The two stages of All-Star voting have come to an end, which also means that the starting lineup for the All-Star game has been determined.
In the East, Lin Yu and Dwyane Wade will partner in the backcourt, LeBron James and Kevin Garnett will be on the forward line, and Shaquille O'Neal will start at the center position where votes are counted alone.
Although O'Neal has missed many regular season games, he will still not miss a star-studded stage like the All-Star Game.
In the Western Conference, Kobe and Tracy McGrady partnered in the backcourt, with Duncan and Dirk Nowitzki at the forwards and Dayao at the center.
The head coaches of the Eastern and Western star teams have also been determined. Mike Brown, the No. 1 player in the Eastern Conference, has become the head coach of the Eastern team. In the Western Conference, Avery Johnson, the young general of the Dallas Mavericks, has become the head coach of the Western team.
The All-Star substitutes will be selected by Mike Brown and Avery Johnson.
After the starting lineup for the All-Star Game was confirmed, Lin Yu signed up for the All-Star Three-Point Contest. On the contrary, he was originally supposed to continue participating in the All-Star Rookie Challenge, but he directly declined on the grounds that he needed to rest.
In other words, Lin Yu will only participate in two competitions during this All-Star Weekend, the three-point contest and the All-Star Game.
The regular season started in February, and the Cavaliers continued their winning streak.
In their first game on February 1, they defeated the Warriors at home.
The Warriors, who historically performed poorly this season, are still struggling on the edge of the playoffs. Baron Davis did not complain like Kobe did that the management failed to help him trade Lin Yu.
But after losing the game, he hugged Lin Yu and said: "Cleveland will always be LeBron James' team."
Lin Yu just smiled, he knew what the big beard meant.
The warrior who also recruited him was rejected by Lin Yu. Big Beard meant that Lin Yu would regret his choice.
Does Lin Yu regret it? Of course not, at least now, he is very satisfied with his choice.
Cleveland is not his team, but for Lin Yu now, the most important thing is the memes he can steal. Here is a breakdown of the memes Lin Yu has stolen since joining the Cavaliers.
"Join if you can't beat him", "Zhan Lin Connection" and the self-created "LL Combination", all three are related to James.
If you can't beat it, then join it to provide Lin Yu's most critical mid-range shooting attribute. The blocking attribute provided by Zhan Lin's connection is also very critical. The "Lin x connection" feature of the ll combination is even more critical. There is no "Lin x connection".
He wouldn't have stolen the "Zhan Lin Connection" plot so quickly.
If he didn't join the knights, Lin Yu even doubted whether he could steal the plot.
After beating the Warriors, the Cavaliers defeated the Bobcats at home, and then started a series of consecutive road trips to the Western Conference.
In the first battle against the King, the Cavaliers won easily.
The Kings are also struggling this season. The Princeton Kings of Rick Adelman's peak coaching years have disappeared.
Among the core players, Chris Webber was barely able to play with the 76ers, and Peja Stojakovic was used in exchange for Ron Artest, who is now with the Pacers.
Doug Christie was on the bench for the Clippers. Vlade Divac had already retired. Brad Miller, who later replaced Divac, and Mike Bibby, became the only two veteran players to remain with the Kings.
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Without Weber, only Brad Miller is left, and the Kings' Princeton offense is completely unusable. Rick Adelman's coaching record is getting worse and worse, and he resigned and left the team before the start of this season.
Eric Musselman's coaching directly led the Kings into a rebuilding period.
In the second game of the Western Conference road trip, the opponent was the SuperSonics. After consecutive away games, the Cavaliers were a little tired, but facing a bad team that was last in the league, they still won the game easily.
Rashard Lewis, who faced his old club shortly after being traded, had his best performance since joining the Cavaliers. He made 10 of 18 shots and scored 26 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 1 block.
In the third game of the Western Conference road trip, the Cavaliers finally faced a somewhat valuable opponent, the Denver Nuggets, who had a golden pair of guns.
Allen Iverson's trade is related to the Cavaliers, and this game can be regarded as Andre Miller and Joe Smith facing off against their old club.
But the protagonists of the game were not Andre Miller and Joe Smith, or even Allen Iverson.
LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony competed with each other, and Lin Yu decided the outcome of the game. He stepped up and guarded Iverson. Iverson made 5 of 16 shots from the field and only scored 13 points.
But he himself made 8 of 17 shots and efficiently scored 23 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks.
In the fourth away game in the Western Conference, the Cavaliers' opponent is the Trail Blazers.
The duel between Yellow Mamba and Yellow Mamba could not be staged this time because Roy was injured and directly missed the game.
Without Roy, the Trail Blazers would have little fighting power, and the Cavaliers won another victory.
The Western Conference has won consecutive games, and the Cavaliers are in surprising form.
In the fifth away game of the Western Conference, the Cavaliers faced the Warriors again.
The Cavaliers lost this game. Their main strength was nearly exhausted. LeBron James, Lin Yu and Rashard Lewis all exploded.
The Cavaliers ended their winning streak.
In the last away game in the Western Conference, the Cavaliers faced the Jazz. They were overwhelmed by the pick-and-roll offense of Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer, and lost another game, losing two games in a row.
After six consecutive away games, the Cavaliers' devilish schedule is finally over.
The whole Cavaliers team breathed a sigh of relief. The opponents in this wave of six consecutive away games were not strong. The only one that could be considered a top-notch team was the Jazz, who had performed well this season.
The Nuggets did not perform well in the regular season due to the running-in problem of the two golden guns. The Warriors have also been struggling. These two opponents are considered second-rate teams. The remaining Trail Blazers, Kings and SuperSonics are all in the Western Conference lottery.
A bad team.
With four wins and two losses in six games, the Cavaliers will obviously not be satisfied with this.
But objective factors still exist. Six consecutive away games are indeed a difficult challenge for the Cavaliers' physical fitness. In the last two games of the consecutive away games, they failed to withstand the pressure and ended up losing two games in a row.
After the six consecutive guest games are over, it’s the All-Star Weekend.
Lin Yu has also confirmed that he will participate in the All-Star Three-Point Contest and the All-Star Game.
The Cavaliers also participated in the All-Star Weekend, including LeBron James, who participated in the All-Star Game and Skills Competition, and Daniel Gibson, who participated in the Rookie Challenge.
So, Lin Yu, James and Daniel Gibson, set off directly from Utah to Las Vegas, the venue for this year's All-Star Weekend.