In Li Ang's mind, a lot of things happened in 2001.

The national football team finally entered the World Cup in history. On the day of qualifying, KFC gave away free ice cream cones. Firecrackers were set off in countless small counties. Fans rushed to the streets holding five-star red flags and shouted long live China.

Everyone thought this was just the beginning.

In 2001, Beijing successfully bid for the Olympic Games and the whole country celebrated.

We became members of the WTO. A young man named Jay Chou played with nunchucks. "Meteor Garden" was playing on the TV and "Shaolin Soccer" was playing in the cinema.

2001 was definitely an extraordinary year.

The beginning of this history in 2001 was also very extraordinary.

Because a Chinese will very likely become a player in the NBA All-Star Game in history!

"Lee Ang surpassed Grant Hill in the first round and is expected to become a forward on the Eastern Conference All-Star Team!"

"The era of young people has come? The Eastern Stars expect three people to be no more than 25 years old!"

"The first Asian All-Star player is about to be born!"

Today is January 7th, one week has passed since 2001, and the 2001 All-Star voting has also started for one week.

In the East, the top five players currently receiving votes are Carter, Iverson, Leon, Grant Hill and Mourning!

If the votes continue like this, then these five people can just form a lineup, with exactly two backcourts, two frontcourts and one center.

If the competition is fierce, then just looking at the results of the first round of voting is not enough to determine who will become the player in the All-Star Game.

But here in the east, apart from these five people, there are really not enough people to see.

Tim Hardaway, Marbury, Eddie Jones, Mashburn, Ratliff...

It is really difficult for the remaining people in the east to shake the status of those five people.

This also means that the possibility of Li Ang becoming an All-Star player is very high!

After all, as a violent dunker and master of off-ball offense, Li Ang is indeed very popular in the league.

This kind of player who abuses the frame whenever he disagrees and abuses others when he is unhappy has always been the favorite of fans.

What's more, the Raptors' record this season is not bad, and they have been among the top three in the Eastern Conference. They play well and win. Can Li Ang's number of votes be lower?

In addition, after a year, the penetration rate of the Internet in China has increased a lot, and many Chinese fans can vote for Li Ang, which has increased Li Ang's votes a lot.

As everyone knows, Xiao Yao spent his own money to invite the entire Shanghai team to the Internet cafe a few days ago.

Don't get me wrong, Xiao Yao didn't take a bunch of people to the Internet cafe to spend the night together to become gangsters, but he took everyone to the Internet cafe to vote for Li Ang.

As soon as the results of the first round of voting came out, fans across the country were in jubilation.

Although Li Ang already played in the All-Star Game last season and was an All-Star last season, as the dunk king of the century, Li Ang is even more popular than the All-Star MVP.

A year later, fans still remember every dunk by Li Ang, but they can't remember who the All-Star MVP is.

But even so, Chinese fans are still very proud to see a Chinese player have the opportunity to become an All-Star.

Li Ang looked at the results of the first round and to be honest, he was quite excited.

In comparison, competition in the West is much more intense.

A werewolf like Garnett could only rank third among forwards in votes, and Malone, who had just come back from the game, couldn't even make it into the top five.

David Robinson, Ewing who transferred to Seattle, O'Neal and Damien, the four centers need to compete for an All-Star position.

Simply bloody.

Compared with the fierce competition and luxurious lineup in the Western Conference, the stars in the Eastern Conference are a bit dimmer.

Looking at the five Eastern Conference Stars, Mourning has been under Shaq's control all his life, and the only honors he can win are two DPOYs.

Carter only had one third team. Although Iverson won the scoring title, overall his performance in leading the team was nothing worth mentioning.

Let's not talk about Grant Hill. He only played four games this season and started his paid vacation. Although he got a lot of votes, he will definitely not make it to the All-Star Game. People speculate that his teammate Tracy McGrady will take over.

If it were McGrady, it would be even less honorable. He has only just shown his worth this season.

And Li Ang is a whiteboard player, whiter than Tracy McGrady.

As a second-year player, he is best known for the two honors of Rookie of the Year and Youngest Rebounding Champion. The Rookie of the Year award is half the number awarded to Frankfurt.

Compared with the players in the Western Conference who can easily make several best lineups, the players in the Eastern Conference are indeed a bit lower.

Therefore, many media said: "This may be the All-Stars with the largest disparity in strength in history!"

