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Wen |Fu Zhenghao
Sports big business reporter
Ome boiled wine on heroes, urgently gritted teeth and sealed teeth... Shugong ranking is really a game that can most provoke human beings to compete for fame and profit. From the princes to the princes and the generations of the rich and freshly dressed, down to the peddlers and pawns, the car dealers and the like, once they talk about various rankings, they will immediately fight in the dark and argue with the sky.
Looking at the ancient and modern China and foreign countries, the hero Haojie's greatest worry is not that his deeds before his death are not obvious, and that his merits and names are annihilated after his death. As a result, monarchs who are good at playing with people's hearts will often introduce various rankings to make "the heroes of the world fall into my hands". Successive dynasties have launched ranking lists such as the Eleven People of Qilin Pavilion, the Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai Pavilion, the Twenty-four Heroes of Ling Yan Pavilion, and the Twenty-four Heroes of Zhaoxun Pavilion.
The NBA on the other side of the ocean is also well versed in this. "Jordan Kobe Bryant who is the best in history", "Has James surpassed Jordan"... Similar topics thrown at random can set off a bloody storm every minute, even if the father and son sit and chat, they can still quarrel with red ears, green tendons, blood pupils, like a vendetta. Here is a friendly reminder, if there are lazy people who have no time to wash and clean their faces on weekdays, you may wish to find such a debate, but seeing saliva flying like a downpour, the saliva gushing down the river, to ensure that you can receive an unprecedented baptism from body to soul. Recently, the NBA launched an official campaign that can more incur a war of words, that is, to select the 75 greatest stars in history on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the NBA.
On October 22, Beijing time, the full version of the list of 75 superstars was officially announced, due to the situation that the two people had the same number of votes, the 76ers list was finally announced, which absorbed one more star than originally planned, but even so, fans around the world are still arguing happily. There are many controversies, the most important of which can be summarized into three points:
First, the selection results are suspected to be unfair: many people think that the unsuccessful pearls represented by Howard are higher than the individual stars selected, and howard, Klay Thompson and other unsuccessful stars have publicly questioned this.
Second, the lineup of judges is suspected of being unfair: many of the selected players are also judges, and they are suspected of being both referees and athletes.
Third, the selection rules are suspected of being thick and thin: why are there so many prehistoric celebrities in the list of the 75 superstars in history who have not heard of by contemporary fans? Since it is a historical superstar of 75 years, why do we keep the list of 50 superstars selected in 1996, and the list of 75 superstars born with the 50+25 method is more like a revision and patching of the list of 50 superstars.
In the eyes of the sports big business, the NBA's selection of the 75 superstars at the historical milestone of the 75th anniversary should have been a good story. After all, from the 1946-47 season, the US regional basketball league BAA, which had clubs going bankrupt at any time, to today's basketball business empire with the strongest gold absorption ability and unparalleled comprehensive influence in the world, the NBA has been full of ups and downs in the past 75 years. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary, it is only natural that the NBA's historical legends will be systematically recognized. Moreover, the NBA has held similar official ranking events on the 25th, 35th and 50th anniversaries, and they have also been well received and rumored.
In contrast, the preparation and rigor of this 75 superstar selection is more intense and rigorous than ever. Whether it is from the selection rules, the lineup of judges, the results of the list, it is authoritative, although there is some controversy, but the overall flaws are not hidden. Of course, as long as there is a ranking list, there will always be those who fall behind the list who will be indignant. Moreover, the star toshihiko of the NBA in 75 years is like the sand of the Ganges, from which only 75 people are inevitably a dilemma, and then suffer from the selection difficulty syndrome, and eventually there will inevitably be stars who regret to become a lost pearl. Big Business sports dissects the selection through three levels: judging rules, big winners and beads, trying to make more fans understand the rigor of this selection.
Comparison of the NBA's four historical selections: The 75 superstars are the most rigorous
Any list selection, to consider whether it is authoritative, mainly depends on three points: how authoritative the jury lineup is, whether the selection rules are scientific and reasonable, and how the candidates contain gold. Looking back at the NBA's four official major anniversary milestone selections so far, they are as rigorous as possible in terms of judges, rules, and candidates. But no selection can satisfy everyone, so every selection is controversial, but it is flawed. Looking back at the history and making a longitudinal comparison, it can be found that the NBA's annual selection activities have been trying to improve, and this NBA's 75 superstar selection is even better in these aspects.
