In the blink of an eye, the last Christmas in the 20th century came, and the Grizzlies were also arranged with a good gift, that is, the Christmas Battle.

The attention of the Christmas battle can even be compared with the All-Star Weekend Tournament. The Grizzlies can get such an opportunity, which is enough to show Stern's importance to the Grizzlies.

The opponent arranged by the NBA for the Grizzlies this time is the Chicago Bulls. Although the Bulls are now one of the best teams in the NBA, their market is still there and there are still countless fans.

If you want to talk about the size of the NBA market, the Chicago Bulls are actually second only to the Knicks and the Lakers, and can be regarded as the third largest team in the NBA market.

Jiang Dongbing is not religious, and he himself has no sense of belonging to the United States, so he is definitely not interested in Christmas. When the players went out to celebrate, he simply didn't get involved.

In this game against the Bulls, the Grizzlies were very restrained. Although they had the strength to completely crush the Bulls, they only won the score difference of seven points in the end.

After all, this is Christmas, which is roughly equivalent to the Chinese Spring Festival. People who are beaten up during the Chinese New Year will make people feel face-saving.

After the Christmas War ended, it entered January 2000, and the 21st century officially began.

The annual All-Star lineup selection has also begun, and Jiang Dongbing still attaches great importance to this All-Star weekend.

Last season was Jiang Dongbing's first season in the NBA. As a result, due to the suspension, the All-Stars were directly cancelled, resulting in no player under Jiang Dongbing's men being selected for the All-Stars.

As a head coach, I naturally hope that my players can achieve better development, and obtaining an All-Star status will undoubtedly increase the player's value a lot.

Jiang Dongbing glanced at his current lineup. It was definitely no problem for Jackson and Billups to be selected as All-Stars. The only question is whether he can get the starting qualification.

The current era is different from the All-Star selections in 2013. In 2013, the All-Stars are divided into two positions, namely the front court and the back court.

Now the All-Star selection is more detailed, divided into three positions, namely center, forward and defender.

Jackson will undoubtedly compete for the All-Star qualification of this forward. The forwards are divided into small forwards and power forwards, which means Jackson will compete with Garnett and Duncan for the All-Star starting qualification.

The three most popular forwards in the East are Duncan, Garnett and Jackson. Jiang Dongbing feels that Jackson's popularity may be the highest among these three. The reason is very simple, just because Jackson is not an inside player.

The popularity of outside players has always been higher than that of inside players, so Jackson got a starting forward position? Actually, there is no big problem? I just don’t know which of Garnett or Duncan will be squeezed out.

As for Billups, his defenders in the Western Conference are mainly Kidd, Kobe and Payton.

If Billups is in the East? In fact, there is no suspense about this? He will join hands with Iverson to become the All-Star East starter, and the number of star players in the East is far less than that in the West.

Jiang Dongbing thought that Billups had a great chance of becoming a starter? After all, behind the Grizzlies is the entire Canadian fan. Later Raptors often feature All-Star starters? For example, Xiaogang Egg Lowry is an All-Star starter? It’s not that he really has the strength to start, but the support of Canadian fans.

The Grizzlies are also Canadian teams now, and they helped Canada win the championship last season. It would be strange if these Canadian fans don’t support Grizzlies players.

There is no problem with Jackson and Billups becoming the starter? The Grizzlies have David, O'O and Artest left in the starting lineup.

Artest must not think about it? His data in this rookie season is not very outstanding, and most of his energy is focused on defense, so the data will definitely not be particularly good-looking.

David and Ou had some chances.

David must not be the starting All-Star in the West. After all, O'Neal has a center with a popularity ceiling in the West. But if he becomes a substitute center? That chance is still not small. He only needs to win the Admiral in terms of votes.

Although David Robinson is also one of the four centers? In fact, his popularity is definitely the one at the bottom. Needless to mention O'Neal's popularity? Ewing is backed by New York, and his popularity is indispensable? As for the dream Olajuwon is extremely strong? The ball is gorgeous? The popularity is also quite high.

In addition, the Admiral is old now, so David is likely to surpass him in terms of winning votes.

Although only the starting position is determined by the number of votes and the substitute qualification is determined by the NBA coach, generally as long as there are enough votes, they can basically be selected.

For Xiao Ao, because the competition for the Western Conference forward position is too fierce, the chance is not very high, but it does not mean that there is no chance at all.

According to convention, there will be two centers among the twelve All-Star players, five forwards and five defenders. O'O still has a chance to join the ranks of these five forwards.

Jiang Dongbing smacked his lips and felt a little dissatisfied. With such a lineup, he could only be selected as four players at most for the All-Star. It was such a pity.

It’s also a big blame for the competition in the West. If it were put in the East, the situation would definitely be a different story. Jiang Dongbing remembers that there is a substitute All-Star named Davis in the East this year. His regular season data for playing for the Pacers is only 10 points, 10 rebounds and 1.3 blocks. Such players can be selected as All-Stars, and the Grizzlies’ starting five Tigers will definitely be selected.

"I hope Xiao Ao can be selected too. If there are four people selected, it is not unacceptable." Jiang Dongbing said expectantly.

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On January 2, the Grizzlies played against the Utah Jazz at home, their first game since entering the 21st century.

On the morning of the game day, Jiang Dongbing was called by Stewart to go to the team's conference room, saying that he was going to hold an extremely important meeting.

After Jiang Dongbing arrived at the venue, he suddenly found that the team boss Xiao Maikao was not sitting on the chairman. On the chairperson of the conference table was a white old man who Jiang Dongbing didn't know.

Jiang Dongbing's heart skipped a beat. He felt something big was wrong. Could it be that Xiao Maikao sold the team, right?

Under normal circumstances, Maikao actually sold the Grizzlies this year. Jiang Dongbing remembered that it should have been sold to an American named Michael Heisley. This is also the reason why the Grizzlies later moved from Vancouver to the American city of Memphis.

"Will you sell the Grizzlies at this point in time?" Jiang Dongbing thought speechlessly.

Originally, Jiang Dongbing thought that the Grizzlies' record is so outstanding that they may even create a dynasty, so how could they not sell this money tree?
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