NBA: This flower path is a bit strong.

When Hanamichi defeated [Old Rogue] to win his first monthly best player award and became the league's all-time All-Star vote leader in the first round, it truly shocked the entire United States, and even the Eastern countries!

In Toronto, photos and posters printed with flower arrangements have gradually become the symbol of this city!

In the early days, one morning in Kanagawa, when Coach Anzai saw the news in the newspaper, his hands trembled slightly, just like when he saw the news about Tanizawa many years ago, but the elderly man had a relieved smile on his face!

In the Flower Growing Family, thanks to the multi-faceted operations of Huadao's general, Comrade Zhang Heli, Huadao's outstanding performance in the world basketball arena continues to radiate back to the Flower Growing Family from the United States, and its popularity is getting higher and higher!

Nike, which signed a 7-year, 1 million yuan "sky-high sneaker contract" with Hanamichi, is now making a fortune!

Who says it’s hard to sell shoes to big players? Even before Hanamichi had to promote the shoes, sales had already increased significantly!

"No, this All-Star Game must be a big hit!"

The person in charge of Nike thought so, and then specially made a pair of all-star commemorative sneakers in gold and red color scheme for Hanamichi!

From the looks of it, this is just to take advantage of the popularity of Hanamichi's upcoming All-Star Game. After all, it's free advertising~ it would be a waste if you don't use it!

In fact, after careful thinking, I found that the achievements of flower arrangement are both unexpected and reasonable. All the conditions are closely linked to each other. If any one of them is missing, the current effect cannot be achieved.

First of all, it is Hanamichi's strength. Although many media have cheered for him and praised his "super giant" strength or his goalkeeper guarding the "super giant" threshold, it at least shows that Hanamichi, as a power forward, has strength and dominance in this position!

At that time, there were not many people in the league who could tie with Hanamichi at the power forward position. He and Das showed a sense of "rookie peak" when they first entered the league, and took the step towards becoming a star in the playoffs of their rookie season!

In comparison, it’s not that Hanamichi’s good buddy Damon Stoudemire has not made any progress, but his progress is too slow compared to Hanamichi!

In the NBA, sometimes, slow progress can be seen as a step backward!

It was in this disguised retreat that [Little Flying Squirrel] lost the opportunity to compete for the [First Dragon King]. Of course, for him, it doesn't matter who becomes the [Dragon King], so let's discuss it!

Without real strength, no matter how well packaged it is, it is nothing but a paper tiger that will break at the first poke! However, with the solid strength as the foundation, plus the publicity and packaging by Simmons, Zhang Heli and others at home and abroad, the effect is different!

In addition, Huadao has its own gimmicks: dunking the basket, pulling down the basketball stand, the tragedy that happened on December 12, the talented players under his command, the rookie All-Star even as a substitute, the second-year All-Star vote winner, 8 consecutive wins, defeating [Old Rogue] to win the Player of the Month award, and so on!

A gimmick will attract fans, and flower path has its own traffic system! Standing on the land of Toronto, Canada, it will radiate to a group of Canadian fans internally, and it has attracted the attention of many Americans externally. With the flower planting market behind it, there are even a few ordinary people who support him.

It can be said that the traffic of Huadao itself is definitely in the top three in the league!

No wonder David Stern is so optimistic about its value and calls it "the key to wealth in the East"!

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"We still need 1 million!"

Hanamichi stared at his popularity score. He was only 1 million away from unlocking a super giant card, and now was the best chance - on February 2000, the NBA officially announced the 2 Cleveland All-Star starting lineup. Hanamichi's name topped the list with 3 million votes, becoming the first player in NBA history to exceed 97 votes.

In fact, the highest number of All-Star votes last year was only Grant Hill's 1,358,004 votes.

In fact, if it weren’t for the butterfly wings of the flower path, the biggest surprise this time should be that [Old Rogue] broke the 2,451,136 million record with 200 votes!

In addition to Hanamichi, the confirmed starters for the Eastern Conference All-Stars include Michael Jordan, Anfernee Hardaway, Grant Hill, and Patrick Ewing. As for poor Pierce, he was squeezed to the Eastern Conference All-Star bench by the sudden emergence of Hanamichi!

The starting lineup for the Western Conference is [Crooked Mouth God of War] Gary Payton, one of the Salt Lake City Twins ~ John Stockton, [Flying Pig] Charles Barkley, the honest man [Rain Man] Shawn Kemp, and one of the four great centers ~ Hakeem Olajuwon.

Hua Dao always feels weird when looking at this list!

"Why do all the All-Star teammates in the Eastern Conference seem to be enemies?"

I won't mention [Old Scoundrel]. Grant Hill was dragged out for the All-Star voting issue and was "whipped". I don't need to ask him to know that he is very uncomfortable now, at least he doesn't like me. [Gorilla] Ewing and him have been enemies since last season, and the slap in the face has not been paid back yet. Not to mention Pierce, who just elbowed him recently.

After all the calculations, Hardaway and him have no direct conflicts. That's not right! Hardaway and O'Neal have a bad relationship because of the competition for the core of the team. O'Neal and Hanamichi have a good relationship, which is equivalent to Hardaway not having a good impression of Hanamichi!

Thinking of this, Hua Dao shouted:

"It's bad! We were tricked by the Great Shark!"

At this time, the "Shark" made it into the Eastern Conference All-Star starting lineup with 1,290,591 votes last season, but who would have thought that he would go to the Western Conference this year.

(The only players selected as All-Star starters in their rookie season were Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Shaquille O'Neal)

Hua Dao has always felt that he is a professional player with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor. Since he came to the league, he has never caused trouble. Why is his popularity so poor?

In an All-Star Game, how can we play when all our teammates are "knives"?

He has always been unafraid to speculate on people's hearts with the worst malice. What if the "Old Rogue" colludes with the other two guards who claim to be the "Old Rogue's" successors and refuse to pass the ball to him in the All-Star Game?

This year's All-Star Game will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the NBA. It's a big party, and the 50 greatest players in history, voted by retired players, coaches and media people, will be present.

At halftime of the All-Star Game in Cleveland, the league will hold a grand awards ceremony for them.

Imagine that 50 superstars appeared one by one in commemorative jackets, and the whole place was full of stars and brilliance! Then in the All-Star Game, Hanamichi couldn't even touch the ball a few times. At that time, "the clown turned out to be me". It was originally a great opportunity to increase popularity, but in the end it was "missed".

After all, Hua Dao did not participate in any other challenges in this All-Star Game, and had no other opportunities to stand out.

"Yes, that's what we'll do when the time comes!"

Huadao feels that it is time to take a big gamble with the [Old Rogue]!