In fact, when Richard went to Cleveland All-Star Weekend as a spectator last season, he already fantasized about when he would be able to participate in the All-Star as a leading coach......

And just a year later, his fantasy became a reality!

He really became the coach of the Western Conference All-Star......

The only thing that makes Richard a little unhappy is that the All-Star venue this time is in New York, at the headquarters of the NBA, and there is no doubt that this trip to New York, he will meet Stern......

Since the Jazz incident, there has been little communication between Richard and Stern.

Even when Richard paid for the authorization, he did so directly with the finance department of the Board of Trustees, not Stern......

Orsch and Richard had already told everything about what happened at the meeting that day, and Richard was naturally quite dissatisfied.

If it weren't for Paul Allen's strength, Richard might have suffered some kind of heavy punishment!

From that point of view alone, Richard didn't want to have much to do with Stern......

In the NBA, Stern's power is indeed great, but not so big that he can do whatever he wants.

This time he went to New York to play an All-Star, and Stern will definitely appear many times, and Richard really doesn't know what kind of face to give Stern.

That's the only thing Richard is unhappy about this All-Star......

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Even Richard thought about whether to take a leave of absence due to illness, anyway, it would not be a big deal for the All-Star team to lead the coach to change.

However, just giving up the opportunity to lead the team to the All-Star team, Richard felt that it was too much of a pity.

Simply depending on the situation at that time, Stern should not have lost his mind to the point of embarrassing himself in public.

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Time entered February, there are still about two weeks before the All-Star, and Richard asked Kobe Bryant and Xiao Ao to brush up on the data when facing those fish belly teams.

There's a reason for that.

Because Richard doesn't want future fans to check the All-Star list in later generations, they feel that the selection of Xiao Ao and Kobe Bryant is not worthy of the name......

And now Kobe's god-making task can also be done by the way!

Throughout January, after Bryant's shackles were taken by Richard, the score increased significantly.

In a month, playing 15 games, Bryant averaged 18.5 shots per game, and was able to average 22.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game.

Judging from the data, Kobe Bryant did increase the number of shots, but the increase was not exaggerated.

It's not like the previous game against the Bulls, where dozens of shots were made all over the court.

Kobe Bryant is maturing, and he knows what role he should play at a certain point in time.

He will even adjust the number of shots he takes according to the lineup on the court......

In Richard's opinion, this undoubtedly gave him a considerable sense of accomplishment!

If you want to say that Kobe Bryant has a huge improvement in strength compared with normal circumstances, it is not enough, after all, under normal circumstances, Kobe Bryant can play an average of 15 points per game when he only gets one start......

And his data is actually completely capable of competing for the honor of the best sixth man.

Now that Kobe Bryant is playing under Richard, the statistics have naturally increased a lot, but the offensive efficiency is about the same as normal......

What really made Richard feel that Kobe Bryant had grown was Bryant's ability to analyze the game on the court.

The current Kobe Bryant already has a pretty good ability to read the game, he can speed up as much as possible in an offensive round that needs to be accelerated, and he can also slow down in a round that needs to be stabilized to wait for his teammates to settle down.

In Richard's view, this ability is quite precious, at least under normal circumstances, Kobe Bryant did not show such an ability in the first few years of the Lakers, he is like a frizzy child, eager to express himself.

And the current Kobe Bryant is obviously more mature than his own self at the same time under normal circumstances.

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In the half month before the start of the All-Star Game, because Richard wanted Kobe to be selected as an All-Star in the name of the right, plus to do god-making tasks by the way, Kobe's data has improved again.

In the two weeks of games, Kobe Bryant averaged about 24.3 points per game!

And because of the recent one-and-a-half-month increase in scores, Kobe's average points per game in the season have broken through the 20-point mark and come to 20.7 points!

Such a statistic can be said to be quite luxurious, not considering the slightly lower shooting percentage, Kobe Bryant is already fully qualified to enter the All-Star!

Newcomers who can get 20+7.5 average data per game are eligible to enter the All-Star in which All-Star they are placed.

Of course, it's just qualifying, and there are a lot of people who didn't make the All-Star with this data......

It's just that at least for Kobe Bryant to enter the All-Star, others can't find anything wrong with it.

As for Xiao Ao, the data has also improved to a certain extent, with the help of Big Ben, in the past half a month, he has also averaged 20+10 data per game.

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On February 14, All-Star Weekend officially began, and Richard led the team to New York.

In addition to Xiao Ao and Kobe Bryant who were selected for the All-Star Game, in fact, many people from the Trail Blazers successfully signed up for this All-Star Weekend.

The first is that Kobe Bryant signed up for the slam dunk contest again!

Under normal history, this year's All-Star Weekend, the slam dunk contest was canceled......

Because it's really nothing to see, it's just two times back and forth, it's not entertaining!

But with the mixing of Richard last season and the re-entry of Barry Jr., who contributed a rather aesthetic dunk, the slam dunk contest was once again in the attention of fans, so this year's dunk contest was not canceled......

Kobe Bryant signed up for this year's slam dunk contest, because Barry Jr. did not continue to participate, and the chances of Kobe Bryant winning the slam dunk king this year are still quite large.

Martial Saint Jackson was selected for the rookie challenge......

As for the three-point contest, the two veterans of the Trail Blazers also joined in the fun, and Robinson and Curry Sr. got the opportunity to participate.

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The Masters game was really nothing to watch, Richard didn't watch it at all, but waited until the rookie game started before bringing his players into the arena to cheer for Martial Saint Jackson.

The 2000 rookie game only had a first-year team and a second-year team, so this year, the Trail Blazers only had one martial artist Jackson selected for the rookie game......

Players familiar to Richard, such as Dazhi, Billups, Big Z Ilgerskas, Maddy, Keith Van Horn and Bobby Jackson, were given the opportunity to play in the rookie game.

Because the NBA has not yet connected to the interface of China's all-star ballot, Dazhi has not been given the opportunity to enter the All-Star.

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What Richard didn't expect was that in the end, the MVP of this rookie game was won by Dazhi......

He clearly remembered that this rookie MVP should have been won by Big Z, who led the East Army to defeat the West Army, and personally won the MVP of the Rookie Game!

However, although the East Army won this game, the MVP was won by Dazhi in the end.

Because the starting point guard on the Eastern side is Billups, Dazhi can naturally get more shots than Big Z, and the final data is better than Big Z......

The data of 22 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists allowed Dazhi to win the first honor of his career!

Last season, the rookie MVP was also won by the Philadelphia 76ers, which reminded Richard of the Huskies who were a three-star team in the future.

The Huskies also produced two rookie game MVPs for two consecutive years, one was Wiggins, an NBA civil servant......

The other person is not Mr. Muscle Loli 91 Downs, but Zach LaVine.

In fact, Towns is not without a chance to help the Timberwolves continue this "glory", he has a chance to win the rookie MVP in 2017, if he really wins, the Timberwolves will win this award for three consecutive years!

As a result, the U.S. team lost to the international team in that rookie game, and Downs, who was the leading rookie of the U.S. team, naturally had no chance to win the rookie MVP......