Chapter 392 All-Star Voting Results
After the game, Xu Xiaodong was diagnosed with more than a dozen fractures, and the injuries in other parts were even more terrible. He had to lie in the hospital for half a year.
He did get dividends, but the high fees in Los Angeles almost happened to pay for his treatment expenses in the past six months.
This is almost equivalent to playing an ugly game without any reward.
Such a result is undoubtedly completely unacceptable to Xu, but it was this lesson that made him truly realize that the fate of becoming famous by making gimmicks without limits is sometimes much worse than he imagined.
In fact, such a game is just a small episode in Tang Hao's NBA career.
After donating all the money obtained from the game to domestic charities, he devoted himself to the team's long season.
The Lakers are unstoppable. Under Tang Hao's excellent leadership, they have scored the team's longest 20 consecutive victories in a decade. While other teams in the league are busy with trading deadlines, they are already constantly improving the team's tacit understanding and preparing for the upcoming playoffs.
Time flies. In February of 2015, domestic people have already started to be busy around the Spring Festival, but in the United States, the NBA league has ushered in the top priority of the season.
The NBA All-Star Game is an entertainment event held by the NBA every season. In short, it concentrates the best players in the east and west of the league in the two teams to present an unprecedented star battle to fans, which is a visual feast.
And in order to complete this, there will be an all-star voting process.
The All-Star Game is approaching, and the cities where each team is located are starting to canvass votes for the team's All-Star players, and various methods are emerging one after another.
Los Angeles is no exception, but unlike last season, they are a little busy this time.
In addition to the symbol of Kobe, Los Angeles, Tang Hao, Cousins and Rondo are all the targets of their canvassing votes this time.
There are three rounds of All-Star voting, and by this time it has entered the last round of voting.
Surprisingly but reasonable, the Lakers' most vote-winning one is not Kobe, but Tang Hao.
After Grant Hill, Tang Hao is expected to become the second rookie season in history to be elected as the All-Star vote leader.
This day is exactly the day when the All-Stars announce the final voting results.
Tang Hao has ranked first with 1.5 million votes so far, and LeBron James, who ranked second, has 1.35 million votes. There is only 150,000 difference between the two sides. It is full of suspense who is the vote leader. Everything will have to wait until the day when the result is finally announced.
The voting results are about to be announced, but at this time, there are a lot of criticisms in China. For nothing else, because the NBA restricts the voting of Chinese fans, most people can only serve as spectators in this voting.
Everyone knows that if the Chinese region votes are relaxed, with Tang Hao's current influence, his votes will probably be dozens or even hundreds of times that of others.
It is precisely because Tang Hao may become the second rookie voter. NBA official did not announce the results directly as before, but announced the final result through the t.n.t program.
The one who supports this show is Charles Barkley and his old partner Kenny Smith, who had questioned Tang Hao before but was eventually impressed by Tang Hao.
"Welcome to watch the t.n.t special program. In this episode, my old partner Kenny and I will announce the final result of the new NBA vote." At the beginning of the program, Barkley began to create an atmosphere for the program.
"Hey, Kenny, let's talk about who do you think will become the All-Star Ticket King this year, is Stephen (Curry), LeBron (James), Kobe Bryant, James (Harden), or Tang Hao?" Barkley turned to look at Smith after the opening remarks.
"Don." Smith spoke with little hesitation.
"Don! Oh, Kenny, this is not your style! At least you hesitate!" Barkley said with a big laugh.
"I don't want to be slapped in the face again by this guy, and in fact, this guy's performance is completely worthy of being the All-Star Ticket King." Smith said with a smile.
"Okay, average 40 points per game, this data is exaggerated, 6.8 rebounds, how did this guy grab so many bosses, 10.2 assists, hey, man, he is just a shooting guard!" Barkley began to praise Tang Hao at this moment.
"Although the gap between LeBron and Tang is only 150,000 votes, I think this may be the smallest gap between the two sides." Smith said with a smile. He really believed that Tang Hao would become the All-Star vote king.
"Okay, I hope Stephen (Curry) can bring us some surprises. So let's immediately reveal the final result of the NBA vote. Let's first release all the votes except the top five, let's see who will enter the final competition of today's vote king."
As Barkley spoke, the names of five team members appeared on the big screen behind them.
The result of the All-Star voting is that the NBA East-West teams are selected. In other words, only by successfully entering the top five in the East-West can one successfully become the vote king.
The names of the five players who appeared are Wol, Lowry, Anthony in the East, and Anthony Davis and Marc Gasol in the West.
Among the five, the highest vote was John Woll in the East, with his votes of 880,000, which was obviously a bit lower than the votes of the first five.
"Oh my god, Kevin (Lorry) actually squeezed out Dwyane (Wade) at the last moment. This is so crazy, this is the nba!" Barkley couldn't help but shout.
Wade is one of the greatest stars in NBA history. His failure to be elected also represents this All-Star, and he is destined to be a newcomer.
"Well, I can't wait. Let's see who will be the fifth place in this vote." Barkley said.
"This feels a bit like a draft," Smith echoed.
And just as he spoke, the fifth place had already come out, Gasol from the Bulls, and his final vote was 970,000.
This result caused Barkley to hold his head in a hurry. You should know that although Gasol performed well this season, he is already 35 years old. The results of this voting are really unexpected.
"Okay, let's take a look at the fourth place. There are a few names that have not appeared yet, but I believe these names will definitely be expected."
