At the end of the first round, James led Wang by more than 160,000 votes, and the lead was a relatively large gap.

However, with the announcement of the results of the second round of voting, Wang Chao not only successfully overtook James in the second round, but even led James by nearly 200,000 votes in the total number of votes!

In the second round alone, Wang Chao's votes were nearly 400,000 votes higher than James's!

What is this concept?

So far in the regular season, Mavericks guard James Harden, who is currently averaging 34 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists per game, and is at the top of the scoring list, received 430,000 votes in the first round and 470,000 votes in the second round.

Wang Chao surpassed James in the second round alone, and he was almost able to catch up with Harden's overall vote!

Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that Harden has never played in the Rockets, and there is a large number of fans who should have come from China, but as the only star who can compare with Wang Chao in scoring in the past two years, and a strong contender for the MVP of the regular season, Harden's popularity is still so, let alone other stars.

Except for a few top stars such as Antetokounmpo, Curry, Durant and so on, the vast majority of stars are not as popular as Harden.

This fully proves how exaggerated Wang Chao's votes in the second round of voting are.

Although the league will have another round of voting to finalize the All-Star voting results, when the results of the second round of voting are announced, both James himself and fans who support James already have a sense of despair that they are unable to fight again.

Wang Chao's fan base is too large, especially when it is backed by a population of 1.4 billion, it is difficult for others to have an advantage over Wang Chao in terms of the number of fans.

This result also made many James fans and even other player fans in the United States extremely dissatisfied, and they protested one after another, suggesting that the league should dilute the weight ratio from overseas voting, Wang Chao's situation is too unfair to other players in the league.

But the alliance officials also have bitter words.

"Diluting the overseas voting weighting ratio? Do you think I'm not diluted? If he hadn't done it, why would James only be 200,000 votes behind Wang Chao now? ”

In fact, the league has been trying to weaken the role of Chinese fans in the All-Star voting as much as possible, and it is not just recently, as early as when Da Yao was elected as the league vote king for two consecutive years, the league has realized the invasion of Chinese fans into the league's voting mechanism and made adjustments.

But even so, Wang Chao's fan base is still too large, unless they ignore all the votes in the Asia-Pacific region, Wang Chao will be invincible in the all-star vote!

And then just like that, soon a week passed and the third round of voting was officially over.

In the third round of voting, although they knew that it might have cooled down, James's fans still actively voted every day, and also called on others around them to vote for their stars.

In the end, James ended with a total of 5.16 million votes at the end of the three rounds of voting.

This number of votes has broken the previous individual vote record for All-Star voting, and it has also significantly set a new record.

On the one hand, it is because James and his team are actively operating and the fans are supporting, and on the other hand, in order to make All-Star voting more interesting, the league has added a five-day double counting rule, during which the vote count will be doubled, which has increased a large number of votes out of thin air.

But even in this case, James lost, and badly.

A record high of 5.16 million votes, met Wang Chao, who got 6.02 million votes, and in the all-star vote, Wang Chao won James with 860,000 votes! It's almost the same as the famous garbage bro in the East, Kyle. Lowry & Jamal. DeRozan and the two got a similar total of votes after three rounds.

Obviously, this is a crushing victory without suspense, outside the arena, Wang Chao defeated James again, even if he himself didn't even care about this matter at all, and he didn't take the initiative to ask for votes, but this is so inexplicable, he became the league vote king.

And the ticket king on the eastern side is the alphabet brother Antetokounmpo.

This season, with his energetic style of play, luxurious personal data and outstanding team leadership results, Brother Alphabet's popularity has soared, and he has surpassed Curry Durant to become the most popular star under Wang Chao and James.

After three rounds of voting, Brother Alphabet received 4.3 million votes, although there is a big gap compared with Wang Chao and James, but he is also the only star with a total vote of more than 4 million in addition to these two.

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After the voting results were announced, everyone originally thought that the all-star East and West vote kings were determined to be Wang Chao and Brother Alphabet.

