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Chapter 109 All-Star Voting Battle

May the gods protect you, may the Buddha protect you, may God protect you, may Allah protect you.

As Zhou Yi muttered to himself, he pressed the button to rotate the turntable.

The spinning wheel spun rapidly under Zhou Yi's expectant gaze, the pointer sweeping across the areas representing Iverson's skill set.

Allen Iverson's Mid-Range Shooting Skills Package

Allen Iverson's ball-handling skills package

Allen Iverson's Layup Skills Package

When the turntable reaches this point, its speed begins to slow down, and then it jumps back one space.

[Iverson's Breakthrough Skills Package]

When the card representing this skill package was sent to his mailbox, Zhou Yi quickly opened it.

Allen Iverson's breakthroughs are arguably one of the strongest skills in the NBA, after all, he was the man who could once shake off the basketball god.

While his height of 183 cm is a major weakness for AI, it also gives him an extremely low center of gravity.

Dribbling almost on the ground and making sharp changes of direction often leave defenders helpless.

AI's skills in breaking through defenses, mid-range shots, and layups helped him win an MVP award and four scoring titles in the highly competitive 00s.

However, after the initial joy, Zhou Yi felt a sense of worry and reflection.

The AI's breakthrough skill package belongs to the skills of a 183cm point guard, while I belong to a 203cm tall forward.

If you want to practice to the level of AI, Mashburn's ball control skills package is probably not enough.

Upgrading to a higher-level ball control skill pack will inevitably require more system exchange points.

Zhou Yi scratched his head, looking like he couldn't escape the days of running around for exchange points no matter what.

But at this moment, Zhou Yi is even more looking forward to the next season.

Superior physical attributes, Iverson's breakthroughs, Kobe's post-up game.

I will become a terrifying presence on the field.

Meanwhile, discussions about Barkley and others in the TNT studio quickly attracted a lot of media attention.

Did Zhou Yi become a superstar-level leader of a strong Western Conference team in his first year of high school?

Can he earn the honor of being an All-Star starter in his freshman year?

Different media outlets expressed different viewpoints.

For Clippers supporters like the Long Beach Telegraph, this is beyond question.

After all, the Clippers are now thriving under Zhou Yi's leadership. The team has not only achieved a historic fourth place in the Western Conference, but has also repeatedly broken its own records.

For the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Los Angeles Times, two long-time rivals of the Clippers, this is a joint effort to suppress Zhou Yi.

It all started with two reforms to the 2009-10 All-Star Game, including the league's first introduction of mobile voting.

In addition, to adapt to the ever-growing internet and social media landscape, the alliance has also created voting tools and links on various social media platforms.

This not only means that more fans will participate, but also that a fierce battle for votes will be launched on the Internet.

In the Los Angeles Times editorial office, editor Ross Stanton is answering a call from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

"Yes, Rose, that's the plan. Both of our media outlets will vote for Durant. He's now the league's leading scorer, and the Thunder's record has moved up to seventh in the West."

"It's not much worse than Zhou's, is it?"

"We can't let that Chinese guy achieve historic honors so easily in his first year."

"It's happening so slowly," Susan Goldberg, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, said over the phone.

"Okay, Susan, this is a perfect plan. I believe the media in Charlotte, Oklahoma and other areas will respond to our call."

Sitting in a large, comfortable armchair, Ross Stanton responded with a smile.

"We put Durant in the starting forward position in the West, ousting Zhou. It was a perfect revenge plan."

After saying this, Ross Stanton hung up the phone.

This was his and Susan Goldberg's plan, or rather, a campaign battle backed by the Cavaliers and Lakers.

Currently, both the Cavaliers and the Lakers have lost two games to the Clippers, making them their arch-rivals.

Unfortunately, the Cleveland Cavaliers are in the East, while the Lakers, although in the West, do not have a player at the forward position who can challenge Zhou Yi's dominance.

Thus, Kevin Durant, a rising star who has been performing brilliantly this season and is also in the Western Conference, became their target.

Durant is currently leading the league in scoring with an average of 30.2 points per game, and the young Thunder team has also climbed to seventh place in the Western Conference with visible progress.

If a talented young player from the United States were to displace Zhou Yi and secure an All-Star starter position, it would be a welcome outcome for both the NBA and its fans.

Meanwhile, on the other side, a Clippers charter plane was carrying the entire Clippers team to Toronto.

There they will face Bosh's Raptors, and DeRozan, an old acquaintance of Zhou Yi, will also be on the team.

On the plane, Zhou Yi was fast asleep with an eye mask on.

Unbeknownst to him, the teams he had previously defeated would try to team up and cause trouble for his path to the All-Star game.

Of course, Zhou Yi has never worried about the All-Star game.

At Toronto Pearson International Airport, the entire Clippers team disembarked from the plane wrapped in down jackets.

Zhou Yi breathed out his cold air as he looked at the city covered in snow.

Suddenly moving from the City of Angels, where the average temperature is 9°C to 20°C, to Toronto, where the temperature drops to below zero, the entire Clippers team felt uncomfortable.

No wonder NBA players are reluctant to come here; in fact, three draft picks in history refused to report to Toronto.

It's really cold here, and we're outside the US border, even though Canada is the fifty-first state of the US.

But for many Black players born on the warm West Coast, this place is a hell that no one wants to be a part of.

Zhou Yi's luggage was being carried by Lofdale and DeAndre Jordan, which is the power of the team leader.

As Zhou Yi walked empty-handed towards the airport bus, his phone rang.

When I turned on the screen, it was a message from Megan Fox.

This popular American actress has been busy filming lately and hasn't been to the Staples Center to watch a game in a long time.

But Zhou Yi and she have a way to contact each other, and they sometimes chat.

After Zhou Yi broke the record last night, the actress also sent her blessings via her mobile phone.

But today she posted another message, seemingly after seeing the news about Barkley and others on TNT. In the message, she wrote: "Zhou, I'll be going to the Dallas All-Star Game this season. I hope you can be an All-Star starter. I look forward to your All-Star performance."

Along with the message came a photo of someone wearing a Zhouyi jersey.

Even Zhou Yi's oversized jersey couldn't hide Megan Fox's graceful figure in the photo.

After adjusting the trajectory, Zhou Yi boarded the team bus heading to the hotel.

He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have made a promise to meet this nationally famous actress in Dallas when they were at the Los Angeles Lakers' home arena.

It seems there might be some different rewards for this All-Star game.

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