Chapter 1213: A New Era for the NBA!
On February 14th, the first battle between the NBA league team and the supersonic team, the rookie challenge, ended, and finally ended with the defeat of Team Yes, which is represented by the league team.
It may seem like a disadvantage for the league team, and it does be, but for most of the league's players, the Rookie Challenge is just an appetizer they don't participate in.
Although it was true that losing was a little disadvantageous, they did not participate in person.
It's a struggle between a group of young lads, and to be honest, it's really hard to get involved in the competition between the League and the SuperSonics.
Unlike the Rookie Challenge, the skills competition that starts on February 15 and the All-Star Game on February 16 are the key to the key.
In these two days of games, the all-stars of the two teams participated in one-on-one battles!
Four races on February 15th.
In the Skills Challenge, the SuperSonics All-Stars were Rondo, James Harden, and Reggie Jackson, and the All-Star League players were Rose, Irving, and Wade.
In the three-point competition, the SuperSonics All-Stars are Durant, Leonard, and Yes, and the league's All-Star team is represented by Kobe, Nowitzki, and Curry.
In the slam dunk contest, Antetokounmpo, Gobert and Whiteside are represented by the Supersonic All-Stars, and the players who represent the league All-Stars are Gay, Paul George, and Bushy Eyebrows.
In the heads-up competition, the SuperSonics All-Stars are represented by Yees, Durant, Leonard, James Harden and Rondo, while the players representing the league All-Stars are Kobe, Curry, Beasley, Anthony and Irving.
With the addition of the All-Star Game, these four games are a game where the two teams are completely pitted against each other.
These four games, plus the All-Star Game, are the real games that make the All-Star players of both teams hot.
As for the loss of the Rookie Challenge, perhaps only Kobe Bryant really cares.
After all, this is his first game as head coach.
At the end of the game, Kobe Bryant found that he really didn't have the talent to be a head coach.
Especially after the game, Kobe Bryant directly 'sprayed' his team's young player Vitesse.
"Why are you so lonely on the court? What about your passing buttons? Are you using your teammates as decorations?! Who the hell did you kid learn basketball from?! ”
"Boss, didn't I learn this from you?"
“……”
Looking at Dionwittes' pitiful answer, Kobe Bryant's mouth opened wide for a while, and his face was dumbfounded.
At this moment, he somewhat understood the greatness of Phil Jackson.
Zen master.
After taking him for so many years, he can still Zen.
And when he took Vitesse for a game, he couldn't calm down.
For a while, Kobe, who wanted to show his strength in the position of coach, instantly cooled his dream.
Kobe Bryant's first coaching experience was a bit 'miserable', but it created a lot of jokes for fans around the world.
Among them, Kobe Bryant's weak response to Vitesse's hair dryer and Vitesse rushed to the first place in YouTube playback in an instant after the game.
That's not to mention the kind 'eye contact' that Kobe Bryant and O'Neal had in this game.
Of course, his first coaching experience directly became a comedian like Yes, which made Kobe quite helpless.
He's serious, really serious!
After a night's rest with a somewhat depressed mood, the NBA All-Star Weekend continued to heat up on February 15, after a very good start to the Rookie Challenge on February 14.
In the morning, the Seattle SuperSonics All-Stars, led by Yes, did a series of community activities in Seattle, and this time the All-Stars were playing at home for the Seattle SuperSonics.
Coupled with the fact that the Seattle SuperSonics are all in the All-Star Season, it's fair to say that the atmosphere at this year's All-Star Weekend was definitely the most enthusiastic.
And after the morning community activities and some business activities.
In the afternoon, at one o'clock, Yes took the Supersonic All-Star team, and Kobe Bryant took the league's All-Star team to the team's joint practice and interview.
For the league All-Star team, joint practice is very important, most of their players are from different teams, and the run-in between each other is very important, so it is carried out behind closed doors.
And the Seattle SuperSonics are not so particular about it, after all, everyone is a team.
