NBA: Back to 97, to be the Jagged Bishop

Chapter 96
That night, Combe called Stern and asked if China's All-Star voting channel had been opened.

"You boy reminded me well!"

"If you don't tell me, I completely ignored such an important thing."

Stern said happily.

Right now, Raptors games are often broadcast live on Y TV, and they have accumulated a large number of junior fans.

If you want to convert these junior fans into hardcore fans, you need to improve their sense of participation, and it is undoubtedly a very good way to let them participate in the All-Star voting.

"I'll tell someone else to do it and spend some money to advertise on TV, newspapers or basketball magazines."

"Internet voting, telephone voting, or mail voting."

"When Dazhi plays better in the All-Star Game, he will definitely set off another wave of NBA enthusiasm."

The more Stern thought about it, the more excited he became. He felt that all his hard work in the past five years was useless, and it was not as good as the progress made by Comb's two months of random work.

"By the way, how did you talk with Nix?"

"Why did they find you to settle, I really don't want to understand."

Stern took this opportunity to ask the doubts in his heart. Knowing his son is like his father. Based on his understanding of his own son Nix, those old ghosts are not so easy to admit cowardice.

"They wanted me to coach the Knicks."

Combe answered truthfully.

"What? You agreed?" Stern was shocked, and there seemed to be some surprise in his shocked tone.

"No, I played well in the Raptors, why should I go to New York."

"They want to use money to hit me, but unfortunately I am not a slave to that kind of money at all. I am a coach for my dream."

Kong Bu said righteously.

These words left Stern speechless. Who was the one who begged himself not to be fined last time?

He was a little disappointed.

It would be wonderful if Combe really came to the Knicks.

He regards the Knicks as his own son. In addition to the fact that the NBA headquarters is in New York, he also has the terrifying profitability of the Knicks.

With the ghostly appearance of the Knicks now, he makes a lot of money every year.

If Kumbu came, brought in a few popular and capable players like Tracy McGrady, Jermaine O, and Big Zhi, and then won a championship, the Knicks would make a lot of money.

……

The suspension of Big Ben and others will have at least six more games to end.

The next six games can be regarded as the most difficult period of Kumbu's entire coaching career.

Now that Snow is gone, Billups is too weak. Even with the support of the training field in the short term, it will be difficult for him to replace Snow.

And he is also the team's master, the engine on the field.

The engine hums and rattles, and even the best car can't run fast.

Like Xiao Ao and Dazhi, they need point guards to give them lobs. The current Billups obviously does not have the ability to accurately lob the ball.

In the six games, the opponents were weak and strong, and the Raptors only won two of them, which can be said to be terrible.

Losing is not terrible, whoever is embarrassed.

Snow left, Billups came, the Raptors' record plummeted, and the entire league regarded Billups as a joke for a while.

By the way, Kongbu's golden signboard of knowing people was also smashed.

Such a powerful Snow, in exchange for something that slows down, it seems that Kongbu is nothing more than that.

When you keep winning, everything goes smoothly, but when you lose, many problems will be exposed.

At present, the Raptors have a lot of opinions on Billups.

They finally made it to today and become one of the strongest teams in the league. They hope to overthrow the Bulls dynasty, and they don't want to fall short because of Billups' delay.

McGrady even approached Kumbu on his own initiative and applied to be the team's starting point guard.

With McGrady's temperament, it is unlikely that he would take the initiative to say this. It should be the result of discussions between Da Ben and others.

Billups is not a fool, he can clearly feel the alienation of his teammates.

In sports competition, food is the original sin.

After he came to the Raptors, he didn't do anything wrong, but because he was not strong enough to follow the pace of his teammates, this was his sin.

Comb was having a headache. Originally, Billups' fighting spirit had been raised to 70 points.

But in the recent period of time, it fell back again, and this time it fell directly to 23 points, almost no different from a cripple.

"In the next game, Camby, Wu Sheng and Mashburn are all back, and Big Ben has one game left."

"It takes a big win to boost morale."

"Billups is temporarily put on the rotation list. During this time, let him practice in the training field."

"Practice for more than half a month, and you will almost be close to the peak period. When the time comes, take it out and get a big data, and you will be recognized by your teammates."

