Four Hundred and Seventy-Seven. Attack of the Overlord

It’s 12 noon on October 24th. Among the three major authoritative media, Sports Illustrated and .T’s star strength rankings from 6th to 10th have come out.

The rankings of the four young players under the age of 23 are as follows:

According to Sports Illustrated, Durant is the highest, ranked sixth, Rose is eighth, Evans is 11th, and Sun Ce is 16th.

In terms of T, Rose is the highest, ranked sixth, Durant is ninth, Evans is 10th, and Sun Ce is 19th.

When the 11th to 20th rankings were announced yesterday, except for Rose and Durant, who were all in the top ten, Evans was not among the 11th to 20th rankings announced by T and ESPN, which can be regarded as a top ranking. Ten.

In the mainstream impression, Sun Ce should be in the top 50. In addition to his performance in the World Championships, most people rank Sun Ce between 31st and 40th, with relatively few evaluations of 21st to 30th and 41st to 50th.

Sun Ce.T and Sports Illustrated both ranked him between 16 and 20. When the three major authoritative media did not rank him outside the 20th place, it caused a lot of controversy. When the rankings were announced, 16th to 20th. 20... People can still accept it, and everything that should be sprayed has been sprayed.

However, yesterday when ESPN did not include his name among the 11th to 20th places... he was completely shocked!

Last season, Sports Illustrated ranked Rose in the top ten of the strength rankings. After being criticized, Sun Ce did not dare to do this, even if Sun Ce's performance in his rookie season was not inferior to that of Rose and Evans in their rookie years, he would be even better.

But for the first time, ESPN ranked stars. It was not afraid of trouble at all and directly put Sun Ce into the top ten! Even Yao Ming is ranked 11th to 15th among the three major media. People think that ESPN is just to attract attention!

At 12 noon today, when the three major media planned to announce the rankings of 6-10, a certain online data statistics website gave a report. After ESPN announced the specific list of 20 to 11 yesterday, the website within 24 hours The traffic is higher than ESPN and Sports Illustrated combined!

This confirms that ESPN is hyping up to attract traffic.

However, the rankings of Sports Illustrated and.

This makes netizens who have already picked up their keyboards and are ready to go full blast very confused...

Until 12:30 noon, ESPN issued a notice.

"Due to the first star strength ranking, fans were too enthusiastic in clicking and commenting, and the server was down. We are actively repairing it. The ranking of 6 to 10 originally planned to be announced at 12 noon has been postponed to 6 pm..."

After the news came out, netizens felt baffled!

In July, James broadcast James' "decision" simultaneously on ESPN's TV and online. When James announced that he would bring his talents to the South Coast, ESPN's traffic exploded even more than this time. ESPN's click volume and comment activity continued for half a month. None of them were lower than the rankings announced this time, and there was no server downtime.

It's down today?

Sun Ce, who has been in a state of anxiety waiting for ESPN to release the 6th to 10th rankings, was filled with questions when he saw this notice.

At this time, a netizen who had some time to spare discovered something and posted a post on the basketball forum.

This idle netizen carefully compared the 429 current players with guaranteed or partially guaranteed contracts in addition to the top ten announced by the three major authoritative media, and discovered one thing. These 429 players from ESPN Players, it's a little different from the other two sites.

To talk about the difference... simply put, there is "one more" player than the other two websites.

In the star strength rankings of the three major authoritative media, the top 50 are almost the same, but there are differences in rankings. For example, Duncan's ranking and Evans' ranking have large differences.

After 50 people, the difference gradually becomes larger.

The difference between the three major media's rankings between 51st and 100th is much larger. After 100th, the difference is even greater. For example, ESPN ranked him 125th for Perkins, while the other two ranked him 200th.

Except for the top 50, people don't pay much attention to other rankings. Except for the rankings of ordinary starters or role players and rookies that they are interested in, no one compares them carefully.

So no one has discovered that in ESPN's rankings, the Bucks selected the Jamaican player Jerome Jordan with the 43rd overall pick in this year's draft, but the other two major media did not!

Because Jerome Jordan was dissatisfied with the minimum second-round pick salary of $460,000 given by the Bucks and went to the Turkish League to make money, he should not have been ranked in the current star power rankings.

This is the person ESPN "extra".

After careful comparison, people discovered that ESPN still has 11 players whose rankings have not been announced!

In addition to Sun Ce, there are 10 people including Kobe, James, Howard, Wade, Paul, Nash, Nowitzki, Durant, Rose, and Evans!

After this matter was discovered by "careful netizens", public opinion was in an uproar.

Netizens suddenly discovered...did ESPN forget about Sun Ce?

Combined with ESPN delaying the release of rankings for 6 hours due to server downtime, this possibility is very high!

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ESPN executives have a big head right now!

Sure enough, it was discovered!

They don't know what to do with it!

In fact, they really didn't want to hype Sun Ce by ranking him in the top ten.

There is so much hype about ranking a prospective second-year player in the top ten... Sports Illustrated last year was scolded for ranking Rose in the top ten, and its authority has been greatly questioned. Although Rose performed very well overall last year and broke out again at the end of the season, As far as last season is concerned, even now, not many people think Rose had a top-10 performance last season.

It took another summer before people began to expect Rose to play at a top-10 level in the new season and accepted the top-10 rankings from major media.

