NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 89 The Rookie Challenge begins, aiming for MVP!

The 2004 All-Star Weekend was held in Los Angeles.

As the host, the Lakers' stars have an absolute advantage in terms of exposure and the quantity and quality of their fans.

On the day of the All-Star Game, the stars will appear. The presence of several players from the Lakers who participated in the All-Star Weekend will cause crazy cheers from a large number of fans around them.

As a first-year rookie, Wang Chong is no exception. The fans cheered him no less than O'Neal and Kobe. After all, Wang Chong's performance in the past month was so eye-catching that he even outshone his absence due to injury. O'Neal and Kobe spent most of the game.

Wang Chong's popularity in Los Angeles is definitely not low. After all, he is playing for a top NBA club like the Lakers. Many things are indeed different.

The All-Star Weekend lasts for three days in total. The first day is the Rookie Challenge, the second day is individual events, such as skills challenge, three-point contest and dunk contest. The third day is the finale of the All-Star Game.

Rookie players such as Wang Chong serve as appetizers for the All-Star Weekend, and the game is on the first day.

This time the Rookie Challenge attracted far more attention than before.

After all, this is a 03vs02 rookie game.

Even though the 03 class was the Platinum Generation, with a large number of high-quality top players, the quality of the 02 rookies is not bad. They have two top insiders, Dayao and Stoudemire, and Ginobili on the outside to support the field. The games of the two rookies are quite interesting to watch.

For Chinese fans across the ocean, seeing Dayao and Wang Chong compete again on the stage of the Rookie Challenge is completely worth sitting in front of the TV and waiting.

Wang Chong's first-year team came to the locker room to gather early.

The person in charge of coaching the 03 rookie first-year team is Collins, a former NBA head coach who now serves as a basketball commentator on TNT TV.

With NBA coaching experience, he seems to be at ease among a group of players.

"Boys, in the past few years of rookie challenges, the second-year players have always maintained their absolute dominance over the first-year rookies and won most of the victories. However, I think you will not be willing to accept such a result, especially It’s you who, as rookies in the 03 class, have outstanding player quality.”

When Collins said this, his eyes swept over James, Anthony and Wang Chong one by one, observing their expressions.

Then he discovered that Wang Chong was the one with the most solemn expression and the most serious expression among the people.

"It seems that Wang Chong is very eager to express himself at the All-Star Game in Los Angeles..."

Collins would obviously be mistaken.

Wang Chong doesn't care about performance or other things now. For him, what is really important is the victory of the game and the Rookie Challenge MVP, because it is related to his generous system task rewards!

"I will announce the starting lineup now."

Collins continued: "LeBron, Cameron, Wang, Chris (Kaman) and Dwyane started."

Listening to the head coach read out the starting list, Wade next to Wang Chong raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

But Hinrich, who was farther away, had a not very good expression.

It stands to reason that if a team needs a point guard, Hinrich, as a traditional point guard, should be selected as the starter. After all, both James and Wade can only be considered combo guards, not traditional ones. Point guard.

<divclass="contentadv">Although Hinrich is not far behind Wade in terms of draft picks, he is also a high-ranking rookie in the lottery, and is even rated higher than Wade. After all, Wade was before the draft. The prediction was that he was outside the top ten, and it was an upset to be selected by the Heat with the fifth overall pick. Hinrich truly deserved to be the seventh overall pick in the first round.

But the draft is a draft, and actual performance is actual performance.

So far in the regular season, Wade has been averaging 16+4+4 per game and shooting 46.5% from the field, which is even more efficient than James and Anthony.

On the other hand, Hinrich, as the Bulls' main point guard, averaged 12 points, 3.4 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game. His statistics were passable, but his shooting percentage was only 38.6%, and his offensive performance was a mess.

In this case, as a former NBA head coach, Collins certainly knows how to arrange the starting lineup.

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Walking on the player tunnel, Wade smiled and whispered to Wang Chong.

"Wang, don't worry, the protagonist today is you, I will pass the ball to you more on the court!"

Selfless dedication and helping his brothers have always been Wade's character and carried through his career.

He knows very well that this is Los Angeles, and playing well here is of great significance to Wang Chong.

Although Wade doesn't know what this Rookie Challenge means to Wang Chong, he is already ready to act as a green leaf for Wang Chong.

Wang Chong originally thought about telling Wade before the game started and asking him to help him, but he didn't expect Wade to bring it up before he even opened his mouth.

This relationship is great. Wang Chong hopes that Wade can help him. As the starting guard, Wade can get at least half of the ball.

To be honest, Wang Chong really didn't expect James to pass the ball to him, even though James is a good public relations person and shows off the court that he has a very good relationship with all his opponents.

But on the stage of this kind of All-Star debut, he must be the best player.

Wang Chong has a rough impression of this Rookie Challenge. After all, this is the second All-Star Dayao has participated in. Although he lost in the first grade, James scored 33 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists in the game. His statistics were really good, and he took far more shots than Anthony and Wade on the same team. He is such a scheming boy.

In the past, Wang Chong would have been too lazy to compare these small honors with James.

But that won't work this time. After all, if he doesn't win the Rookie Challenge MVP, he won't be able to complete the system's tasks.

Therefore, it is very necessary to attract Wade to help him pass the ball.

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When the players came to the field, the on-site DJ was already stirring up the atmosphere, loudly introducing the five first-year and second-year starting players to the fans.

On the first-grade side are Wang Chong, Wade, James, Anthony and Kaman.

On the second-year side, there are Jason Williams, Ginobili, Boozer, Stoudemire and Dayao.

Regardless of the star position and strength, just in terms of the height of the two teams inside, the sophomore team has an absolute lead.

Wang Chong had to be happy. Fortunately, Dayao would not play for long in the Rookie Challenge for the All-Star Game. Otherwise, if the two teams really competed, Dayao, Stoudemire and Bu The three Zells work together and can completely penetrate the first-year inside line.

In fact, in the original Rookie Challenge, the second-year team won in the paint. Stoudemire, who won the MVP, scored 36 points and 11 rebounds. Boozer also had 25 points and 5 rebounds. And the first-year Kaman and No one inside player, including Bosh, scored in double figures.