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Chapter 359 Culture
On the streets of Auckland, there were suddenly more fans from all over the world.

As the NBA All-Star Weekend approached, this place suddenly became a place where many eyes gathered.

This season, the NBA's ratings have picked up.

After a series of restructurings, the scoring data of the team and players have increased significantly, especially the scoring ability of Qin Fei, Iverson and other outside players is still growing, with the help of the system, it is even more powerful.

The offense looks good, and the ratings have improved accordingly.

This is definitely not a normal phenomenon, and it even makes some executives mistakenly think that as long as there is an offense, the ratings will definitely increase.

actually not.

Viewership ratings are still related to many factors. Sometimes, a low score does not necessarily mean that the game must be ugly.

Anxiety at the critical moment, suspense of winning or losing until the last moment
The gathering of various factors may be the reason for the soaring ratings.

The ratings have increased, and attention has also increased, and the All-Star Weekend two years later will be particularly anticipated.

Of course, the most people on the streets are the fans of local teams.

That is, Golden State Warriors fans.

The Warriors' classic color is black jerseys, and the lightning-like flames on the edge show the coolness far ahead of the times.

At the same time, at the annual San Francisco Spring Festival Flower Market, citizens can not only buy various festive items, but also enjoy Chinese folk performances such as lion dance and stilt walking.

The Chinese New Year, and the place where the favorite stars of the Chinese fans held the All-Star.

So when the Spring Festival meets the All-Stars, it also creates a more unique atmosphere for the All-Stars this time.

Before the start of the All-Star Weekend, all the All-Star rosters of the East and West that have received more attention have been released.

Prior to this, the starting lists of the East and West have been released, and there are still 14 positions left in the East and West.

In the end, Ray Allen, Alan Houston, Glenn Robinson, Stackhouse, Miller, Dale Davis and Mutombo formed the All-Star bench in the East.

The All-Star bench lineup in the West is Kobe, Finley, Rasheed Wallace, Payton, Webber, David Robinson and Karl Malone.

This season, the Supersonics' record is not good, and only one Supersonic Gemini was selected in the end.

The Jazz's record is average, and Stockton's average of 12+8 per game is not very convincing, and he was not selected as an All-Star.

The Trail Blazers have an excellent record, but the statistics of the players in the team are very average, and there are no outstanding players. In the end, Rasheed Wallace stood out and was selected to the All-Star bench with 16+8 data.

As soon as the list came out, there was naturally another controversy.

And new faces are always easy to make a review from start to finish.

The topic is naturally inseparable from "whether he should be selected for this All-Star" or "in what ways is he better than players who have not been selected for the All-Star".

The four major shooting guards of the 96th class.

Qin Fei, Iverson, Ray Allen and Kobe were all selected as All-Stars.

After Jordan retired, the league changed frequently. In 99, because of the lockout, the All-Star Weekend was canceled. Until this year, so many new stars began to appear on the stage of history.

The aftermath of Qin Fei scoring 55 points has not yet passed. On February 2, someone suddenly scored 6 points again.

On the same day, the Warriors also had a game and flew to New Jersey to play against the Nets.

The Nets' record is average, only 17 wins and 29 losses, so Marbury eventually became the legacy of the Eastern Conference that failed to be selected as an All-Star.

Marbury must be very unhappy, and even the fans of the Nets shouted "We are ignored!"

This is Marbury's true solo full season.

But in the first two seasons, they were able to barely break into the top eight. The Nets, which seemed to have a good momentum, lost their way to win after Marbury arrived.

The retirement of Jason Williams due to injury is a big blow to the team.

As mentioned before, this talented center in his peak period had a very fierce upward momentum. In the 97-98 season, he averaged 12.6 points and 13.6 rebounds per game and was the defender of the Nets' penalty area.

The inside partner composed of Jason Williams and Keith Van Horn has become the key to the rise of the Nets.

Until the middle of last season, Jason suffered a very serious knee injury.

Not long after Marbury went to the Nets, the prepared "Big Three" combination suddenly broke its wings.

What's even more embarrassing is that in the summer of 98, when Williams played such super data as "Mutombo", the Nets couldn't wait to send a four-year $4 million contract.

Williams has not been able to come back, and there were even rumors of retirement.

This also affected the overall enthusiasm of the Nets to a certain extent.

