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Chapter 324 The Hall of Fame Has No Threshold at All
In the following schedule, Jiba seemed to be the second master of the Pacers.

Not only is he ranked second in the team in shooting power, but he is also second only to Li Xun in the Mavericks in possession of the ball.

With the blessing of high touch frequency, Jiba's data soared during this period.

In the first two and a half months, Jiba probably only averaged seven or eight points per game.

And in the last nearly a month, Jiba was able to average 26 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists per game as a top small forward.

With Li Xun, it is too easy to score.

The key point is that the Mavericks team has a natural scoring weapon, such as Antetokounmpo's high pick-and-roll, Li Xun's rebound protection under the basket, Clay and the old driver tearing up the opponent's defense line and so on.

These methods can help a player reduce the difficulty of scoring.

Besides, Jiba's scoring ability is not weak, not the top in history, but in active service, it is also a first-class existence.

In this case, it is not difficult to average 26 points per game.

However, because there were too few points in the previous schedule, Jiba's average data per game is not very good now. At present, he only averages about 14 points per game.

Clay undoubtedly sacrificed a lot.

In order to make Middleton worthy, he was willing to play as a substitute for Middleton for a period of time.

Now, in order to increase Jiba's worth, Clay has also reduced a lot of his shooting rights.

However, this kind of sacrifice is acceptable to Clay, because he has already got the promise of the Mavericks management. After the end of next season, he will get a maximum salary from the Mavericks.

At least in Li Xun's view, the Mavericks gave Clay a maximum salary, which is not a loss at all.

After all, the Mavericks gave Matthews a 4-year 7000 million contract under normal circumstances. Is it possible that Clay is not worth a 5-year 9000 million contract?

Because of Clay's career years, his contract annual salary is actually not greater than Matthews.

This shows how cost-effective it is for the Mavericks to have the opportunity to renew Clay.

It is no exaggeration to say that the combined value of the three Matthews is not necessarily greater than that of Clay.

In addition, it is actually more difficult for Clay to spend 9000 million in these five years.

Under normal circumstances, the league has introduced a Rose clause. During the first contract extension after the end of the rookie contract, if a player can get the regular season MVP or All-Star starter qualification and meet the Rose clause, then Clay can get it. 5 million in 9000 years.

Otherwise, Clay can only get 5 million in 8000 years.

But now Rose did not get the MVP at such a young age as under normal circumstances, so there is no Rose clause.

There is no Ross clause, but the Li Xun clause has been released.

In the past two years, because of Li Xun's hot performance during his rookie season, the league also introduced similar provisions.

Time has entered February, and the annual All-Star Weekend has started again.

Li Xun was very impressed with this All-Star Game, mainly because this All-Star Game was a disaster.

The two sides played too relaxed, and there was no defensive intensity at all.

It's pretty much turned into a one-on-one shot drill or a layup drill, and it's the unguarded kind.

In the end, both sides scored a super high score of [-] points.

The score is high, and sometimes the game may not be good-looking.

At least from Li Xun's point of view, this All-Star session was a failure.

There are less than two weeks left before the All-Star Game, and the results of the voting have already been announced.

Of course, Li Xun's all-star voting champion is in Li Xun's pocket again. Since he was officially qualified to participate in the All-Star voting, this is already the fifth consecutive vote champion.

However, this has not been able to tie Jordan's record of consecutive votes. From this, we can also see how popular Jordan was back then.

After seeing the all-star lineup, Li Xun couldn't help being happy.

When I was in the East before, the quality and quantity of the Eastern All-Stars were high.

And as I came to the West, it seemed to be completely flipped over again, becoming a Western All-Star with high quality and a large number.

The All-Star starting lineup in the West, Love, Li Xun, Durant, Curry and Harden.

This is similar to the normal All-Star plastic surgery this year. The only difference is that Griffin's starting qualification was replaced by Li Xun.

Love can enter the starting lineup this year. On the one hand, the record of the Timberwolves has indeed improved significantly, and on the other hand, his data is also a bit explosive.

After winning Zhuang Shen, the Timberwolves have the fifth record in the Western Conference this year.

Compared with the weak chicken Timberwolves in previous years, this year's Timberwolves give people a refreshing feeling.

