Regarding Adidas' choice to complete the signing with Li Tian in mid-January, the outside world generally believes that this is to take advantage of the hot topic of Li Tianjin's All-Star debut to increase exposure.

If the league invites Li Tian to participate in the three-point contest, Li Tian will participate in the Rookie Challenge, the three-point contest, and the All-Star Game during the All-Star Weekend.

However, not everyone supports this, and an ESPN expert later analyzed that Li Tian's exposure during the All-Star Weekend may not meet Adidas' expectations.

The reason is that the exposure rate of the rookie challenge is not high, and in the three-point contest, it is very likely that there will be fierce competition this year, the last three-point king Irving is likely to participate, and Curry, who has been known as a perverted quasi-quasi in the past two years, is also very likely to participate, in addition to Korver, Belinelli, these famous three-point players in the league are likely to participate.

Although Li Tian's three-point shot is also very good, it is still doubtful whether he can enter the final with these people, after all, these people have been in the league for many years, and many of them have participated in the three-point contest or won the three-point king directly, and they are more experienced in dealing with events like the three-point contest.

As for the All-Star Game, the expert analyzed that Li Tian is good at playing without the ball, and he is not popular in such a performance game, and the opportunities he can get are extremely limited.

As for domestic fans, not all of them support Li Tian's signing of Adi, in addition to many fans who like to occupy more Nike in the basketball market, there are also many fans who are worried about the curse of Adi's star injury.

From the former Maddie and Adidas to the current Rose and Rubio, the outside players who are a little famous and have signed Adi seem to be suffering from injuries.

There are even many fans who lamented on the Internet:

"It's over, Li Tian actually signed Adi, and I have an ominous premonition."

"Silent mourning for Li Tian!"

"Li Tian's body is not strong, and Adi's players have a lot of injuries. I'm deeply worried about this! ”

No matter what the outside world comments, or how worried the fans are, such a signing is a foregone conclusion, if nothing else, Li Tian will wear Adi's shoes to play in the next three years, and judging from the first few games after the signing, Li Tian's performance is quite good.

In the 6 games that followed. Li Tian got 20+ in 4 games, and his performance was quite eye-catching.

The Kings' overall performance was also quite stable, and although they lost against opponents such as the Pacers and Rockets in the subsequent games in January, the overall winning rate remained good.

At the end of January, the Kings had won eleven of the sixteen games, which turned their post-January record to 32-14 and a 69.5 percent win rate. That win percentage keeps the Kings in fourth place in the West.

This month, in addition to the Kings in fourth place, the top eight teams in the West last month also maintained their rankings, and the Western Conference ranking has rarely changed after a month.

As for the East, the Pacers and Heat are still far ahead.

And after coming to the end of January, the All-Star voting also had a final result after several rounds. As expected, as Li Tian became more and more popular among Chinese, his All-Star votes also surpassed again and again. and finally sat on the throne of the king of the western ticket.

1405493 votes, Li Tian became the king of the Western All-Star votes with more than 9,000 votes over Durant. Behind him, Kevin Durant got 1396294 vote.

Li Tian and Durant occupy one spot each in the West's All-Star backcourt and frontcourt, respectively, while one of the other two frontcourt spots in the West belongs to Griffin, who has maintained a high level of popularity since his rookie season.

As for the other, it was once again a surprise to many, and it turned out to be Li Tian's teammate DeMarcus Cousins.

Cousins was named an All-Star starter. This naturally has something to do with Li Tian's teammates, but on the other hand, the departure of Howard, the popular king of the previous All-Stars, from the Lakers in the summer also made him lose a lot of popularity, and also made him fall from the throne of the All-Star starter......

As for the backfield, Li Tian occupies a seat. The remaining spot went to Stephen Curry, who had 1047281 votes.

Curry's performance this season has been eye-catching, and his style of play is very spectacular, especially his three-point ability is exceptionally good. Of course, there is another important factor in the early part of the season, Kobe and Paul both suffered injuries, especially Kobe, as a perennial fixed starting guard of the Western All-Star, Kobe Bryant still got 988884 votes when he was determined to be unable to participate in the All-Star because of injury, and the gap with Curry is not big, if Kobe Bryant is not injured, this position should belong to Kobe Bryant undoubtedly.

In the East, the All-Star Ticket King belongs to LeBron James, and he is also the All-Star Game Ticket King, with a total of 1416419 votes, in fact, his position is also more dangerous, because he only has about 10,000 more votes than Li Tian, if it is not for the fierce competition in the front court in the East and the back court in the West, it is difficult to say whether the position of the All-Star Game ticket king belongs to him or Li Tian.

The other two spots in the starting frontcourt in the East were split between Paul George with 1211318 votes and Carmelo Anthony with 935702 votes, and in the backcourt, Wade was the player with the most votes in the Eastern backcourt with 929542 votes, and the other was Kyrie Irving of the Cavaliers, who got 860211 votes.

Li Tian was elected as the king of the Western vote, and people have been mentally prepared for this, so there was not much surprise after such a result was announced, but even so, such a result also made many players very dissatisfied, among them, the most dissatisfied is of course the fans belonging to Chris Paul.

is considered to be the league's No. 1 point guard, but Paul can only rank fourth in the Western backcourt in the All-Star vote, and his fans are naturally extremely angry, and many people have jumped out to scold Li Tian and Chinese fans.

Of course, because the two sides clashed on the Internet in the first round of voting, such a confrontation has not formed a scale, but there are still some fans who leave messages all over the Internet, calling on the all-star players in the west not to pass the ball to Li Tian, thinking that it cannot boost the arrogance of Chinese fans.

Some people also suggested that Paul should take the initiative to fight for the ball in the All-Star Game and play an excellent performance to give Li Tian and his fans a counterattack. After all, although Paul was not selected as a starter, it should be a sure thing to be an All-Star.

However, some scolding cannot hinder the fact that Li Tian has been confirmed as the starter of the All-Star vote, nor can it be a factor that prevents Li Tian from continuing to perform well.

Speaking from the heart, Li Tian's strength and influence in the entire league are indeed not comparable to famous stars like Paul, but it is undeniable that Li Tian's performance is getting better and better.

After entering February, Li Tian performed two 20+ games in a row, which seemed to respond to those doubts about him. (To be continued......)

PS: The content of this chapter is a little short, and it's really a bit tiring, after all, it's still quite fierce this week. Today I will take a break early, let myself relax a little, and next week I will strive to have three more shifts in the case of two changes per day!