At this time, Anthony wants to break through the attack with the ball as easily as the last time, and the first thing he has to face is the strict defense of the small bully Stoudemire. After the little overlord, there is Hilario under the basket!

For a while, Anthony not only broke through the offense and became a luxury, but even connected the ball not so smoothly. With a sophomore in defense at almost every position in his receiving lane, he was completely isolated.

Anthony was blocked, and another player on the rookie team who was in the spotlight stepped up. With six minutes left in the first half, Wade missed his first three-point shot of the game, but he quickly caught the ball on the right side and dunked with both hands.

A little more than a minute later, Wade scored a layup on a Lost Step through Salmons, and then Wade broke through again to cause Stoudemire to foul and make two free throws. Relying on Wade's six points with a dunk free throw, the first-year team chased the score to 34:37.

Lamar, who was watching the game from the sidelines, also gave a standing ovation to cheer Wade on.

But then the sophomore stole all the show, and after he hit four consecutive singles from Chris Posh, the sophomore team stretched the deficit to 11 points at 47-36. Yao's performance was so brave that his teammate Francis couldn't help but stand up and cheer for him.

Of course, while Francis applauded, he did not forget to glance at Lamar a few times, and the meaning of serious provocation was extremely obvious.

Looking at the performance of the drug name and the lazy appearance of Hilario, Lamar is really a little angry! He is also a second-year rookie, and his talent is much better than the name of the drug, but why is the name of the drug the champion in the draft, and Hilario can only squeeze out the top three lotto? There are some factors behind the Chinese market, but the most important thing is the player's heart and willpower. Here Lamar also has to admire the Scouts of the Rockets.

Finally, at the end of the first half, the sophomores extended their lead to 14 points at 66:52. He scored 18 points in 12 minutes in the first half, and Salmons also scored 13 points.

It was a bit of a surprise that the first-year side scored the most, not the eye-catching Carmelo Anthony, nor the dominant LeBron James, but Wade, who often only shoots at critical moments, and he scored 11 points. In addition, Chris Bosh, who was rounded up by the sophomore insider, also scored 10 points.

At the start of the second half, the sophomores quickly opened up the gap, and in just seven minutes, they unleashed a stormy attack wave to take a 19-point lead at 83-64.

The most eye-catching performance on the court was still the name of the drug, and he even hit a three-pointer from beyond the three-point line.

The first-year students were much worse, failing to even hit a three-pointer in the first half. Fortunately, after the start of the second half, Hinrich finally opened up and hit a three-pointer to alleviate the embarrassment of these rookies.

In the ensuing race, the sophomores relaxed a bit and the mistakes began to mount. The first-graders took the opportunity to tie the score at 84-95 with seven minutes left in the game.

However, after that, Salmons hit a three-pointer with an inside pass, and Stoudemire also made consecutive mid-range jumpers. The sophomore team opened up the gap again at 102-84. In the end, the sophomores won 108-97, with an 11-point lead.

As for sophomores, the drug name from Team Rockets made history and became the MVP of this year's Rookie Challenge. He scored a game-high 33 points on 13-of-13 shooting, including 12-of-12 from two-point range, 1-of-1 from three-point range and 6-of-6 from the free-throw line. Although the little bully Stoudemire performed eye-catchingly, staged several wonderful violent dunks in the game, and scored 27 points in the game, but in the end it was still inferior to the name of the drug.

In terms of first-year students, Wade was the most in the limelight, who scored a team-high 27 points, Chris Bosh scored 19 points and 8 rebounds, and LeBron James contributed 17 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists.

As for Anthony, this guy can be said to have lost face tonight. He disappeared without a trace as soon as the game was over, scoring just 11 points in the game and losing his first major tournament.

The 2004 All-Star Rookie Challenge finally came to an uneventful end, and apart from the highly anticipated performance of Anthony, the performance of the other rookies was still a kind of eye-catcher. Especially Chris Bosh, who has been excluded from the top three of the 03 platinum generation by the media before the game, he became famous in obscurity!

