With a final score of 88-96, the Knicks defeated the Celtics, their rival in the same district, at home, and continued to maintain their second place in the East.

Zhang Yu played 32 minutes in this game, scored 31 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 steals, shooting 10 of 19, 6 of 10 three-pointers, and 3 of 4 free throws.

After losing to the Pacers, the Knicks won three in a row, and the opponents in these three games were the Lakers, Cavaliers, and Celtics, which happened to be the three teams with the highest call for championship this season.

After these three matches, New York became the fifth seed to win the title. In the eyes of the public, New York's chances of winning the championship also surpass the Orlando Magic, led by All-Star ticket champion Howard, and the Houston Rockets led by Yao Ming, second only to the Lakers, Celtics, Cavaliers and Nuggets.

"Do you have time tomorrow? Before I leave New York, let's have lunch together? ”

Zhang Yu received a text message from a Wumao girl in the parking lot after the game, sitting in the car, Zhang Yu hesitated, and secretly thought in his heart: "Could it be that this little singer is interesting to me?" It seems that if you are too handsome, you are prone to trouble, and if you look like James, you should not have this kind of trouble. ”

I don't have to train tomorrow morning, the team will gather in the afternoon and go to Portland, but there will be time at noon.

When I got home, I didn't know if Xia Wei was pinching the phone call.

"Congratulations! Won key games. ”

"Eleven o'clock, haven't you slept yet?"

"It doesn't matter, look at the All-Star Poll."

When Zhang Yu heard Xia Wei's surprised voice, he knew that it must be good news, and hurriedly turned on the computer.

His computer is sponsored by Apple, which is also one of his endorsers, and now only has $4 million a year in endorsement fees, and when the three-year contract expires, it is believed that the renewal price will at least double.

On February 6, today, the official NBA official website officially announced the final round of voting results for the 2009 All-Star team, which is later than usual.

Usually the anomaly is a demon, Zhang Yu doesn't know, it is precisely because his vote has risen too fast in the last few days, which makes people feel suspicious of swiping votes? However, in the end, the alliance did not do anything on it, and Zhang Yu's final vote was 3215282, creating the most in history!

This is the first time in the history of NBA All-Star voting that someone has exceeded 3 million votes.

Zhang Yu undoubtedly became the all-star ticket king in 2009.

"Superman" Howard came in second with 2950181 votes, less than 100,000 votes shy of the 3 million mark.

In addition to Howard, the third to sixth places on the voting list are James, Kobe, Wade and Duncan, all of whom have received more votes than the NBA record set by Yao Ming four years ago.

Yao Ming received a record 2558278 votes that year, and he received 2592958 votes this year, ranking seventh in the league.

SpaceEasy received 1813829 votes, ranking 10th out of all 120 candidates. That vote was the third place on the Eastern Conference Forward list, and he unfortunately missed out on the All-Star Game.

This year's Eastern Conference starting lineup and coaches -

Power forwards: Kevin Garnett (Boston Celtics), Rashad Lewis (Orlando Magic)

Small forwards: LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers), Paul Pierce (Boston Celtics), Danny Grange (Indiana Pacers)

Centers: Dwight Howard (Orlando Magic), Chris Bosh (Toronto Raptors)

Point guards: Allen Iverson (Detroit Pistons), Mo Williams (Cleveland Cavaliers)

Shooting guards: Zhang Yu (New York Knicks), Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat), Jamal Crawford (New York Knicks)

Head Coach: Mike Brown, Cleveland Cavaliers

Western starting lineup and coaches -

Power forwards: Tim Duncan (San Antonio Spurs), Pau Gasol (Los Angeles Lakers), Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks)

Small forwards: Carmelo Anthony (Denver Nuggets), Amar Stoudemire (Phoenix Suns)

Center: Yao Ming (Houston Rockets), Shaquille O'Neal (Phoenix Suns)

Shooting guards: Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers), Brandon Roy (Portland Trail Blazers)

Point guards: Chris Paul (New Orleans Hornets), Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs), Steve Nash (Memphis Suns)

Head Coach: Phil Jackson, Los Angeles Lakers

In addition to being selected as an All-Star, Zhang Yu also squeezed out the Flash Wade as the starter in the East, which is enviable to Durant, Rose and other rookies, of course they also want to be an All-Star, but this year is destined to have nothing to do with them.

