This number of votes was much more than Li Ao expected.

It's almost time to catch up with Carter, who is booming in popularity this season!

Obviously, this has a lot to do with the recent media touting his 20+ streak!

At this stage, even if domestic fans have a high enthusiasm for voting, the vast majority of fans cannot find a channel to vote.

Internet voting now accounts for a small proportion, even in the Eagle Sauce family, 90% of the votes are physical votes, which is related to David Stern's conservative thinking, too many Internet industry thunderstorms and bankruptcies recently, and many insiders have been exposed.

The most common occurrence is data fraud, which is related to votes, sales, clicks, etc.

David Stern wants to ensure the gold content of All-Star players, and has not opened a wide range of Internet voting for the time being.

If people want to vote, they still have to go to the physical stores that the NBA works with.

Li Ao felt that he took advantage of the general environment this time, and it happened that in the middle of this season, several of the most topical superstars were 'invisible', and the media caught him in order to attract the attention of fans, so that he maintained a high level of popularity in this stage of the bad environment of the basketball market.

However, this is mainly due to his personal performance, even if there is no wave, he estimates that with his performance and popularity, he may be in the starting ranks, at least able to compete with Garnett.

After entering the NBA, Li Ao learned that rookies averaging 20+ per game are not common.

Since entering the modern basketball era in 1976, there have been more than half a year without an average of 20+ points per game rookies, and there is usually only one, counting this season, in 25 seasons, only 4 seasons have had two rookies who have averaged 20+ points per game.

The vast majority of players who average 20+ per game in their rookie seasons will become top players in the NBA in the future...... The only exception for the last 24 seasons has been Glenn Robinson.

Big Dog was controversial in his rookie year, and even received a fraction of Kidd and Hill's best rookie votes.

Players who have begun to retire in their rookie years, except for a certain No. 21 who has been in the NBA for a while and has barely seen progress in a few years, are also big dogs.

Temporarily ranked first in the western region, and may even hit the king of the flyer's vote, Li Ao is very excited.

But in addition to his excitement, he smelled a hint of danger.

Coincidentally, the two people who won the second and third votes in the west are the neighbors next door, and they are going to fight the neighbors next door tomorrow!

…

Herd mentality is very common in the world of sports.

Li Ao relied on his own performance and media hype to top the Western list in the first stage of the All-Star starting voting, and his popularity soared again!

After the NBA released the first phase of voting data, keywords such as 'Leo', 'Li Ao', 'Spider-Man Leo', and 'Western Vote King' took turns to top the Yahoo search global keyword search rankings.

In Hill's rookie season that year, the number of votes in the first phase of the All-Star Weekend was directly twice that of the second place, and the fault line was the first, which was not as hot as Li Ao is now.

At that time, even if it was Eagle Sauce's house, civilian computers had just begun to be popularized, and at present, the North American Internet industry had just passed a stage of rapid development...... Although it is a bubble, the popularization of computers and the Internet has reached a new level at this stage.

In the world of basketball, Li Ao has eaten the dividends of the times this time!

The next day, Jan. 13, the Clippers and Lakers game day arrived.

Whether Li Ao can continue to get 20+ in the game with the Lakers, tied with Big Dog, Iverson, and Duncan, this topic has become the hottest topic in the NBA at present.

Hot topic related to this topic - how will the OK group deal with Spider-Man?

Many people are waiting to see a good show, and the two people in the OK combination are smaller than the other.

Ten months ago, the game in which the Sharks scored a career-high 61 points was hyped up again.

That night, O'Neal didn't even care about defense, with 0 steals and 0 blocks in the game, which was the only game in his MVP season where both steals and blocks were zero, and all the physical energy was concentrated on the Clippers' basket and 11 dunks.

Bryant also had a trademark game of the little eye last month.

Carter's big mouth got into trouble, saying that Bryant could only play well with O'Neal.

As a result, Bryant scored 40 points and 3 blocks on 14-of-29 shooting that night, and scored 31 points on 10-of-32 shooting from Carter's 32-of-12 shooting.

That night, Bryant had five fouls, one technical foul, and one physical foul, all of which were used, forcing Carter to shoot 12 times from beyond the three-point line.

Now that Li Ao 'offends' the two at once, what will happen to him?

…

The disturbances from the outside world did not affect Li Ao.

As usual, he followed the team to prepare for the game in the morning, practiced for two and a half hours after lunch, and then asked Da Q to run errands and buy two hamburgers, and after sleeping for an hour, he got up to warm up and eat hamburgers to satisfy his hunger...... Methodically completed the pre-match preparations for the race day.

At 7:40 p.m., the Staples Center, the Clippers and Lakers entered the court.

Tonight, the Lakers are at home, but nearly half of the fans are wearing Clippers jerseys and t-shirts!

Li Ao All-Star votes are high, Clippers fans are naturally the main force of vote output, although it is in the middle of the season, there is NFL in charge, but Clippers fans still maintain a high level of enthusiasm, tonight's game Li Ao can play, they are actively grabbing tickets with Lakers fans, this time, luxury!

