The invitations to the 2014 All-Star Weekend Three-Point Contest were announced on January 31, 2014, and the league announced them on its own initiative.

But on February 1, 2014, only one day later, the list of participants had been confirmed.

Among the players who accepted the invitation were Curry and Harden of the Warriors, Irving and Morrow of the Pelicans, Lillard of the Trail Blazers, and Sun Ce and Klay Thompson of the Grizzlies.

Yi Jianlian and Paul George, Beverley, Hardaway Jr., Ryan Anderson, Kevin Love, and Belinelli declined the NBA's invitation.

Curry said in an interview: "I want to play in the three-point contest every year, yes, every year, if I can, I hope that the league still invites me to the three-point contest until the season I retire." ”

In an interview, Harden said, "You know what? I've never beaten Stephen in training! I'm going to beat him this time...... What do you want to win the lord, I don't have ......"

Speaking to Moreau, he said: "I wish I could win the three-point contest again. ”

Klay Thompson said in an interview: "It's a shame that I didn't get to play in the three-point contest last season, and it's a special feeling to be against my third brother, and this is the first time I've ...... Who is the third brother? Lord...... Why is it called the third brother? I didn't know, he told me to call ...... that."

Irving said in an interview: "I think my threes are good and I want to try it too. ”

Lillard said in an interview: "I want to play in all the games of the All-Star Weekend this year, yes, all the games, the dunk contest, the skills challenge, the three-point contest, the rookie game I think I will definitely make it, I want the coaches to select me into the All-Star game, I feel like I'm an All-Star caliber player." ”

Mr. Sun declined to be interviewed.

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On February 1, the game day when the Grizzlies faced the Timberwolves away, Sun Ce chose to accept it after receiving an invitation yesterday and being notified by Bill Duffy and Chris Wallace.

Early this morning, when I went to the target center in Minneapolis with my teammates to prepare for the game, I saw the league quickly announce the three-point contest roster.

Especially after he accepted the invitation last night, the alliance announced his acceptance of the invitation for the first time, which was called a lightning speed......

Naturally, the media also looked at the wind, and the interviews with the contestants had been completed at noon.

Sun Ce saw Lillard and Irving, two contestants who did not participate in the three-point contest last year, and his answers in an interview were quite normal.

But Harden and Klay Thompson, the two newcomers, are obviously not right, especially Harden!

On the contrary, Curry and Morrow seem to be quite normal...... But Sun Ce felt that these people were all for him to participate!

Sun Ce saw the invitation list announced by the alliance yesterday, and knew that the alliance was "rubbing" his grandson's popularity!

If it weren't for the retirement of Nash and Battier, and the choice of Yi Jianlian, Beverley, Paul George, Hardaway Jr. and others not to participate, Sun Ce estimated that the league would have to make up for his teammates and his former teammates to continue to fight against him.

After last year's worst performance event in the history of the three-point contest, this year's three-point contest has become the most watched game on the NBA All-Star Weekend eventing day, because the league has long released rumors that it will continue to invite Sun Ce to participate in the three-point contest.

Fans are curious about whether Sun Ce will continue to participate, and whether he will want to be ashamed?

And Sun Ce has always given fans the impression that "revenge must be avenged", such a shame...... Sun Ce's three-point improvement this season has been huge, and his performance has been getting better, compared with the beginning of the season, both the number of shots and the shooting rate have been greatly improved, so far he has averaged 3.9 three-point shots per game to launch a fierce pursuit of Curry, and the shooting rate has increased by almost four percentage points compared with last season, reaching 38.6 percent!

Sun Ce's three-point shots this season are almost two fewer than last season, but the average number of three-point shots per game is only 0.2 fewer than last season!

With such an effort to improve the three points, many people associate this with the shame of the three-point contest.

Last night, after the league announced that Sun Ce accepted the invitation to the three-point contest, the fans were excited!