Comb doesn't want Billups to take turns, there is really no way, he really can only hold back on the court.

On January 1, Kong Bu, who had been troubled for half a month, finally saw the blue sky through the dark clouds and heard a piece of good news.

"Kong, isn't this data correct?"

"Big Zhi got 103 million votes in the first round of voting? Jordan only got 65 votes!"

"And what is Tracy's situation, why did he get 64 votes?"

"Jermaine 57? Stephen 42? Mashburn 27? Camby 24?"

"Damn Bowen got 14 votes? Dumas only got 12!"

"Big Ben is 70?! A blue-collar player has more votes than Jordan? Would you like to call Stern and ask?"

"The people who counted the votes, did they drink too much fake wine?"

Old Thomas looked at the results of the All-Star first-round voting in front of him, and doubted his life again.

This result is too mysterious, especially the votes of Da Ben, which directly shattered his three views.

A pure blue-collar with an average of 3.8 points per game, he got 70 votes in the first round. After the voting is over, he can't get 150 million votes?

Dikembe Mutombo is also a blue-collar player, his scoring is much better than Ben's, and his league status is also higher than Ben's, but his first round is only 20, which is the most among the centers in the Eastern Conference except for the Raptors.

Both Ewing and Mourning didn't even reach 20 votes!
Anyway, the results of this vote are suspicious to old Thomas.

"Don't ask Stern, the number of votes is definitely fine."

"If there is a problem, it is impossible to announce the results of this vote."

Comb didn't think there was a problem with the number of votes. He even felt that Stern probably manipulated it and cut the votes of many Raptors players.

The situation of the Raptors is very special, and it is normal to have more votes.

First of all, the Raptors and Grizzlies are the only teams in Canada, and the Grizzlies are almost negligible. All Canadian fans regard the Raptors as their home team.

The votes, of course, all went to the Raptors.

Lowry, the Raptors player of later generations, starts every year as an All-Star in the Eastern Conference. Does he really have the strength to start every year?It's not based on the support of the Raptors fans.

The Raptors are very popular in the United States, not to mention the home game of Mama. It is normal for the fans to vote enthusiastically.

Secondly, Stern completely underestimated the number of votes of Chinese fans. He opened the voting channel for the first time, without any restrictions at all, and even made several voting methods for the convenience of fans to vote.

With an incomparably large fan base, casting one million votes is simply like sprinkling water.

If Stern hadn't done anything wrong, it would be impossible for Da Zhi to have only 100 million tickets in the first round, and 200 million is absolutely possible.

The All-Star vote is not limited to one person. In addition to voting for Big Zhi, vote for other Raptors players by the way. The number of votes for McGrady and the others is naturally amazing.

It is tantamount to saying that the power of the two countries is voting for the Raptors.

The only thing that surprised Kumbu was the number of votes for Daben. He thought that Daben's style of play was not popular, and the number of votes would not be many.

Unexpectedly, he turned out to be the second-highest number of votes in the Raptors. It seems that there are quite a few fans who know the goods, and they can clearly realize the value of Daben.

It may also be that the Chinese fans watched Da Zhi's first show, and they were full of affection for Da Ben, a selfless big brother, and voted for him one after another.

In any case, judging from the results of the first round of voting, the Raptors won a big victory, crushing any team in the league.

Big Zhi is the starting center, Jermaine is the starting forward, and McGrady is the starting guard. This is already a certainty.

Daben is also a center forward. It is unlikely that he will lose the election with that number of votes, and he will definitely occupy an All-Star seat.

Wu Sheng's votes are in the forward position, second only to Xiao Ao and Grant Hill, and he is also very likely to be selected.

Even Mashburn had [-] more votes than Kemp!
"What do you mean? You mean this ballot is fine?"

"We have at least three All-Star starters this year, and then can we have two All-Star substitutes?"

"Five All-Stars? Wait, let me take a breath, I'm going to stop my heartbeat."

Old Thomas clutched his chest and began to breathe heavily.

I have worked day and night for two years, but I didn't let the Raptors produce an All-Star. After a few months of tossing, Kumbu suddenly came out with five All-Stars? !
(End of this chapter)