It has never happened before that six players from one team were selected as All-Stars!
There is no doubt that Curry and Yao Ming will be selected into the All-Stars. They are the core of the Warriors inside and outside. They have good personal data and a great team record. It is unjustifiable not to be selected into the All-Stars.
Especially Yao Ming, even when he was with the Rockets, relying on the huge number of fans in China, he could still make the All-Stars and become the top vote-getter!
Historically, in the 2005 All-Star Game, Yao Ming broke the record with 2.55 million votes, becoming the NBA All-Star vote leader for the first time. In 2006, Yao Ming once again won the NBA All-Star vote leader.
However, after that, although Yao Ming was able to be selected into the All-Stars, he was never elected as the vote winner again.
The reason is that with the popularization of the Internet and the broadening of fans' horizons, domestic fans are no longer just focusing on Yao Ming. Players such as Kobe, James, Iverson, Wade, and McGrady have many players in China.
High popularity.
When you know more things, you will know the true strength of a player instead of blindly worshiping him.
If a person has no ability and you force him to be selected into the All-Stars, that would be a travesty and may not be a good thing for him.
Yao Ming is indeed very strong, but the Rockets' record has always been poor, which has greatly reduced Yao Ming's popularity.
Now we have the Warriors with the best record. Yao Ming is the team's starter, core inside player, and has very good personal statistics, so it is no problem to rank high in the votes.
With the same problem, despite the support of a large number of domestic fans, Curry still received higher votes, which also shows that domestic fans are more rational.
Is Yao Ming great?
sharp!
Is the Warriors’ record good?
good!
But who is the boss of the Warriors?
Curry!
There is no doubt about this.
If there is no doubt about these, it would be unreasonable to elect Yao Ming as the top vote-getter.
Except for Curry and Yao Ming, the rest of the Warriors were selected to the All-Stars due to the Warriors' outstanding record.
The Warriors' record this season is even worse than last season, with almost every game being a big win. Under such circumstances, the Warriors have attracted a lot of attention.
The higher the attention, the more fans there will be!
When a team wins, the players of this team present positive things to the outside world!
Klay is a rookie?
So what!
Who says rookies can't make the All-Stars!
Klay’s ball-handling ability is average?
So what?
Not occupying the ball, but also having such good data, he can also contribute to the team, which makes him even more powerful!
Lowry, Lopez is a substitute?
So what!
Substitute players play more minutes than starters, and their statistics are better than many starters on other teams. If such a player joins other teams as a starter, his statistics will definitely be better!
Again, winning in the competitive arena is the last word!
When you win, all problems disappear!
In short, thanks to their excellent record, the Warriors are the biggest winners of the 2012 All-Star Game!
The biggest loser should be James.
Originally, James still hoped to compete with Curry for the votes, but he was injured during the game and needed to rest for a week, so he had to miss the All-Star Game.
This is the most unacceptable result for James!
People want to follow in Jordan’s footsteps!
How to catch up?
The number of championships is of course the best measure, but this is too far away for James and is simply impossible to achieve.
Then what?
Only start with personal data.
I don’t have as many championships as you, but I have more points than you, more assists than you, more votes than you, more points in All-Star games than you, and more Finals appearances than you.
, this is always okay...
No matter whether others recognize it or not, as long as James fans recognize it!
So missing the All-Star Game is a huge loss to James.
But it’s no wonder that others are not to blame. If James didn’t do anything to Curry, Lopez Jr. wouldn’t retaliate against him!
In short, it’s just one sentence: you deserve it!
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At 10:00 am on February 25, 2012, the Rookie Challenge begins.
This year's Rookie Challenge adopted a new format, with first-year and second-year students forming mixed teams to compete, with O'Neal and Barkley alternately selecting team members.
In the end, the ten-man roster for "Shaq" O'Neal's team is as follows: Blake Griffin, Jeremy Lin, Ricky Rubio, Markieff Morris, Greg Monroe, Klay Thompson, Norris Cole, Kemba Walker,
Brandon Wright and Tristan Thompson.
The ten-man roster for "Chuck" Barkley's team is as follows: Irving, Cousins, Hayward, Paul George, Derrick Williams, Marshon Brooks, John Wall, Splitter, Leonard,
Evan Turner.
