Chapter 143: All-Star Ticket King?(2/2)
This result will probably not be announced until early January.
At this time, the focus of fans is not this matter, but another thing.
The NBA All-Star Voting begins on the first day after Christmas.
And by the end of the month, the results of the first round of voting will be released soon.
All teams are canvassing votes for the players selected for the roster.
Like Philadelphia, it is doing its best to canvass votes for Iverson.
This is the highest season in Iverson's career, and the team's record is also ranked first in the league.
He deserves an All-Star vote king.
Of course, there are many people who compete for the first place.
According to the rules, there are two pits for the defender, two pits for the forward, and one pit for the center.
If you want to be selected, you must rank high enough in each district.
Cuban has not left behind either.
When the team performed poorly before, he tried to keep a low profile.
After defeating the Timberwolves, he spent money to hire people to help Nowitzki call for votes on major websites.
No one else can do this as a boss.
For Sun Hao, the Mavericks' official website is also helping him canvass votes.
But compared to this, his big head is still in the country.
This is what Su Qun has been doing for him and constantly accumulating domestic popularity.
He posted an article before the first round of All-Stars vote began.
"Missing is regret".
"Every night, the records of Chinese players are constantly being refreshed.
Because of Sun Hao, we can see that NBA is more motivated than ever before.
So what reason do we have to prevent him from appearing on the All-Star stage?”
This time, Teacher Su did not deliberately incite the fans' emotions, but these words at the end of the article hit the soul.
The NBA All-Star Game is no better than the regular season playoffs, and you don’t want to win or lose, but you want to perform.
To put it bluntly, if you want to see who appears on this stage, you choose him.
This is also the original intention of the NBA vote to adopt fans' votes.
In fact, in the era when Sun Hao lived, after Xiao Hua took charge of the alliance, the amendment to the formulation of voting rules was criticized.
At that time, the rules were changed to 50% of fans, 50% of media and players.
The result was that the most contradictory event occurred. Wade, Ross and Nowitzki were voted by fans into the NBA lineup, but in the end they did not appear in the lineup.
In the end, the league was under pressure and added an additional quota to the two, and Ross was not selected in the end.
To put it bluntly, fans are the ones who pay for the league, and those who watch the live broadcast are also fans, which is also the right of fans.
This is the key point that Su Qun caught.
To translate the article more bluntly, no matter how Sun Hao performs, you are just a Chinese player, should you choose or not?
Not to mention Sun Hao's performance is not bad.
So, when the time entered January and the league announced the results of the first round of voting, everyone was shocked.
Iverson eventually failed to become the first-round vote leader, and he received 660,000 votes.
McGrady ranked second among the Eastern Conference defenders, but he only had 360,000 votes.
The one who received the most votes in the Eastern Conference was Carter among the forwards. He received 760,000 votes and was unparalleled in popularity.
Grant Hill, the second-ranked forward, received 430,000 votes.
Eastern center Mooning received 450,000 votes.
These results are somewhat expected, and what scared the fans was the votes in the West.
Center, O'Neal had no problem with 670,000 votes.
Forwards, Chris Webber and Tim Duncan received 480,000 and 470,000 votes respectively, while Garnett and Wallace were temporarily behind with 400,000 and 330,000 votes.
What makes people shocked is the defender.
Kobe got 690,000 votes, which was 10,000 more than O'Neal, and there was no problem.
But the other defender is not Kidd or Payton, but Sun Hao!
Moreover, Sun Hao received 810,000 votes! 50,000 more than Carter!
The first round of votes for the NBA All-Star Voting in 2000 was Sun Hao!
In an instant, the American media and fans were in a mess.
"What's this? Who allows a player who averages 18 points per game to become the NBA All-Star vote king, who allows it?"
Barkley exploded directly on TNT's show, with an extremely exaggerated expression.
"Sun's performance is good, but I don't think he's worth it."
This time Kenny Smith also stood on his side.
“This vote was ‘wrong’ and it needs to be corrected.”
Ernie Johnson, who has always been just watching dramas, also expressed his views.
Not only the media, but also the fans in the forum made fun of Sun Hao.
"We have seen the power of the Chinese, but the result of this power is funny."
"We have to introduce rules to limit their votes, whose alliance is NBA?"
"Stern, it's time to show your control and tell me this will change."
"If one day I told my son a defender who averaged 18 points per game was higher than Vince Carter's All-Star votes, I don't know what he would look like."
"We need players who are really capable to get into the NBA, not like this, it looks like a farce."
...
For a moment, Sun Hao was pushed to the forefront.
The Mavericks have already started the schedule in January. They have defeated the Hawks and Pistons one after another, and after four consecutive losses, they have won three consecutive victories.
Just before they headed to Orlando, during the team's training class, a reporter asked questions about the results of the first round of voting.
“Where is this voting result that violates the rules?”
Sun Hao's response was simple and straightforward.
"If the rules are not violated, what's there to question?"
Sun Hao blocked the reporter back in just a few words.
After his words were reported by reporters, they also triggered another round of discussion.
More fans still cannot accept this result, and they think Sun Hao's answer is also shirking responsibility.
Sun Hao ignored these things again, you can never wake up a group of people pretending to be asleep.
This topic also continued to ferment overnight.
Just when Sun Hao arrived in Orlando and started training with the Mavericks, many stars were asked this question.
And the answers of these stars were also surprising.
"I think it's okay. The fans chose you to go in just to see you appear there."
Carter agreed with Sun Hao's point of view.
"I think what Sun said is OK. Within the scope of the rules, this should not be questioned."
Ray Allen expressed a similar view.
These remarks were unexpected to fans because they were all their favorite stars!
This made them lose a lot of comments on the forum.
In the end, Kobe's remarks ended the arguments among the fans.
"I haven't played NCAA, but I know that NCAA's March crazy, one game determines the outcome, is that the best rule? One game can determine who is the better team?
I don't think so, but the fact is that NCAA Mad March is very popular with fans, and I like it too, like NBA All-Star Game, we all love it now.
So the fans voted for who should be the NBA, so what reason do we have to question it?”
When the training was over and Esley imitated Kobe's tone and handed this passage to Sun Hao, Sun Hao couldn't help laughing.
He suddenly remembered a sentence he had heard in his previous life.
Chapter completed!