Chapter 770 Tang Tian breaks the record of the All-Star vote king
The Pelicans won 11 consecutive victories, and their record has reached a terrifying 36 wins and 1 loss!
As time entered mid-January, people discovered for the first time that the Pelicans' momentum had the hope of reaching the best record in the regular season history!
The best regular season record in NBA history is 72 wins and 10 losses, which was set by the Bulls in the 1995-1996 season.
At that time, Jordan was still in a hot state after retiring two years ago, and Pippen also grew into a superstar. In addition, Rodman, the Bulls were almost invincible at the time.
The Bulls knew they were very strong without playing football fans.
But the Pelicans' current performance, just like the prediction of ESPN ranked first, was criticized by fans, which was definitely unexpected, and no one could even imagine.
Last year, Cole's 67 wins as a coach were amazing enough, but Stevens' first season of his Pelicans' career was shocking enough!
The Pelicans continue to thrive.
On January 17, the Jazz played tenaciously and stood stalemate with the Pelicans until the fourth quarter. Tang Tian and Davis joined hands to end the game with a wave of streams.
Tang Tian scored 27 points, 5 rebounds and 9 assists, and Davis scored 24 points, 12 rebounds and 3 blocks.
On January 20, the Clippers were in a hot state and played with the Pelicans until the last moment.
Louis Williams scored 30 points in the game, including a three-pointer who dragged the game into overtime at the last minute.
But in overtime, Tang Tiandu scored 10 points to dominate the game, and the Pelicans finally won.
Tang Tian scored his first 30+ after his comeback, with 35 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, and Boyang scored 5 three-pointers and scored 20 points.
While the Pelicans won 13 consecutive victories, their record further expanded to 38 wins and 1 loss!
With this outstanding performance, the Pelicans beat the Warriors with 34 wins and 5 losses and continued to top the league.
Tang Tian also continued to suppress Curry at the top of the MVP list.
And on this day, the league announced the voting results for the 2016 Toronto All-Star Game.
Tang Tian got 3.22 million votes, not only completing the three consecutive banks of the All-Star vote king, but his votes also broke the 3.15 million record set by Howard in 2009, becoming the owner of the new record of the NBA vote king!
The Pelicans performed incredible performance, and Tang Tian’s popularity in the United States and in China reached a peak, and it was expected that such votes would be obtained.
Kobe ranked second in the number of votes, and he received 2 million votes in the final season of his career.
Curry ranked third with 1.9 million votes.
The three became the backcourt and small forwards of the West.
The remaining two positions in the West are Leonard (800,000) and Durant (1 million).
In the east, James got 1.2 million votes to become the top vote in the east.
The remaining four are Lowry (650,000), Wade (950,000), Anthony (850,000) and George (700,000).
Tang Tian broke the All-Star voting record, which was a huge encouragement to the Pelicans' morale.
Especially, they are about to usher in their second season with the Warriors.
The game started at the Oracle Arena, and the Pelicans went to Oakland one day in advance and conducted public training the next morning.
The morale of the team members was high, and the atmosphere was high in training and locker rooms.
Tang Tian had just finished an interview with a sideline reporter. When he returned to the locker room from the training ground, he found that Stevens and Williams were communicating.
Williams' expression looked anxious.
When he walked over, the communication between the two had ended. Williams saw Tang Tian, said hello and left in a hurry.
Tang Tian was very confused. The game started at night and Williams left the stadium in such a hurry.
"Monty's wife was in a car accident and the situation was critical. He needs to rush back to New Orleans."
Stevens sighed.
When Tang Tian heard this, he was stunned and remembered something.
In his previous life, Williams's wife also died in a car accident this year.
Because of this, the NBA League also awarded Williams a Seg Strong Award in 2018 to commend Williams the story of his persistence in working and raising four children after suffering misfortune.
Unexpectedly, history will repeat itself, just like Holiday’s wife’s brain cancer.
But this is also reasonable. Tang Tian’s time travel affects the parts related to him, and it will naturally happen if he has nothing to do with him.
Moreover, this is different from Holiday’s wife. You can warn of diseases, but accidents are inevitable.
Just like the series of movies, accidents that are avoided will always continue to happen in other ways.
What Tang Tian can do now is praying like Stevens for Williams's wife to be fine.
After communicating with Tang Tian, Stevens also went to the locker room to announce the matter.
Although doing so will worry players, it is even more unreasonable that Williams missed the game for no reason as the first assistant coach.
Williams coached the Pelicans for three seasons, and core players like Davis, Holiday, and Tang Tian have played for two seasons under his coaching.
Moreover, Williams is good at interpersonal communication, and even newcomers like Boyan and Harris have a good relationship with him.
It can be said that the entire team was very worried and worried after hearing this news.
"We need to win the game, guys, that's the only thing we can do."
Stevens felt the mentality of the players and spoke up to encourage morale.
The team members nodded one after another, but judging from the response, they were still worried.
This worry is ultimately reflected in the field, and the Pelicans' overall performance tonight is not in shape.
Even Tang Tian and Davis have fluctuated due to their emotional impact.
In the end, the Pelicans lost the game 106-116, swallowing the second loss of the season.
However, winning or losing the game is no longer the focus of the Pelicans, and they did not hold a press conference after the game.
They flew back to New Orleans overnight and visited Williams's wife together at the hospital.
Williams was sitting outside the operating room with four children sitting next to him, with some injuries on his body.
It was more than three hours since the car accident passed, but the red light in the operating room was still on.
Stevens went over and patted him on the shoulder, and Tang Tian and his teammates also came to him to comfort him one after another.
But Williams looked at the operating room in a daze, and he was always worried about his wife.
From the communication, I learned that Williams's wife was hit by a vehicle in the opposite direction.
A large amount of methamphetamine was detected in the other party's body, suspected of drug driving.
Moreover, when overtaking in the opposite direction, the other party was comforting the puppy on his leg, which eventually led to a car accident.
However, it is useless to blame this time, because the driver and puppy who were going against the flow have died on the spot.
Williams' four children were all in the car at that time, but fortunately, his wife was seriously injured.
Chapter completed!