Bishop of the Abyss

Chapter 190 190. Refresh the historical record: Five people were selected as All-Stars! (seeking subscription)
As time enters February, the All-Star Weekend is just around the corner.

At present, the four rounds of voting for the All-Stars have been completely over, and the All-Star lineups of the East and West have been released one after another.

Garnett's season reimbursement made Timberwolves fans less interested in this year's All-Star, but the Timberwolves had four players selected to the All-Star lineup at the same time.

Among them, Garnett beat Yao Ming for the first time and became the player with the highest number of votes in the frontcourt of the Western Conference.

However, this year's All-Star vote king was won by Allen Iverson with 270 million votes.

The 270 million votes also broke the NBA historical record, making Iverson the NBA player with the highest number of votes.

When he heard the news, even Iverson, who never cared about honor, was somewhat excited.

Iverson obviously didn't expect that he could continue to break records at the age of 30. Iverson didn't even dare to think about this kind of thing before joining the Timberwolves.

At the same time, this also made Iverson even more grateful that he was traded to the Timberwolves, rather than the Denver Nuggets who almost reached a deal with the 76ers.

The four players selected for the Timberwolves All-Star team this season are Iverson, Garnett, Artest, and Ben Wallace.

Among them, Iverson and Garnett are the All-Star starters, and Artest and Ben Wallace are the All-Star substitutes.

The All-Star competition in the West is too fierce. Except for Iverson and Garnett, the other three are the unshakable Kobe, McGrady, and Duncan.

Even if Nowitzki led the Mavericks to the second-best record in the league and overwhelmed the Spurs, they failed to get a starting spot in the All-Star voting, and they were still slightly overtaken by Tim Duncan, which made Nowitzki somewhat depressed. .

Although the league now discriminates against Nowitzki's soft playing style, Duncan still dominates the All-Star starters despite his inferior personal data and team record. Nowitzki only feels that the league treats him full of malice.

However, because Garnett was reimbursed for the season and was unable to play in the All-Star game, Nowitzki still took the All-Star starting position in another way.

Garnett's vacant spot will be replaced by teammate Gerald Wallace.

In this way, the Timberwolves have five players selected to the All-Star team at the same time this year, setting an NBA record: Iverson, Garnett, Artest, Ben Wallace, and Gerald Wallace.

The number of replacements is counted in the player's personal honor, and the absence due to injury will not affect it.

As for the other five players who were selected as the Western All-Star substitutes, they are: "Small Overlord" Stoudemire, Anthony, Marion, Ray Allen and Nash.

In the East, the All-Star starters are: "General" Arenas, Wade, James, Chris Bosh, and "Shark" O'Neal.

I'm afraid no one except Luke will believe that in a few years, three of the Eastern Conference's All-Star starters will join forces and set off a storm in the league.

The players selected in the East on the bench are: Howard, O'Neal Jr., Vince Carter, Joe Johnson, Billups, Hamilton, and Caron Butler.

In the second year after leaving the Lakers, Caron Butler grew into an All-Star player. I don't know if the Lakers management will cry and faint in the toilet.

From the point of view of the lineup, the Western All-Stars are obviously slightly stronger than the Eastern Conference. Even if the highest combat power of the two sides is not much different from each other, in terms of overall strength, the Western Conference is definitely superior to the Eastern Conference.

This is also a microcosm of the alliance structure in the past two years. It is no longer a secret that the west is strong and the east is weak.

The Rockets, who are currently ranked sixth in the Western Conference, can directly rise to second if they are placed in the Eastern Conference, and they may even break out of the Eastern Conference and enter the finals stage.

But in the Western Conference, the Rockets are at best a mid-season team in the playoffs. There are not many playoff teams that can beat the Rockets, but at least they can find one.

The upcoming All-Star Weekend has made many fans excited. This year's All-Star Weekend will be held in the famous Las Vegas.

It is foreseeable that the casinos in Las Vegas must be overcrowded these days during the All-Star Weekend, and NBA stars are absolutely indispensable.

Fans who have the conditions will also go to the casino to have a good time, and while leaving their personal footprints, see if they can meet their favorite stars and ask for their personal autographs.

At least this guy, Iverson, will not stop. Luke only hopes that Iverson will not make the other teammates too miserable.

With the brains of Artest, Ben Wallace, and Gerald Wallace, Luke doesn't think that these three people can win a lap in the casino...

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The Timberwolves have four games left before the All-Star break, and the Timberwolves have lost ten games so far, so Luke doesn't have much to ask for the final regular season record.

Simply rest two players every game to ensure that the players will not feel physically exhausted.

In these four games, the Timberwolves scored three wins and one loss, fixing the team's overall record at 45 wins and 11 losses, still leading the Mavericks in the Western Conference with a slight advantage.

In this way, Luke will serve as the All-Star coach for the second time in his career, but Luke has little interest in coaching the All-Star.

If it wasn't for the fact that Popovich's old guy would take advantage of it after refusing to take the post, Luke would definitely find an excuse to refuse to attend.

The Timberwolves currently rank first in the Western Conference. According to regulations, Luke will serve as the head coach of the Western Conference All-Stars.

Even if Luke refuses to serve, the second-ranked Mavericks head coach is Avery Johnson. Johnson just served as an All-Star coach last season, and it is impossible to coach consecutively this season.

So once Luke finds an excuse to refuse to attend, he will be picked up by Popovich, the third-ranked Spurs coach in the West.

In line with the principle that no one can be cheap, Luke can only sigh helplessly, and is very reluctant to serve as the All-Star coach for the second time.

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On February 2, local time in the United States, the 15 All-Star Weekend officially arrived.

In the first two days, the league will hold rookie challenges, skills/three-pointers/and dunk contests and other entertainment projects.

Luke was not interested in this at all, so he went to the casino with Iverson and the others for two days. Under the gaze of the beautiful dealer, Luke felt for the first time that the casino was not as evil as he imagined...

As for the record after entering the casino, Luke said that money is just a series of numbers. If you don’t prepare to lose money before you come to the casino, you will definitely feel depressed and want to vomit blood in the end!

While Luke and others were frantically interacting with the beautiful croupiers in the casino, the second-year rookie team defeated the first-year rookie team again, and hung up the first-year rookies according to the old rules.

David Lee from the New York Knicks made 18 of 14 shots and scored 28 points and 10 rebounds to win the Rookie Challenge MVP.

As for Luke's disciple Millsap, he also performed well. Although the data of 19 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists is not as dazzling as David Lee, Millsap and David Lee have repeatedly exploded on the court.

If it weren't for the lack of experience and the exhaustion of teammates around him, Millsap wouldn't have to be depressed for a long time after the game.

On the second day, Wade became the champion of the skills challenge in 26.4 seconds, and Kapono won the three-point contest with his steady shooting skills.

Finally, the slam dunk contest, which has attracted the attention of fans, also ushered in an upset. Before the game, the two most promising championship seeds "Little Potato" Nate Robinson and "Warcraft Howard" Ward were eliminated.

Even Howard failed to make it to the finals, and could only watch the "nine-finger dunk king" Green compete with the "1.7-meter five-dunk king" Robinson.

After Nate Robinson hit the board in the final, he did a 360 spin in the air seven times in a row and failed to complete it. The second-year rookie Gerald Green succeeded in having the last laugh and became another "nine-finger dunk king" in the NBA since Michael Jordan. ".

At the same time, Gerald Green is also the real "nine-finger dunk king"!
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