Until this season, the Nets withered all of a sudden and couldn't find the feeling of winning. So far, they are ranked [-]th in the East, and there is no hope for the playoffs.

As a result, even if Marbury averaged 22.2 points and 8.4 rebounds per game as a top point guard, he could not be selected for the All-Star Game.

The Warriors are coming to fight, and Marbury is the most motivated.

Just like Raheem in the same period, when these players in the same period met Qin Fei, who is now the most popular in the league, they all wanted to defeat Qin Fei to prove themselves.

Marbury also scored 33 points and 15 assists in a super double-double that day, and he was in a hot state.

However, the Nets as a whole were not good. Although they scored 110 points, they allowed the Warriors, who were their opponents, to score 121 points, and lost the game by 11 points.

Qin Fei only contributed 28 points, but seven Warriors players in double figures, including Artest, who came off the bench, also contributed 13 points tonight, setting a new record in his personal career.

Artest is especially like Qin Fei in his first season with the Sonics, defending with all his strength and occasionally scoring.

After the team's rotation was firmly established in the early stage, it slowly began to consider scoring.

When the status of a defensive champion is established, the coach has a very high fault tolerance rate for the scoring of the "Titan".

Marbury looked helpless. When bidding farewell to Qin Fei, he complained that Qin Fei's players were too fierce.

"But you are obviously a group of rookies, undrafted players, or players that no one wants. Why are you suddenly so fierce?"

Marbury has read reports before, and he himself knows that there are no high-ranking rookies in the Warriors, and most of them are low-ranking players. However, these players who were not favored in the draft have now turned into a terrifying force that cannot be underestimated. The Nets really can't beat them.

"When it comes to playing, having fun is the most important thing."

Qin Fei patted Marbury on the shoulder, it was authentic to stand and talk without back pain.

The Nets played the game first, and when it came to other games in the Eastern Conference, news broke that someone scored 50+ points in the game, becoming the third player to score 50+ points this season.

Qin Fei, who was being interviewed in the locker room, was surprised. After checking, he saw that it was Allen Iverson's game.

In the game against the Kings that day, Iverson scored 50 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists. This is also the first 50+ points in his career.

The Kings are now a newly emerging strong team in the West. Compared with Qin Fei's performance of scoring 55 on the Grizzlies, it seems to be even more commendable.

当天晚上，76人119比108赢了国王，克里斯韦伯也有34分14个篮板7助攻的绝佳表现。

But everything showed that Iverson made a wedding dress.

No one remembers the performance of others, only the player who scored the highest score in the league that night.

Of course, just like Qin Fei's performance of 55 points before, the focus is on Qin Fei.

Scoring 50+ points is not too difficult for Iverson, but it took him 4 years to get this new career record, and now it is more like a new breakthrough.

The outside media jokes may have been stimulated by some Qin Fei.

It's hard to say whether they were stimulated or not, but these two people scored high scores one after another, and finally pushed the NBA's offensive frenzy to a new level, like a tribute to the upcoming All-Star Weekend.

After the game against the Nets, the Warriors took a stroll southward, played against the Magic, the Heat and other teams, and then the team returned to Oakland.

On the streets of Oakland, the atmosphere of the All-Star Game is already very strong.

Hanging banners and giant billboards can be seen everywhere.

Although the players on this year's All-Star roster have not yet had their makeup photos taken, they have already been synthesized into huge posters, and some of them are hung on the shopping mall building, which is very conspicuous.

There are many balloons outside the Oakland Arena, and the staff in furry mascot coats interact with the children.

Sander is the current mascot of the Warriors.

The appearance is a dark blue body, a strong masked muscular man, with a lightning headgear hanging on his head.

Sander's English name is "Thunder", and it is still quite popular.

Qin Fei remembered his previous life, and in 08 a certain team also changed to this name, so in order to avoid ambiguity, the Warriors simply canceled this cute mascot.

On February 2, there were only three games left in the NBA.

Players who need to participate in the All-Star weekend rushed to Oakland.

In order to meet the living needs of the players, the All-Star organizing committee specially arranged vehicle pick-up for the big-name players who came.

Of course, not all players have vehicles to pick them up, and some young rookies do not have such treatment.

And most of them still have to participate in this year's Rookie Challenge.

This year's Rookie Challenge has also been restructured.