The other half, hey, not many people are wearing Lakers jerseys or t-shirts.

Noble fans have their pride, after returning to the NBA, this season's regular season, except for a few games, such as playing the Celtics, or opponents with deep grievances in recent years, Lakers fans are arrogant, Lakers fans feel that these opponents are not worthy of their such grand treatment.

For example, now, not only are not many Lakers fans 'grandly treated' this game, but there are not many boos when the Clippers players play, and even many Lakers fans cheer for Li Ao, the better Li Ao's performance and the higher the news, the more unwilling they are to have no stud Li Ao in June last year.

So, the situation reversed, and the scene and atmosphere looked like the Lakers' home court was occupied by Clippers fans!

When O'Neal and Kobe heard the fans cheering for Li Ao, their expressions were even more irritable, cold and cold, and their eyes were staring at Li Ao.

Li Ao had already felt these two blazing eyes, he interacted with the fans, and after enjoying a wave of cheers from the fans, he looked at the opposite side.

The eyes of Spider-Man and the OK combination met, and the three of them tacitly came to the technical table, which once again sparked cheers from the fans at the scene.

Kobe Bryant and O'Neal have a tacit understanding, and the two stared at Spider-Man in front of them viciously, wanting to scare the rookie.

But in response to them, there were excited and excited expressions, and excited eyes.

O'Neill said: "We're both going to play tonight, you don't have any chance of winning!" ”

Kobe nodded three times in a row.

Li Ao responded: "Even if you only have one, it will be very difficult for us to win." ”

“……”

O'Neill choked up, his expression embarrassed.

What kind of routine is this?

Seeing Li Aoshi displaying his 'nirvana: sincerity', Kobe glanced at O'Neal, and his mood suddenly became a lot happier.

It's a good feeling to have someone to empathize with.

O'Neill forcibly continued the topic, showing a hideous expression and said: "I'll let you know tonight, I should be the ticket king, I'm the strongest!" Kobe Bryant and I, can beat everything! ”

When Kobe Bryant heard this, he glanced at O'Neal again, and others pouted imperceptibly, but this time he didn't say anything.

Tonight's priority goal, hammer the little wrecked ship!

Li Ao responded when he heard this: "I have long wanted to play against the world's No. 1 OK combination, and finally have a chance, it's really exciting, if you can't play together today, I probably won't have a chance this season, it's a little difficult for me to enter the playoffs, you are not injured tonight, I am so lucky!" ”

O'Neill is so angry!

He finally understood why Kobe Bryant was angry at the mention of Li Ao.

It turns out that it's not just the explosion head that is stingy, Spider-Man is really annoying, and it's so annoying if he doesn't talk trash!

The exposed personality is like a big bird, and he treats people as sincerely as a stone Buddha, but he can't say it!

O'Neill huffed and turned away.

Kobe Bryant had some schadenfreude – fat man, you also have today.

However, what he cares more about is Li Ao's courage to challenge the strongest, which is something he has always admired.

Not only the big spider, but he was also excited to see the Clippers players on the other side.

This made him a little unbelievable, in the past 4 years, this neighbor saw their Purple and Gold Army, and directly lost their fighting spirit, losing 20 points in a game is less.

In just a few months, this team has changed so much!

With the Big Spider on this team, Kobe Bryant has paid a lot of attention to the opposite side this season.

He sees the team's progress this season.

It is also often reported in the media.

The media is always hyping up the progress of the Clippers' players, the beginning of a tactical system, and the improvement of the team's treatment and benefits...... And so on.

Kobe Bryant thinks all of this is true, but in his opinion, the main improvement of the Clippers is that they are no longer afraid of their opponents!

When he played against the Clippers in the preseason, he could clearly feel that the Clippers players were scared.

But on January 1st, two months passed, Kobe Bryant played against the Clippers again, although his team won, but there was no fear on the other side, although the pressure could be seen, but everyone was on the court without fear to try their best to defend.

To this day, he was excited to see everyone on the other side.

The reason he knows, the whole United States live.

But when they met their Lakers, the Clippers players were actually excited because of the live broadcast...... Kobe Bryant still has a dismal and uncomfortable situation!

Everyone is exaggerating Spider's leadership skills, but few people praise him in this regard!

…

Li Ao confirmed that the OK group targeted him because of the 'Western Ticket King'.

Some people gloated and said that it was a no-brainer, but he gladly accepted it.

It's not that he's confident enough to beat the OK pair, it's that he feels that since he's enjoying the spotlight and getting this attention, he deserves to be targeted on the court.

He looked at O'Neill's assessment report...... Turn it off for a few seconds, and then look at Kobe's.

"Kobe Bryant, 22 years old, 198 cm, 95 kg, overall rating 97...... Speed 93, Power 91, Bounce 97...... averaged 28.8 points, 6 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 1.6 steals per game...... Shooting 46.4 percent from the field, 46.2 percent from the field, and 65.5 percent from the field......

"I'll go! The big shark plus this explosive head, how can others fight in the playoffs! ”

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the long-awaited Li Ao finally ushered in his first encounter with the OK group.