ESPN wants to create hype, but the key point is to use the rankings of James and Kobe to create hype. It wants to rank James first and Kobe, who has just won two consecutive Finals MVPs, second. There is traffic but it does not affect the authority. Originally, fans were arguing over which of the two was the best in the world.

As for Sun Ce, they originally used it as a small hype point, placing Duncan in the 21st place and Sun Ce in the top 20.

But when ranking 20th, the staff responsible for entering the names of the stars found that one player was not entered, that is, the Celtics' history's number one three-point shooter, Ray Allen, had not yet been placed on the list, so Ray Allen was listed first. Allen ranked 20th. Later, after entering the names of 9 people including Yao Ming, Stoudemire, Randolph, Pierce, Gasol, Garnett, etc., he uploaded it.

Forgot about Sun Ce, who was originally planned to be used as a small hit point for hype!

Ever since the public opinion storm started yesterday, ESPN has been panicking and can't find a solution!

You can't just make temporary changes and say you wrote it wrong, right?

Moreover, I couldn’t change it yesterday! After announcing 20 to 11 players, there are still 11 players that have not been announced. That is, there were 21 players that were not announced yesterday... How to change this? Replacing Ray Allen's name with Sun Ce, wouldn't it mean that Ray Allen would be in the top ten?

What's even worse is that Ray Allen has never been considered a top-10 player in his entire career, and he's still at this age!

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The style of the public opinion storm suddenly changed. After someone discovered that there were 11 players in the top ten that ESPN had not yet announced, the intensity of public opinion reached its peak.

But...ESPN did not respond to this matter, and the rankings have not yet been announced.

Suddenly, ESPN went from being the target of collective attacks by netizens to... being the target of ridicule!

With its high degree of globalization, ESPN overwhelms .T and Time Warner in terms of live broadcast revenue. ESPN has several highly rated sports TV stations in Asia, and the UK also occupies a large share. This is the comparison between .T and Time Warner. Can't.

However, .T and Time Warner's Sports Illustrated have one thing that ESPN does not have, which is the authoritative star rankings, which beats ESPN in the United States.

Up to now, ESPN has almost completed its global deployment. It wants to compete in the domestic market of the United States. Taking advantage of the fact that Sports Illustrated ranked Rose in the top ten last year and its authority was damaged, ESPN wants to get involved and compete.

As a result, we made such a big mistake for the first time!

This mistake caused netizens to joke wildly, "If you can't even learn math well, why do you still study Sports Illustrated and .T to get rankings?" Can't you just praise James? Do you have to show off your IQ?

Finally, at 6 p.m., netizens were already going crazy waiting. After a long time of frantic teasing on the ESPN forum, ESPN announced the rankings from 6 to 10.

No. 10 Sun Ce, No. 9 Evans, No. 8 Rose, No. 7 Durant, No. 6... Nowitzki and Nash!

Nowitzki and Nash were tied for sixth place, and they also gave special "remarks" on why they were tied.

"The MVP duo who separated in 2004 won the NBA regular season MVP from 2005 to 2007, and are still performing at the top level in the NBA 6 years later. We can't help but imagine what would happen if the Mavericks did not fire Nelson and allowed the two to continue to work together in the NBA. Wonderful……"

Netizens' keyboards have been thirsty for a long time. Seeing ESPN using this method to avoid the problem of its own mistakes...the group started to laugh!

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Sun Ce sat in the lounge and read the news for a long time, watching in silence how ESPN solved its mistakes...

This time he was really shot while lying down!

He seemed to have seen Rose being targeted to death in the early stages of last season.

Last season, even rookie Evans saw Rose abuse him again and again.

That is to say, Rose has a tough personality, managed to withstand the pressure, and performed brilliantly at the end of the season, which earned him the respect of fans and opponents.

For the rankings of most players, people will combine their rankings in major media and take the middle ranking. For example, Randolph is regarded as the 13th star in the league.

As for Sun Ce, a player who is already very controversial, people remember that he was ranked in the top ten...

Just like Rose was ranked 25th by .T last season and ranked 10th by Sports Illustrated, opponents all used the 10th ranking to target him.

Thinking of the eyes of his teammates that turned from seeing ghosts to sympathy since yesterday, there have been countless media requests for interviews since yesterday, but they were all rejected by the Grizzlies and Bill Duffy.

Now Sun Ce is also helpless. Apart from being helpless, what else can he do?

No matter why ESPN ranked him in the top ten, the top ten is the top ten!

Sun Ce said that MMP has opened a trumpet in the ESPN forum and scolded ESPN all afternoon!

Just when Sun Ce was helplessly preparing to go home and rest after practicing the Nash training method, the system prompt came.

"Because the host is not expected to become a top 30 player in the league in the new season, the S-level series of events: Attack of the Overlords was triggered..."

When Sun Ce saw the system interface pop up, he felt like the sky was about to fall. Was this going to make him reach the top ten?

But when he saw the beginning description of the incident, he was stunned. Why was it in the top 30?

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It's a little late. I didn't get home until 10 o'clock. I owe a chapter and will update it tomorrow morning. I'm going to bed first. I was so tired today that I felt dizzy. Fortunately, I finally got through this week. The main thing was that there were too many things during the two days off. , piled up with the work of the next three days.

Bear with me, the remaining chapter today will be updated tomorrow morning.

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