945. The little emperor begins to transform

When the league announced the All-Star candidates selected by experts for each team, Kobe was placed at the forward position again, which aroused heated discussions.

No matter which position Kobe goes to, he will have no problem being selected as an All-Star starter. The media speculated that this operation may be to promote Paul.

Paul's popularity is the highest since the rookie class of 2003...not counting the weird news about Bogut in the 2005 class.

This is why we want Paul to be an All-Star starter.

But the league overestimated Paul's popularity. Playing well, being popular, and getting a lot of news do not mean he is popular.

This year Paul only had 390,000 votes, ranking behind Iverson, Nash, Ray Allen, Ginobili, Deron and others. Even the little flying squirrel received more than 10,000 votes more than Paul.

The league moved Kobe to the forward position, instead of promoting Paul, but instead made room for Iverson.

But some things just go wrong.

Iverson entered the All-Star starting lineup, and Anthony lost to Duncan's 1.79 million votes with 1.71 million votes!

In the first two times when the votes were announced, Anthony steadily dominated Duncan. Who knew that the Spurs would win 10 consecutive games in the middle of the season! Duncan's votes soared, beating Anthony to be selected as the All-Star starter.

At least one of the Miner Bandits didn't make the All-Star starting lineup. Liu Xiu guessed that Stern was depressed and happy at the same time.

This thing is very interesting, but Liu Xiu also feels depressed when he thinks about it. He would have known that he would help Dong Ge to canvass votes.

If both Miner Bandits were selected as All-Star starters...

He also didn't expect that Duncan would gain popularity at this time!

The number of votes for King Nuo is also quite high, with 1.31 million votes. According to official data, he is very popular in the Chinese market, with nearly one million votes coming from China.

Even Stu Jackson learned to say "Silver Horn King" in broken Chinese when he read Nowitzki's votes.

In the Eastern Conference, James won the Eastern Conference vote leader with 3.05 million votes, and his partner as the starting forward forward in the Eastern Conference was Garnett with 2.31 million votes.

The Eastern Conference forward got third place...Yi Jianlian, 1.51 million votes.

Eastern Conference guards, Jason Kidd with 1.96 million votes and Tracy McGrady with 1.84 million votes were selected.

Wade, who received 1.55 million votes, and Carter, who received 1.39 million votes, both lost.

Kidd became a lone hero. After half a season, he scored 14 triple-doubles, setting a new career record for triple-doubles in a single season. He also took advantage of Liu Xiu's popularity of averaging a triple-double per game and was finally selected as an All-Star starter.

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McGrady went to the Big Apple. Although his strength deteriorated, his statistics were online and he was in a big city. He was also lucky enough to lead the Knicks to rise.

For the center position, Yao Ming defeated Howard with 1.71 million votes, Milicic with 1.15 million votes, and O'Neal with 960,000 votes. He was elected as the All-Star starter for the sixth consecutive year.

The gap between the starter with the highest votes this year and the starter with the lowest votes is extremely large.

There are only three players who have attracted much attention, and they all feel that they must be the starters. Liu Xiu, Kobe, and James. All three of them received more than 3 million votes. The competition from the others is very high.

The three of them are also the most popular and talked-about stars this season.

Liu Xiu defeated Kobe and James with 3.39 million votes, and set a new record for the highest number of votes he set in his rookie season! He was once again elected as the All-Star vote leader!

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The top vote winner was 20,000, with 10,000 starting points and 30,000 healing points obtained. Liu Xiu looked at the upper right corner of the system screen and found 91,192 healing points remaining.

Kwame Brown probably won't be able to play in the All-Star Game, but as long as he is selected, he will still be an All-Star whether he plays or not. He said that he will listen to the team's arrangements.

The team’s advice is not to play…

When the All-Star substitute lineup is announced, there must be a replacement candidate. Liu Xiu estimates that it will fall on one of Ray Allen or Randolph, if neither of them is selected as the substitute.

In the afternoon, John Nash found Liu Xiu, and the league invited him to compete on the comprehensive event day.

As the defending champions, the Trail Blazers must participate in the Shooting Star Challenge, and of course they can make substitutions.

However, Liu Xiu certainly would not refuse such an interesting competition and readily agreed.

But in other competitions, he only accepted the invitation to the dunk contest, but declined both the skills challenge and the three-point contest.

The skills challenge is related to luck. If you make a mistake, you may be eliminated directly, and your rhythm will be disrupted.

He is very competitive in the three-point contest. Last time, he just wanted to compete in a real competition at the beginning and did not expect to win the championship. It was just that the All-Star Weekend was approaching and he received related task rewards.

When the three-pointers reach the top level in the future, he can participate again. For now, he should retain his "invincible" image in the three-point contest.

John Nash was a little regretful, he wanted to see Liu Xiu dominate the entire comprehensive event day again.

There was no other reason. He was just a basketball fan who simply wanted to watch Liu Xiu participate in those games.

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"Cleveland Cavaliers, 25 wins and 21 losses, averaging 93.5 points per game, allowing 93.7 points per game, shooting 43.9% from the field, limiting opponents to 45.5% shooting, averaging 44.3 rebounds per game, limiting opponents to 40.7 rebounds per game, averaging

20.1 assists, limiting opponents to 21.7 assists per game..."

At 7:40 pm, the Cavaliers were the first to enter the Rose Garden Arena.

Liu Xiu listened to the boos and watched the Cavaliers' team report. It was really special...

The average points difference per game is negative, the shooting percentage is worse than the opponent, and the assists are not as many as the opponent, but the record is positive.

However, in rebounding, steals, and blocks, the Cavaliers have the upper hand.

"LeBron James, 23 years old, 203 cm, 113 kg, SF/PG, ability evaluation 94, offense 95, defense 79, passing 86... played 40 games, averaging 32.3 points, 8 rebounds, 7.4 assists, 1.8 steals and 1 block.

...shooting rate was 48%, three-point shooting rate was 30.6%, free throw shooting rate was 69.6%..."

James' defense has undergone a qualitative transformation compared to last season!

He was a laggard last season. He couldn't guard the outside and couldn't withstand the inside. He couldn't use his body on the defensive end at all. In the playoffs, he was used to guard Prince.

It is said that James worked hard on defense every day when he arrived at the America's Cup training camp.

What is genius?

This is it!

In just a few months, he went from being a laggard to being at the top of his game, and then improved to an excellent level of defense.

They are all high school students, far from being lawless lunatics.

In terms of defensive progress, only Kwame Brown can compare with James.

Kobe Bryant's pace of improvement should have been a little more exaggerated back then. Liu Xiu heard this when he heard Iverson reminiscing about the glorious past.

Kobe's defensive progress was so rapid because of the pressure from Iverson. In the shortened season, Iverson and Kobe beat Kobe. Kobe was so angry that he worked hard on defense during the offseason. In the 1999-00 season, he directly defended.

Entering earlier for a while.

The owner of the Cavaliers is willing to spend money. This is the first year that James' big contract takes effect. The total salary has reached 84.21 million U.S. dollars. This is because the 'Warden Exception' is more difficult to trigger than the 'Rose Clause' in the original time and space.

Otherwise, it would have to go up by two to three million.

The owner of the Cavaliers spent a lot of money to build an excellent defensive lineup for James. After James' defense was developed, the defensive efficiency soared from 11th last season to 5th!
Chapter completed!