O'Neal narrowly defeated O'Neal Jr. to win the jump ball, and the Lakers attacked first!

In the first attack of the opening game, Kobe Bryant pulled away on the weak side and took away Li Ao, Ron Harper passed the ball to Rick Fox in the top arc and took McGinnis to the left bottom corner, Nesby guarded in the top arc, and Hores Grant took Sean Lukes to the right bottom line.

The Lakers' triangle offensive position was swung away, and O'Neal dropped to the left side of the three-second zone to single O'Neal Jr. in the low post.

O'Neal Jr. violently resisted O'Neal's invasion, but O'Neal was more excited when he encountered resistance, and violently pushed O'Neal Jr. back a step back, Rick Fox passed the ball in time, O'Neal took half a step forward after pushing back O'Neal Jr., comfortably received the ball, followed the action of retracting his hand when receiving the ball, and hit O'Neal Jr. in one step, turning around and carrying O'Neal Jr. to the side.

O'Neal jumped, and Sean Lukes, who moved ahead of time and came up at the first time, smashed the ball into the basket!

One dozen and two brutal partitions!

Sean Lux jumped up and hung on O'Neal, but he couldn't stop the other party.

Everyone was surprised by this, and even the referee didn't blow the whistle and used Sean Lukes as a dunk pendant.

Even O'Neal himself, who has an extra pendant, doesn't regard this as a foul and is used to it.

Switching offense and defense, Li Ao took a deep breath when he ran to the frontcourt.

The picture just now, no matter how many times I watched it, I still feel amazing.

When receiving the ball, follow the action of receiving the ball, use the space brought by the previous impact, and hit it again before the opponent sticks up, directly knocking the opponent out of position, and then deducting the defensive player.

O'Neill's style of play seems rough, but if you take a closer look, it's full of details!

O'Neal Jr. defended hard, and Sean Lukes, a veteran, moved in a timely manner.

However, O'Neal's action rate is a little faster than when he fought half a month ago, and it has changed more than two months ago!

Because of the weight!

Li Ao entered and saw that the weight of the big shark dropped to 159 kilograms!

Other stars have experienced a decline in performance and physical problems in the middle of the season, and even a superstar of the level of Double 21 will be somewhat affected at this time.

This big shark, who lost weight in the early part of the season, began to show weight loss effects in the middle of the season......

Coming to the frontcourt, Li Ao threw himself into the attack and began to cooperate with McGinnis's breakthrough to run without the ball.

After running for a few seconds, Li Ao noticed that something was wrong, and the explosive head bit so tightly!

And

The Lakers didn't make an infinite change of defense this time, and Kobe Bryant stared at him alone!

Li Ao finally got a chance, but the ball didn't pass.

McGinnis, on his side, didn't see the timing of the ball and couldn't make a shot, and after he broke through Ron Harper, he was met by Hores Grant's supplementary defense and stopped the ball!

Li Ao hurriedly ran to the right side of the free throw line, and McGinnis gave the ball out like a life-saving straw.

After Li Ao received the ball, he was immediately stuck by the biting Kobe!

The ball was in Li Ao's hands, Li Ao did not have the opportunity to shoot or play the ball at the first time, and the rest of the Lakers immediately defended their defensive objects around the front and cut off the contact between others and Li Ao.

Li Ao leaned on Kobe, grabbed the ball with one hand and stretched out to the far end to protect the ball.

The Lakers actually prepared them defensively, and he felt ...... It's an honor!

After a second of divergent thinking, Li Ao immediately focused and leaned towards Kobe.

If you can't pass it out, you can't vote directly if you don't have the conditions, so you can hit it back!

Li Ao didn't hit this time, he didn't stop moving, just a test just now, he stored his strength and hit the back again, but the action just looked big, and he didn't really exert force, and at the moment when he was about to touch Kobe, he turned left...... Kobe Bryant judged that Li Ao's impact was a feint, moved sideways in time, and took a step to the left.

Li Ao was blocked, at this time the benefits of paying attention to the most basic details were reflected, he immediately grabbed the ball, and took a step away from the force of the rebound, although the action looked a little stiff and not smooth, but it was made and got the space to lift the ball!

Kobe Bryant immediately pressed up, jumped with Li Ao when he jumped and shot, and his height and arm span suffered, but Kobe's bounce speed and bounce made up for the gap in static physical conditions, and his small hand was on the line where Li Ao's ball was thrown.

However, Li Ao leaned back directly when he jumped, leaning back 45 degrees, successfully avoiding Kobe's blocking shot......

'Perfect Warm-up Level 2' triggered, the first pitch in the opening game felt hot!

The ball arcs high and goes into the hoop!

Kobe Bryant turned his head to watch the ball fall into the frame, and then turned his head back to see Li Ao lying on the floor with a smug smile......

What's the situation that this guy's back punch has been developed?

Today's grandma's birthday, Xiaofeng delayed a little time to help the kitchen in the morning, and try to be early in the afternoon, thank you for your understanding.

(End of chapter)