After the game, Xiao Han won the best in the game. Just when he stayed for an interview, not only those who had not yet left the court, but even the fans who had already stood up and started walking out stopped and turned around to look at him.

Xiao Han started to speak. Although it was all clichés, it was still accompanied by some applause. The applause continued until after he accepted the interview, he waved to the audience, and his back disappeared into the player's passage.

If it weren't for the accident that a staff member of the league headquarters called him, Xiao Han had even forgotten that there was only one month left before the 2009 NBA All-Star Game.

Time flies so fast!

Xiao Han was not unaware of this year's All-Star vote, but after seeing the results of the early voting, he knew that there was nothing worth his attention to in this matter. The crazy enthusiasm of domestic fans seemed to have been rekindled because of his joining the Rockets. Countless votes gathered in his name with incredible density and speed. Xiao Han didn't know what the NBA official would calculate the votes from China at the rate of the NBA, but he was very clear that he was determined to be the All-Star vote king of this year and did not run away.

Xiao Han cares about honor, but he is not vain. Since the position of an All-Star is a foregone conclusion, there is no need for him to spend too much energy on it, so he did not notice that the All-Star weekend is approaching quietly.

The league office wanted to check with him whether he was sure to play in this year's All-Star Rookie Challenge. In many cases, it is completely unnecessary to ask players about such questions. A rookie, even in the second grade, is their first chance to debut on the All-Star weekend. No one would refuse. However, since the All-Star Game is much more important than the Rookie Challenge, the official must consider the possibility that Xiao Han will give up the rookie tournament.

The answer given by Xiao Han was indeed to choose to give up and leave the opportunity to other people, but the reason he gave was different from what the staff imagined. It was not to save energy to prepare for the main competition, but "Since I missed last year, I won't be able to play this year, so as not to be abrupt."

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The guy who called Xiao Han was choked on the spot because he didn't know whether Xiao Han was taking this opportunity to implicitly mocking the league's actions last year, so he didn't dare to interfere at all. He found a reason and hung up the phone in panic. As a result, he hanged up the phone and cursed, because the main task assigned to him by his boss was not this, but to explore Xiao Han's words and see if he was interested in participating in the skills challenge and the three-point competition.

There was no choice but to avoid losing the bonus, the man called Xiao Han again tremblingly, for fear that Xiao Han would talk to him about any sensitive topics, but he was obviously worried about it. Xiao Han was not interested in talking to a stranger, and did not make things difficult for him. He gave a reply that "will consider it" and some surviving replies.

Before they knew it, the Rockets achieved another ten consecutive victories. Although the consecutive away trip to the Eastern Conference was very difficult, many people still believe that they are launching a team record of 22 consecutive victories created last season.

On January 7, he played 76ers in Philadelphia. Xiao Han saw Iguodala again, but in this game, Iguodala's starlight no longer appeared and performed dullly. It was also because the offense could not be compared with McGrady, and the defense met Artest, the founder of defense. He was almost restrained everywhere and naturally had difficulty playing in form, so there was no talk of performance.

Andre Miller's tricks were discovered by Xiao Han last season. The two met again. Xiao Han did not give the veteran any chance. He scored 24 points, 11 assists, and 11 rebounds triple-double, but only gave Miller 10 points and 3 assists, completely gaining the upper hand.

On the 8th, back-to-back again, the Rockets visited Boston North Shore Garden Arena. On the visiting team that Xiao Han had visited the most, he once again allowed Rondo to see what it means to restrain himself, and the Rockets also let the "Big Three" know what it means to be old.

Although they are at home and despite their back-to-back, the Celtics did not show too strong resistance. It is not that the Celtics and the Big Three lost their competitiveness so quickly. In fact, they once ranked first in the East at the beginning of this season. However, as the season progresses, injuries of old players continue to appear, and the concentration of some character players has also begun to decline, and now they have fallen to fourth place in the East.

One by one, one by one, it seems that it is time for these old guys to have to collect. Although they themselves are not willing, time is forbidden. In today's game, Pierce and Garnett were all brought on the team, which greatly reduced the team's internal and external defense at the same time. How can they defeat the Rockets' championship in the league?

I forgot to give this set of statistics. In the past two months of the season, the Rockets have been far ahead of the other 29 teams with an average of 112.8 points per game, and have also successfully limited the opponent's score to below 90 points. The huge difference in gains and losses of more than 20 points has made all teams feel even more frightened.

Looking at the score of 87 to 111, Rondo was very discouraged, one host and one away. In the two encounters this season, the Celtics all ended in failure. Although it can be called a sweep, the two games actually cannot mean anything. However, in Rondo's mind, he seemed to have fought with Xiao Han ten or eight times this season, and he did not win once.

This is so hurtful. Is it really bad for me? Thinking about my own data this season, Rondo certainly shook his head, but why is that?

Rondo fell into confusion.

Xiao Han saw the situation very clearly. The last time he defeated the Celtics very easily at home, he once thought that with the Celtics' existing lineup, a champion team, they had already finished it. However, the season had just begun at that time. Later, seeing the Celtics' record steadily recovering, Xiao Han had to admit that those veterans had just recovered slowly in their condition. In fact, the Celtics' combat effectiveness did not weaken much.

Today, Xiao Han understood even more. It turned out that it was not just him and Rondo's style. The Rockets, which have excellent offense and defense, and balanced internally and externally, are the Celtics' most afraid of, so when they meet them, the Celtics seem particularly weak, which is actually equivalent to infinitely magnifying the weakness of the Celtics. The experience of this team is also very similar to Rondo's.

The Celtics now look more like Rondo's team. Xiao Han shook his head and removed this unrealistic idea from his mind. If Rondo wants to take the lead, even if the "Big Three" has been providing so carefully as it is now, it will probably take several years. If you want to shorten this time, you can only see whether Rondo can show a faster growth rate.

However, Xiao Han was not sure of his speculation, because Rondo had almost a whole season to figure out why he was in a slump in front of him. If he figured this out, he was afraid that Rondo would be able to overcome his biggest weakness, and his strength might be greatly improved from now on.

When Rondo returned home and covered his quilt and continued to think, Xiao Han was already boarding the plane and preparing to fly back to the West. Although the next game was still away, his opponent was the Western Conference team, the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Xiao Han knew that he would need to give up more opportunities for performance in the next game. When he met Durant again, he recovered well and had basically escaped from injuries, McGrady, of course, had to prove himself well, but Xiao Han didn't know that Durant wanted to have a showdown with him more than McGrady.

In the first year of 2007, Uncle Oden's rookie was reimbursed for the season, Durant grew steadily, and Xiao Han's No. 3 pick became the most eye-catching rookies of that year. Originally, his pace was a big step ahead of these "same year". Now, he is going to be the first to become an All-Star. How could Durant not think about competing with him?

Xiao Han didn't know that he had been regarded as his lifelong opponent by Durant!
Chapter completed!