Chapter 655
In the All-Star Game, it was first announced that Liu Mang won the All-Star vote champion with 3.92 million votes, which raised the historical record of the All-Star vote champion by more than 1 million votes. This incident made some Eagles players cheer and win a meal Meal money, some laughed and called Jason Terry lucky.
As for the vote winner, Liu Mang had already confirmed the vote winner during the second stage of voting, and there was no way he could be shaken.
Ratliff beat Ben Wallace's 1.9 million votes to start the All-Star Game with 2.18 million votes. The Eagles players were the most excited. Someone invited them to play. Most of the Eagles players are on rookie contracts. It’s a luxury for them to go to Los Angeles for a week, and it’s also during the All-Star Weekend plus the large-scale events in Los Angeles in the winter.
But these can only be regarded as expected and happy things. The most surprising thing is the final announcement of the candidates for the All-Star starting guard. In addition to Liu Mang who won the vote in the Eastern Conference and was selected as the All-Star starting guard, another point guard of the Eagles was selected. The All-Star starter, John Stockton was selected as the All-Star starter with 1.85 million votes, surpassing Allen Iverson with 1.78 million votes!
Stockton was selected to the All-Star Game for the eleventh time in his career!
On the day of the All-Star Game, Stockton's age reached 41 years and 10 months. Stockton broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record for participating in the All-Star Game at the age of 41 years and 9 months!
The most important thing is that Stockton is still an All-Star starter! Refresh Jordan's record of the highest age for being voted into an All-Star starter by fans at the age of 39!
Originally, Stockton was just here to accompany the young players and wait for the All-Star starters to be announced. When the votes for the second stage were announced, he was nearly 400,000 votes behind Iverson. It was basically impossible to overtake, but unexpectedly, In the end, it overtook it!
Stockton pinched his thigh, it hurts!
it is true!
Rao has played in the league for the twentieth season, and Stockton can't stop the ecstasy in his heart!
All teammates went up to hug and congratulate Stockton. More players from their own team were selected as All-Stars, which represented a higher level of attention. Even players who had nothing to do with All-Stars would enjoy the benefits, because There are bound to be more interviews with reporters, and they may be exposed by the way. Stockton can't control his expression, he can't stop laughing, and his usual calm senior posture is completely gone.
The Eagles have three players selected as All-Star starters!
In addition to these three, the first two forward positions of the Eastern Conference All-Stars were occupied by cousins. McGrady ranked first among the Eastern Conference forwards with 2.54 million votes. In the more than 20 days after coming to the Nets, he averaged 22.9 points per game. The principle of "moving the dead and moving the living" was perfectly demonstrated in Carter. Ranked second in the Eastern Conference forward list.
Raheem ranked third among Eastern Conference forwards with 1.71 million votes, just a little bit, and he was selected as an All-Star starter for the second time in his career.
In the West, Garnett won the Western Conference with 2.71 million votes. Duncan ranked second in the Western Conference with 2.31 million votes. Yao Ming beat 1.91 million votes with 2.32 million votes. On the one hand, Kobe ranked first with 2.57 million votes, and Francis ranked second with 1.65 million votes. The two were selected as the All-Star starters for the third consecutive year. However, compared with Kobe, Francis' popularity is getting lower and lower. Help, but the gap in the number of votes with Payton, Ginobili, Parker and others is getting smaller and smaller.
Unlike Liu, after Stockton was selected as an All-Star, he proposed on his own initiative that as long as he won the championship this year, he would give each of the rookies in the team a car.
Although Stockton's two-year contract is not guaranteed in the second year, but due to his age, the minimum contract he got is also $1.75 million. Atlanta has lower state taxes in recent years, plus deductions for federal taxes and players. The guild dues, there is also a full 1 million dollars in hand.
In fact, for Stockton, the $1 million is an unexpected income. He planned to retire. He lives like an ordinary person in life. He lives well but not extravagantly. His career salary is as high as 6,000. He is not short of money, so he is proud to send the car directly.
This was more of a surprise than anything!
Raheem, Jason Terry, Ratliff Rasheed Wallace and other players with big contracts certainly don’t care about the cars worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. I don't mind, it's good to let the teammates of the team who don't make too much money have a decent car when they go out, so they don't need to drive a second-hand car. Although the current low-level players are much better off than in the 1970s and 1980s , but compared to the players with middle-level and above contracts, the rookie contract players of the Eagles, except for Liu Mang, Boozer with a Mercedes-Benz, and Barnes with a car from Carter, everyone else is still Drive a used car.
