In 2001, in Li Ang's impression, a lot of things happened in this year.
The national football team finally entered the World Cup in a historic way. On the day of qualifying, KFC gave away free ice cream cones, countless small counties set off firecrackers, and fans rushed to the streets holding five-star red flags, shouting Long live China.
Everyone thought that this was just the beginning.
In 2001, Beijing successfully bid for the Olympic Games, and the whole country carnivaled.
WTO, we are members. A young man named Jay Chou played with nunchucks. "Meteor Garden" was playing on the TV, and "Shaolin Soccer" was playing in the cinema.
2001 was definitely an extraordinary year.
And the beginning of this history in 2001 is also very extraordinary.
Because of a Chinese identity, it is very likely that he will historically become the starter of the NBA All-Star Game!
"Li Ang surpassed Grant Hill in the first round of votes, and has the hope of becoming the starting forward of the Eastern All-Star team!"
"The age of young people has come? It is expected that the starting three of the Eastern Star Team will not exceed the age of 25!"
"The first Asian All-Star starter is about to be born!"
Today is January 7th, 2001 has passed a week, and the 2001 All-Star voting has also started for a week.
On the Eastern side, the top five players with the most votes are Carter, Iverson, Leon, Grant Hill and Mourning!
If the number of votes continues like this, then these five people can just form a starting lineup, exactly two backcourts, two frontcourts and a center.
If the competition is fierce, then just looking at the results of the first round of voting is not enough to judge who will become the starter of the All-Star Game.
But on the east side, apart from these five people, the others are really not enough to see.
? Tim Hardaway, Marbury, Eddie Jones, Mashburn, Ratliff
It is too difficult for the remaining people in the east to shake the status of those five people.
This also means that the possibility of Li Ang becoming the All-Star starter is very high!
After all, Li Ang, as a master of violent dunks and off-ball offense, is indeed very popular in the league.
This kind of player who abuses the frame when he disagrees with him, and abuses people when he is unhappy has always been the favorite of fans.
What's more, the Raptors' record this season is not bad, and they have been in the top three in the Eastern Conference. Playing well and being able to win, can Li Ang's votes be so low?
In addition, after a lapse of one year, the penetration rate of the Internet in China has increased again, and many Chinese fans can vote for Li Ang, which has increased Li Ang's votes a lot.
As everyone knows, Xiao Yao invited the entire Shanghai team to an Internet cafe at his own expense a few days ago.
Don't get me wrong, Xiao Yao didn't take a group of people to an Internet cafe to spend the night together as gangsters, but took everyone to an Internet cafe to vote for Li Ang.
As soon as the results of the first round of voting came out, fans across the country erupted in joy.
Although Li Ang played in the All-Star Game last season, and was an All-Star last season, Li Ang, the slam dunk king of the century, is even more popular than the All-Star mvp.
After a year, the fans still remembered every dunk of Li Ang, but they couldn't remember who the All-Star mvp was.
But even so, Chinese fans are still very proud to see a Chinese player have the opportunity to become an All-Star starter.
Li Ang looked at the results of the first round, and to be honest, he was also quite excited.
In comparison, the competition in the West is much fiercer.
A werewolf as tough as Garnett can only rank third in the number of votes among forward players, and Malone, who has just come back, can't even make it to the top five.
David Robinson, Ewing who moved to Seattle, O'Neal and Dameng, the four major centers need to compete for an All-Star starting position.
Just bloody.
Compared with the fierce competition and luxurious lineup in the west, the stars in the east will be dimmed.
?Looking at the five members of the Eastern Star Team, Mourning has been under the pressure of Shaq all his life and has been crazy about output, and the honor he can get is only two dpoys for a while.
Carter only has a third team. Although Iverson has won the scoring title, there is nothing worth talking about in leading the team overall.
Not to mention Grant Hill, he only played four games this season and started a paid vacation. Although the votes are high, the All-Star Game is definitely not going to be played. People speculate that his teammate McGrady will probably be the top.
