Chapter 253: All-Star MVP

After the final one-minute game resumed, Duncan missed Mutombo alone, and then Iverson's breakthrough layup was denied by Duncan. When there was only 1 minute and 14 seconds left in the time, Duncan once again held the ball and singled Mutombo, after encountering Carter's bag, Duncan quickly distributed the ball to Webber on the wing, but Webber missed the shot, Maddie, who grabbed the rebound in the backcourt, and Iverson quickly launched a fast attack with a long pass to the top of the arc, and Iverson hit a layup before Meng Xu returned to the defense, and the Eastern All-Star extended the lead to 4 points, and now there are only 58 seconds left before the end of the game.

"Erwin, are the Western Conference All-Stars going to lose?" There are 58 seconds left in the time, and the Western All-Stars, who were originally leading by 20 points, are now 4 points behind, and after overtaking the score, the Eastern All-Stars are now in high spirits. In case the Western All-Star really loses, then the 20-point lead is reversed, and it will also set a historical record for the NBA All-Star Game.

"This, this, what a pity。。。。。。" Seeing that the Western All-Stars have been reversed, Magic Johnson on the commentary bench also has an incredible expression, and the 20-point advantage is gone, and the Magic is now embarrassed to watch Larry Bird.

"Meng, you don't want to get rid of me this time." After Meng Xu sent the baseline ball, he quickly ran towards the front court, and as soon as he passed the middle circle, Maddie posted it.

"Tracy, you've done a great job, but the winner of this game has to be me." After Meng Xu finished speaking, he directly accelerated, and threw off half of Maddie's body. Originally, Meng Xu thought that in this game, with such a big advantage as the Western All-Stars, he would definitely not have the opportunity to use the "pretend moment", but in the fourth quarter of the game, a group of forward guards in the east broke out without warning, which gave him the opportunity to perform a miracle again.

"Start the pretending moment."

Just after Meng Xu got rid of Maddie through the cover with Kobe, and saw Kidd pass the basketball to Duncan again, Meng Xu directly reached out to Duncan to ask for the ball, and Duncan chose to believe Meng Xu after a little hesitation, after all, even if the current Spurs, Meng Xu is the first choice to execute key balls, and Meng Xu has never missed a key ball since entering the league, so Duncan has great trust in Meng Xu's key ball ability.

Meng Xu, who was still within the 3-point line, continued to run outside the 3-point line after receiving Duncan's pass, and at this time Maddie also followed up again. When one foot stepped on the 3-point line, Meng Xu jumped up directly, and then turned around in the air, and in the horror of Maddie's face, he reluctantly threw the basketball out before he landed.

"Oh my God, you can shoot like that." Seeing Meng Xu's shooting posture of turning in the air, Michaels on the sidelines stood up directly after shouting. And Larry Bird and the magician next to Michaels also looked at each other with an incredulous expression.

After Meng Xu's basketball hollow into the net, almost all the fans in the entire MCI Center Arena stood up, looking at Meng Xu, who was sitting on the ground because of the shot just now, after a short silence, the entire MCI Center Arena immediately boiled.

"Meng, you can't stop me." Soon, just after Meng Xu hit this 3-pointer, the Eastern All-Stars once again cooperated with Carter and Maddie, and Maddie hit a mid-range shot, and with 38 seconds left, the difference between the two teams came to 3 points again. At this time, Adelman also immediately called a timeout.

"Meng, do you have any questions?" After looking around at several players beside him, Adelman finally stopped his eyes on Meng Xu, just as Duncan chose to believe in Meng Xu, Adelman also chose to believe Meng Xu at the last moment.

"No problem." Meng Xu wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded at Adelman, the key ball or something, the lore or something, I am the best.

"Okay, let's complete this attack as quickly as possible, and Meng will perform this shot, Chris, you will cover for Meng. If it hits, then we quickly retreat and try to delay time, preferably for more than 15 seconds. If he misses the shot, then a foul is committed on Dicambe. Soon, Adelman had his next tactics in mind. With 38 seconds left, Adelman chose to quickly complete an attack within 10 seconds, so that in the remaining time, even if the Eastern All-Stars pressed the time to 24 seconds before making a shot, the Western All-Stars had just one more chance to make a shot.

