the rest, only noise

Chapter 1282
The Rookie Challenge became the hors d'oeuvres of All-Star Weekend.

The game started the day before the main game, and the two sides were rookies from the east and west.

Bryant was especially excited about this, because he finally had the opportunity to prove that he was the best in his class in an official game.

Because of the NBA's [-]th anniversary celebration, the league hopes that everything will become more meaningful than usual.

Therefore, they invited the "two Reeds" of the 60s to come out and coach the eastern and western rookie teams respectively.

Reed Holzman, the original godfather of the Knicks, coached the Western Conference rookie team.

Cardinal Reid Auerbach coaches the rookie Eastern Conference.

"Let me declare first, even if it's a rookie competition, I don't want to lose to you."

When Holzman greeted Auerbach in midfield, he said this.

Auerbach snorted, "Seriously? Haven't you lost enough?"

Louis and Wilson, who were sitting in the front row, heard the conversation between the two Reids and laughed on the spot.

"Coach, you should know those two coaches, right?" Wilson asked.

This is to say that although these two were not active in the front line when Louis made his debut, their legends are still circulating in the world. Moreover, the two Reid's disciples are all over the league.

When Wilson was in New York, he basically had nodding acquaintances with this group of celebrities.

After hearing what he said, Louis just wanted to talk about the meaning of those two old guys.

"Of course I know them, but it was too late when I met them, so I didn't have the chance to fight against each other on the field." Louis said figuratively, "However, although their ideas are more or less outdated, their experience is still there. It's not a bad thing for a rebellious boy like Bean to educate them."

The Lakers contributed two players to the Rookie Challenge this year. Louis and Wilson also came to the scene to give them a platform tonight.

From the beginning of the game, Kobe was extremely aggressive.

He kept asking for the ball, attacking the paint.

Although he played a bit alone, it can indeed be seen that his combat power is at the top level among his peers.

Other super rookies, like Rahim, are a bit too modest.

Nash basically only fed the ball to Kobe.

Walker's style of play can be called a super killer when he doesn't suffer losses in the confrontation. Camby also played well. The eye-catching superstar Allen Iverson did not perform under Auerbach as independent as Louis thought.

No, or it should be said that Louis can't see anything unique about Iverson's style of play.

When his teammates played well, he was very reasonable and clear-headed, and he never forced a shot. He sent 19 points and 9 assists in the game, leading the Western Conference to win the Rookie Challenge.

Bryant scored a game-high 26 points, but the MVP of the Rookie Challenge belongs to Iverson.

This result made Kobe very angry.

"I scored 26 points!" Bryant complained to Wilson, "I'm the MVP!"

Wilson laughed: "You're not the MVP, scoring doesn't mean everything."

"I scored most of the difficult goals, I was always helping the team clear..."

Louis asked: "Then have you ever thought that the reason you make so many difficult shots is because you don't have teammates in your eyes?"

At this time, Kobe moved his clever little head and argued with Louis: "Yes, I only have Steve as a teammate on the court!"

"You are sophistry!" Louis said dissatisfied.

"Isn't that right?" Kobe said with floating eyes, "AI belongs to the Spurs..."

"you……"

Ke Shaoxia made Uncle Lu very angry.

That night, Louie didn't say a word to Kobe again.

Before leaving, Wilson reminded Kobe: "Tomorrow's slam dunk contest should be played well. If it is messed up, the coach will have to make use of it."

At this time, Kobe suddenly smiled: "Ben, have you become rebellious too? How dare you criticize the coach?"

Then Wilson stopped talking to him.

When Nash returned to join Kobe after being interviewed by the Canadian media, he asked Louie and Wilson, Kobe said: "Coach and Ben are very disappointed with your performance, because you didn't pass me a few more balls, otherwise how could AI steal my MVP?"

"Steal?" Nash wondered, "It seems that no one voted for you, but AI was the unanimously elected MVP."

Kobe said paranoidly: "It's because you didn't pass me a few more balls that this happened!"

