The shooting contest is still ongoing.

In a rare case after all the players were on the court, the top two players both hit 12 balls with the same score.

According to the rules, the two will have to play a play-off match to determine the final winner.

The fans at the scene were immediately excited, they hadn't seen it yet! What's more, both players in the playoffs hit 12 balls, and it was a close contest.

In the box, Chen Qiang showed a smile on his face, and there was an extra game, which made the game more intense, which was what he wanted to see the most.

Chen Qiang's side, the owners of several other teams are also smiling, as far as it seems, the All-Star Game was held very successfully, and the enthusiastic reaction of the audience is the best proof.

Walter Brown, the owner of the Celtics, has already begun to look forward to next year's All-Star Game, which will come to Boston Garden, which is the home of the Celtics, and the court is no smaller than Madison Square Garden.

"Chen, I really didn't expect that a simple shooting game would be so exciting." Pistons owner Fred Zorner spoke.

It is not easy to get the praise of this local tyrant.

Chen Qiang smiled, and then said: "Mr. Zorner, next year's All-Star Game will be held in Boston, but the venue for the next year has not been determined, are you interested?" ”

Zorner thought for a moment and replied, "Fort Wayne doesn't have that much population, and our course is far less than Madison Square Garden, so I'm afraid we can't host such a large-scale event." ”

"It's true, compared to New York and Boston, Fort Wayne is too small." Chen Qiang paused and asked, "Mr. Zorner, have you considered moving the team to other places, such as Detroit?" ”

"Detroit is a big city, but my factory is in Fort Wayne." Zorna replied.

"I think you could move all of them to Detroit, including the factory. Your factory is making car engines, and now the automobile industry in the United States, mainly in Detroit, if you move the factory to Detroit, it will be closer to your customers. Chen Qiang replied.

"Detroit, it does look great right now, but who knows what the future holds! After the end of the war, they will not be able to get as many military orders as they do now. Zorna replied.

Fort Wayne is located in northeastern Indiana, not far from Detroit, Michigan. And because Fort Wayne is an important transportation channel, rivers, railways, and highways all pass through here, so Zorna chose to build the factory in Fort Wayne for the purpose of transporting products.

As for Detroit, it could not be considered an "Motor City" before World War II. Detroit was the first to develop the shipbuilding and shipping industry, and later Ford, Dodge, Chrysler and other companies built factories in Detroit, which made Detroit gradually develop into the world's automobile industry capital. Especially after the outbreak of World War II, Detroit's industry had to provide services to the military, so the U.S. government built the world's first urban highway in Detroit, and Detroit entered the fast track of development. This routine of building roads first if you want to get rich is also valid in the United States.

Detroit's development continued until the seventies, when the outbreak of the oil crisis hit the American auto industry hard, and also caused Detroit to go downhill, and eventually even went bankrupt. But even so, Detroit is still known as the "big ball market" in the United States.

In 1944, the highway had just been repaired, and Detroit's advantages in the automobile industry had not yet been fully exerted, the main reason was that Detroit was producing various military equipment for the U.S. military at this time, it can be said that Detroit is a city supported by the military industry, so there are many people who are not optimistic about the future development of Detroit, these people feel that once the war is over, Detroit will lose its vitality and quickly decline.

At that time, many economic experts held this view, including many entrepreneurs, who also believed that Detroit's prosperity was short-lived, and Detroit would quickly fall into trouble after the end of the war, so they were reluctant to relocate their factories to Detroit, but missed the opportunity for development.

Fred Zorner is also a businessman with this idea. It is said that an automobile tycoon like Fred Zorner depends on the automobile industry to eat, and he should actively embrace Detroit, an automobile city, but at this time, Fred Zorner also had a wrong judgment about Detroit, and he also believed that Detroit's prosperity could not last long, so he chose to stay in Fort Wayne and did not move the factory to Detroit.

Perhaps it was precisely because the factory was not relocated to Detroit in time that the future Zorna went downhill. In the 40s, Zorna's factory supplied products to Ford, General Motors and other automobile companies, and even the U.S. Navy needed Zorna's foundry. In its golden days, the Zoerna foundry could provide 1,200 jobs in a single recruitment, but in 1999, when the company was acquired, only 230 employees remained.

Historically, it was not until 1957 that Zorner moved the Pistons to Detroit, when professional sports in the United States had begun to flourish, baseball's MLB and football's NFL had gathered countless audiences. Zorna realized that the Pistons couldn't make it in a small city like Fort Wayne, so he decided to move the team to Detroit. But in reality he had missed the best time.

At that time, the Pistons had a good record, winning two finals runner-ups, but the basketball atmosphere in the city of Detroit was relatively average, before the Pistons came to Detroit, Detroit only had a professional team, called the Detroit Falcons, and he only played for one year in the BAA league before announcing its disbandment.

After the Pistons moved to Detroit, although they were backed by the big ball market, they did not make a profit for 17 years, and in 1974, Zorner no longer wanted to carry the burden of the Pistons, and sold the Pistons to American glass tycoon Davidson for $7 million.

In the hearts of Chinese fans, the Detroit Pistons are the most famous team, but in the city of Detroit, the Pistons are the bottom team in the four major sports leagues. The Detroit Lions of the NFL, the Detroit Tigers of baseball MLB, and the Detroit Red Wings of ice hockey NHL are all more popular than the Pistons.

The Detroit Tigers of baseball MLB have remained in Detroit for more than 100 years, and they are the only team among the founding members of the former Western Conference to remain in their original city. Rooted in a city for a hundred years, the historical heritage accumulated is really terrifying. If it is placed in modern times, any city with a "century-old brand" will also become a part of the city's culture.

