O'Neal was very worried and anxious. He got up in the morning and weighed only 295 pounds, which is 134 kilograms. He has lost two kilograms these two days!

Looking at the white clouds outside the window, O'Neal felt that being a white cloud was so good that there was no worries... It was possible that the clouds on another electrode would turn into thunderstorms...

"Uh... it's not good to read a lot, why did you think of this..."

O'Neal was even more worried, feeling that he was unparalleled in the world and invincible in the world.

The new month has arrived. On the morning of February 1, the Lakers set off from Los Angeles and headed for Chicago.

On the plane, O'Neal did not go and play cards with Rick Fox, Brian Shaw, Brent Barry and others, and sat by the window and looked at the white clouds.

I wanted to find someone to talk to, but most of my teammates couldn't understand what he was worried about at all, and they all felt that he was extremely optimistic... Although he was really optimistic, he just wanted to be pretentious at this time.

Alas, there is!

O'Neal came to the front row, sat next to Zhang Hao, and asked directly: "Aix, do you think there is any problem with me being selected as the All-Star starter?"

Just saying that O'Neal is particularly quiet today, Zhang Hao thought his uncle was here, so he glanced at O'Neal and replied: "No problem, as long as you ensure your health, you will have everything."

Zhang Hao remembers that in the original time and space, the Lakers were also the first in the league in the early 97-98 season. O'Neal, Eddie Jones and Van Exel were extremely shining. The substitute lineup also had Kobe Bryant, who won the second place with the sixth man, averaged 15.4 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game.

In fact, if there weren't three All-Stars in the starting lineup, Kobe would be the strongest player in the league on the bench that year. The Lakers were so strong that they were so strong in the early stage of the season.

But O'Neal was only missing two games before the All-Star Weekend, and 22 games after the All-Star Weekend. The Lakers' record collapsed and finally "only" won 61 wins. When O'Neal was absent, the Lakers lost 12 and 10 losses. With O'Neal, they could win at least five or six more games.

What Zhang Hao is worried about now is O'Neal's health. Since the 125+kg level was raised to 130+kg level in the 130+kg level in the 1994-95 season, O'Neal's feet have been often injured.

Health? Yes, this matter is very important! O'Neal also feels so.

I was injured at the beginning of last season. After my comeback, I couldn’t catch up with many honors, but I played 41 games this year, so I have to ensure my health.

O'Neal had to admit that Zhang Hao's calm way of speaking easily allowed his teammates to find confidence and direction.

He calmed him down just one sentence.

What's going on with this...

...

When they arrived at the hotel in Chicago, Silver Fox arranged a team meeting at 2 pm to prepare for Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao got it done before going out in the morning to prepare for such a thing.

Now the team will send the video to him as soon as possible after the game is over, review the learning mode, get up in the morning to compare the video to find key points, prepare lessons... I am already very skilled in the operation.

Mr. Zhang has taken over the work of the Lakers coaching staff in this regard.

When Zhang Hao left Chicago with the team from Los Angeles International Airport in the morning, April Clark had already gone to New York at the same time. After playing against the Bulls, Zhang Hao would go directly.

Although the All-Star starter was announced at noon, he was the Western Conference vote leader before, so he was very confident.

After an hour of rest, I reorganized what I had to analyze during the team meeting in the afternoon. At 11:50, Kenny Anderson came and knocked on his door.

Following Kenny Anderson to O'Neal's room, O'Neal once again started to use the web page 10 minutes in advance, holding the laptop computer that looked like a handheld computer in his hand, constantly refreshing.

The live broadcast program of CNY Sports Channel on TV is being played. In the program, the host is introducing players who may be selected as All-Star starters, competitive positions, etc.

The Lakers players all gathered in O'Neal's room. Teammates must be very interested in this kind of thing.

Soon, at 11:55, NBA Vice President Stu Jackson appeared on TV and began to announce the awards.

First is the best award of the month in January.

Michael Jordan was elected the January Player of the Month with unanimous vote.

There is no suspense about this. The Bulls played 16 games in January, with 13 wins and 3 losses. Jordan averaged 31.3 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 2.3 steals and 1 block. He shot a 48.2% shooting percentage. The highest score of 49 points in a single game was second in the league, second only to Tracy Murray, with 50 points in a single game. He performed well and was elected Player of the Month for two consecutive months.

In January, Jordan won the Player of the Week four times, Rick Schmitz once, and Sabonis once. In this regard, Jordan deserved to win the Player of the Week, and his performance was really good.

Next is the January Rookie of the Month, Tim Duncan won the Rookie of the Month for three consecutive months, further seizing the Best Rookie.

Duncan averaged 26.7 points, 13 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 2.3 blocks per game. So far this season, Duncan's data has increased to 25.1 points, 11.8 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.3 blocks per game.

Zhang Hao was not surprised by these two, or even not a surprise.

There is no David Robinson in the inside, and he becomes the ultimate selfless Campbell... Anyway, he has money and stable playing time, so Campbell doesn't care about anything else. Campbell averages 10.2 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game, plays 31 minutes per game, and holds 8 million US dollars for a year, and can still win, which is very exciting.