The level of confrontation in the Rookie Game is not as good as the All-Star Game. The game is just a battle of attacks!
Who is best suited to fighting battles?
Splash Brothers!
Of course Curry will not participate in the rookie game again, but Klay is here!
Klay's off-ball movement and accurate three-pointers are most suitable for this kind of offensive battle!
In the end, Clay played 27 minutes, made 9 three-pointers, and scored a game-high 36 points, helping the O'Neal team win.
Just like the main game, the winner of the rookie game MVP is also selected from the winning team. Under normal circumstances, it is the one with the most points.
Not surprisingly, Clay won the MVP of the rookie game!
After the Shooting Star Game and Skills Challenge, it’s time for the Three-Point Contest.
The roster for this three-point contest includes: James Jones, Ryan Anderson, Love, Anthony Morrow, Curry and Klay.
Joe Johnson was originally on the roster, but he missed the game due to injury, so Clay replaced him.
The Splash Brothers participate in the Three-Point Contest together, and the Warriors can basically be said to have booked the championship in the Three-Point Contest!
The game process was not so smooth. In the first round, Curry performed well and scored 22 points, ranking first. Love also performed well and scored 20 points, while Klay had a poor touch and only scored 17 points, compared with Duran.
Tied for third place.
In this way, Clay will have to compete with Durant.
In the end, Clay narrowly won by one point.
In the final, Rickley found his touch and scored 21 points, tied for first place with Curry.
Love only scored 20 points and was eliminated.
Curry and Clay entered the PK game, and both performed very well, scoring a high score of 23 points each!
There was no other way, so the two had to compete again.
This time Curry was unlucky. Two bouquets rolled out of the frame, and he only scored 19 points in the end.
Clay maintained his excellent touch and once again scored a high score of 23 points!
In the end, Clay won the three-point contest!
Audiences around the world also witnessed the power of the Splash Brothers for the first time!
Next up is the dunk contest.
This year's slam dunk contest is full of fresh faces, and the star quality is much different.
In the end, through the votes of fans around the world, Jazz's Jeremy Evans won the slam dunk contest with 29% of the votes.
On February 27, 2012, the main game of the Orlando All-Star Game began.
Without James, this All-Star Game has become much more harmonious.
In the first half of the game, both teams played very loosely, with various dunks and three-pointers constantly appearing.
After halftime, the Western team led by 17 points at 88:71.
In the second half, the two teams played more seriously and worked hard on the defensive end, making the game more exciting to watch.
Wade and Anthony were the first to find their touch, with several consecutive three-pointers to close the gap to only 5 points!
However, the Splash Brothers responded quickly. The two teamed up to throw in 5 three-pointers in three minutes, directly opening the point difference to more than 10 points!
Compared with the Eastern team, the biggest advantage of the Western team is that they are very familiar with each other.
For a long time, all five players on the Western Conference team were Warriors players.
Curry, Lowry, Klay, Prince, Yao Ming!
This is the Warriors’ starting lineup!
It can be said that the All-Star Game is the Warriors versus the Eastern Conference Stars!
Although the Eastern Conference All-Star team is star-studded and everyone is very capable, the Warriors have been working together for a long time and have a good understanding of each other and play more smoothly.
In the last minute or so, the Western team led by 7 points, 146:139.
Desperate situations can often inspire people's fighting spirit. In more than a minute, Rose and Anthony hit three consecutive three-pointers, leading the Eastern team to overtake the score by one point!
With 2 seconds left in the game, Curry caught the ball and got rid of Howard's defense. He made a feint and shot the basketball hollowly into the net. At the same time, the red light on the timer also turned on.
The Western team leads by two points!
Curry used a three-pointer to kill the Eastern Conference team!
With this buzzer beater and 28 points in the game, Curry also won the MVP of the 2012 All-Star Game!
MVP of the All-Star Game for three consecutive years!
Curry sets a record again!
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The All-Star Game is over and the Warriors are once again the big winners!
Not only did they have the largest number of participants, Curry and Klay also won an MVP trophy!
In addition, Clay also won the three-point contest championship!
Now more people know how good Klay is, and Klay's shooting ability has also been recognized.
