(The second is a little late.) ）

December 25th, Christmas War.

The Magic host the Boston Celtics at their home arena in Orlando.

This is the second meeting between the two teams this season, with the Boston Magic having the last laugh and winning the game despite the struggle.

And this time, the Magic didn't disappoint Orlando fans either.

At 86:77, the Magic beat the Celtics at home.

Every time the two teams meet, the score becomes very low, the action of both sides is not small, the fouls are quite vicious, the feud of the first two seasons has made the two teams mortal enemies, and the grudge is even deeper than that of the Celtics and the Lakers.

The Celtics don't want to lose this game, but in terms of overall strength, the Celtics have indeed begun to widen the gap with the Magic.

The strength of the Green Army lies in the individual abilities of the Big Three, coupled with a Rondo who is gradually rising.

The problem is that this is the third season since the formation of the Celtics Big Three, and the oldest of the Big Three, Ray. Alun is approaching the age of 35 and his form has dropped significantly compared to before.

With 27 games in the new season up to the Christmas War, Ray Brown. Allen averaged 16.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game, and although he shot 47.7% from the field, which is a relatively high level among guards, his three-point shooting rate was only 36%, which was a new low in recent years.

It's not just thunder that is slipping. Allen and Garnett have averaged only 14.7 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, while Pierce's statistics have also dropped from 20.5 points, 5 rebounds and 3.6 assists last season to about 18 points.

The overall decline in the Big Three's stats proves that they don't have much time left, and it is also thanks to Rondo that he is gradually showing the characteristics of an excellent point guard, averaging 14 points, 4.4 rebounds and 9.6 assists per game in the new season, supporting the Celtics' offensive system.

Because of this, the Celtics have started the season very well, and are currently 22-6 in second place in the East, behind the Magic.

The defeat in the Christmas game changed their record to 22-7, but this record is still higher than that of the Cavaliers.

After the Christmas game, the Magic defeated the Bucks 117-92 on December 30, and finished 11-2 throughout December, with a current overall record of 26-4.

The competition ended in December and the time officially entered 2010.

The league also officially announced the results of the first round of voting for the 2010 All-Star Weekend.

Unexpectedly, Wang Chao ranked first in the first round of voting, beating the Cavaliers James, the Lakers' Kobe Bryant and his teammate Howard to become the first round of voting.

Although it was somewhat unexpected, it actually made sense.

Last season, Wang Chao led the team to win the NBA championship and won the FMVP, and in the new season, he continued to average 30+ efficient scoring per game, while the assists have always been maintained at more than 8 times, ranking first in the league in terms of efficiency, and even stabilizing the Cavaliers James, with almost impeccable performance.

Moreover, Wang Chao himself has an extremely large fan base in China, and in the All-Star vote, the league has repeatedly learned the horrors of Chinese fans, after all, they even sent the All-Star starting list in the rookie season.

It's no surprise that Howard received less votes than James and Kobe Bryant in the first round.

In the new season, Howard's defense has become more and more perfect, and the defensive efficiency value can reach 95 per 100 rounds, which means that when he is on the court, he can limit the opponent's scoring to 95 points per 100 rounds.

This statistic is the highest in the league and is well ahead of Bogut, who is in second place.

However, the contribution on the defensive end does not represent an overall improvement in Howard's stats.

In fact, Howard's stats in the new season have dropped slightly compared to the previous two seasons.

As of early January 2010, Howard was averaging 17.8 points, 14.1 rebounds and 2.9 blocks per game.

In the past two years, Howard has averaged 20+14 per game.

The main reason for this is the reduction in Howard's right to sell.

Howard averaged 10.2 shots per game this season, the lowest since his rookie season.

It's not that Howard doesn't have a chance to touch the ball, it's mainly because the Magic team currently has a lot of players who need the ball.

Wang Chao averaged 19.2 shots per game, Nelson averaged 10 shots per game, Afflalo and Channing Frye also averaged about 7 to 8 shots per game, and Jamal Crawford on the bench averaged about 14 shots per game, ranking second on the team.