"Ok, sure enough, Kobe Bryant! 1.1 million! Congratulations to Kobe, he was elected as an All-Star again, although this time, he played as a small forward!" Barkley shouted.
Although the NBA decides by votes, it is also divided into two front and back courts, two back courts, and three front courts. The vote results announced this time were all successfully shortlisted. Although Harden's votes were also very high, reaching 1.06 million, it is lower than Kobe in the back court, so he is not on this list.
"Okay, let's take a look at the final votes of the top three. At this time, I believe everyone already knows their names, the only difference is their order." Smith said.
"The third place in this vote is..." Barkley pulled out the tone and then clicked on the third place result.
"LeBron James! 1.47 million! Oh! Oh! That's NBA!" Barkley shouted out immediately after seeing the name.
James had led Curry in terms of votes before about 100,000, but he didn't expect that Curry would overtake it at the last moment! Such a result was indeed an accident.
"Okay, maybe we have another accident." Barkley suddenly became excited at this time. Although they subconsciously felt that Tang Hao would definitely become the new rookie vote king of NBA, who knows the fans' thoughts, Curry has surpassed James now, and it is not impossible for Curry to surpass Tang Hao again!
As media people, what they want to see is naturally lively, and as for who they end up being, it is not that important.
"Should your breath and let's look at the next name." Barkley put on his posture this time, his eyes straight at the screen.
"This is the second one..." Barkley clicked his name and suddenly showed a helpless smile, "Stephen Curry."
"Look, it's true that Curry is still the votes of 1.513 million. Hey, man, he's done well enough!" Smith praised.
"Congratulations Don, he did it. He became the second player in NBA history to be elected as the All-Star vote king after Grant Hill. God, he was still a track and field athlete half a year ago!" After Barkley announced the result, he couldn't help but curse.
"Charles, you were wrong this time. That was not the case. He is still a track and field athlete now!" Smith reminded.
"Okay... But let's take a look at Tang's final votes first. To be honest, let's guess how much he will win this vote king with." Barkley returned to the topic at this time and spoke.
"Oh, guess, Charles, it's your favorite part again, so I'll guess one of 300,000!" Smith said after thinking about it.
"1.8 million! Kenny, you have a little courage in predicting this. You should know that after 2010, no one can reach this number of votes and become the voter leader." Barkley said in surprise.
"I think he deserves this vote, maybe it's still less," Smith said.
"Although I think Tang is very popular now, we still have to talk about some basic laws. You know, the NBA now limits the number of votes in some regions, and it is unlikely to have more votes." Barkley analyzed rationally.
"What about you, what do you think is the gap?" Smith looked at Barkley with a smile. He wanted to know what kind of answer this old partner would give.
"500,000." Barkley said for a while.
Smith was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter.
The gap of 500,000 is 2 million, which is more than his prediction of 1.8 million. Barkley is indeed Barkley.
"Okay, this is not nonsense. I have a premonition that Don will not only become the rookie vote king, but also a super surprise." Barkley said confidently.
"Come on, Charles, we didn't know what the votes were before. They were too full and were slapped in the face." Smith reminded.
"Then let's see what the final result is!" Barkley said anxiously.
"Well, I believe everyone must be the same as me, and I must be impatient."
"Then the result is..." Barkley said and clicked on the number one spot in the vote.
The result is no suspense, Tang Hao.
His vote is 2.7 million!
When they saw the vote results, Barkley and Smith couldn't help but take a breath.
"Oh! My God!" Despite the premonition, when I saw the vote results, Smith and Barkley exclaimed almost at the same time.
This vote directly broke the previous 2.55 million vote record.
In other words, Tang Hao not only became the rookie vote king, but also the highest vote king in history!
This is simply a miracle!
In fact, it is interesting that the 2.55 million votes result was exactly what Yao Ming maintained before.
Although this record has been refreshed, it still belongs to the Chinese...
"How did this be done!" Barkley couldn't help but swear.
The third round of votes resulted in more than 1 million more than the second round, which is illogical.
You should know that those who support a player and are willing to vote have basically voted in the first two rounds. How could so many people choose to vote in the last round?
"Although I also find it incredible,... this is the result. Tang Hao's existence makes this NBA All-Star Game unique. I can even foresee an unprecedented grand occasion. Brooklyn, New York (the venue for this All-Star Game) has really picked up a ready-made big bargain!" Smith sighed.
"Okay! OK, that's the result! That's the result!" Barkley was emotional.
Barkley and Smith didn't understand at all. In fact, only Chinese fans knew about it. Because most people were unable to vote for Tang Hao, they angered Tang Hao's huge fan base. There were top computer experts here and directly invented the software for overtaking the VPN. After it spread, this was the result they saw.
In fact, due to time, fans have not had time to vote completely, otherwise the results will only be even more exaggerated.
Tang Hao was successfully elected as the All-Star vote king. He will form the backcourt of the Western Conference with Curry, which is obviously the most exciting thing for fans to do in the season.
After learning the voting results, Tang Hao immediately thanked the fans who supported him on Weibo and Twitter. While thanking him, he also announced that in addition to participating in the NBA main competition, he would also accept invitations from the league to compete in the three-point competition and the All-Star Dunk Competition.
This news is undoubtedly a seismic magnitude. Even compared to the main game, fans are obviously more willing to see Tang Hao performing in the three-point competition and the dunk competition.
Especially the slam dunk contest!
You should know that Tang Hao repeatedly performed wonderful performances of dunking across the world in the competition, and his amazing bounce was described as an existence beyond "ufo" Vince Carter!
Chapter completed!