Chapter 183 Entering the All-Star
Chapter 183 Entering the All-Star
After entering February, the All-Star Weekend is getting closer and closer.
This year's All-Star weekend is February 2th and 7th.
It is worth mentioning that there are only two days for the All-Stars at this time, and there are no competitions such as the Rookie Challenge, the Skills Challenge, and the Shooting Star.
There are only the slam dunk contest held in 84 and the three-point contest held in 86, and then the All-Star Game.
Therefore, there are not many tricks, and the time required is naturally less.
But just before the All-Star game, this week, the Warriors have to play three more games.
Just like the days before the holidays, students are often the busiest time, reviewing, ah bah, previewing, borrowing notes, writing cheat sheets, etc., are really too busy.
They are No. 1 at home against the Nets, No. 3 away at the Spurs and No. 5 at the Rockets.
The first is No. 1 to play the Nets.
At this time, the Nets were still in New Jersey, not Brooklyn, New York.
The history of the New Jersey Nets team is not short. They formed a team as early as 1967, but they did not join the NBA until 1976.
Because before this, the Nets have always been a team in the ABA League, and even one of the original 11 ABA teams.
In recent years, the performance of the Nets is not bad, and they often enter the playoffs. Last season, they ranked sixth in the Eastern Conference.
It's a pity that this year, the team's situation took a turn for the worse. First, the team's "Chocolate Bomb" Darryl Dawkins played only 6 games this season. He ended his career because of a back injury and announced his retirement.
The legendary star who was the first to smash a rebound in NBA history finally couldn't bear the troubles of years and injuries and left the court.
In addition, the Nets' All-Star point guard, um, it's not Kidd, it's Otis Birdsong, who also announced his season reimbursement after only playing seven games.
The rest of the players are also injured and sick. So far this season, the team has only one player who is really full-time, Buck Williams, and the situation is not much better than the Bucks full of injuries.
But the background of the Nets is far behind the Bucks. After losing players one after another, the Nets at this time, the team's scoring leader is Orlando Ulrich, a free agent signed from the Bulls at the beginning of the season. During the season, he averaged 20 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists per game.
Although the data looks good, it can't lead the team to victory. As of the battle with the Warriors, the Nets have a record of 11 wins and 32 losses, and it seems that they are going to compete for the top pick.
Therefore, that night, the Warriors defeated the Nets who came to give away the head without blood at 117:98, helping the opponent to make persistent efforts for their No. [-] career.
Li Weisi clocked out of get off work in three quarters in this game, and only scored 16 points and 13 assists. Basically, he did not perform well. This was obtained by Marisa watching from the sidelines.
After this game, Marisa's buff can be said to be over.
No. 3 against the Spurs, no need to watch, it was another big victory.
With Mullin returning to the team, the Warriors gradually found a tacit understanding again, and their strength became stronger and stronger.
Facing the big Spurs, the Warriors 123:101, 22 points advantage, did not give the Spurs a chance.
This time, Li Weisi clocked in three quarters again, scoring 18 points and 8 assists.
The three-quarter check-in for two consecutive games directly led to a decline in Li Weisi's average per game. At the same time, it also made him famous for his 61 points, but now he has gradually cooled down. After all, there are too many news events happening every day, and the audience Their memory is extremely short.
And this is also reflected in the All-Star voting. After officially surpassing Sampson on the 1st, Li Weisi's momentum of chasing points towards Olajuwon was interrupted. With less and less time, he caught up with Olajuwon's votes are almost only theoretically possible.
Against the Rockets on the 5th, Sampson still has not ushered in a comeback.
However, as long as there is Olajuwon, the Rockets will still be a strong team.
In this game, the Warriors played extremely hard.
From the first quarter, the Warriors trailed by 27 points 36:9.
After that, the Warriors launched a long journey to chase points. It was not until the end of the third quarter that Price assisted Duckworth with an alley-oop to tie the score.
In the fourth quarter, the scores of the two teams rose alternately, and it was extremely fierce. It was not until the end of the game that Li Weisi assisted Mu Lin to slip to the bottom line and make a counter-basket, which sealed the victory.
The final score was fixed at 114:110, and the Warriors narrowly beat the Rockets by four points.
The end of the game with the Rockets also officially announced the end of the Warriors' first half of the season.
Throughout the first half of the season, the Warriors performed quite well, with 34 wins and 14 losses, ranking second in the Western Conference.
The first is of course the Lakers. They rank first in the Western Conference with a record of 35 wins and 11 losses.
The third place is still the Mavericks. Their record is 29 wins and 16 losses. Unknowingly, they have fallen behind the Warriors by 4 and a half games.
In addition, the Trail Blazers, Jazz, Sonics, Rockets, and Nuggets are ranked 4 to 8.
In the East, naturally the Celtics are number one in the East, with a record of 33 wins and 12 losses.
The second is the Pistons with 29 wins and 15 losses, the third is the Eagles with 28 wins and 16 losses, the 76ers, the Bucks, the Pacers, the Bulls, and the Cavaliers belong to 4 to 8.
As for the results of the All-Star voting, the voting channel was officially closed at 6:0 on the [-]th. This season, the East and West All-Star starters were officially released.
Li Weisi ranked third in the West with 706832 votes, the No. 2 guard in the West, and was officially elected to the Western All-Star starting lineup for the 86-87 season.
In addition, Magic Johnson, the No. 949304 in the West, won 792148 votes and ranked No. [-] in the West, followed by Olajuwon, who won [-] votes.
The other two are Sampson and Worthy.
In the East, Michael Jordan received 1141733 votes and was elected as the All-Star vote leader this season. This is not only the first time in Jordan's career that he has become the All-Star vote leader, but also interrupted the magician's monopoly on the All-Star vote leader , Prior to this, the magician had won two consecutive votes.
In addition, the other four starting stars in the Eastern Conference are: Dominique Wilkins, Larry Bird, Julius Erving and Robert Parish.
Although Isiah Thomas ranked higher than Parish in the votes, because the East already has two guards, Thomas lost the All-Star starter.
This is the first time he has lost the All-Star starter after five consecutive starts in his career. Hearing the news, Jordan opened a bottle of champagne happily.
Regarding the grievances between the two, we will talk about it later.
In short, with the announcement of the All-Star starting, Frank started his promotional machine again, playing the slogan of drawing 50 lucky fans from Li Weisi's official fan group to get tickets for this season's All-Star game.
As soon as this news came out, the major media in Jinzhou followed up one after another. Li Weisi, who had been a little quiet before, once again appeared on the headlines of major media.
Seeing this scene made Frank laugh out loud. In this era, it really is a marketing paradise.
(End of this chapter)