NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

In fact, the performance of the Nuggets in this game is already very good. Marcus Camby and Kenyon Martin, a pair of inside twin towers, successfully contained Yao Ming in the first quarter. With the help of Le, he has also continued to perform efficiently on the offensive end.

But even so, after three quarters, the Nuggets still trailed the Rockets by as much as 20 points.

Melo Anthony, who had vowed to lead his team to win a victory from the Toyota Center tonight, finally became restless.

The whistle at the end of the third quarter sounded, but he didn't leave the court. Instead, he stood there, pinched his waist, and looked up at the scores of the two sides on the big screen with an obscure face.

It is conceivable that at this time, Anthony's inner shadow area should be as large as the Toyota Center.

Nuggets coach George Karl, seeing the reaction of his lover, sighed helplessly, then stepped forward and dragged Anthony back to the bench.

At the same time, George Karl named several water dispenser administrators in the team to warm up and prepare for the game, and this is tantamount to announcing in advance that their Nuggets will give up today's game that seriously affected their confidence.

Rockets head coach Van Gundy, after seeing the Nuggets' movement under the reminder of the assistant coach, was naturally very happy to accept the victory, and directly sent Jon Barry, Luther Head and other drinking fountain lineups in the fourth quarter.

In the end, after four quarters, the Rockets defeated the menacing Nuggets 105-86, improving their record to a terrifying 28 wins and 4 losses, continuing to rank second in the Western Conference.

Zhang Jinshui, who played very average in the last game, made 18 of 9 shots, 11 of 6 three-pointers, and 2 of 2 free throws. He scored 26 points, 7 assists and 2 rebounds. One of the heroes, and was selected as the best player of the game.

After following Yao Ming, McGrady and Van Gundy to the post-match press conference, Zhang Jinshui found that the reporters didn't care about this notable game at all. Their questions were all focused on the just-announced The results of the star's first round of voting are up.

What Zhang Jinshui never expected was that in the first round of All-Star voting, he actually beat Tracy McGrady and Kobe with a total of more than 80 votes, ranking first in the Western Conference guard voting.

Moreover, not only that, Zhang Jinshui's more than 80 votes were higher than Kobe and Yao Ming's more than 70 votes, making him the top voter in the first round of NBA voting.

This bridge has happened before, that is, Yao Ming, who just entered the NBA in the 2002-03 season, started from the first round of All-Star voting, overwhelmed the crowd, and finally became the total vote leader in that NBA session.

In the end, because Yao Ming did not have the strength of an All-Star in his rookie season, and news spread within the NBA that many of Yao Ming's votes came from Huaguo Network, which caused huge controversy among NBA fans.

The media, who wanted to create the focus of public opinion, focused almost all their questions on this, and even directly asked Zhang Jinshui his opinion on the fact that Huaguo fans might be helping him vote.

In this regard, Zhang Jinshui himself actually felt quite aggrieved.

He has never been so cold about being selected as the All-Star starter because of his popularity. He even specifically appealed to Huaguo fans not to vote for him when talking about the All-Star in the previous post-match press conference.

However, he can come to whatever he is afraid of, and the behavior of the fans cannot be controlled by his personal will.

Zhang Jinshui was about to express some real thoughts while thanking the fans.

McGrady stopped him and asked the reporter directly: "Before you question Zhang Jinshui's vote, let me ask you and other reporters who want to ask similar questions, whether Zhang Jinshui is worthy of this season's performance. All-Star?"

In one sentence, the reporter who seemed to be standing on the "moral" high ground just now was speechless.

As far as personal data is concerned, Zhang Jinshui has averaged close to 25 points and 8 assists per game this season. Looking at the entire NBA, he is absolutely top-notch, not to mention his phenomenal three-point shooting percentage of more than [-]%.

As far as the team record is concerned, the Rockets are now ranked second in the West with a record of 28 wins and 4 losses, and this record is the same as the Pistons in the East. Zhang Jinshui has contributed a lot, and the Rockets won the most important two games. In the game, against the Pistons and the Heat, Zhang Jinshui hit all the lore shots.

