In the All-Star Game, it was first announced that Liu Mang won the All-Star vote with 3.92 million votes, which increased the historical record of the All-Star vote leader by more than 1 million votes. This incident made some Eagles players cheer and win.

Some people laughed and criticized Jason Terry for his good luck.

As for the vote leader, Liu Mang had actually determined his position as the vote leader during the second stage of voting, and there was no way he could be shaken.

Ratliff was selected as an All-Star with 2.18 million votes, beating Ben Wallace's 1.9 million votes. The Eagles players were the most excited. Someone invited them to play. Most of the Eagles players are on rookie contracts. Go

Playing in Los Angeles for a week is a very luxury thing for them, and it is also during the All-Star Weekend and the major winter event days in Los Angeles. If it is a first-round pick, it is okay, but a second-round pick basically does not have the money to play.

But these can only be considered happy things that were expected. The most surprising thing is the final selection of the All-Star guard. In addition to Liu Mang who won the vote in the Eastern Conference and was selected as an All-Star guard, another point guard of the Hawks was selected as an All-Star guard.

Star John Stockton was selected as an All-Star with 1.85 million votes, surpassing Allen Iverson with 1.78 million votes!

Stockton was selected to the All-Star Game for the eleventh time in his career!

On the day of the All-Star Game, Stockton's age reached 41 years and 10 months. Stockton broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record of 41 years and 9 months for the oldest person to participate in the All-Star Game!

The most important thing is that Stockton is still an All-Star! It broke Jordan's record of being voted into the All-Star by fans at the age of 39!

Originally, Stockton was just here to accompany the young players and wait for the All-Stars to be announced. When the second-stage votes were announced, he was still nearly 400,000 votes behind Iverson. It was basically impossible to overtake him, but unexpectedly, in the end,

Surprisingly surpassed!

Stockton pinched his thigh, it hurt!

it is true!

It's already his 20th season in the league, and Stockton can't help but feel ecstatic!

All teammates went up to hug Stockton and congratulate him. More players from his team were selected for the All-Stars, which means higher attention. Even players who have nothing to do with the All-Stars will enjoy the benefits, because

There were bound to be more reporters interviewing him, and he might have benefited from it by the way. Stockton couldn't control his expression and kept laughing. His usual calm senior attitude was completely gone.

The Hawks have three players selected to the All-Star Game!

In addition to these three people, the two forward positions of the Eastern All-Stars were occupied by his cousins. McGrady undoubtedly ranked first among the forwards in the Eastern Conference with 2.54 million votes. Carter averaged only 16 points per game in the Raptors' 30 games.

, in the more than 20 days of games after coming to the Nets, he averaged 22.9 points per game. This principle of moving the dead and moving the dead was perfectly demonstrated in Carter. Carter's popularity has also recovered a bit, ranking with 1.79 million votes.

Ranked second among Eastern Conference forwards.

Raheem ranked third among the Eastern Conference forwards with 1.71 million votes, just shy of being selected as an All-Star for the second time in his career.

In the West, Garnett won the Western Conference vote leader with 2.71 million votes. Duncan ranked second among Western forwards with 2.31 million votes without any suspense. Yao Ming with 2.32 million votes beat O'Neal with 1.91 million votes and was selected as an All-Star again. For defenders,

Kobe ranked first with 2.57 million votes, and Francis ranked second with 1.65 million votes. The two were selected to the All-Stars for the third consecutive year. However, compared to Kobe, Francis's popularity is getting lower and lower, despite Yao Ming's help.

, but the gap in votes with Payton, Ginobili, Parker and others behind him is getting smaller and smaller.

Unlike Liu, after Stockton was selected as an All-Star, he took the initiative to provide a car to each of the rookies on the team as long as he won the championship this year.

Although the second year of Stockton's two-year contract is not guaranteed, due to his playing experience, the minimum contract he received is US$1.75 million. Atlanta's state taxes have been lower in recent years, plus deducting federal taxes and players.

The guild dues amounted to a full one million U.S. dollars.

In fact, for Stockton, this $1 million is an unexpected income. He originally planned to retire. He lives like an ordinary person, living well but not luxuriously, with a career salary of up to 6,000.

With ten thousand dollars, he was not short of money, so he proudly gave the car away.

This is more of a surprise than anything!

Raheem, Jason Terry, Ratliff Rasheed Wallace and other players with big contracts certainly don’t care about these $100,000 cars. Stockton didn’t even say that they would give them cars.

I don’t mind either. It would be nice to let those teammates on the team who don’t make much money have a decent car when they go out. They don’t have to drive a second-hand car. Although the bottom players are living much better now than they were in the 1970s and 1980s.