So far, the NBA has conducted four annual history superstar awards, namely the 25th, 35th, 50th and 75th anniversaries. The rules for the selection of judges have always been the same, that is, from the NBA executives (including league executives and team executives), team coaches, players (including retired and active players), and media people to choose highly respected representatives to vote together, as far as possible to avoid the narrow perspective of a single group. However, the number of judges selected for each selection varies, and all the players cannot vote for themselves.
At the 25th and 35th anniversaries of the NBA, given that the league's history is still short and the number of legendary superstars is not very rich, the NBA's selection emphasizes the principle of preferring lack to abuse. The 1971–72 season marked the 25th anniversary of the NBA's founding, and the rule was to select only the first and second teams of the best teams in history, that is, only 10 people were selected.
Because this was a historical selection with the meaning of a lifetime achievement award, the NBA stipulated at the time that the candidate must be a player who had retired before the start of the 1971-72 season and had been in the first team at least once. The judges first select 25 players (10 forwards, 10 guards, and 5 centers) from a pool of all eligible players, and then vote from all players who have been named to the NBA's Best Team (as of 1971). The four strikers, four centre-forwards and two defenders with the highest number of votes are shortlisted for the final list, which is then divided into two squads according to the number of votes. Among them, Bill Russell, who won the NBA championship 11 times in his career, was unanimously selected at the time of the selection, with the largest total number of votes, so the media also habitually called him the best player in the history of the NBA's 25th anniversary.
But this time there were also two points of controversy: First, because active players were not allowed to participate in the selection, the recognized superstars Chamberlain, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, and "Big O" Oscar Robertson directly did not participate in the competition, and many players at that time believed that if it was about personal ability, Chamberlain was the greatest player in history. Second, at that time, the NBA mainly relied on the center to decide the victory, the importance of the center at that time far exceeded that of the outside players, there was a group of star centers at the time, but according to the position, the 25th Anniversary Best Team Selection only had two centers (George McCann and Russell) selected, but four guards and four forwards were selected.
The 1980–81 season marked the 35th anniversary of the NBA, which drew on the controversy of its 25th anniversary, no longer requiring candidates to be retired superstars, and no longer voting according to the position of the court, but instead selecting a team's 10 superstars and a manager according to the way the team was formed, as the best team in the history of the NBA's 35th anniversary. But because two people in the ballot voted the same number, the final result was that a total of 11 legendary superstars were selected, and the manager was the "Cardinal" Auerbach, who was recognized by the NBA as the best manager in history and led the Celtics to nine championships as a manager.
It is reasonable to say that this selection is authoritative enough, but there are still two points of controversy: first, the NBA has 35 years of history, and only 11 historical superstars have been selected, the criteria are too harsh, and the list should be expanded; second, at that time, the NBA and the ABA have merged, but only "Dr. J" Owen has ABA experience, and other superstars in the ABA league, such as Rick Barry, Artis Gilmore, "Skywalker" David Thompson, etc. are not on the list. What makes ABA stars and the media even more dissatisfied is that the data and honors of all former ABA players are not included and "inherited" by the NBA database. "Dr. J" Owen complained more than once after retiring that if the NBA can recognize the ABA's data and honors, then his historical status will certainly be higher.
The 1996-97 season marked the 50th anniversary of the NBA, and the NBA finally entered its heyday. This time, the NBA believes that the number of superstars in the NBA in the past 50 years has been very rich, so it decided to select the top 50 superstars in history, and as in the 35th anniversary, it is not divided by position and does not require retirement, in addition to voting for the 10 greatest teams and 10 legendary managers in history, the NBA hopes that these three major awards are enough to cover all the legends of the NBA, so as to avoid some people losing the election and causing unhappiness. Although the list of judges for the 50th anniversary is still composed of representatives selected from NBA executives (including league executives and team executives), team coaches, players (including retired and active players), and media personnel, the number is far greater than before, with a total of 50 people, and the NBA believes that the increase in the number of judges and the expansion of the scope can ensure the objectivity of the selection.