If it is McGrady, then there is no honor. This season has just played out his worth.
And Li Ang, even more, Li Ang scored 23 points and 17 rebounds. The performance of these two people is not bad.
But Iverson, he scored 51 points on 20 of 40 shots today without overtime!
Not to mention anything else, just 40 shots in a single game can exhaust most people to death.
You know, the 76ers team only took 86 shots.
AI alone accounted for almost half of the team's shots.
"Aaron Iverson won the Raptors unbelievably, which is why Philadelphia can lead the league this season! Great scorer, great victory, worthy of being the champion of the 96 golden generation!"
Li Ang put his hands on his knees, panting.
He glanced at Carter beside him, and the demigod brother just shook his head helplessly.
It's really hard to squeeze out a drop, but there is someone on the opposite side of Nima who can score 51 points in a single game, who do you ask for reasoning.
Iverson's offense, let's put it this way, you don't even have a chance to guard him.
The ai in the 00-01 season is indeed the ruthless character who can steal a victory from the OK combination.
At this time, Li Ang couldn't help but think of a sentence that Kobe Bryant said in the future: "Young people today don't even know how strong Iverson is."
How long has it been since Li Ang entered the league, and he has watched him score 40+ points in the game against Iverson more than once.
Speaking of which, in the original history, the Raptors in 2001 lost to the 76ers in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
? If this history still meets the 76ers, this shit
"Let's go, we must find a way to deal with him next time." Li Ang straightened his back again. It seems that this season, AI and his 76ers are the biggest opponents of the Raptors.
"Fuck, freak, his goals don't make sense at all." Carter also complained.
"Well, he is indeed very strong, but we are only a little short."
After finishing speaking, Li Ang put his arms around Carter's shoulders and prepared to go back to the locker room.
As soon as they turned around, Li Ang and Carter saw AI standing in front of them.
"You played well tonight, but you made me miserable. Come on, you almost stopped me."
Leon, Carter: ?¡
Don't put this Versailles aside, let me tell you that both of our brothers have practiced before!
"Hahaha, just kidding. Seriously, I admire you all. You are worthy of being the two forwards starting the Eastern Conference All-Stars. My breakthrough, Carter's shooting, plus Li Ang's Li Ang's The cooperation of the three of us will surely achieve great things!" When it came to Li Ang's advantages, Iverson actually got stuck and didn't speak out for a long time.
Li Ang clenched his fists tightly, you can tell me what are my strengths, bastard!
It's not Iverson's fault, the main reason is that he really doesn't know where Li Angqiang is.
Can't dribble, can't shoot the basket accurately, and can only lay up high school students.
Iverson couldn't even start boasting.
It's just Iverson doesn't know why, but this seemingly useless Li Ang can always cause trouble for his opponents.
Maybe, it's because he's really strong off the ball.
Li Ang resisted the urge to punch Iverson's corn heads into popcorn, and asked, "Cooperation? Cooperation for what?"
"You haven't read the media reports during this period, have you? Our Eastern team has been underestimated by the whole world.
I know that the All-Stars are just for entertainment, winning or losing is not important.
ButI am not convinced!
Why are they invincible in the west? Why do people agree that we will lose?
Everyone is an All-Star, who is better than whom?
Don't you want to give them some awesome taste?
I don't think we're any worse than those bastards in the west, I want to fight them for real, win, and surprise the bastards who belittle us.
But I definitely can't do it alone, I need your support.
how? Do you dare or not? Come with me and we'll turn the west upside down! "
Li Ang looked at the serious AI, as if he knew why he was so popular at the beginning of the century.
In this 183 guy, the blood of giants flows.
If it is to cooperate with AI who casually scored 51 points in a single game
Then this year's All-Star mission may really be saved!
"Okay, it's good to win, don't you Vince?" Li Ang nodded in agreement. Although Carter was not interested, he also nodded in agreement with Li Ang.
Seeing this, ai laughed happily, and stretched out his hand in front of Li Ang. The three people who were fighting each other just put their hands together.
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