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Chapter 218 Kobe's Regret

In the early morning of the second day, the skill contest was held first. The NBA All-Star Skills Game was a new project that entered the All-Star Weekend in 2003. Its purpose was 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.The race has obstacles and a prescribed course.Players must comprehensively use skills such as dribbling, passing and shooting to complete the prescribed items, and the time spent determines the outcome.

In 2002, the M Country Dream Five Team composed of NBA players failed in the Indiana World Championships held in China.They were defeated by the Argentine team and the former Yugoslavia team. Not only did they embarrass the NBA, but they also ended their record of winning 58 games in a row in international competitions.

The painful experience of the NBA realized that players’ admiration for physical confrontation and personal performance and 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 in order to allow M’s basketball to regain its lost aura, it was only in 2003 that the NBA All-Star Weekend added a new event—the skill competition.

After the referee's whistle, the players take the ball and complete a layup, then dribble through four obstacles, then they have five chances to complete the chest pass (if it is consistent with the previous action, this will be a beautiful running pass), then there is another ground pass test, and then the players will take a jump shot from 7.63 meters.The two players with the shortest time in the preliminaries will enter the final, and the player with the shortest time in the final will win the championship.

And the skills competition has bonuses. In the final, four contestants will compete for a total prize of 50000 US dollars. The champion will get 25000 US dollars, the runner-up will get 15000 US dollars, and the third and fourth will each get 5000 US dollars.

Most of the champions of the skills competition are excellent point guards in the league, such as Nash, Paul, Rose, Curry, Parker, and Lillard have all won the championship of the skills competition. Kobe is slightly worse in this respect.

Kobe Bryant also participated in a skills competition, that was in the 06-07 season, in Las Vegas, the final outcome was that Kobe missed the championship.Of course, it's normal for Kobe to miss the championship. Kobe's advantage is the strength of his waist and abdomen. He may have advantages in terms of pulling the bar and shooting. He is really not particularly top-notch when it comes to simply dribbling and passing, but the highlight is the contestants of that session.

Moreover, the lineup of the skills competition at that time was quite luxurious. Chris Paul, the former No. 1 point guard in the league, No.[-] in the league for a long time, LeBron James, the legendary star Kobe Bryant, and the equally legendary Dwyane Wade, I am afraid that looking at the history of the NBA, there is no more luxurious skill challenge lineup than this.

It's just that apart from Kobe, the others were not too famous.Not to mention, Kobe won the first place in the preliminaries. At that time, Paul was still relatively young, and James’ skills were of course relatively rough. Kobe won the first place and entered the finals with Wade. However, Wade’s performance in the finals was too perfect.

This is a regret for Kobe Bryant's All-Star Weekend. He failed to win the skill competition. Of course, for the All-Star Weekend, Kobe also has a regret that is the three-pointer contest among the three individual competitions.

Kobe once said that he would practice making at least 1000 shots a day.Although some people have been ridiculing Kobe as the Iron King, Kobe is actually really accurate in shooting during training.There was a video leaked before. When Kobe was training, he made 5 fixed-point three-point shots and his shooting percentage was close to 90%.So in fact, for many Komi, Kobe is looking forward to participating in the three-point contest.

And this wish almost came true. In the 2007-2008 season, which is Kobe's MVP season, Kobe had already decided to participate in the three-pointer contest. Unfortunately, due to injuries, Kobe not only withdrew from the All-Star Game, but also from the three-pointer contest, allowing Nowitzki to take part in it instead.I have to say that it is very regrettable, because Kobe does have the strength to participate in the three-point contest. After all, Jordan also participated in the year, and it is a pity that Kobe did not try.

In addition, Kobe has won honors in several other events during the All-Star Weekend. Jiangbei hopes to have the opportunity to help Kobe complete this point, let alone the Rookie Challenge. This is too easy for Jiangbei and Kobe. They are both players of the same type and prefer challenging things.

This skill competition can be said to be very exciting, and it is quite interesting. After all, there are four champions of the skill competition, and they are all favorites to win the skill competition.

Spencer Dinwiddie '18 Skills Champion of the Brooklyn Nets, Patrick Beverley '15 Skills Champion of the Los Angeles Clippers, Derrick Rose '09 Skills Champion of the New York Knicks, and Jayson Tatum '19 Skills Champion of the Boston Celtics.

Judging from this lineup, it is very likely that the skills competition will evolve into a battle between the four of them. It is really full of suspense who will win the final championship.

"Paul, which of them do you think is likely to win this year's championship?" Jiang Bei asked Paul next to him. After all, he was also one of the former skill competition champions.

"It's really hard to say, but I hope Rose can win the championship this time!"

"Why?" Ayton asked suddenly.

"Because he has paid too much over the years, he should be rewarded!" Paul said with a heavy look after taking a look at Rose who was about to play off the court.

Spencer Dinwiddie made his first appearance in the preliminaries, and he was relatively smooth, completing the task in 32.8 seconds.Khris Middleton of the Bucks, who played immediately after him, did not go well. The first pass was unsuccessful. In the end, it took 42.2 seconds to escape the fate of being out.

Derrick Rose lived up to Paul's expectations and won the preliminaries. All actions were passed in one pass, and it took only 28.8 seconds.It took Patrick Beverley two touchdown passes to complete, and it took 33.8 seconds to finish.

Jason Tatum also passed the test in 29.2 seconds.Sabonis did not go well. When the promotion was hopeless, he wanted to end with a dunk, but the basketball was dropped, and it took more time to pick it up and dunk.

As expected, the four champions both entered the final stage.

(End of this chapter)