Don't talk trash to him.

Chapter 69 Controversy
With the departure of McGrady, the competition in the Eastern Conference backcourt is no longer as fierce.

Only Allen Iverson can be considered a "superstar" in this position. The popularity of others, even Jason Kidd, is far behind Allen Iverson.

It’s just that the Philadelphia 76ers have a poor record this year and are currently ranked 7th in the Eastern Conference.

Allen Iverson led his team to the finals, but he is no longer a "rising star". People have higher expectations for the regular season MVP. This is also what the fans in Philadelphia think.

If Su Wan remembers correctly, the original number of votes this year was that although Allen Iverson was still the starting player in the Eastern Conference, he received 10 votes less than LeBron.

But now, after the first round of results came out, he found that Allen Iverson, who was ranked second, had 3 more votes than LeBron, who was ranked third.

This is a good start, but not the end.

Three more rounds of voting are needed to determine the result.

If LeBron James' team makes a late push, this number of votes is not safe. - Su Wan is not sure whether the original LeBron team made a late push and successfully surpassed Allen Iverson.

However, Su Wan had already thought of a countermeasure.

After the news came out, he registered a Baidu Tieba account for himself, and dropped into the "Su Wan Bar" and "LeBron Bar". Seeing the featured posts there were canvassing for votes for him and Yao Ming, he opened a new post, stating that Allen Iverson was his idol and that he hoped to become the starting backcourt partner with Allen Iverson in this year's All-Star Game.

The post went viral soon after it was published. Countless domestic fans heard the news and came to leave messages to interact with Su Wan.

Su Wan replied to about a hundred floors, making sure that the number of floors covered was over a thousand and the number of replies exceeded ten thousand. After causing enough heat, he left without taking a single cloud with him.

The Pacers have no game today. To be precise, the Pacers have not had any game for five consecutive days since the game against the Nets on the 30th.

But there is nothing to be happy about, as it means the upcoming schedule will be even more difficult.

Su Wan didn't like this schedule of Cao Dan, and he was sure that this was definitely a sacrifice for the Pacers in order to coordinate the schedules of other high-profile teams. And he hated this kind of sacrifice.

We'll see. Once Indiana becomes the focus of the media, the league won't dare to bully them like this anymore.

The first thing to do is get this team an All-Star starter.

Do not……

The goal of becoming an All-Star starter now seems to be a foregone conclusion. He wants to become the All-Star MVP, the "Star among Stars."

This is his goal.

However, for Indiana, even if they only saw him ranked first among Eastern Conference guards in the first round of voting, they were already crazy.

Suwan drove to the arena, and the Indiana radio station was excitedly promoting this matter on the radio, and the anchor called on Pacers fans to vote for him. This reminded Suwan of Produce 101.

In fact, the current atmosphere is no different from forming a girl group.

The person who invented the voting to select the "All-Star Starter" must have been in the idol circle.

Sometimes, there is really no difference between football fans and following fans.

When Su Wan arrived at the stadium, the PR department was waiting for him in the locker room, followed by several security guards. He thought that his underwear in the locker room was lost. Apart from that, he couldn't think of what the security guards wanted to see him about. Until he looked down and saw several large boxes under the feet of these security guards.

"These are gifts from the fans!" The PR person told him that he had never seen Indiana fans so enthusiastic. If Su Wan remembered correctly, this PR person had only been here for three years, so it was normal that he had not seen similar enthusiasm in the past three years.

Su Wan was not interested: "You can divide it among yourselves!" Before the security guards could show their excited smiles, the PR department told him: "There are some things in there that only you can see."

Soon Su Wan knew what those things were:

Large-scale photos of various women.

Huh~
I, Su Wan, a man of 8 feet and a half, can be...

Forget it, just put it away first.

Reggie Miller entered the locker room, congratulated Suwan, and said, "Indiana hasn't been this lively in a long time!"

The last Pacers player to be selected as a starter for the All-Star Weekend was none other than him, but that was in 95, exactly 10 years ago.

During these 10 years, the Pacers produced another All-Star player, Jermaine O'Neal, but never a second All-Star starter.

Suwan is breaking this embarrassing record, which is why Pacers fans are so excited.

O'Neal was also envious. Being an All-Star substitute and an All-Star starter are two completely different things. The substitutes are selected by the head coach, while the starters are selected by the fans. This is not only a proof of status, but also a proof of a commercial contract.

It is not easy to become an All-Star starter in Indiana. At this moment, O'Neal Jr. wants to become a Chinese.

But soon, he no longer thought so.

because……

On January 1, the day after the voting results came out, ESPN senior columnist Bill Simmons wrote: "Chinese players are making All-Star voting a joke. Chinese player Yao Ming proved this before, and now Su Wan has proved it as well."

"Before them, being selected as an All-Star starter as a rookie was an incredible thing. It was an honor. Those who did this were comparable to Michael Jordan and Shaq O'Neal. Everyone should know what kind of performance Michael and Shaq had in their first year in the league to get this honor. Su Wan and Yao Ming did these things easily with the help of the Chinese market behind them, but their performance at the time was completely incomparable to Michael and Shaq..."

"In my opinion, in this year's Eastern Conference, Michael Redd, Baron Davis and Dwyane Wade are more qualified than Suwan to be the Eastern Conference All-Star starters!"

When the Indiana media saw that the Pacers were finally about to break the embarrassing record of 10 years, and Bill Simmons, this bastard, suddenly jumped out and bit people, they got anxious and posted various articles to denounce Bill Simmons.

The Pacers team all supported Suwan to become the starter.

Ron Artest: "Bill Simmons is a lunatic and doesn't watch the game. If he watched the game, he wouldn't say such things."

Reggie Miller said: "I understand Bill has to say some things to make money, but some words are too much and make him look like a clown."

Jermaine O'Neal: "Chinese fans are also fans. If you perform well, they will vote for you. Everyone should know this."

A "big melee" pushed Su Wan to the forefront.

Coincidentally, on January 1, the Pacers, who had rested for 4 days, faced Milwaukee at home.

Suwan will face off against Michael Redd, who Bill Simmons said is qualified to replace him as one of the three All-Star starting players.

This is also the gimmick of this game.

Michael Redd was asked about this before the game and said helplessly: "How the fans vote is their business. The fact that Uncle got so many votes shows that he is more popular than me. Bill Simmons just wants to attract everyone's attention so that he can get a pay raise."

(End of this chapter)