Chapter 470 All Stars and New Hidden Missions

The 2008 NBA All-Star Game is a very special All-Star Game.

According to the original plan, the 2008 NBA All-Star Game was held in New Orleans.

This is the concern of the NBA for the city of New Orleans after the New Orleans hurricane.

Regardless of the city's attitude toward the NBA.

It doesn't matter whether the city needs such care or not.

The NBA has always been quite proactive in demonstrating humanistic values.

Where there are disasters, where there are sick fans, where there are community events, the NBA can always be seen.

This is an important part of David Stern's efforts to enhance the NBA's image of pornography, gambling and drugs in the past.

In fact, what David Stern has done in this regard is indeed quite successful.

The image of the NBA in the United States has also been slowly improving.

Setting the home court of the 2008 NBA All-Star in New Orleans is David Stern's great effort in humanistic care.

Just to David Stern's embarrassment, the New Orleans Hornets were sold to the Oklahoma Consortium in the summer of 2007.

According to the plan, the New Orleans Hornets will move back to New Orleans for the 2007-08 season after spending two seasons in Oklahoma in 2005-06 and 2006-07 because of the hurricane.

It was directly acquired by the Oklahoma consortium before it started to move back.

How could the Hornets move back?

The Hornets' owner, the Oklahoma Consortium, is unlikely to let the Hornets move back.

The boss of the Hornets, Chris Paul, is also unwilling to move back. After he entered the NBA, he stayed in Oklahoma most of the time. His affection for Oklahoma is much higher than that of New Orleans.

For Chris Paul, Oklahoma fans are the best fans.

As for players like David West who have stayed in New Orleans, they also don't want to go back.

What kind of ball market is New Orleans?

What kind of enthusiasm are New Orleans fans, can they still not know?

Comparable to crazy Oklahoma fans?

In this case, after the New Orleans Hornets were acquired.

It is unbelievable that the action of changing the name and relocating is so fast.

The whole team is willing to change the name and move the team to Oklahoma, can't it be fast?

If this were changed to Seattle, even if the ball market in Seattle was mediocre at the time, I am afraid it would take a long time to argue.

Not to mention the players in New Orleans, even the fans in New Orleans didn't care that much about it.

The ball market in New Orleans is not that good, and the Hornets have moved their home court to Oklahoma for two years. Although in the past two years, the Hornets will play one or two games in New Orleans from time to time .

But in the final analysis, New Orleans fans have really not been so enthusiastic about the Hornets in the past two years.

Most people basically have a mentality of leaving and leaving.

Under these circumstances, the 2008 NBA All-Star Game really couldn't be done in New Orleans.

The main host, the New Orleans Hornets have become the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Without the full support of the New Orleans Hornets, is it possible that New Orleans will be completely taken over by the city like Las Vegas like last year's All-Stars?

The city of New Orleans does have the heart, but it really doesn't have the strength.

How could the current New Orleans be comparable to the casino.

What's more, the citizens of New Orleans may not be willing to spend a lot of effort in their city to host the 2008 All-Stars.

Originally the 2008 All-Star, David Stern wanted to express his kindness.

But in the end he found that his good intentions were directly in vain because of the change of ownership of the New Orleans Hornets.

There is no way, since New Orleans has no will, it can only change the city.

In addition to New Orleans, there are many cities and teams in the league willing to host All-Stars.

Yes, Seattle knew, too.

But in the end David Stern handed over the right to host the Oklahoma City Thunder.

David Stern's decision surprised even the Thunder themselves.

David Stern, whose interests are paramount, actually made the worst choice.

However, this is also where David Stern is respected.

David Stern likes to put profits first for the league.

But at the same time, he also likes to take into account some fairness and justice, likes to support some small teams, and is willing to help some small cities.

At this point, it's really quite rare.

If the 2008 All-Star Game was held in Seattle, the NBA's revenue would probably be hundreds of millions of dollars more than that held in Oklahoma.

But anyway, the 2008 NBA All-Star Game was held at the Ford Center, home of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

This is also the venue for the rare All-Star replacement in NBA history.