And Zhang Jinshui has won the title of best player of the week during the season, and his ranking in the official MVP rankings is getting higher and higher.

All of the above can be summed up in one conclusion, that is, Zhang Jinshui's performance this season is definitely at the All-Star level!

On this point, even the reporters who are sincerely nitpicking and looking for hot spots of public opinion would never dare to deny it.

Seeing that none of the reporters dared to respond, McGrady continued to question: "Since everyone agrees that Zhang Jinshui is an All-Star guard, why can't he be the No.1 in the All-Star voting? Why? Zhang Jinshui is very popular. Are you jealous?"

Listening to Mai Di's words of protecting himself, Zhang Jinshui was secretly grateful.

In fact, in the first round of voting results, Zhang Jinshui ranked first in the Western Conference guard with 80 votes, Kobe ranked second in the Western Conference guard with 70 votes, and McGrady ranked third in the Western Conference guard with 65 votes.

If this voting trend continues and Zhang Jinshui finally wins the All-Star starting position as the top voter, the most affected person is none other than McGrady.

Tracy McGrady, who was the starting guard of the Western Conference All-Stars last year, will lose out in the fan voting this year and will eventually only become a substitute for the All-Star Game.

Because of this, facing the reporter's question to Zhang Jinshui, McGrady stood up and defended his little brother more forcefully than others.

At the post-match press conference, no reporter made an issue of Zhang Jinshui winning the first round of All-Star voting.

However, not mentioning it at the scene does not mean that the reporters will put this matter aside. After all, in the NBA world, besides the exciting and exciting games, it is this kind of gossip that attracts the attention of fans the most.

After that night, almost all mainstream newspapers and magazines in the NBA world reported the results of the first round of the All-Star voting, and most of the media still questioned the phenomenon that Zhang Jinshui won the votes in less than a season after entering the NBA. , And vigorously called on NBA officials to reform the voting method.

Just like a few years ago, this incident aroused extensive discussion in the beautiful country at first, and then gradually turned into a fierce criticism of the Chinese fans' behavior of not understanding basketball and only blindly praising their own people based on their preferences.

However, what everyone did not expect was that after this kind of public opinion gradually spread to Huaguo on the other side of the ocean, it set off a voting storm within the entire NBA.

The reason is very simple. The NBA fans on various forums and websites in Huaguo had originally united together in an organized way to help Zhang Jinshui win tickets together.

However, because of Zhang Jinshui's previous public appeal, the heads of the major fan organizations in Huaguo decided to respect Zhang Jinshui's wishes after consulting with each other, and called on the fans organized by themselves to suspend their plan to help Zhang Jinshui win tickets.

To put it simply, Huaguo netizens didn't vote much at all, but Zhang Jinshui still won the first round of votes.

This phenomenon can only show that Zhang Jinshui has conquered a lot of fans through his elegant play on the court and his amazing performance for half a season, and has a very high popularity in the NBA.

However, under the misleading of public opinion, it became impossible for Zhang Jinshui to have such a high popularity, and the vote must have been swiped.

This kind of argument really wronged Zhang Jinshui and the netizens of Huaguo too much.

Therefore, the heads of the major fan organizations in Huaguo decided to take self-certification actions after communicating with each other.

First of all, they joined together and issued a joint announcement to the NBA circle on the other side of the ocean through some media, indicating that they did not help Zhang Jinshui vote during the first round of voting.

Of course, there is no basis for words, such an announcement itself will not convince those who are already sitting crooked.

In order to increase their persuasiveness, the Huaguo fan organization chose their only method to prove their innocence, which is to start voting for Zhang Jinshui and let people from the other side of the ocean see if they really voted, Zhang Jinshui can get it How many votes.

