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Updated: 2005-12-30 15:40

Injured Yao still leads NBA All-Star balloting

尽管目前因伤缺阵,火箭队中锋姚明依然受到球迷的追捧,他在本赛季全明星赛球迷投票中依然高居得票数之首。NBA官方北京时间今晨第二次公布了明年2月19日全明星赛球迷投票的最新结果,目前正在养伤的姚明以1319868票继续名列全联盟之首。  

Injured Yao still leads NBA All-Star balloting

Chinese center Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets remains the top vote recipient in updated National Basketball Association All-Star Game balloting results.

Yao has 1,319,868 votes in global fan balloting with Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, the NBA's number two scorer at 32.7 points a game, second with 1,213,387 votes.

Yao, elected a Western Conference All-Star starter by fans in each of his three seasons, is averaging a career-high 19.5 points and 9.1 rebounds a game for Houston, where the 55th NBA All-Star Game will be played on February 19.

But Yao has beensidelinedsince December 19 following surgery on his left big toe by team physcian Tom Clanton to clean out infection. Yao was suffering fromosteomyelitis, a bone inflammation caused by bacteria.

ReigningNBA Most Valuable Player Steve Nash, a Canadian playing for the Phoenix Suns, is second among Western Conference guards with 981,623.

Yao's Rockets teammate Tracy McGrady is the top vote getter among Western Conference forwards with 1,066,013, followed by Kevin Garnett of the Minnesota Timberwolves with 793,078.

Miami Heat center Shaquille O'Neal is the leader among Eastern Conference players with 1,188,830 votes, owning a 37,910-vote lead on Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James.

Jermaine O'Neal of the Indiana Pacers is second among East forwards with 689,526 votes.

Philadelphia's Allen Iverson, last season's All-Star Game Most Valuable Player, leads Eastern Conference guards with 1,144,250 votes and Miami's Dwyane Wade is second with 827,913.  

(Agencies)

Vocabulary:
 

sideline: to remove or keep from active participation(被迫退出;离开)

osteomyelitis: (骨髓炎)

reigning: exercising power or authority (在位的)

 

 
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