Especially the rebounding end.

Now the Timberwolves are second only to the Mavericks in rebounds per game, ranking second in the league!

Love averaged 24 points and 13 rebounds per game, while Zhuang Shen averaged 15 points and 14 rebounds per game. Together, these two averaged 27 rebounds per game, which is really a bit scary.

Although the league is now in the era of withering insiders, there are still twin tower lineups.

For example, the Clippers' Howard and Griffin combination, such as the Raptors' Bosh and Jordan combination, but their rebounds are far less than the Timberwolves' inside combination.

In addition to the team's outstanding record, Love's 24 points and 13 rebounds are completely fine for being selected as the starter.

As for the Eastern side, the starting lineup is James, Anthony, George, Irving and Rose.

As this year's Cavaliers boss, Irving was also selected as an All-Star starter for the first time in his career.

For example, Irving's contract extension later satisfied the Rose clause, and he just got a five-year 5 million contract.

The more Li Xun looked at these two starting lineups, the more interesting he found them.

He remembered that James happened to leave the Heat in 14 and then ran back to the Cavaliers.

It just so happened that both Irving and Love joined the team as All-Star starters.

With two fresh All-Star starters around me, it makes the statement that I've never been on a superteam look ridiculous.

What's even more ridiculous is that Love was originally an All-Star starter, but after becoming the No. 1 player in history, he became a CBA player.

No. 1 in history can indeed make teammates better.

"Boss, I feel like I'm dreaming now that I've been selected to the All-Star team."

"Although it's not a starter, the substitute is definitely something I never thought of before."

After Jiba saw the list, he immediately came to Li Xun to announce the good news.

Because he saw his name on the bench list.

The substitute list is selected by the coaches and assistants of each team in the league. It can be recognized by these professionals. It is conceivable that the current Giba is indeed famous.

The strength has been recognized by these professionals.

This year, the Mavericks have selected four All-Stars. In addition to Li Xun as the starter, there are three substitutes, Nowitzki, Klay and Giba.

A team selected four All-Stars, this is the first time in the history of the Mavericks.

The fans were delighted.

This year's All-Star Game is held in New Orleans, and maybe the league is thinking about continuing to develop the New Orleans ball market.

The last host was the Rockets, and this time the host is the Pelicans.

It's a pity that in the last All-Star Game, Harden was given a chance, but Harden was useless and failed to win the MVP.

And this year is the home game of Brother Nongmei.

Li Xun remembers that this year's MVP was not won by thick eyebrows, because the West lost, and the MVP was finally won by Owen who played super god.

In addition, it seems that the All-Stars of Nongmei have played less than 10 minutes.

Li Xun has already won the All-Star MVP four times, and he really has no interest in this award at all.

If he could choose, he would rather stay in Dallas to give himself a vacation and relax on the weekend.

It's a pity that Li Xun wanted to do this, but it was impossible for Stern to agree.

Stern is now thinking about how to maximize the value of Li Xun.

On the first day of the Rookie Challenge, Li Xun personally went to the scene to sit in and cheer for his teammates.

This year's Mavericks' rookies include Gobert and Antetokounmpo, both of whom have qualified for the rookie game.

The All-Star rookie game before 2000 used the east and west divisions.

From 2000 to 2011, the Rookie Tournament for more than ten years adopted the first-year vs. second-year competition system.

It's a pity that this competition system is quite unfair. After all, players who have played for a year, how can they be opponents.

So usually the second grade wins the competition.

It's not that the first-year team has never won, but if they want to win the game, they really need a little luck.

Either the first-tier players in the second-year team went to the All-Star Game and couldn't come to the rookie game.

Or it was a small year in the draft, and there were really no decent players in the second-year class.

In 2012, the format of the rookie game was changed, and it was changed to two celebrities leading the team as coaches, leading a group of rookies to fight.

In the previous two years, Barkley played against O'Neal.

As a result, this year it became the Grant Hill team vs. Chris Webber team, which suddenly left the fans speechless.

Of course, Hill and Webber can be regarded as very great stars, but the ranks of these two people are far worse than those of O'Neal and Barkley.

As a result, the attention of this rookie game has become very low.

Li Xun didn't expect the alliance to lose face to such an extent that they only found Hill and Weber.