Before Sun Ce joined the NBA, All-Star Weekend became more and more boring, with the rookie game being the same as the playground, with rookies on both sides of the rookie buckle; There was no explosion in eventing, and before last season, the three-point contest was won by Morrow in '11, Pierce in '10, and Daquine Cook in '09...... It's not interesting at all, the slam dunk contest has become less and less interesting after Carter doesn't participate, and the attention of the skill challenge is higher than that of the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest, in the early years, Kobe, Wade, Nash, Kidd, Delon, Paul and others have participated in the skill challenge.

It's miserable, because the skills challenge, which has long been regarded as the addition of All-Star Weekend, has been the talk of more topics than the three-point contest and the dunk contest.

In the years before Sun Ce joined the NBA, in addition to the main game, the first two days of All-Star Weekend were the same as going through the motions, the ratings were tepid, and the topic was average.

But in 2010, after Sun Ce participated in the rookie game, he immediately set a new tone for the rookie game!

The rookie game has also become a game for first- and second-year players to work hard.

Although I don't know how long this trend can last, wherever Sun Ce goes, there are rivers and lakes!

Last year, Sun Ce participated in the three-point contest, although the result was ...... But the popularity of the three-point contest has been greatly increased!

watched netizens discuss how many points he can get in this year's three-point competition...... Sun Ce is so angry! Be sure to get revenge this year!

The reason for his poor three-point shooting is simple, last season his three-point shooting was concentrated in the top arc area within a 45-degree angle on both sides, and he averaged 9 throws per game in this position!

Thanks to the wide top arc area, he can shoot three points normally in the game.

This year, he's improved a lot from the bottom corner three-pointers, and it's ...... There's also a powerful special card! There is a chance for revenge!

It's just that the way to use that special card makes Sun Ce very entangled, what kind of pretending method to use in order to be very pretending and unconventional? You have to think about it......

Fortunately, the requirement for the use of this special card is to make a declaration of victory at any time before the start of the three-point contest, and there is still more than half a month to think slowly.

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With the announcement of the All-Star Game starters and the three-point contest participants, fans' enthusiasm for the All-Star Weekend began to rise, and they gradually came out of the aesthetic fatigue and spectator fatigue in the middle of the season, and the attention of NBA games began to increase.

The NFL playoffs are coming to an end, this year's Super Bowl will be held on February 3, and with the end of the NFL season, some basketball and American football fans will refocus their attention on the NBA, and the All-Star Weekend will reach its highest.

Fans are now looking forward to the rookie game and the announcement of the entries for the other two events.

At 6 p.m. on the 1st, the Grizzlies' away game against the Timberwolves began.

Stoudemire won't be able to play until the All-Star weekend, so the Grizzlies brought Hardaway Jr. back to bolster his outside shooting.

The Grizzlies are 31-13 and the Timberwolves are 22-25, and the gap between the two teams is becoming more and more obvious as the season progresses.

On the Grizzlies' side, due to various factors, it has become an offensive powerhouse, due to the previous wave of consecutive road experiences that almost 1-3, the Grizzlies coaching staff's goal before the All-Star Weekend is to stabilize the offense and gradually try to strengthen the defense, and the past few games have done well, at least the offense has not been adjusted for the sake of adjustment like that wave of 4 consecutive away games, which led to a sharp drop in the team's strength.

In tonight's game, the difficulty on the Grizzlies' side is rebounding, and the rebounding guarantee of Love and Pekovic is too strong! Drummond and Jordan Jr., who are the top two in rebounds per game this season, have both had the experience of missing a double-double in rebounds against the Timberwolves.

The Grizzlies also lost a lot of rebounding tonight, with only 38 rebounds, compared to 46 for the Timberwolves.

Fortunately, the Grizzlies performed well on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends tonight, although they were scored 28 points and 16 boards by Lefu and Pekovic with 12 points and 14 boards, but Sun Ce also had 26 points and 12 boards.

Plus Paul George's 12 points, 4 boards and 8 assists, Yi Jianlian's 16 points, 5 boards, 1 assist and 1 block, Klay Thompson's 21 points and 5 boards, Valanciunas's 9 points and 6 boards, Amir Johnson's 5 points and 3 boards...... The Grizzlies scrambled as a team, at least they didn't let the other team widen the rebounding gap.

