On February 3, the NBA officially announced the Eastern and Western starting lineups for the All-Star Game in Orlando, and the results were the same as those announced in the TNT special program yesterday.

The All-Star voting results were soon announced, with Warcraft becoming the top vote-getter with 1,600,390 votes. The top vote-getter in the Western Conference was Kobe Bryant with 1,555,479.

Xie Kai finally received 1,334,614 votes, ranking third in the Western Conference, slightly less than Kevin Durant.

If Yao Ming and Freddie were selected as All-Star starters because of the favor of Chinese fans, but they themselves were not strong enough to become the top 10 players in the league, then Xie Kai's selection was relatively less controversial.

First of all, Xie Kai was selected into the All-Star bench last season. The consensus among the public is that the All-Star starting lineup relies more on popularity, while the bench lineup relies more on strength.

The 14 players on the bench for the NBA All-Star Game are voted by the coaches of the 30 NBA teams. Each coach cannot choose the players on his own team.

In this way, the players selected by the voting coaches are relatively objective and accurate, and basically meet the definition of All-Stars. Of course, there are some disputes every year, but the scope of the dispute is limited to one or two players.

NBA coaches are naturally professional. Even the trolls and keyboard warriors on the Internet cannot pretend to understand the game and criticize these 30 NBA coaches.

The coaches still understand the game.

Therefore, Xie Kai's selection into the All-Star starting lineup is well deserved. Even if some people say that Paul is more suitable for the starting lineup than him, they are only a small group of people. Even Heizi must admit that even if he is not in the starting lineup, he will not be in the starting lineup at all.

It doesn't prevent him from entering the All-Star Game.

After all, the 29 basketball players in the NBA will definitely not let Xie Kai miss this All-Star Game.

On the evening of February 3, the Grizzlies lost to the Eastern Conference powerhouse Hawks in an away game and missed their winning streak. After the game, their record reached 11 wins and 11 losses, just over 50%. However, this result cannot be achieved in the Western Conference.

To reach the top eight. For them, entering the playoffs is the most basic task this season. If the team cannot complete such a task, this season will be a complete failure.

Xie Kai is not satisfied with the team's current results, so he will do extra training after every game. He knows the team's current difficulties, and what he can do is not to blame his teammates, nor to criticize his teammates.

Instead of forcing the management to make trades, he improves himself and becomes better, thereby helping the team overcome difficulties.

The next day, the Grizzlies played back-to-back away games against the Thunder.

The two teams are already very familiar opponents. They met in the playoffs last season. In the previous two meetings this season, the Grizzlies lost to each other.

In this game, the Grizzlies have an incomplete lineup and are playing back-to-back away games; while the Thunder have a complete lineup and are waiting to work.

In this game, Xie Kai broke out again! He played for 40 minutes and 36 seconds, scoring a game-high 44 points, plus 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, a comprehensive performance.

Xie Kai's 44 points was the second-highest score in his NBA regular season career (the highest was 45 points), and the 30 points he scored in the second half was his highest half-time score in his NBA regular season career (the previous highest was 27 points).

).

After the game, ESPN commentator Mike Breen lamented on a TV show: "Now if anyone says that Kane Shay is not worthy of being an All-Star starter, I will ask him to go to the neurology department!"

Xie Kai has scored 40+ many times this season. Although he has not yet reached 50+, there is no need to doubt his scoring ability. During the period when the Black Bears were absent, his outstanding performance also proved that he is not relying on

Only with the Black Bear's containment can he average 25+ points per game.

The Grizzlies did not play on February 5, and their next game was an away game against the Boston Celtics the next day.

And on this day, Jeremy Lin, who has the same skin color as Xie Kai, stood at the crossroads of the NBA.

Jeremy Lin's Knicks will face the Nets at home today. There is news that he will be waived by the team after this game.

Jeremy Lin's contract is not fully guaranteed. Once he is waived, his NBA career may come to an end.

Unexpectedly, during this game, the main point guard Shumpert was injured midway! With no one available for Mustache, Jeremy Lin was temporarily used.

This was incredible. Jeremy Lin made 10 of 19 shots from the field, had 25 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 steals, leading the team to defeat the Nets!

Jeremy Lin has completed his redemption!

Not only everyone in the Knicks team was shocked, but even Xie Kai, who was sitting in the hotel watching the live broadcast, was also shocked...

This kind of extreme operation is really not something ordinary people can do. Jeremy Lin finally seized what may be his last chance and completed his self-rescue.

After watching this game, Xie Kai felt very deeply. In the NBA, there is too much discrimination and too much suppression. For yellow people, if they want to make contributions here, the conditions are very harsh. As for myself,

The only one you can rely on is yourself.

After the game, Xie Kai dialed Jeremy Lin's personal phone number (the two had exchanged phone numbers before). But the phone was busy. It was obvious that many people had contacted him after the game.

Xie Kai thought it was normal, so he took a shower and then took the shot.

Finally, when Xie Kai made the 11th call, he finally got through!

Before Xie Kai could speak, Jeremy Lin on the other end of the phone shouted excitedly: "Kane, I finally got a chance today!"

Although two hours have passed since the end of the game, Jeremy Lin's tone still sounded very excited. It's hard to imagine what he endured while searching for opportunities before.

"Congratulations, Shuhao, you played so well today!" Xie Kai didn't call him "Jeremy", but "Jeremy" because it seemed closer, and he didn't like to call him "Jeremy".

The English name of a person of the same race as myself seems very strange.

"Xie Kai, are you watching the game too?" Jeremy Lin also called Xie Kai by his Chinese name, and he said this in broken Mandarin.

"Yes, I watched the whole process, Shuhao, you did a great job, it was perfect, you didn't give up, you kept persisting in your dream, I was really touched. Also, just now you cut under the basket

That 2+1 against Deron was so tough!" Xie Kai said excitedly.

"I know if I don't go all out, this may be my last NBA game! Thank you, I want to stay in the NBA!" Jeremy Lin said seriously.

"If you do it, you will definitely be able to stay in the NBA, I firmly believe it!"
Chapter completed!