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Chapter 445 Tang Tian: I'm a Kobe Fan (First Update!)
That was most people's first reaction when they saw that status.
After all, the league had just compared the two players' third-year stats, and Tang Tian's shot attempts were only two more than Durant's back then.
However, it wasn't surprising that Durant posted such a status.
You have to know that in his third year as a rookie, when he almost won the scoring title, he wasn't even an All-Star starter. Now, Tang Tian was very likely to become the vote leader.
With his sensitive personality, he had already publicly criticized Tang Tian before, so posting a tweet was just a small matter.
However, this tweet sparked a frenzy of complaints from fans below.
"It's not like every scoring champion doesn't get it by taking a lot of shots, does he really think everyone is James Harden?"
"When you won the scoring title, you took fewer shots, but you had more free throws!"
"Speaking of this, I want to complain about the league, why does Tang fight physically every night, but he gets so few free throws?"
"So, is it really appropriate for a superstar like you to be so sour about a third-year player?"
"That's right, he's even sour about other people having more people in their country, does he think Tang can decide where he was born?"
"Or why don't you change your nationality to Chinese?"
"Sorry, it's not that easy to get Chinese nationality!"
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The fans' complaints were overwhelming, and Durant's "loser" missiles and "richer than you" rocket launchers were useless. In the end, he simply disabled the comments.
The news of the league comparing Tang Tian and Durant's third-year data hadn't even passed, and Durant's actions felt a bit incomprehensible.
Fans couldn't comment on Durant's Twitter, so they turned to Tang Tian's Twitter instead.
Tang Tian had previously posted a tweet about a "lion."
As a result, the tweet, which had already lost its popularity, instantly became extremely popular again.
"Tang, how do you respond to Durant's comment about taking too many shots?"
"Tang, when are you coming back?"
"Tang, Durant said you got more votes because you're Chinese, are you angry?"
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All sorts of messages flooded in.
Tang Tian looked at his phone vibrating like some kind of sex toy, and couldn't help but scratch his head.
Couldn't this Durant give him a break!
However, the fans were God, and plus he was injured and couldn't train intensely, so he picked out those comments with high likes and replied to them one by one.
"Angry? I'm not angry, I'm proud to be Chinese."
"My comeback is about three weeks away, I'm recovering normally, don't worry."
"The number of shots is normal, I'm a Kobe fan."
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Tang Tian's responses quickly received likes from fans, and among them, the one with the most likes was naturally the one about being a Kobe fan.
Kobe hater confirmed!
He actually dared to use the number of shots to tease my Kobe!
However, this diss made the Kobe fans unable to criticize, after all, it was a very high compliment for players to say they were fans of each other.
They couldn't criticize, but some Kobe fans still tagged Kobe in Tang Tian's comments.
After being tagged, Kobe posted a laughing and crying emoji and also replied.
"This year's All-Star vote leader is my fan."
Kobe was engaging in some commercial mutual flattery.
This time, the Kobe fan and godfather fan instantly became one family.
The two had filmed a godfather commercial together before, and there were even news reports that Kobe had given Tang Tian a Ferrari, plus this kind of interaction on Twitter.
Their boss and Tang Tian seemed to have a really good relationship.
While the fans were becoming one family, Durant was almost spitting blood from anger.
Kobe was disrespecting the old!
However, this time he didn't smash his phone, but instead made up his mind that he wouldn't let Tang Tian have the scoring title this year!
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In Stern's office, Xiao Hua was discussing the All-Star vote issue with Stern.
"We have to increase the restrictions on votes from the Chinese region, preferably completely block them, just like Yi almost became an All-Star starter before, Tang becoming the All-Star vote leader will completely undermine the fairness of the All-Star vote."
Xiao Hua was about to take office, and his tone towards Stern had become stronger than before.
"Didn't we already restrict the votes from the Chinese region?"
Stern asked back.
"That's not enough, China has too many people, now the league's number one is LeBron, the second is Durant, Tang's performance this year is barely acceptable for him to enter the starting lineup, but the vote leader, just like Yao back then, will have a very negative impact in the country."
Xiao Hua continued.
Back then, Yao Ming averaged 18+8 and became the All-Star vote leader in his third year as a rookie, which caused crazy complaints across the United States.
"His performance is better than Yao's back then, and the Chinese market is very big." Stern knew that ordinary words wouldn't convince Xiao Hua, so he stated it directly.
"We need to respect the American fans' ideas more, we are an American basketball league." Unexpectedly, Xiao Hua didn't buy it at all.
Stern stared blankly at Xiao Hua, the latter's vision...
He suddenly felt that his decision to let Xiao Hua be his successor was a mistake.
"David, you've already given Tang enough face with the suspension matter before."
Xiao Hua continued.
Stern almost choked, Xiao Hua was threatening him with the matter of lightly punishing Ci Shi Ping before.
He sighed.
"Do whatever you want."
He said and left the office directly.
He only had half a month left before retirement, and it was impossible to change Xiao Hua's succession, so he could do whatever he wanted, he was old and didn't have the energy he had when he was young.
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The fourth round of All-Star voting, which was also the last round, was still in progress.
Just then, many Chinese fans suddenly discovered that they couldn't vote, all sorts of errors.
They didn't get a response from the league officials after appealing.
Various hotly discussed posts appeared in the Chinese MOP forum, but the situation was not resolved.
Belated fans began to realize what was happening, the league didn't want Tang Tian to become the All-Star vote leader!
For a time, the league's image in the country plummeted, with endless complaints.
However, the NBA officials continued to play deaf and mute, it seemed they were determined.
A week passed, Tang Tian's cast had been removed, and he could do some non-ball training.
After training that day, he sat on the sidelines to rest and heard Davis and Holiday chatting there.
Although they were some distance away, he could still roughly understand what they were talking about.
Holiday was worried about not being good at passing the ball.
Holiday usually didn't like to talk much, but he got along with the cute Davis.
"If you have the chance, you can ask Tang, he's a life mentor."
As he was listening, Tang Tian suddenly heard Davis praise him heavily.
The Pelicans had a good schedule recently, and Davis was performing better and better.
Although Brow was a bit cute, he didn't seem stupid, and knew what the reason for these changes was.