This is obviously a happy event for the players in the Hawks' rookie contract! More eager to win!
Stockton also rarely enjoyed the feeling of being complimented by young players, but an inappropriate guy came to Stockton's side: "My dear teacher, I also have a basic salary, does the car have my share?" ?”
Stockton raised his eyebrows and said a word very gently: "Get lost!"
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Stockton was selected as the All-Star starter, which not only caused a sensation in the Eagles team, but also caused a sensation among fans in Atlanta, Georgia, and even the entire United States and the basketball world!
Even Liu Mang won the All-Star vote with a record of more than 1 million votes far surpassing all other players, but was overwhelmed by Stockton's selection as the All-Star starter.
The experts and the media analyzed and analyzed, and finally came to the conclusion that Stockton can be selected as the All-Star starter, mainly due to four points.
The first is that Stockton is already a very popular veteran. He has been selected as an All-Star starter three times, and he was selected over the popular shooting guard Glider Drexler. Now Stockton has come to a team. The strong team plays, and the exposure rate is back.
The second is feelings. Stockton is basically sure that this is the last season. Unlike last season, Stockton may continue to play. This year, Stockton has changed teams. There may be another season, so fans will take extra care of such a veteran.
The third is driven by Liu Reck's popularity, because Liu Reck got a surprisingly high number of votes, and to vote for Liu Reck, you have to vote for nine other people. Some fans voted for Liu Reck before participating in the vote. Maybe they don't like it. Other stars, so I filled in Stockton's name by the way, maybe because I like Liu Mang, I fell in love with the Eagles and chose Stockton.
Fourth, this is the most critical point. In the past two years, Iverson has been reluctant to undergo surgery to treat his injuries. He did not want to delay his game. I chose to undergo surgery last summer, and I had to recuperate for eight or nine months. I couldn't come back until the end of the All-Star voting. I am doing rehabilitation and haven't played a game so far.
A player who didn't play a single game actually occupied an All-Star position for two rounds of voting. Iverson's popularity can be said to be against the sky.
But in the end, No. 22 Stockton's 10 points and 12 assists were unstoppable, allowing people to see his old and strong strength, especially when he stood with Mark Jackson. Although there was no real matchup, that This kind of feeling can't be stopped. In the 96-97 season, it was Mark Jackson who ended Stockton's record of nine consecutive assists. That year, Mark Jackson won the assists and Stockton ranked second. Mark Jackson prevented Stockton from making ten consecutive assists to Wang Albert. The matchup between the two has attracted the attention of fans after the 96-97 season. It is time for both of them to retire. Bit, the old fans ran to vote for Stockton.
In addition, as Liu Mang's teammate, Stockton's popularity has skyrocketed in the Hawks in the past half season. He was selected as the All-Star starter for the fourth time in his career and was selected for the All-Star for the eleventh time in his career. matter.
Stockton was selected as an All-Star, and his former opponents and teammates sent congratulations one after another, including the Big Four of the Lakers. Malone even burst into tears during an interview.
But there is one person who is about to vomit blood, and he is Kidd of the Nets.
Kidd's number of votes obviously has nothing to do with the All-Star starter, but Iverson is basically out of the All-Star game this year, and his comeback is delayed by a month, mainly because he has too many minor injuries. The injury that plagued his fractured toe, but when he checked carefully before the operation, what knee problems, elbow problems and shoulder dislocations were all checked out. The toe has fully recovered in December and is now being corrected. Treatment for rotator cuff injuries.
Since I haven't played for more than half a season, the 76ers also patiently let Iverson slowly recover from his injuries.
Iverson can't be an All-Star. If he is selected by the fans to start the All-Star, there must be a player to top him. This candidate is undoubtedly Kidd.
Kidd can’t make the All-Star starter, but the substitute will definitely make it. Among the Eastern All-Star backup guards, there is no better candidate than Kidd to replace Iverson as the starter. No matter in terms of strength or league status, Kidd is the most suitable , Unlike last season, the Eastern All-Stars collectively gave way to Jordan.
But now that Stockton has been selected as the All-Star starter, he almost didn't piss Kidd to death!
The news that Kidd was furious because of this matter was quickly exposed by the gossip media. Coincidentally, on January 31, the Hawks will play against the Nets for the fourth time in the regular season this season. The new Big Three of the Nets and the Hawks The attention of the team's game continues to increase!
Next chapter before 1 o'clock~