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Chapter 215 All-Star Ticket King

Soon, as time passed, the time for the All-Star Weekend was getting closer and closer.

January 1 is the day when the starting lineup for the All-Star Game is officially announced. Almost everyone is paying attention to the official NBA news and wants to know the final result as soon as possible.

According to the voting results of the East and West, LeBron James and Kevin Durant will become the captains of the East and West respectively, and the starting lineup will also be selected from the selected players to form the two teams of the East and West.

As for the captain selection process, the NBA will also conduct live broadcasts across the United States, which can be said to have earned enough attention. This is another gold-absorbing move for the NBA.

The 2017 All-Star Game was reformed to cancel the previous confrontation between the East and the West, and adopted the method of two All-Star captains selecting a mixed team from the players selected for the All-Star Game.

At 8:[-] a.m. M country time, the official NBA website officially announced the captains of the East and West. Not surprisingly, James and Durant were successfully elected captains of the two teams.

At the same time, the list of 10 starting lineups was announced, namely James, Durant, Antetokounmpo, Embiid, Bill, Jokic, Leonard, Jiangbei, Harden, and Curry.

At that time, the captains of both sides will choose their own from the rest to form their respective starting lineups.

On the morning of January 1, the NBA officially updated and announced the list of 28 substitute players. Paul, Davis, Ayton and other players were all on the list. Only after James and Durant were selected, the two teams of this All-Name Competition will be officially established.

Tonight, the NBA will live broadcast the captain selection session across the United States. This year's All-Star Weekend will be held at the Quicken Loans Arena, home of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Because after the captain selection, the All-Star Weekend will be on February 2th, and the venue for the selection session will also be set at the arena where the All-Star Game will be held, so the selected players will rush to Cleveland today to participate in the evening selection session.

Cleveland is located in Ohio, the country of M, on the south bank of Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, within the scope of the former Western Reserve, 100 kilometers away from Pennsylvania, and is the capital of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.Opened in 1796, it has historically become a manufacturing center due to the intersection of canals and railways.After the decline of large industries, it became a financial, insurance and medical center.

After the economic downturn, we all call Cleveland the village of Ke. Although the economy of Cleveland is not as developed as before, overall, the village of Ke is quite suitable for living.It has the background of a big city but does not have the prosperity and congestion of a big city.It has the appearance of a large rural area in country M, but it is not too rural.

If you have a good income in Kecun, don't have too much ambition, and don't hate heavy snow, this is still a good place.The so-called decay is more obvious that the urban area looks dilapidated, but after driving for half an hour out of the urban area, everything looks the same, the law and order are not bad, and life is not inconvenient.

Moreover, most of the people in country M don't live in the urban area, only the poorer people or those who work in the urban area live there, which is just the opposite of Huaxia.

Because this year's All-Star Weekend is scheduled to be in Cleveland, when Jiang Bei and Paul Ayton arrive in Cleveland together, the city of Cleveland will be much more lively than usual. Many fans will come to Cleveland to book hotels and tickets in advance, and at the same time take this opportunity to take a vacation for themselves, which will drive the local economic development to a certain extent.

"It seems that the All-Stars have brought a lot of popularity to Cleveland!" Jiang Bei looked at the fans who came from all over the place and said with emotion.

"Yeah, this is an annual event, not only for the players, but also for the fans!" Paul felt deeply about this, after all, he participated the most times among the three of them.

"That's right, besides the finals of the playoffs, this is another stage where we can show ourselves. We must show our best performance!" Ayton said full of longing.

"Let's surprise this year's All-Stars together!"

After speaking, the three of Jiangbei smiled at each other, then walked to the business car that had been arranged in advance to pick up the airport, and headed to the hotel where they were staying.

After returning to the hotel, they packed up their things a little bit, and the three of them went to the restaurant for dinner together.

Because it was a bit early for dinner, the three of them were not in a hurry, talking and laughing, and asked Paul to tell about his previous experience of participating in the All-Stars. It took almost an hour for the three of them to finish a meal.

The hotel where Jiangbei and the others stayed was quite close to the Cleveland Quicken Loans Center. After dinner, the three of them had nothing to do, so they walked to the arena together to participate in the night's captain selection.

Now the Quicken Loans Center arena has set up many elements of the All-Star Weekend, and the entire atmosphere has been reflected.

At [-] o'clock in the evening, the captain's selection will officially start. According to the previous rules, the total vote winner will have the priority to choose.

This year's All-Star voting was won by James again. Although the NBA All-Star Game has a history of 66 years, but for a long time at the beginning, who will participate in the All-Star Game was decided by the votes of reporters and commentators.The real vote king began in 1975, when the NBA was officially reformed to determine the All-Star starting lineup by fans voting.

In addition, this season, James has won the All-Star vote 8 times in his career, ranking second in history. In the last 5 seasons, James has won 3 consecutive votes, and his popularity is invincible in the world.

8 James, who won the votes, can only be second. The first estimate is not difficult to guess, that is Michael-I am everywhere-Jordan.

In his career, Jordan has won 9 All-Star votes, ranking first in history. Among them, from 1987 to 1993, he won the All-Star votes 7 times in a row.

However, judging from the current form, James is likely to surpass Jordan in total times, but considering that Jordan retired twice in 1993 and 1998 when his popularity was at its peak, if he hadn't retired these two times, maybe Jordan's vote leader could be in double figures just like his scoring leader, and it would be difficult for James to surpass him.

Even Stephen Curry, who has risen wildly in recent years, has used his three-pointers to shine in the entire basketball world, but he only won the only vote champion when he made his debut in early 2015.

When Curry blasted the league with three-pointers in 2016, his vote champion was "robbed" by Kobe, who retired from the tour, which is enough to prove the difficulty of getting the vote champion.

(End of this chapter)