In 2012, Wang Zhizhi became the CBA All-Star ticket king for the sixth time with 814670 votes, and the 35-year-old "wind-chasing teenager" was no longer young at that time, but the legend of "King of All-Stars" has long become a good story.
That year, Yi Jianlian was working hard in Dallas, and neither he nor Wang Zhizhi knew that after this year, the two would be ready to open the handover of history on the throne of the All-Star Vote King. Now, in the past nearly 10 years, Yi Jianlian has been the king of votes 5 times, and has just led the way in the first stage of the 2022 CBA All-Star voting, and if he keeps it to the end, he will also share the record with Dazhi.
As early as 1996, the young Wang Zhizhi appeared on the center stage of world basketball, the Atlanta Olympic Games, and the hot pot given to "Admiral" David Robinson is still popular. In the 95-96 season, at the age of 18, he averaged 14.1 points, 6.7 rebounds and 3.8 blocks per game in the first year of the CBA.
The elegant name of "Wind Chasing Youth" seems to be a perfect match for the naïve genius.
After the CBA's first official All-Star Game, the Beijing University Gymnasium in 1996, the young Wang Zhizhi walked to the center of the venue, and since then, he has also begun to harvest the honor of the All-Star Game. However, Wang Zhizhi's first All-Star ticket king appeared 3 years later.
In 1999, the CBA continued its exploration of the all-Star Weekend presentation, no longer using local players to fight foreign players, and resumed fan voting. Wang Zhizhi's average score per game soared to 25.8 points, followed by 8.4 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 1.7 steals and 2.9 blocks, and his popularity continued to climb, and finally became the first "ticket king" in the history of CBA All-Stars with 28597 votes.
There are many All-Star stories this year, and the southern team that Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming joined forces lost miserably to the northern team, which included Monk Battle, Gong Xiaobin, Ma Jian of Aoshen, Sun Jun of Jilin and others. The most interesting thing is that the young Dazhi and DaYao also appeared in the dunk contest, leaving behind the highest average height dunk contest in All-Star history.
It was also this year, a month after the end of the CBA All-Star Weekend, at the other end of the Pacific Ocean, good news came from the MIC Center arena in Washington, D.C., where the Dallas Mavericks selected Wang with the 7th pick in the second round of the year after winning Dirk Nowitzki the previous year. Unfortunately, Dazhi was unable to go, dragged on for two years, and eventually became the beginning of all the regrets and regrets of his career.
Stay in the CBA's big country and continue to dominate All-Star Weekend.
The ruvalrous Dazhi is still a favorite of fans, and he completed the Grand Slam in the 99-00 season. In the regular season, he averaged 26.3 points, 9.7 rebounds, 2.9 steals, 2.7 blocks, Bayi 21 wins and 1 loss, the first regular season MVP of his career; averaged 36 points, 15 rebounds, 4.7 steals and 2 blocks in the Finals, the first FMVP of his career; he won the All-Star ticket king without suspense, and shot 31 points at the Sichuan Provincial Gymnasium, the first all-star game MVP of his career.
2000 can be counted as the "year of Wang Zhizhi" in the history of The Chinese men's basketball team, not only won important awards in the CBA, but also at the Sydney Olympic Games, he contributed 13.5 points per game with 53.7% shooting in 26.8 minutes, the team's scoring champion. Facing New Zealand with 19 points, Dazhi helped the Chinese men's basketball team break through from the death group. By the way, he even won the All-Star Dunk Contest this year.
A year later, Dazhi taught the "Little Giant" a lesson in the Finals and then turned around to become China's first player to stand on the NBA. After that, he left the CBA for 5 years, and during the 5 years, youth and dreams were intertwined, and suffering coexisted with criticism. By the beginning of the 06-07 season, at the Doha Asian Games, the Dazhi final opened with 12 consecutive points, and the whole game hit Qatar with 29 points, and people exclaimed that the wind-chasing teenager really came back.
By the time of the All-Star Game voting, the No. 14 of the Bayi men's basketball team rode the dust, 186579 votes, and Dazhi was elected as the all-star vote king for the third time in his career. He was 1-4 in the All-Star voting, and 4 players from Guangdong, who won three consecutive championships, entered the top 6, Yi Jianlian, Du Feng, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng, but no one could compete with him, but Wang Shipeng took away the All-Star MVP with 10 three-pointers and won back a city.
Guangdong lost not only the vote, but also the dynasty that was interrupted by Wang Zhizhi.
