Speaking of which, before the voting session came out, the NBA officially announced that it had adjusted the rules of this All-Star Game.

The Challenge Tournament is also known as the Shooting Star Contest, the Skills Challenge, the Three-Point Shooting Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest, all of which will be played by teams in the East and West instead of players competing in separate teams.

Each team member is assigned a team leader, and the team with the highest score will be the winner of the 2013 All-Star Challenge Night and win $350,000 in charitable funds.

Obviously, the new rules will greatly increase the competitiveness of these four competitions, as each competition will have an impact on the overall score.

That's why it's important to add some new things to the All-Star.

Speaking of which, the All-Star Game does need to add some new gimmicks over the years, after all, the slam dunk contest is not as eye-catching as it used to be.

This also makes the All-Star season missing some of the highlights!

Therefore, although such a reform will not bring any changes to every event, the final result will definitely make every event full of competition because it can affect the control of the charity fund worth 350,000 complaints.

Of course, these reforms or something, when the list of skills challenges comes out, the heat that can be caused is not so great.

Fans are also full of attention to this event after seeing Yi Jianlian announce his participation in the Skills Challenge!

On February 8, the NBA officially announced the official roster of six players who participated in the 2013 All-Star Game Skills Challenge. In addition to Yi Jianlian, the Rockets' Jeremy Lin, the Pistons' Brandon Knight, the Hawks' Jeff Teague, the Trail Blazers' Lillard and the Spurs' Parker were all selected.

On the six-man roster, Spurs' Parker was the 2012 Skill Challenge winner, beating the likes of Wall, Rondo, Deron Williams, Irving and Westbrook to win the title.

However, the appearance of Yi Jianlian this year makes many people hope that he can win the final championship, after all, as long as Yi Jianlian wins the championship this year, then he will become the first guy in NBA history to win the Skill Challenge Championship, the three-point shooting championship, and the dunk championship.

Yi Jianlian shows his omnipotence all the time.

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One thing to say, when the All-Star Game is played in New York or Los Angeles, the impact on the whole of America is very different.

For example, this year's All-Star Game was held in New York, and the audience was full of big names, with Scarlett and other Hollywood actresses competing in the most eye-catching places on the sidelines, and Hollywood superstars such as Jason Statham also appeared on the sidelines of this All-Star Weekend.

If you really change these guys who stand on the All-Star Conference, everyone will believe it at the Hollywood awards scene!

Although the format has been changed, the entire All-Star process is still the same.

It's still the Masters first.

One thing to say, this year's Masters also came with a lot of stars, and it is worth mentioning that Usain Bolt, the 100-meter champion, participated in this year's Masters.

He was scheduled to make his third appearance in the East Army, and the king of the 100 meters who appeared on the All-Star Weekend was a little unable to let go, his movements were not as relaxed and comfortable as on the track and field, but he did a trademark "bow and shoot the moon" move. After that, Hutcherson, Elliott, Bowen, Caches and others appeared on the Eastern team.

It is also worth mentioning that the head coaches of this year's Eastern and Western Celebrity teams are the brothers James Harden and Westbrook.

Westbrook brought his understanding of fashion to the court, wearing a yellow suit and an exaggerated pair of glasses.

There are only two former NBA star players on this side of the West, one is Mutombo, and the other is Drexler, the "glider" of the year.

In addition to them, the West also has 2012 Masters MVP actor Hart Moore.

Like the NBA, the Masters game is divided into four quarters, but each quarter is only 10 minutes long.

Although they all warmed up before the game, among these players, professional players have not played for many years, and the unprofessional guys are not only lacking professional training, but also make the shooting rate of both teams not high after the start of the game.

Although Mutombo has absolute height, considering that it is a Masters, he is more likely to pull on the outside to attack.

But Mutombo is out of the three-point line, which is no different from a human pillar!

Only the Western Army scored 4 points in the first 5 minutes of the game, which shows how bad the state of the two teams is!

However, after that, the Eastern Army began to exert its strength, Hutcherson hit a 3-pointer, Bowen also hit a shot, and the Eastern Army overtook it.

