896: swiping from morning till night
In 2015, as soon as the New Year began, Link played two big moves for the league in a row.
On the morning of January 2, NBA officially announced the results of the second round of All-Star voting.
This time, the gap between Link and the others was further widened.
Both James and Curry won 770,000 votes, ranking second and third. There is still one with 700,000 votes left, Cameron Anthony.
Except for these three, the other players who ran for the election did not even reach 700,000 votes.
Just as everyone was still worried about breaking through one million votes, Link's votes had soared to 2.1 million votes!
His second round of votes is already more than the total number of votes in the three rounds of the All-Stars voting in the previous All-Stars first round, and there are still a lot more!
Compared with Yao Ming's record 2.51 million votes that year, it is only 400,000 votes.
But Link is only the second round of votes. After the third round, it should not be a problem for his votes to surpass Yao Ming.
Not only surpassing Yao Ming, but it seems that Link is expected to become the second player in NBA history to have a All-Star vote of more than 3 million, besides Howard.
The votes exceeded 3 million, which is almost impossible to be copied.
After all, in addition to being extremely popular, Howard had won so many tickets back then, there were also rules and bonuses.
In 2009, the voting was still divided into five positions.
So in the East, there was no other option in the center position except Howard!
At that time in the west, Yao Ming and O'Neal could still score votes.
But in the East, no center except Howard is qualified to be selected for the All-Star lineup.
In the 2009 Eastern Conference All-Star lineup, there was only Howard, the pure center, which is very telling.
Without competitors, everyone naturally voted for Howard. In addition, Howard himself was very popular, so he broke the record of 3 million votes.
But now, the voting rules are very different from before. Now, the All-Star voting is not divided into five positions, but only the front court and back court. The center players are also counted in the front court.
In this way, there will be no competitors.
So although the Internet is more developed now than in 2009, no player can get close to 3 million votes.
On the frontcourt, there are Durant, Griffin, Duncan, Kat, Link's teammate Gasol and other powerful players competing for votes with Link.
In this case, if Link can exceed 3 million votes, it will be several times more difficult than Howard!
There is no doubt that under the current voting rules, Link's votes are unmatched.
No wonder the joke is about changing the All-Star voting rules. Link's vote count can be said to be quite perverted.
So far this year, two of the All-Star votes have exceeded 700,000, except Link, who are Eastern players, while Curry is the backcourt player in the Western Conference.
And the frontcourt players in the Western Conference, including Durant, were all wiped out!
All their votes were snatched away by Link.
This extremely unbalanced voting result is very different from what the league wants.
Although the proposal for the All-Star voting reform has been passed, at least this year, the joke still has to endure Link's destruction of the league.
The popularity of Link's votes exceeding 2 million has not yet dissipated. In the afternoon, before the game between the Grizzlies and the Lakers began, Link learned that he beat James Harden and won the honor of the NBA Western Conference Player of the Month in December with close to the average triple-double.
Curry and Harden both lost a lot because their data are already very luxurious.
In the past, no matter what month, they have the qualifications to be the best month.
Just the terrifying Link, he can be more luxurious than their luxurious data every time.
Houstonians are quite looking forward to the best of the month. If Harden wins the best of the month, then this will be the first Rockets player to win the best of the month since Yao Ming in 2008.
If Harden wins the best of the month, this will also be his first time in his career to win the best of the month.
Unfortunately, these beautiful fantasies were broken by Link.
He averaged 30 points, 10 rebounds and 9.7 assists per game, and won all 12 games in his 12 games. The entire December 12 wins and 2 losses, far surpassing Harden's 9 wins and 5 losses.
Link’s data is indistinguishable from the problem. This award is just not something you want to give to Link, but you have to give it.
Stephen Curry missed the Best of the Month last month, and he was not willing to give up.
But after Link's data this month came out, Curry also said he was convinced.
There is no way, I can't compare to this aspect!
In the morning, the All-Star voting results shocked everyone.
In the afternoon, I got the best of the month for two consecutive months without any dispute.
Just as 2015 began, the entire basketball circle was flooded with Link.
Do you think this will end? No, this is just beginning.
At night, in Los Angeles, in Staples Center.
The Grizzlies were still 3 points behind at the end of the third quarter, and the Jedi counterattacked and finally defeated the hot Los Angeles Lakers 110-106.
The Lakers have completely failed this season, with a record of 10 wins and 22 losses very shabby.
But today, the Lakers did perform at an extremely high level.
Ed Davis ran all over the game and inexplicably scored 20 points.
Kobe curbed his shots, and scored only 15 points in the game, but sent 9 rebounds and 8 assists, making the Lakers' offense reasonable.
Jeremy Lin, who had been silent for a long time, also efficiently scored 20 points today, which is his second highest score this season.
In addition, Grizzlies' former players Nick Young and Boozer also scored 14 points respectively.
The Lakers' performance today is excellent.
All Los Angeles fans are hoping that this team will win a hard-won victory.
But in the end, the Grizzlies cruelly stifled the fantasies of Los Angeles fans, just as Link cruelly stifled Harden's first-month best in his career, cruelly stifled the votes of other Western Conference frontcourt players.
The Lakers have faced the Grizzlies in the past 11 times and lost 11 games... It's quite heartbreaking.
After the game, Kobe used all the praises when facing Link.
"He played great, he shot well. But he had to relax, or the others who participated in the voting wouldn't have a chance at all."
In just one day, Link let everyone revolve around him.
The morning vote, the afternoon best month plus the evening game victory. NBA history has no player that can keep the reporter's cameras and fans' discussions focused on themselves from morning to night.
Now you just need to enter the three letters "nba" on the search engine, and the first ones pop up are a bunch of Link-related messages.
There is no doubt that Link is the well-deserved and unshakable appearance of NBA now!
Link is now like Chamberlain and Russell in the 1960s, Jabbar in the 1970s, Bird in the 1980s, and Magician.
And, Michael Jordan of the 90s!
He is already a part of the NBA, and even a reason for many fans to watch NBA.
Chapter completed!