Having said that, Nash also knew that Kobe was talking nonsense.

He believed that Louis and Wilson also left without saying hello because of the naivety of high school students.

Don't mention them, he wants to leave. This person really doesn't know what to do. He passed all the balls he could pass tonight, and it's strange that he doesn't pass too much. What is it...

After Louis went back, he looked at the list of players who will participate in the slam dunk contest tomorrow.

After reading the list, he knew why the league canceled the dunk contest in 1998.

First of all, don't mention Kobe, let's look at other contestants.

Chris Carr, if you don't know him, you're right, and neither does Louie.

Michael Finley, Louie has taken him for a year, so he knows that his physical fitness is not bad, but he is definitely not at the level that can contribute to the kind of dunk that makes people shout OMG.

Darvin Ham SF, whom Louie only knows about from a time he smashed a rebound in college, will take over from Vogel as babysitter for LeBron and Mee in the future, good luck to him.

Ray Allen, people always say, "Don't look at the gentleman Ray who only shoots three-pointers. When he was young, he was also a dunker who flew into the sky and escaped from the ground." The reason is that he participated in the slam dunk contest.According to this logic, Zhou Qi also participated in the slam dunk contest and contributed a 360-degree turning dunk that is very elegant for a seven-footer with his wingspan, so Zhou Qi must also be a dunker.

(In addition, the fat man in the Basketball Association who doesn't know how to play, and the old Wang of the Bayi team should all be dunkers. They have all participated in the CBA dunk contest)
Bob Sula, the so-called whites can fly refers to the fact that certain whites can complete dunks above the average level among black players.

Originally, Iverson was going to participate, but later he didn't sign up.

Then, the only thing presented to the fans is this completely uninteresting entry list.

This is the only slam dunk contest in the history of the NBA in which the personal qualities and dunk quality of dunkers are so low that they can be compared with the CBA.

This year, the NBA also adopted a brand-new method. In the first round, each dunker will get three dunk opportunities, and then the referee will score their dunks in this round.In the final round, each dunker will perform two dunks, and the highest score of these two dunks is the player's final score.

Kobe is the only one among these people who is ready, and he comes out with the confidence of winning.

Having said that, he did not buckle well in the preliminaries and only scored 37 points in the end.

If Sura or someone else performed better, history would have changed. Unfortunately, the two were more useless than the other, and finally allowed Kobe to enter the finals.

In other words, Kobe entered the finals with 37 points in the preliminaries.

In other words, there are three people who scored 37 points or less.

You can imagine how unbearable that scene was.

In the final, Bryant thrilled the crowd — including his famous prom date, Brandy — with a crotch dunk that automatically replayed in all of Comey's minds.

Then Finley did one of the worst side dunks Louie had ever seen.

Carl hits a mediocre windmill.

Then, Kobe made a mistake on the second dunk, but since the finals only looked at the highest score, the mistake was harmless.

In the end, it was Finley's double dunk. Since he failed to succeed, Kobe won the slam dunk contest with 49 points for a crotch dunk.

Louis felt dizzy after watching the whole process.

Stupid game system, poor dunk performance, the whole process is not boring, but embarrassing for the players, this is like a garbage movie that can't fast forward from the beginning to the end.

Kobe won, but he also lost. This is the worst dunk contest in NBA history, unprecedented.

Winning a slam dunk contest like this with a crotch dunk that doesn't even rank in the top ten dunks of his career is nothing glorious.

Hardcore veteran Komi absolutely wants to delete all memories of the 1997 slam dunk contest, just like hardcore Qiao Mi can't help hating Jordan during the Wizards period.

In the subsequent three-point contest, the Lakers' starting point guard Dana Barros did not perform well and was eliminated in the preliminaries. Steve Kerr, the future top [-] coach in NBA history, played bravely and won the three-point crown.

Then, today's dinner.

The All-Star Game and the award ceremony of the NBA's top [-] stars.

(End of this chapter)