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Chapter 605 605. The Restructured All-Star Voting
60+ in a single game, led the team to complete a super reversal from 36 points behind, 29 points in 14 seconds...

Liu Ren's performance in the second half of the game was simply explosive!

The sensation that Liu Ren brought about in this game was no less than McGrady's 35 points back then, and it was even more sensational than Kobe's 13 points in a single game!
At the beginning, people thought that Liu Ren was going to play health balls this year. After all, this is the current trend in the NBA. Who has a super lineup and uses the superstar to death, but they didn't expect Liu Ren to hold back his big move!He averaged only 20 points in more than a dozen games in a row, and suddenly he scored 60 points violently, creating a new God moment!

Following McGrady's 35 seconds and 13 minutes, another score that was almost impossible to reverse with only a few tens of seconds left in the end, the "God Moment" that completed the big reversal appeared!
And this was more cruel than any God moment in history. With 30 seconds left, the Lakers trailed by 12 points. Liu Ren played a 14-0 game by himself!

If Liu Ren last season showed his ability to keep scoring consistently throughout the season, this season he is showing his explosive scoring power in a mediocre way.

At 29 seconds and 14 minutes, there is another boss moment in the iconic game that people have passed on from word to mouth after the McGrady moment.

Because Liu Ren just scored 60 points and the boss moment, his popularity has further skyrocketed. Although it is not as deep as Kobe and James who have accumulated more than ten years of popularity, he already has the potential to become the third active superstar of the era!
The so-called superstars of the era are players like George Mikan, Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James who have dominated popularity in an era.

Even if such players do not play well one day, or even completely rotten, their popularity will not decline.

Although their contemporaries have players who can compete with their popularity, those people will be regarded as short-lived, and only these people can maintain such a high popularity.

Just like when Kobe became a superstar, there are three other four shooting guards who have the same level of popularity as him, as well as popular superstars such as O'Neal, Garnett, Webber, etc. These people are very strong and have been popular before. It was the same for a while, but in the end Kobe became a superstar among these people with his gorgeous statistics and super performance, and became the most popular player of an era.

The same is true for James later. He entered the NBA in the same age as Wade, Anthony, Paul, and even Howard. Later, there were Durant, Westbrook, etc. He entered the finals for 2011 consecutive years since 5. , Suppressing all the players who were in his same period or even a later period, and became a superstar of an era.

Now Kobe can't play for a few years, and James will soon be 30 years old, and he will also start to age. NBA officials are eager to produce a new superstar of the era, so as to avoid the loss of NBA fans after both of them get old and retire.

So the NBA officials set their sights on Liu Ren. On the one hand, his identity as a Chinese is on the one hand, and his own strength is strong, and his youth is more important.

In the case that the league officials are willing to praise it, Liu Ren is also very powerful to get the data against the sky again,

At 76 o'clock in the evening on the day when the Lakers challenged the 12ers away, it was the time when the NBA All-Star voting began.

This year, NBA official voting has started to play new tricks. The latest votes are updated every 12 hours. Obviously, they want to use this to increase fans' enthusiasm for voting.

Perhaps Adam Silva is not as good as David Stern in terms of promoting the NBA and balancing the NBA, but in terms of making money and creating various bloggers' attention, Adam Silva can beat David Stern several times street!
With this simple 12-hour update mechanism, the motivation of fans to vote has been increased many times.

Since the voting is based on IP, even if you can turn off the router and turn it on again to obtain a new IP, you can vote for a vote in a few minutes, but it is too troublesome for fans, because you can’t see it after voting How much impact does it have, because it used to be announced every two or three weeks, and at first it was even announced once every four weeks. When the announcement was made, the fans themselves forgot that they had voted, and there was no sense of substitution at all.

Except for the first two or three years since 07, when the Internet speeds of several information-rich countries in the world have been greatly improved, fans are willing to vote online because of the ultra-fast Internet speed, and everyone's enthusiasm for voting has decreased since then.

Similarly, in places where the NBA officially cooperates, such as catering, NBA peripheral stores, etc., people’s enthusiasm for voting has been greatly reduced because of online voting, which has led to an increase in the number of All-Star votes from 2011 to 2014. less.