After the whistle sounded for the restart of the game, when Maddie, who was defending Meng Xu, was blocked by Webb, Duncan on the sidelines used a very accurate long pass to directly pass the basketball to Meng Xu, who was moving towards the opposite 3-point line at a 45-degree angle, and Meng Xu did not make any adjustments after receiving Duncan's pass, and shot directly at a distance of one step outside the 3-point line, shooting, 116-116, and with 31 seconds left in the game, Meng Xu equalized for the Western All-Stars.

After Meng Xu equalized, Larry Brown did not call a timeout, but made a gesture to Iverson on the court, there are 31 seconds left, and it is obviously impossible for the Eastern All-Stars to break as fast as the West, and now there is only time to press, and then shoot a ball steadily, and then in the remaining seconds of defense, then the game is over.

Sure enough, after Larry Brown gestured to Iverson, Iverson, who was about to speed up, slowed down instantly, and after dribbling through the center circle, he stayed between the top of the arc and the center circle, slapping the basketball while looking up at the timer from time to time. Iverson's teammates pulled away to create opportunities for Iverson.

Soon, with 7 seconds left in the 24-second time, Iverson started, and after a change of direction after acceleration shook off Kidd, facing Duncan, Iverson shook Duncan again with an emergency stop and change of direction, and less than 5 meters away from the basket, Iverson hit a pull-up jump shot, 118-116, and the Eastern All-Stars overtook the score again.

"Erwin, Larry, who do you think the Western All-Stars will make the final shot?" After Iverson hit the shot, he also left 9.5 seconds for the Western All-Stars, 9 seconds, there is plenty of time to complete the final shot, but the Western All-Stars have a lot of players with big hearts, so who will execute the last shot is also a very difficult thing to decide.

"Of course it's Meng." Just after Michaels asked, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson said Meng Xu's name in unison, and after seeing that the two chose the same, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson also looked at each other and smiled.

Larry Brown may also know who will shoot the last shot of the Western All-Star, so he chose to use Maddie and Carter to pinch Meng Xu, just when Meng Xu took Maddie and Carter to run near the center circle, the basketball in Duncan's hand was passed directly to Kobe, and after seeing Kobe receive the ball, Maddie immediately gave up Meng Xu's bag and ran back to defend Kobe. And after Kobe Bryant received the ball, he also wanted to press the time, but at this time, Maddy's defense was in place, and when he saw that there were 4 seconds left in the time, Mutombo, who was originally defending Duncan, threw Duncan directly and rushed over to wrap Kobe.

In the face of Maddie and Mutombo's bag, Kobe Bryant immediately passed the basketball to Meng Xu who moved from the middle circle to the left 3-point line after jumping, and Meng Xu After receiving the ball, in the face of Carter's defense, he did not make any adjustments, and jumped out directly.

"This game is over, relying on Meng Xu's three consecutive 3-pointers in the last moment, the Western All-Stars defeated the Eastern All-Stars 119-118." After Meng Xu hit the shot, in the cheers of the audience, Michaels stood up and began to summarize the game.

"Even though we lost the game in the end, I still want to say, lads in the East, you guys are really good, you almost made history." After the whistle blew at the end of the game, all three commentators of the game stood up to make a final summary of this year's All-Star Game, and Magic Johnson also unreservedly praised the All-Stars in the East.

"Yes, you guys teamed up to give a great game to the crowd around the world, especially the matchup between Meng Xu and Maddie, there is no doubt that the two of them are the two best small forwards in the league right now, and I'm already looking forward to next year's All-Star Game." Judging from the results of this game, neither of them lost the bet that Larry Bird and the Magic opened, so now both of them are in a good mood, and in the end, Larry Bird also bragged about Meng Xu and Maddie again. And the performance of Meng Xu and Maddy in this game is also worth touting, Maddie contributed a game-high 34 points in this game, in addition to 5 rebounds. And Meng Xu also contributed 33 points and 4 rebounds.

"Meng, congratulations, your performance is very good, you are the star of the stars today." In this game, Meng Xu won the final MVP without dispute. And when Meng Xu held high the All-Star Game MVP trophy that he received from David Stern, this year's All-Star Game officially came to an end.