After successfully dissuading two teammates from wanting to participate in the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest, Gan Guoyang flew to Dallas with Wang Fuxi and Drexler on February 7 to prepare for the All-Star Game.

This is the first time in Dallas' history that an NBA All-Star Game has been held, and for a city that just had its own NBA team in 1980, being able to host an All-Star Game is undoubtedly an effective way to further stimulate the market.

Last year's All-Star Game, which was played at the Dome in Indiana, was largely successful, and this time in Dallas, the league did not choose the mega arena and played at the Dallas Mavericks' home stadium, Unity Arena.

After all, while Indiana's All-Stars are an extraordinary experience, the amount of capital and effort it takes to hold a basketball game in a football stadium is not comparable to that of a regular basketball stadium.

Moreover, Stern is sure that this All-Star Game will be better than last year, after proposing the concept of "All-Star Weekend" last year, the three-point contest, which echoes the slam dunk contest, has also made its debut, becoming one of the most interesting events of the All-Star Weekend.

In the All-Star voting, Magic Johnson was elected the All-Star voter with 1,060,892 votes, and he was injured before the All-Star break, and he quickly recovered from the injury, and did not let the vote king miss the All-Star Game.

The Magic's votes were also the first time in All-Star history that a player had more than one million votes, the previous highest number of votes was Moses Malone in 1984, and the '83 championship and MVP and FMVP slam gave the somewhat slow center 920,000 votes.

Gan almost reached the record set by Moses Malone, with 900,000 votes, second only to Magic Johnson and second in the overall vote list, which is also the best feedback from fans for his outstanding performance this season.

In the 53 games before the All-Star break, Gan Guoyang averaged 25.7 points, 15.9 rebounds, and 2.9 blocks per game, and his scoring was significantly higher than last season, and his scoring in four consecutive games was even more shocking.

Averaging 15.9 rebounds per game keeps him firmly at the top of the rebounding charts, nearly three more than Bill Lambir in second place, and his talent and accomplishment on rebounding will not be matched until next season.

At the same time, the strong backcourt rebounding ability also gave the Trail Blazers enough opportunities to break fast, and Gan Guoyang became the most critical part of the Trail Blazers' offensive system.

It's a block, compared with last season, there has been a decline, but in fact, Gan Guoyang's defensive level is not declining but rising, as the last barrier of the Trailblazers' interior line, he began to learn to restrain his desire to jump, greatly reducing the probability of eating and shaking, although the number of blocks is less, but the quality of defense is improved.

All this proves Gan Guoyang's growth, and it also allows him to gain the recognition of fans, successfully surpassing Abdul-Jabbar and becoming the Western All-Star starting center, which is also the first time since 1979 that the Western All-Star starting center is not a "heavenly hook".

The last player to steal the starting center of the Western Conference All-Star from Skyhook was Bill Wharton during the Trail Blazers.

Compared with Gan Guoyang, there is another person who is unable to play, but the limelight has not diminished at all, that is, the Bulls guard who was reimbursed for injury at the beginning of the season, Michael Jordan.

Unable to participate in the All-Star Game, Jordan received more than 719,000 votes, more than 10,000 votes more than Larry Bird, the strongest contender for MVP this season.

It can be seen from this that Jordan has a huge influence among fans, especially young fans, and in the next ten years, except for Gan Guoyang, there will be no one who can threaten Jordan's position in popularity.

Of course, Gan Guoyang doesn't care much about this, the All-Star is also an entertainment in the final analysis, basketball itself is an entertainment, and the All-Star Game is entertainment in entertainment.

Wang Fuxi also took a day off to accompany Gan Guoyang to Dallas to enjoy a good vacation.

After arriving in Dallas, Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi ate several famous Mexican restaurants in Dallas, and also went to visit the Kennedy Monument to get a good feel for the style of Texas.

Since Drexler grew up in Houston and is familiar with the terroir of Texas, he also took the two of them to a farm in the suburbs of Dallas to experience the feeling of a cowboy.

Gan Guoyang's nerves, which have been tense during the season, have finally been relaxed to a certain extent, and at this time, he can cool down the fire of competitiveness that is raging in his heart, not think about those upsetting and stressful things, and be able to accompany the people around him.

On February 8th, the All-Star Weekend officially began, and in addition to those regular star and fan interaction activities, the most eye-catching ones were naturally the night's slam dunk contest and the new three-point contest.

Before the game began, the giants of the Eastern and Western teams got together for a private bet on who would win the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest tonight.