"You know someone like Li Ang can't play in the All-Stars, right? He doesn't have the ability."

"You only need to think about how the Eastern Conference competes with the luxurious inside line of Shaq, Duncan, KG and Webber, etc., and you will know how likely they are to win."

"To be honest, once the voting results came out, I had no interest in the All-Star Game."

Most of the reports ridiculed the dimming of the Eastern Conference All-Star team's star power. Li Ang looked at the newspaper and was not angry at all.

Because as early as a week ago, he received the task from the system: "The most difficult All-Star Weekend in history!"

"Mission goal: Counterattack with the brothers from the Eastern Team, defeat the powerful Western Conference, and shine as an All-Star!

Mission reward: Randomly select one of the Eastern team players and obtain 2-6 points of his strength attributes."

Li Ang likes tasks that directly add attributes. It's simple and crude, and not so roundabout.

But it is very difficult to complete this task.

One fact that must be acknowledged is that the Western Conference star team is indeed stronger on paper than the Eastern Conference, and it is better by more than one and a half stars.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! If nothing else, things like O'Neal are not for human defense, you know.

Don't get me wrong, Li Ang is not scolding Xiao Yao for not being a human being. He is saying that this low-level killer is not human at all!

In the 2001 All-Star Game in the original history, it was the Eastern Conference team that won the game. So someone may ask, what is so difficult about this task? In the original history, they could win without Li Ang. Is it possible that they would still lose with Li Ang in the mix?

Difficult, very difficult.

Because winning the competition in 2001 was very accidental.

The Eastern team was still 21 points behind in the final quarter, but relied on the incredible performance of AI and horse legs to turn the game around.

The 2001 All-Stars are therefore known as the All-Stars that most resemble the Finals and are a classic among classics.

Both sides played very seriously, and the confrontation was even very fierce at one point. Coupled with the drama of reversal in the final quarter, it became even more climax.

At this time, although the players only regarded the All-Stars as a performance, they were still more shameless.

A performance is a performance, and you have to fight to win.

Everyone is the star of their respective teams, so no one wants to obey anyone else.

Unlike the All-Stars in the future, there is a family atmosphere where everyone is just brothers. Why are you so serious?

And in the future All-Stars, many people will turn around and see that the All-Stars are either teammates or former teammates.

Since it was a reversal to win, it shows that chance is extremely strong.

If the same situation happens again, the Eastern Conference team may not be able to come back again.

It is indeed not an easy task to win against the Western Conference Stars again.

"Damn, that guy Tracy is so lucky." Carter looked at the results of the first round of voting. He didn't care about the media's disparagement of the Eastern Conference, but he was very concerned about the possibility of Tracy McGrady replacing Hill.

this matter.

In his opinion, if he and McGrady are both All-Stars, wouldn't that prove that McGrady and I are on the same level?

Shame on you!

Speaking of which, Li Ang didn't know if Grunwald regretted it now.

If he hadn't let go of Tracy last summer, the Raptors would now have three All-Stars.

Of course, it's not necessarily true. If McGrady continues to stay with Carter, he may not be able to grow as fast.

In Orlando, the reason why Tracey was able to grow so quickly was not only because of his extraordinary talent, but also because he was a big guy and accidentally became the big guy.

Duncan didn't come, and Hill only played four games before he went home, his wife and children were on the bed, and McGrady was the only one left among the promised big three.

It's almost like an online dating site showing up at a large-scale car rollover. The real thing is seriously inconsistent with the cake.

What can Tracy do? She can only let go.

But if he continues to stay in the Raptors, he may not have so many opportunities.

In short, Carter definitely doesn't want to be suppressed by his cousin. Therefore, how Li Ang can unite everyone in the All-Star Game is also a problem.

Li Ang feels that it is so difficult for him, why can't he give me some simple tasks?

For example, a task like playing from position one to position five in one game.

If there is such a task, we, Lao Li, can handle it in a matter of minutes.

The All-Star voting is still in full swing. When the outside world questions the value of the Eastern Conference All-Stars, Leon and Carter led the team to a good record in January, which can be regarded as proving the value of their All-Stars.

From January 9th to January 19th, in 10 days, the Raptors played 7 games and achieved a record of 6 wins and 1 loss!

During this period, except for the loss to the Suns on the 16th, the Raptors won all games.
To be continued...