Chapter 780: The Legacy of the Scoring Guard (Fourth Update!) )
Bojan's victory was unexpected, but it also allowed the Pelicans to finally win the All-Star Game.
The quality of the players needs to have a stage, and Ariza has been injured before giving Bojan a chance to start, and he has performed well.
Now that he has won the three-point contest in a record-breaking way, his strength has been further recognized.
The Pelicans feel like the other teams are a little stronger than before.
The three-point contest was followed by the slam dunk contest.
In history, the 2016 slam dunk contest is comparable to the 2000 slam dunk contest, but perhaps because of Tang Tian's crossing, Gordon did not participate this year.
In the end, LaVine was as invincible as last year, easily defeating others to achieve two consecutive championships in the slam dunk contest.
The slam dunk contest is over, and so is the All-Star Weekend for the day.
Then, there was only the final day of the All-Star Game.
After the slam dunk contest ended that night, Tang Tian received an invitation from Kobe Bryant and invited him to go out for a bite to eat.
After Tang Tian sent Olsen back to the hotel first, he went to meet Kobe.
This is Bryant's final season and Kobe's last All-Star Game.
Tang Tian had given Kobe a lot of helpful advice before, and the two were also very good friends off the court.
The two of them also talked a lot after sitting down.
"I still have to thank you for the advice you gave me before, and that was a big reason why I decided to retire and I want to start a family life."
Kobe's words in the chat made Tang Tian cry and laugh.
Bryant didn't suffer the same serious Achilles tendon injury as he did in history, and he would not theoretically retire at this point in time.
Tang Tian didn't want Duncan to retire early because of himself, but now he has changed his direction and let Kobe retire.
"But I'll keep watching you, and the future of this alliance will be yours."
Kobe Bryant's next words made Tang Tian laugh even more.
"Do you want to learn from Tim and treat me like LeBron?"
Tang Tian said to Kobe Bryant with a smile.
Duncan said to James that the future is yours, but the whole world knows it.
Bryant laughed, but shook his head.
"LeBron, Stephen, they all have so much to prove that you don't need to, you've already won two championships from the start.
And when you arrive in New Orleans, it's like you're building a pyramid, and you're going to build a pyramid that's never been built before.
And LeBron is always taking shortcuts, and Stephen was like he suddenly had a hanging garden last year, but that was already the most they could have.
Your pyramid is almost complete, and in the future you can stand at the top of the tower and look down on this alliance. ”
Bryant's next words were philosophical, but they were also very practical.
And he really understands the ball, what he sees is not who was the champion last year and who will be the champion this year, but how Tang Tian and the Pelicans grow.
As he said, what he saw was the continuous improvement of Tang Tian's strength, as well as the continuous improvement of the Pelican lineup.
His description is also apt, the pyramid is the most stable structure, and only a solid foundation can create the highest top.
This is much more stable than James, who continues to form the Big Three, and Curry, who has exploded because of the small-ball era.
"Haha, I accept your wave of business blows between friends."
Tang Tian smiled and raised his red wine glass.
Kobe Bryant shook his head, but he still raised his glass and drank with Tang Tian.
He wasn't bragging, he used to think that Tang Tian had a chance to get close to him, but now he felt that Tang Tian had a chance to surpass himself and get close to Jordan.
On the final day of All-Star Weekend, the All-Star Game officially kicked off at the Canada Airlines Center Arena.
At the All-Star Entrance Ceremony before the opening, Kobe Bryant made his finale appearance, attracting explosive cheers from the fans at the scene.
It was the last time they saw Kobe Bryant on this stage.
However, even in Kobe's retirement season, Tang Tian was the last to appear, and as the new All-Star ticket king, it was not suitable for him not to appear last.
The cheers at the scene also reached a new peak.
Tang Tian's punching of Pachulia before caused him to suffer a lot of doubts, but it can be seen from the voting results that in the face of his current super popularity, it is not a matter.
After all, Kobe Bryant's experience of the Eagle County incident did not prevent him from becoming the second quarterback in history.
What Tang Tian did to protect his teammates was nothing, but his approach made him have a lot of hardcore fans.
After the warm-up, the starters from the east and west also appeared one after another.
On the eastern side, Lowry, Wade, George, Anthony and James.
Curry, Donald, Kobe, Leonard and Durant on the Western side.
James jumped to win Durant and officially kicked off the All-Star Game.
As soon as George came up, he received Wade's sudden three-pointer.
The Pacers have a mediocre record this season, but George's personal form is hot.
Curry dribbled to the frontcourt and gave the ball to Bryant.
In 2003, it was Jordan's last All-Star Game.
Everyone knows that Jordan only scored 20 points in that game, and Kobe Bryant's final three-point shot caused a foul to drag the game into overtime, stealing the victory from the Eastern Conference and making Jordan's final dance not complete.
But I don't remember much of the All-Star Game that Jordan got a game-high 27 shots, which is the respect that other players have for the basketball gods.
Now that Kobe Bryant is retiring, Curry is doing the same thing.
However, Kobe didn't seem to do what Jordan did at the beginning, he passed the ball directly to Tang Tian.
He was a very paranoid person before, but Tang Tian changed him.
Just like he said to Tang Tian yesterday, he felt that the future was Tang Tian, so he gave Tang Tian the opportunity.
Kobe didn't say it, Tang Tian also knew his thoughts, and he also knew that since Kobe chose to do this, if he didn't accept it, he wouldn't give Kobe face.
He catches the ball and faces Wade, and after shaking, he turns and leans back to hit.
Receiving Kobe Bryant's pass and scoring in Kobe's way, that's the best way.
Sure enough, Kobe Bryant laughed when he saw it, and the fans at the scene also cheered.
Maybe there are no words, no additional explanations, but this is a kind of inheritance, the inheritance of historical guards.
Lowry's outside three-point miss, Leonard won a long rebound, and after holding the ball and breaking fast, he turned around and saw Tang Tian, who was about to go, and directly threw his hand to pass.
Tang Tian caught the ball and shook off Lowry to score with a one-handed dunk.
George received a pass from James and broke through the dunk to color.
Looking back, after Curry broke through, he directly passed the ball to Tang Tian, and Tang Tianfei jumped up and shook his arm to catch it with one hand.
As soon as the game started, Tang Tian scored 6 points with a sudden throw.
Curry's desire to score in the All-Star Game has never been strong, Kobe Bryant wants to pass the ball to Tang Tian, and Leonard is Tang Tian's former younger brother.
The five starters on the Western side, except for Durant, all wanted to pass the ball to Tang Tian, and he made a bit more shots tonight.