Historically, Yao Ming will also try to use a lot of hooks at the beginning of next season, and the hooks will go further and further. At the top, hook shots from the free throw line have become commonplace. Yao Ming's dominant height and soft feel are perfectly displayed through the hook hand.

After telling Yao Ming to practice more hook stunts, Hu Qingniu left with Kwame Brown and Jeffries. Bosh excitedly asked for a photo with Hu Qingniu, and this photo was spread out to increase Bosh's exposure.

The headline in the media is likely to be that the Wizards are suspected of being interested in Georgia Tech's talented power forward Chris Bosh, and tactical coach Hu Qingniu has rushed to find out. The rookie pick has a lot to do with hype, such as the upcoming Daco Milicic, who is cloaked in a veil of mystery and can take away Carmelo Antony's spot in the list through hype.

The first day of the All-Star was a rookie game, with first-year versus second-graders. Kwame didn't get the starting spot, and the Jazz's "AK47" Andrei Kirilyenko and Pau Gasol, who was firmly in the Grizzlies boss, partnered inside. This season's Gasol has 19 points, 9 rebounds and 2 blocks, which is not at all an order of magnitude with other rookies.

If it weren't for the overlap with Duncan, Garnett, Nowitzki, and Webb, it would be fitting to enter the All-Star Game with his stats.

However, even Chris Webber, who has 23 points, 10.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists and the team's record is third in the West, was not selected to the bench lineup, and the battle for Western Forwards is so fierce.

The rookie game was played by Eastern rookies vs. Western rookies before '98, and was suspended due to labor disputes in '99, and the league began to implement the current 1st grade vs. 2nd grade rookie challenge in 2000.

Since the introduction of the first grade vs. the second grade, there have been two cases where the first grade has beaten the second grade, and the result of such a match is embarrassing for the second grade.

But the media believes that this year's rookies have no chance, and maybe the golden generation who will be hyped next year will have some opportunities.

The starting lineup for the sophomore team is Pau Gasol, Andrei Kirilenko, Sean Battier, Jason Richardson and Tony Parker.

Without exception, they are all starters, and every one of them has already started to become a key figure in their respective teams. Gasol is already the king of the Bears, and Battier is the Grizzlies' outside gate. Kirilenko is the all-around king and strongest defensive player of the Jazz. Richardson is one of the Warriors' three guns. Tony Parker also became the Spurs' second-leading scorer.

The NBA league has announced a few days ago that in this year's All-Star Weekend, the Spurs' Argentine guard Ginobili will replace Yao Ming in the Rookie Star Game. Although Ginobili is not a rookie in '02, he is counted as a first-year because he only landed in the NBA this year.

The first-year team started with Amare Stendmaire, Carlos Boozer, Hilario, Kalom Butler and Jay Williams.

The Rookie Challenge is the best opportunity for many rookies to perform, and not everyone can get the same attention as Yao Ming.

Today's media industry is not well developed, and the exposure of NBA players is limited. Some teams in remote areas don't get as much attention as Los Angeles and New York.

Before the start of the game, the newcomers of both teams geared up, making exaggerated dunk movements during the warm-up to attract the eyes of the spectators and the attention of the media's cameras.

Those who can be selected for the Rookie Challenge are the best of the rookies in the same year, and they urgently need enough exposure to win advertising endorsements or fan media recognition.

This is the case with ** and Kirilenko, who are also on the plateau, and the Denver Plateau and Salt Lake City are both high-altitude devils' home stadiums, which also caused the disadvantage of the team's lack of attention.

This time, ** and Kirilenko are direct opponents, they are the most hard-working players on the field. Kirilenko flew away and gave full play to the properties of the adhesive, ** incarnated as a low-post monster and showed good low-post singles ability.

In the first half, the first and second grades played back and forth, and Pau Gasol went through the motions and played less than 10 minutes before handing over the scene to players who needed more exposure.

The first-year lineup is more than a notch lower than the second-year, and no one is optimistic about them. The result proved that, as Gasol was out of action after only 10 minutes, but second-year Arenas pulled out his musket in the second half.

"Whew! Swish! Phew!"

Together with his teammate Richardson, Arenas played offensive basketball. In this kind of exhibition game, it's extremely important to have someone who can pass the ball to you, and Arenas was lucky as he was selected for the sophomore team with teammate Richardson. Arenas was ready before the game, promising Richardson the best dinner in the Bay Area in exchange for a teammate who could pass him infinitely.

Arenas, who scored 23 points in the second half, led the second-year veteran to a 132-112 victory over the first-year rookie. Arenas was also named the MVP of the 2003 Rookie Challenge.

The Warriors emerged as the big winners in the first two days of the All-Star break. The day after Arenas won the Rookie Game MVP, teammate Richardson, who fed him the ball yesterday, won the slam dunk contest. Several dunk moves were wonderful, and the final victory over Mason was a bunkered backhand crotch dunk that earned a perfect score of 10 points. But the attention and response have been somewhat unexpectedly sluggish.

The reason is that the 2000 All-Star Slam Dunk Contest a few years ago was too classic, and the peak matchup between Vince Carter, Steve Francis, and Tracy McGrady at that time became a generation of classics and became an insurmountable peak in the history of the dunk contest.

It was with this year's championship that Carter established his status in the slam dunk world, and no one shook it. No wonder many fans have a compromise statement, there is no dunk after 00, and it is the foil of Maddie and Francis that sets off Carter's greatness.

Francis's super folding dunk is followed by Maddie's ultimate folding back dunk. Until the 360-degree windmill dunk pioneered by Vince Carter, which shocked the audience, it was simply the ultimate beauty of the human body. O'Neill said straight up, okay, let's see who's second like that. Unexpectedly, Carter dunked out the classic hanging arm dunk, and in the tense atmosphere at the time, everyone was suffocated, so that people who watched this slam dunk contest still can't forget it.

Although Richardson dunked brilliantly in this year's slam dunk contest, he lacked great opponents to achieve him, so that his reputation was not obvious later.

The championship went to the team from California. Sacramento Kings' Pejasto Jakovic won the three-point contest.

Peja is the No. 2 for the flamboyant Kings, and he's even more reliable than Webb in the playoffs. This year, the coaches also selected the All-Star Game as a substitute, but Webb did not make it. The Kings' determination to trade Webb and correct Peja has gradually become apparent.