I really don't want to win the MVP

Chapter 188 All-Star Weekend (3)

January 1, the second day of the 14 NBA All-Star Weekend.

On this day, the skill challenge was first arranged, followed by the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest.

The NBA All-Star Skills Game is a new project that entered the All-Star Weekend in 2003. Its purpose is to showcase the skills of the best point guards in the league.

The content of the game is that four players complete several links such as dribbling, passing and shooting in a field with various obstacles within the specified time.

There are obstacles and prescribed routes in the game. Players must comprehensively use skills such as dribbling, passing and shooting to complete the prescribed projects, and the time spent determines the outcome.

In 2002, the American Dream Team 58 composed of NBA players failed to return home at the Indiana World Championships. They were defeated by Argentina and the former Yugoslavia. They not only made the NBA lose face, but also ended the American The men's basketball team won a record of [-] games in a row in international competitions, and made the Americans miss the semi-finals in the World Championships for the first time.

The painful experience of the NBA realized that the players' advocacy of physical confrontation and personal performance, as well as their negligence of basic skills, were the key to the defeat of the Dream Five team.

In order to encourage players to pay attention to the three basic skills of "dribbling, passing, and shooting", and to allow American basketball to regain its lost aura, in 2003, the NBA added a new event to the All-Star Weekend - the Skills Competition.

Although the purpose of the NBA Skills Challenge is to set this up, NBA stars don't admit it very much, so the popularity of the NBA Skills Challenge has been very low, and now even big players like Anthony Towns Can participate.

If it wasn't for the Knicks owner Dolan, Jiang Mu wouldn't be willing to participate at all.

But now Jiang Mu once again proposed to withdraw from the skill challenge competition on the grounds that his body had not fully recovered.

Due to Jiang Mu's wrist injury, the team doctor suggested a two-week rest, and February 2 happened to be the last day, so Dolan agreed without thinking too much.

On February 2, the NBA official website officially announced the final list of the 5 All-Star Game Skills Challenge. These people are: Patrick Beverly, DeMarcus Cousins, Draymond Green, Anthony - Davis, CJ McCollum, Karl-Anthony Towns, Isaiah Thomas, Jordan Clarkson.

Just after the announcement, Beverly immediately updated a dynamic:
China Jiang suffered a wrist injury which cost him the chance to compete in the Skills Challenge, but I would say it was a good thing for him!Because healthy he will lose to me in the skills challenge!This incident allowed him to save his face!

For a while, many fans once again started the crazy hate mode.

"What the hell? Do you really think of yourself as a character? China Jiang, who averaged 4 three-pointers and 11.2 assists per game, will lose to you in the Skills Challenge, who averaged 0.4 three-pointers and 3 assists per game?"

"It is important to know that passing and shooting are the most prone to mistakes in the skills challenge. You may be good at sinking, so let's forget about passing? Especially your shooting, don't be too eye-catching!"

"What else do you have besides a grinning mouth?"

Beverly's last update: On February 2th, I will shut you up!
This small episode more or less added some gimmicks and fun to this year's Skills Challenge.

But what made Beverly depressed was that he failed to pass the ball into the net twice in a row in the preliminaries, and he also made the second three-pointer before making it. He didn't even make it to the finals.

A flushed Beverley left without even watching the final.

The finalists were Thomas Jr. of the Boston Celtics and Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Jiang Mu knew the result a long time ago, but still couldn't help sighing: Downs is indeed a big man with excellent skills.

The trajectory of history has not changed. Towns defeated Thomas Jr. with a three-pointer lore and won the championship of the Skills Challenge.

Immediately after the skill challenge, someone laughed.

"It's a joke! So many outside players didn't win the skill challenge, but were instead won by an inside player with a height of more than 210 centimeters. It's ridiculous!"

"The most ridiculous thing is Beverly! Tell others to shut up! Didn't even make it to the finals!"

"Indeed! Why did he save face by saying that China Jiang didn't participate? Pooh!"

"Beverly was at a disadvantage in the fight with Jiang Mu, but in fact it was wishful thinking, because he never responded to him at all! The best counterattack is to ignore it!"

"That's right! After all, the two are not on the same level at all. He thought he was on the second floor, and Jiang was on the first floor. In fact, Jiang had already reached the fifth floor!"

The attention of the three-point contest is relatively high, because last year Stephen Curry made consecutive hits at the last moment, and finally scored 27 points, defeating Klay Thompson and Irving, and won the championship.

And this year's Curry and Thompson are still the biggest favorites to win the championship.

The rules of the three-point game have been changing, but it is always the winner who gets the most points in 1 minute.

Before 2014, there were a total of 5 shooting points in the three-point shooting contest: two symmetrically at the bottom, two symmetrically at a 45-degree angle, and the other at the top of the arc.There are 5 balls in each shooting point, of which 4 balls (orange ball) get 2 point, and the final flower ball (red, blue, white) gets 30 points, the full score is [-] points.

Since 2014, each participating player can freely designate a dominant point among the 5 shooting points, and place 5 bouquets on the dominant point, while other shooting points remain unchanged.Therefore, since 2014, the full score of the three-point contest has become 34 points.

The game is normally divided into two rounds, and each player has one chance in each round.

The top three in the first round advance to the final.

The second round is played in the same way as the first round. If there is a situation of the same score in the final, there will be an extra match until the ranking is obtained.

Jiang Mu remembered that Klay Thompson was the champion of this year's three-point shooting contest, but Jiang Mu was still very interested in the process, because it is hard to say who will win after the shooting reaches the top level in the NBA. It all depends on who is on the scene. Feel better.

Before that, Jiang Mu's voice to participate in the three-point contest was also very high, but it was disappointing that Jiang Mu did not sign up for it.

Like every year LeBron James is called to participate in the slam dunk contest, but he never participates.

The process of the game remains unchanged. This year's three-point contest has become an infighting between the Splash Brothers, and both Splash Brothers entered the final.

In the final, Klay Thompson scored 11 of the last 10 goals in a row, defeated Curry with a total of 27 points, and won the three-point contest championship trophy for the first time in his career.

After the game, Curry and Thompson walked up to Jiang Mu and gave Jiang Mu a high five.

The reporters were keen to capture this scene. In the post-match news push messages, Jiang Mu's fans also expressed a lot of regret.

Some people say that if Jiang Mu participates, he will definitely be the champion. This kind of debate among fans happens every day.

Such as star strength, star ranking, or quarrels about the historical status of stars.

Like a quarrel between lovers, it happens every day.

(End of this chapter)