February 14, 2014, Valentine's Day.

It was also the start of All-Star Weekend in NBA2014.

The timing is very, very coincidental.

It's a very interesting coincidence, both for the NBA and for the city of Seattle.

This year's All-Star Weekend was held in Seattle and at the Yes Memorial Arena primarily to promote 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.

And it was on this day that the Yes Memorial Arena became a mecca for basketball and couples.

Fans came in before the Rookie Challenge on the evening of Feb. 14, and many fans came with their families.

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

The kissing scene has always been one of the NBA's traditional programs.

However, on this day, this show seems to be extraordinarily atmospheric.

Even the players of the two rookie teams in the center of the court were involved in the event at this time.

As the head coach of Yes, Yes found it a lot of fun to hold a basketball game in the stadium that bears his name.

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

In fact, not only the popularity of the NBA Challenger, but also the popularity of the NBA main game is decreasing at a rate that is visible to the naked eye.

Whether it's because the game is getting more frivolous or because of Yes's departure, it's a fact that the NBA All-Star Game has become mediocre because of the loss of focus and story.

But this year, when the focus and story returned, the NBA history ushered in the hottest tournament in All-Star history.

Seriously, the popularity of this year's All-Stars, even David Stern, who was on the sidelines at this time, did not expect.

He really didn't expect such a beautiful script for this year's All-Star.

Yes and hypersonic against the whole Union!

This is a script that has never been done before in the history of the NBA All-Stars.

It can only be said that in this matter, David Stern and the NBA must give Kobe Bryant a thumbs up.

The imagination of the Lakers' leading player also gives David Stern more expectations for what will happen after his retirement.

David Stern feels that after Kobe Bryant retires in the future, he can use his imagination to contribute more to basketball and the NBA.

It's like Pippen.

"Scott, I think we should be more serious than ever, Bryant, this is a true all-round talent."

David Stern is full of affection for Kobe.

And Pippen, of course, too.

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

Moreover, this kid is really good.

According to David Stern's current strategy for the development of the NBA, after he lays a foundation for the NBA, the next NBA leaders should be close to the people.

You can't be a business-oriented person anymore.

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

In fact, David Stern has seen such a trend in the jokes of his former NBA princes.

Jokes are too closely tied to the capitalists, who are the most short-sighted and will hurt the NBA and basketball for immediate business gain.

After all, they don't have the original intention of basketball and the NBA, and they don't have a higher understanding and pursuit of basketball and the NBA.

There is no problem with business alliances being business-oriented, but it can't be just business.

The business stuff he David Stern has done for thirty years.

The next 30 years of the NBA should be a professional thing, a matter of basketball's original intention.

The reason why the NBA has suppressed the NCAA under his leadership is not because NCAA fans in the United States have seen not only business in the NBA after Yes and other players appeared, but also the original intention of basketball, and they will not be ashamed of watching NBA games.

Now, he's got a head start on the next three decades in the NBA.

But that's just the beginning.

He needs to have a few generations that can continue his unfinished business to accomplish this great cause.

David Stern knows the road is hard.

Pippen, of course, also knew that the road was difficult.

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

If it weren't for David Stern's prestige, most of these NBA owners would have supported a business elite like Joke to take over, rather than the grassroots represented by NBA players like Pippen.

What is the original intention of basketball, what is the future of the NBA, is it cool for us to make money immediately and reap a wave of commercial value?

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

But after David Stern left, or even after he was completely gone, the pressure was great.

Therefore, Pippen is now the prince of the NBA, and it is really cool, but the road ahead is really difficult.

He could be a capitulationist, but David Stern's trust could not allow him to do the kind of thing that would eventually surrender and compromise and destroy all of David Stern's plans and paths.

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

Mr. Qiao said that his character is not good, his character is really not good, his character is very cheap, but he has a little bottom line.

It's not easy for NBA players.

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

So there can be a player like Kobe who has wisdom, a bottom line, and prestige.

David Stern didn't even remind.

Pippen knows who he should focus on cultivating after taking over.

It can be said that regardless of whether this All-Star can really become the greatest All-Star in NBA history.

As long as Kobe Bryant wants to, Kobe Bryant is the future grandson of the NBA.

Of course, Kobe, who was serving as the head coach of the rookie Kobe Bryant team on the sidelines at this time, naturally didn't know how much the new understanding of him by the two bigwigs on the sidelines would have a big impact on his future life path.

In today's NBA Rookie Challenge, Kobe Bryant is very serious, and in this Rookie Challenge, Kobe Bryant is much more serious than Yes.

For Yes, he's been the head coach of the Rookie Challenge more than once.

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

Nima's, in the West, how difficult it is to be the NBA All-Star ticket king, can be imagined.

Even if Yes wasn't there, it wouldn't be someone's turn.

Even if someone in his department has performed so well in the past three years, hasn't he been pressed by Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian every time?

It can be said that Ye Si finally left for three years, and he didn't catch it once, and all of them were taken by Yi Jianlian and Yao Ming in turn.

This time, there is no division between East and West, only hypersonic and coalition.

