Chapter 220: Paving the way for Da Yao and competing for All-Star MVP

"Let me win the All-Star MVP? Why? ”

When Wang Chao found an opportunity to tell Da Yao what he thought, Da Yao was obviously stunned for a moment, and felt a little inexplicable.

Just like Wang Chao thought before, Da Yao didn't care about the entertainment honorary award of All-Star MVP, and he didn't feel the need to compete for it.

However, since Wang Chao found Da Yao, he naturally thought of a rhetoric a long time ago.

"This is a small wish that I have always had as a Da Yao fan on behalf of thousands of fans in China." Wang Chao looked at Da Yao and said very "sincerely": "Actually, what I want to see most is what you look like when you win the regular season MVP or the finals FMVP, but to tell you the truth, I don't think this is very likely, so retreat to the next best, if you can get an All-Star MVP before you retire, it will also make many fans get what they want." ”

Da Yao: "......"

Pierced in the heart, old iron.

What does it mean that it is unlikely to win the regular season MVP or the finals FMVP?

Although there seems to be nothing wrong with what Wang Chao said, why does it sound so awkward?

But it is true that it is an indisputable fact that Da Yao does not have a hard honor with high gold content in the NBA.

When Da Yao was inducted into the Hall of Fame in the future, many people jumped out and questioned Da Yao's inability to be selected as an All-Star.

In his entire career, he was selected to the All-Star team five times, twice and three times, and there were no hard honors other than that, and he never led the team to the Western Conference finals, let alone the Finals or even the NBA championship.

Da Yao's career in less than eight seasons is relatively short, and a large part of the reason why Da Yao can be inducted into the Hall of Fame is that as the first Chinese NBA champion in history, Da Yao has played a very important role in the promotion and development of the NBA in China.

Of course, not all of the people in the Hall of Fame are superstars, and some players who are not as honored as Da Yao can be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

The most typical example is Reggie, who is known as Jordan's lifelong enemy. Miller, Miller's name is quite high among the stars of the 90s, but in fact, in his entire career, Miller only has three All-Three Team honors.

Compared with Da Yao, Miller does have a longer career and has played in the Finals once, but he is more qualified to be inducted into the Hall of Fame than Da Yao on this basis?

As far as Wang Chao himself is concerned, he also really wants Da Yao to get some more honors, and there will definitely be a championship blessing in the near future, but before that, it is not too fragrant to get an All-Star MVP honor and get a prop to avoid injury by the way.

"No kidding."

Da Yao smiled and shook his head, just thinking that Wang Chao was joking.

Unexpectedly, Wang Chao directly took out his mobile phone and put it in front of Da Yao. "I'm not kidding, let's see the public opinion."

On the screen of the mobile phone, it is Wang Chao's Weibo registered in a certain wave.

As the hottest star in China now, Wang Chao registered an account just after the Weibo function was launched, and the number of people who follow it every day is rising at an extremely terrifying rate, and it has now exceeded 20 million, and it is also among the best in the fan ranking of all stars on Weibo.

At present, Wang Chao has a commercial endorsement cooperation with a certain wave, and has a pivotal position in a certain wave Weibo.

Wang Chao launched a Weibo poll before, the content of the vote is whether everyone wants to see Da Yao elected as the All-Star MVP, the recent itself is the hottest period of the All-Star Weekend, coupled with Wang Chao's super popularity on Weibo, in a very short time, a large number of fans participated in the voting and forwarded.

Looking at the results of the huge number of fan votes on Wang Chao's mobile phone screen, Da Yao opened his mouth, and some were speechless.

"Brother Yao, I'm really not kidding, to tell you the truth, it's the end of your career now, and given the constant injury risks, it's not surprising when you suddenly retire." Wang Chao said seriously: "So while you can still maintain a good competitive condition, take more honors and leave better memories for us fans, isn't it good?" ”

Da Yao is a little tempted, he is enthusiastically voted for by Chinese fans every year to the all-star position, and even twice elected as the all-star vote king, of course Da Yao also wants to do something for the fans to repay their support, but this kind of thing, it is useless for him to think about it, even if it is just a performance All-Star game, it is not so easy to get the MVP and become the best in the game.

