Basketball K God

Chapter 105 All-Star rookie game storm

But the good time seems to be very short. From the defeat of the Warriors on the 15th of this month, to the end of the month, a total of 8 games, the Kings did not win a game...

The 8-game losing streak created the Kings' record for the longest losing streak in the season, and the outside world has completely despaired of their record this season.Just over half of the season, they have lost a horrible 38 games.

During this period, on January 1, the NBA officially announced the list of players for this year's All-Star Rookie Game.

2009年的NBA全明星赛将于2月14—2月16日在菲尼克斯进行。而新秀挑战赛则是最先进行的，将于2月14日进行。

The NBA Rookie Challenge was first held in 1994. The coaching staff selected the best 1 rookie players in January to form a rookie team, with the first-year team VS second-year team.

This year's rookie challenge first-year team selection list is: Derrick Rose (Bulls), OJ Mayo (Grizzlies), Marc Gasol (Grizzlies), Greg Oden (Blazers), Rudy Fernandez (Grizzlies) Trail Blazers), Russell Westbrook (Thunder), Eric Gordon (Clippers), Michael Beasley (Heat), Brook Lopez (Nets).

Xie Kai's name was not on this list.Not only him, but none of his teammates at the University of Kansas was selected for this lineup.

Xie Kai thinks that his data is worse than that of Rudy Fernandez of the Trail Blazers, but he also knows that his team's record is far inferior to the opponent's, so the data must be discounted.He didn't struggle with this matter, he wouldn't go to the league to protest or something, if he wasn't selected, he wasn't selected, and his statistics and performance were indeed not yet to the point where he was far ahead of his competitors.

But Xie Kai didn't get entangled, someone would take the grievances for him!

On the Internet, many fans of the Kings and Xie Kai himself are frantically posting about this. They think that Xie Kai's performance is eligible to enter the Rookie Challenge, and some players are not worthy of their names.

That's great, the fans of the selected players jumped out to fight back, and there was a lot of debate and scolding on the Internet.

This matter is not over yet. Charles Barkley, who took the initiative to bet with Xie Kai in front of the media at the beginning of the season, also jumped out. He talked about it with NBA legend "Iceman" George Gervin and others on a TNT program. , He made it clear that Xie Kai was not worthy of entering the first-year team of the NBA Rookie Challenge.

For a while, this matter was widely circulated on the Internet and among the media, and those first-year players who were selected for the rookie game did not pay much attention.

Xie Kai's identity as a yellow race makes his every move a topic of discussion and speculation by others. In order to avoid this matter from fermenting and affecting his image and reputation, he feels that he cannot allow this matter to continue to ferment wantonly.

On the one hand, the Kings have a bad record and are currently losing 8 games in a row. On the other hand, Xie Kai, a rookie, has become the topic of the moment. The frequency of his name even surpassed that of the No. [-] pick Derrick Rose.

On February 2, the Kings conducted daily training sessions in the training hall.After the training, the coach Kenny Knight stopped Xie Kai and asked suspiciously: "Kane, there is something I want to ask you, I hope you can tell me the truth!"

Xie Kai vaguely guessed something, but he was not sure: "Coach, please ask!"

"Regarding your loss to the All-Star Rookie Challenge, there are a lot of discussions on the Internet and newspapers about this matter. Reports say that you think this result is unfair. Is there such a thing?" Kenny Knight asked.

Xie Kai shook his head solemnly and said: "I have never expressed any attitude on this topic with reporters or on the Internet. Everything is the speculation of netizens and those media reporters!"

Kenny Knight looked into Xie Kai's eyes and told him intuitively that Xie Kai was not lying.In fact, he didn't think Xie Kai would say such a thing. In his impression, this Chinese rookie trained hard, acted in a low-key manner, and his emotional intelligence was completely online. It was not like his style to do such thankless things.

"Kane, I believe in you!" Coach Kenny Knight smiled.

"Thank you, Coach, I've been worrying about this for the past two days!" Xie Kai told the truth.He is just a rookie now, if his reputation in the league becomes bad, it will be very detrimental to his future development.After all, not so many teams like this kind of young foreign players who are prone to trouble.

"Leave this matter to the team. I will report the matter to the management and clarify it at that time. There should be nothing wrong!" Kenny Knight said firmly.

On the second day, the Kings held a press conference. The general manager of the team, Geoff Petri, accepted interviews with reporters and expressed a lot of opinions: First, to emphasize to the media that they will not give up the rest of the regular season. I am making a promise to the fans; second, the controversy about Xie Kai is non-existent, and he has never said anything similar.

Xie Kai also attended the press conference. Under the heavy bombardment of reporters, he acted calmly: "I am very grateful to the team for giving me a chance to speak out on this occasion. On behalf of myself, I made a clear statement. I have never said, nor have I expressed my dissatisfaction with the list of candidates for the All-Star Rookie Challenge announced before!"

This press conference was a complete success, and Xie Kai's calm and calm statement made the matter finally come to a conclusion.After that, almost no one doubted whether he lied or not.May I ask, who can express their opinions so calmly under the siege of so many reporters?There seemed to be only one explanation for that, and that was that the man was telling the truth.Only by telling the truth can we be so confident.

Xie Kai also let out a sigh of relief. His identity as a yellow race has indeed brought him exposure and topicality, making him much more popular than other rookies of the same level.But nothing is only beneficial. This incident taught him a lesson.

The Kings have another game that night, at home against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Thunder and the Kings are also brothers and sisters. Their current record is 11 wins and 36 losses, which is better than the Kings with 10 wins and 38 losses.

It has been reported before that although the overall record of the top 8 in the Western Conference this season is still slightly better than that of the Eastern Conference, but in terms of the number of bad teams, it far exceeds that of the opponent.There is only one bad Washington Wizards in the East, but there are 5 bad teams in the West, the Kings, Timberwolves, Grizzlies, Clippers and Thunder, which are definitely not going to the playoffs.

Many experts predict that next season's No. 6 pick will most likely appear in these [-] teams.

Halfway through the regular season, the All-Star Weekend is approaching.Once the All-Star Weekend is over, the season goals of NBA teams will be clear-to compete for playoff tickets, or to fight for high picks?
(End of this chapter)