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After two days of rest, the regular season resumes.
The games after the All-Star break are crucial for every team.
At the beginning of the season, most teams' rosters have changed, and each team needs a period of adjustment.
Especially this season, due to the lockout, more time is needed to adjust.
After the All-Star Game, most teams have almost finished adjusting and it’s time to produce results.
So the period after the All-Star break is crucial to each team's ranking.
On February 28, 2012, the game between the Cavaliers and Warriors officially started at Oracle Arena.
This is the first game after the All-Star break for both teams.
The All-Star Game has little impact on the Cavaliers because each of them participates in the All-Star Game.
The impact on the Warriors is greater, with 6 of their players participating in the All-Star Game.
Fortunately, the Warriors have a lot of players, so even if the main players don't play much time, the intensity of the game is sufficient.
The Warriors showed no mercy in this game and severely defeated the Cavaliers.
It's okay to lose to the Cavaliers without James, but that's on the road!
If you can win the home game, you have to win it!
Because there are a lot of Warriors fans here!
People come here just to have fun, not to watch you lose!
As the small boss of the Warriors, Deng Fang is very clear about this.
Although the Cavaliers lost a game at home before, that does not mean that the Cavaliers are really capable of fighting!
The Warriors showed no mercy, they went all out and opened the point difference to 35 points in just half a half!
The final score was fixed at 129:101!
Warriors win by 28 points!
Counting the games before the All-Star Game, the Warriors have won 12 consecutive games!
There is no suspense in the next few games, the Warriors win almost every game!
The game with the fewest wins also had a margin of 18 points!
Bobcats, Trail Blazers, Magic...
In more than half a month, the Warriors have won another 9 consecutive victories!
Including the previous winning streak, the Warriors have won a total of 21 games in this wave!
On March 16, 2012, the Warriors visited the Atlanta Hawks.
In this game, the entire Warriors team felt off-line, while the Hawks felt hot and everyone shot accurately.
It is easy for a civilian team like the Eagles to play this kind of game!
There is no super giant, everyone is similar, opponents don't know which one to focus on, and even the Eagles themselves don't know which one will suddenly break out today.
It's okay if one or two players feel good, but if everyone on the team feels hot, there's nothing they can do.
If you really encounter this kind of competition, you can only admit defeat.
There will always be a few games in a season where this happens!
In the end, the Warriors lost the game 109:116 and suffered their third loss of the season.
Although they lost a game, the Warriors' record is still the best in the league!
38 wins and 3 losses!
What a terrifying winning rate this is!
After this game is over, as soon as the 16th passes, the mid-season trade deadline will arrive.
The mid-term transactions of this year are not very big, and the few transactions are also small and small.
One of the larger transactions occurred with the New Jersey Nets, who completed a player trade with the Portland Trail Blazers.
The Nets sent away Mehmet Okur, whose contract was about to expire, Sean Williams, and a protected first-round pick in 2012 to acquire Gerald Wallace from the Trail Blazers.
Gerald Wallace has always been the player favored by the Magic. In December last year, before the season started, the Nets, Magic and Trail Blazers had a three-party negotiation, which included Howard leaving for the Nets and the Magic.
The team received Wallace, Brook Lopez and at least one future first-round pick, while the team sent Turkoglu and Chris Duhon away, but in the end the negotiations did not succeed.
Prior to this, the Nets had publicly rejected all proposals for the Deron Williams trade, and the team determined that they would not trade the All-Star point guard this season.
In fact, Deron has the right to exercise the player option to opt out of his contract this summer, and the Nets hope to build a team with Deron as the core after moving to Brooklyn, New York this summer.
What can you do to keep Deron?
That means having excellent helpers by his side!
That's why the Nets took a crazy gamble and implemented this deal.
In addition, the Houston Rockets also completed a final deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, but this time it was not Pau Gasol, but "Old Fish" Derek Fisher.
The Rockets sent Jordan Hill for Fisher and the 2012 first-round pick (from the Mavericks) that the Lakers received from the Odom trade.
This is the second consecutive year that the Rockets have completed a crazy deal just before the trade deadline. Last year, they acquired Thabeet and Dragic.