Shaking his head, Da Yao sighed helplessly: "Even if I want to, what's the use?" There are all superstars in the league on the court, and it's hard for me to even get the ball, let alone compete for MVP. ”

"You don't need to worry about this, as long as you are willing and willing to take action for it, and I will take care of the rest!" Wang Chao said firmly: "I will help you remove all obstacles, you just need to play 100% of your strength and send the basketball into the hoop!" ”

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In order to let Da Yao win the All-Star MVP, Wang Chao made many preparations.

Western Conference All-Star head coach McHale and another teammate who participated in the All-Star Game, Kevin McHale. Garnett was already saying hello.

Not only that, Wang Chao also deliberately cooperated with the president of the alliance, David. Stern communicated and directly stated his intention to help Da Yao win the All-Star MVP at All-Star.

As the president of the league and the emperor who single-handedly built the NBA, a business empire, Stern would not refuse this at all, or his favorite script is such a script.

In the 2009 All-Star Game, Kobe Bryant and O'Neal jointly won the All-Star MVP trophy and staged a scene of laughter and enmity, which was directed by Stern.

At this time, O'Neal was already in decline, and he only had 17 points and 5 rebounds in the All-Star Game, which was not worthy of the All-Star MVP trophy at all.

But the selection of the All-Star MVP itself is completely up to the league, which is the classic scene of Kobe O'Neal jointly lifting the All-Star MVP trophy.

Da Yao is a very special existence in Stern's heart, and it is the arrival of Da Yao that has allowed the NBA to successfully open the Chinese market, and various commercial endorsements and peripheral sales have made the league make a lot of money.

The Rockets, who had a soaring regular season record, have always been the most popular team in the league, and they are still All-Stars hosted in Houston, and Da Yao is also approaching the end of his career.

Although he did not directly affirm Wang Chao's suggestion, through the meaning of Stern's words, Wang Chao knew that the other party was also moved, as long as Da Yao could play a good data, Stern would definitely secretly help Da Yao win the All-Star MVP, and receive a wave of applause plus ratings.

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On February 16, All-Star Weekend officially kicked off.

In the Rookie Challenge, the second-year rookie defeated the first-year rookie 155-147.

Leonard scored 37 points and 7 rebounds on 15-of-24 shooting in the game, beating first-year rookie Irving with 32 points and winning the MVP of the Rookie Challenge.

On the second day's singles event, the Skills Challenge was won by Trailblazer's Damien. Lillard won, and the three-point contest was won by rookie Irving, who shot a 23-point shot in the finals to beat the Spurs' Matt Irving. Bonner holds the cup.

Without Wang Chao's three-point contest, the quality plummeted, and even winning the championship with 23 points can be called a high score, but there is no way, Curry was eliminated in the first round, and the league really can't find a second player with a dominant position in the three-point field in terms of three-point shooting.

As for the slam dunk contest, it has become very boring and boring these days.

The six participating team members are all unknown, and it is not as interesting as the Rockets' carefully selected Rocket Hall of Judges to be interesting.

A few rounds of uninteresting dunks down, Terrance. Rose won the slam dunk contest.

After the boring and boring solo event, the All-Star Weekend finally came to the most anticipated and high-profile main event!

On February 18th, the NBA2013 All-Star Game officially began!

Eastern Conference All-Star starters: Rondo, Wade, James, Anthony and Bosh.

Western All-Star starters: Paul, Kobe, Wang Chao, Durant, Da Yao.

When the Western All-Stars made their debut in the introduction of the live DJ, the fans in the audience applauded, especially when Wang Chao and Da Yao were introduced, and the cheers and tsunamis seemed to be able to tear down the ceiling.

Off the court, Howard, who was a substitute for the Western Conference All-Star, looked at Da Yao and waved to the Houston fans with a smile on his face, and his expression was a little not good.

As the league's No. 1 center, he didn't even become an All-Star starter after running to the West, coupled with the Lakers' poor performance in the regular season and his own injury and struggle, the good mood brought by the original All-Star weekend vacation is gone.

"Huh, what? Isn't it just because of the large number of fans in Huaguo that it has some advantages in voting? What's the big deal? ”

Howard thought a little sour in his heart.

Originally, the number of his fans in China was also quite large, and during the period of the Super Magic Group, Howard could be regarded as the most popular star in China, and even more popular than Kobe Bryant at one time.

