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Chapter 217 Rookie Challenge

The NBA All-Star Game (NBA All Star Game) was first held on March 1951, 3 by the National Basketball Association and evolved into an annual exhibition game where NBA stars gather.Every year, two teams composed of the best players from the eastern and western regions hold a match to decide the winner.

NBA All-Stars began in 1951.This was the idea of ​​Haskell Cohen, then head of public relations at NBA headquarters.Originally, Cohen was just trying to imitate the All-Star Game of the National League Baseball.The baseball All-Star Game is scheduled to be held in the middle of each season, so the NBA All-Star Game also follows this habit.

After evolution, the contemporary All-Star Game has developed into "All-Star Weekend", which lasts for 3 days, including "All-Star Gala", "Rookie All-Star Challenge", "Slam Dunk Contest", "Three-Point Long Shot Contest", "Basketball Skills Challenge", "Shooting Relay" and "All-Star Game".The most exciting ones are the "Slam Dunk Contest" and "All-Star Game".In the first slam dunk contest in 1984, Larry Nance of the Phoenix Suns held a ball in each hand, jumped up and smashed the two balls into the basket respectively, called "Thunderbolt Windmill". In 1991, Dee Brown of the Celtics was blindfolded with his right arm and successfully dunked with the ball in his left hand. This trick is called "deadly bat".Jordan of the Bulls stepped on the free throw line to take off and fly to the basket in 1992, earning the title of "flying man".In addition, there are various competitions and performances for fans and reporters during the "All-Star Weekend", including the "Million Dollar Super Long Shot Competition".

After that, the All-Star Game has undergone several important reforms. First, the NBA has revised the selection method: the voting ratio has been adjusted, and players and the media can also participate in voting.Fan votes accounted for 50%, media and player votes each accounted for 25%.

After that, the All-Star Game underwent a comprehensive reform, canceling the previous confrontation between the East and the West, and adopting the method of two All-Star captains selecting a mixed team from the players selected for the All-Star Game.

This is the system of the All-Star game that everyone has seen in recent years. Until 2020, with Kobe’s death, the NBA officially announced that in order to increase the competitiveness of the All-Star Game, make more contributions to charities, and pay tribute to the Lakers legend Kobe Bryant who unfortunately passed away in a plane crash on January 1 local time. Team Nice and Team LeBron will battle it out for the win every quarter.Before the end of the game, the timer will be turned off and the total goal score will be displayed.

The target total is the score of the leading team through the first three quarters plus 24 points -- 24 represents Kobe Bryant's jersey number in his final 10 seasons.There is no time limit for the final quarter, and the team that reaches the target total score first wins the game.

Moreover, NBA President Xiao Hua also announced that the NBA All-Star Game MVP Award will be permanently named "Kobe Bryant MVP Award" to commemorate Kobe who died in the crash before.

The time soon came to February 2th. Today is the first day of the All-Star Game. The Rookie Challenge is held first. The Rookie Challenge is also a very important event in the All-Star Weekend. Today, the Rookie Challenge has become the M country team to challenge the World Team. Because Jiang Bei was selected for the All-Star Game, he will not participate in the Rookie Challenge. Today Jiang Bei just watched the game as a spectator.

The highlight of Jiangbei will be the slam dunk contest on the second day and the All-Star Game on the last day. He will act as a spectator at other times. This is Jiangbei's first time to participate in the All-Star Weekend, and it is also the first time in his life to watch the All-Star Rookie Challenge live. I still look forward to what kind of performance they will have.

The game time of the Rookie Challenge is divided into two halves, 20 minutes each. This year's Rookie Challenge is quite intense. Except for this year's rookie Jiangbei who did not participate, several outstanding rookies participated in this year's Rookie Challenge, including some previous players who are still in their rookie year.

This rookie challenge is the first show of this year's All-Star Weekend, and it is also a warm-up for the final day of the All-Star Game.

The M country team is led by a second-year rookie, last year's No. [-] pick Anthony Edwards, and Ramelo Ball from the Hornets. It can be said that this year's M country team is still so strong and has a great chance of winning.

The world team is led by Killian Hayes from country F. Relatively speaking, it is slightly inferior to the team from country M, but its strength is also very strong.

From the strength of the lineup on paper, the M-National United team is undoubtedly much stronger than the World United team!However, the outside world is full of expectations about whether Edwards can win the double MVP of the rookie game and the All-Star game!

After the start of the game, the World United team took the lead. After scoring consecutive points, they quickly opened up the score until the end of the first half and still led the M-National United team by as much as 131 points.However, after returning from the third quarter, the M-National League broke out and took away the game. The final score was 151-[-] for the M-National League!
The rookie three-point contest that was promised turned into a rookie slam dunk contest. The whole game was full of talent and violent aesthetics. The joyful atmosphere always permeated the field and inside and outside the field. It was still very exciting. For Jiang Bei who did not participate, it was a little regretful, because if Jiang Bei was added, the World United might be able to win the game.

The most unexpected thing is that the MVP of this NBA All-Star Rookie Game was given to the Hornets' LaMelo Ball!

But this is still very fair in Jiangbei's view, because Ramello's performance is indeed very good.Passing is undoubtedly the biggest advantage of Ramello Ball. He has the best overall passing ability among the current rookies. He can quickly find his teammates' shooting opportunities through his excellent dribbling skills and stable dribbling rhythm. This is also an important reason why he was able to win the MVP of this rookie challenge this time.

After more than a season of training, Lamelo Ball can be said to be developing towards the true core of a team. I believe that it will not be long before Lamelo will officially step into the core position of the team.

After watching the Rookie Challenge, Jiang Bei and Ayton were chatting about some brilliant goals. Jiang Bei suddenly asked, "How did you perform when you participated in the Rookie Challenge?"

"Well... I didn't participate. I just suffered from left ankle soreness that year, so I withdrew from the rookie challenge that year. Nicole Meli participated in instead of me!"

"Hey, both of us have never participated in the rookie challenge!" Jiang Bei sighed.

(End of this chapter)