However, many fans who don't pay much attention to the NBA All-Star rules don't know that since the All-Star restructuring in the 16-17 season, the rules of All-Star voting have changed, and the ranking of stars in the All-Star voting is not only the total number of votes of fans, but also the player votes and media votes, and the three are combined for a comprehensive ranking.

Although Wang Chao was far away from James a few streets away in the fan voting process, which can be called a crushing victory, when the player vote was announced, Wang Chao received 203 votes from the league players, and James was 216 votes, narrowly defeating Wang Chao and becoming the first in the Western frontcourt.

In the media vote, James received 99 votes, higher than Wang Chao's 97 votes, and once again ranked first in the Western frontcourt.

As a result, in the final competition, Wang Chao fans voted first, players and media voted second, and was overtaken by James in the corner...... No, to be exact, it should be a direct card BUG to go to the background program to achieve an almost impossible overtake and become the captain of the west.

Wang Chao was also stunned when he learned about this, he, like most fans, thought that he was far better than James in the All-Star vote, and he was already the king of the Western vote.

After he carefully understood the new all-star voting mechanism, he immediately remembered what was going on and couldn't help but sneer.

"I'm pretty good at playing."

Compared with the voting process, which requires a large number of fans to constantly repeat voting, it is much easier to find more than 300 players and hundreds of media to vote.

Wang Chao has long been unpopular with the media in the United States, even if he admires Wang Chao's strength, there will still be many media who deliberately do not vote for him.

This is not the case with the media, let alone the players.

Of course, Wang Chao has been in the league for so many years, and he has many enemies and friends, but compared with a delicate guy like James, it is still a little worse.

The all-star east and west captains and starters were all determined in this way, and Wang Chao was not the only one who was restricted by this strange mechanism.

Wade in the East and Doncic in the West were also deeply affected, and were more affected than Wang Chao, after all, Wang Chao just lost the position of All-Star captain in the West that he didn't care about, Wade and Doncic both obviously got high votes, but because the votes of the players and the media were too low, they fell directly out of the starting lineup.

Especially Doncic, as a first-year rookie, after he was drafted by the Memphis Grizzlies, he quickly became the absolute core of the team, and his data performance exploded, and he also gained a lot of popularity, although due to the existence of Wang Chao, the number of votes that should have been 4.2 million votes in the whole league, second only to James and Brother Alphabet, was reduced to about 3.9 million, but it was still the highest number of votes in the league under Wang Chao, James, and Brother Alphabet.

However, in the forward line of the West, Doncic's players and media votes were not high, which seriously lowered the ranking, and as a result, he fell directly out of the Western frontcourt starting list, and even fell to fifth. Under George.

Wade is in a similar situation, relying on the popularity of the retirement tour, Wade got 2 million votes, although it is not high, but among the Eastern backcourt players, it is second only to Irving's super high number of votes, ahead of Kemba. Walker's 810,000 votes are about the same as the gap between Wang Chao and James.

But it was Kemba who was finally selected as the starting point of the Eastern Conference All-Star. Walker.

This increasingly commercial alliance has finally reached the point where even the All-Star personnel have to operate in the dark.

After the East and West All-Star starters and captains were confirmed, James looked proud, although he lost badly in the fan voting process, but what does it matter?

In an interview with the media, James smiled and said with a smile: "This is my first time participating in the All-Star in the West, I believe it will be a very amazing experience, thank you very much to the fans for pushing me to the position of captain in the West, I will try to bring you a wonderful All-Star Game!" ”

When Wang Chao's fans heard this, their noses were almost crooked.

In the end, it was the fans or the league that pushed you to the position of captain of the West, don't you have a little pressure in your heart? Why are you embarrassed to lick your face and say such a thing?

But James just said so, and in the live TV selection session on February 8, James never chose Wang Chao for three consecutive rounds, and finally Antetokounmpo chose Wang Chao in the fourth selection.

Wang Chao only learned about this matter later.

