"I have two goals for the new season. The first goal is to defend the championship with the team! The second goal is to be selected as an All-Star or the best team of the season."
When Wang Feng stated his goal, he could clearly see that the reporter interviewing him was stunned for a moment.
Wang Feng's first goal was without any surprises.
The Warriors successfully won the championship last season. While the team maintains the championship lineup in the new season, the strength of the young players will also be further improved. In this case, their goal is to continue to defend the championship.
But Wang Feng's second goal is really too big.
Selected to the All-Star or All-Season Team!
Even if Wang Feng is very outstanding, the interviewer still feels that this goal is very difficult for Wang Feng currently.
There are more than 300 players in the NBA, but only a dozen or so can be selected to the All-Star or All-season teams each season! These dozen players are all at the top of the league without exception.
They have strong personal strength, excellent statistics and a large fan base.
Wang Feng has many fans in China, but whether it is All-Star voting or the best team of the season selected by the media, the huge Chinese fan base cannot be of much help.
Times have changed. This is no longer the era more than ten years ago when the vast majority of Chinese fans voted for Dayao, and even pushed O'Neal out of the starting position!
Based on the huge number of Chinese fans, the All-Star voting mechanism has basically reduced the percentage of votes from China long ago to the point where it cannot affect the direction of the vote.
This is also the reason why the United Arab Emirates has never participated in the All-Star Game in the league for several years, and why Jeremy Lin was not selected for the All-Star Game after Jeremy Lin's short-lived crazy performance in 2012.
Compared with the vast domestic fan base, Wang Feng has much fewer fans in the United States. He is a 3D role player. Coupled with his identity as a Chinese, the fans who like him are mainly Chinese Americans, and the number is not high.
That's too much.
Therefore, the reporter who interviewed did not think that Wang Feng had a chance to be selected as an All-Star.
As for the best lineup...
All-stars can also be selected accidentally based on various factors such as popularity, but that is not possible for the best lineup!
As one of the league's season awards, the first, second, and third best teams are voted by sports reporters and television commentators in the United States and Canada based on the players' performance in a season.
The players who can be selected into these fifteen quotas are all the core players of the team!
Take last season as an example. Among the fifteen players selected for the All-NBA Team, in addition to the inside players who averaged a double-double per game, the outside players basically all scored 20+ points!
Isn’t it bad to say this...?
A trace of worry flashed through the reporter's mind, but it was quickly overshadowed by excitement.
He is a reporter, and it is his duty to dig out breaking news.
Wang Feng's previous performance in the interview was flawless, and the interview was conducted smoothly without any breaking points. With Wang Feng's declaration, the quality of the interview immediately changed.
He was right.
When the interview video materials were edited and published on the website, Wang Feng's two goals, or to be precise, the second personal goal immediately aroused heated discussion!
Wang Feng wants to be selected as an All-Star in the new season? Compete for the best team?
"Haha! It seems that winning the Asian Championship made Wang Feng completely overwhelmed. He doesn't even know how much he weighs! You can dominate in Asia, but in the NBA, you are just an insignificant role player."
"No way? No way? Wang Feng doesn't think that the Warriors won the championship last season because of him, right? The Warriors have a great lineup. They won the championship with you and without you. Don't think that you are really good after winning the championship with your thighs.
That’s ok.”
"The higher the praise, the harder the fall. I'm already looking forward to Wang Feng's expression at the end of the regular season."
Wang Feng and other black people were all excited and kept posting taunts on major sports websites such as Moupu.
Faced with this situation, Wang Feng's fans were quite powerless in fighting back.
There is no way, even Wang Feng's fans feel that Wang Feng's words are a bit exaggerated. Even they can't figure out how Wang Feng can compete for the All-Star and Best Team.
In China, Wang Feng's remarks caused various heated discussions, but Wang Feng, the person involved, paid no attention to this matter at all.
He hesitated whether to say this at the time, but he said it after hesitation.
This is certainly not a hot-headed rant.
This season, Wang Feng is pursuing these goals on the court.
He is preparing to fight for a big contract next summer!
Being selected into the All-Star or All-NBA Team will help increase Wang Feng's worth, and the system's season evaluation will also benefit.
More importantly, Wang Feng has also considered the construction of his own personality.
In the future information age, traffic is king. Just like in the film and television industry, many young talents without acting skills can get a salary that many veteran actors will never get in their lifetime by relying on traffic.
Perhaps now, in the eyes of many people, Wang Feng has been labeled as arrogant and ignorant.
But once Wang Feng really does it, the situation will be reversed instantly!
Arrogance will turn into honesty, and arrogance will turn into confidence.
Many fans will even regard this incident as an allusion to further expand and increase Wang Feng's traffic and influence!
Of course, all of this must be based on the premise that Wang Feng can fulfill his promise!
In other words, no matter what, he must be selected for the All-Star or the best team this season.
Otherwise, as those black men said, the higher you hold him up now, the harder Wang Feng will fall when he falls from the sky!
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In China, Wang Feng's interview was a hot topic, but in the United States, few people knew about it.
After the opening of the regular season, the games began to get underway in full swing.
On October 30, the Warriors challenged the Houston Rockets away from home and easily won 112:92.
Wang Feng scored 18 points on 6 of 11 shots, once again scoring the second-highest score on the team, second only to Curry who scored 25 points on 9 of 15 shots.
Facing Harden in this game, Wang Feng's strong defense reappeared!
Under Wang Feng's full coverage, Harden made 4 of 18 shots from the field and could only score 16 points by relying on traditional free throws.
On October 31, the Warriors played the Pelicans again in an away game, winning 134:120, two wins over the Pelicans.
Curry, who scored 40 points against the Pelicans four days ago, broke out again in this game, scoring 53 points on 17 of 27 shots!
Wang Feng, on the other hand, quietly hid under Curry's light, making 7 of 12 shots and 4 of 5 three-pointers, scoring 21 points.
The Warriors won three consecutive games to start the season. The fans were overjoyed but also shocked to find that after three games, Wang Feng averaged 20 points per game and inexplicably became the team's second leading scorer!
What's going on? Something's wrong! Why did Wang Feng score higher than Thompson?