Chapter 225: Won the votes again and gave up participating in the dunk contest!
After the Christmas game, the NBA began preparing for the All-Star Weekend.

As the winner of two consecutive championships, Wang Yan is the undisputed number one in the league in terms of statistics and all aspects.

The popularity is unrivaled.

In particular, he won the Olympic championship for China and had successful coaching experience, which earned him great exposure.

So there is no suspense about who will be the ticket king.

From the first round of voting, it was far ahead.

What a win!
Wang Yan's business empire was also rapidly established.

From commercial endorsements at the beginning to the establishment of a sports brand, this can no longer satisfy Wang Yan's appetite.

He is not short of money. The money he earns now is enough to last him several lifetimes.

But Wang Yan, who likes challenges, wants to do bigger things.

Wang Yan already had a plan. He hoped to create a sports organization, a comprehensive one.

This organization includes talent recruitment, support and training for various sports, and finally entering into a commercial model.

Wang Yan knew that there were many talented people with great potential in various fields of sports who did not get the opportunity to be trained and were completely buried.

Of course, Wang Yan is not a utopian idealist.

This kind of organization cannot rely solely on throwing money at it.

We still need a specific plan and take it step by step.

Wang Yan started with basketball and established the organization.

Moreover, he focused on recruiting talents from China.

Doing so is actually a bit dangerous, as it would conflict with the Chinese Basketball Association.

But Wang Yan mediated the relationship very well.

The current situation is that the Basketball Association owes Wang Yan a huge favor, and will owe him more in the future.

Wang Yan would not be kidnapped by so-called patriotic sentiments. He clearly told the Basketball Association that although he would help them, it was voluntary.

If I don't want to, nothing you say will help.

If you want to discredit me, then try it.

Of course, the situation has not yet reached that point, and for now, the cooperation between the two sides is very pleasant.

Wang Yan’s basketball training organization has established several schools in China.

In order to discover truly talented people with great potential, Wang Yan asked several professional American scouts to go to China to look for promising talents.

This idea is very correct, because if you arrange scouts in China, you may be influenced by some interests, resulting in some poor seedlings not coming out.

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The 2014 All-Star Game has begun.

Apart from Wang Yan who was the undisputed vote king, there were some changes in other All-Star voting compared to last year.

Before traveling through time, James had won the championship with the Heat, so he was extremely popular and became the top vote-getter.

But after Wang Yan traveled through time, a butterfly effect occurred.

Not only did James lose the championship, he was also forced to flee to the West, so his behavior was criticized by many basketball legends, including fans.

This has led to his popularity declining.

So apart from Wang Yan, the one with the most votes was the emerging Curry!

In fact, this is normal. Since last season, the Warriors' record has been second only to the Cavaliers.

This season, they even surpassed the Cavaliers to become the league's number one team.

Curry's statistics are second only to Wang Yan.

Coupled with his baby-faced and healthy image, he has become a favorite among fans.

In addition, before the time travel, Nike missed Curry, which led to Curry being suppressed, which is very regrettable.

In fact, it’s not Nike’s fault. After all, Curry was very fragile in the past few years and was often injured.

In addition, the prevailing trend at the time was that one could not win the championship by relying on three-pointers.

Even shooting three-pointers will be called a wimp!
Nike looked down on Curry, and even modified the PPT for his announcement using Durant's template. The modification was not done carefully, and it was easily seen.

This is an insult to Curry.

However, in this parallel world, Wang Yan founded his own sports brand and signed Curry.

This makes Curry feel like a fish in water.

It can be said that in terms of honors, Curry can get all of them except those that conflict with Wang Yan.

The final voting results were: Wang Yan first, Curry second, Durant third, Kobe fourth, and James fifth.

The Western Conference All-Star starting lineup is center Love, power forward Griffin, small forward Durant, shooting guard Harden, and point guard Curry.

The Eastern Conference All-Star starting lineup is center Bosh, power forward Wang Yan, small forward Anthony, shooting guard Wade, and point guard Irving.

The first day of the All-Star Game is the Rookie Game.

Middleton of the Cavaliers played.

This rookie game was divided into Team Hill and Team Webber.

The NBA league is very humane. Hill and Webber were once superstars who shone in history, but they did not receive any major honors due to injuries or various reasons.

Although their historical status is not high, they have won the love and respect of countless fans.

In order to commemorate them, their names are mentioned again on some occasions to show respect.

In the end, Team Grant Hill defeated Team Chris Webber.

Although Middleton scored 22 points, the MVP was still taken away by his teammate Drummond. His statistics were amazing. He scored 30 points and 25 rebounds and played very well.

The second day of the All-Star Game features a skills competition, dunk contest and three-point contest.

Although the league invited Wang Yan, he was no longer interested in these competitions, so he refused to participate, saying that he wanted to give newcomers some opportunities to show themselves.

In the end, Lillard won the skills contest, Thompson won the three-point contest, and Wall won the dunk contest.

This year's All-Star Game is very exciting.

Because the Cavaliers' two major championship rivals, the Warriors and the Lakers, are both in the Western Conference and are in very good shape.

Plus the Spurs and Thunder.

Therefore, apart from Wang Yan, the Eastern Party seems to be no match for the Western Party.

Moreover, the All-Stars of both teams made bold statements before the game that they must win the All-Star Game.

Such scenes are rare.

Before Wang Yan entered the league, the All-Star Game became increasingly tasteless and more and more entertainment-oriented.

The fans were very dissatisfied.

Everyone originally hoped that during the All-Star Weekend, they could fulfill their fantasies and let the star combination of their dreams play a different kind of basketball.

But if the stars don't try their best in the game, it will disappoint the fans.

Fortunately, after Wang Yan joined the NBA, he put things right and made the All-Star Game more and more exciting.

In the past two years' All-Star Games, the first three quarters were at regular season intensity, while the fourth quarter was a real fight, reaching the level of the playoffs!

The fans were all excited and basketball legends also praised it highly.

The main game started. In the first half of the first quarter, Wang Yan was willing to be a supporting role and create opportunities for his teammates.

This is the same as his habit with the Cavaliers.

Unfortunately, the Eastern Conference All-Stars were not very stable and did not perform well.

On the other hand, the Western Conference All-Stars were in hot form right from the start.

Curry, James, Durant, Kobe, scored consecutively.

Especially Curry, he really went crazy.

After he made his first three-pointer, his teammates cooperated well and kept feeding him the ball.

Curry also has a high emotional intelligence. After he made two three-pointers, he stopped shooting and started passing the ball to his teammates.

The Western Conference All-Stars blossomed everywhere and the score gradually took the lead.

(End of this chapter)