shooting guard era

Chapter 115 140. O'Neill is very strong, but I am popular

The long-awaited call came out. On January 1th, the Bobcats had just arrived in San Antonio, and the results of the final round of All-Star voting were announced!

This time, it was the end of O'Neal crying and fainting in the toilet. In the center voting in the East, Okafor beat O'Neal's 165 million votes with 155 million votes, and was elected as the starting center for the Eastern All-Stars!
O'Neal allegedly went straight to the gym after learning the news...

Although he had been leading before, but after he was really selected as the All-Star starter, Okafor was still stunned and called his mother immediately.

Except for O'Neal's loss to the All-Star starter again, the starters in other positions are all expected.

The starting forwards in the Eastern Conference are LeBron James of the Cavaliers and Grant Hill of the Magic. He played some games, less than 20 games in total, and averaged 15 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists per game, but he was still the player with the highest votes among the Eastern Conference forwards.Hill led the Eastern Conference forward with 215 million votes, and James 197 million votes.

The starting guards in the Eastern Conference are Ye Han and Allen Iverson of the 76ers. The votes of the two are almost the same. Ye Han has 275 million votes and Iverson has 269 million votes. Since the two almost swept the votes of the guards in the Eastern Conference, they ranked second The third and fourth Wade only had 60 votes and 49 votes.

The center position in the West is thriving, and Shaquille O’Neal and Okafor divided up the number of center votes in the Eastern District, resulting in no high votes for both of them. Yao Ming broke the All-Star individual vote record. He won 301 million votes, becoming the first in NBA history. 300 million players!

Both Ye Han and Yao Ming performed very well this year, and the domestic voting enthusiasm was extremely high. Although the NBA was very strict and made more than [-]% of the domestic votes considered invalid, they still unstoppably pushed Yao Ming to break the historical record. Location.

Look at Amare Stoudemire, the second-ranked center in the Western Conference. You can tell with only 40 votes. Not only domestic fans, but even fans in the United States voted all their votes after O'Neal left the Western Conference. Voted for Yao Ming.

The starting forward in the Western Conference is the combination of Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan, who have been unshakable in recent years. Garnett is very popular, while Duncan conquers fans by virtue of his strength. The two received 187 million votes and 166 million votes respectively.The western forward can be said to be the most competitive position besides the eastern center. The third is Carmelo Anthony with 140 million votes, and the fifth is Chris Webber with 137 million votes.

There is no suspense for the Western Conference guard to be elected by the Lakers' Kobe Bryant and the Rockets' Tracy McGrady.Kobe's 247 million votes lost to McGrady's 255 million votes riding Yao Ming's Dongfeng. The two, like the Eastern guards, made the third Nash far handsome.

The dust of the All-Star voting has settled, some people are happy and some are worried.

Okafor is both happy and frustrated. If he really meets the Heat in the playoffs, he will probably be taken alive by O'Neal.But if Okafor can choose, of course he will choose to be an All-Star starter. How many players can become an All-Star starter!Those people occupy the starting position every year, and there are not many chances to be elected once!
In the afternoon, when the Lynx team came to the arena of the University of Texas at San Antonio for training, reporters swarmed in and surrounded Okafor and Ye Han.

Especially on Okafor's side, there were more reporters than on Ye Han's side. Okafor took advantage of Ye Han's popularity to suppress O'Neal. This topic attracted much more attention than the topic of Ye Han being selected as an All-Star.There is no suspense about Ye Han's strength and popularity being selected as the All-Star starter. Okafor is interesting. Coupled with the "grievances" between the Bobcats and the Heat this season, people can't wait to convey Okafor's current thoughts to O'Neal.

"I am very happy to be an All-Star starter, qualifications? Maybe everyone thinks that O'Neal is more qualified to be an All-Star starter. I have no objection to this, but it represents the fans' love for me. I am very grateful to vote To my fans." Okafor's words were very pertinent, but they couldn't stand another interpretation of these reporters.

"Shaquille O'Neal is a thing of the past, no longer a favorite of fans"

"O'Neill is very strong, but I am popular"

"..."

The media don't think it's a big deal, they are all headline parties.

But many fans read the news by looking at the headlines, and start commenting without reading the content.Including O'Neill is also a well-known headline party, and he is also the type of person who only reads news headlines.

"Tell that kid to see you in the playoffs." O'Neal said only one sentence in the interview, and then went back to the gym to lose weight. His body shape is close to when he won his second championship in 2001, and he is no longer the dead fat man in the past three years. His body shape and muscular contours are beginning to stand out. His goal is to return to the best shape in 2000, to win the first championship after leaving the Lakers, and to hit the faces of all those who did not vote for him.

Regarding this, Ye Han said to Okafor: "Brother, take care."

After the reporter's interview, Okafor, who is very popular in the team, was surrounded by the players.

Of course, it is Okafor's treat. San Antonio is a small and exotic city with a complex ethnic composition, with different national customs. The nightclub king like Kapono should not love this place too deeply.

It is certainly a happy thing for the Bobcats that two of the team were selected as All-Stars, but Bickerstaff did not let the players celebrate at the first time, but suppressed their excessive excitement.

"What are you all doing together? Hurry up and go to training!"

Bickerstaff's roar came, and the players scattered like birds and beasts, practicing shooting, practicing physical fitness, and each started training under the guidance of the assistant coach.

Looking at this group of active young players, Bickerstaff felt a lot.

He is the head coach of the team for the first time, and he has been working in management positions before.When the team was first established, there was no good coach who was willing to come here to accompany it, because the first thing that this kind of completely new team established must be to perform badly, so he took this thankless position himself.

But who would have known such good luck, the two draft picks in the first year were selected as the cornerstone of the team, and the inside strength was stable, and the outside talent was heaven-defying, and he became a strong contender for the playoffs in the first year.

For such a situation, Bickerstaff didn't know what to do, and the players on the team were so young, no coach had ever encountered him in such a situation, and he might be the only head coach in sports history who encountered such a situation .

Bickerstaff can only take one step at a time, insist on the seriousness of the beginning, and push these children to progress.

(End of this chapter)