Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 649 Star List
The last opponent before the All-Star Game is naturally the last of the top three in Texas, the Dallas Mavericks.

It's just that the Mavericks this season don't match the term strong team. The Mavericks are really weak.

In addition to the opening of the player supermarket and being patronized by a group of bad customers, the young player Roy Tapley in the team was also arrested and imprisoned for drunk driving after only five games after the start of the game. Return to the field.

Moreover, what the Mavericks didn't know was that in the original time and space, they originally expected Tapley to return next season. As a result, Tapley failed two drug tests before the game, and then the third mandatory test was rejected by Tapley, resulting in The NBA officially determined that the third test failed and eventually suspended Tapley.

The ban lasted for 3 years. When the 94-95 season came, the Mavericks prepared a 6-year 2000 million contract for Tapley. Unexpectedly, he was found to have taken illegal drugs again and was officially banned by the NBA for life. .

After that, he could only play in overseas or local low-level leagues, and even played for the Aoshen team in the CBA for one season in the 00-01 season. In this way, he stayed until 05 before retiring.

Therefore, the Mavericks can rely on players at this time, only Derek Harper and Rolando Blackman.

These two people want to block the car with their arms in front of the warriors, but it is still a little insufficient.

Therefore, there is no suspense in the result of this game. The Warriors beat the Mavericks 121:102 away, won three games in three games in Texas, and successfully retreated from Texas.

So far, all the games before the All-Star Game have come to an end. The Warriors ranked second in the Western Conference with 35 wins and 11 losses. However, the Warriors' second position in the Western Conference is quite unsafe.

In addition to the Blazers continuing to rank first in the Western Conference with a score of 39 wins and 8 losses, the third-ranked Lakers are also 35 wins and 11 losses, but because of the relationship between wins and losses, they only rank third.

In the Eastern Conference, the Celtics are still first, the Pistons are second, and the Bulls are third. The big rankings have not changed, but the gap between wins is also shrinking. It seems that although they all have the possibility of catching up and surpassing.

Therefore, this has also led to the emergence of the head coaches of the Eastern and Western teams in this year's All-Star Game. Per capita is the first time to become an All-Star coach.

In addition, with the end of the game day, this year's All-Star list has also been released.

Not surprisingly, Li Weisi was once again elected as this year's All-Star Game ticket champion with more than 150 million votes, and Jordan was runner-up for three consecutive years with 121 million votes.

Different from previous years, apart from Li Weisi and Jordan, other young stars also won a lot of votes this year.

The second place in the Eastern Conference is Charles Barkley. With his explosive game style, he has gained a lot of attention. At the same time, he has won 81 votes this year. Ewing ranked third with 76. million votes.

It is worth mentioning that Pippen also received 28 votes, ranking ninth in the Eastern Conference.

Larry Bird, who led the team to win the first place in the Eastern Conference, received 71 votes, ranking fourth in the Eastern Conference. The Pistons had two shots in the backcourt, ranking fifth and sixth.

As for the West, David Robinson miraculously defeated Magic Johnson's 69 votes with 66 votes, ranking second, and Magic ranked third.

In addition, Karl Malone ranked fourth with 60 votes, Olajuwon ranked fifth with 45 votes, and Chris Mullin ranked sixth with 38 votes. It doesn't matter that he is in the Warriors, the favorite team to win the championship.

After all, with enough exposure, you can gain popularity, gain fans' favor and votes, and this season, there is really no team that can have as much traffic as the Warriors.

So far, the list of starters and substitutes for the East and West has also been released.

Eastern team starters: Joe Dumars, Jordan, Bernard King, Barkley and Ewing.

The reason why the starting list does not match the voting situation is mainly because Larry Bird and Isiah Thomas both suffered serious injuries and were unable to play the game, so the replacement of the latter two was postponed.

Although Bernard King has a poor team record this year, he can't hold back his gorgeous statistics, especially after suffering a career-destroying knee ligament tear, he is still able to average . The All-Star level data of 34 points, 28.4 rebounds and 5 assists is enough to make the fans admire.

In addition, the Eastern All-Star team's bench is: Dominique Wilkins, Brad Dougherty, Erwin Robertson, Kevin Johnson, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish , Scottie Pippen.

As for the Western All-Star starters, they are: Li Weisi, Magic Johnson, Chris Mullin, Karl Malone, David Robinson.

Western Conference All-Star Subs: Clyde Drexler, James Worthy, Tom Chambers, Kevin Duckworth, Tim Hardaway, Terry Porter, John stockton

As soon as this list was released, the most controversial thing was that Drexler, the core of the Trail Blazers in the league, failed to make the starting lineup and was squeezed out by Mullin.

This could not help but make many Portland fans aggrieved, saying: The Warriors sent Mullin to the starting lineup because of the large number of fans, which is not fair at all.

However, the Golden State fans were also dissatisfied. As the winners, they did not forget to sarcasm. It can be said that fortunately the Internet is not developed at this time, otherwise this would definitely spark a big debate on the Internet.

There is another point worthy of special mention, that is, Duckworth also became an All-Star after Plath. Although Olajuwon retired due to injury, as a center, in the In the west, the popularity is second only to Robinson and Olajuwon, ranking third in the west, which is enough to see his growth.

This also makes people can't help but look forward to, among the remaining veteran players of the Warriors, who will be the next player to enter the All-Star?Is it Hornacek, who has now become the third master of the Jazz?Or Reggie Lewis who became the young leader of the giant Celtics?
But no matter who it is, this is enough to make fans endlessly discuss, fantasize, and at the same time sigh, how powerful were the warriors in the past?
In short, no matter how much discussion this list has caused, it is undoubtedly what the NBA officials want. As an annual entertainment event, they naturally hope to attract more attention.

In particular, this year's All-Star Weekend is still held in Charlotte, North Carolina. The league also hopes to use this event to further promote the NBA in Charlotte.

(End of this chapter)