Chapter 1,212 The Extremely Lively All-Star Weekend

February 14, 2014, Valentine’s Day.

It is also the beginning of the NBA All-Star Weekend in 2014.

The timing is very coincidental.

It is a very interesting coincidence for NBA officials and the city of Seattle.

The reason why this year's All-Star Weekend is held in Seattle and at the Yes Memorial Arena is mainly to build up Seattle's reputation as the most luxurious arena in NBA history.

Yes Memorial Arena is the newest and most luxurious arena in the NBA, and it is also the most expensive arena in NBA history. After hosting the All-Star Game here this year, it means that this arena has officially joined the NBA family. .

It was also on this day that the Yes Memorial Arena became a holy place for basketball and couples.

Before the fans entered the venue before the start of the Rookie Challenge on the night of February 14th, many fans came with their families.

And when these fans sat down, the cameras on the scene were frantically looking for the couple on the sidelines.

This kissing scene has always been one of the traditional NBA programs.

However, on this day, the program seemed particularly atmospheric.

Even the two rookie team players in the center of the court were participating in this activity at this time.

As the head coach of the Yes team, Yesdu feels that it is very interesting to hold a basketball game in the arena named after him today.

Over the past few seasons, the NBA's Rookie Challenge has been declining in popularity.

In fact, not only the popularity of the NBA Challenge Tournament, but also the popularity of the NBA main game is declining at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Whether it's because the game has become more frivolous or because of Ye's departure, the NBA All-Star Game has fallen into mediocrity because it has lost focus and story, that's a fact.

But this year, when this focus and story returned again, the history of the NBA ushered in the most popular All-Star competition in the history.

To be honest, even David Stern on the sidelines at this time did not expect the popularity of this year's All-Stars.

He really didn't expect that there would be such a beautiful script in this year's All-Stars.

Yes and the SuperSonics fight against the entire league!

This is a script that has never been seen in NBA All-Star history.

All I can say is that in this matter, David Stern and the NBA must praise Kobe.

The imagination of the Lakers leader also gave David Stern more expectations for what will happen after his retirement.

David Stern believes that after Kobe retires, he can use his imagination to make more contributions to basketball and the NBA.

Just like Pippen.

"Scott, I think we should pay more attention to Bryant than before. This is a true all-round talent."

David Stern had a lot of love for Kobe Bryant.

And so is Pippen.

Anyone who can help him take revenge on Qiao Da is worthy of his love.

Moreover, this guy is really good.

According to David Stern's current strategy for the development of the NBA, after he has laid a foundation for the NBA, it is best for the next leaders of the NBA to be professionals who are close to the people.

I can no longer be a person who is partial to management and partial to business.

This will make the NBA more and more commercial, less and less like the NBA or even a basketball game, and become more and more false and illusory for the sake of business.

In fact, David Stern has already seen this trend in his former NBA Prince Joke.

Jokes are too closely connected to capitalists, and capitalists are the most short-sighted. They will harm the NBA and basketball for the sake of immediate commercial interests.

After all, they do not have the original intention of basketball and the NBA, and they have no higher understanding and pursuit of basketball and the NBA.

There is no problem with a business alliance focusing on business, but it cannot only be business.

David Stern has been doing business in the past thirty years.

The next thirty years in the NBA should be about professionalism and the original intention of basketball.

The reason why the NBA has suppressed the NCAA under his leadership is not because American NCAA fans, after the emergence of a group of players such as Yes, saw not only business in the NBA, but also the original intention of basketball, and they would not regard it as It’s shameful to watch NBA games.

Now, he has made a start for the next thirty years of the NBA.

But it's just the beginning.

He needs countless generations of people who can continue his unfinished work and complete this great cause.

David Stern knows the road is hard.

Pippen certainly knew that this road was difficult.

After all, they are on the road of confrontation with short-sighted capitalists.

If it weren't for David Stern's prestige, I'm afraid most of these NBA bosses would support business elites like Joke to take over, rather than the grassroots represented by NBA players like Pippen.

