Chapter 1666: Deal with the top four superstars in the league one by one
In order to attract people's attention, Nabeles made a special TV show.
In the TV program, he compared the personal data, team data and high-level data of several NBA superstars in detail.
Finally, he came to the conclusion: "The current number one brother in the alliance is still King Arthur."
Finally, he emphasized again: "Among these five stars, Wang Yi ranks last in terms of team record and personal data. So now he has not returned to his peak level. It is a bit reluctant to enter the top five.
Not to mention the number one brother in the alliance."
When the news reached Wang Yi, Wang Yi was studying the Kings' next schedule with his coach.
The next teams the Kings will play are the Rockets, Hornets, Grizzlies and Lakers.
That is the team of Jaylen Green, Wenban Yama, Morant and Arthur Wang.
Wang Yi smiled slightly: "Then we will deal with them one by one."
At this time, there are exactly 4 games left before the All-Star Game.
In the All-Star voting for Wang Yi, his votes were still behind Arthur Wang and Wen Benyama, and only tied with Morant.
Wang Yi looked at the schedule and the All-Star votes.
It seems necessary to teach these All-Stars and these fans a lesson.
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There are 10 days until the All-Star Game on February 19th.
All-Star voting is drawing to a close.
Among all players, Arthur Wang ranked first in the All-Stars with 2.33 million votes.
He is basically determined to be this year's All-Star vote-winner.
As for Wang Yi, he is ranked 5th.
Some people even think that Wang Yi has fallen out of the ranks of the top five superstars.
They believe that Wang Yi's position should be replaced by Karl.
So far, although Karl's personal data is slightly worse than Wang Yi's, it is not far behind by many minutes, scoring 28.8 points.
The Spurs he led ranked first in the league.
Therefore, it seems logical to replace Wang Yi with Karl in the league's top five.
Against this background, on February 9th, the game between the Kings and Rockets started.
The Rockets currently form a rare Big Three in the league.
Jaylen Green, Kevin Jr. and Shen Jing.
Jaylen Green and Shen Jing were both trained by the Rockets.
Last season, the Rockets' backcourt combination broke up due to poor performance, so this season the Rockets are reorganized.
Traded away everyone except these two, and signed Kevin Jr.
After the reorganization, the effect was surprisingly good.
Now Jaylen Green is averaging close to 30 points per game, Kevin is averaging 20 points per game, and Shen Jing is averaging 18 points per game.
It stands to reason that these three people are not cheap. The salary of two people can account for almost 75 million.
The combined salary of the three people is 100 million, which is already 10 million more than the salary cap.
What's more, there are other players, so the total salary of the Rockets this year has exceeded 120 million.
Under the current salary cap and luxury tax system, a luxury tax of $2 is required for every dollar exceeded.
Therefore, the Kings paid a total of $40 million in luxury tax this year.
With today's tight salary cap, most teams will almost never reach the luxury tax trigger line.
Even if it is reached, at most 10 million and 20 million US dollars in luxury tax are already a lot, but the Rockets have paid 40 million US dollars in luxury tax. It seems that the Rockets owner is working hard for the championship.
The game between the two sides was held at Toyota Center.
This is also the place where Yao Ming once fought.
It is also the place where countless Chinese fans learned about basketball.
Their basketball enlightenment started by watching Rockets games.
Later, after Yao Ming retired, he would often come back here to visit and watch games.
However, after the Mo Gou incident occurred, Yao Ming never came here to watch a game again.
But today Yao Ming is here.
First, the alliance has apologized, and Mogou has apologized.
Secondly, in fact, he did not come here to watch the Rockets game today, but mainly to watch Wang Yi's performance.
Before the game, when the Kings were still in the visiting team's locker room, Yao Ming had already arrived in the locker room.
At that time, the Kings players were preparing for the game and the door to the locker room opened.
Then a tall figure appeared at the door of the locker room, his figure almost completely blocking the door.
Even though the door to the locker room was reserved for the players and was originally higher than ordinary doors, when he appeared at the door, the upper half of his face was still blocked.
Then Yao Ming bent down, lowered his head and got in through the door.
Only then did everyone realize that this person was Yao Ming.
Because of Wang Yi's influence, many Kings players still respect Yao Ming.
They greeted Yao Ming one after another.
"Hey, Yao."
"Oh, big man from the East, it's my honor to meet you."
After Yao Ming greeted everyone, he came to Wang Yi at the back.
Wang Yi stood up at this time.
High-fived Yao Ming: "Brother Yao, you're here!"
Wang Yi also respects Yao Ming very much, not only because he is a senior, but also because Yao Ming took care of him many times when he was in China.
During his darkest days in the NBA, Yao Ming also took care of him many times.
Yao Ming looked Wang Yi up and down and nodded: "Yes, it took half a year for your body to recover to its current state. It seems that you have put in a lot of hard work."
Wang Yi nodded: "Of course, in order to break a few taels of silver, of course you have to shed your blood."
"How many taels of broken silver is that? Your vineyard is bigger than mine, and the employees of my vineyard always say that the employees of your estate bully people."
After saying that, the two laughed loudly.
Then Yao Ming said to Wang Yi: "I have a bad feeling that you are going to cause trouble tonight."
"Brother Yao, how do you know?"
Yao Ming smiled and said: "I don't understand you yet. If you look at the comments from fans and media, and look at the Kings' upcoming schedule, you will understand. You are going to slap these four people in the face."
Once again.”
Wang Yi chuckled, shook his head and said, "Brother Yao, you're wrong, it's not four people, it's all the black men."
Yao Ming slapped himself on the forehead: "It seems that my situation is not big enough."
Then the two talked for a few more words.
Before leaving, Yao Ming said to Wang Yi: "Play well and tell me if you have any difficulties."
Wang Yi nodded: "Of course, I always look for organizations when I have difficulties. If there are no difficulties, I will look for organizations when I create difficulties."
Yao Ming laughed, then turned around and walked out of the locker room door.
Before leaving, he thought of something again. He suddenly lowered his head and poked his head in from the door, asking Wang Yi: "By the way, did you pay attention to last year's U16 Asian Youth Championship?"
Wang Yi thought for a while and replied: "Just looking at the reports, it seems that we only got 4th place, which is not an ideal result in Asia."
Yao Ming smiled and nodded:
"Although we only got 4th place, we have several good talents emerging in this Asian Youth Championship. Especially a fat guy named Pang Bo. You should remember that I filmed a variety show with you."
Wang Yi nodded.
Yao Ming continued: "In those games of the Asian Youth Championship, he averaged 27 points, 13 rebounds and 5 blocks per game."
When Yao Ming said this, his face blossomed with joy, and his smile turned into his iconic emoticon.
Wang Yi was also quite surprised.
His eyes widened a bit: "Isn't this data too exaggerated?"
He had known for a long time that the fat boy was very talented.
But if you can score 27+13+5 in the Asian Youth Championship, you are already at the level of dominance.
Yao Ming said: "With such a good prospect, in a few years, we will be able to compete with the United States in the World Cup or the Olympics, instead of just relying on you to shoulder the American team."
Wang Yi nodded: "He should be 17 years old now. In three or four years, he should come to the NBA."
Chapter completed!