This allowed Duncan to release his scoring ability from the beginning, and his explosiveness was not very good. The 76ers' highest score in a single game this season was Iverson's 47 points, but Duncan is simply comparable to Malone and Jordan.

But the teammates were surprised. Although they knew that Duncan was very popular, they didn't expect that Duncan's performance was so terrifying. It was really... stronger than Zhang Hao, who was in the rookie year!

Zhang Hao was selected for a while at that time, and it was very controversial. It was not until he won the FMVP in the second grade that the mainstream media mentioned that he was selected for a while in the rookie season.

And Duncan, even if they are players of the enemy team, thinks that Duncan may be really better than Malone...

The TV station commentator was excited to take over the conversation and announced their TV station's monthly MVP forecast list.

Three months later, CNN's MVP predictions were made, O'Neal was the first, Jordan was the second, Duncan was the third, Malone was the fourth, Tim Hardaway was the fifth, Zhang Hao was the sixth, Payton was the seventh, Anthony Hardaway was the eighth, David Robinson was the ninth, and Glenn Rice was the tenth.

Three months later, Duncan made it into the top three of the MVP prediction list.

These two awards are the most concerned awards.

What the TV commentator said was the same as when the best month was announced in December - from the data and efficiency, it is really impossible to tell who is the best month in Duncan or Jordan...

In the January awards, if you want to say something that surprised Zhang Hao and wanted to complain about it, it was the last announced Best Coach of the Month.

Pacers coach Larry Bird is once again elected as the coach of the month!

Larry Bird's rookie coaches the season and has been the best coach of the month twice. What does this mean?

Zhang Hao’s teammates don’t care much about this, nor do they pay attention to it. As for players, they must be the player awards.

But Zhang Hao has always been paying attention, and the TV commentator was shocked after Stu Jackson announced the award. Since opening the Best Coach Award for the Month, three coaches have won the Best Coach twice in a single season in the past seven seasons, and all won the Best Coach of the Season.

In other words, if the Lakers coach Silver Fox fails to win the best coach again in the next three months, and no other coaches win the best coach twice in the best coach, Larry Bird's rookie will become the number one favorite for the best coach in the season!

When he was a superstar player, he was also a superstar player. Although there were also some who were very good at being a coach, there were very few samples. More of the players who were a superstar player during the player era were very bad at being a coach.

For example, when the Magician was a coach for half a season, he often made some requests to Van Exel that he thought were simple but actually excessive, making Van crazy people want to cry...

But when Larry Bird first entered the coaching position, the Pacers played an unprecedented strength!

Finally, it has arrived at the All-Star starting list that Lakers players are most concerned about.

The first thing to be announced is the list of the Western Conference in the New York All-Star Game as the visiting team.

The first is the center position.

O'Neal ran from the computer to the TV. The computer is not so good these days.

"Friends in front of the TV, I announced that the starting center of the Western Conference in the 1998 New York All-Star Weekend Tournament is..."

Zhang Hao heard the fat man next to him swallowing saliva.

Stu Jackson really likes to imitate David Stern in everything. After dragging the ending for a while, he finally said his name: "... Lakers center O'Neal!"

Immediately afterwards, the winning of the Western Center position appeared on the TV screen.

Shaq O'Neal beat David Robinson's more than 1.12 million votes, and narrowly won by less than 30,000 votes! The third-place Olajuwon also had 860,000 votes.

This is really more exciting than the big score crush. O'Neal was surprised to call "Oh oh oh"...

Teammates also stepped forward to congratulate. After coming to the West, O'Neal finally made it to the All-Star starting position.

Next is the Western Conference defender.

Anthony Hardaway had 1.32 million votes and Gary Payton had 780,000 votes. The two joined hands to be selected as the All-Star starter.

The difference in votes is too big!

But after posting the specific voting situation of the Western Conference defender, Zhang Hao felt that it was normal.

Kenny Anderson 680,000 votes, Stockton 670,000 votes, Kidd 580,000 votes, Marbury 550,000 votes... It was scattered too evenly.

The last one announced was the Western forward. As we all know, the Western Conference voter king appeared in the forward position.

The first forward, Carl Malone, had 940,000 votes, and the Western Conference forward won the second place.

The name of the person who won the first place in the Western Conference forward was not immediately announced, and the Western Conference forward was directly posted.

Garnett ranked third in the Western Conference forward with 910,000 votes, while Schramf ranked fourth in 670,000 votes.

At this time, it was confirmed that Zhang Hao was the Western forward who won the first place in the vote.

But it just won't be announced.

"What's this vice president doing? Announce the votes quickly!" O'Neal was even more anxious than Zhang Hao and complained wildly.

"Maybe Aix is ​​the voter, so it was announced in the end." Rick Fox blew up strongly.

"Aix and Jordan are a little bit different from the second round of voting, isn't it difficult?"

"I think it's still possible that we've played so well this month..."

Listening to the chattering discussion between his teammates, Zhang Hao had no expression on his face, but he also had a little expectation in his heart.

This kind of thing doesn't seem important, but in fact, I really want it.

Just like playing games, is it important to score first?

Anyway, if Zhang Hao plays games, he will think it is very important and wants to fight for it...

Men's happiness is always that simple.
To be continued...