However, since last year, it has been reduced to once a week, which has greatly increased the enthusiasm of fans to vote. At least last year, the All-Stars just started voting and the number of people who voted in the first two years before each weekly announcement has skyrocketed.

An increase in the total number of votes represents popularity, a statistic favored by investors but also by broadcasters and sponsors.

After tasting the sweetness, Adam Silva will make a big vote this year, and directly shorten the time for publishing the votes to 12 hours.

Therefore, the information department of the NBA's headquarters in New York conducted a large-scale recruitment during the offseason. The team responsible for statistics has almost doubled, and the total has been directly expanded from 17 to 32. At this stage, it is mainly responsible for the All-Star voting statistics in four shifts. , Divided into four groups, changing shifts every six hours, each of the eight people has the voting needs of the country and region they are responsible for and needs to count and screen out unqualified votes.

In fact, to count this kind of online voting, it is necessary to find a way to eliminate the behavior of swiping votes, and to screen out in many ways. The amount of work is relatively large, so it is a bit of pressure for NBA officials to announce the votes every 12 hours.

It’s not just that many Chinese votes are considered invalid. For example, when voting in domestic Internet cafes, each computer in the Internet cafe has a virtual IP number, but that’s actually just the IP number inside the Internet cafe, and the entire Internet cafe has a real fixed IP. The server of an Internet cafe usually takes a month or more to restart to obtain a new IP, which is the same as a router, but Internet cafes rarely restart this large router, so many votes in Internet cafes are often regarded as invalid votes.

Of course, other countries also have this situation, but China has the most basketball fans and Internet cafes besides the United States, so these problems are particularly serious in China.

In addition, there are many other reasons for invalid tickets.

But no matter how many reasons there are, NBA All-Star voting will start to enter a blowout period starting from this season. People watch games, novels, movies, and TV series.
empathy!
The reason why votes were not taken seriously in the past was because the answer appeared too late and everyone had no sense of participation. Also because the time interval between the two announcements was too long, it was suddenly discovered that a certain star had received more votes than someone else However, because they never thought that this person would get so many votes, or that their favorite fans would get so few votes, many fans were upset, and they even stopped voting in the future.

This time, from the start of voting to the noon when the Lakers came to Washington, D.C. to challenge the Wizards back-to-back, in just 150 hours, Liu Ren has set up official voting countries and regions around the world, with a total of more than [-] million votes!Three or four years ago, this was already the number of votes that only the king of votes could get!
Then came Kobe, who got a little bit of Liu Ren's current glory, and got more than 130 million votes, followed by Curry and James, who both got more than 120 million votes. Players with 100 million votes.

When Adam Silva's votes for the first round were announced, his face almost died of laughter. This data represents popularity! The NBA's jersey sponsorship contract is about to expire at the end of this season. Isn't such a wonderful statistic the best bargaining chip in the game!

Not only does the data report for sponsors look good, but this new regulation that can use "instant" to announce the number of votes compared with before makes fans more motivated to vote for their favorite players. The competition will also become more and more fierce and become something more weighty.

Of course, as the time for voting starts to deepen, there will be no such situation where the highest number of votes on the first day exceeds 150 million. There are many fans who only vote once a year. This is a general rule, but it does not prevent this year It will break the total number of voters in NBA history!
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On December 12, the Lakers played the Washington Wizards back to back.

This time, it’s another bargain for the Wizards. The Lakers completed a super reversal yesterday. The core player who completed the reversal, that is, Liu Ren, was about to lose his strength after the game. He scored desperately, defended desperately, and the point difference was 36 points. Not 16 points.

In addition, he went to the airport before 6 o'clock this morning. He slept in the hotel since he arrived in Washington this morning. When he woke up, he was paralyzed and let the team doctor massage. After the reversal, the mood suddenly relaxes, and the mental exhaustion is the most important thing now.

It wasn't just Liu Ren who was tired. He couldn't defend the 76ers by himself. While Liu Ren was scoring wildly, without his teammates locking up the 76ers in the second half, he couldn't complete such a shocking turnaround by himself.