After going around and around, Howard was inevitably affected, who made him not have the ability to attack independently, and the main score relied on catching the ball and eating cakes and grabbing offensive rebounds.

The slight decline in personal data still slightly affected Howard's popularity, but even so, Howard's votes are still the fourth in the league after Wang Chao, James and Kobe.

The opening of the all-star voting naturally involves the registration of individual events.

Wang Chao took the initiative to sign up for the All-Star Three-Point Contest at the first time.

He's already dominated the tournament, winning all of the last four years without a hitch, and this year will be his fifth All-Star three-point contest.

For Wang Chao, the victory or defeat of the three-point contest is actually no longer the key, and he does not need such trivial honors to improve his evaluation now.

However, the task released by the system is still in progress, that is, to achieve the hegemony of the three-point competition for five consecutive championships.

The reward for completing the mission is the upgrade of the Marksman's talent effect.

The delay in the training of passing ability has made him more and more aware of how important the shooting training effect of the 30% improvement of the marksman is, he now averages 97 in mid-range shooting, and his ability to shoot from close range and free throws has also been trained to more than 95, I am afraid that it is all the credit of the marksman, otherwise it would have been like the passing ability value, staying at 92 and not improving.

In fact, this can be seen in other ways as well.

Wang Chao's training investment in physical fitness is far greater than that of shooting training, and he also spares no expense in speed, strength and other potion assistance during training, but now his speed and agility are only 94, and the only ability to break through the 95 mark is only physical strength, and it is only 96 at present, and the improvement speed is far less than shooting.

Thinking that the marksman talent that brought him such a great convenience has the possibility of further upgrading and strengthening, Wang Chao is looking forward to it, now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, as long as he successfully wins the championship in this three-point contest and achieves five consecutive championships, the marksman talent can be upgraded!

Wang Chao enthusiastically signed up for the three-point contest, but his good partner Howard did not participate in the slam dunk contest as he did in the previous two years.

Wang Chao knew that Howard was a little tired of playing.

After all, the slam dunk contest is not like the three-point contest, you only need to keep throwing the basketball into the basket, competing who throws more games, every dunk contest, the players have to rack their brains to think about the creative and aesthetic dunk action, it is not easy.

And Howard also learned early that Nate. Robinson announced that he would continue to participate in the slam dunk contest.

Last year's slam dunk contest Robinson won the slam dunk contest championship with his dunk, although Howard had a lot of fun at the time, but in hindsight, he didn't feel like it was good.

In terms of dunk action, creativity and difficulty, his dunk is not much worse than Robinson, but it was the other party who won the championship in the end, the reason is actually very simple, it has nothing to do with the action and creativity of dunking, just because of Nate. Robinson is a small player who is only 1.75 meters tall, and he can fly around the court and dunks are more likely to be rated as high scores.

Howard, who understands this, has no interest in continuing to participate in the slam dunk contest, there is no reason for him to run to be a stepping stone for others every year, and Howard does have some Jiang Lang talent, and he can't think of enough creative dunk moves.

Although Wang Chao gave Howard some advice, he only remembered some of the more classic dunk moves in the dunk contest, and he had already taught Howard all the dunk moves of some big men who got high scores. Raven and Aron. Gordon's dunk simply can't be done with Howard's agility.

Howard's absence from the dunk contest became a big regret for the 2010 All-Star, and many fans wanted to see Howard and Robinson competing for the dunk title again, but unfortunately they couldn't see it.

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On January 7, 2010, the league announced the results of the second round of All-Star voting, Wang Chao continued to lead the league by a narrow margin, and the top four players with the number of votes did not change, still Wang Chao, James, Kobe, Howard four.

The difference is that the Rockets' center Da Yao did not get a lot of votes at the beginning because of injuries at the beginning, and he alternated with Stoudemire in the Western center.

