When I arrived in Los Angeles at night, most of the cabins in the plane had already fallen asleep, and there was a quiet and quiet atmosphere, leaving Hu Qingniu alone in it. I can't count the number of times I've come to Los Angeles, and I have long lost the freshness I had at the beginning, and the brightly lit city outside the window can't help but make Hu Qingniu feel a little tired.

The NBA career is like living a gypsy-like life, spending half of a season on a plane and moving from bustling city to city. After a long time, and if you go a lot, you will feel the same, and you don't need to shake with a while, and you will feel lifeless.

But sometimes people are like that, and this is Hu Qingniu's work, so he has to face it. He has to get the job done.

I found a random hotel, the rhythm of the soul was full of zero, and I slept in silence for a night, and the next day was a beautiful day.

The arrival of the first day of All-Star Weekend announced the release of this annual drama that the NBA takes so much. As one of the leading actors in the finale, Hu Qingniu only needed to hang out two days ago, and pretended to be an X in interviews from time to time.

This year's rookie challenge also encountered an embarrassing situation, the rookies of the past two years, the hottest is none other than the champion Yao Ming of the class of 2002, and the four of Zhan, Wei, Gua and Bo in the 2003 class.

But due to an awkward rule, rookies who have been selected for the All-Star Game are not allowed to participate in the Rookie Challenge. It was this embarrassing rule that made this year's rookie game an unusually bleak situation.

Without Yao, Zhan, Wei, Gua, and Bo's rookie game, can it still be called a rookie game? Last year, it was just Yao Ming who was absent and could bear it, but this year there are 5 less popular players, and the fans can't bear it anymore and protest one after another.

Stern has always been a bold dictator, a good fan base, and an active promoter of NBA reform. This is the second time this year that this kind of rule embarrassment has occurred, and the loopholes and irrationality of the rules represent that the current set of All-Star rules is not reasonable, which has attracted Stern's attention.

Stern's reforms never had to pass the creation of a board of directors, and he himself is the godfather of the NBA, and no one can stop him from doing whatever he wants.

As a result, the news came that the five people selected for the All-Star Game, including Yao Ming, James, Wade, Anthony, and Bosh, must also participate in the All-Star Rookie Game.

When the news came, the fans rejoiced. But Hu Qingniu thought that it was originally a hard rest time, but now it was three days and two games, and the frequency was the same as in a normal season, which was not a good thing for Wade.

But Wade was so happy, is there another chance to be in the limelight, is this the reason? Hu Qingniu couldn't help but sigh secretly, this is the nature of a teenager, why am I not a few years old with him, so I feel so tired, and I don't have a positive attitude at all.

Am I old? Hu Qingniu was really scared to think about it, and the intensity and workload of the heavy work that he repeated every day made his mentality fall into a tired mode unconsciously. Entered a period of weakness in a kind of workaholic.

finally slept directly until the next day, Hu Qingniu was dragged up by Wade, and it is said that the most exciting slam dunk contest of the All-Star Game began.

If Jason Richardson of the Golden State Warriors wins the 2004 All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, he will win the award three times in a row and become the first person to make NBA history. But it's clear that the other players in the dunk contest won't be able to make Richardson's dream come true.

Not long after being traded to the Boston Celtics, Ricky Davis chose to compete in the slam dunk contest to prove his ability, and Chris Anderson of the Golden State Warriors is still a good boy and has not become a "birdman", but his jumping talent is quite amazing. Although Fred Jones of the Indiana Pacers is unknown, he is not believed to be a weak chicken.

In the first round of preliminaries, Davis came out first, and he first tried to smash the rebound and dunk, but he missed both shots. There was a boo at the scene, and Davis's reputation had long been ruined by himself. Just that triple-double shooting to his own basket made many people despised, not to mention that he later provoked a conflict in the locker room with the Cavaliers and reported the material to reporters.

Later, Davis switched to a 360-degree turn and a loop-back dunk, scoring 45 points. Next, he made another negative angle jump change dunk, but unfortunately it was not successful, and he only scored 31 points. With a total of 76 points in the two rounds, he was almost certain to be out, but he still had a relaxed look on his face.

The second to appear is Anderson, who has no tattoos, and at this time he is still a handsome white guy, and his declaration is to become another white man who can fly after Barry. "Birdman" shot really extraordinary, a twist back dunk and a smashing board dunk, Anderson easily scored 90 points. Next up is the Pacers' No. 20 Jones. He wasn't well known before the game, but the first action took the whole game.

He bounced the ball on the floor, then quickly jumped up to catch the ball and dunked it fiercely, scoring his first 50 points of the game. The second dunk was not very successful, but Jones still scored 92 points with a good first dunk.

It's only 2 points more than Anderson, but it's enough to enter the finals, and Anderson will have to see defending dunk champion Richardson play to determine if he can make it to the finals.

Two-time champion Richardson knows a thing or two to make a difference. He chose a jet dunk that jumped from behind the rebound with great difficulty in his first move, but it didn't seem to be difficult to watch, and he only scored 45 points.

Richardson sensed the threat, and his second move was more difficult – smashing the board and changing hands under the crotch, and the ball was dunked into the basket, and the audience and judges unanimously gave it a perfect score of 50. Richardson's total score was 95 points, and he reached the final with Jones.

Happened in the final.

Jones first made an unbelievable ball bounce to the ground and then spread his belly in the air to score a perfect 50 again. Then he invented an ingenious move to throw the ball into the audience on the sidelines. Just when the fans were overwhelmed, a man in the audience who was also wearing the Pacers' No. 20 jersey stood up. It turned out that Jones was going to receive a bounce pass from the floor outside the court and catch a dunk in the air. Such a novel performance made the audience look forward to it, but alas, Jones made several unsuccessful attempts, and in the end only scored 36 points, for a total of 86 points in the two rounds.

This is the audience's eyes turned to Richardson, Jones's game is over, and it is up to him whether he can break history and become a treble.

The action he chose was to dunk the ball under his crotch in the air after bouncing off the ground, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful several times. The first few moves consumed too much physical strength, and Richardson seemed to have lost that state, so it was best to choose the other two more ordinary moves, and finally got a total score of 78 points.

The first upset of the All-Star Game was born, when Jones of the Pacers won the 2004 All-Star Weekend Slam Dunk Contest with his difficult moves and unique creativity.

Hu Qingniu still remembers that this player didn't stay in the NBA for long at all, and in just a few years of NBA career, he didn't realize his physical potential after changing five teams in a row, and was finally cut by the disappointed Clippers, faded out of the NBA, and no one was willing to bet on his potential anymore. Later, it didn't take long to report to Guangdong Hongyuan Club.

The reason is that the body is too thin, which is a common problem of dunkers who pursue perfect dunks.

Hu Qingniu has watched several slam dunk contests in the NBDL, a second-tier league under the NBA, and the guys in it are all flying beasts, and the dunk is as exciting as the NBA.

But most of them can't even touch the threshold of the NBA, because they ignore the strength training in order to ensure the height of the jump, most of them are thin and weak, and it is difficult to complete the actual dunk at the NBA confrontation level.