If the previous things can still be ignored as the antics of the clown, then it is a bit of a kick in the face to do things in the selection process.

Although Wang Chao felt that it was a bit of a fuss and not interesting to make a big deal in an exhibition game like All-Star, since someone deliberately put his face over to find a beating, there was no way.

Since James is so jumpy, he doesn't mind being serious on the All-Star stage for the first time in a long time.

Everyone took the initiative to stretch their faces over, so don't blame the beating hard!

In the end, the two teams were divided into five starters for the James team: Irving, Harden, James, Durant and Anthony. Davis.

The starting five of the Antetokounmpo team are Curry, Kemba. Walker, Leonard, Wang Chao and Antetokounmpo.

It can be seen from the lineup that Brother Alphabet is the first time to be the king of the Eastern Ticket, and he is obviously inexperienced, and he was crushed by James' IQ in the selection process, and the starting lineup he chose is not like four, and the guard line is Walker and Curry, two point guards, and Curry can barely play a cameo as a two-way guard as a scoring guard.

But in the forward position, Brother Alphabet has to put himself in the center position, otherwise there will be no one available.

James' first choice was to choose Anthony, a thick-eyed brother. Davis, because he knows very well that due to the All-Star voting reform, the original traditional center position has been abolished, which also makes it difficult for the center who is not popular enough to enter the All-Star starting lineup.

Although Davis is a major power forward, he can also play the center position, and is the most worthy of the first choice of the eight starters.

Fortunately, in addition to the five starters, both teams also have seven substitutes each.

failed to pick a suitable interior brother in the starter, and chose James's previous partner, center Joel. Embiid and the Lakers' Cousins made up for the lack of center positions.

Speaking of the All-Star bench, it has to be mentioned that the Clippers have perfectly inherited the glorious tradition of the Nuggets last season this season, and no one on the team was selected as an All-Star except for Wang Chao.

This is actually normal.

Even in the original 18-19 season of the Clippers, Lu Wei, Harris and Gallinari were able to contribute an average of 20+ points per game, but they were not selected as All-Stars, not to mention the Clippers joined by Wang Chao, the data of the three were affected because of Wang Chao, and no one has scored 20+ points at present.

It's just that in this way, Wang Chao's dominance on the field is more highlighted.

The Clippers only have one All-Star, Wang Chao, but their record has always been at the top of the league, and they are gradually opening up a gap with the Warriors, Bucks and other teams.

The All-Star voting process, which is when the Clippers continued to maintain a high record in January, educated the league's teams with exaggerated three-point projections with magic ball tactics.

As of early February, the Clippers' record has unknowingly reached 47-9, a winning rate of 84%, because of Gallinari's large number of absences, the record has fluctuated slightly from the previous two months, although it is almost impossible to break the season to 70 wins, but the winning percentage is still higher than the rest of the league.

And the most embarrassing of this All-Star is obviously the Los Angeles Lakers, they have three All-Stars selected this time, in addition to the West captain James, the interior twin towers Cousins and Towns were both selected.

The Lakers also became the only team to have three active All-Stars at the same time this season.

Even if it is as strong as the Nets, only Durant and Jokic have been selected as All-Stars this season, and Paul and Booker have both been selected.

But the Lakers, who have three All-Stars, have a disappointing record, barely hanging in the top half of the West, and completely fail to show the dominance that the league's top teams should have.

According to the current winning rate, I am afraid that the Lakers will barely get 50 wins by the end of the regular season.

At this time, Lakers fans continued to chant the slogan of the Lakers championship, but they did not mention the regular season record at all.

In their words, the regular season is just a part of training and warm-up, and our Lakers didn't play seriously at all, and when it comes to the playoffs, it is the time to go all out, and then the Lakers can really shout the slogan of "Lakers Championship"!

Lakers fans are convinced of this statement, but others scoff.

We lost a lot of games in the regular season that we shouldn't lose, so why can we win in the playoffs? Thinking too much. (End of chapter)