Although the list of the top 50 superstars in history has become the legend of the NBA, these 50 superstars at that time won a total of 107 NBA championships, 49 MVPs, 17 rookies of the year, 447 all-Star Games, 36 scoring championship titles, 923791 points and 410327 rebounds, which gave the world a taste of the NBA's rich history, but this list is still uncontroversial. One of the most controversial is that Super scorer and "human cinema essence" Dominique Wilkins actually did not make the list, but O'Neal, who had only played four seasons at the time and did not have any hard honors (no MVP, no championship, no best team first team), was selected.
Before the start of the 2021-22 season, the NBA increased the number of judges to 88 when selecting the top 75 superstars, and added WNBA legendary stars to the previous executives, players, coaches and media people, all of whom are not allowed to vote on themselves. The NBA hired an independent accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP to collect votes and accurately count the votes, and finally there were two players with the same number of votes, so from a rigorous statistical point of view, the final list of 75 superstars in history was announced by 76 people. Objectively speaking, the 75 selection is more authoritative than ever.
Moreover, these 76 superstars have won a total of 158 championships, 110 MVPs, 730 All-Stars, and a total of more than 1.5 million points, even compared with the top 50 in 1996, these hard honors have grown a lot, and the NBA has shown a deeper historical background, and this list is brilliant. However, after the results were announced, there were still three major controversies mentioned at the beginning of this article. So, in the list of 75 superstars, why do those who are considered unqualified become lucky? And why did those lost pearls fail?
Big winners: 18 Celtics were selected, and the top 50 superstars got their wish
Sports big business reporter carefully studied the list of 75 superstars, combined with public opinion, believes that there are four groups in the list of winners and lucky people, from the category point of view: the most selected team, the data and honor is not dominant but not squeezed out of the ancient star, the top 50 superstars of the last century who did not make the list of the top 50 superstars but entered the 75 list, and the 21st century stars whose hard honors were questioned.
In the list of 75 superstars, 17 have played for the Lakers, 18 have played for the Celtics, and the two giants of the Lakers and Celtics have unsurprisingly become the biggest winners. It should be mentioned that in the 1996 selection of the top 50 superstars, the Celtics and Lakers were the biggest winners, and 20 of the 50 superstars had played for these two teams. Now that the list of 75 superstars is out, the Celtics and Lakers have indeed become the biggest winners again.
The 18 superstars who have played for the Celtics are: Cusi, Shaman, Sam Jones, Russell, Hafricheck, Cowens, Bird, McHale, Parrish, Archibald, "Pistol" Malavic, Wharton, Dominic Wilkins, McAdoo, Garnett, Pierce, Payton, Ray Allen. The 17 players who have played for the Lakers are: McCann, Baylor, West, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Varcy, McAdoo, O'Neal, Kobe, James, Brow, Anthony, Carl Malone, Payton, Westbrook, Nash.
Objectively speaking, it is a matter of course that the two giants, the Lakers and Celtics, become the biggest winners. After all, in the past 74 seasons of the NBA, the Lakers and Celtics have each won 17 championships, the two teams of superstars have emerged, and the NBA's greatest stars in various eras (except Jordan in the 1990s) have almost all played on both teams, and the glorious history of the Lake Kai championship is almost the main line of NBA history.
Before the launch of the 75 superstar selection, many people speculated that the method of this selection may be one or the other: either, to add the 25 superstars of the past 25 years to the top 50 superstars in 1996; or to completely shuffle the cards and directly select the 75 greatest superstars in 75 years. Many people firmly believe that the NBA will choose the latter, because the media and fans generally believe that the ability and talent of NBA players are constantly evolving, and contemporary players are far better than those of the ancient stars in terms of honor, data and talent, and there will definitely be more contemporary stars squeezing out the ancient stars to enter the 75 list.
Although the NBA officially did not disclose which method they chose, from the results, the list of 75 superstars in history not only inherited the list of 50 superstars in its entirety, but also selected Wilkins, McAdoo, Payton, Rodman, and Reggie Miller, five of whom were not selected in the top 50, into the list of 75 superstars. This means that there are only 20 seats left for the current stars, so many active players, young players and media people and commentators who are currently interviewing on the front line have expressed dissatisfaction.
