Women are a very magical kind of creature.

If one day, she seduces you, and you sleep with her, then she'll have one of two opinions of you: good in bed, or not good in bed.

And then maybe, after a while, she'll forget about you.

But, if one day, she seduces you, and you ignore her, then the likely result is that you've piqued her greater interest.

And then maybe, it'll be like Scarlett is now.

Hmm, Tang is a good man.

Hmm, Tang is very charming.

"..."

The reporter really didn't know whether to laugh or cry at Scarlett's words.

But he did realize one thing: Scarlett didn't care at all about any so-called comparisons.

On the contrary, she seemed quite interested in Tang Tian.

Looks like the rumors about the two of them filming the commercial weren't entirely media fabrications after all!

"Bang!"

The Thunder returned to Oklahoma City after winning, but as soon as practice ended, Durant was smashing his iPhone in the locker room again.

The nth one this year.

Westbrook watched from the side, his eyelids twitching.

After a while, when Durant's mood had stabilized a bit.

He went over to chat with him with a smile, and then gave him a phone case.

It was too difficult to get him to be an Apple spokesperson, after all, Apple had pretty high standards for its spokespeople in terms of looks, and just being a little handsome wasn't enough.

Compared to that, getting a better phone case was cheaper and easier.

Durant took out a new phone and put it on.

There were photos in the phone, screenshots of his chats with Scarlett and stuff, and every time he smashed it he had to find someone to transfer the data, which was indeed quite troublesome.

Sure enough, his good brother Westbrook understood him.

...

Starting with Tang Tian's injury against the Clippers, the Pelicans then suffered a four-game losing streak.

They had originally reached sixth in the West, but this wave dropped them out of the top eight.

The season had only just started for two months, and the win-loss difference between the teams wasn't big, so a winning or losing streak could cause big changes in the standings.

This was also the origin of the classic saying "the season is long."

Every season there were teams that ranked high early in the season, but ended up missing the playoffs.

The Pelicans were now in this kind of danger.

The good news, though, was that because they had played strong teams in the first two months, their schedule in January would be relatively easier.

Playing the rebuilding 76ers, Gordon scored 27 points, leading the team to victory.

Playing the Cavaliers, it was a close game to the very end, with Davis's key put-back sealing the win.

Playing the Nuggets, although they lost, Davis made 3 mid-range shots in the game, showing initial results from his shooting training.

Playing the Suns, Davis had a season-high 30 points and 11 rebounds, and made another 3 mid-range shots, but unfortunately it was still a losing effort.

A 2-2 record was acceptable with Tang Tian absent.

And Davis's performance also proved what Procopio had said before, that Davis's shooting could be trained, and the results were coming pretty quickly.

This was one of the top talents, not just physical, but also things like feel, which were also innate.

Time passed unknowingly to January 10th, and at this time, the league announced the final results of the third round of All-Star voting.

All-Star voting was divided into four rounds, but the first two rounds started early and didn't attract much attention.

After entering January, the last two rounds would be announced one after another, and these two rounds were the focus of fans' attention.

Because these two rounds basically determined most of the starting lineups.

James had unsurprisingly become the Eastern Conference's vote leader, receiving 1.07 million votes in three rounds.

In the frontcourt besides him, Paul George (890,000 votes), who broke 20 points for the first time in his career this season and led his team to a comeback as the Eastern Conference leader, and Anthony (700,000), whose popularity remained high, ranked second and third in the frontcourt.

The backcourt was occupied by the Cavaliers' flamboyant guard Kyrie Irving (710,000), and Wade (650,000 votes), whose popularity was also high.

The All-Star game was all about popularity, which was very realistic.

The voting in the East was still relatively normal, but the West was a bit of a mess.

Paul was squeezed out of the All-Star starting lineup by Tang Tian last year, and this year he was squeezed out by Curry.

His vote count after three rounds this year was 650,000, 20,000 votes less than Curry.

Kobe, at the age of 37, was still putting up 27+5+6 stats, and his vote count exceeded James, reaching 1.1 million votes.

However, neither Kobe nor James had the most votes.

In the Western Conference frontcourt, Tang Tian received an incredible 1.5 million votes!

He had nearly 500,000 more votes than Kobe, James, and Durant (1.05 million) behind him!

This gap was so large that it was a bit unbelievable!

But it seemed completely understandable.

A Chinese man competing for the scoring title?

And a swingman?

If this kind of thing happened, the only possible way it wouldn't happen was if the NBA completely blocked the Chinese region's votes.

Otherwise, as long as there was a channel, no matter how complicated, they could cast their votes.

The base of 1.3 billion was terrifying.

When the results of the third round of All-Star voting were officially announced, the Thunder had just finished their game against the Grizzlies.

Facing a tough and difficult opponent, Durant played poorly, scoring only 22 points, and the Thunder ended up losing.

When he saw the voting results.

"Smack!"

The new phone he had just gotten made zero-distance contact with the closet again.

But the phone wasn't broken.

Westbrook didn't know where he found the phone case, but the quality was surprisingly good.

Westbrook's eyelids twitched when he heard the sound, but he was relieved when he saw that the phone wasn't broken.

But before he could finish his breath.

"Smack!"

Durant stepped on the phone, directly crushing it.

The sound startled the teammates in the locker room, but after seeing that it was Durant, they were used to it.

No one knew when it started, but this iPhone seemed to have a feud with Durant.

Westbrook just grinned helplessly.

It seemed that even the best phone case was useless to Durant.

After stepping on the phone, Durant didn't even take the card out, and walked away angrily.

The words from Scarlett's interview were already enough to make him angry, and now he was completely outvoted in the All-Star voting.

This was a double crit!

Who could withstand this!

Back home, Durant was still angry, silently took out his phone, logged into his Twitter account, and posted a brand new status.

"The All-Star game has lost its meaning, as long as you shoot like crazy; the All-Star game has lost its fairness, as long as he comes from a country with a large population."