Defending a lot of rebounds that had to be defended also gave the Grizzlies a chance to win.

At the last moment of the game, Paul George sent three assists in a row, and Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, and Yi Jianlian benefited, playing a wave of 8-4, and finally defeated the Timberwolves 104-100 thrillingly, improving the record to 32-13!

In addition to scoring 26 points and 12 rebounds on 8-of-20 shooting, Sun Ce also has comprehensive statistics of 4 assists, 4 blocks and 3 steals.

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The Timberwolves are working hard, and they want to continue to make the playoffs, and this is not an exception, and any team that has a chance to make the playoffs wants to make the playoffs before the All-Star weekend; And the teams that are already in the playoffs naturally don't want to be overtaken, and want to enter the rest phase of All-Star Weekend in a happy mood.

The Grizzlies, who are currently in the second sprint of the regular season, have encountered a strong impact from their opponents.

The morning after the Timberwolves, the Grizzlies returned to Memphis and ushered in a game against the Hawks that night, 98-105, and the Grizzlies lost at home.

This game made the fans discover a strange thing, Westbrook's side has a very high probability of winning a triple-double, while Sun Ce's side has a triple-double...... The win rate can't be said to be low, but it's not much higher, three or four times out of ten triple-doubles have been lost, and sometimes it really seems like there is no way to get a triple-double.

Losing to the Hawks, Sun Ce had 22 points, 11 boards, 11 assists, 1 block and 1 steal...... The team's defense is really bad! If his teammates don't defend well, Sun Ce's defensive role will be greatly reduced.

But this game can't be helped, back-to-back rest for two days, and immediately back-to-back at home and home, the regular season has been played more than halfway, fatigue has already accumulated, the Grizzlies in January did not seem to be much affected by the mid-season, mainly the players are under pressure and motivation, and now in February, with the All-Star starting list and the three-point contest entry list announced, the Grizzlies also feel that the mid-season break is coming, and the holding energy is beginning to slowly relax, ready for the All-Star weekend......

This change in mentality is normal, and for the players, rest, is too important!

got the 24th triple-double of the season, lost, and the record became 32-14, Sun Ce felt that this number was poisonous!

But the schedule continued, and on the second day of the back-to-back home games, on the morning of the 3rd, the Grizzlies rushed to Dallas non-stop, rested for the night, and challenged the Mavericks on the 4th.

The Grizzlies played well tonight, with Sun Ce scoring a big triple-double of 35 points, 17 rebounds and 11 assists, plus 2 blocks and 2 steals.

Paul George had 22 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, Klay Thompson had 16 points, Valanciunas had 12 points, 10 rebounds and 2 blocks, and Yi Jianlian and Aamir Johnson, who chose to come off the bench to deal with the opponent's interior, also scored 17 points, and the Grizzlies scored 106 points as a team.

However, on the Mavericks' side, Nowitzki had 26 points and 6 boards, Bosh had 28 points and 10 boards, and the key was that Carter, who came off the bench, went crazy and slashed 30 points, 5 boards and 7 assists, as if dreaming of returning to the top, plus Conley, who had a stable score of 15 points and 8 assists, the Mavericks scored 114 points in the game.

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suffered a wave of two consecutive defeats, the record became 32-15, No. 6, and the Grizzlies who returned to Memphis went berserk!

It's not a regular rampage this season, the Grizzlies have scored more than 130 points in a single game this season, but they haven't scored particularly low points, which is completely different from scoring 70 points in the past few years.

And this time, the Grizzlies did it again!

In the home game against the Bucks, the Grizzlies scored only 75 points in the game, but only allowed the Bucks to score 68 points...... In fact, it is simply a bad hand, Sun Ce got at least 20 irons in a single game for the 22nd time in his career, and scored 38 points on 15-of-36 shooting, and he scored half of the team alone...... Moreover, but they shot 86 times as a team! That is, the others threw 50 times, 14 more than him, and scored one point less than him.