Tactics, coordination will not be any problems at all.
"This training session is the first training session we have worked together for, of course there are no problems with our run-in, good players can always have chemistry with good players right away, and we can integrate faster than we can imagine."
After the closed training session, Kobe Bryant had a happy look on his face.
Not only Kobe, but also James, Anthony, Wade and other players from other league teams have very good expressions on their faces.
It can be seen that they are really running in very well.
Run-in is very important for the all-star players of the league team.
Fools know that compared to the supersonic All-Star team, the hard power of the alliance team that gathers the essence of the entire league is definitely stronger.
And much stronger.
The reason why the supersonic can compete with the league team is because the supersonic has the first person in NBA history, and the supersonic is a more tacit whole.
If the alliance team's joint training is very good and the tacit advantage of supersonic is gone, then the alliance team that is completely crushed by the strength will naturally have a greater chance of victory.
Without a tacit advantage, if you want to win, supersonic can only rely on the superhuman strength of Yes to have an advantage, but can Yes's advantage support supersonic winning?
This is very difficult to say.
So after Kobe Bryant and the All-Stars of the league team said that the team's run-in was quite amazing, the major spinach companies instantly adjusted the odds of the All-Star Game.
Obviously, spinach companies will not just listen, in this closed training session, these spinach companies must have channels to get the actual situation inside.
Before the run-in training, most of the players on the league's All-Star team still had a solemn look on their faces, and after the joint practice, everyone's expressions became relaxed.
Maybe all the league All-Stars interviewed still have a solemn look on James' face, right?
Of course, not because of the run-in problem.
It's because of the question of the interview.
This All-Star Weekend attracted a large number of journalists from all over the world.
For All-Star players, they compete with each other for their popularity and the number of reporters around them.
Obviously, the tall James could see at a glance that there were more reporters around Kobe than him, and there were many more!
Not even Kobe Bryant, Curry is surrounded by more reporters than he is.
And the number of reporters around him is only the third gear, which is about the same as Yao Ming and Beasley.
This one is uncomfortable.
You know, when he was an All-Star last year, he was just less than Kobe.
And because he is not on the same team as Kobe, he is the most popular on the James team.
At that time, it was really the stars holding the moon.
But now, as the captain of the league team, his popularity is not as good as Kobe, even if he is not as good as Curry!
It can only be said that this year, because of Yes's return, because the whole world thinks that he is a 'scum' who has betrayed Yes and abandoned it from beginning to end, which has caused a serious loss of his popularity.
Of course, there is no way to do this, and he has no intention of making any more excuses for Yes.
He even thought it might be his fault.
So he actually confessed.
He's given up on all the creation of characters now, and his reputation can't be lower because of the excesses he did to Yes anyway, and even during this training, Dwyane didn't even look at him.
He doesn't care about what is set up now, and even before the All-Star, even the King of his Twitter account was removed.
Now, after losing all the false bubbles outside, he can finally return to the truth and give everything he has to basketball.
It's good to get rid of that mess and get back to basketball itself.
But......
Looking at the current popularity of Kobe and Curry, James knows that deep down he is still unwilling.
He still wants to pick up all the popularity and characters he lost.
Only now, he can only throw it away, otherwise it will be just a laughing stock for others.
"When I'm successful enough, I can always get back what belongs to me!"
James thought to himself.
Compared to the league team, the Beyond team did not have so many comparisons when they were interviewed after training.
Comparisons do not exist, and the superSonics are very firmly positioned in the team position.
Yes first, Durant second, and as for the rest, well, the players at all levels are pretty much the same.
In this news interview, there was no competition, only tension, especially the four of Whiteside, Gobert, Reggie Jackson and Ingalls.
They were really worried and nervous when the media interviewed, there was not a single reporter around.
I have to say, they still think too much.
There are still a lot of reporters around them, although there are not as many other players as SuperSonic, but there are quite a few.