Looking back at some of the NBA's 50 biggest stars from today's perspective, it is true that some of the data and honors are not very shiny. For example, "Pistol" Malavic, although gorgeous, has only won one NBA scoring champion, and does not have much hard honor, with a career total of only 15948 points, and Archibald, although he has won the league scoring king and assist king in the same season, has only 16481 points in his career.
In addition, nicknamed "Big D", Dave Debschell scored a total of 14,053 points in his career, averaging 16.1 points per game, and although he was the main player of the Knicks' championships in 1970 and 1973, he played a more defensive blue-collar role, and the Knicks' core players at that time were Willis Reed, Fraser and even another guard When he won the championship in 1973, Monroe.
If you consider it purely from the perspective of the best team of the year, personal data, etc., some of the prehistoric stars who have been selected for the NBA's top 50 superstar list are likely to be squeezed out by contemporary stars. But in the end, the NBA's list of 75 superstars completely inherited the list of 50 superstars, so prehistoric stars with relatively shabby data or honors were able to continue to be selected on the 75 list.
The NBA's list of 75 superstars not only completely inherits the list of 50 superstars selected in 1996, but also the stifling beads that were selected for the NBA's 50 superstars were compensated on the occasion of the 75th anniversary, with five of them selected for the list of 75 superstars. They are: super scorer "Human Cinema Essence" Wilkins, Bob McAdow, who was also MVP, leading scorer, block king and rebounding king in the 1974-75 season, Dennis Rodman, seven-time NBA rebounding king, two-time defensive player and five-time championship member, former NBA three-point record holder Reggie Miller, and "Glove" Gary Payton, the only point guard to be selected as the best defensive player.
When the NBA was originally selected as one of the 50 in 1996, O'Neal, who had just played four NBA seasons in 1992, was named to the Top 50 list with amazing talent, while Wilkins, a super scorer in the 1980s and early 90s, was not selected, which caused great controversy, some people thought that the top 50 were similar to the legendary lifetime achievement award, while O'Neal was still young and did not have any hard honors at the time (no MVP, no championship, no best team first team). He shouldn't be selected, but Wilkins.
In fact, even O'Neill himself was surprised by his selection. He considered himself too young, and many celebrities, such as Wilkins and Moncliffe, were more entitled to the honor than himself. He later wrote in his autobiography "Unedited Shaq": In 1996, the NBA conducted a "50 top stars in history" selection, and my name was also listed. It was a big surprise to me because my career was just starting out, but obviously it was a big award. Since I didn't go to the awards ceremony due to injury, all of a sudden, people started talking: "Why didn't Shaq go, does he think he's great?" The rhetoric didn't stop, and they didn't realize my injury at all, so they blindly concluded, "Shaq is a megalomaniac." "All this criticism leaves me at a loss. I didn't go around lobbying to get on the list, or even know who decided the outcome. I do feel that there are a few players who should be ranked above me, such as Dominic Wilkins and Sidney Moncliffe , who have made a name for themselves in the league before me. But I really don't know anything about the judging criteria.
When O'Neill was so dreadful that Wilkins should be on the Top 50, you can imagine how depressed Wilkins himself should have been. The world habitually only regards Wilkins, the "essence of human cinema", as a buckler, but in fact, his scoring ability and comprehensiveness have always been underestimated. When he retired, he ranked 8th in NBA history with 26,668 career points. In terms of team performance, Wilkins' ability to lead the team is also underestimated, and he has led the team to the playoffs several times in the 1980s and early 1990s, and in the seventh game of the 1988 Eastern Conference Semifinals, he scored 47 points against Bird, which is regarded as one of the most classic battles in history. After learning that he had lost the Top 50, Wilkins was furious and bluntly said that he had never been treated fairly by the NBA.
Wilkins' history of being "bullied" by the NBA is innumerable: In the 1988 NBA All-Star Dunk Contest Final against Jordan, Jordan scored 97 points in the first two dunks, and Wilkins scored a perfect score. Jordan scored 50 points in the third free throw line jump dunk, and Wilkins' final dunk was perfect enough to score 45 points, so he was reversed by Jordan with a 2-point advantage.