At the start of the season, the slightly skinny Chris Bosh was just a big man who could only walk around on the perimeter looking for opportunities or make a difference on the fast break, and was known as a soft egg. But now, under the tutelage of Pat Riley, he has rapidly grown into an all-round young player who can play alone under the basket and shoot from the outside, and can also pass the ball. The defense, which was not good at at the beginning, can be called a board and an eye at this time.

As soon as the All-Star rookie break ended, a team couldn't wait to hand the trade request to the Miami Heat general manager's desk. For such a trade request, the general manager of the Heat, Pat Riley, stuffed it all into a shredded box without even looking at it.

Pat Riley also held a special press conference for this reason, declaring in a high-profile manner that Chris Bosh is the core of the Heat's team and is not for sale of the team! The team has even prepared a big contract for Bosh, who is still a first-year rookie, in advance, and handed it over to Bosh when his rookie contract is about to end.

"Chris is a big and likable man with a humble and kind personality. Although he has only been with the Heat for a short time, he has become one of the most popular players in the city. I've always believed that he can grow into the best player in the league, that he has the potential, that he has the ability! that he's going to stay in Miami and we'll do whatever it takes! As for the timing, if possible, I'd certainly like it until he retires. ”

Of course, Pat Riley's words are a bit exaggerated, and Lamar, who had worked with him for two years in his previous life, would not think that what he said was true. In fact, in his previous life, when dealing with Wade's contract extension, Pat Riley also said similar things, and also said that he would do whatever it took to keep Wade, but in the end he was unwilling to give Wade, who gave all of his money to the Heat, a top salary. Eventually, Wade left for Chicago later in his career.

This time I don't know if Pat Riley's promise will be fulfilled in the future, and Lamar doesn't know if Chris Bosh can really grow into the league's power forward as people expect.

A rookie challenge made Bosh popular, and it also made Anthony, who was in the limelight before, questionable. Of course, Lamar is not interested in paying attention to these messy media debates, and he is now thinking about tomorrow's single challenge.

Chauncy Billups, Lamar's most trusted brother. The Flounder is probably the least present person in the star-studded Knicks starting lineup, and he doesn't have Wade's flashy breakaways, Dampot's blood-pumping violent dunks, and Lamar's amazing ball skills.

Although Billups has almost no skills that are among the best in the league, and everything is very mediocre, why can Billups be the starting point guard that the Knicks can't beat with an annual salary, and the most trusted player for Lamar and Van Gundy?

Of course, there are many players in this league who can control the pace of the game, but there are very few people like Billups who maintain a high level of concentration and calm at all times!

What's even more commendable is that Billups also has a big heart that ordinary people can't imagine. He can guarantee absolute composure at all times, which is why when Lamar is not on the court, he is the first person in Jeff Van Gundy's mind to carry out the shutout.

At the end of last season, there were also requests from the Knicks to trade Billups (among them, the Detroit Pistons were even willing to trade Van Exel, Prince and the current year's pick), but they were all rejected by Jeff Van Gundy.

And Billups himself is also very much enjoying the life of playing next to Lamar and has no intention of leaving the Knicks. Although he will always be Lamar's assistant and will never be the boss of the team, he can feel that he can get something that many players dream of not getting in their lifetime.

Billups never expected to be a big man like Jordan, but at least he wanted to be a great assistant like Steve Kerr or even Scott Pippen.

But as long as he is an athlete, his heart will be filled with a desire for honor, especially for personal honor. Although collective honor is more important, after the honor is infinitely magnified, the role of the individual will naturally be infinitely reduced, and the individual honor does belong to the athlete himself.

Billups is the same, he knows that his ability is not enough to compete for those regular season MVP, Finals MVP, and All-Star Game MVP titles, but there are some things that he can do, such as the three-point contest champion and the newly established skills contest champion.

The last time I participated in the All-Star Three-Point Shooting Contest, because of the existence of Lamar, a demon, I finally lost. But Billups has a grit heart and gets up where he falls, and after a year of hard training, this time Billups decided to make a comeback. And this time, the biggest obstacle is no longer there, so the glittering trophy will naturally become his ultimate goal.