On the league side, James was the head coach of last year's Rookie Challenge, in a situation where James could not be the head coach in a row.

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

Therefore, for this All-Star Rookie Challenge, Kobe's preparation is quite serious.

After all the players of Kobe's team who participated in the rookie game arrived this afternoon, Kobe Bryant also took these rookie players for a wave of very serious tactical training.

Although he knows that it is a bit difficult for these rookie players to play tactically in the game, in the rookie challenge, it is more about the players' own individual abilities.

The manager actually spends most of his time just setting things up.

This is indeed true.

But how can someone in my department be a furnishing manager?

So, this afternoon, Kobe Bryant took the little magicians, thick eyebrows, Drummond, Barnes, Valanciunas, Oladipo, McCarvey, Sallinger, Vitesse and others to start preparing for the vigorous rookie challenge.

Compared with Kobe's ups and downs, Ye Si on the other side is much easier.

This isn't Yes' first time, and he knows exactly what the All-Star Rookie Challenge is all about.

Therefore, he was very clear when he chose people at the beginning.

Antetokounmpo, Tony Roten, Joe Harris, Gobert, Beal, Lillard, Chris Middleton, Hardaway Jr., Trey Burke and many more.

Basically, it's either the supersonic and the University of Washington, or a bunch of shooters.

Not being able to choose a little magician is a bit of a pity for Yes.

After all, Kobe Bryant was chosen first, and Kobe's first choice was the little magician.

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

Of course, it's also nice to have Tony Roten and Antetokounmpo Joe Harris as the main body.

Antetokounmpo's four years of high school plus one year of college were all with Tony Roteng, and Joe Harris and Tony Roten grew up together.

This tacit understanding is simply leveraged.

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

The real course of action is the second day's tricks, three-pointers, dunks, heads-up contest and the final All-Star Game.

But even if it's just an appetizer, it's still a very important morale battle for the SuperSonics and the all-league competition at this All-Star Weekend.

So, in this rookie challenge, all the All-Stars on the league team are out.

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

In the past few years, Rookie Challenge has not had such a hand on the sidelines.

On the other hand, the Seattle SuperSonics playing at home are of course not impossible to have players absent.

Watching the All-Stars of the League and SuperSonics start yelling at each other on the sidelines before the game even starts, O'Neal, Barkley and Kenny Smith, who are commentators for the game, are quite happy to watch.

O'Neal didn't make it to the final train of this year's All-Star Game, and in order to participate in this high-profile All-Star Weekend, he also signed up for the Heads-up Contest of the league teams, competing against the SuperSonics as a representative of the league team's heads-up competition.

In the end, it was rejected.

There are five players per team in heads-up games, and there are 29 teams in the league, which is more than the All-Star Game spot.

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

Just you dead fat man, stay where you go.

Well, that's what Kobe Bryant said when he rejected O'Neal.

This made O'Neill angry.

He can't get into the All-Star Game, he can't get into the heads-up competition, and as for the Slam Dunk Contest, the Three-Point Contest and the Skills Contest, he still has to nod his face, and he feels that it's a little embarrassing to go to these games.

The last total, when the commentary can also be very eye-catching!

Why do you have to be a player, you can 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 Bryant was disgusted as soon as he appeared in the rookie challenge.

This rookie challenge is the first game of his coach, and Nima comes up and asks me how many points I want to lose, isn't that a slap in the face?

"I'm not a slap in the face, yes as a head coach, in addition to leading Chinese football, leading other teams has not lost."

As soon as O'Neill's words came out, the whole world seemed to fall into laughter.

Yes's experience in Chinese football is now a meme all over the world.

It's just that O'Neal's words are lively, but the person who wants to kill him is not only Kobe, but one more.

Of course, no matter how much Yees and Kobe Bryant wanted to take out the dead fat man.

But there is no doubt that this dead fat man is very show-stealing this time.

This makes shark someone quite fulfilling.

Nima's, let you two boys not take me to play, see it, this is the show-stealing strength of sharks!

Although the live audience and TV viewers of this game were amused by O'Neal, it has to be said that O'Neal's argument that Kobe Bryant lost this game even if he was serious is still very reasonable.

Because after the game started, the Kobe Bryant team, which was unusually 'well-prepared', was beaten a little blindfolded as soon as it came up.

As the core of Kobe's team, the little Magic listens to his Uncle Kobe and is ready to organize the team.

However, in the face of a scattered Kobe Bryant team, it couldn't be organized at all.

Even if you train in the afternoon, who cares who you are when you stand on the field?

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

In addition, the strength of the players seems to be quite good, and in the end the game easily defeated the Kobe Bryant team.

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

"Hahahaha, am I not wrong in my prediction? Yes's ability to lead the team is invincible in addition to not being able to lead Chinese football, and Bryant is still the one who habitually does useless work, hahahaha. ”

“……”

Dead fat, if you have the ability, stand in the middle of the court and say it.

For O'Neal's stealing of the scene in this game, Barkley and Kenny Smith also gritted their teeth.

"This year's All-Star Weekend was really lively."