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Chapter 85 All-Star Weekend

The results of this year's All-Star Game voting are very interesting, and the league is sometimes obviously suspected of manipulating votes.

Why do you say that?

Because the Rockets won the championship last year, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of Chinese fans, which led to Yao Ming unsurprisingly becoming the top voter this season. Small number of votes.

Tracy McGrady, who had been sidelined for half a season due to "injury", was actually promoted to the All-Star starter by enthusiastic Chinese fans, with 170 million votes!Second only to LeBron James in the East, ranking second among all forwards, the low-key Duncan became another starting forward in the West with 150 million votes.

Kevin Garnett's popularity was greatly damaged due to the fight last year. He lost again and again, and only got 110 million votes.

Among all the players in the Western Conference, Kobe Bryant became the second only player after Yao Ming because of his outstanding performance this season. He received 227 million votes and won another starting position in the western guard line.

The controversy came. Three days before the election results were announced, the number of late votes was about 30 more than Steve Nash. As a result, Nash had an abnormal increase in the number of votes in the last three days and grabbed the last one with 210 million votes. starting position.

Many fans have expressed their views on the Internet, thinking that the league's means of manipulating votes is too obvious. Last year's MVP is obviously the star player that the league is now touting. The Suns record is quite good. None of the starters.

Regarding the fans' controversy, the league didn't even fart, but many media began to boast that Nash's role in the Suns was irreplaceable before the All-Star Game, and his organizational ability ranked among the top in history.

Fortunately, he didn't really care about being late, and whether he made it to the All-Stars didn't have much impact on him at all.

From the bottom of his heart, he was late and didn't even want to participate in the All-Star game, because the kind of entertainment-filled game made him feel that he was wasting his youth.

It's just that he is also very clear that it is impossible not to participate this year. Now he is one of the Rockets' giants, and it is Houston's home court. Fans want to see him play.

The All-Star starter is based on votes, and the players who come off the bench are selected by the coach. The late three-pointer is amazingly accurate, and he has made amazing achievements off the court. The "Little General" Ever who is the head coach of this All-Star Lee Johnson will naturally not miss him.

The five starters in the Western Conference are: Yao Ming, Duncan, McGrady, Kobe, Nash, and the substitutes are Sean Marion, Dirk Nowitzki, Late, Tony Parker, Kevin Garnett, Pau Gasol, Ray Allen.

Elton Brand has become the biggest legacy of the All-Star Western Conference this season. Under his leadership this season, the Clippers have an excellent record and have maintained their competitiveness in the playoffs. He can also score close to 25+10 points per game. The data!
This is the data of a super insider, but he actually lost the election, because this year's Clippers lineup is quite strong, and the league favors Kobe, the Clippers who are in Los Angeles with the Lakers have become unlucky.

The starting players in the Eastern Conference are: Shaquille O'Neal, Jr. O'Neal (missed due to injury), LeBron James, Wade, Iverson.Substitutes: Carter (starting in place of Jermaine O'Neill), Billups, Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace, Richard Hamilton, Gilbert Arenas, Chris Bosh and Paul Pierce.

On the whole, the Eastern Conference lineup is not weaker than the Western Conference, especially the four Pistons were selected as All-Stars. Although they are not starters, it is also the greatest affirmation of their record.

February 2th was the Rookie Challenge. He was late and was selected into the second-year group. At the same time, he also participated in the three-pointer contest on the second day and the main game on the 18th, so he was late just for the sake of appearance and made two shots. After the three-pointer, the soy sauce started.

After the game started, the first grade team scored first.The second-year team immediately returned the favor. After receiving a pass from Gordon late and hitting a three-pointer, the second-year team took a 5-2 lead.

However, the first-year team had a higher fighting spirit. Bogut played hard inside and led the first-year team to score 6 points in a row, leading the team to an 8-5 lead.He was late and immediately retaliated, making a super long three-pointer near the midfield logo, and he didn't even put his pretty good defensive ability on the table.

Everyone could see the behavior of being late to work and not working hard. Soon the second grade suspended substitutions and came off late for a rest. Then the second grade team made two consecutive alley-oops. After hitting 6-2, they chased the score to 13-15.

With 10 minutes and 50 seconds left in the first half, the second-year team led by 20-19.The second-year team gradually found the feeling, and then succeeded again and again. With 8 minutes and 25 seconds left in the first half, West made a fast break layup after a successful steal, and the second-year team expanded their advantage by 29-23 in one fell swoop.

After that, the second-year team scored 4 points in a row. After Iguodala dunked, they extended the advantage to 33 points 23-10.The sophomore team once led by 11 points, but they also failed to get rid of their opponents.In the last minute of the first half, the two teams speeded up the tempo. You came and I dunked consecutively. The second-year team ended the first half with a 1-52 lead.

