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The All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles in the 2010-11 season is undoubtedly the stage for Kobe Bryant to show off. Kobe Bryant, who is at home, will be the one who attracts the most attention and has the strongest desire to perform.

In fact, this is also the case. In the original All-Star game, Kobe scored 37 points and 14 rebounds, leading the Western Conference All-Stars to defeat the Eastern Conference. While winning the All-Star Game, he was also crowned All-Star AMVP, winning it for the fourth time in his career. With this honor, he became the star with the most All-Star AMVP trophies in league history.

As a time traveler, Wang Chong knows this very well, but again, he doesn't care about the All-Star game at all, nor does he care about this worthless and valuable honor. If anyone wants to fight for it, let them fight for it. Just show up at the All-Star Game and give a symbolic performance and that's it.

A total of six Bulls players went to Los Angeles to participate in the All-Star Weekend. Wang Chong, Garnett, Curry and Gasol were all selected for the All-Star Game. Danny Green signed up for the three-point contest. As for Marcus Thornton, as a second-year rookie, participated in the All-Star Rookie Challenge.

In fact, based on Thornton's current performance with the Bulls, he would not have been able to compete in the Rookie Challenge. Despite the fact that the Rookie Challenge has received little attention, the participants are also a group of rookies, but these rookies are the future of tomorrow. Stars, especially the 09 rookies in the same class as Thornton, have many crouching tigers, hidden dragons.

There is no need to mention Curry, Harden, Griffin, and DeRozan, even with Tyreke Evans, Ricky Rubio, Brandon Jennings, and Ty Lawson.09 Compared with the backbone of the first class, Thornton does not have any advantages.

He had better luck. A certain player who happened to be a second-year rookie temporarily withdrew from the Rookie Challenge due to an accidental injury. Thornton came in as a substitute player, and then he had the opportunity to participate in the Rookie Challenge.

Thornton was naturally very excited about this and thought it was a rare opportunity, but Wang Chong was not optimistic about it.

There are too many outstanding players in the 09 rookie class, and the guard position is full of talents. Curry and Harden will definitely be the starting guards, plus Evans, DeRozan, Rubio, Jennings and other defenders are lining up behind. , how can Thornton get his turn?

It was pretty much what he imagined.

On February 2th, the All-Star Rookie Challenge will begin.

The second-year rookies led by Curry, Harden, Evans and others compete with the first-year rookies led by Griffin, Wall, Cousins ​​and others.

Originally the No. 09 pick in , Griffin and Curry were in the same class. However, Griffin, who did not play a game due to injury in his rookie season, was considered to be his debut rookie season, so he was naturally placed in the same class. Grade rookie lineup.

Back then, Griffin was reimbursed for the season without playing a single game, which frightened the Thunder. They were really afraid that Griffin would go the way of Oden, the No. 07 pick in .

Oden was also reimbursed for the season without playing a game that year. In the following seasons, he was constantly injured and stopped, and he did not show the ability that the No. 1 pick should have.

Griffin's talent and development prospects are definitely not comparable to Oden, the talented center who was said to dominate the league at the time, but among the 09 rookies, his talent is indeed a step above and far ahead.

Fortunately, this season, after Griffin returned from injury, he immediately performed to the Thunder's satisfaction. He averaged 22+12 rebounds per game, making the Thunder say that they did not choose the wrong person.

Of course, if the time could continue to be postponed for a few years, the Thunder might not think so. The strongest duo in 09 were Curry and Harden. Both of them have regular season MVPs and have shown outstanding performance in the league. Despite his dominant performance, Curry completely crushed Harden in terms of honors, but in the two years when the Five-Star Warriors were their strongest, the only thing that could pose a threat to them was the Rockets led by Harden.

Even James' Cavaliers couldn't force the Warriors into a tiebreaker, and if Paul hadn't been injured and missed the game when the Rockets took a 3:2 lead, the Warriors might not have been able to defeat the Rockets.

Since Griffin entered the game as a first-year rookie, the second-year rookie did not have much advantage against the first-year player. In addition, Curry also played only a few minutes in the Rookie Challenge because he had to participate in the All-Star Game. Because he didn't play at the end of the game, the second-year player lost to the first-year rookie 140:148.

In the Rookie Challenge over the years, most second-year rookies have won the majority. After all, they have been in the league for one more season. After experiencing the game and receiving training from the team's professional trainers, the overall strength of the second-year rookies is generally better than that of first-year players. The grade is much stronger.

But special cases like this are not uncommon, so it is not too strange.

Just as Wang Chong expected, Marcus Thornton participated in the Rookie Challenge as a second-year rookie, but his playing time in the game was minimal. He only had a few minutes, scoring 0 points, 1 rebound and 0 assists. He spent most of his time sitting on the bench doubting life.

In the first half of the regular season, Wang Chong has been consciously taking care of Thornton and giving him more playing time and ball rights. This has gradually increased Thornton's average points per game to 9.6 points, which is about to break double digits. It is the Bulls' The team's highest scorer on the bench.

Of course, this has something to do with O'Neal's injury and the impact on the Bulls' bench offensive firepower.

O'Neal's efficiency as a substitute is indeed high. Who doesn't like a center who can score 15 points with a 66% shooting rate in 9 minutes of playing?

But the aging O'Neal is indeed very fragile. He was not even injured in the official game, but in daily training.

Fortunately, O'Neal's injury was not serious, and he returned to the game after a few weeks of recovery. However, after re-entering the field, O'Neal also understood that today is different from the past. His body no longer has the capital to be unscrupulous on the field, and he could not play the game. He has restrained himself a lot and will basically no longer engage in high-intensity confrontational attacks. As a result, Marcus Thornton takes more offensive shots.

"After the All-Star Weekend, try to find a way to let Billups rest a few more games, give Thornton a few starting opportunities, and see if he can make outstanding performances so that he can have enough commercial value to facilitate this summer's draft. Operations at the conference..."

Thornton should be very happy if he has the opportunity to leave the Bulls. In the Bulls, which are full of talents, he really doesn't have much use.

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February 2th, the second day of the All-Star Weekend, is also the day of the single event event.

In the Skills Challenge, Curry defeated Westbrook, Rose, Wall and Paul at the point guard position to win the Skills Challenge championship trophy.

But in the three-point contest, Danny Green, who replaced Curry in previous years, was directly eliminated in the first round of preliminaries. He watched eagerly as James Jones, a former player from the Heat and the Bulls who joined the Heat last summer, was In the final, he defeated Pierce and Ray Allen and won the three-point contest trophy.

It is worth mentioning that Kevin Durant also participated in this three-point contest and only scored 6 points in the first round of preliminaries. This score almost caught up with Jordan's 1990 in the 5 Three-Point Contest. points, which also allowed Durant to successfully rank second in the history of the three-point contest.

The final dunk contest was a battle between Griffin and McGee. Wang Chong was quite impressed by this dunk contest, because in the final solo, McGee's dunk was obviously superior to him in terms of creativity and difficulty. Griffin, but his score in the voting session was much lower than Griffin.