With the last three games in January, after Wang Chao scored 72 points, 64 points and 60 points in turn, there was no suspense in the battle for the strongest scoring champion.

Harden is very good, in January, he averaged 41.2 points, 8.7 rebounds and 7.7 assists per game, even if the 43% shooting rate is slightly lower in this small-ball league with a shooting percentage of more than 50%, but counting free throws, Harden's true shooting percentage is not low, and even far exceeds the league average.

It's a pity that he met a monster version of Wang Chao.

In January, Wang Chao's average per game was a terrifying 45.2 points, 11.4 rebounds and 8.5 assists, shooting 54% from the field and 48% from three-point range.

Even excluding the super-high scoring in the last three games, the scores in those games before the January Super League can remain above 39 points, which is not much lower than Harden's score.

Of course, Harden only scored 28 points, 34 points and 37 points in the last three games, which also lowered his average points per game, which also counted Wang Chao.

Under the advantages of the other, the gap is revealed.

It is worth mentioning that averaging 40+ points per game in a single month is not a simple matter.

is as strong as Jordan, who did not average more than 40+ points per game in a certain month in the season when he was the highest scoring champion in his career, that is, when he averaged 37.1 points per game.

And looking at the history of the league, other players who can do this can be counted on one hand, including when you count a monster like Chamberlain, who averaged 50+ points per game in a season.

In the 11-12 season, Wang Chao once achieved a miracle of averaging 40.7 points per game in the regular season, and reached an average of 40+ points per game for three months.

Although Harden was beaten by Wang Chao in terms of scoring this month, his monthly average score of 41.2 points per game is also a real data reflection, and people may not compare him with Wang Chao in the same position, but looking at today's league, Harden's scoring ability and scoring explosiveness have indeed reached the strongest level under Wang Chao.

No one else has done it under the two.

And if you look at the retired players, except for the ancient Chamberlain and Elgin. Outside of Baylor, there is only Kobe. Bryant has done the same thing, and Kobe Bryant has averaged 40+ points per game in a single month three times, making him the third man in history under Chamberlain and Wang Chao.

Looking at the history of the league, only these five players have been able to achieve this level of performance on the scoring end, and the rest of the players, including Jordan, Durant, Iverson, and James, have not done so, which shows how difficult this achievement is.

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In any case, the battle between Wang Chao and Harden in January ended in Harden's defeat, and his performance in the head-to-head matchup was ugly.

But Harden still relied on his explosive performance in January, gained a large number of fans, and the All-Star votes also rose all the way, and even surpassed Curry at the last moment, second only to Wang Chao in the West.

Back on January 19, the league announced the final voting results for the 2018 All-Star Weekend.

Wang Chao was elected the league vote king with an absolute advantage, and James in the East was second and became the vote king in the East.

Wang Chao and James are the kings of the East and West respectively, which is still very important.

Because in the 17-18 season, the league also changed the format of the All-Star Game, canceled the script of the East-West confrontation, and replaced it with the East and West ticket kings as the team leader, and selected All-Star teammates to compete in a draft-like way.

I have to admit that the league has reformed many events during the All-Star Weekend, such as the three-point contest, the slam dunk contest, etc., most of which ended in failure and were sprayed by unacceptable fans.

However, the captain's confrontation system of the All-Star Game is a rare and successful restructuring.

In the past few decades, fans have long been tired of watching the drama of the confrontation between the East and the West, even if they are their favorite fans on the field, they can't help but feel aesthetic fatigue and boring.

However, as soon as the captaincy system was announced, this novel confrontation method immediately attracted the attention and interest of many fans.

Because it is the first restructuring and the league lacks experience, for the sake of safety, it did not carry out the selection of live TV all-stars, but successively announced the selection of the East and West vote kings, Wang Chao and James.

The All-Star Weekend draft is held at the end of January.

Wang Chao, as the overall vote king, has the right to choose first, according to the rules, they must first select their All-Star starting teammates among the other eight players selected for the All-Star starter, and then continue to select among the substitute players.

As for Wang Chao, he has not been very interested in the game of All-Star Weekend for a long time, and the selection of people is relatively random.