He was late in the second half and didn't play. The first-year team and the second-year team were still playing inseparable. The second-year team had an obvious advantage inside.

With 3 minutes and 30 seconds left in the game, Villanueva made a three-pointer, and then Paul dunked successfully, chasing the score to 84-95.The sophomore team missed consecutive shots. Paul broke through quickly and made two free throws after causing a foul. The rookie team was only 9 points behind.

In the end, Iguodala stood up and killed the last hope of the first-year team to win. In the end, the 76ers' second-year rookie Iguodala won the MVP of the game with 30 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists.

However, many fans said that this game was not fun to watch, because being late was just for fun, otherwise the first-year team and the second-year team would have no chance to play, and his three-pointer would be enough to teach the first-year team if he was late. The rookies have become human beings.

Even in the interviews after the game, the two newcomers said that their lateness and failure to show up kept the competition between the two sides in suspense, otherwise the game would have become a mere exhibition game (as if it was not a performance, Paul can dunk Is it not enough to act).

On February 2th, in the star shooting contest that started first, the San Antonio team led by Parker won the championship with the best time in history of 19 seconds.

The Los Angeles team led by Kobe was second in 41.3 seconds, the Houston team led by McGrady was third in 47.2 seconds, and the Phoenix team led by Marion was last in 47.7 seconds.

In the game, both Parker and Bryant made one shot from the center circle, while Tracy McGrady used two shots.

Originally, being late was the best candidate to participate in the star shooting game, but he felt that he was a bit of a bully. After all, in addition to active players, there was also a retired superstar and a WNBA female player in this game.

So the late ultra-long-range three-point shooting accuracy may not seem so amazing in some occasions, but only real professional players know that the reason for the late horror is his stability.

After playing in the NBA for more than a year, lateness has faintly shown signs of evolving into an NBA villain big boss. Zhuge Weiqi's disclosure of his tactics against lateness is an obvious signal.

The Houston Rockets failed to win the first team event, which made local fans somewhat disappointed.

The following skill challenge competition is very high-standard. The four participating players are the defending champion Nash, the Heat "Gills" Wade, "Little Emperor" LeBron James and the most powerful contender for the best rookie - the Hornets Team first-year rookie Chris Paul.

In the preliminaries, the rookie Paul was the first to make his debut. He made layups and dribbled smoothly, but it took a lot of time to pass the ball. The final score was 42.6 seconds, which was not satisfactory.

The second player, Wade, got off to a good start. He made two passes with one hit, but he took five shots before he made it. It took 39 seconds in the end. It can be seen that Wade's shooting ability is really not good now.

James had a problem with the pass. He failed to pass the ball into the circle 4 times. The long shot was also the third to hit. He ended with a beautiful dunk in 40.5 seconds.

Nash, the defending champion with a score of 25.8 seconds last year, played last.He missed the ball for the first time, and he also had problems with long shots. He missed five times in a row, which was surprising. As a result, he took the most time of 50.2 seconds, which was the last among the four participating players. He was eliminated with Paul in the first round.

The final was between Wade and James. Wade performed brilliantly and succeeded in all the events at one time. Finally, he won the championship of the skills challenge with a good score of 26.1 seconds.

What will follow is that fans all over the world are looking forward to the three-point contest!
Due to the appearance of being late, the value of three-point shooters has more or less increased now. His terrifying three-point shooting percentage has also made more professionals realize how terrible the scoring efficiency of three-pointers is. They all hope to witness Late shooting a record score in this three-point contest.

There are a total of six participating players in the three-point contest, namely Arenas, Late, Nowitzki, Ray Allen, Billups and defending champion Richardson.

Before the game, O'Neal jokingly squeezed into the commentary booth, and made a cameo as a guest commentator. The official also invited Larry Bird, the greatest shooter in the league, to explain this three-pointer contest.

The guests are almost unanimously optimistic about the late, and the reason is very simple, his three-point shooting percentage is really horrible, there is no reason to lose in this kind of game.

The rules of the three-point contest are very simple. Five balls are placed on the bottom line on both sides, two 45-degree angles and the top of the arc. The first four balls in each position will be worth one point, and the fifth ball will be worth two points. The full score is 1 points, and the contestants only have [-] minute to be the real difficulty.

In fact, it is not difficult to shoot to ensure the hit rate. The problem is that you have to shoot 1 balls in 25 minute, and the average time for one ball is only more than 2 seconds. It affects the speed of the contestants' shots, so in most cases we see the three-point shooting contest, the shooting rate is actually not very good.

(End of this chapter)