At the same time, they also called on Zhang Jinshui fans all over the world to vote for Zhang Jinshui, and let the media circle see what Zhang Jinshui's real popularity looks like.

So, three days later, when the second round of voting for the All-Stars began, and the NBA began to announce the latest votes on the Internet every day, all the NBA media in the beautiful country were shocked.

Zhang Jinshui's personal votes jumped from 80 at the end of the first round to 180 million on the first day of the second round, and then became 250 million, 300 million, 390 million, and a week later, reached A terrifying 500 million.

You know, when Yao Ming won the votes in the 2002-03 season, it was only this number of votes, and it was when the voting was completely closed in early February.

Moreover, Kobe, who ranked second behind Zhang Jinshui, won less than 200 million votes.

At this time, many NBA fans in the beautiful country finally realized that they might have really wronged Zhang Jinshui and Huaguo fans.

However, the NBA media who dominated this wave of public opinion at the beginning did not intend to retract their original remarks.

On the contrary, they continued to take advantage of this wave of attention and published some ambiguous reports in an attempt to lead the public to believe that the vast majority of the initial 80 votes came from China.

Some extreme fans followed this wave of public opinion and continued to put pressure on NBA officials, asking them to vote for NBA rules, and even went to the NBA headquarters to hold demonstrations.

In the end, NBA officials couldn't sit still anymore. They specially organized a press conference and disclosed to the outside world the source of all Zhang Jinshui's votes.

By this time, everyone found out that Zhang Jinshui only got 80% of the 10 votes in the first round. Less than 9 votes came from Huaguo on the other side of the ocean, and the vast majority of other votes came from the beautiful country. , and some in from Euro.

It wasn't until the second round of 500 million votes that the number of votes from China rose sharply, all the way to 300 million votes, but the number of votes from the beautiful country was nearly 200 million.

Even if all the votes from Huaguo are excluded, Zhang Jinshui's votes among fans of the beautiful country are still comparable to the second-ranked votes.

These data, while allowing everyone to see Zhang Jinshui's high popularity in the NBA sports world, have finally sealed the conclusion of this public case.

Of course, this process also attracted the attention of media from all over the world, including Huaguo and Meiguo media.

Everyone exclaimed that Huaguo had finally produced a real sports superstar who would influence the entire field.

Many media even asserted from the bottom of their hearts or with ulterior motives. In terms of global influence, it is not an exaggeration to say that Zhang Jinshui has surpassed Yao Ming's status in China's basketball.

And the butterfly effect brought about by this is that media interviews, brand endorsements, offline activities and even movie invitations are piled up on Zi Chunlin's desktop like a snowflake.

Even the flagship store of Tai Chi Zijin, after the peak of Christmas and New Year's Eve, once again there was a long queue of customers outside the door.

Fans of Zhang Jinshui even came to this store from all over the beautiful country, even Europe, to buy some random things, like a pilgrimage.

This also caused Zhao Nian, who was planning to stay in Houston for a month, to rush back to China.

On the one hand, the one container of goods he brought with him when he came, plus the one container of goods he added later, are almost sold out. He wants to go back to Huaguo to watch the factory and ensure that the Taiji Zijin brand can be shipped. quantity and quality.

On the other hand, Zhang Jinshui's popularity is too high now. Out of a businessman's instinct, Zhao Nian has to return to China as soon as possible, and the plan to open a flagship store in China will be greatly advanced.

After all, judging from the current situation of the flagship store in Houston, as long as Tai Chi Zijin opens one, it can make a lot of money. Who doesn't want to earn money into their pockets as soon as possible.

The business of the Taiji Zijin flagship store is exploding, and it is no longer just the attention of Wall Street start-up funds. The lifetime endorsement contracts of Zijin and Zhang Jinshui were terminated together.

However, after Zhang Jinshui heard this exaggerated number, he immediately forgot it. His thoughts were all on the NBA arena.

During the time when the All-Star voting incident was raging, NBA games have never been interrupted. The Rockets have already run around and played several games.