the Eastern Conference, and will start at the same time as Michael Jordan! In addition, Jonny had to choose to participate in the three-point contest at the request of John Gabriel, originally John Gabriel wanted Jonny to participate in the slam dunk contest, but Jonny said that he would not say anything, and finally had to settle for the second best thing and let Jonny participate in the three-point contest.

At the end of the January schedule, the January Player of the Month and Rookie of the Month were released, and to Jonny's surprise, he didn't get any Player of the Week in January, but he actually won the two awards of Player of the Month and Rookie of the Month!