But the West responded quickly with four points to regain the lead, and Bolt then scored a dunk on a fast break that sent cheers from the crowd.

The popularity of the king of the 100 meters is still undoubted!

But in the end, it was the Western team that maintained the advantage and ended the first quarter with a 16-9 lead.

In the second quarter, the offensive of the Middle East forces still did not improve much, only Hutcherson scored another three-pointer, but the West forces extended their advantage under the leadership of Hart and others.

More than 1 minute and 50 seconds before halftime, the Eastern team had a fast attack opportunity, and his teammates wanted to complete an aerial relay for Bolt, but unfortunately Bolt failed to dunk the ball in, and some sighs sounded on the scene.

In the previous warm-up, Bolt actually completed a dunk, so everyone wants to see his dunk!

The West scored four straight points to stretch the advantage to 11 points, and Caches made a layup to put the East up 17-26. The West scored four more points in a row, and Hutcherson scored a layup on the baseline to put the East team behind 19-30 at halftime.

For the West, Jenkins scored nine points in the first half, Cowmon had six and Hart had five; For the East, Hutcherson scored eight points, Caches had four and Usain Bolt two.

The two teams alternated points in the third quarter, and the Western team still maintained a double-digit advantage, and Bolt wanted to grab an offensive rebound in front of Mutombo, but Uncle Mu had a clear height advantage, and he just stood and raised his arms to pick up the rebound. Kachess received a pass from Usain Bolt and scored for a layup, and Moore quickly responded by making a layup before the end of the quarter to give the West a 41-26 lead to end the third quarter.

More than two minutes into the final quarter, the West had a quick break opportunity, and Drexler, who was obviously physically blessed, scored a slow three-step layup, but it still drew cheers from the audience, and the West team led 45-28. The East team used a free throw to recover a one-point point, and Hart and Duncan combined for five points to give the West a 21-point lead at 50-29 with 4:25 left in the final game. The big score behind made the East team unable to fight back, and the players on both sides were more on the court, and Hart became the focus off the court, and the West team won 58-38 in the end.

This gave the West a head start in points.

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After the Masters, it's the Rookie Game!

Yi Jianlian is the head coach of the rookie game in the east.

When he picked up the tactics board to draw the tactics for the players before the game, it caused a lot of laughter from the audience, which is probably a rare situation in the NBA where "the coach is better than the players on the court".

Will there be a situation where "look, I'll tell you how to play this ball"?

Yi Jianlian's No. 1 star is naturally Irving, the 2011 champion Irving, the core of the Cavaliers now averages 23.5 points and 5.5 assists per game, and his ball-handling skills are gorgeous but also practical, and his breakthrough sharpness is also quite good at mid-to-long range.

In Yi Jianlian's opinion, this guy is the current league, and he can even rank the guys who can dribble in the history of the entire league, and he can also be a leader in ball control and dribbling!

It is worth mentioning that in the 2012 rookie game, Irving scored 34 points on 8-of-8 three-pointers and was elected MVP.

This also makes many people optimistic that he can win the MVP of the rookie game in this year's rookie game!

However, Irving was also selected for the All-Star season this year, also because he was going to participate in the All-Star Game, so how long he would play in the rookie game is questionable.

If Irving has reservations in the rookie game, Lillard, the hottest candidate for rookie king, will become the number one star of O'Neal's team.

At the same time, he is not ranked highly, but his overall performance is in the top two of the current rookies in the 2012 draft.

The first is undoubtedly Anthony Davis, whose talent is visible to the naked eye even if he comes to the NBA, no one can stop him!

From his first season, he showed the potential to become a super inside player in the future.

The game was the same as last season, and it was the rookies in the West who took the lead, with Anthony Davis showing good playmaking ability from the start, sending a wonderful pass near the top of the arc, and Spurs rookie Leonard took the lead with a relay dunk to score two points.

Thomas, who was playing at home, responded with a driving layup and scored two points for the Eastern Conference.

Although they are all rookies, everyone knows what the purpose of the rookie game is, and it is necessary to use continuous attacks to make the audience shout.

So the two teams come and go, and there is basically no defense!

