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Faced with Isaiah Thomas's respectful advice, Lin Fei almost thought he was the head coach.

"Coach, I have some personal opinions that can be used as a reference for the coaching staff and management!"

Thomas nodded quickly and said: "That's great, Lin, tell me quickly, your vision and insights have always been very unique!"

This compliment is not all flattering to Thomas. Facts have proved that Lin Fei has high intelligence and talent in terms of game tactics and team management.

"Coach Thomas, the Knicks as a whole are very united now. This 4-game winning streak has also allowed the players to find the rhythm of winning and become more active in games and training!"

"Now the Knicks' record ranks fourth in the Eastern Conference, and they are only 1.5 games away from the third-place Heat! This is a good thing, but we must also see the team's shortcomings in overall strength!"

"Our recent schedule in January is generally relatively loose, with many home games, and the overall strength of our opponents is also hovering around the playoffs. We have not encountered several top teams from the East and West!"

"If we want to go further in the playoffs, I think the team's defense must be upgraded again!"

"I do have a good signing target. If I can get him, the team's overall defense will definitely be able to reach a higher level!"

Thomas's eyes shone and he said excitedly: "Lin, I know you have already planned to strengthen the team. Tell me who it is? As long as possible, the management will definitely try their best to get him to the Knicks! "

Lin Fei nodded with a smile and said calmly: "Zach Randolph, the starting power forward of the Portland Trail Blazers!"

Isaiah Thomas was slightly surprised, then frowned and said: "David Lee, the team's starting power forward, is indeed a defensive hole. This position really needs to be strengthened!"

"But Zach Randolph is now the leader of the Trail Blazers, averaging 23.6 points and 10 rebounds per game in the new season. It may not be that easy to get him!"

"What's more, this guy is still a serious problem player. He often gets into physical conflicts with his teammates, refuses to obey discipline, and has bad behavior off the court. I'm afraid that even if he can get it, the Knicks will make this guy a mess!"

Lin Fei nodded slowly and said: "Coach, what you said makes sense, but precisely because this guy is a problem player, the Knicks have a better chance of getting him at a relatively small price!"

"A teammate of mine when I was with the Timberwolves is now playing for the Trail Blazers. I heard from him that the relationship between Randolph and Trail Blazers coach McMillan is now tense, and he was suspended from the team for assaulting rookie Aldridge in the locker room. !”

"The Trail Blazers management is now having a headache over Zach Randolph's disobedience to discipline. Even the Trail Blazers fans in Portland hope to get rid of this cancer as soon as possible!"

"Besides, the Trail Blazers have already ruined their plans for reconstruction this season and hope to get the No. 07 pick in . Therefore, the possibility of trading Zach Randolph is very high!"

After listening to Lin Fei's words, Thomas nodded thoughtfully and said, "Lin, your analysis makes sense, but Randolph is really here. Are you confident that you can suppress him?"

Lin Fei said confidently: "Coach, don't worry about this. If I can't control this guy, then I'm not worthy of being the leader of the Knicks!"

"Isn't this kid Eddie a problem player at the beginning? Look at him now, he quits coke, has lost weight, and has become more active in training. These changes are all visible to the naked eye!"

Thomas slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, Lin, I'm relieved with your words. The management will actively negotiate with the Trail Blazers and try to get you Zach Randolph, your human shield!"

In the opinion of Isaiah Thomas, if Lin Fei can really suppress Randolph and turn this guy into a treasure, then Randolph will definitely be an indispensable defensive gate for the Knicks in the playoffs. Even a big killer.

With him and Eddie Curry teaming up inside, wouldn't the Knicks' no-fly zone be established?

Moreover, Zach Randolph has a hot temper and is also a good fighter. He is placed next to Lin Fei and is also a top bodyguard and bodyguard with a knife.

In a real fight, with Randolph's strong body, even a beast like Artest may not be able to take advantage.

"Lin, there have been frequent trades among various teams recently, especially the top teams in the Western Conference. They have been making big moves to strengthen through trades. This year's trade deadline should be the craziest in the history of the NBA!"

"Thankfully we are in the Eastern Conference. The overall competition in the Eastern Conference this season is relatively small!"

"The goal of the coaching staff is to hope that the Knicks can go one step further and strive to reach the top three in the Eastern Conference. This will also be of great help to your personal competition for the regular season MVP! What do you think of this?"

Isaiah Thomas surprised even himself by targeting a top-three spot in the Eastern Conference.

After all, before the start of the season, the team management and coaching staff did not dare to expect the Knicks to steadily enter the playoffs.

Now that the regular season is about to pass halfway, the Knicks' fourth-place record in the Eastern Conference has not only stabilized, but the team's overall style and atmosphere are also getting better and better.

Only then did the coaching staff speak out and set higher goals.

Lin Fei dragged his chin with his hand and said seriously:

"Coach, I can't guarantee where the Knicks' final record will be in the Eastern Conference, but fighting for every game is my unshirkable responsibility as an NBA player and team leader!"

"As for the regular season MVP, after all, it is selected by the media reporters. Whether we can get it by then will only depend on the fate of everyone!"