Wilkins' last dunk was bizarrely scored low as a public case. Because the dunk contest was held in Chicago, Jordan's territory, Wilkins was hit with a low score that caused a hot discussion at the time. In particular, the referees of the dunk contest include the Chicago Bears' former NFL star Gale Sayers, and the NBA star Tom Hawkins, who is a Chicagoan, who gave Wilkins a low score. The Atlanta media began to cry out for Wilkins, believing that Wilkins had encountered unspoken rules.
Of course, the most important thing for Wilkins was the failure to be selected for the Dream Team. Among the NBA small forwards at that time, Bird was deeply troubled by back injuries and was on the verge of retirement, Pippen was still in a shallow qualification, and Wilkins, who was at his peak at the time, regarded himself as the best candidate for the dream team to print small forwards, and even some people said that he was more qualified than Worthy, Bernard King and Inglish to be the best small forward outside of Bird in the mid-to-late 80s, but he was directly ignored by the dream team.
At that time, the jury of the NBA's top 50 superstars was composed of a group of respected NBA executives, legendary coaches, retired celebrities and authoritative media representatives, many of whom thought that there were too many Celtic factions and Lakers factions selected, so they helped controversial players such as O'Neill and Bill Wharton to be selected into the top 50 when voting. But then it turned out that O'Neill's selection into the Top 50 was a prescient decision. (Note: This part of the top 50 selection refers to Fu Zhenghao's early "NBA Archaeology Department: Who is Jordan's Most Wanted To Single-Handed")
After Wilkins missed the list of 50 superstars in 1996, some people also recalled the past of the 1982 NBA Draft. At that time, Wilkins, Worthy, Moncliffe were the candidates for the title, of which Wilkins had the most outstanding scoring ability and physical fitness, but the Lakers who held the title sign chose Warwicke, and Jerry West, who was later known as the "Godfather of the Lakers", did not deny that Wilkins' talent was higher than That of Warwicke, but he was worried that Wilkins would not bend to the "Magician" and Abdul-Abdul-Jabbar as a green leaf, so he chose James Worthy, who had a more team spirit. In the end, Worthy won three championships with the Lakers and was elected FMVP in 1988, while Wilkins scored many points but did not win for life. In 1996, the top 50 were selected, And Worsie was successfully selected, and Wilkins was reduced to a lost pearl, and many people lamented Wilkins' doom. Fortunately, today, Wilkins has been selected for the 75th, which can also be regarded as compensation for personal regrets.
Finally, putting aside the list of the top 50 superstars, there are only 21 stars who have really played the list of 75 superstars in the 21st century, they are Kobe, Duncan, James, Curry, Durant, Iverson, Wade, Nowitzki, Garnett, Kidd, Pierce, Nash, Anthony, Paul, Lillard, Harden, "Thick Eyebrow" Anthony Davis, "Alphabet Brother" Giannis Antetokounmpo, Leonard, Westbrook, Ray Allen. Among them, there are only 11 active players in the NBA, namely: James, Curry, Durant, Harden, Alphabet Brother, Paul, Lillard, Davis, Leonard, Westbrook and Anthony.
Among them, Lillard, "Thick Eyebrow" Anthony Davis and Ray Allen are seen as marginal people who barely squeezed into the 75 list. Lillard, despite his sharp scoring ability and super killer in key moments, has no championship and MVP, and has only been selected to the first team of the best team once. Although "Thick Eyebrows" can be called the perfect interior line of attack and defense, there is no dead end in the attack, no misplaced defense, the technology is delicate and elegant, it is regarded as a contemporary Abdul-Jabbar, and it helps the Lakers win the championship in a core capacity, but due to frequent injuries, the accumulation of career data is not outstanding, and the overall age is still young.
As for Ray Allen, although you are the NBA's historical three-point king, and have won two championships, but the first championship is the three masters, the second champion is a substitute player, throughout the overall NBA career, its ability to lead the team is obviously insufficient, the personal ability to lead the team in the early stage and other stars of the same era such as Kobe, Iverson, Maddy, Carter and other people have a significant gap, the later is more like a perfect shooter with very single functional characteristics.
