Bishop of the Abyss

Chapter 58 58. All-Star Weekend

On February 2, the annual NBA All-Star Weekend officially kicked off.

In this campaign, as of the All-Star Weekend, the Timberwolves had a record of 44 wins and 11 losses, overwhelming the Suns, Spurs and other teams behind them, and kept their No. [-] position in the Western Conference.

This also means that Timberwolves head coach Luke will serve as the head coach of this year's Western Conference All-Stars.

The All-Star Weekend is generally held for three days. The first day is the rookie challenge and some star exhibition games, and the second day is the anticipated slam dunk contest and so on.

Until the end of the much-anticipated All-Star Game on the last day, the three-day All-Star Weekend will officially come to an end.

Although Luke is the coach of the Western Conference in this year's All-Star Game, in fact, Luke was relatively free in the first two days.

After all, there are no rookies in the Timberwolves this year to participate in the rookie challenge, and no one participated in the dunk, three-point and skill contests on the second day.

So the only thing that really needs Luke to attend is the finale of the All-Star Game on the final day.

In fact, although Nehbar was selected by the Rockets in the 2002 draft, this year is Nehbar's first season after landing in the NBA.

And Nehbar also received an invitation from the league to invite Nehbar to play on behalf of the first-year rookie team.

However, Nehbar politely refused Luke's invitation to the league, because Nehbar no longer needed to prove himself in the Rookie Challenge.

This year's Nehbar has been selected to the All-Star lineup, and Luke doesn't want to keep his disciples too busy.

The All-Star Weekend is all about relaxation. If possible, Luke hopes that the whole team will have a good sleep at home during the holiday.

In addition, the All-Star is held in mid-February every year. After the All-Star Weekend, each team will enter an intense and intense battle for the playoffs.

In a sense, the All-Star can be regarded as the last indulgence of each team, and it can also be regarded as the watershed of the entire season.

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In addition to a few players who will participate in the All-Star Game, Luke will go to Denver this year, as well as other players from the team.

These people came to the scene to cheer for their teammates. After all, the All-Stars are all about the excitement. Instead of being decadent at home these two days, it is better to come to Denver to join in the excitement.

What's more, this year is the first time in the team's head coach Luke's career to coach a game as an All-Star head coach. This alone is enough to make people go together.

Even if Luke doesn't say anything even if everyone doesn't come, the enthusiasm for supporting the head coach is very high.

On the first day of the All-Star Weekend, the league held a performance of the Rookie Challenge.

This year's rookie challenge actually didn't have much suspense, it was because the second-year rookie team was too monstrous.

James, Wade, Anthony, Bosh, these names are simply resounding.

Among them, these players are not only the absolute main players in their respective teams, but they have also been selected to the All-Star lineup. With this configuration, the second-year rookie team really can't find a reason to lose.

Even this year's first-year rookie team also has outstanding talent players such as Howard, Harris, Iguodala and Al Jefferson.

But if you compare it with the second grade, it is obviously a little immature.

The final result of the game was also as expected by Luke. The second-year rookie team directly hoisted the first-year team with a crushing attitude.

It only took half a quarter to widen the point difference to more than 30 points, which completely lost the suspense of the game.

Until the end of the game, the second-year rookie team beat the first-year team by 133:101, 32 points, and won the rookie challenge, which was not much suspense.

As for the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, it was won by Carmelo Anthony who played for the host Denver Nuggets.

It is worth mentioning that the Nuggets indicated to the league that Anthony will miss this year's All-Star Game, but Anthony, who was on the injured list, appeared in the Rookie Challenge. This is really incredible.

I don't know if this is the hype of the Nuggets. Anyway, there is a high probability that Anthony will not appear in the All-Star Game. After all, Weber has already replaced him in the All-Star Game.

If the Nuggets stand up at this time and say that Anthony can participate in the game, then Webber still wants this old face!

In the whole game, Anthony scored 31 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, and won the first MVP trophy in his career.

Even if it's just the AMVP trophy, it still has something to do with the MVP after all...

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"Coach, Cameron is so strong. I think his offensive ability is better than LeBron and Dwyane."

"Thanks to you not allowing me to participate in this year's Rookie Challenge, even if I did, I would be humiliating myself. This is really a game without a sense of participation."

"It is estimated that Cameron should become the most dazzling existence in the [-] draft." On the way back to the hotel, Nehbar also showed a look of lingering fear.

Originally, when he learned that he was sent to the All-Star Game by fans this year, Nehbar still had some floating thoughts, thinking that he had already stood at the top of the NBA.

But when Nehbar saw the performance of Anthony, a second-year rookie, Nehbar suddenly became less confident.

Nehbar asked himself whether he could reach the heights of Anthony, Wade and James next year. Nehbar thought about this question for a long time, but in the end Nehbar still gave himself a negative.

Because the performance of these guys is too monstrous, so monstrous that even Nehbar, the "European genius", is envious.

"Some things can't just be seen on the surface. Cameron's offensive ability is indeed very strong, but he is not the strongest player this year."

"Scoring is not the only way to score on the field. I know what you are thinking. Your personal style of play is different from that of Cameron, so there is no need to take the initiative to look down on yourself."

"Instead of imitating Cameron's offensive methods, it is better to develop the field that he is good at to the extreme."

"Remember, Boki, you are a disciple brought out by me. Whether in Europe or the United States, you have no reason to be inferior to others." Facing this meek disciple, Luke can always calm down guide it.

Even in Europe, many people were so jealous because of this incident that they thought that Luke was too partial to Nehbar, so partial that he could no longer speak coldly.

Luke has always been a cold and ruthless image in the player's impression, giving people the feeling of an emotionless machine.

But only when teaching Nehbar, Luke will be very patient. Even Scola, who also played under Luke, did not have this treatment.

You know, Scola was the star of the Tau team at that time. Before the rise of Nehbar, the Tau team was able to quickly stand on the top of Europe, and Scola could contribute a lot to it.

But even so, Luke didn't make a small fuss for Scola alone.

If it is the direction of career development and technical guidance on the court, Luke treats them equally, but in terms of personal emotions, the gap between Luke's treatment of Nehbar and others is really huge.

Once the Tau team got together more than once to discuss a question, if one day Nehbar was seriously injured by a malicious foul on the court, what kind of crazy move Luke would make.

Regarding this matter, the Tau team had seriously discussed this issue at that time, but no matter how many times they discussed it, there was no result.

Because that picture is really unimaginable to everyone, they can only say that they either retire on the spot or buy a cemetery in advance. As for the third possibility, it will basically not appear!
Although Luke's tone of voice is still cold, Nehbar sounds like the best encouragement, "Don't worry, coach, as long as you are still optimistic about me, then I don't think I have any reason to fail."

"By the way, coach, why don't you watch the three-point contest tomorrow. Ray participated in the three-point contest this year. I think he can win the championship!" Mentioning the three-point shooter Ray Allen, Nehbar obviously came interest.

It's hard to imagine that the idol of this guy who grew up in Europe turned out to be Ray Allen.

It's just a pity that Nehbar hadn't joined the team when the Timberwolves played against the Supersonics this season, so if Nehbar wants to meet his real idol, he has to wait until tomorrow's three-point contest at the earliest.

Of course, both Ray Allen and Nehbar were selected to the All-Star team this year. For Nehbar, this year's All-Star Weekend will definitely make him unforgettable.

"Forget it, I don't want to see you look depressed." Luke waved his hand meaningfully.

(End of this chapter)