His first pick was the third-highest All-Star weekend vote-total, Antetokounmpo from the Milwaukee Bucks in the East.

The 17-18 season is the season of the rise of Brother Alphabet, and his average of 27.1 points, 10.3 rebounds and 5 assists per game so far in the regular season can rank among the top in the league, while Brother Alphabet also has 1.5 steals and 1.4 blocks on the defensive end, like a large projection weakened version of Wang Chao.

Brother Alphabet's explosive playing style and terrifying physical talent have made him gain a large number of fans this season, and his popularity has risen sharply, and he even briefly surpassed James to become the king of Eastern votes in several rounds of voting, and Durant was also suppressed in terms of popularity, and could only settle for the third place in the Eastern vote.

Wang Chao didn't have any special idea of choosing Brother Alphabet, just because he had to choose a player.

This season, he is just on the rise, and in the following seasons, he will show great dominance, winning the regular season MVP for two consecutive seasons and winning the NBA championship in 20-21.

It can be said that the future brother Alphabet, the top three top stars in the absolute league, can even compete with Jokic, who won the championship in 23, for the first place.

Of course, if you only look at the statistical performance of the championship season, Brother Alphabet averaged 30.2 points, 12.8 rebounds and 5 assists per game in the 20-21 season, and the shooting rate was 56.9%, which is indeed not much different from Jokic's average of 30 points, 13.5 rebounds and 9.5 assists per game in the 22-23 season, with a shooting rate of 54.8%.

With both of them owning two regular season MVPs, a championship and FMVP, Jokic is ahead of two All-Defensive First Teams, four All-Defensive First Teams, and one All-Defensive Player honor, and looks like he's still slightly better in terms of honors.

However, this is only the difference between the accumulation of honors and historical status, if it is simply compared to the real combat effectiveness of the two players, at least in the 22-23 season, Jokic is far behind the alphabet brother.

No way, they are both big players, and the gap between the technical characteristics of the two is really too big.

He does have a physical talent that is rare in the history of the league, like a monster, but his shortcomings at the technical level are something that his body can't make up for in any way, especially when it comes to three-point shooting.

In the 22-23 season, Jokic has been able to shoot an astonishing 38% from three-point range, which can be used as a conventional weapon for a seven-foot interior player.

In addition, Jokic's offensive skills on the interior are also very rich, with a breakthrough in the face frame, a back on the inside, and almost all proficient in hook hands, averaging 9.8 assists per game in the regular season, and almost achieving a triple-double in the season also proves his ability to organize and respond.

Someone once said that Jokic is essentially a strengthened version of Doncic who is ten centimeters taller, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Of course, Brother Alphabet also has his advantages, although the offensive end is not as kaleidoscopic and changeable as Jokic, but he is better in the integration of offense and defense, although Jokic's basket protection ability is not weak, but that body of fat is destined to his lack of lateral movement speed and help defense.

In any case, let Wang Chao look at it, in the same period, that is, in the 22-23 season, Jokic must be better, and there is no dispute about sitting as the first active player in the league.

But now he is making a selection of four starters, and Jokic's performance with the Nets this season can only be described as mediocre, let alone an All-Star starter, and he has not even been selected as a substitute.

No way, the current situation of the Nets really doesn't have much possibility for him to play to the fullest.

The outside trio, Durant, Paul and Booker, have basically divided the ball up, the problem is that Jokic himself is still a player who needs a certain amount of ball control to play effectively, and the results without the ball speak for themselves.

The Nets have two All-Star selections, one is Durant, who was selected as the starter, and the other is Chris, who was selected as a substitute. Paul.

Therefore, there is no Wang Chao for Jokic to choose from, and he can only choose Brother Alphabet.

And after Wang Chao's first choice chose Brother Alphabet, James's choice surprised many people, and his first choice was to choose to leave him and the Cavaliers last summer and switch to the Celtics to be his own boss. Irving.

This has to praise James's high emotional intelligence.

Even if Irving abandoned him, he did not complain about Irving in the slightest, and even took the initiative to express goodwill to Irving in this way, regardless of whether this was an ulterior motive or something, at least in the eyes of fans on both sides, the reunion of James and Irving at the All-Star Game will inevitably become a good story.

