The Lakers beat the Supersonics for the whole game. In a key counterattack, they were blocked by Zhang Hao. The Supersonics took this opportunity to tie the score 9-4 in a wave. Pierce, who is famous for his key balls, made a perfect final shot, but Zhang Hao once again made a perfect final shot, the 14th final shot in the regular season!

33 points, 16 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks. O'Neal's performance tonight was extremely brutal, but Zhang Hao scored 51 points! The last single game of 50+ this season was O'Neal's second single game of 50+ this season after he scored 50+ for the Clippers.

When the two compete in the same game, even if the fans who have never seen them play together before, they think that being teammates is the most suitable one.

In all aspects, both of them are very suitable to be teammates.

However, it is precisely because the two separated that there was such a discussion.

The Christmas battle came to a perfect end. At 0 a.m. that night, the NBA official website launched the All-Star voting online voting link.

The early season has ended and will enter the mid-season stage, and the All-Star voting is about to begin.

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"Revenge Christmas Eve: The Return of the King's Phase 2 Mission.

Target 1: Zhang Hao must lead the Supersonics to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in tonight's Christmas game.

Target 2: Zhang Hao must score higher than Shaq O'Neal in the game against the Lakers.

Congratulations to the host for receiving the reward: Shaq O'Neal's 1993-1994 version of the Star Experience Card is not consumed and has an unconditional upgrade right to use once, with a lifespan of 90 days.

The remaining life span is 1281 days, and the available life span is 1280 days."

"The Return of the King's Stage 3 Mission: The King of Popularity Triggered."

"The King of Popularity:

Goal: With the help of the host, Zhang Hao must be selected for the 2000 Auckland All-Star Championship.

Reward: Lifespan of 60 days.

Advanced goal: Zhang Hao needs to become the 2000 Auckland All-Star Weekend Ticket King.

Advanced Reward: Golden Reward: Three optional dunk packs.”

At 6:05 am on the 26th, Zhang Hao woke up on time.

I looked at the new task triggered last night and felt it was very difficult!

Because Carter is so popular this year and has a good record, Carter, who is in the second grade, led the team to fifth in the Eastern Conference, ranking behind the Pacers, Heat, 76ers, and Knicks, and has made a leap forward compared to last season.

But the most important thing is Carter's dunk, which made him popular all over the United States last season.

Just a dunk gives him the title of "Jordan successor", which is definitely a unique existence among many Jordan successors.

After the shrinking season, in order to increase the discussion topic, the NBA official not only plans to divide weekly and monthly awards into the east and west, but also includes data such as dunks in a single season in the statistical items, as well as data such as ball holding rate, assist rate and other data that no one has paid attention to before.

In fact, Carter's dunk frequency is not high. So far this season, he has only dunked it in total. He has 84 dunks so far this season, Zhang Hao has 72 dunks so far this season, and Duncan has 70 dunks so far this season. Of course, these are inside, but compared with players with more dunks from outside, Carter is not much. Ke has dunked 31 dunks so far this season, McGrady has 29 dunks and Glenn Robinson has 27 dunks. Carter's dunks are almost the same as Jordan's 20 dunks.

But every dunk of Carter can be compared with the previous dunk contest cancellation.

If you don’t have difficulty, you have to dunk. If you look at it from another perspective, Carter is the player who has tried to dunk the most times this season. Last season’s rookie season, Carter attended 50 games and dunked 44 times in total. He was hit 31 times in a row because he tried to dunk the slam dunk, and he was always blocked. But what people remember is the ones he dunked in.

Zhang Hao took out paper and pen and listed the competitors of this year's All-Star Ticket King.

New generation Carter, Kobe, Iverson.

Kobe's situation is very special, because with the appearance of Zhang Hao and Duncan before, Kobe will basically be the No. 1 pick as long as he runs after 1997. However, because of Olovo Kandi, Kobe's most popular choice after becoming the No. 1 pick was looked down upon again. After really playing the best team or even a team-level strength... This tortuous public opinion changes have brought more attention to Kobe.

Iverson is the most controversial player at present. In the first three years of his career, many negative things have been seen by fans, especially in this era when the Internet is gradually booming, many negative things have been spread to more people. For example, many of his friends have gangster backgrounds, dress up in a maverick manner, and are extremely lazy in training... This has led to almost no mainstream media and NBA officials who have almost no praise for him. With his current popularity, they basically rely on himself and his endorsement.

Mesozoic Garnett, Duncan, O'Neal, Mourning, Grant Hill, Anthony Hardaway.

Mo Ning's high popularity exceeded Zhang Hao's imagination, just like David Robinson before, he was extremely popular!

Even if O'Neal performed better this season, Mooning is higher than O'Neal in terms of fan support.

Duncan just won the championship + FMVP and was in the limelight, but he gave more people the feeling that he was Zhang Hao's shadow. Everything was still following Zhang Hao's footsteps and was very popular. However, another number performed well this year. In addition, after winning the championship, he paid too much attention to the Lakers who might meet in the finals. The team's outside line was weakened, and a bunch of meat shields were piled up in the inside line, causing the regular season record to decline...

Grant Hill is still very popular, but All-Stars may not be able to enter this year. In the NBA's official All-Star voting list announced a few days ago, Jordan and Carter are both small forwards in registered positions, and Duncan is a power forward.

The main reason is that the Pistons where Grant Hill is located has performed lower than expected almost every year in the past few years. O'Neal, Kidd, Grant Hill, Zhang Hao, Iverson and others of the same era have achieved results in the playoffs. Grant Hill is still the same, hovering on the edge of the playoffs.