In other words, most of the players on the Lakers team were wilted yesterday. Only Kobe, Antetokounmpo, and Whiteside who were on truce were full of energy. Apart from them, only LaVine, Blake and... Thackeray.

At the beginning of the game against the Wizards, Liu Ren, who started the game, performed sluggishly. He couldn’t make any shots, and he couldn’t make any shots. Nick Young and Korver didn’t work well when they were replaced. Two players who are not good at defending defended desperately yesterday. The consumption is greater than that of players who really defend well.

So there are only Antetokounmpo and Kobe on the outside line, and Whiteside and Black are the opponents on the inside line.

But Liu Ren, the strongest scoring point, withered, and Green looked half dead. The combination of Wall, Bill, Porter, **, and Gortat did not have an advantage against the Wizards. Although Kobe fought hard, Whiteside fought hard. Yes, Antetokounmpo worked hard, and Clarkson, Black and even Thackeray, who came off the bench, tried hard, but they still couldn't beat the Wizards.

In the end, in this back-to-back game, the Lakers regretted losing to the Wizards 92 to 101, and their record became 16 wins and 2 losses.

In the first back-to-back bloody battle against the 76ers, everyone was exhausted, and on the second day they played the Wizards, one of the best defensive teams in the East...

Lakers fans began to scold NBA officials again, especially Adam Silva, how is the schedule arranged?

This time Adam Silva said: I don’t take the blame for this. Who would have thought that the 76ers would really rise this year, and even if the 76ers rose to the lineup, the record would be warm for the Lakers All right?Who can blame him for being forced to go all out after falling behind by 36 points at halftime?

After the Lakers lost, they had no choice but to do their best in this game. Kobe scored 20 points, Antetokounmpo had 14 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists, Whiteside had 18 points and 22 rebounds. The Wizards were completely suppressed, but the Lakers' major three-pointers were all determined. If they couldn't open the outside line, they would have no chance. This is the reason for the loss.

After losing to the Wizards, the Lakers were widened by the Warriors again.

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[-] consecutive victories!

The Warriors won 18 consecutive victories after defeating the Denver Nuggets in an away game, becoming another team to win 18 consecutive victories after the Lakers last season.

Throughout the history of the NBA, except for the Rockets' accident in 18, the teams that won 08 consecutive victories all won the championship that year.

As a result, the reputation of the Warriors skyrocketed again, continuing to occupy the position of the most watched and hated team in the NBA.

D'Antoni breathed a sigh of relief about this. At first, he was really afraid that Liu Ren's violent 29 seconds 14 minutes would bring back the attention and hatred of the Warriors, which would put a lot of pressure on the Lakers.

Fortunately, Liu Ren's explosive personal performance only added a lot of popularity to himself, and at most it also increased the popularity of a few teammates. Many fans who voted for Liu Ren voted for other Lakers, and Liu Ren also accounted for it. Kobe is a lot cheaper, and almost all the old Kobe fans voted for Liu Ren, because the two are not in the same position, and it doesn't matter if they vote together.

On the contrary, the overall strength of the Lakers has been questioned because these two games have just ended.

Not to mention playing against the Wizards. If you lose, even though the point difference is only 9 points, you lose if you lose.

In the game against the 76ers, the Lakers fell behind by 36 points. Although at the end of the game, because Liu Ren led the team to complete a big comeback, everyone focused on the boss moment at 29 seconds and 14 minutes. That's because winning can cover everything.

But after losing to the Wizards, all doubts came out.

The defending champions are the most vulnerable to doubts. Generally speaking, the defending champions in the East are in good condition, because the East has always been weak as a whole, but most of the defending champions in the West are miserable in the second year after winning the championship. For example, in 2011 After winning the championship, the Mavericks were quite miserable in the 2011-2012 season. The Spurs, who won the championship in 2014, were not much better last season, falling out of the top eight at one point.

After arriving in Atlanta, Liu Ren looked at those basketball forums.

Sure enough, no matter where the fans are, they are easy to be tempted. One person questioned the Lakers, and everyone began to question...

(End of this chapter)