Does the original intention of basketball and the future of the NBA allow us to make money immediately and reap a wave of commercial value?

Now that David Stern is still here, he can easily suppress these short-sighted voices and counterattacks.

But after David Stern leaves, or even disappears completely, the pressure will be great.

Therefore, it is really satisfying for Pippen to be the crown prince of the NBA now, but the road ahead is also really difficult.

He can be a capitulator, but David Stern's trust cannot allow him to do the kind of thing that ultimately surrenders and compromises, and ultimately destroys all David Stern's plans and paths.

Maybe his successor may not be able to persist, but that is a matter for the future, and he will definitely persist.

Mr. Qiao said that his character was not good, and his character was indeed not good. His character was very mean, but he had a certain bottom line.

This is not easy for NBA players.

Most black players in the NBA have no intelligence and no bottom line.

Therefore, a player like Kobe with wisdom, bottom line, and prestige can appear.

Even if David Stern doesn’t remind you.

Pippen knew who he should focus on training after taking over.

It can be said that no matter whether this All-Stars can really become the greatest All-Stars in NBA history.

As long as Kobe is willing, Kobe is the future grandson of the NBA.

Of course, Kobe, who was serving as the head coach of the rookie Kobe team on the sidelines at this time, naturally had no idea how much the new understanding of him by the two big guys on the sidelines would have a huge impact on his future life path.

In today's NBA Rookie Challenge, Kobe was very serious. In this Rookie Challenge, Kobe was much more serious than Yeas.

For Leafs, he has been the head coach in the Rookie Challenge more than once.

But for Kobe, this is really the first time in his life.

Damn it, you can imagine how difficult it is to be the NBA All-Star vote winner in the Western Conference.

Even if Ye Si is not here, it will not be his turn.

Even if someone in his department has performed so well in the past three years, isn't it because he has been suppressed by Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian time and time again?

It can be said that after finally leaving Ye Si for three years, he never made a profit, and Yi Jianlian and Yao Ming took turns taking over.

This time, there's no East-West divide, just Sonics and the Alliance.

As for the league, James was the head coach in last year's Rookie Challenge. James cannot continue to serve as the head coach.

As the leader of the league team, Kobe is naturally the obvious choice.

Therefore, Kobe's preparations for this All-Star Rookie Challenge are quite serious.

After all the players from Kobe's team who participated in the rookie game arrived this afternoon, Kobe also led these rookie players to conduct a very serious tactical training.

Although he knows that it is difficult for these rookie players to use tactics in the game, in the Rookie Challenge, it is more about the players' personal abilities.

The head coach is actually just a decoration most of the time.

This is indeed true.

But how can someone from my department be a display-type head coach?

So, this afternoon, Kobe took the little Magic, Big Eyebrow, Drummond, Barnes, Valanciunas, Oladipo, McAway, Sullinger, Waiters and others to start the game with great fanfare. Preparation for the Rookie Challenge.

Compared with Kobe's turmoil, Ye Si on the other side is much more relaxed.

This is not the first time for Ye Si, and he knows exactly what the All-Star Rookie Challenge is like.

Therefore, he was very clear when selecting people from the beginning.

Antetokounmpo, Tony Wroten, Joe Harris, Gobert, Beal, Lillard, Khris Middleton, Hardaway Jr., Trey Burke and other players.

Basically it's either the Sonics or the University of Washington or a group of shooters.

It was a bit regretful for Ye Si not to be able to choose the little magician.

After all, Kobe was chosen first, and Kobe's first choice was Little Magic.

If the little magician can be selected, the entire Yes team will be composed of the University of Washington and the SuperSonics as the main core team, which will be even better in terms of tacit understanding.

Of course, having Tony Wroten and Antetokounmpo Joe Harris as the main ones would also be nice.

Antetokounmpo spent four years of high school and one year in college with Tony Roten, and Joe Harris and Tony Roten grew up together.

This tacit understanding is simply awesome.

The All-Star Rookie Challenge is an appetizer during the All-Star Weekend.

The real main course is the skills on the second day, three-pointers, dunks, one-on-one competition and the final All-Star game.