It can only be said that before the All-Star, Yes's hard push against them worked very well.
They're not 'nobodies' anymore.
Especially Ingles, looking at the Australian reporters who appeared around him, Ingalls wanted to cry.
At the end of the 2008 Olympic Games, he was directly expelled from his citizenship by Australian media reporters and public opinion.
That reminder of Yes really changed his whole life.
At that time, he even felt like his whole life was over.
But now, he has become the first NBA All-Star in Australian history.
The ups and downs of life are so dramatic.
The Australian fans and media reporters who once regarded him as a mustard and wanted to expel him from his citizenship have now begun to lick him like crazy.
Although he has always been a rather indifferent player, at this moment, he still feels a deep sense of pride and satisfaction in his heart.
"My gratitude to Yes comes from the bottom of my heart!"
In fact, this time, all the superSonics players were selected as All-Stars, and the gratitude to Yes in my heart is from the soul, and Ingles will definitely not be the only player.
After all, if it weren't for YES, not this magical and incredible season of the SuperSonics.
Many people on the SuperSonics team are unlikely to make it to the All-Star team in their lifetime.
Therefore, compared to the league team interview, the SuperSonics all-star interview is completely different in terms of painting style.
Throughout the interview, it can be called gratitude and tears flying.
Looking at the incredible situation at the scene, many reporters at the scene were surprised and understood at the same time.
"If someone can lead me to such a great achievement, I am willing to die for him!"
"Look at these fourteen supersonic players, what would their lives be like if they hadn't met Yes?"
"Durant certainly won't have a chance to challenge the top 10 in NBA history!"
"There's no way Rondo has a chance to break into the top 20 in NBA history!"
"Milicic, Millsap will never be in the top 60 or even the top 50 in history!"
"James Harden, Antetokounmpo, Leonard, there's absolutely no way to be MVP!"
"Tucker, Nick Collisson, Danny Green, Ingles, Reggie Jackson, Gobert, Whiteside, they can't be All-Stars either!"
"Who would have thought that this grassroots team that has been robbed of everything, this group of grassroots players from the very edge of the NBA, can play the most invincible results in NBA history under Yes?"
"The lives of these people have been changed beyond recognition by Yes, and they have also been changed in a dream."
For a lot of reporters around him, none of the fourteen superSonics players are geniuses except for Durant.
Even a genius like Durant in high school, he used to be the youngest brother of Beasley at the pride of heaven.
There aren't many geniuses like Besliorden, but the United States pops up quite a few talented Americans like Durant every year.
Therefore, no matter how successful the supersonic is now, many experts and the media habitually regard the supersonic as a grassroots team with 'mediocre talent'.
Even if the supersonic already has so many All-Stars, so many MVPs, this time there are even fifteen All-Stars at a time.
But no one thinks that the SuperSonics are a 'fifteen-core' team, and everyone assumes that the Seattle SuperSonics are a 'single-core' team.
Even the self-deranged coconut black admits that the supersonic is a 'single-core' team.
After Ye and SuperSonics finished their group visit to the All-Stars, they attended the 'NBA New President's Press Conference' held by the league for Scott Pippen at eight o'clock in the evening on February 15 with Kobe Bryant and the league's all-star players.
"Thank you to everyone for their support to me over the years, and I hope everyone can support Scott and his team as much as they support me, compared to me, Scott is more flexible, not so strong, he is more kind, and he understands basketball better, understands the NBA, understands what kind of NBA fans and players need, my 30 years have only satisfied the commercial interests of the NBA, and now is a new era for Scott, I hope that in the future Scott can give the NBA, to the players, Bringing more innovation and what is needed to the fans. ”
After Scott Pippen took over David Stern's position as president, there was applause from NBA players such as Yes, Kobe Bryant, etc.
The NBA has officially entered a new era.
A new era that began to strive to get out of business and no longer pursue the limits of business, but began to pursue basketball itself......