I am so Accurate

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

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

On the west side, Sun Hao's first-round ticket was Wang Sanlianzhuang.

For the first time in his career, Nowitzki surpassed Duncan and Garnett in the votes and ranked as the top forward in the Western Conference.

But in the east, the person who rules the roost is unexpected.

Jordan at 40!

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

This is obviously not just because of personal strength.

Jordan's previous "last dance" remarks were intended to revive the morale of the Wizards, but it also made fans frantically vote 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 it is also 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 my bet with Sun Hao".

That sentence was the best solicitation at the time, and Sun Hao finally got 2.51 million votes, breaking Jordan's record of 2.5 million All-Star votes.

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

As a result, after Jordan announced the "Last Dance" this year, Chinese fans also voted frantically for him.

When it comes to gratitude, Chinese fans are second to none.

Jordan, unknowingly helped himself.

After Jordan was Yao Ming, and then McGrady.

Maddie: Meow meow?

Jordan's vivid example is in front of us. After Stern has decided not to adjust the proportion of Chinese fans' votes, the influence of Chinese fans on the All-Star Game votes has become unparalleled.

With Tracy McGrady playing such a crazy season and still only ranked third in the Eastern Conference, these All-Star players seem to have only two options.

Option 1: Continue to resist the current voting rules as before, although this has proved useless in the past two years;

Choice 2: Find a way to please Chinese fans.

The January game continues, as does All-Star voting.

At this time, two small things happened in the alliance.

First, Trail Blazers assistant coach Mike D'Antoni ran to the Warriors.

This matter was not too surprising. D'Antoni was only a member of the coaching staff in the Trail Blazers, and became the first assistant coach in the Warriors.

This is considered a promotion and salary increase in disguise.

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

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

The second thing is about the All-Star voting.

In fact, reporters and fans also realized that under the circumstances that the league has no intention of changing the voting rules, showing favor to Chinese fans has become a must.

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

But when the reporter threw this question to Carter, who is likely to be squeezed out of the All-Star starter due to his poor performance due to injury, "UFO" answered decisively.

"No."

Historically, in the same year, Carter was complained by fans and the media wirelessly because he refused to take the initiative to let Jordan start.

In fact, in this year in history, if he took the initiative to start and was accepted by Jordan, it would be a good story and the best inheritance.

But Carter refused decisively.

I have to say that Carter didn't do very well in the subject of [Emotional Intelligence].

The reporter also threw the same question to McGrady.

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

"Yes, he is so tall but has so much flexibility. It's unbelievable. I partnered with him two years ago when I participated in the Adidas China tour. He is very, very good."

Look, this is called [emotional intelligence].

In fact, although McGrady in history has a gentle personality, his emotional intelligence has always been high.

This is also the year in history. McGrady was the first to stand up and say that he would give up the starting position to Jordan. You must know that his explosive performance this year made him one of the top four shooting guards and became a veritable "Jordan successor."

Another thing is that many NBA superstars have said that they want to play in the CBA after retirement, but in the end only McGrady actually went, which also won him a lot of popularity and financial benefits.

Then, when the results of the second round of NBA voting came out, McGrady's votes directly left Carter by a large margin.

When the results of the third round of voting came out, Carter could barely see McGrady's taillights.

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

Then, the cousin panicked.

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

"Yao is a very good big man, he seems to be able to do everything, scoring, rebounding, assists, defense, he is one of the best big men."

The reporter didn't even ask Yao Ming's question, and Carter raised it himself.

This... really smells good?

But this approach is really Carter.

In history, Carter refused to let him start, but when he waited for the main game, he forced Jordan to start again.

However, it was too late.

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

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

Originally, with Carter's popularity, even if he didn't have as many votes as Jordan, he wouldn't lose to O'Neal.

But just like in history, even if he gave up the starting lineup, he was always complained by fans because he refused to take the initiative to give up. He said that Yao Ming, Chinese fans would rather give the ticket to O'Neal than him.

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 I really don't blame the Chinese fans for this. Although Duncan is low-key, the Spurs are now much stronger than the Timberwolves.

And Garnett's 58 name, unless it is inherited, otherwise it is too deep to jump out of it!

Garnett: ...

After the All-Star starting list is determined, the next thing that attracts attention is the substitute list and the individual competitions.

Sun Hao once again received an invitation to the league's individual event, but this time in addition to the three-point contest, he even received an invitation to the slam dunk contest!

This... are you sure it's not a mistake?

Or, did he underestimate his dunk ability? In fact, he has grown into a super dunker unconsciously? !

Well, he himself didn't believe it when he said it.

However, it is understandable why the league does this.

The slam dunk contests in the past few years have been too lacking in highlights. Last year was even called the worst slam dunk contest in history by fans.

Stern, certainly does not want such a thing to continue.

Therefore, in the case of being unable to persuade the super dunk general to participate, I can only try to make some gimmicks.

This is the part he is good at.

Sun Hao said he would think about it.

When the time came to the end of January, the league announced the list of all-star substitutes and individual events.

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

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

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

However, the All-Star bench list still attracts attention.

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

Anyway, the league's head coaches gave Carter face and didn't let him miss the All-Star Game.

West: Payton, Marbury, Nash, Bodi Loga, Marion, Chris Webber, Garnett.

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

Although it is still too early to make a conclusion, at least judging from the results of this season, it may not be a good thing for Nash to leave the Mavericks.

It is also worth mentioning that Marion, at this time, he has averaged 21.2 points, 9.5 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 2.3 steals and 1.2 blocks per game.

Before Nash went to Phoenix in history, he was already very strong.