But even if it is just an appetizer, it is still a very important morale battle for the SuperSonics and the league-wide competition during this All-Star Weekend.

Therefore, in this Rookie Challenge, all the All-Stars from the league team were dispatched.

Irving, Rose, David Lee, James, Anthony, Yao Ming, Curry, Beasley, Wade, Nowitzki, Paul George, Gay, Oden, these players are lined up, that's quite a lot. card face.

In the Rookie Challenge in the past few years, there was no such card on the sidelines.

On the other side, it is certainly not impossible for the Seattle SuperSonics to miss players at home.

Seeing the All-Star players from the Alliance and SuperSonics yelling at each other on the sidelines before the game even started, O'Neal, Barkley and Kenny Smith, who were the commentators for the game, were quite happy to watch.

In the end, O'Neal was not able to board the last train of this year's All-Star Game. In order to participate in this high-profile All-Star Weekend, he also signed up to participate in the league team's one-on-one competition, as the representative of the league team's one-on-one competition and the SuperSonics. Team competition.

In the end it was rejected.

Each team has five players in the heads-up competition, and there are 29 teams in the league. This quota is more popular than the quota in the All-Star Game.

Kobe, Anthony, Irving, Curry, Beasley, that’s five.

You damn fat guy, why don't you stay where you can to cool off.

Well, these are Kobe's exact words when he rejected O'Neal.

This made O'Neal very angry.

He couldn't enter the All-Star Game, nor could he enter the heads-up competition. As for the Slam Dunk Contest, the Three-Point Shootout Contest and the Skills Contest, he still wanted to save face, and felt that going to these competitions was not very interesting.

In total, being a commentator can also be very eye-catching!

Why do you have to be a player? You can also be a commentator!

I have to say that O'Neal's idea is still very correct. As one of the commentators and hosts of this All-Star Weekend, Kobe was disgusted as soon as he appeared in the Rookie Challenge.

This rookie challenge was the first game for someone in his department. As soon as he started, he asked me how many points I would lose. Isn’t this a slap in the face?

"This is not a slap in the face. When Yes is the head coach, in addition to leading Chinese football, he has never lost when leading other teams."

As soon as O'Neill said these words, the whole world seemed to burst into laughter.

Ye Si's experience in Chinese football has now become a global meme.

However, O'Neal's words made the atmosphere lively, but Kobe was not the only one who wanted to kill him, there was one more person.

Of course, no matter how much Yeos and Kobe want to kill this fat guy.

But there is no doubt that this fat guy stole the show this time.

This makes Shark feel quite accomplished.

Damn it, let you two boys play without me. You see, this is the power of Mr. Shark to steal the spotlight!

Although the live audience and TV audience of this game were amused by O'Neal, it has to be said that O'Neal's argument that Kobe will lose in this game no matter how serious he is is still very reasonable.

Because after the game started, Kobe's team, which was extremely well-prepared, was beaten a little bit from the start.

As the core of Kobe's team, the little Magic listened to his uncle Kobe's words and prepared to organize the team well.

However, facing Kobe's team, which was as scattered as a ball of sand, they couldn't organize themselves at all.

Even if you train in the afternoon, when you stand on the court, who cares about who you are among these young people?

Compared with the Kobe team, the Yes team, which just adapted to training a little in the afternoon, not only played very methodically, but also had outstanding morale amidst the cheers of the home fans.

Coupled with the fact that the players seemed to be quite good, they easily defeated Kobe's team in the final game.

In this game, Tony Wroten, who made 14 of 24 shots and 8 of 16 three-pointers, scored 40 points and 9 assists in the game, finally won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge.

"Hahahaha, am I right in my prediction? Yes's team leadership ability is invincible except for Chinese football, and he is invincible in leading other teams. And Bryant, he is still the person who habitually does useless work, hahahaha."

"..."

Damn fat man, if you can, just stand in the middle of the court and say it.

Barkley and Kenny Smith were also very angry about O'Neal's stealing of the show in this game.

"This year's All-Star Weekend is indeed extremely lively."

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