Chapter 345: All-Star Weekend

All-Star Weekend is here, and Los Angeles is in the spotlight of basketball fans around the world.

Los Angeles is a big city, and Staples is the place where Kobe Bryant struggled countless days and nights, and in Staples, countless fans have witnessed the great moments that belong to Kobe.

One of the highlights of All-Star Weekend is whether Kobe Bryant can become the All-Star Game MVP, so as to surpass Michael Jordan and become the player who has won the most All-Star Game MVPs.

In addition, because the All-Star Game is held in Los Angeles, it also indirectly affects the movement of the Los Angeles media, Los Angeles is a city of stars, in addition to all kinds of sports stars, there is also Hollywood, Hollywood has many big and small stars, and of course they are indispensable for such grand occasions.

So this year's All-Star Weekend is like a film festival, with the red carpet rolled out and the flashing lights on can't open their eyes.

Wang Tomorrow is not the head coach of the Western Conference All-Star, so he will not participate in All-Star Weekend this year, and in addition to Cosby, who participated in the three-point contest, there are Bledsoe, who was selected for the All-Star Rookie Challenge, and DeRozan, who participated in both the Rookie Challenge and the All-Star Game.

In addition to DeRozan, there are also Griffin and Xu Yong who participated in the two competitions, which were rare in previous years, and this year there are three of them at once, which is amazing.

Wang tomorrow took advantage of this time to come to Los Angeles to prepare for the wedding.

In addition, he specifically met with Kevin Feige, Peter Cooper and others to reach an agreement on the procedures for the transfer of shares. At this point, Peter has been approved by the NBA board of directors to become the new owner of the Warriors, as well as a minority shareholder of Marvel Studios.

And Wang Mingming is an additional Warriors owner, who occupies 40% of the Warriors' shares.

Before All-Star Weekend, Wang Mingming became the first Chinese owner of an NBA team, causing heated discussions at home and abroad.

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The NBA schedule is very interesting, the All-Star Game is said to be in the middle, but in fact it is a little further down in the middle, and once the All-Star Weekend is over, the NBA playoffs will be ushered in in a month and a half.

Players who really want to perform in the second half of the schedule are actually not interested in All-Star Weekend.

Take Carmelo Anthony, for example.

After a season of "Where Are the Melons Go" on the idol show, it seemed to reach a climax during All-Star Weekend, and now, everyone knows that the Nuggets are peddling Carmelo Anthony, and Carmelo Anthony seems to be on the verge of going to a new city at any time.

During this period, Melon was still the top scorer in the league, a top ten player in the league, and James ranked first and second small forwards, quite a feeling of "North Qiao Feng and South Murong".

Wang told his players to enjoy the All-Star Weekend tomorrow, and then disappeared from the field of the All-Star Weekend and disappeared from the media cameras.

However, at this time, the media is paying attention to the news of all sizes of the All-Star Weekend, and no one has any air control about Wang's tomorrow.

At the Rookie Challenge, Bledsoe, Harden, Griffin, DeRozan and others teamed up to contribute a dunk feast, and Xu Yong, known as the Chinese Flyer, also completed many empty dunks, igniting the enthusiasm of the entire Los Angeles fans.

Among them, the performance of Thunder player James Harden is eye-catching, this one is full of beard, like Byron Davis back then, with a bouncing force that does not match his figure, flying up and down in the air, especially the one-handed tomahawk chop in the left hand, there is a sense of "guard LeBron".

During this period, Harden's style of play was more orthodox, his breakthrough was mainly European step, and his three-point shooting was mostly catch-and-shoot jumpers, trying to make himself play the role of the Thunder's third scoring point, and solving problems for Westbrook and Durant.

The first-year team played a crazy offense under the lead of the first-year champion John Wall, and the offensive efficiency was extremely high, whether it was three-point shooting or breaking dunks, and they were in better shape than the second-year players. Although the sophomore has two All-Star players, DeRozan and Xu Yong, the overall shooting percentage is not as good as that of the first grade.

At this time, the "baby-faced" Stephen Curry showed a temperament that was not quite consistent with the All-Star Game, and he shot a few three-pointers all over the court, with no sense of presence and could not even cause cheers from fans.

In the end, the first-grade team defeated the second-grade team 148-140, and if it weren't for the serious pursuit of points by DeRozan and Xu Yong at the end, the difference might have been even greater.

The sophomore team could only give their opponents a humiliating round of applause, with 12 points and 22 assists, and John Wall, who broke the NBA Rookie Challenge assist record, won the Rookie Challenge MVP.

Wang won't watch the game until the next day, he didn't expect the sophomore team to lose, he also thought that the sophomore team players would definitely win, after all, they had one more year of training time in the NBA system than the first-year players.

This was followed by Saturday night's highlights.

Atlanta defeated Texas United to win the Shooting Star Championship, Stephen Curry won the Skills Challenge with 28.2 seconds, Jones won the three-point contest and Griffin flew over the car to win the slam dunk contest.

In the slam dunk contest, although Griffin won the championship, the performance of McGee of the Wizards team can be described as eye-catching, at least Wang Mingming remembers this young man whose physical talent is somewhat exaggerated.

McGee accomplished the feat of "dunking three balls at the same time" and "completing two basket dunks at the same time", full of creativity and talent, and if it weren't for the final moment when he chose to dunk a big man and other performances, the championship should have belonged to him.

In the middle of All-Star Weekend.

There is no doubt that Kobe Bryant, who is playing at home, is full of fighting spirit, and won the All-Star Game MVP trophy with a strong performance of 37 points and 14 rebounds.

Originally, it was not a big deal to let Kobe Bryant win an All-Star Game MVP, this Staples was originally a nest that people had struggled for more than ten years, and the players also knew the rules of the rivers and lakes. Unexpectedly, Wade had a sprain in the third quarter, and the accidental injury caused the two teams to suddenly get serious.

At this time, the West had not yet raised its vigilance, and under the leadership of James with an angry face, the East played a wave of 17-3 shockwaves, directly chasing the score to only 2 points.

At the critical moment, Durant hit consecutive mid-range shots, and Gasol completed the basket for Kobe, and the West held the last advantage, and finally narrowly defeated the Eastern All-Stars 148-143, and was almost overturned.

James finished with a triple-double of 29 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, paying tribute to Michael Jordan, the first to complete a triple-double in the All-Star game. However, the most classic scene in this All-Star Game shot was in a fast break, chasing Kobe Bryant, wanting to use his height and bounce advantage to complete the hat, but Kobe was not stunned at all, and completed this dunk on the head of the little emperor, after Kobe landed, he also slapped James's buttocks, and I don't know what it means.

In the All-Star weekend, Smalls scored 29 points and 6 rebounds, and was the best player in the East other than James, and more interestingly, he played extremely hard in the first half of Anthony's defense, and seemed to be showing his strength to Carmelo Anthony.

Everyone knows that in the past few days of All-Star Weekend, Smalls has been lobbying Anthony to join New York and form the strongest offensive combination in the league with him.