In fact, Lin Fei has already conducted thorough research and analysis on the eastern and western layout of the 06-07 season.

This season, the Eastern Conference is indeed much weaker than the Western Conference. The Detroit Pistons are missing one of their top five players and have begun to go downhill.

Although the Heat are the defending champions, without themselves, and with O'Neal no longer at his peak, relying solely on Wade's strong performance, it will be difficult to have another chance to win the championship.

Although Wade's knees are basically healthy now, his explosive play is destined to cause injuries.

In addition to the Pistons and Heat, the Knicks' only real opponent in the Eastern Conference is the Cleveland Cavaliers led by LeBron James.

In the original world, the reason why the Cavaliers were able to make it all the way to the finals in the 06-07 playoffs was because the Pistons and Heat were in decline, and the Magic and Celtics had not yet risen.

In the 07 Finals, they were easily swept by the Spurs 4-0. This also shows that the overall strength of the Cavaliers led by James at that time was very different from that of the Western Conference. At best, it was the level of a dark eight warriors.

In the next three seasons, with the formation of the Celtics' Big Three and the rise of "Warcraft" in the Magic, the Cavaliers never made it to the finals. In the end, James had no choice but to use his talent. Brought to the East Coast…

With the Eastern Conference bonus in front of them now, how can Lin Fei's Knicks take advantage of James' Cavaliers again?

It seems it's time for James and the Cavaliers to become the bonus itself.

As for the Western Conference, the Cowboys, Horses, Wolves and Lakers are on a four-legged stance. The competition in the playoffs will inevitably be more fierce. Maybe both sides will lose, and the Eastern Conference champion will be cheaper in the finals.

Of course, with the Knicks' current overall strength, it is still very difficult to make it through the playoffs, but if we don't seize the bonus period this season, it may be even more difficult next season.

January 1th is the day before All-Star voting ends.

Three Boeing 747 passenger planes flying across the Pacific Ocean from Imperial International Airport landed at Newark Liberty International Airport, 30 kilometers southwest of downtown New York.

Relevant personnel from the Chinese General Administration of Sports and the Blue Management Department, as well as reporters and representatives from Anta Group, are jointly responsible for escorting all letters for this All-Star voting.

Representatives of Chinese businessmen in New York who had been contacted in advance, as well as staff from Anta's headquarters in New York, led ten heavy-duty container trucks in advance and were waiting at the airport to prepare for unloading.

What shocked the staff at Newark Airport was that more than 100 tons of letters were piled on the three passenger planes, which was a spectacle.

Half an hour later, ten container trucks loaded with letters lined up on the Beltway and headed toward the center of New York City.

A Chinese flag is placed in front of each truck, forming a beautiful flowing landscape on the New York highway where traffic flows.

Olympic Building, NBA headquarters.

David Stern, who was sitting in the president's office, was even more surprised when faced with the secretary's report.

According to the results of the third round of All-Star voting, the number of votes Lin Fei received in the third round was further reduced, to just over 30.

If still treated as a 182% discount, then Lin Fei's total votes after three rounds would only be million.

This number has been completely surpassed by Wade, Kobe, James, Garnett, Iverson and others, and is currently only ranked 6th in the total number of votes.

"Lin played so well in the Knicks, and he was backed by a major international city like New York. How could he get fewer votes in each of the three rounds? There is definitely something fishy in this!"

Although David Stern suppressed Lin Fei's total number of votes, this was based on the premise of Chinese fans swiping votes and trying not to make the difference in votes between local stars and Lin Fei too big.

In fact, Stern still hopes that Lin Fei can win three consecutive votes. After all, he is more inclined to praise Lin Fei as the future face of the league, rather than LeBron James.

This is of decisive significance for promoting the globalization process of NBA and opening up the huge market of China.

But now with such suppression, the All-Star vote leader for the past two consecutive years is now ranked sixth in the league. Not only is there no hope of winning the vote, but the total number of votes obtained in the past two seasons is also much lower than the total number of votes received in the past two seasons.

This is obviously very unreasonable.

However, just when David Stern was wondering, the secretary suddenly pushed the door in and said in a panic:

"Mr. Stern, there are 10 container trucks parked downstairs, saying they are shipping voting letters all the way from China!"

Stern jumped up from the sofa chair in shock: "What did you say? Voting letters shipped from China?"

"That's right, they are all votes given by Tianchao fans to NBA stars, and are personally escorted by relevant representatives from Tianchao Sports Bureau!"

David Stern's brain instantly went into a shutdown state. What kind of operation was this?

Throughout the afternoon, dozens of workers were carrying letters in the underground garage of the Olympic Building. The letters were enough to fill six conference rooms at the NBA headquarters.

The New York reporters who came to inquire were also shocked by Tianchao's move to vote on letters written by fans, especially the huge number of letters, which probably exceeded 10 million.

In the president's office, the representative of the Tianchao Sports Bureau handed the paper with the letter statistics to David Stern's desk:

"Mr. Stern, this is the letter statistics we have prepared in advance. If you think it is wrong, you can send someone to re-count it!"