But with the dissolution of the Super Magic group and Howard's switch to the Lakers, the number of fans in China began to gradually decrease, not only Chinese fans, but even local fans in the United States were quite disappointed with Howard's performance this season, averaging 18+11 per game, such data is definitely not the level that a so-called league's No. 1 center should have.

All kinds of factors made Howard, who was still the king of votes in Orlando back then, now can only watch Da Yao play on the bench.

After all the starters from both sides came on the field, the game officially began.

In the jump ball session, Da Yao relied on his height advantage to beat Bosh, dialed the basketball to his side, and then ran straight to the inside.

After Paul controlled the ball slowly and passed the half, he saw Da Yao, who had come to the inside stuck position, raise his hand and take the initiative to ask for the ball.

"It's very positive......"

With this in mind, Paul immediately hoisted the ball to Da Yao.

This is Houston, and Da Yao still has a bit of face as the host.

Da Yao, who received the pass, didn't need any bells and whistles at all with his back to Bosh, just simply dribbling the ball inside with his back to him, and Bosh, who weighed less than 110 kilograms, couldn't withstand it at all.

Da Yao, who squeezed under the basket, easily dunked the basketball into the basket with one hand as soon as he raised his hand.

The crowd on the sidelines burst into thunderous cheers.

Da Yao has become the symbol and banner of the Houston Rockets in the past ten years, and has a solid position in the Rockets and has many fans.

Being able to see Da Yao active on the All-Star stage made Rockets fans feel very excited and satisfied.

But that's just the beginning.

On the Eastern Conference All-Star offense, James held the ball and broke through to his good brother Wade, who missed the mid-range shot under Kobe's defense.

Da Yao looked at the basketball landing point a little far, and had already given up grabbing defensive rebounds, as a teammate, he knew very well how strong Wang Chao's ability was in rebounding.

Wang Chao has averaged double-doubles in rebounds per game so far in the regular season, more than him and Garnett, both his sense of smell for rebounds and his agility and explosiveness when competing for rebounds are quite outstanding.

But at this moment, he was slightly stunned, because the rebounding ball was already close at hand, but Wang Chao did not reach out to grab it, but stuck Anthony's position behind him and winked at Da Yao.

Suddenly, Da Yao comprehended, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

"Is that your strategy?"

Thinking silently in his heart, Da Yao was not polite, took two steps forward, and almost picked up the rebound that had almost fallen to the floor.

If you want to compete for All-Star MVP, you must have excellent data, and Wang Chao is ready to do everything possible to help Da Yao brush up on data.

Da Yao, who picked up the rebound, handed the ball to Wang Chao.

Wang Chao did not rush to attack after dribbling past half court, and waited until Da Yao was in position before starting to act.

He didn't choose to hoist the ball to Da Yao on the inside line and let him continue to play Bosh alone, although Da Yao's singles are very efficient, but that will undoubtedly consume a lot of physical strength, the best choice is to pass the ball to Da Yao to eat cakes, saving time and effort.

Wang Chao held the ball and accelerated, used his mobility to pass most of the James who was opposite him, and continued to rush to the basket.

Bosh on the inside subconsciously stepped forward to block it, and Wang Chao also saw the opportunity, passed the ball behind his left hand with a move, and the basketball was delicately passed to Da Yao on the side.

There was suddenly an extra basketball in his hand, Da Yao was slightly stunned, but he still reacted quickly and raised his hand to send the basketball into the basket.

Wang Chao, who is blessed by the talent of a wonderful passer, has all kinds of bells and whistles and passing skills that are simply unguardable, and neither opponents nor teammates can keep up with his reaction.

"Nice pass! With the cooperation of Wang Chao and Da Yao, Wang Chao's passing level is really getting stronger and stronger, and all kinds of fancy passing actions are easy to use on the field! ”

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With the full support of Wang Chao, Da Yao played 6 minutes in the first quarter of the game, and got 12 points and 4 rebounds on 5-of-6 shooting.

Howard watched Da Yao's infinite show offenses off the court, especially Wang Chao's various passes, and he was drooling.

How can he be treated like this with the Lakers? Nash was injured due to injury, Kobe Bryant's relationship with him is a bit stiff now, and the number of times he plays blocking and dismantling is very small.

So when Da Yao came off the court and Howard couldn't wait to appear, he couldn't help but say to Wang Chao, who was still on the court.

"Wang Chao, let's cooperate with the attack once in a long time, right?"

(End of chapter)