Among the three, Lillard's personal ability is stronger than Ray Allen's, but the cumulative honor and data of his career are not as good as Ray Allen, and his hard honor and talent are not as good as thick eyebrows, so Lillard is considered by many people to be the least suitable for the 75 list. However, in the eyes of the sports big business, Lillard's selection may be that his refusal to hold the group has been recognized by many player judges.
Although there are 88 people voting judges, the main players are the old-school superstars of the 1980s and 90s, such as Jordan, "Magic" Johnson and others. These veteran stars are very disgusted with the star hugging group, but since the peak of the Heat's big three in 2010, the NBA has completely entered the era of hugging the group to win the championship.
In many years, the Big Three has become the standard to win the championship, which has also led to superstars like Lillard who have excellent personal ability but do not have a group, and they have no hard honors such as championships and MVP. But perhaps, Lillard's refusal to hold the group has been recognized by the celebrities, and although his selection is somewhat controversial, it is obviously recognized by the old-school celebrities. If Lillard follows suit, perhaps he may not be without a championship.
Controversy: Howard became the biggest missing pearl, and Yao Ming's failure was reasonable and unreasonable
The reason why the various lists are controversial is because the losers are indignant through comparison that some of the selectees have not achieved as much as themselves. In 1996, when the top 50 superstars were selected, Wilkins was regarded as the number one pearl, and after the list of 75 superstars was announced, the media and fans also listed what they thought was the beads, among which the recognized number one pearl was Howard (three best defensive players, five rebounding kings, two block kings, eight all-stars, one championship), his defeat was the most stifling, because the personal honor was very dazzling, Howard bluntly said that the list of 75 superstars was not "disrespectful", in addition to the Warriors' Klay Thompson also publicly complained He doesn't think some of the 75 superstars are better than himself.
Overall, the controversial recent relics of the 75 superstars' failures include Howard (three-time defensive player, five-time rebounding king, two-time block king, eight-time All-Star), Maddy (two-time NBA scoring champion, seven-time All-Star), Mutombo (four-time best defensive player, eight-time All-Star, second in the NBA's all-time overall block list), Tony Parker (four-time champion, 2007 FMVP), Rose (youngest MVP in history), Vince Carter (career total of over 25,000 points, eight All-Stars), Ben Wallace (four-time defensive player, one-time championship), Billups (2004 FMVP), Klay Thompson (three-time champion), Gasol (the second in a row with the Lakers), Bosh (the three-time winner of the Heat's two-time championship), Irving (one-time champion and one of the sharpest scorers of our time), Ginobili (the best sixth in history, four overall champions)...
In addition, there are still people who have lost the NBA's top 50 superstars, such as Hall of Famers Walter Bellamy, Bob Lanier, Joe Dumas, Grant Hill, Adrian Dantley, Alex Inglish, Bernard King, and Artis Gilmore (ABA era superstar). But since these ancient superstars did not have the 50 big, it is also normal that they did not have the 75 big.
For the Chinese people, Yao Ming's defeat also makes the Chinese people have some regrets. Some people believe that Yao Ming is not only the player with the highest comprehensive influence in Chinese basketball, but also the representative of asian basketball as a whole, and the NBA should not only consider the achievements of players on the field, but should consider the comprehensive influence. For example, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inducted Yao Ming into the Hall of Fame at the first time. The current list of NBA's 75 biggest stars covers players from three of the five continents, Australia and Asia have not been selected, and the NBA should be considered from the perspective of Asia-Pacific promotion, more humane. And the selection of Yao Ming into the list will help the NBA break the ice in China, and Yao Ming should be considered at the reasonable level.
However, there are also rational fans who say that the NBA's 75 superstar list has a higher gold content than the Hall of Fame, Yao Ming's NBA career lacks hard honors such as championships, MVP, and the best team first team, and even the semifinals have not been won, only relying on the vote of the Chinese people to be selected for the eight All-Star Games, although the loss is somewhat lost but not unexpected. From the perspective of Chinese, Yao Ming's failure to choose the list of 75 superstars is reasonable and unreasonable. However, it should be pointed out that the list of 75 superstars is difficult for the NBA to manipulate, as mentioned above, the voting results of the 88 authoritative judges are collected by the independent accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP and accurately counted, and there is no need for the Chinese people to bring the habitual official control thinking into the NBA selection.
