Chapter 1498: Winning the Vote in a Crushing Manner, All-Star Starting Lineup

The Yellow-Green war ended in a way that made fans regretful. Everyone in the Green Army was very uncomfortable. They didn't even show any smiles when attending the press conference. Pierce and Rivers had dark faces the whole time when answering reporters' questions. , almost expressionless.

On the other hand, Gasol and Jackson next door smiled brightly and spoke very calmly, not looking like they had just lost.

The reporters who saw this scene were dumbfounded. To be fair, if you had just turned on the TV and saw this scene, you would have thought that the Lakers were winning and the Celtics were losing.

A reporter who was up to no good took a picture of this scene and posted it online with the text: "Guys, do you know who won this game!?"

The Lakers' behavior of letting the starters play as substitutes in games also caused some controversy. Some people think that the Lakers should not hide their main players. This is disrespectful to the fans!

But generally speaking, few people agree with this view. After all, strictly speaking, the Lakers are not even taking a break, they just changed their starting lineup. Both Ji Feng and Kobe have played, but they only don't have much playing time. This is also It will not violate the regulations, which is much better than Popovich next door who always calls a truce on GDP.

So in the final analysis, there are still too many people who are upset, or it is just the dissatisfaction of Green Army fans. Naturally, the Lakers will ignore it.

After this game, the Lakers didn't take it to heart at all, because their journey was still going on. This time their game was on the 25th, which was two days later, but the Lakers were still in a hurry, because their next stop was Toronto, Canada!

"Get your passports, if you don't want to be dumped in Boston!"

Before getting on the bus, Harper emphasized at the bottom of the bus that although the Toronto Raptors are an NBA team, you still need a passport to go there. Every year, a few fools miss the away game against the Raptors because they forget to bring their passports. This is not unusual in the NBA. Last season, Fisher even ran back to the hotel to get his passport before getting on the plane. But this time they were on the road and had no chance to go back to get it, so If someone forgets to bring it, they can have the opportunity to play alone in Boston...

Fortunately, this trip went smoothly. Except for Ji Feng being surrounded by enthusiastic fans after arriving in Toronto, everything else was fine.

The reason why Ji Feng was surrounded was soon known to the Lakers, because while the Lakers were still on the plane, NBA officials announced through various channels the list of starting players for the 2010 Dallas NBA All-Stars!

Ji Feng, who topped the list in the first three rounds of voting, undoubtedly became this season's All-Star voting leader with 5,068,932 votes!

"This is Ji Feng's second consecutive victory after last season, and the number of votes exceeded 5 million. He also successfully broke his own record for the highest number of All-Star votes created last season, and became the first person to break through 300 votes after last season. After receiving 10,000 and 4 million votes, this season’s Ji Feng successfully became Mr. 5 million, becoming the most popular player in All-Star history!”—ESPN.

This season, the NBA has expanded voting channels and increased the proportion of votes in Asia. This has made Ji Feng even more comfortable. The number of votes in the first round exceeded the two million mark, which blinded everyone. At that time, the actual number of votes was It was already Ji Feng's bag. After all, except for Ji Feng, none of the other players' votes exceeded 1 million in the first round.

This kind of popularity is terrifying. Just look at the final total vote list. James, who ranked second, only had more than 2.5 million votes, and Kobe also had more than 2.5 million votes. The two combined just On par with Ji Feng!

Nash, the worst player in the starting lineup, only got over 1 million votes, which was not as good as Ji Feng's first-round voting result.

Therefore, the media have declared that this is the least suspenseful All-Star voting in history.

The starting lists for the East and West are as follows:

West: Center Stoudemire, power forward Duncan, small forward Ji Feng, shooting guard Kobe Bryant, point guard Nash.

The Lakers twins and the Suns twins occupy four of the seats, which is also consistent with the Western Conference rankings this season. Among them, Stoudemire was elected as the All-Star starter for the first time. This is also thanks to the absence of Dayao, while Nash was elected after a year. Selected again.

However, McGrady's fans may be disappointed, because McGrady was overtaken by Nash at the last moment. Also injured were Dallas fans. They originally hoped that their idol Nowitzki would start in the Dallas All-Star Game. , thoroughly enjoying the treatment of a home star, but Duncan's sudden emergence caused Nowitzki to be squeezed out of the starting lineup.

Eastern Conference: Center Howard, power forward Garnett, small forward James, shooting guard Wade, point guard Iverson.

Just as many fans expected, Iverson finally entered the All-Star starting lineup due to his high popularity. As for other positions, compared with the West, there is no suspense in the East.

This All-Star Game will be held on February 14, 2010 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, USA. It will also be the second time that Dallas has hosted the All-Star Game.

The All-Star substitute lineup will be announced a week later, and will be selected by the current All-Star Eastern and Western head coaches. If nothing else happens, the Western All-Star coach will be Lakers head coach Phil Jackson, while the Eastern Conference All-Star coach will be coached by Mike Brown last season. Passed, so Van Gundy, the Magic head coach currently ranked second in the Eastern Conference, will be in charge.

At the same time, NBA officials also announced the list of participating players including the rookie game and various individual competitions.

The one who deserves the most attention is naturally Ji Feng. As the king of all the All-Star events last season, Ji Feng has withdrawn from the shooting star competition this season, while Ji Feng will participate in the three-point contest, dunk contest and skills competition.

This has undoubtedly greatly increased the attention of this year's All-Star individual competitions, especially the slam dunk contest and the skills competition, because Ji Feng will be aiming for the first dunk in the individual competitions and three consecutive skills championships.

At the same time, Ji Feng also said in an interview that this will be his last year to participate in the dunk contest and skills competition.

"Yes, I will still appear there this year, because I hope to end my individual event career with a three-peat championship. I am in my third grade this year, and I can barely be considered a newcomer. There is no doubt that these competitions are for newcomers. Just look at my opponents to show off my stage, so even if I can’t win the championship this year, I won’t participate again,” Ji Feng said.

"Of course, except for the Three-Point Contest." Ji Feng then added that today is his second time participating in the Three-Point Contest, and his goal is to break the Triple Crown record of Bird, the king of forcing kings back then!