In the 06-07 playoffs, Wang Zhizhi almost took Bayi all the way to the finals 30+ and then faced Guangdong, averaging 23 points and 12 rebounds per game with excellent efficiency. In the end, August 1 broke the Hongyuan Dynasty 4-1, winning the championship for the last time in team history, and Wang Zhizhi lifted the MVP of the finals without suspense.
With the return of the king, Dazhi returned to the battlefield he was most familiar with, and by 2008, his popularity was still rising. Because the UAE Went to the NBA, he was elected as the vote king by 932852 votes, which was nearly 200,000 votes higher than the second-place Battle. This year's All-Star is back in Chengdu, and that's where Dazhi first won the All-Star Game MVP.
So, at the Olympic Sports Center in Chengdu, Wang Zhizhi scored 26 points and once again won the trophy. Not only that, he even participated in the three-point contest, his three-point shooting rate at that time was as high as 44.2%, but unfortunately, he and Wang Shipeng could not laugh to the end, and Luo Zhi, the Hunan boy of Wanma, Zhejiang, successfully defended the title.
After that, in 2009 and 2010, when Bayi was no longer the king of the past, Zhu Fangyu and Zhang Qingpeng snatched the All-Star ticket king from Dazhi by a slight advantage. However, the 2009 All-Star Game started at the Ningbo Beilun Sports Center, although it was not the home of the Youngor Gymnasium, but in Ningbo, Dazhi still had to do his best to be a landlord, 21 points and 10 rebounds, and won the All-Star MVP.
I thought that Dazhi's All-Star era had come to an end, but he unexpectedly became the vote king again in 2011.
Popularity is no coincidence, and the pre-season story may be the final peak of his career. Yes, that is, the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, in front of the old rival South Korea, there is no Yao Ming, no Yi Jianlian, and at the last moment, he killed the game with a supplementary basket and sent the Chinese men's basketball team to the championship stage. At the award ceremony, all 12 medals were hung on his chest, and the team members paid homage to him.
That picture perfectly interpreted the love of the fans for Dazhi at that time, the all-star vote, Dazhi got 209632 votes, and was elected as the vote king for the fifth time in his career. At the Wukesong Gymnasium in Beijing, there were many entertainment industry stars, but the most dazzling was Dazhi, who must be mentioned in every artist interview, and Hu Haiquan even imagined hoping to see Dazhi participate in the dunk contest again.
Speaking of this, few people now mention that Wang Zhizhi is a Beijinger, his father Wang Weijun was the main internal line of the Beijing men's basketball team, and Dazhi grew up in the Beijing Sports Committee compound. His mother, Ren Huanzhen, also played for Beijing, leading the team to fight for the gold medal of the third National Games in 1975, and she was also selected for the Chinese women's basketball team. However, in the end, his parents chose not Beijing for him, but Bayi.
In the 11-12 season, Wang Zhizhi once again won the All-Star ticket king, 814670 votes, beating popular foreign players Stephen Marbury and JR Smith. This is the 6th and last time that Dazhi has become the ticket king, and it seems to indicate the direction of his career, Bayi only finished 14th in the league this season, missed the playoffs, and never returned to that battlefield.
The inheritance of the times also began with the all-star of this year of Dazhi.
In addition to being the All-Star ticket king, Dazhi has a new identity at Guangzhou All-Star Weekend, where he and Marbury serve as the head coach of the North and South District Star Rui teams. This seems to be a rehearsal of Dazhi's retirement work, the two veterans experienced it in advance on the stage of the All-Star Game, but unfortunately, the Southern team lost miserably to the luxurious North District Xingrui team led by Guo Allen, Zhai Xiaochuan and Ding Yanyuhang.
The Wind Chaser is already in his thirties at this time, and his successor to the King of The Kings Laureate on All-Star Weekend is also returning from the other side of the ocean. The 12-13 all-star vote is the highest in the history of the CBA, returning to Guangdong's UAE League, the popularity of Dazhi, the old horse who led the team to win the championship is difficult to solve, but the final winner is Tracy McGrady, more than 2 million votes, it is really terrifying.
Yi Jianlian's handover over All-Star Weekend has since been delayed by another year, Marbury became the ticket king in 2014, and since 2015, the UAE League has won the ticket king five times in 6 years, catching up with the record of Dazhi at a super high speed. If it were not for the accidental injury of the UAE League in the 2020 Finals, I am afraid that last season, the record would have been equalized.
The wind-chasing teenager has long since retired, but Wang Zhizhi and his all-star legend will not drift in the wind, but will only spread more and more widely.