There was one thing that had to be mentioned: as the saying went, Old Zhang truly lived up to his name.
Even though the team's performance in recent years had been less than stellar, he had still managed to sit firmly in the position of "third in the League."
His influence was plain to see~~
As for Chen...
There was nothing left to worry about.
This year's All-Star Game vote leader was basically a foregone conclusion.
Come to think of it, the timing of his 70-plus-point game had been just right~~
The results of the second round of All-Star voting, released over that short period, had indeed attracted considerable attention.
But once the time frame was extended,
that bit of traffic was, in fact, no more than a minor ripple.
Very soon, all the teams plunged back into their packed schedules.
For Oklahoma's fans, the latter half of January was both blissful and agonizing.
The blissful part was that, over those fifteen days in late January, the Thunder had gone 7–1, consistently maintaining their excellent dominance across the League.
At the same time, Chen Xi had thoroughly entered rampage mode.
Across those eight games, he averaged 37.6 points, 8.5 rebounds, 7.6 assists, 2.3 steals, and 1.3 blocks per game. Throughout the second half of January, he had been the undisputed best player in the entire League.
Adding in that extremely high-scoring performance at the start of the month, as well as his exceptionally steady offensive output in normal form,
Chen Xi had put up an outrageous average of 40.2 points for the entire month of January!
That exaggerated, sustained scoring display had also left Thunder fans thoroughly satisfied.
However, they had their share of troubles, too.
Those were the team's other two stars.
Westbrook and Davis had spent all of