The Detroit Lions of the NFL also came to Detroit in the thirties. And after all, football is the number one sport in the United States, so it is naturally hotter than basketball, not to mention that Detroit also has an NCAA league football Motor City Bowl. Although the gold content of this Motor City Bowl is not as good as the six major bowls such as the Rose Bowl and the Orange Bowl, the rugby atmosphere in the city that can host the bowl game must be very good.

As for ice hockey, it is very popular with Detroiters, Michigan is originally in the north of the United States, which is very suitable for ice hockey, and Detroit's ice hockey fans are also very fanatical, and Detroit is even called "Ice Hockey City" by many Americans.

So for the city of Detroit, basketball is a latecomer, and it is normal to be at the bottom of the four major sports leagues.

Chen Qiang didn't know if his proposal would be accepted by Zorner. But if Zornaken moves the Pistons to Detroit, then the Pistons will be more than ten years ahead of Detroit, and maybe there will be better development in the future, maybe there will be a chance to get rid of the title of "crane tail" in Detroit's professional sports.

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At the end of the shooting contest, Williams forgot to get a beer again, and he was still reminiscing about the shooting contest just now.

"I thought this shooting contest would be boring, but it turned out to be very exciting, especially the final playoff, which was quite exciting." Williams said to himself.

After the reporter conducted a brief interview with the champion of the shooting contest, the All-Star Game moved on to the next link, the slam dunk contest.

Once again, Wilson, the host of the telecast, introduced the rules. Then it was not the participating athletes who appeared, but the five basketball celebrities specially invited by Chen Qiang, who were responsible for scoring the players.

"Are these five people judges? Listening to the introduction, it seems that they are all basketball celebrities! Williams nodded silently, he did not question the professionalism of these five celebrities, in the eyes of normal people, these five people must be experts in basketball, and they will definitely score athletes from a professional point of view.

But in fact, the so-called celebrities are not necessarily the people who know the game of basketball best. The game of basketball is evolving so fast that it changes a lot every decade. For example, in 2010, it was difficult for players at that time to understand the current three-point shooting tactics; And in 2000, when the super center dominated the court and emphasized defense, it was difficult for the players at that time to understand that the Big Three would be so powerful!

Therefore, those superstars of twenty or thirty years ago may not have the same understanding of basketball as the ordinary role players today.

But Chen Qiang still invited them to be the judges of the slam dunk contest, because what Chen Qiang needs is not their professionalism, but their fame.

As a traverser, the slam dunk contest is naturally one of Chen Qiang's most anticipated projects, and many people in later generations watched the All-Star Game specifically for the slam dunk contest. But Chen Qiang also knows that athletes in this era may not be able to do wonderful dunk movements.

White athletes were much weaker than black athletes in terms of jumping, and athletes in the forties were far less physically fit than later generations, and it is no exaggeration to say that most of the two-meter-tall players at that time could not complete the dunk, and for this reason, the dunk was a very rare way to score in the game.

In the future of professional basketball games, not to mention the NBA, the world's highest level, even in the CBA games, players can often be seen dunking. And in the 40s, it was lucky to see one or two dunks in a whole month of play, and the dunks in this era were rare, similar to the tee-off return touchdown in the future NFL football.

Those who have watched "Forrest Gump" should have an impression of Forrest Gump's rugby play, Forrest Gump at that time made a return attack touchdown, Forrest Gump's return attack touchdown looks very easy, and it can rush forward all the way, and in the high-level game in reality, it is almost impossible to complete the task of kicking off and returning to the touchdown. The highest number of touchdowns from the tee shot by an active NFL professional player is 13, which is a career statistic, not a season statistic. And this 13 times ranked second in NFL history, which means that the 100-year-old NFL, has had so many return strikers, but only two people have been able to complete 13 tee return touchdowns in their careers.

Basketball in 1944 was like this, and if a player could dunk 13 times in his career, he would have done something earth-shattering.

It is precisely because it is difficult for ordinary players to complete the dunk, so the players who participated in the dunk contest this time are all players who are about two meters and a half tall, and they are all centers in their respective teams. And the number of people participating in the slam dunk contest is also much smaller than the skill challenge and the shooting contest, there are only three people in total, and it is too difficult for the other players to dunk.

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In Chicago, there is a television set in a fast-food restaurant near DePaul University, and young George McCann is sitting in front of it, watching the All-Star Game broadcast on the TV intently.

When it comes to the stage of the slam dunk contest, it is clearly a war between giants.

The first player to appear on the stage reached a height of 2.05 meters, which was a little shorter than George McCann, but he was already one of the few big men in basketball at the time.

"According to the narrator, this man is 6 feet 9 inches tall, only 1 inch shorter than you." A man next to him looked at George McCann. He whispered, "He can dunk, but you can't dunk blue, right?" ”

"Who said I couldn't dunk, I could!" George McCann replied unconvinced.

"But I've never seen you buckle." The man smiled teasingly.

"That's because I've been in front of you, but that doesn't mean I won't!" George McCann retorted.

In fact, George McCann at this time also has a weak heart, George McCann, who is still in his freshman year, is a stupid big man with clumsy movements, slow movements, rough technique, poor jumping, and short-sightedness, although he is 6 feet 10 inches tall, but he can't complete a dunk.

At this point, on TV, the first player to come out started his first dunk.

I saw him pick up the basketball, face the basket, and then start running, when he ran to the basket, he jumped high and slammed the ball into the basket with one hand.

This is just the most ordinary and basic dunk, and there is no beauty at all.

However, it was this most ordinary dunk that made George McCann in front of the TV grow his mouth and have a shocked expression on his face.

"Slam dunk, that's a dunk!"

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