But as the second round of voting opened, Chinese fans began to exert their strength, and Da Yao's votes quickly left Stoudemire behind like a rocket, and soared all the way to the sixth place in the league, ahead of him was Wade of the Heat.

Da Yao sprained his ankle in early December and needed to recuperate for four to six weeks, and was originally able to return to play in early January, but for the sake of safety, Da Yao finally decided to recuperate for six weeks to ensure that there were no sequelae to play again.

Even if it's six weeks, Da Yao is fully in time for All-Star Weekend and won't miss it.

A week later, the results of the third round of voting, the final round of voting for All-Star Weekend, were announced.

Without any surprises, Wang Chao defeated a group of opponents with 2.7 million votes and was elected the All-Star vote king in the 09-10 season.

James was second with 2.5 million votes, while Bryant and Howard both received more than 2.4 million votes, with Bryant narrowly third, Howard fourth, and Wade and Da Yao with 2.3 million votes.

Wang Chao was elected as the All-Star vote king for the first time in his career, which is not a big honor, but it is enough to make many Chinese fans rejoice, and some people make jokes.

"I'm afraid this is the only honor in Wang Chao's personal milestone that is not the first in Huaguo, right?"

The first Chinese All-Star vote champion in NBA history was Da Yao in the 2004-05 season, when Da Yao defeated fellow center O'Neal in the All-Star vote and was elected the vote king, which is well deserved.

The announcement of the All-Star voting results also means that the starting list of the East and West is decided.

In addition to Wang Chao, James, Howard, and Wade, the other starter is Allen. Iverson.

Iverson has not had a good season, playing only three games in the regular season after joining the Grizzlies in the offseason, all of them as bench substitutes, averaging only 12.3 points and 3.7 assists per game.

The Grizzlies cut Iverson in mid-November, and the latter announced his return to the Philadelphia 76ers in early December.

Iverson's return to the 76ers has triggered the memories of countless fans, and the high-spirited answer has fallen to this point, which has also made many people lament the passage of time.

With the empathy of recollection, even though Iverson only averaged 13.9 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists per game with the 76ers, fans still voted spontaneously to help Iverson become an All-Star starter.

Wang Chao was also a fan of Iverson, and his unruly eyes, maverick dreadlocks and handsome and elegant style of play on the court all attracted a large number of fans.

But he also knew that Iverson still couldn't make it to the All-Star because in early 2010, Iverson's youngest daughter fell ill with a high fever, and Iverson missed the All-Star and terminated the remaining contract with the 76ers for the current season in order to take care of his daughter.

It was also Iverson's last appearance in the NBA.

Iverson was absent from the All-Star team, and he was replaced by the Hawks' Joe J. Brown. Johnson.

On the Western All-Star side, in addition to Da Yao as center and Kobe Bryant, the other three are Nash, Anthony and Duncan.

Co-hosted by the Dallas Mavericks, the Cowboys and the City of Dallas, this year's All-Star Weekend, which will be held in Dallas on February 14, 2010, is the largest in NBA history and reflects Stern's ambitions.

February 14th is the first day of the Chinese New Year's Day.

But this kind of thing itself is also a good thing, there are all-stars to watch during the New Year, especially the three-point contest and all-star game that Wang Chao participated in, which is simply beautiful for Chinese fans.

Throughout January, everyone's focus was on the All-Star Stars, and the regular season was less focused, but the regular season was still in an orderly manner.

The Magic have an extremely tight schedule in January, with 17 games in 31 days, including two back-to-backs, one three-game and one four-game team.

Especially the four consecutive visitors in the back, the opponents are the Kings, Nuggets, Trail Blazers, and the last one is the Los Angeles Lakers, which can be called the four consecutive visitors of death.

The Magic went 2-2 in this four-game losing streak, only beating the Kings and Trail Blazers, losing all games against the Nuggets and Lakers, and finally finishing with a 12-5 record in 17 games.

January's record slump saw the Magic's win percentage drop from 88 percent to 81 percent, but the team ended January at the top of the league with a 39-9 record.

(End of chapter)