In addition to the All-Star Game, Zhang Yu was also selected to start the Rookie Challenge.

This is a matter of course, an All-Star starter, and if you can't be selected for the Rookie Challenge, it's called a story for the ages.

This year's sophomores: Kevin Durant (Thunder), Jeff Green (Thunder), Al Horford (Hawks), Al Thorton (Clippers), Tedis Young (76ers), Wilson Chandler (Knicks), Ronnie Starkey (Pistons), Aaron Brooks (Rockets), Luis Scola (Rockets).

First Graders: Derrick Rose (Bulls), O.J. Mayo (Grizzlies), Zhang Yu (Knicks), Mark Gasol (Grizzlies), Greg Oden (Trail Blazers), Rudy Fernandez (Trail Blazers), Russell Westbrook (Thunder), Eric Gordon (Clippers), Danilo Gallinari (Bucks), Michael Beasley (Heat), Kevin Love (Timberwolves), Brook Lopez (Nets),

Zhang Yu found his old teammate Brook Lopez on the rookie list, but unfortunately Robin didn't get much of a chance with the Suns this year, and he was a little shabby and didn't make the All-Star rookie lineup. Oden was almost reimbursed last year and counted him on the first-year team this year. However, this unlucky guy was reimbursed again this year, so he still couldn't play the rookie game, and the league has let Noah replace him, which is really a sad story.

The 2009 Phoenix All-Star Game was broadcast on an unprecedented scale in China, in addition to Zhang Yu and Yao Ming were both selected for the All-Star starting lineup, but also because Zhang Yu participated in most of the games.

"All-Star Game", "Rookie Challenge", "Skills Challenge", "Three-Point Contest", "Slam Dunk Contest".

The reporters were dumbfounded, Zhang Yu participated in five competitions, what is this for?

And what fans are most concerned about is, what dunk did Zhang Yu prepare?

Fans throughout Asia have become supporters of Zhang Yu at this moment, because no yellow person in history has ever won the championship of the "Slam Dunk Contest", not even a participant.

This year, Zhang Yu's opponents are two heavyweight opponents, Dwight Howard and Nate Robinson, both of whom are very difficult opponents, due to their respective physical factors, in the eyes of the judges, any action will have corresponding points compared to others, so what kind of dunk action does Zhang Yu have to use to defeat the two?

Zhang Yu's bounce is not a secret, the vertical bounce is only 95cm, and the maximum running jump is 100cm, which is not a particularly prominent number among black people.

Last season, when Howard participated in the slam dunk contest, he jumped 97cm on the spot and could reach 105cm in the run-up jump, which is a big guy of 211cm.

And Nate Robinson's vertical jump has reached an astonishing 110cm, and the running jump is 125cm, and this 170cm tall little potato can make any movement, like his predecessor Old Potato, because of his height and greatly add points.

Xiao Tudou is also secretly studying the dunk action, and he also teases his team boss on his blog, declaring that he will definitely defeat all opponents, including the "Chinese Rabbit" to win the dunk king again.

"Participating in so many competitions? Can you handle it? Xia Wei's tone on the phone was obviously worried.

Zhang Yu was about to answer, when he heard Ai Yue'er's voice coming from the mobile phone: "Weiwei's wife, quickly enter the bed, the idol is naturally sure to sign up, we will wait to watch the live broadcast." ”

"Grandma's, it's really unreasonable for a stinky girl to dare to tease my sister!"

Xia Wei was embarrassed to talk anymore, and told Zhang Yu to be careful not to get hurt, so she hurriedly hung up the phone.

Zhang Yu put down the phone, he knew that his fans were worried that he was too greedy, participated in almost all the events, and couldn't win the last game.

But he didn't think so, especially since everyone was not optimistic about his "slam dunk contest".

"Do you really think I can't dunk? It's not a competition, it's a show! Who says if you jump high, you win? It's the creativity and imagination that count! ”