Nowadays, Kirilenko's playing time is only about 20 minutes. In this short period of 20 minutes, Kirilenko can actually get 7.2 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.4 blocks!

Although the statistics in all aspects are not too much even if converted into the standard thirty-five minutes of a starting game, Kirilenko excels in all-around, and there seems to be no job that he cannot do. Such a player is undoubtedly the most favored by all head coaches.

Because the head coach can use Kirilenko more flexibly, Kirilenko can directly make up for any shortcomings in the team.

In addition, Kirilenko's unique positioning of being able to defend from position 1 to position 5 and play from position 1 to position 5 in a true sense also makes Kirilenko enjoy high popularity among the fans.

When the All-Star roster was released, Jiang Dongbing was shocked to find that the Grizzlies actually had five players selected for the Eastern Conference All-Star lineup this time.

Among them, the starting All-Stars are just as Jiang Dongbing predicted, they are Jackson and Billups respectively. In addition, David, Ou and Kirilenko were also selected as substitutes.

Kirilenko's selection was undoubtedly something Jiang Dongbing never expected. With Kirilenko's statistics, it should have been impossible for him to be selected as an All-Star, but he was actually selected.

Needless to say, Jackson and Billups were both selected as starters with solid votes.

Among them, Jackson is the top vote-getter for this year's All-Stars, and Canadian fans are indispensable.

Under normal circumstances, the All-Star vote leader in 2000 was Vince Carter. The reason why Carter was the vote leader was undoubtedly because he had the support of Canadian fans, but now Canadian fans have better supporters.

, that is, Jackson.

No matter in terms of personal performance, team record, or season honors, Jackson now has to beat Vince Carter. Naturally, Canadian fans will vote for Jackson.

With a whopping 2.09 million votes, Jackson is not only the top vote-getter for this year's All-Stars, but also the player with the highest vote-getter among all All-Stars in NBA history.

In fact, in the past NBA All-Star voting, stars did not get as many votes as people thought. Before Jordan's rise, the All-Star voting champion only received 3.5 million votes. After Jordan's rise, the number of votes for the top vote began to exceed 100.

Ten thousand.

Even during the Bulls dynasty a few years ago, Jordan's votes were only a million or so.

Now Jackson has become the first All-Star player in NBA history to receive more than 2 million votes, which shows how terrifying his popularity is.

Of course, this does not mean that Jackson's popularity can be higher than that of Jordan. The main reason is that Jordan does not have the support of so many Canadian fans. Among the more than two million votes cast for Jackson, at least about 50% must have been cast by Canadians.

And if you exclude these Canadian votes, Jackson's popularity in the United States is actually not as good as Iverson. To be fair, at this point in time, no active player is more popular than Iverson, not even O'Neal.

, his vote count was also less than Iverson.

After Jackson won the vote king, the votes for the forward position were actually not small. Garnett received 1.55 million votes, and Duncan received 1.34 million votes. As interior players, they can get so many votes. The popularity of the two is quite impressive.

Just imagine.

O'Brien got 720,000 votes? There are probably a lot of Canadian votes among them, making O'Brien's votes much higher than Pippen and Webber's 660,000 votes.

The starting forwards in the Western Conference are undoubtedly Jackson and Garnett. The remaining three substitute forwards, Duncan and O'Brien, will definitely occupy two spots? What Jiang Dongbing didn't expect was that the remaining spot was taken by Kirilenko.

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Do you know that this substitute qualification was selected by the coaching staff of the 29 NBA teams? Pippen, Webb and even Karl Malone had higher votes than Kirilenko, but obviously the coaches used the votes in their hands

The vote went to Kirilenko.

This thing is quite weird? Jiang Dongbing wondered if Kirilenko's personality charm was too outstanding, causing those coaches to like Kirilenko very much...

It's possible when you think about it. After all, Kirilenko's wife allows him to cheat on her once a year? This personality is so charming that it's scary.

Later, Nelson and others called Jiang Dongbing? Only then did Jiang Dongbing know what was going on.

"Jiang? I voted for Kirilenko. I definitely contributed a lot to his being selected as an All-Star. If you want to sell him at any time? I hope you will consider us first!" Several coaches seemed to have unified their lines.

Generally speaking, they all said the same thing as Jiang Dongbing.

Now the whole world knows that Jiang Dongbing has good goods in his hands? And he is not the kind of person who is self-conscious and may sell the good goods at any time, so these old fritters will never let go of any opportunity to have a relationship with Jiang Dongbing.

Jiang Dongbing was speechless, where did he go? He hadn't even used Shunliu Kirilenko yet, but these old guys started to take advantage of Kirilenko.

However, these old fried dough sticks also had good intentions, and Jiang Dongbing could only express his gratitude to each of them.

As for defenders, Billups received 1.1 million votes, which is not as much as the 1.84 million votes of the guard voting leader Iverson, but it is still more than Western competitors Kidd and Kobe.

Kidd's votes were 1.06 million, and Kobe's was 1.02 million. Therefore, the starting backcourt of the Western Conference All-Stars will be Kidd and Billups, and Kobe will have to be a substitute.

At the center position, O'Neal is of course the most popular center. David's votes are certainly not comparable to O'Neal's, but David's nearly 800,000 votes are still much higher than David Robinson's 590,000.

He also easily qualified as an All-Star backup center.

Since then, five members of the Grizzlies have been selected as All-Stars, which directly made Jiang Dongbing smile from ear to ear.

It is quite a remarkable thing for a team to have five players selected into the All-Stars, because this has never happened in the entire history of the NBA. This time the Grizzlies are the only ones to do so.

Looking to the future, due to the trend of teaming up, it is already very common for three people from the same team to be selected as All-Stars. Even if four people are selected at the same time, it is not uncommon.

So far in the NBA, four players from a single team have only been elected to the All-Stars four times. The earliest two dates back to the Green Kai Dynasty, which happened decades ago.

Then in 1983, the Philadelphia 76ers led by Julius Erving also achieved such a feat.

The most recent one, in fact, was the last All-Star Game. In 1998, the Lakers had O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Fan Fan and Eddie Jones selected into the All-Star lineup.

However, the Lakers' selection of four people is actually not very valuable. The main reason is that except for O'Neal, the other three are not very qualified. Kobe was not even a starter for the team at the time. The situation is very similar to the Grizzlies' Kyrie today.
Chapter completed!