From the original eastern rookie to the western rookie, it was changed to a first-year rookie challenging a second-year old student.

According to the competition system, rookies currently select 8 players, and sophomores also select 8 players.

In this way, it gives people a bright feeling and is full of topicality.

There is actually no obvious gap between players in one or two years. Some rookie players with outstanding talents are already comparable to the existence of All-Stars. The first grade may not have any hope of winning.

And for second-year players, it is absolutely unacceptable to lose to a group of rookies who should help them "carry their bags".

So even if it was classified as an exhibition match, it would already be topical before the start of the match.

On February 2, the 11 All-Star Weekend officially started.

On Friday of the first day, which is also the last day of the working day, the NBA officially arranged some public welfare activities for players participating in the All-Star Weekend.

It mainly includes a series of activities such as planting trees, sending love to children in special schools, and painting walls in the community.

This year, the Warriors specially arranged different public welfare projects, and the whole team visited San Quentin State Prison.

San Quentin State Prison is a prison established in San Francisco in 1852. It is located on an isolated peninsula in northern Marin County, only a 10-minute drive from the Golden Gate Bridge. It is famous for detaining vicious felons.

The prison is heavily guarded, but thanks to the efforts of local prison volunteers, the inmates are able to participate in various probation activities such as tennis, basketball and drama.

The Warriors have performed well in the past two years and have gradually become a star team in the San Francisco area. Therefore, the San Francisco Police Department specially invited the entire Warriors team and many staff members to this year's probation activities.

Marin County is lush with trees and overlooks the San Francisco Bay. The prison is located here, but the environment is elegant.

On a sunny afternoon, the Warriors came to San Quentin State Prison. The warden, as a representative, expressed welcome to the Warriors.

From the team's owner Chris Cohan, to the general manager to the coaching staff, etc., they all came forward to meet and greet each other.

After the players walked into the prison, they began to move freely.

Qin Fei was wearing black training clothes, simple black basketball shorts, black compression pants and pure white basketball shoes.

The interactive activity assigned to him was to play a friendly match with players selected from the prison.

The Warriors players who accompanied Qin Fei on the field at the same time also included Big Ben, Artest and two trainers.

The other players, some played dominoes with the prisoner.

There is not much confrontation in the friendly basketball game, and the main attribute is "play with".

The prisoner was more enthusiastic than Qin Fei imagined.

"How are you? How are you doing?"

Guys like Artest, who have really been on the streets since childhood, have already gotten into a ball with the guys inside, high-fiving and hugging, very enthusiastic.

Qin Fei couldn't be as enthusiastic as Artest, but he was always smiling and approachable.

"Is this your first time?"

Da Ben came to Qin Fei's side and asked with a smile.

Qin Fei nodded. This is indeed the first time. Although he is also a player who came out of the street, he is at most half-born. Compared with a child who grew up completely on the street, there is a big difference in language and culture.

Daben and others are different from Qin Fei. After they came here, they felt very comfortable.

It's very comfortable to chat with people or find people to talk trash.

"It's indeed the first time here, but the atmosphere is still very familiar, after all, I have been on the streets before." Qin Fei silently labeled himself a street fighter.

Da Ben nodded in agreement as if he had believed the nonsense.

There have been many reports of Qin Fei's street background.

Including players like Iverson and Marbury, the reason why Qin Fei is so recognized is because of some chance, and partly because they think that Qin Fei belongs to the same kind of players as them.

"Let's go, let's play!"

Two guys who had changed into green jerseys came over and looked particularly strong.

Qin Fei and Da Ben left the stage.

Qin Fei and Da Ben were particularly tall among a group of prisoners.

Artest seems to have found an organization, and he has become brothers and sisters.

"This guy isn't going to betray, is he?"

Qin Fei saw the way Artest was hooking shoulders with a prison inmate boss, and always felt that this little brother was going to be lost.

It turned out that after seeing him chatting with someone for a few words, he stood there in a daze, not in a good state.

"what happened?"

Qin Fei walked over and showed deep concern.

"Hey, big brother is also a hard-working person."

Artest sighed with emotion: "How I hope that the world is peaceful and full of charity and love everywhere."

After hearing this, Qin Fei was shocked.

It turned out that this guy wasn't trying to "betray".

but to change the name
(End of this chapter)