The weather in Dallas continued to turn cold in January, but the fans were enthusiastic.

Because at this time, the league announced the first round of the voting results of the 2003 Atlanta All-Star Game, and the names of Mavericks players appeared frequently.

In the west, Sun Hao's first round ticket king Sanlianzhuang.

Nowitzki is also the first time in his career, surpassing Duncan and Garnett in votes, ranking first in the Western Conference forwards.

However, in the east, the people who dominate the world are unexpected.

40-year-old Jordan!

Well, Jordan's votes are very close to Sun Hao.

This is obviously not just because of personal strength.

Jordan's previous "last dance" remarks were to restore the morale of the Wizards, but that also made fans voting for him in the All-Star Game.

Because, at Jordan's current age, the possibility of returning after retirement is zero.

In other words, this is Jordan's "last dance" season and Jordan's "last dance" in the All-Star Game!

Of course, this has a lot to do with Jordan's sentence last year, "The reason for my comeback is because of his bet with Sun Hao."

That sentence was the best canvassing votes at that time, and it also allowed Sun Hao to finally get 2.51 million votes, breaking Jordan's 2.5 million All-Star historical vote-gathering record.

But in the same way, that sentence also won Jordan the favor of a large number of Chinese fans.

The result is that after Jordan announced the "last dance" this year, Chinese fans also voted for him crazily.

Speaking of gratitude, Chinese fans are second to none.

Jordan, he helped himself unknowingly.

Jordan is followed by Yao Ming, and then McGrady.

McGrady: Meow Meow Meow?

Jordan's vivid example is right in front of you. After Stern has decided not to adjust the vote ratio of Chinese fans, the influence of Chinese fans on the All-Star Game is unparalleled.

With McGrady still only ranked third in the East in such a crazy season, these All-Star players seem to have only two options to choose.

Choose one: Continue to resist the current voting rules as before, although this has proven useless in the past two years;

Choice 2: Find a way to please Chinese fans.

The January game continues, and the All-Star voting continues.

At this moment, two big and small things happened in the league.

The first thing was that Mike D'Anthony, the Trail Blazers' assistant coach, ran to the Warriors.

This was not surprising at first. D'Antoni was just a member of the coaching staff of the Trail Blazers, and when the Warriors became the first assistant coach.

This is considered a disguised promotion and salary increase.

The problem is…this happened in the middle of the season!

Another message conveyed here is that the Trail Blazers, the former powerful and notorious "Portland Prison", has begun to fall apart from players to coaching staff.

The second thing is about the All-Star Voting.

In fact, reporters and fans also realized that showing goodwill to Chinese fans has become a must-have option when the league does not intend to change the vote rules.

"Do you think Yao is the best center in the East?"

However, when the reporter threw this question indirectly to Carter, who was likely to be squeezed out of the All-Star starter due to poor performance due to injury, "ufo" answered very decisively.

"No."

In history, in the same year, Carter was criticized by fans and the media for not being willing to take the initiative to make the starter for Jordan.

In fact, this year in history, if the starter is actively allowed to be accepted by Jordan, it will be a good story and the best inheritance.

But Carter refused decisively.

I have to say that Carter didn't learn the course [Emotional Intelligence] very well.

The reporter also threw the same problem to McGrady.

McGrady's accomplishments in this course are much better than Carter.

"Yes, he is so tall but has such a great flexibility. It's incredible. I partnered with him when I attended the Adidas China tour two years ago. He is very, very outstanding."

Look, this is called [emotional intelligence].

In fact, although McGrady in history has a mild personality, her emotional intelligence has always been very high.

It was also this year in history. McGrady stood up and said that he would give up the starting position to Jordan. You should know that his impressive performance this year has made him one of the four major points guards and become the veritable "Jordan successor".

Another thing is that many NBA superstars have said that they will go to CBA to play after retirement, but in the end they are McGrady, which has also won him a lot of popularity and economic benefits.

Then, when the results of the second round of NBA votes came out, McGrady's votes directly threw Carter away.

When the third round of votes came out, Carter could no longer see McGrady's taillights.

Cousin, this time I finally crushed my cousin in all aspects.

Then, my cousin panicked.

After the game against the Wizards, Carter... changed his words!

"Yao is a very outstanding big man. He seems to be able to accomplish everything, score, rebound, assist, defense, he is one of the best big men."

The reporter didn't ask Yao Ming's question, and Carter took the initiative to ask it.

This... really smells good?

But this approach is really Carter.

In history, Carter refused to let the starter starter, but when he arrived at the main competition, he pushed Jordan to the starter again.

However, it was too late.

After the final result of the All-Star vote came out, Carter finally lost the starting lineup.

East: Iverson, McGrady, Jordan, O'Neal Jr., Yao Ming.

Originally, with Carter's popularity, even if he did not have as many votes as Jordan, he would not lose to O'Neal Jr.

But just like in history, even if he gave up the starter, he was criticized by fans for not being willing to give up on his own initiative. He said that Yao Ming, Chinese fans would rather give the vote to O'Neal Jr. than to him before.

West: Sun Hao, Kobe, Nowitzki, Duncan, O'Neal.

This time Popovich was happy because the person who was squeezed out was finally not Duncan.

But this is not a Chinese fan. Although Duncan is low-key, the Spurs are now much stronger than the Timberwolves.

Moreover, the name of Garnett 58 is not inherited, otherwise the pit will be too deep and cannot jump out!

Garnett:...

After the All-Star Starting List was confirmed, the next thing that attracted attention was the substitute list and individual competitions.

Sun Hao once again received an invitation from the league individual competition, but this time, in addition to the three-point match, he also received an invitation from the dunk contest!

This...is definitely not the wrong one?

Or did he underestimate his dunking strength? In fact, before he knew it, he had grown into a super dunker?!

Well, he himself didn't believe this.

However, it is understandable why the alliance does this.

The dunk contests in recent years have been too short of highlights. Last year, they were even called the worst dunk contest in history by fans.

Stern, certainly doesn't want this to last.

So when the super deducted generals cannot persuade them to participate in the competition, they only have the ability to make some gimmicks.

This is what he is good at.

Sun Hao, said he would think about it.

As time comes to the end of January, the league announced the All-Star substitutes and individual competitions.

Sun Hao's name did not appear on the individual competition list.

This is also an expected thing. If you can't win the championship, participating in it is obviously a supporting role for others. This kind of thing is not his style.

Sun Hao did not appear in the individual event, and fans felt that they could skip this day's game again.

However, the All-Star substitute list is still eye-catching.

East: Kidd, Francis, Carter, Pierce, Jamal Mashburn, Antoine Walker, Ben Wallace;

After all, the league's head coaches gave Carter face and did not let him miss the All-Star Game.

West: Payton, Marbury, Nash, Bodilloga, Marion, Chris Webber, Garnett.

Nash was selected for the All-Star Game for the first time in his career!

Although it is too early to make a conclusion now, at least judging from the results of this season, Nash's departure from the Mavericks may not be a good thing.

It is also worth mentioning that Marion, who averaged 2.4 rebounds, 2.3 steals, 1.2 blocks per game.
To be continued...