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The Mavericks encountered a wave of injuries before entering February, and the team's record has fluctuated.

However, this is very common during the season. Before the All-Star Game, their record was fixed at 39 wins and 9 losses, and their record was still at the top of the league.

As a result, Nelson Sr. became the head coach of the Western Conference All-Star Game for two consecutive years.

Old Nelson's face was flushed, nothing else was important, the important thing was to continue to suppress Popovich.

And this time the Mavericks have three selected, as well as his former lover Nash.

If he chatted with Popovich for a few words, he would definitely be able to kill his opponent in seconds.

For example: "Congratulations, Duncan finally started this time."

Another example: "I knew that I would let Nash leave Dallas early. You see, I have delayed him from becoming an All-Star."

Or: "I really didn't vote for Bodi Loga, you wouldn't vote for him, would you?"

However, with Popovich's "intelligence", the possibility of the All-Star Weekend appearing in Atlanta is slim.

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As early as December this year, Adidas people invited Sun Hao to design his second signature sneaker.

Under Sun Hao's suggestion, this signature sneaker added Chinese elements.

Of course, it is not the ugly and handsome Jay Chou, but Chinese characters are added.

Of course, it's not the kind of Hao word that takes apart the left foot for a day and the right foot for a day.

The kind is not ugly and handsome, but low.

Instead, the Chinese character "Sun" was introduced.

There are many stories about Sun, but for Chinese people, when they pick up this Chinese character alone, the monkey must be the first thing that comes to mind.

The monkey who is astonishing and fearless.

This is very consistent with Sun Hao's game temperament in the NBA.

His three-pointer is like that golden cudgel, piercing through everything.

Also, even Sun Hao and his Mavericks have been challenging those giants, first the Spurs and then the Lakers, which is very similar to that monkey's experience.

Even in order to strengthen the association, the background of Sun Zi is riding the clouds and fog, plus a looming golden cudgel.

This is a signature sneaker with Chinese characteristics.

Adi...of course not stupid.

They went to count the sales of Adidas.sun.hao last year to decide.

The consumption level of Chinese fans is far higher than they imagined.

The sneakers are named Adidas.SH95.

Well, named after Sun Hao's initials and his jersey.

Because of Sun Hao's unique jersey number, the name of this shoe is also quite unique.

And like last year, although Adidas designed this sneaker earlier than last year, they still officially launched it before the All-Star Game.

After the success of last year's marketing strategy, Adidas already intends to fix Sun Hao's signature sneakers in the All-Star Game.

Of course, this approach has also attracted some complaints.

Among them are fans and stars.

Because Adi is completely pushing Sun Hao as the top card!

Sun Hao, after all, he is only in the third grade!

Especially Kobe and McGrady.

East Messico is now the hottest star in the NBA.

But this is also the difference between the perspective of sneaker sponsors and fans.

Sponsors are businessmen, and they look at sneaker sales.

The sales of Sun Hao's first signature sneaker last year have surpassed both Kobe and McGrady, and with the appearance of "Dallas show.time" this year, it has even opened up a lot.

There is no way, there may be room for improvement in other aspects of China, but there are just too many people.

Sun Hao is also the defender who sells the most shoes. This didn't blow the others into scum, and it was also because the domestic network information was not too developed in this era.

But personally, I can see how much room there is for Sun Hao's sneaker sales to increase, so the main recommendation is that he will do that with his toes.

Even some optimistic executives are looking forward to Sun Hao's shoes becoming independent in the future and becoming a sub-brand that can compete with Nike AJ.

Of course, it will take some time to get there, but it won't be too far away.

Just like last year, Adi pulled McGrady and Kobe Bryant to be green leaves in order to support Sun Hao.

McGrady continued to show [Emotional Intelligence], and chatted with Sun Hao very deeply.

He even talked with Sun Hao about the possibility of the two playing together in the future.

It might sound crazy, but anything is possible.

If he can really cooperate with Tracy McGrady at his peak, it will definitely bring fans to new heights.

But Kobe is not McGrady, and the difference in personality between the two is also reflected in the event.

Kobe, basically no smiling face.

He even competed for the king of Los Angeles, and he didn't turn his back on Adi's top card because he had a good private relationship with Sun Hao.

The contract between Kobe and Adidas will expire next year, and it is foreseeable that there will be a bloodbath.

However, Kobe's attitude did not affect the launch of Sun Hao's new shoes.

This sneaker full of Chinese elements exploded the moment it was unveiled.

Needless to say in China, the pun "Sun", coupled with the unique new logo, and Adidas' latest sneaker technology.

Like the kb8 in history, it is destined to be a classic sneaker when it appears.

Also, North America and other regions responded strongly.

"I love these shoes! Charles will get them for me!"

Kenny Smith makes no secrets on the TNT show.

And there is nothing wrong with what he said, Barkley, his former golden partner, is now Sun Hao's teammate.

If you want to talk about China's cultural export to foreign countries, that monkey is definitely a success story.

Sino-US co-production...

Just kidding, but among domestic virtual characters, Monkey King is definitely the most famous one.

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With Sun Hao's sneakers becoming an annual topic, the Atlanta All-Star Weekend officially kicked off.

The rookie game on the first day is the highlight.

This year's second-year lineup is quite eye-catching.

Yao Ming, Gasol, Parker, Ginobili, Arenas, Jason Richardson, Shane Battier, Joe Johnson, Tyson Chandler, Zach Randolph… …

This is a seriously underrated draft class.

Sun Hao is also very curious about what Yao Ming will do in such a lineup.

In history, Yao Ming never appeared on the rookie stage.

ps: The update will resume tomorrow, happy Dragon Boat Festival~