Many people began to question what Grant Hill's omnipotence is.

Mourning and O'Neal are both dominant in the center position. There is no center in the East that can compete with Mourning, and no center in the West that can compete with O'Neal.

Garnett is very likely to become another double team since Duncan, with a flamboyant personality, beautiful style, no worse popularity than Duncan, and even a trend of catching up this year.

Veteran Michael Jordan.

It is obvious that Jordan was forced to retire from the Bulls. After the suspension at the beginning of the year, the Bulls couldn't wait to retire the No. 23 jersey and chose Kobe. It took a few months to change the dynasty, which made Jordan fans very dissatisfied. They may become active in the competition for the All-Star vote king.

"The pursuit of newcomers is a bit like the fan circle culture of future traffic fans. Many people who are not fans may also think about creating a "change of dynasties". Wu Shu fans shouted that "the kings, princes, generals and ministers also have a genius," which is very annoying.

Competing for the All-Star vote king with Carter is much more difficult than competing for the All-Star vote king with Hill and Jordan before. Old fans should not pay much attention to the vote king. They have to expand the fan group..."

Zhang Hao had a headache. He must have wanted that "golden dunk bag". The Oakland All-Star organizer has announced that he will resume the dunk contest this year and he wants to participate.

But how to continue to expand the fan base?

From the perspective of today's fans, he has been in the NBA for the fifth year and is no longer a "young" player...

"But I am a young player! I'm only 23 years old in more than a month. Olovokandi is 23 years old when he enters the NBA. Now there are still people looking forward to him to rise, but relying on those three tricks to show people expectations... Eh?"

Zhang Hao opened the main interface of the system screen. It was his basic information and details of each year's data, as well as his shooting percentage, shooting situation, etc. Usually this is used by him to study which aspects he should strengthen and improve.

Now, his focus is on "9.4 assists per game".

"I don't want it, but I found that the sewer was right at my feet. As a man, I couldn't help but find out..."

After making a decision, Zhang Hao put this aside and reviewed last night's game and the early morning review.

"In addition to pushing and shooting three-pointers, the most suitable thing for me is the straight arm three-pointer. I have more time to practice. When the playoffs are stronger, I must be able to open up the situation on the outside, so that the inside lines of our team who do not have much scoring ability can have a chance."

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At around 7:40 in the morning, Zhang Hao had just gone to the gym to practice for 40 minutes and returned to his room to take a shower. He was about to go for breakfast when a knock on the door rang.

When the door opened, it was O'Neal.

What's wrong? I can't beat the game and want to have a real-person fight... He, Mr. Zhang, likes it!

O'Neal felt a little danger and wanted to leave, but when he had something to do, he still resisted the idea of ​​escaping and said, "Go to have breakfast together?"

Zhang Hao nodded, without refusing.

I arrived at a breakfast shop near the hotel. While eating, O'Neal didn't say anything, and Zhang Hao naturally didn't say anything.

After eating and drinking, O'Neal said: "I'm going to open a chain burger restaurant. The Magician's chain restaurant will provide me with technical support. He is preparing to invest. I plan to launch an XO package. I think now is when people miss our combination the most, and this store will definitely gain some market share with this package."

Simple and direct, Zhang Hao understood it as soon as he heard it, but there was a question: "Why do you come to me? You can do this without me, right? XO is not a registered trademark, it is a common word."

"We need to quickly open the market and let people remember my burger shop. I need your help. I want to open the store next to Starbucks. I want to put the coupons in your Starbucks gifts."

Zhang Hao listened to O'Neal's words and felt that his big fat brain was OK! The operation is very simple, but it is effective!

Just… “Coffee + burger, is anyone eating it?”

O'Neal shrugged: "I thought black people didn't know how to drink coffee. Who knew that 30% of Starbucks' income in the United States came from the black community. How about it, are you interested?"

"Don't talk to me about interests, talk about money."

“In return, I will give you shares in the burger brand.”

"I'll help contact Mr. Schultz and reply to you at that time."

O'Neal nodded, the matter was settled, and he left immediately.

Zhang Hao drank all the remaining sip of milk... Suddenly he found something was wrong!

"Damn! Is this fat man here to get my breakfast? I'm not paying for it if I ask me to do my business!"

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At noon on the 26th, when the Supersonics returned to Seattle, the Oakland All-Star Weekend voting had already begun.

From the offseason to the training camp to the regular season, the full season, after the Christmas game, fans will enter a period of fatigue watching the game and a period of fatigue discussing the topic.

At this time, the All-Star voting can attract the enthusiasm of some fans.

The votes of popular superstars will definitely not be low, and some popular superstars will have a stable position.

But if a popular superstar wants to stand out at this time, he has to rely on his fans to be extra active.

Just like Grant Hill and Zhang Hao at the time, Carter's fans were particularly active this year. After the All-Star voting was launched, major stores that cooperated with the NBA were scattered with Carter's fans online.

All major websites are Carter's fans leaving messages to promote Carter.

There are also Carter fans who are promoting Carter at voting sites that cooperate with the NBA, such as McDonald's, Nike flagship stores, sports goods stores, etc.

The media also posted a lot of news related to Carter to promote Carter's dunk.

In addition to having an additional online channel, this situation is similar to Grant Hill's All-Star Ticket King path in the 1995-96 season, and Zhang Hao's Ticket King path in the 1996-97 season, and behind it is the shadow of brokerage companies and sponsors.

Just when Carter will become the most popular star with the prairie fire, a more fierce news rush is coming!

"The ceiling of basketball talent, the strongest genius Aix"

"The Buddha said that there should be light, and the world of basketball will have light"
To be continued...