Objectively speaking, given that Lillard, Thick Brow, and Ray Allen have all been selected as the 75 superstars, Howard, who has a higher overall honor, is undoubtedly worthy of the honor of the 75 superstars. The reason why Howard lost the election, sports big business believes, is mainly because of two reasons:
First, the NBA's list of 50 superstars is all retained, resulting in too few seats reserved for active players. In terms of data and honors, Howard is more brilliant than the hard honors of many ancient centers, but the NBA chose to completely inherit the list of 50 superstars, plus the addition of 5 top 50 pearls such as Wilkins, plus 10 contemporary retired stars such as Kobe, Duncan, and Garnett occupied 10 seats, leaving only 10 seats for active players, and finally NBA active players could only be selected 11 with the same voting score.
It should be pointed out that the NBA has chosen to fully inherit the list of top 50 superstars, which is a respect for history in the eyes of the sports big business. After all, the NBA's game style, play environment, and player physical talent in each era are not the same, and evaluating a player must be comprehensively considered in combination with his era, forcing Howard and the data of the ancient stars to be compared, seemingly objective, but in fact, it is forced to let Guan Gong fight Qin Qiong, and there is no scientific factor of positive comparison.
The NBA's contemporary blowing scale and game rhythm have changed dramatically from the past, the NBA used to promote defensive supremacy position warfare, a game down the whole team scored no more than 80 points, and today's small ball era team scores 130 points. More than one celebrity has said that in today's NBA style of play, Jordan can average 50 points per game in the contemporary era. The pace of NBA games is getting faster and faster, and the phenomenon of data "water injection" is becoming more and more obvious, so that contemporary stars can often break various historical records.
Perhaps it is based on this that the NBA retains a list of the top 50 superstars. After all, the history of the past 50 years needs to be respected. If standing at the historical node of the 75th anniversary can be arbitrarily overturned the list of the top 50 superstars, then when the 100th anniversary is over, will future generations arbitrarily overturn the current list of the 75 at will? Predecessors need respect, and history needs reverence.
Second, although there are as many as 88 voting judges, the main players are the superstars of the 80s and 90s of the last century, such as Jordan, "Magic" Johnson and others. These people are conservative old-school stars, very competitive in the player era, hard training, tenacious style, competitive spirit, can not accept defeat. Many of them have criticized Howard's happy basketball theory.
Although Howard is extremely talented, he did not train actively at the peak of his career, the game was not hard, so that the entire player's career did not practice a very stable offensive skills, the main means of scoring is the empty dunk and the second offense, his talent has not been fully realized. Howard usually advocates playing happy basketball, and his game attitude has been criticized by his hard-trained teammate Kobe Bryant, and Chinese fans jokingly call him a "happy beast". Howard's game-training attitude and lack of fully cashed in on talent are probably not pleasing to the judges.
Objectively speaking, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are votes, there is no absolute fairness and justice. NBA 75 judges in the player representatives and executives, coach representatives in the selection of the probability and the media's thinking is different, many judges have seen the game of the ancient stars, so the list of the top 50 superstars can be completely retained, and also the 50 major selection of Wilkins and other five beads added to the list of 75 superstars, but from the perspective of contemporary fans and media, the lost active stars Howard, Klay Thompson and others obviously did not get the respect of the old predecessors. Perhaps, these beads will not be compensated until the NBA's 100th anniversary, when the top 100 superstars are selected.
The names of ancient meritorious people have left a history in the youth, and the metabolism of personnel is thin in ancient and modern times. Who saw Wang Tubaye? There is only the name ling yan ge. Throughout the ages, the more interested places have become, the more they like to engage in power games such as Shu Gong Quande. Although there is a good story of Cao Liu Qingmei cooking wine on heroes, there are also black blood cases in which Qi Jinggong once killed three soldiers, and as for the founding emperor Liu Ji, he left a theory of meritorious dogs, which made many meritorious generals realize that they were just a dog in the eyes of game rule makers. In contrast, it is too rare for a high-ranking person like Feng Yi, the "Great Tree General" to be indifferent to fame and fortune. Only by seeing through the boredom behind the game of Shugong rankings, perhaps the world can laugh at all kinds of lists more calmly.
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