Recently, the NBA All-Star vote is in full swing, and as the highlight of the league box office every year, being able to enter the All-Star is undoubtedly an important recognition of the popularity and strength of a player. In the early years, the NBA All-Star vote was completely dependent on the fan vote, so this also gave birth to the embarrassing moment when rookie Yao Ming pushed O'Neal to become the starter, so the NBA then changed the rules, and now the fan vote can only account for 50%, and the rest depends on the voting results of the players and the media.
However, I still miss the exciting scene when the fan vote results directly determined the All-Star start, because sometimes, the distance from the starter and the bench may be a few hundred votes, and if I want to choose the most intense All-Star starter competition in my heart, it is undoubtedly the 06-07 season.
The 06-07 season is in the most exciting years of the NBA, first of all, the 96 golden generation of stars have entered the peak of their careers, the old generation of stars represented by the four quarterbacks, Garnett, O'Neal, and the 03 platinum generation - James, Wade, Bosh, Anthony and other new stars fiercely collided, each vote is a contest between the popularity of new and old fans, the new and old vote kings, and Yao Ming, who sits on the vote of 1.3 billion Chinese, is really exciting to think about.
In the end, the first vote in the East of this All-Star Conference was James, who won 2516049 votes, while the vote king of the West was Yao Ming, who suppressed Kobe, Maddy, Iverson, and a lot of balloon stars, and Yao Ming, who received a total of 2451718 votes, only with a gap of 64333 votes, regrettably lost to James to lose the position of the vote king, so that the latter repaid last year's one-arrow revenge.
Other star players in the East won the votes - Wade, who won the championship last year, rose to the second place in the East, O'Neal third, Howard fourth, and the general Arenas fifth. In the end, O'Neal relied on a slight advantage to defeat Howard to become the starting All-Star center in the East, James and fellow rookie Bosh formed a starting frontcourt, Wade and Arenas joined hands to start the backcourt, beating Carter, Kidd and other stars to become the starter.
Competition in the West is more intense, and when Yao Ming gets the most votes and becomes the starting center without suspense, Bryant and Maddy are second and third, respectively, and work together to form the Western Conference starting backcourt; Iverson is fourth and can only regret to be a substitute; and the second consecutive MVP winner last year and the previous year, Nash, is also sixth in the voting, so he also missed the start. The West's frontcourt starts were Garnett and Duncan, while 2007 NBA regular season MVP winner Nowitzki, who received only 1276304 votes, was ninth in the West and fourth in the frontcourt, and should have missed the start.
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However, at this time, Yao Ming was suddenly injured unexpectedly and could not participate in the All-Star Game, so the starter needed a player to supplement, and D'Antoni, who was the Head Coach of the Western Conference All-Star at the time, chose Nowitzki as the starter, otherwise the NBA's regular season MVP winner in the past three years would not be able to start the All-Star in the peak season! What is this scene? This is the most intense all-star selection in the NBA, I don't know if you miss that time in the past? （ikuet）