David Stern looked at the Chinese and English bilingual words on the white paper in disbelief. Lin Fei's letter alone had more than 900 million votes.

This is a terrifying number, not to mention the result of one person, one vote, which will never be repeated.

That night, President Stern shuttled between six conference rooms with piles of letters. Feeling the shocking energy of the Tianchao fans, he clearly realized that Lin Fei could no longer be suppressed.

News reports that Chinese fans wrote letters and voted for more than 747 million were widely published in newspapers and magazines across the United States. From three Boeing 6 aircraft, to ten container trucks, and six conference rooms piled high,

The pictures in these newspapers shocked every reader, and they also shocked China's huge fan market.

"Oh my God, there are more than 1000 million letters in total? More than 100 tons? This is incredible!"

"100 tons of paper handwritten letters, what exactly is this concept? omg, my understanding has been completely refreshed!"

"It seems that the NBA headquarters has been suppressing the personal votes of Chinese players Lin and Yao. A handwritten letter can cast more than 1000 million votes. If it is online, the real total number of votes must start at least 3000 million, right?"

"This is definitely the craziest voting boom in NBA history. The people of China are indeed a fighting nation!"

Lin Fei was also shocked when he learned that there were more than 6 million letters shipped to the NBA headquarters, filling six conference rooms at the headquarters.

Originally, in Lin Fei's opinion, if it were a handwritten letter vote and one person, one vote, his vote count might only be a little over one million, or even less.

Now it seems that Lin Fei still seriously underestimated his popularity and influence among the Chinese fans.

In the Chinese mainland movie market, after nearly 20 days of competition during the New Year's Day schedule, "The Golden Jacket" officially surpassed "Hero" with a box office of 2.6 million, becoming the new box office champion of domestic movies in the mainland.

At the same time, the documentary "Chinese Men's Basketball Team Beats Saitama" has also come from behind with its continued reputation and Douban score of 8.3. The total box office has now reached 1.03 million.

At a cinema in the imperial capital, media reporters also personally interviewed movie fans who came to watch the movie.

"I just finished watching "The Chinese Men's Basketball Team Defeats Saitama". This is the third time my friends and I have watched it! It's really touching and shocking, and it's very educational!"

"Long live the Chinese men's basketball team, long live Lin Fei's bloody victory!"

"The name "Kill Saitama" feels very good. The one we beat in the finals was the American Dream Seven, and the World Championships will be held in Saitama, an island country. It's a pun!"

"This documentary is really shocking. I am not a basketball fan, but now I have become a real fan of Lin Fei!"

"I can only say that Lin Fei is so handsome. I hope he can participate in film and television performances in the future and definitely beat out all the male actors in an instant!"

"The Chinese men's basketball world championship championship reminds me of the battle with the Americans more than 50 years ago. Compared with then, China now has nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers, a full range of industries, and is richer. The people of China have really stood up!"

I have to admit that Lin Fei has to be the biggest contributor to the box office myth of the documentary film "Chinese Men's Basketball Team Defeats Saitama".

Without Lin Fei's huge popularity and appeal, the success of this documentary film would not have been possible.

Under Lin Fei's phenomenal influence, many well-known film and television directors and producers at home and abroad hope to cooperate with Lin Fei in the filming of film and television dramas.

However, Lin Fei also dragged his agent Qin Dongmei to publicly state that he would focus all his energy on NBA games for the time being and would not have any film and television plans in the short term.

Recently, "Chinese Men's Basketball Team Defeats Saitama" has been released in the US and North American markets, and has also aroused considerable response.

Therefore, the American Basketball Association held a senior management meeting to plan in advance the eighth-generation dream team of the men's basketball team for the 08 Imperial City Olympics. It is bound to form the strongest American men's basketball team, avenge the previous humiliation at the Imperial City Olympics, and regain the championship.

On January 1, the NBA officially announced the final results of the 21 All-Star voting.

More than 1100 million voting letters shipped from China to NBA headquarters were all included in the final voting results.

With the final terrifying figure of 1089 million votes, Lin Fei shocked the world, completely overturning the glory of the NBA All-Star historical vote leader, and also demonstrated the huge power of Chinese fans.

Ranking second in the total number of votes is Los Angeles Lakers star Dayao, who also received 365 million votes.

Third place: Dwayne Wade (Miami Heat, 260 million photos)

Fourth place: Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers, 255 million photos)

Fifth place: Kevin Garnett (Minnesota Timberwolves, 251 million photos)

Sixth place: LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers, 237 million photos)

No. 223: Allen Iverson (Denver Nuggets, million photos)

No. 209: Shaquille O'Neal (Miami Heat, million photos)

No. 185: Steve Nash (Phoenix Suns, million photos)

No. 160: Gilbert Arenas (Washington Wizards, million photos)

At the same time, the 2007 Eastern and Western All-Star starting lineups for Las Vegas were officially announced:

Eastern Conference All-Star starters:

Dwayne Wade, Lin Fei, LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Shaquille O'Neal.

Western Conference All-Star starters:

Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Dirk Nowitzki, Dayao.