Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 514 Make a bet
This year's All-Star vote king, without any surprise, is Li Weisi. He was undisputedly elected with 1285376 votes, more than 20 votes more than the second-ranked Jordan.

Except for these two, no one else has even one with 80. Barkley, who ranks third, only has more than 74, and his popularity is more than one level behind these two.

Regarding the selection of the All-Stars, the starting five in the Eastern Conference are: Thomas, Jordan, Bird, Barkley and Ewing.

Substitutes: Robert Parish, McHale, Wilkins, Dumars, Price, Pippen, Kevin Johnson.

The starting five in the West are: Li Weisi, Elvin Johnson, Worthy, Karl Malone and Olajuwon.

Subs: Chambers, Fat Leaf, David Robinson, Drexler, Stockton, Rolando Blackman and Richmond.

First of all, there are many new faces in this All-Star, such as: Price, Pippen, David Robinson and Richmond.

Whether it's Price's late bloomer, Pippen's success, or Robinson's blockbuster, or Richmond, who needs to take more responsibility because of injuries to many players in the team, his own strength is beyond doubt.

However, while such young players were selected, the departure of another group of old players also made the fans sigh.

Secondly, last season, with the help of other players, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was successfully elected as the FMVP, which also prevented Karl Malone from being boycotted by fans and missed this year's All-Star.

At the same time, AC Green, as a tool to avenge Malone, naturally couldn't be selected as an All-Star. Without his knowledge, he missed the only trip to the All-Star Game in his career.

In addition to the All-Star Game, the slam dunk contest and three-point contest are also eye-catching.

The first is the slam dunk contest. Since last year's slam dunk contest lacked star flavor, and the newcomer Kenny Walker finally won the championship, the veteran slam dunk king Dominique Wilkins couldn't sit still.

So he took the lead in accepting the invitation and expressed that he would participate in this dunk contest. After that, Pippen, Kemp, the last dunk champion Kenny Walker, Kenny Smith and others also joined in one after another. The headlines of the news were so loud that it attracted the attention of many people.

As for the other three-point contest, I originally thought that since Li Weisi announced the launch of the three-point contest last season, it would lead to a decline in attention.

Especially this season's All-Star game will be held in Miami. As the newly recruited team, the Miami Heat, the league urgently needs to expand the local basketball influence.

This made the league anxious. They thought of various ways to save the three-point contest, but at this moment, a miracle happened.

Unexpectedly, this year Jordan stood up and decided to save the three-pointer contest with his own fame.

In fact, the reason why Jordan stood up to participate in the three-pointer contest was not that he was full of self-confidence, but that he really shot very well this season.

此前的五个赛季，乔丹的三分球命中率只有：17.3%、16.7%、18.2%、13.2%和27.6%，没有一个赛季超过30%。

Of course, this is not to say that Jordan is very good, mainly because he has been exposed to basketball since he was a child, and he has never practiced three-pointers systematically.

However, after Li Weisi entered the league, his appearance made all teams start to pay attention to three-pointers.

And this is the same for Jordan. After the game, Jordan also added three-point shooting training to his usual training, but unfortunately the effect has not been obvious.

However, in this season, I don’t know whether it’s because of the accumulated accumulation or the sudden enlightenment. So far this season, Jordan’s three-point shooting percentage has skyrocketed to 39%, an increase of more than 10 percentage points from last season.

Not only that, due to his more and more confident shooting, his average number of shots outside the three-point line this season was as high as 4 times.

It is precisely because of such a high three-point shooting percentage on the field that Jordan is full of confidence in challenging the three-point contest.

Facing the reporter's interview, Jordan said: "I already have two slam dunk titles, so I want the three-pointer that West has. I came here for nothing else, just for one Tone, I don't want to prove to others how great I am, I just want to tell everyone that I can also shoot three-pointers!"

Regarding Jordan's participation in the three-point contest, it naturally attracted many good people who brought the news to Li Weisi and asked Li Weisi for his opinion.

As we all know, although Li Weisi entered the league two terms later than Jordan, the comparison between the two has never stopped. In the field of three-pointers, Li Weisi is a well-deserved king, not one of them.

As for Jordan's participation in the three-point contest, if he said that he didn't go for Li Weisi, no one would believe him at all, so if Li Weisi was not allowed to express his opinion, it would be a pity for the material this time.

Therefore, on the day Jordan announced that he would participate in the three-point contest, countless reporters ran to interview Li Weisi and asked Li Weisi what he thought of him.

"Opinion? My opinion is very simple. I admire Michael's courage very much." Li Weisi replied simply.

"Oh? So you're not optimistic about Michael's three-point shot contest?" The reporters immediately became interested when they heard Li Weisi's answer.

"Yes, although Michael's shooting ability is very good, but he has long been accustomed to the mid-range, which has allowed him to form muscle memory, and it is very difficult to change these immediately." Li Weisi explained patiently.

"But Michael's three-point shooting percentage this season is already very good!"

"Yes, I have paid attention to this, but shooting three-pointers in the three-point shooting contest is different from shooting three-pointers on the court. Michael lacks training in this area."

"West, are you being too pessimistic when you say that? Michael has made it clear that he wants to win this year's three-point champion." A reporter from Chicago asked decisively.

"Really? It's a good thing that he has such confidence, but unfortunately I don't like him!"

"Aren't you a little mean when you say that? After all, Michael can resolutely participate in the three-pointer contest, but you don't even dare to dunk." This Chicago reporter obviously has a strong sense of substitution, which caused his words to attract the attention of the surrounding reporters. .

"Then let's make a bet. I don't ask Michael to be the three-point leader. As long as Michael can enter the finals, then next season, I will participate in the slam dunk contest!" Li Weisi resolutely said.

Li Weisi's words made the reporter in front of him ecstatic, frantically pressed the shutter, and the flash almost blinded Li Weisi who had just finished speaking.

(End of this chapter)