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Chapter 98 Others' All-Stars
On February 2009, 2, the third day of the All-Star Weekend, after the aftermath of the Rookie Challenge dissipated, the highly anticipated All-Star Slam Dunk Contest was about to debut, but before the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, it was also today There are also the All-Star Shooting Star Contest, the All-Star Skills Challenge, and the All-Star Three-Point Contest, and the slam dunk contest, which is the most important, will naturally be held at the end.

Although there are no events for Yan Hua and others to participate in today, according to the relevant requirements of the league, all NBA players who arrive in Phoenix to participate in the All-Star Weekend must sit on the sidelines, support the players participating in the game, and wave the flag. Yan Hua and others are cheering on their teammate Derek Rose in the Rookie Challenge today. As an excellent point guard and a rookie eager to prove himself, Derek Rose signed up for this year's All-Rookie Star Skills Contest.

In the first Shooting Star Contest, the Detroit Pistons, led by the Pistons legend and the famous "Bad Boy" Lambir, came from behind and attacked the host Phoenix Suns led by the veteran Marrill after their mediocre performance in the preliminaries. Won this year's All-Star shooting star trophy.

After the shooting star game, it was the All-Star Skills Competition that Derrick Rose signed up for. After missing the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, the All-Star Skills Competition was originally for Derrick Rose. Participating in the game became Rose's last reliance in this All-Star Game. In order to avoid the embarrassing situation of no results, Rose must show [-]% strength and the best state to face this situation. game.

Joining Rose in the All-Star Skills Competition, there are Nets' Devin Harris, Spurs' Tony Parker, and Cavaliers' Mo Williams. The Skills Challenge entered the All-Star Weekend in 2003. This is a stage specially set up for point guards to show their basketball skills, and the main content of the game is that the four players participating in the competition are in a venue with various obstacles within the specified time Complete several links such as dribbling, passing and shooting, and the player who takes the least time will become the final winner.

In the first round, except for Tony Parker who made a mistake because of his impatience, the other three players completed all the projects perfectly. In the final, Derek, who played last - Rose defeated Devin Harris in 35.3 seconds and won the championship of this All-Star Skills Contest. After defeating Devin Harris, Rose also looked proudly towards Yan Hua and others. waved in the direction.

Compared with the skills contest, the players who participated in the three-point contest have always been the most. The players who signed up for this three-point contest are Mike Bibby, Daquan Cook, Danny Granger, Jason- Kapono, Rashad Lewis and Roger Mason have a total of six players. Perhaps it is too easy. Whether it is the first round or the final, all the players participating in the game seem to be out of shape. A total of 9 shots, and no one scored more than 20 points. Rashard Lewis even shot a low score of 7 points in the final. If it weren't for the lucky colored ball, Lewis would have almost tied the score. Jordan maintained the record for the lowest score, and Daquan Cook, who scored the highest score in both rounds, won the championship of this three-point contest without any suspense.

After all the preparations for the previous three items are over, the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, which is the focus of all games today and the most important thing, kicked off under the eyes of everyone. In this slam dunk contest, Germany, the defending champion, White Howard also fully showed his playful side. In the second round of the final, Howard actually acted as a springboard for his competitor Nate Robinson. When Nate Robinson dunked , Howard stood under the basket and let Nate Robinson perform a leaping dunk, and Nate Robinson also successfully defeated Dwight Howard with this dunk, and won the championship of this All-Star Slam Dunk Contest.

After the slam dunk contest ended, all the events on the third day of the All-Star Weekend were over. Although today's slam dunk contest was still very lively, the atmosphere of the audience was not completely mobilized, because compared to the previous few Compared with the slam dunk contest of the season, this year's slam dunk contest is too dull. From the beginning to the end, there are no difficult dunk moves or particularly creative dunk moves. Not to mention the audience, even those sitting on the sidelines Yan Hua, Rose and the others watched and shook their heads, so at the end of the game, the aggressive Rose grabbed Yan Hua and Gordon and asked them to sign up for next season's slam dunk contest with him.

After the so-so slam dunk contest, the All-Star Weekend is only the All-Star Game, which is also the main meal of the All-Star Weekend. In recent seasons, the NBA has also entered a new round of alternation between the old and the new. The stars of the 96 generation have all begun to decline, and even entered the twilight years of their careers, especially the players of the O'Neal generation before that, now only O'Neal is left, and the one who was once highly praised by the league" Many of the "Four Great Forwards" and "Four Great Shooting Guards" have already begun to stay away from the All-Star stage. They are replaced by Pan, who has begun to rise in recent seasons and has successively stepped onto the All-Star stage. 03 generation.

If the year 2000 is used as the boundary, among all the 24 All-Stars in the Phoenix All-Star Game, less than 2000 entered the NBA before 10. It can be expected that in the next few years, there will be more players. The stars of the older generation continue to leave the stage until they are all replaced by the new generation of stars.

Generally speaking, in the All-Star Game, as long as the home team hosts the All-Star Weekend and a player is selected as the All-Star starter, the rest of the All-Stars will basically support him to compete for the MVP. Of course, if you want to compete for the MVP, then You also need to have enough qualifications, otherwise, in the All-Star where big shots are everywhere, how do you get these big shots to support you?Therefore, Stoudemire, who is a little less qualified, has no way to compete for the All-Star MVP at his home court.

However, in addition to Stoudemire, the Phoenix Suns have another player selected for the All-Star, and that is Shaq O'Neal. As the oldest and most qualified All-Star in this year's All-Star, O'Neal can easily get the rest With the support of the bosses, and with O'Neal's grade and current state, this year's All-Star Game is very likely to be O'Neal's last All-Star Game, so before the All-Star Game started, O'Neal It has received the support of many bigwigs in the West.

Although O'Neal is only a backup center in the Western Conference, and he doesn't play much time, but when O'Neal is on the court, the entire Western Conference All-Stars are full of stars, and all the players on the field are playing for O'Neal. The former teammate Kobe Bryant, who has always had a gap, also cleared up his suspicions with O'Neal in this game, and played beautiful connections with O'Neal many times on the court.

Shaq O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, and the Western All-Star head coach Phil Jackson sitting on the sidelines, many viewers and fans who are familiar with them, have a feeling in a trance, that is to go back in time, as if Back to the era when the OK group killed the Quartet.

As the only team in the post-Jordan era that established a dynasty and ruled the league, the Lakers dynasty in the OK era is an eternal memory in the minds of many fans. The OK combination suddenly disintegrated.

Even after they separated, O'Neill and Kobe were still strangers. The two were not polite when evaluating each other. Growth, when the two looked at each other again and recalled the year, their mentality also quietly changed. O'Neill, who wandered around for the fifth championship trophy, also began to miss his teammates who fought side by side with him back then, and only Kobe, who was struggling with the Lakers alone, seemed to be able to understand O'Neal back then.

So in the last two seasons, O'Neal and Kobe have rarely commented on their former partners with malice. Even in the games where they encountered each other, O'Neal and Kobe would still greet each other. Everything seemed to be on the good side. They are developing, and both O'Neill and Kobe are waiting for an opportunity, waiting for an opportunity to let them settle their suspicions.

And this year's All-Star Game, for the two of them, is a perfect opportunity to play, so O'Neal and Kobe just after the opening, in the audience of nearly [-] spectators, and tens of millions of fans around the world Under the common witness of each other, they hugged each other and let go of their suspicions.

In the end, when the Western All-Stars defeated the Eastern All-Stars by a score of 146 to 119, Shaq O'Neal and Kobe Bryant jointly lifted the All-Star MVP trophy for the 2008-2009 season.

(End of this chapter)