, but compared to players with contracts above the middle-class level, they are still far behind. Among the Hawks' rookie contract players, except for Liu Mang, Boozer from Mercedes-Benz and Barnes, who was given a car by Carter, the others are still under contract.

Driving a used car.

This is obviously a great news for several players on the Eagles' rookie contracts! They are even more eager to win the championship!

Stockton also enjoyed the rare feeling of being complimented by young players, but an inappropriate guy came up next to Stockton: "My dear teacher, I also get a basic salary, do I have my share of the car?"

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Stockton raised his eyebrows and said one word very gently: "Get out!"

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Stockton's selection as an All-Star caused a sensation not only within the Hawks team, but also among fans in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, and basketball circles around the world!

Even Liu Mang won the All-Star vote with a record of more than 1 million votes far exceeding everyone else's, but was overshadowed by Stockton's selection as an All-Star.

Experts and media analyzed and analyzed, and finally concluded that Stockton's selection as an All-Star mainly comes down to four points.

The first is that Stockton is a very popular veteran. He has been selected to the All-Star three times. He was selected over the popular shooting guard Glider Drexler. Now Stockton has joined a strong team.

The team plays and the exposure is back.

The second is feelings. Stockton is basically certain that this is the last season. Unlike last season, Stockton may continue to play. This year Stockton has changed its team. Regardless of whether it can win the championship, it will not matter.

There may be another season, so fans will take special care of such veterans.

The third factor is Liu Mang’s popularity, because Liu Mang received an astonishingly high number of votes, and to vote for Liu Mang, you have to vote for nine other people. Some fans went to vote specifically to vote for Liu Mang. Maybe they don’t like it.

Other stars, so I filled in Stockton’s name by the way. Maybe it was because he liked Liu Mang that he fell in love with the Eagles and drafted Stockton.

Fourth, and this is the most critical point, Iverson has been reluctant to undergo surgery to treat his injuries in the past two years. He did not want to delay his game. He was very stubborn, but somehow he suddenly figured it out.

I chose to undergo surgery last summer and had to recuperate for eight or nine months. By the end of the All-Star voting, I was unable to come back. I am currently undergoing rehabilitation and have not played a single game until now.

A player who hasn't played in a single game actually occupied an All-Star position in two rounds of voting. Iverson's popularity can be said to be incredible.

But in the end, he couldn't hold up No. 22 Stockton's 10 points and 12 assists, which allowed people to see his old and strong strength, especially when he stood with Mark Jackson. Although they didn't actually face each other, it was

Such feelings cannot be stopped. In the 1996-97 season, it was Mark Jackson who ended Stockton's record of nine consecutive assists titles. That year, Mark Jackson won the assist title and Stockton ranked second.

Mark Jackson prevented Stockton from setting a ten-consecutive assist record. The rivalry between the two attracted much attention from fans after the 1996-97 season. It was time for both of them to retire and stand together against each other.

All the old fans went to vote for Stockton.

In addition, as Liu Mang's teammate, Stockton's popularity has skyrocketed in the first half of the season with the Hawks. He was selected to the All-Star for the fourth time in his career and the 11th time in his career, which became unexpected and reasonable.

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Stockton was selected as an All-Star. His former opponents and teammates all sent congratulations, including the Big Four of the Lakers. Malone even burst into tears during an interview.

But there is one person who is about to vomit blood, and he is Jason Kidd of the Nets.

Kidd's votes obviously have nothing to do with the All-Stars, but Iverson basically won't be able to play in the All-Stars this year. His comeback is delayed by a month than expected, mainly because he has too many minor injuries that were originally only treated thoroughly and have been bothering him.

His toe bone fracture was an injury, but when he was carefully examined before the operation, knee problems, elbow problems, shoulder dislocation and other injuries were all detected. The toe had fully recovered in December, and he is now undergoing surgery for his shoulder.

Treat sleeve injuries.

Since he hasn't played for more than half a season, the 76ers are also very patient in letting Iverson slowly recover from his injury. At the same time, he can look bad and get a high draft pick, which is a blessing.

Iverson can't play in the All-Stars. If he is selected into the All-Stars by the fans, there must be a player to replace him, and this candidate is undoubtedly Kidd.

Kidd can't make it to the All-Stars, but the substitutes will definitely make it. Among the backup guards in the Eastern All-Stars, there is no candidate more suitable to replace Iverson than Kidd. Regardless of strength or league status, Kidd is the most suitable. No.

Just like last season, the Eastern Conference All-Stars collectively gave way to Jordan.

But now that Stockton has been selected as an All-Star, Kidd almost got mad to death!

The news that Kidd was furious because of this matter was quickly exposed by the gossip media. Coincidentally, the Hawks will play against the Nets for the fourth time in the regular season on January 31. The Nets’ new Big Three and the Hawks
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