If you want to say that basketball fans pay the most attention to the event, besides the finals, what else? It's sure to be the annual All-Star Game...

The NBA All-Star Game was first held by the National Basketball Association on March 2, 1951, and has evolved into an annual exhibition game where NBA stars gather. Each year, two teams are made up of the best players from the two regions of the East and West, and a match is held to decide the winner. After evolving, the contemporary All-Star Game has evolved into an "All-Star Weekend," a three-day event.

Of course, the origin of the All-Star Game is also very closely related to the development of the NBA!

In the fall of 1950, just four years after the NBA was founded, Podolov, the first president of BA, and Walter Brown, the president of the Boston Celtics, agreed to select the best players from the East and West Divisions to compete halfway through the season.

Of course, this proposal was not thought up by Brown alone, it was first put forward by Harsk Cohen, the head of public relations at the NBA headquarters at the time...

Originally, Cohen was just trying to parody the All-Star Game of the National Major League Baseball. The All-Star Game of baseball is scheduled to be held in the middle of each season, so the NBA All-Star Game follows this custom.

But the venue was an issue when the event was held, and it was the Boston Celtics owner Walter Brown who first stepped up and expressed strong support for the creation of the All-Star Game. Brown also announced that the venue for the "fresh" event, Boston Garden, will be provided for free.

On March 2, 1951, the first NBA All-Star Game was held as scheduled, and the game attracted 10,094 fans, laying the foundation for the All-Star Game. Brown hosted the first two NBA All-Star games in a row, and since then the All-Star Game has been embraced by more basketball fans, and the box office is getting better and better. In 1953, the 3rd All-Star Game was finally moved to Ford Wayne.

The modern All-Star Game has evolved into the All-Star Weekend, a three-day event that includes the All-Star Party, Rookie All-Star Challenge, Slam Dunk Contest, Three-Point Shot, Basketball Skill Challenge, Shooting Relay Race, and All-Star Game.

Among the most exciting are the "Slam Dunk Contest" and the "All-Star Game". In the first slam dunk contest in 1984, Larry Nance of the Phoenix Suns held a ball in each hand, flew up and smashed the two balls into the basket in a name called "Thunderbolt Windmill". In 1991, the Celtics' Dee Brown blindfolded his right arm and dunked with the ball in his left hand, a move known as the "Deadly Bat", which Ceballos relied on to win the championship in 1992. Jordan of the Bulls earned the nickname "Flyer" in 1987 when he jumped to the basket from the free throw line.

In addition, All-Star Weekend features a variety of competitions and performances for fans and journalists, including the Million Dollar Pitch Contest.

On October 4, 2017, the All-Star Game was reformed, eliminating the previous East-West rivalry and adopting a mixed team in which the two All-Star captains selected from the players selected for the All-Star Game. The 2018 All-Star selection system remains unchanged, with the starters still voted for by fans, media and players, and the benches selected by coaches, with 12 players from the east and west. The change occurred in the way teams were formed, with the two players with the most fan votes in the East and West becoming captains, and the two captains selected from the players selected for the All-Star Game to form two teams, no longer East and West rivalry, but a mixed team of All-Star players from the two divisions.

And now, as we all know, it's not just viewers in the United States who have the opportunity to vote for NBA All-Stars. Fans from all over the world can vote for their favorite players in 17 languages on the NBA's official website, and many media outlets have described All-Star Weekend as a basketball carnival because it gives fans the opportunity to get up close and personal with the players.

On October 24, 2012, Beijing time, the NBA's official website reported that the league decided to revise the All-Star voting rules, abolishing the center position and setting up three frontcourt players instead, and the league's vice president Stu Jackson announced the news.

The NBA officially announced that the 2013 All-Star Game will be held in Houston.

The 62nd NBA All-Star Game will be held February 15-17 local time, with the Rookie Challenge being held at the George Brown Center and the All-Star Game at the Toyota Center.

On April 20, 2013, Beijing time, the NBA announced that the 2015 NBA All-Star Game was settled in New York, and the league is considering letting the Knicks and Nets jointly host this basketball feast.

On August 11, 2013, Beijing time, according to the New York Post, due to the 2015 All-Star Game held in New York, the New York Heroes may work together to host this basketball event.

The 2015 All-Star Game will be the first time that the NBA will list all players as voting objects on the NBA's official website and other major cooperative voting platforms. In the past, only four players were usually offered to the league as candidates for a team, and only 120 players were eligible to run in the league. In 2014, this figure was quadrupled. And the extension of the Star Weekend to seven days will allow players to get a week off, although this change will require changes in the schedule, adding one or two back-to-back games to free up time for All-Star Week.

NBA Vice President Adam Shaw said the league is currently in discussions with two New York teams that they could make a joint offer.

In September 2011, the Nets' $1 billion Barclays Center opened, and the Knicks' Madison Square Garden completed the final phase of a three-year renovation project.

Mr. Shaw said on a conference call Friday that the league wanted to hand over the 2015 All-Star Weekend to the two teams. The All-Star Game is played on Sunday night, while the Rookie Challenge is on Friday, and the Slam Dunk Contest and Three-Point Contest are on Saturday night.

The 2015 All-Star Weekend was held in New York City, with Friday and Saturday nights at the Barclays Center, home of the Nets, and Sunday's All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden, home of the Knicks.

These are the changes that All-Star Weekend brings, and just as voting All-Star saved the NBA, All-Star Weekend also has an ever-increasing impact on the NBA.

This year is the first year of reform, and the latest round of voting results are out, Li Ming is still ranked first among guards, and he is even 10,000 votes away from LeBron, and he may be able to become the king of votes in the East!

But it doesn't matter, for Li Ming, the vote king is valuable, but he is still young, even if he can't be elected this year, it's nothing, he believes that he can definitely become the vote king next year.

He was already very satisfied with becoming an All-Star starter in his first season, how much is more, what kind of bike do you want?!