And the rare change of venue in history has also become the beginning of this All-Star session becoming very special.

In addition to temporarily changing the venue of this All-Star Game, the rules of the All-Star voting method have also been changed.

In order to increase the participation of fans and provide a higher degree of freedom for fans to vote, David Stern canceled the previous "candidate" system for All-Star voting.

Not everyone is eligible for the previous NBA All-Star voting.

There are only two people on a team, and a total of 60 people can compete for the All-Star starter.

These 60 people are selected by the media group, and fans can only vote for these 60 people in theory.

Of course, fans can also have other choices, but the voting method is quite troublesome and may be invalid.

The 60-man system for All-Star voting is now obviously unable to keep up with the development of the NBA.

In order to make it easier for fans to vote, and to enhance the influence of the NBA, David Stern naturally canceled this outdated system.

David Stern's idea is very good.

However, this season opened up voting for all players, which made it easier for fans to choose the players they want, and problems arose naturally.

If no one said it, I'm afraid it's hard to imagine who is the number one guard in the Eastern Conference's All-Star voting.

Iverson? Wade? Arenas?

Or Ray Allen or the Eagle King Joe Johnson who has shined in these two seasons?

neither!

Now the number one player in the All-Star guard position in the Eastern Conference is the Wizards' starting point guard, Sun Yue!

In the third round of NBA All-Star voting announced on January 1, 2008, Sun Yue led his teammate Arenas with 2.05 million votes and Heat guard Dehuai with 2.1 million votes. En Wade ranks first among the guards in the Eastern Conference.

Amazing, right?

A player who has averaged 6 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.2 blocks per game so far in a season, and his shooting percentage is only 28% can actually become an All-Star starter!

Who dared to imagine this before Sun Yue appeared?

In the last season, the influence of Chinese fans in the NBA has been verified.

Ye Si and Yao Ming's votes really shocked the entire league.

And it wasn't until the appearance of Sun Yue this season that fans and the media across the United States knew how much influence Chinese fans have on NBA votes.

Chinese fans are now very enthusiastic about the NBA All-Star starters.

Because of Ye Si and Yao Ming's outstanding performance in the NBA, the influence of the NBA in China is too huge now.

In addition, CCTV is reporting at length again.

Chinese fans intended to vote for Ye Si and Yao Ming.

It's just that some of the fans are willing to vote for Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian, which directly led to the current result.

Sun Yue ranked first in the guard position in the Eastern Conference. Under him were Arenas, Wade, Ray Allen, Joe Johnson and other powerful players.

In the west, the big names suppressed by Yi Jianlian at the forward position are also jaw-dropping.

Yi Jianlian is now ranked number one in the Western Conference forward position.

Tracy McGrady is ranked second, followed by Anthony, Duncan, Nowitzki and others.

Is Yi Jianlian doing well now?

Of course it is excellent.

As the biggest rookie on a strong defensive team and one of the most acclaimed rookies, Yi Jianlian's performance in the Timberwolves is quite amazing.

But with Yi Jianlian's performance in the Timberwolves this season, he will definitely not be ranked among the top ten forwards in the Western Conference.

Not to mention McGrady, Duncan, Anthony, Nowitzki and others.

Even Boozer, Marion, Josh Howard, and even Durant of the Sonics can't compare.

Durant was the league's Rookie of the Month for two consecutive months in November and December.

No matter how controversial Durant's performance was.

He is indeed the leading scorer right now.

Even in order to maintain the glory of the league's scoring champion, the league reluctantly gave him the title of Rookie of the Month for two consecutive months.

A rookie scoring champion can lead the team to rank third in the league. There is no reason to give the Rookie of the Month to others.

If the Sonics do not have Yes, Durant will lead the Sonics to the top three in the league as the scoring leader, and Durant is now the number one in the league's MVP rankings.

The combination of scoring champion + playoffs is the lowest in the history of the NBA to be able to enter the best team, and more than 70% of them are in the first team.