Anthony Davis even played with a three-pointer, but unfortunately the first three-pointer was missed.

Nuggets big man Faried hit two consecutive goals to give the West an eight-point lead. Owen led the East Army to score five points to close the gap. Rubio showed his passing talent and provided two assists in a row, and Farid received a clever pass from "Golden Boy" and dunked twice in a row, which allowed the Spanish team to maintain the lead.

At this time, Yi Jianlian finally showed his sense of existence, called a timeout, said a few words, changed two people, and the game resumed again.

It's just that the western troops are becoming more and more courageous the more they fight, and the air connection slam dunk combined with long-range artillery shells continuously bombards the eastern troops.

Fortunately, at this time, Isaiah Thomas hit a series of three-pointers to help the East narrow the difference.

It's just that the offensive firepower of the Western team is too strong, and after Thomas is also silent, they began to continue to expand their lead, and the difference between the two teams once reached 17 points.

However, the big score did not affect the enthusiasm of the East Army's side in the slightest, Kemba Walker threw the ball to the rebound on the fast break, and Waiters followed up to catch the ball in the air and dunk it to get a full house.

It is worth mentioning that the game is still undefended, and the eastern troops who were far behind by the opponent did not have a sense of urgency at all because the score difference was too far behind, and their basket was wide open by the western troops to grab two consecutive frontcourt rebounds to complete the big dunk, and the score difference exceeded the 20-point mark.

Over the ensuing period, the game gradually became a dunk show for both teams, with Lillard assisting Nicholson for a dunk and Parsons throwing a pass on the counter to help Leonard receive an empty catch. Irving and his teammate Thompson connected with a smart dunk to cheer, and Beal received a pass from Rubio to score two points, and finally the West ended the first half with a 90-66 lead over the East 23 points.

The second half restarted, Irving released firepower and broke through all kinds of three-point breakthroughs, but the Western team's Farid still scored consecutive points to maintain a 20+ lead.

Anthony Davis showed his physical talent, "Thick Eyebrows" received Rubio's pass under the basket and flew up like a spring to smash the ball into the basket with his long arms, and the other players in the box looked up at the 2012 champion with an alien look, this amazing talent is really explosive!

But Anthony Davis, who completed this dunk, was expressionless and quite calm.

After a while, the dunk conference continued, also because the rookie game was full of all kinds of dunks, which made Barkley joke: "The guys who will participate in the slam dunk contest tomorrow may not know what to do now!" Because almost all the action was used up tonight! ”

Anthony Davis received a long pass from Leonard on the counter-attack and dunked again, and Kemba Walker immediately responded with a dunk.

Tonight's rookie game can be regarded as a vivid interpretation of the defense of the All-Star rookie game.

The two teams alternated points, but the lead of the Western team was not shaken in the slightest.

But at this point, Irving delivered a brilliant blow, and his fancy dribble suddenly accelerated and changed direction to shake Knight down and score a pull-up jumper.

Knight, who was not a vegetarian either, immediately fired back, forcing a jumper that hit the rebound and bounced into the basket, a goal that got many NBA stars on the sidelines standing up and applauding.

In the NBA, it's nothing to be knocked down once by an opponent, just hit back, and Knight's response ball is exactly that spirit!

Owen's wonderful personal performance continues, but it can't affect the overall situation of the game, and the Western Army is still far ahead. Farid scored two consecutive goals to help the Spanish team break the single-game scoring record in the rookie game.

In the end, the Eastern Army lost again!

And this loss was also Yi Jianlian's first defeat in the first coaching, which also made Barkley, who was sitting on the side, joke again: "Obviously, those guys on the field can't implement Yi's tactical arrangement, and the only person who can implement his own tactics is himself, and yes, for this guy, how easy it is to win the game!" ”

All-Star rookie Saisi won 163-135 over East for the second year in a row. It is worth mentioning that the Western team also broke the single-game scoring record in the rookie game this year, with Irving scoring 32 points, Nuggets stalwart Farid 40 points and 10 rebounds, and Parsons 13 points.

The Nuggets beast Faried grabbed 40 points and 10 rebounds on 18-of-22 shooting from the field and was named MVP.