Fortunately, their desperate defense also choked the opponent enough!

The Bucks had already failed to rebuild, with 6 wins and 34 losses, finishing last in the league and overtaking the Clippers...... Last summer's signings were terrible, with O.J. Mayo, Neal, Caron Butler, Rednow, Sessions...... Compared with last season, all the big dives!

The Bucks can be happy about the fact that only Monroe, Middleton, and Brandon Knight are still good.

Sun Ce scored 38 points, 23 rebounds, 3 assists, 6 blocks and 2 steals in a single game with 21 irons, and got the eighth double-20 data in the regular season in his career, helping the team narrowly defeat the Bucks 75-68 and avoid three consecutive defeats.

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With a 33-15 record, the Grizzlies played a game against the Bucks and set off again the next morning to Orlando to challenge the Magic, who are the second-to-last team in the East this season.

These two games really gave the Grizzlies a good buffer, because playing the Magic team, the Grizzlies also felt bad, of course, compared to playing the Magic team, the Grizzlies scored 86 points in the game, 86-81 defeated the Magic team, and improved the record to 34-15.

Sun Ce got the highest ...... of the game tonight 20 points, compared to the night before, their Grizzlies scored a double-double on his grandson alone, and tonight was much better, although Klay Thompson only scored 5 points on 1-of-7 shooting, but Klay Thompson had 17 points, Amir Johnson had 12 points, and Livingston had 14 points.

Livingston played well, Sun Ce played less time, and the team also wanted him to rest, he played 30 minutes and got 20 points, 16 boards, 6 assists and 5 blocks on 7-of-14 shooting.

If there's any bad news, it's that Tony Allen was injured in a confrontation with Nelson and fell to the ground with a wrist crush and went back with a sprain.

Therefore, Coach Hollins saw that Livingston's scoring efficiency and assists were good, and the lead could be stabilized, and Sun Ce was rested from the second half of the second quarter to the first 9 minutes of the third quarter, and Sun Ce only played the last 9 minutes in the fourth quarter.

Fortunately, the game was won without danger.

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On February 9, the morning after playing the game against the Magic, the Grizzlies came to Cleveland, and today Gobert was also called back, and the Grizzlies' available players just happened to make up the 13-man roster...... In fact, this is already very good, playing to this time period, there are several teams and teams have four or five players who cannot play, this year the league further encourages offense, plus fouls, defensive violations, etc., the impact of shortening the return time to 14 seconds has been further expanded, the pace of the game has improved a lot compared to last season, and the league injury situation has almost doubled compared to last season!

Last season's regular season, an average of 2.2 players per team per game were absent due to injury, and this season has played an average of 3.8 players per team per game!

For example, the Grizzlies, Tony Allen is out for a week, and the Grizzlies have 3 players who can't play in the remaining games before the All-Star weekend, which is already very good, below average...... Although the Grizzlies did not continue the rotation strategy this year, the 13-man rotation still played a big role in reducing injuries.

This year, there is a lot of bad news for the Grizzlies and for Sun Ce, and it is one after another.

However, his personal progress did not stagnate!

At 3:30 p.m. on the 9th, the Grizzlies team's warm-up for tonight's back-to-back games began.

"Congratulations to the host for raising the left hand distance shooting evaluation from A to A+ in the left side of the three-second zone.

Because the host's mid-range shooting in the left side of the three-second zone, the left baseline of the three-second zone, the right side of the three-second zone, the right baseline of the right sideline, and the direction of the free throw line all reached A+ level, the host's mid-distance shooting evaluation was adjusted to A+ grade.

Because the host's overall mid-pitch evaluation has reached A+ level, congratulations to the host, skill: the king of the high back level 2 (Kobe) has been upgraded to level 3. ”

Shooting on the left side of the three-second zone, it's finally at the A+ level!

Sun Ce was still yawning, and he was instantly energetic!

Open the skills section, Kobe Bryant's version of the king of the high back has finally been upgraded!

But Boss Joe's turn-over jump shooting skills require a mid-range shooting area to reach the S- level!