Since the three-point contest is the first time the league has held, there are only a handful of outstanding shooters in the league who can shoot three-pointers, a total of eight participating players, of which the biggest is naturally Larry Bird, and everyone in the league knows that Bird's three-point is the strongest.

So Bird's old rivals, including Moses Malone and Dr. J, all bet on Bird to win, and only Magic Johnson and Abdul-Jabbar thought Cooper would win because Michael Cooper was their teammate.

Bird looked calm, and it seemed that no one was taken seriously by him.

When it was time to warm up before the game, all the contestants had to change in the locker room, and the first thing Bird said when he went in was, "I-hope-all-your-guys-in-here-thinking-about-the-second-place-cause-I-will-win-this." (I want you to think about who will do the second place, because the championship is mine.) ）

The arrogant Bird did not break his promise, although Hogans threw a shocking 25 points in the preliminaries (the NBA three-point contest record, which has not been broken so far), but in the finals, Larry Bird still used a steady play to win the first three-point contest championship in NBA history with a high score of 22 points.

For this result, except for the magician who was slapped in the face by Bird again, everyone else almost guessed the result, and Bird's indifferent look after winning the championship seemed to be his, but it was just a little late.

But then in the slam dunk contest, there began to be a split of opinions among the giants, each with its own ideas.

The slam dunk contest will feature eight players, including Terry Taylor, Roy Henson, Jerome Kessler, Gerald Wilkins, Dominic Wilkins, Terrence Stansberg, and Sparti Webb.

This lineup is obviously much worse than the lineup of the previous two slam dunk contests, Dr. J is old, and he is no longer interested in the entertainment of the slam dunk contest, and Larry Nance, who has won the championship, does not want to participate again, Jordan wants to participate, but he can't even play the main game for the season, and the defending champion Drexler has also dispelled the idea of continuing to participate under the persuasion of Gan Guoyang.

So the biggest favorite in the slam dunk contest can only be the "essence of human movies" Doni Mick Wilkins, after last year's championship was destroyed by Gan Guoyang, a spoiler, Wilkins wants to continue to brush his presence in the slam dunk contest, not only he has to brush his presence, but his younger brother Gerard Wilkins was also pulled in by his brother.

Compared to Wilkins, there is another person who is even more eye-catching, and that is Wilkins' teammate with the Hawks, "Potato" who is only 170 tall, and rookie Sparti Webb.

170 is relatively short among ordinary people, let alone in the giant basketball world, but Webb has a shocking bounce, and dunks are really a piece of cake for him.

More stars still think that Dominic Wilkins will win the championship of this slam dunk contest, and some people think that other players will win the championship, but no one thinks that Webber can win the championship, a 170 guy, it is not easy to dunk, and it is not bad to give him a "disabled will" award, and the championship of the dunk contest is still forgotten.

Only Gan Guoyang insisted that Weber would win the championship of this slam dunk contest, and made a "heavy bet" - the opportunity to cook Chinese food for everyone to eat.

And James Worthy and Gan Guoyang are on the bar, insisting that Wilkins will definitely win the championship, and he also made a "heavy bet" - the pair of sports eyes on his head, if he loses, he will give it to Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang naturally does not like Worthy's broken glasses, he is not short-sighted, there is no need to add to the snake at all, Gan Guoyang insists that Weber will win the championship, naturally because his experience from the future tells him that Weber will win the championship in this slam dunk contest, leaving a strong mark in the history of the NBA dunk contest and becoming the shortest dunk king.

However, Gan Guoyang is still a little nervous in his heart, after all, didn't last year's dunk king change hands under his influence, and maybe there will be some moths this year, such as Webber who was nervous and dunked the basket on the basket, which was basically the end.

Fortunately, as a rookie, Webber did not show any timidity in the game, played very consistently, and made it all the way to the final, challenging the team's big brother Wilkins in the final.

Wilkins' dunk was as violent, domineering, and full of anger as ever, and there was a momentum of destroying the basket, but the audience and judges were indeed familiar with his routine, and there were not too many surprises.

It's little Weber, a small man, the whole person is like a small spring, the ball looks particularly big in his hand, and his dunk is not fancy, but the difficulty is not low, and it is full of beauty and aura.

In the end, Webb relied on his consistent play and the freshness brought by his height to beat Wilkins in an upset and won the 1986 All-Star Game slam dunk championship.

Gan Guoyang also won Worthy's pair of glasses, and Worthy had to change them to wear them again during the game.