Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 407
The biggest highlight of this year's All-Stars is the competition for the All-Star ticket champion. Jordan, who was the most popular last season, encountered a strong challenge from Li Weisi.

It's no wonder that the performance of the Warriors this season can be described as a miracle. Now that the schedule is halfway through, the Warriors have only lost 4 games.

Such an achievement, even in the history of the NBA, is unprecedented.

However, even under such circumstances, when Li Weisi voted against Jordan, he still could only maintain a weak lead, and was even overtaken by Jordan in the middle.

The reason for this, apart from Jordan's accumulation of popularity over the years, is closely related to the individualism worshiped by Americans.

Although the Warriors achieved good results, Li Weisi also made a huge sacrifice for this. He handed over part of the ball, shots and even playing time. I have doubts about Li Weisi's own strength.

It was in this situation that Li Weisi finally won 1026854 votes, beating Jordan's 1009062 votes, and with an advantage of more than 1 votes, he was successfully elected as the All-Star vote king.

In addition, the East and West starters and substitute All-Star lists are also officially released.

There are five starters in the Western Conference. Except for Li Weisi, the other four votes from high to low are: Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, Akeem Olajuwon and Alex English.

Subs: Moses Malone, Chris Mullin, Dale Ellis, John Stockton, Clyde Drexler, Tom Chambers and Kareem Kareem.

There are five starters in the East, except for Jordan, the other four are: Dominique Wilkins, Charles Barkley, Isiah Thomas, Patrick Ewing.

Subs: Larry Nance, Terry Cummings, Kevin McHale, Mark Jackson, Brad Doherty, Kevin Johnson, Robert Parish.

Larry Bird was reimbursed for the season due to injury, and no votes were recorded in this All-Star election.

At the same time, almost on the same day that the list came out, Magic Johnson announced that he would miss the All-Star due to injury, Dale Ellis would start, and James Worthy would join the Western Conference All-Star team.

Therefore, for the first time since the 80s, there was an All-Star game in which both black and white heroes were absent at the same time. It has to make people feel that the renewal of the NBA league is so unexpected.

In addition, there is also the All-Star Weekend, and the list of entries for other events has also been released.

In the three-point contest, Li Weisi, the two-time champion, decided to continue playing to launch an impact for the three-peat championship. In addition, the number of participants in this three-point contest has increased by one person, reaching the highest nine in history. Although this history is very short, only three session.

Other contestants are: Michael Adams, Mark Price, Dale Ellis, Chris Mullin, Dell Curry, Derek Harper, Reggie Miller, Craig Hodges, Gerald Henderson.

This year's three-point contest, due to Bird's absence, has led to a lot of highlights. However, it is really surprising that the Warriors once again entered the list of four three-point contests.

In addition, it is worth mentioning Gerald Henderson here. Perhaps some old fans will feel a sense of time travel when they see this name.

In fact, this Henderson is the father of Gerald Henderson, the 09th pick in the first round in 12.

It's a pity that unlike his son's first-round talent, his father's talent is average. He was selected by the Spurs with the 78th overall pick in the third round of 20. Since he didn't play for an NBA team, he played in the WBA for a year. Playing for the Tucson Gunners.

It was not until 79 that he was favored by the Celtics, re-logged in the NBA, and finally won three championships with the team. From this point of view, although the father is not as talented as his son, his luck is better. few.

As for the slam dunk contest, after the peak duel last season, both Jordan and Wilkins have announced their withdrawal from the slam dunk contest this season.

List of players: Kenny Walker, Clyde Drexler, Spot Webb, Sheldon Jones, Tim Perry, Jeremy Kersey, Ron Harper , Chris Morris.

Except for Drexler, there are no All-Stars among them, which is really tasteless and boring.

In addition, the biggest highlight of this All-Star is the last All-Star before Kareem Abdul-Jabbar participated in his career.

As early as before the start of the season, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar announced that this season will be his last.

Therefore, this year's Lakers have received the highest courtesy and tribute in almost any away game in the league. Of course, the applause is for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar once again staged a curtain call performance on tour.

It is precisely because of this that Isiah Thomas and other players union leaders appealed before the start of the All-Star game, hoping that all the stars can help Kareem Abdul-Jabbar win an AMVP and retire successfully.

In fact, this advocacy is quite understandable, because in Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's long 20-year career, he has been selected to the All-Star 19 times, but has never won an AMVP.

As the number one star in the history of the NBA today, he is eligible for such an AMVP, and people also hope that he will leave the league without regret.

It's just that although the alliance is a world, in addition to fighting and killing, it also has sophistication, but unfortunately not everyone buys Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

In the original time and space, Stockton replaced Johnson as the All-Star starter, and then played a whirlwind with Karl Malone.

At that time, the All-Stars in the Eastern Conference were deliberately waterproof long before the start of the game, resulting in the defensive intensity of the game being only slightly greater than zero.

In the end, Karl Malone scored 28 points and 9 rebounds and won the AMVP trophy. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar only scored 4 points because he couldn't keep up with the rhythm and no one passed him the ball.

After the game, many NBA players, media and fans from all walks of life criticized Malone, which also caused Malone to completely destroy his popularity.

In the All-Star game of the second year, the fans insisted on promoting AC Green as the starter of the Western All-Star, and finally made Malone only a substitute for the Western All-Star. The fans would rather let a blue-collar starter than Malone. All-star, it can be seen how much the fans hate this guy.

In the end, before the start of the All-Star Game, Malone announced that he missed the All-Star Game due to injury, but what is interesting is that in the regular season after the All-Star Game, Malone continued to play without any trace of injury, which shows that everything is for face.

But now, with the emergence of the variable Li Weisi, will things still develop as Ma Long thought?
(End of this chapter)