In short, if it weren't for the fact that Sun Yue was so eye-catching in the All-Star voting, the player who is ridiculed by the All-Star media and fans across the United States is Yi Jianlian.

Now the media and fans all over the United States are calling on all American basketball fans to come out and vote, and Sun Yue must be kicked out of the starting position.

But to the embarrassment of these people, since the first round, the vote gap between Sun Yue, Arenas and Wade is still widening.

The media across the United States, and even the media around the world, really have no Chinese fans in the All-Star voting.

Therefore, according to the current trend, the 2008 NBA All-Stars will usher in four starters with Chinese nationality!

Special, right?

In the history of the NBA, such a special situation has never been seen.

Four foreign starters for the US and the NBA?

This is something that I can't even think about.

It's okay to say that these four players are all all-star players.

The key is that two of them are not even at the All-Star level, even at the quasi-All-Star level.

Although the NBA is for fans to choose their favorite players to enter the All-Stars, it is naturally not what David Stern wants to see such a player who has no All-Star strength to enter the All-Stars.

But David Stern finally found out that he really has nothing to do with the current situation of this year's All-Star voting.

He is a man of principles, there are no rules, he will make rules that are beneficial to him, and he will do whatever it takes to do so.

But since the rules have been formulated, he is also a person who likes to follow the rules. According to this year's rules, Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian should be the starters of the All-Stars.

Unless the fans cast the two down according to the rules he made, it is impossible for him to use some special methods to get the two down.

This is not in line with his character, nor is it in the interests of the NBA. Now the Chinese market is indeed something that no one can give up.

The horrific amount sold by Yes Sports' Generation Yes in China left the whole world dumbfounded.

It is impossible for the NBA to offend such a huge market for two All-Star starting positions.

In this case, David Stern can only find a way to add some rules to prevent this kind of thing from happening again in the future.

This year, Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian seem to have been confirmed as All-Star starters.

In the NBA, many players who aspire to the NBA All-Star starting position seem to have accepted their fate.

At the same time, the results of the third round of the All-Star voting for these players, no matter whether they accepted their fate or not, were released. When Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian were really only one step away from the All-Stars, they had a huge and unbelievable affection for these two players. Envy.

For example, Ye Si's current teammate Durant.

The league's leading scorer, he received 10,000 votes in the All-Star voting.

Durant's All-Star votes are the Sonics' fourteenth.

It is even lower than Malik Rose, who is on the verge of retirement and has basically never played.

As Durant is currently the leading scorer in the league, this number of votes is really a shame!

Malik Rose's votes exceeded 50,000, but he was only in the early 10,000s.

In the first two rounds of voting, Durant's performance was the worst, and he recognized it.

As of late, he's been the Sonics' second-best player behind Yes.

But in the All-Star ballot, there was no improvement.

Who can bear this?

Anyone facing such a situation would be full of resentment.

Yeth felt Durant's resentment.

Ye Si couldn't help but feel it.

Hidden mission: I am Goose City All-Star.

Mission description: I want to be an all-star! Both SUN and Yi can be, so can I!

Task requirements: Durant became the 2008 NBA All-Star player.

Mission reward: Durant's mid-range shot potential.

Durant's CIC potential? !

Three points: 80 (90).

Looking at the three-point potential obtained from Durant, Ye Si can be sure that Durant's mid-range shooting potential will definitely not be worse than his three-point potential!

This is a value above 90!

This means that completing this hidden mission is equivalent to getting a four-star card.

Jess wants it, wants it so much!

But how to push Durant to the All-Star this year?

starting?

Looking at Durant's poor votes, it's basically useless.

substitute?

As far as Durant's current reputation in the league is concerned, it is even more impossible.

Headache!

Jess has a headache.

Amidst the headache, Yees and the Sonics also completed the last game of the 7-day 5-fight devil schedule.

After a day off on New Year's Day, the Sonics lost to the Phoenix Suns 106-114 on January 2, 2008.

After this loss, the 28-5 Supersonics basically lost their qualification to compete with the Rockets and Suns for the first place in the league.