There are so many super celebrities in history, and you can find two better ones at random.

Of course, it may also be a higher-level celebrity, who is unwilling to come, such as Jordan, who is definitely unwilling to get involved in such a low game as the rookie game.

Disrespectful.

The game on the court was a bit hot-eyed, a bunch of raw melon eggs, and they didn't usually train together, so there was no tactics at all.

In addition, the rookie is young and energetic, and his defense is not small, so he is also very constipated in scoring.

At the end of the game, the Hill team won the Weber team 89:86, and the second-year Zhuang Shen won the MVP of his rookie season.

Li Xun regretted that Antetokounmpo and Gobert failed to get the MVP, but it was not unacceptable that the MVP was taken away by Zhuang Shen.

After the rookie game, the league officially held another ceremony for the announcement of the Hall of Fame list.

Last season, five people were inducted into the Hall of Fame, namely Mourning, Rock Richmond, Guy Rogers, Nathaniel Clifton and Matthew Leonis.

Both Mourning and Richmond are no strangers to old fans.

As for the latter three, they are generally players who have averaged 10 to 12 points per game in their careers.

Many people think that McGrady's selection into the Hall of Fame is to lower the threshold of the Hall of Fame.

To be reasonable, the threshold for the Hall of Fame has never been high.

Take Guy Rogers as an example. He averaged 11.7 points and 7.8 assists per game in his career. The honor he can get is three All-Star starts, plus two assists.

No championship ring.

With this data, can McGrady not be beaten?You must know that McGrady has two scoring champions, and the number of All-Stars is far more than Rogers.

As for Clifton, with 10 points and 8 rebounds in his career, he only has the honor of being an All-Star substitute. How can he compare with McGrady.

Matthew Leonis is an international player. He was 25 years old when he entered the league, just at the peak of his career, and he averaged [-]-[-] points per game.

Fortunately, this player is one of the top [-] FIBA ​​stars, so if he is selected, he will be able to make it through.

Therefore, there is no threshold at all in the Hall of Fame. The statistics are worse than McGrady, and the honor is not as good as McGrady. It is not too easy to find out ten or eight players.

Especially the group of halls of fame that Lvkai won consecutively in ancient times, there are more than a dozen carefully counted, and the gold content of these people is not necessarily high.

It may also be that the Hall of Fame was too watery last season, which caused the league to be more cautious this season.

In the end, only three people were selected into the Hall of Fame, namely, Uncle Samuel of Africa, Spencer Heywood, a prehistoric beast, and JOJO White.

These three belong to the fact that they want statistics and honors, and if they are at this level every year, then the Hall of Fame is considered a bit of a threshold.

At least Uncle Mu's rank is higher than McGrady's. Four DPOYs, three blocked shots, two rebounds, three best teams, and countless best defensive teams. These hard honors are indeed far better than McGrady.

Li Xun thought that Yao Ming would be inducted into the Hall of Fame next year, so he must go to join him at that time.

The first day of the All-Star game is all over, and Li Xun will be busy from the second day.

In the afternoon, there will be an All-Star training session. Players from the East and the West will train together. It can be regarded as a break-in before the game. In addition, fans can also buy tickets to enter the stadium.

After the training, there was another interview with the players. Of course, Li Xun's side was the focus of the interview and was watched by countless reporters.

After finally getting through the afternoon, Li Xun appeared in the dunk contest again in the evening.

But this time Li Xun did not come to participate in the dunk contest, but appeared as a judge.

It is not uncommon for active players to become judges of the slam dunk contest, after all, Kobe has been a judge before.

Kobe was one of the judges in Li Xun's previous slam dunk competition.

It's just that at Li Xun's age, it's quite rare to be a judge of a slam dunk contest.

Originally, Stern also called Li Xun, wanting Li Xun to participate in the dunk contest, but Li Xun said nothing but refused.

In the end, Stern could only settle for the next best thing and let Li Xun come as a judge.

Anyway, Li Xun has won the honor of dunk king once, so he is indeed qualified to be the judge.

Moreover, all the players participating were young players, younger than Li Xun, considered as Li Xun's junior, so Li Xun's appearance on the sidelines was not unexpected.

(End of this chapter)