In fact, according to some Zhanhei's point of view, Irving's behavior is slightly different from James's original decision1, although the details are slightly different, but the result is similar.

is also a "betrayal" of their own team, and the Celtics named by Irving, last season's record was still the first in the East, and there was a battle with the Cavaliers in the Eastern Finals, which is better than James' Big Three in terms of badness, after all, the Heat team in order to form the Big Three, but the whole team was dismantled and completely rebuilt as a team, and there was no complete system like the Celtics, who were the first in the East in the 16-17 season. It was the perfect replacement for Thomas Jr. in the Green Army's position.

For the Celtics, this is basically a hardware upgrade, and by the way, the introduction of All-Star small forward Hayward has taken the overall strength to a higher level, almost becoming the biggest favorite in the league to win the championship.

But because of this matter, there are very few people who spray Irving, and even Big Irving is regarded as the first point guard in a certain sound, and his gorgeous style of play has captured a large number of brain-dead fans.

Everyone knows the results after that, the Celtics are 55-27 in the regular season, and the winning rate is 68% when Irving is there, and it can be maintained at about 64% when there is no Irving, the difference is not particularly big, and entering the playoffs, it is even funnier.

Irving was reimbursed for the season, and he didn't play a game in the playoffs, but the Celtics went all the way to the Eastern Conference finals, and fought seven games with the Cavaliers before losing the battle, you must know that in the previous round, the Cavaliers just swept the Raptors with the first record in the East 4:0 with an unbeatable momentum.

So, what exactly did Irving bring to the Celtics? In addition to wanting to be the boss, but no one obeyed him at all, and he was left behind, Irving's two years with the Celtics can be described as nothing.

Not to mention the two years of the Green Army, even in the later years of the Nets, they have partnered with Durant, Harden and many other top stars one after another, and the results are no different.

Until the 22-23 season, people mentioned Irving's strength, and the most mentioned was the three-point kill in the finals of the 15-16 season.

Away from the conversation, back to All-Star Weekend.

Regardless of his previous suspicions, James wants to shake hands with Owen.

In contrast, Wang Chao does not have that kind of "high emotional intelligence".

His second choice did not choose Durant, a good partner last season, and the two had a very unpleasant quarrel in the finals, especially Durant was embarrassed and thrown home under Wang Chao's behavior of flipping the table, and he was full of resentment towards Wang Chao.

He was reluctant to play with Wang Chao, and Wang Chao did not have the same mind as James, so his second choice was Stephen of the Warriors. Curry.

James then chose Hornets forward Anthony for the second choice. Davis, Wang Chao's third choice was to choose Raptors guard Demar. DeRozan.

At this time, there are three starters left, namely Durant in the East, Leonard in the West, and Cousins.

Then James chooses Leonard with a wicked smile on his face.

When he saw James choose Leonard, Wang Chao knew that this guy was really bad enough.

In the selection process of the future 2022 All-Star Weekend, Harden, who was on the Nets at the time, was deeply involved in a trade turmoil, and the East and West ticket kings happened to be Durant and James respectively.

James deliberately did not choose Harden during the draft process, and let Durant who was still on the same team as Harden make a choice, but even the upright Durant did not plan to choose Harden, but chose Gobert.

Now, in the face of Wang Chao, James actually used the same trick, the only difference is that there was no live broadcast selection link in the first East-West Ticket King Confrontation, and I couldn't see James's expression of covering his face and snickering.

Wang Chao doesn't care about this, he can directly express his disdain for Durant very calmly and calmly, but Du Xiaoshuai's cautious personality is estimated to be really on the same team with him, and he can't sleep at night when he is angry.

So Wang Chao's fourth choice still chose DeMarcus. Cousins, leaving Durant to James.

After the All-Star starting lineup is selected, it is the selection of the bench lineup, but there is nothing to mention in this link.

On the Nuggets' side, only Wang Chao was selected as an All-Star, and the rest including Gobert, Murray, Mitchell and Rose were all unselected.

It's just that only Wang Chao was selected for the All-Star Game on the Nuggets team, which once again amazed people.

A team with only one All-Star on the team is currently the best in the league, so how can those teams with three or four All-Stars live? (End of chapter)