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Chapter 166 166. All-Star Weekend 3
After finishing his miscellaneous endorsements and activities, Liu Ren can finally settle down and enjoy the All-Star Weekend.

The first is the Rookie Challenge on February 2th.

Liu Ren celebrated Valentine's Day for the first time, but he watched the rookie game with his girlfriend in his arms. He felt very sad and indignant.

But Chen Hanni is a hardcore basketball fan, how could she miss such a grand event?As for Liu Ren, she completely threw it aside and concentrated on watching the game.

But Liu Ren looked at it and felt that this year's rookie competition was also a lot more interesting.

The rookie challenge this time is different from the past ten years of first-year and second-year matches that were overwhelmingly one-sided and turned into a slam dunk show at the end.

After this restructuring, the rookie game has a lot more to watch. Lillard, the best rookie of last season, and this year's best rookie favorite, McAway, can be described as sparks hitting the earth.

Lillard showed the ability of a superstar in the second grade, with all kinds of offensive skills at his fingertips, including three-point breakthroughs.

And McAway is the representative of all-roundness to the extreme. His quick first step and good overall view gave Anthony Davis a lot of good shots.

Everyone else in this rookie challenge understands that this game is a duel between Lillard and McAway. It can be seen from the selected lineup that only Lillard and McAway have the ability to score. And organizational skills.

The two teams fought fiercely until the last moment. In the end, the Weber team relied on Lillard's wonderful performance of 44 points and 10 assists to defeat the Hill team led by McAway.

McAway's poor shooting ability has limited his momentum of chasing points at the last moment. Liu Ren also feels a little regretful about becoming Lillard's solo show at the last moment. McAway has been declining year by year since his rookie season. In terms of scoring ability, a pure point guard without scoring ability in this era is no longer practical.

Thackeray and Antetokounmpo played as the starters of the two teams and played soy sauce for a few minutes. Thackeray was a little bit better, and the second-year player was a bit older. He got two passes from McAway and dunked two baskets. Detokunbo, an organizational giant who needs to hold the ball to exert his offensive power, has not touched the ball twice.

McCollum, who had a good relationship with Lillard in the Trail Blazers, played well. He and Lillard cooperated quite well, scoring 22 points and 3 assists.

The MVP of the All-Star Rookie Challenge, of course, fell to Lillard.

Saturday, the second day of the All-Star Weekend, is the day of the triathlon.

During the game in the evening, Monica and Big Lolita took Little Lolita to go shopping, and Chen Hanni continued to drag Liu Ren to watch the game.

The triathlon has also undergone some changes, from individual player events to a battle between East and West.

The Western Conference roster for the Skills Challenge is: Trey Burke of the Jazz, Antetokounmpo of the Lakers, and Damian Lillard of the Blazers.

The Eastern Conference list is: McAway of the 76ers, Oladipo of the Magic, and Irving of the Cavaliers.

Liu Ren was taken aback when he saw Antetokounmpo on the roster. This guy wants to get all the glory!
The individual competition becomes a team competition, and the skill challenge competition, which is not considered popular, becomes even more boring. If it is an individual competition, everyone must fight for the competition that can be written in their career honors, but when it becomes a team competition, there is no The shining personal trophy, both sides played casually, and in the end, the Eastern team Irving's outstanding performance won the championship in the Skills Challenge.

The next three-point contest and slam dunk contest are also the same. Originally, the annual three-point contest was to select the three-point champion and the dunk champion. Now it has become the team champion. The title does not reflect how strong the individual is. Lack of interest.

On the contrary, Lillard's participation in all three events of the triathlon has caused more discussion. As for the bland dunk, not many people care.

Lillard is really an iron man. I don't want to miss a game in the regular season. I don't want to miss every event during the All-Star Weekend.

In the next All-Star Game, Liu Ren saw Lillard again.

On the morning of the 16th, which was Sunday, Liu Ren and Thackeray went with Kobe to participate in the legendary round table meeting.

The roundtable, held on the court at the New Orleans Arena, is the NBA's biggest press conference of the year.

After the basketball hoop and surrounding seats are taken down, the arena can accommodate nearly a thousand people.

Originally, Liu Ren wanted to start earlier, and so did Thackeray. Both of them were very excited about participating in the All-Star Game for the first time, especially Thackeray. Maybe this was the only time in his career that he could compete with these superstars. when they are compared.

But Kobe, as the oldest All-Star with qualifications, of course had to be a little airy, and started half an hour later than the expected interview time.

Liu Ren and Thackeray saw that the boss hadn't started yet, so they could only wait.

It was supposed to arrive at the New Orleans Arena at ten o'clock, but the three of Liu Ren didn't arrive until almost eleven o'clock.

"Wow wow, Liu, Kobe, you are finally here, and our superstar Thackeray! You really made us wait for a long time!" James shouted exaggeratedly when he saw Liu Ren and the others coming.

"Hahaha, LeBron, what are you pretending to be, we just saw you parked and came up, didn't you arrive a few minutes earlier than us?" Kobe laughed.

Regardless of the media and other players who had been waiting for almost an hour, the two joked loudly.

The three or four hundred reporters surrounding them didn't complain too much. It was not easy to wait for the two of them, and sometimes they would not necessarily arrive after waiting for an hour in vain.

Kobe made the media wait for an hour in the All-Star game last year, and then directly found an excuse to say that he had a cold and did not come. James did the same thing, because they are the two leading stars of Nike, and they are very busy these days .

Both Kobe and James were present this time, and the media finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to interview the two.

80.00% of the reporters were around Kobe and James, but the remaining 20.00% of the reporters were dozens of them. So many people filled the huge stadium.

Unlike Kobe James, Anthony, Paul and other superstars who have been famous for many years and have become accustomed to this kind of big scene, Liu Ren and Thackeray who are also very popular, and Curry, who was also selected as an All-Star for the first time and has a good popularity , Wall are a little flustered to deal with media issues.

On the contrary, those powerful All-Stars who don't pay attention to the fans are happy. Millsap, Hibbert, Noah and other All-Stars with tough playing style and unpleasant style don't have a reporter, and the three of them are chatting.

Every year, there are a few powerful All-Stars who seem to come for a cutscene. No matter their character or style of play, they are incompatible with the All-Stars.

And some people are average in strength but very suitable for All-Stars, Thackeray is one of the representatives.

Thackeray replied with a smile to the reporter's question about stepping on dog shit: "Yes, I'm really lucky. I hope I can have such good luck next year. Of course, if that's the case, someone in Houston Individuals would be angrier."

(End of this chapter)