Chapter 238: All-Star Game!
As soon as he played with the Nets, Sun Zhuo has been recuperating from his injury, Sun Zhuo is not seriously injured, and he can still participate in the All-Star Game half a month later, but before that, Sun Zhuo had to be absent.
It's February 2005, and the All-Star Game roster has been released.
West: Yao Ming, Sun Zhuo, Kobe, Maddy, Garnett, Duncan, Ray Allen, Nash, Ginobili, Nowitzki, Stoudemire, Rashad Lewis.
East: O'Neal, Carter, James, Grant Hill, Iverson, Arenas, Big Z, Jamison, O'Neal Jr., Paul Pearce, Wade, Ben Wallace.
This year's All-Star ticket king is Sun Zhuo, the All-Star MVP last season, who has created countless storms since the beginning of the season!
Sun Zhuo is too eye-catching this season, he has attracted attention since the beginning of the rookie Jiao Zuoren, scored 60 points in a single game without Kobe Bryant, dunked 10 baskets in a single game, and also collaborated with Eminem on a single, and is also very well-known in the entertainment industry, coupled with the support of fans in Asia, Sun Zhuo has become the All-Star ticket king without any suspense.
It is worth mentioning that Sun Zhuo's votes also surpassed the 1997 Flyer Jordan's vote record.
After Sun Zhuo, Yao Ming received the most votes, and some people joked that the NBA was about to be dominated by two Chinese.
Soon it's the All-Star Game, and LeBron James, who has signed up for the slam dunk contest, has also become nervous, and his dunk battle with Sun Zhuo will definitely attract a lot of attention, and he hopes to win Sun Zhuo once.
But during this time, Sun Zhuo has been recuperating from his injury and has not played, James knows that Sun Zhuo's injury is not serious and will not affect the slam dunk contest, but he will still be curious about what Sun Zhuo will come up with to deal with himself, Sun Zhuo is not playing now, so he can concentrate on studying the actions of the slam dunk contest.
Out of this concern, James called Wade to get some information out of Wade's mouth.
"Hey, D-ADE, we haven't seen each other in a long time, congratulations on your All-Star selection, and we can be teammates at the All-Star Game." James couldn't stop his joy, and he really couldn't wait for the upcoming All-Star Game.
Wade was selected as an All-Star for the first time with James, and only Anthony has not won this honor in the same 03 class, Wade smiled: "Congratulations, you are the starter, I am playing as a substitute for you, haha." ”
James also smiled, and it didn't take long to transfer to Sun Zhuo, "By the way, have you been in touch with Sun in the past two days?" You also know that I made an appointment with him to fight in the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, but I heard that he was injured some time ago, how is he recovering now? If he can't attend as scheduled, then I want to give up. ”
"Don't worry, LeBron, he's recovering well now, he's definitely going to be able to participate in the dunk contest, and it's going to be strong, you better be mentally prepared." Wade Road.
"Oh? Did he tell you about some prepared dunk moves? He hasn't competed all this time, so he must have been thinking about these things, right? James asked.
Wade replied truthfully: "I don't know, I should be prepared, but he always shows off to me now that he has invented a 'Hot Wheels', which is the kind of two-wheeled balance bike that I pedal, and I look at the photos and I think it's pretty cool." ”
"Hahaha, is he going to sell children's toys? I didn't expect him to have the heart to play this when it was time for the game, okay, I know, we'll see you in Denver. James knew that Wade wouldn't lie to him, and the fact was that Sun Zhuo was really doing something unrelated to the game these days.
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The time soon came on February 17th, the All-Star Game officially began, Sun Zhuo and Kobe Bryant also came to Denver to participate in this All-Star Game, the first to start is the All-Star Rookie Game, it is still the first-year team to challenge the second-grade team, after this season, everyone knows that Sun Zhuo likes to be a rookie Jiao Zuoren, this time facing all rookie opponents, many people know that Sun Zhuo will be excited, in addition to Sun Zhuo, James, Anthony, Wade are very powerful players, and it is estimated that they will not show mercy to the rookies. Everyone predicted that the first-year team would lose this rookie challenge.
The first-year team has Tony Allen, Rohr Deng, Ben Gordon, Devin Harris, Howard, Iguodala, Al Jefferson, Josh Smith.
These people will sound quite powerful in a few years, but they have no combat power at that time, especially in front of James, Wade, Sun Zhuo, Anthony, and Bosh in the second year.
Because Anthony was not selected for the All-Star Game, James also thought that Anthony would play more in this rookie challenge, and the three of them had to participate in the All-Star game anyway, and they didn't need to perform in this game, Sun Zhuo also agreed with James's suggestion, so this rookie challenge basically revolved around Anthony, and James, Sun Zhuo, and Wade also occasionally had wonderful balls.
In the end, the second-year team defeated the first-year team with a high score of 150 and scored 122 points.
After the game, Howard was not frustrated by the loss, but said to himself, "I'm so lucky I didn't get blocked by them this time." ”
On the second day, the All-Star Game will start to be interesting, with the Skills Challenge, Mixed Shooting Contest, Three-Point Long Range Shooting Contest and the finale slam dunk contest taking place.
The Skill Challenge contested Nash, Arenas, El Boygins, and Rednor, with Nash winning the championship.
The six players in the three-point contest are Ray Allen and Radmanovic from the Seattle SuperSonics, Johnson and Richardson from the Phoenix Suns, Korver from the Philadelphia 76ers and Leonard from the Denver Nuggets.
Surprisingly, Ray Allen didn't even make it to the finals, and Korver, who was still competing with Curry a decade later, lost to Richardson in the finals.
After all of this is over, it's time for the highlight of today's All-Star Game, the Slam Dunk Contest!
In the past 20 years, the 170-centimeter-tall potato Webb won the championship, which gave people a glimpse of the infinite possibilities of human beings, as well as the comeback of Wilkins, the essence of the movie, five years later, and the performances of basketball god Michael Jordan and demigod Vince Carter to establish the status of the strongest dunk in history.
Now, the time has come to 2005, since 2000, after Carter's first battle, the slam dunk contest has become more and more unable to bring people excitement, I wonder if this year's contestants will still be mediocre? I don't know if James and Sun Zhuo can bring something different to the audience?
The contestants in this year's slam dunk contest are: Sun Zhuo, James, Josh Smith and Stoudemire.
In his previous life, Josh Smith, a rookie from the Hawks, won the championship, and in this life he faced stronger opponents, and it may not be easy to win the championship again, especially if Sun Zhuo already knows what Josh Smith is going to dunk.
"I know the moves of Josh Smith and Stoudemire, and it's not difficult to beat them when you know their hole cards, and I only have one opponent tonight, LeBron James!" Sun Zhuo looked at James.