On February 7, 2001, after the end of the game with the Nets, Meng Xu, Duncan and David Robinson left for Washington directly from New Jersey to participate in the All-Star Weekend held there this year It's also refreshed again, this time in the All-Star Game, Meng Xu may be going to make big news again.

On the last day of January, shortly after the league announced its All-Star starting lineup, all the All-Stars for the season were released, and this year's Eastern All-Stars, with the starting Grant Hill and Alonzo Mourning absent due to injury, Antonio Davis from the Raptors and Anthony Mason Jr. of the Miami Heat replaced the two in this year's All-Star starting lineup. In the subsequent bench draft, DiCambe Mutombo from the Atlanta Hawks, Allan Houston and Ratrill Sprewell from the New York Knicks, Jerry Starhouse from the Detroit Pistons, Glenn Robin from the Milwaukee Bucks, and Stephen Marbury from the New Jersey Nets were selected to the All-Star bench this season, and Larry Brown was also finalized as the All-Star head coach in the East.

In addition, the Spurs' David Robinson, the Timberwolves' Kevin Garnett, the Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki and Michael Finley, the Denver Nuggets' Antonio McDyce, the Portland Trail Blazers' Rasheed Wallace, the Utah Jazz's Karl Malone, and the Seattle SuperSonics' Gary Payton have formed a Western All-Star bench lineup for several years. The All-Star head coach in the West was also finalized by Adelman.

After all the All-Star lineups were announced, the happiest now is undoubtedly the league's president David Stern, in this year's All-Star lineup, the league's "Big Four" and "Big Four Scoring Guards" candidates have all entered this year's All-Star team. And this year's All-Star voting is also the one with the most fans after Jordan's retirement season, especially from Huaguo across the ocean, a total of more than 500 people participated in this year's All-Star voting, accounting for about 20% of all votes this year, plus this year's NBA league has signed an NBA broadcast agreement with China's largest TV network CCAV, so this also marks the NBA's globalization has made significant progress this year.

On Friday, February 9, 2001, the appetizer of the All-Star Feast began today, and the first thing to do today was the All-Star Rookie Challenge, because this season's rookie was worse than last year's, so the hat of "the worst rookie" was transferred from Meng Xu's 9900 class to the head of the 0001 rookie. Therefore, this year's All-Star Rookie Challenge is also considered to be the most suspenseful year, after all, last season's rookies are also one of the few first-year rookies in All-Star history to defeat a group of second-year rookies.

The first-year All-Stars who participated in today's All-Star Rookie Challenge were Martin Cliffes from the Detroit Pistons, Harred Al Amin from the Chicago Bulls, and Stephen from the New Jersey Nets? Jackson, Darryls of the Los Angeles Clippers? Myers, Orlando Magic's Mike Miller, Toronto Raptors' Morris? Peterson, and this season's top pick Kenyon Martin, and Kenyon Martin is also the best player in this year's rookie class so far, averaging 12 points and 7.4 rebounds in 35 minutes per game, and in addition to these rookies this season, only McMiller's average points per game double-double, which can also be seen how bad the rookies this season are.

And this year's All-Star Rookie sophomore is basically the same as last year's All-Star Rookie first-year, Andre? Miller, Lamar? Odom, Wally? Szebiak, James? Posey, Elton? Brand and Meng Xu were all selected for this year's sophomore list, while Todd? McCloche, a parallel import, was also a good performer this season, Sean? Marion replaced, and Steve? After Francis withdrew from this year's All-Star Rookie Game due to injury, his spot was lost to Jason? Terry replaced.

"Don't worry, Elton, isn't it just a rookie game MVP, we promise to get your hands on it." On the evening of February 9, 2001, when all the All-Star rookies walked out of the players' tunnel, looking at the somewhat melancholy Elton Brand, Meng Xu put his arm around his shoulders and wanted to relieve him of pressure.

Elton Brand has been haunted by missing out on the MVP trophy at last year's rookie game, and after missing out on this year's All-Star Game, Brand is also aiming for the MVP trophy in this year's rookie game. Just yesterday, when Meng Xu arrived in Washington, Brand gathered Meng Xu, Percy, Miller and Szczebiak together, first asked everyone to rub it hard, and then after getting everyone's affirmative answer, Brand promised again that as long as he won this MVP, then no matter who he was, as long as he went to Chicago to play away next time, he would be served with a big sword.

Due to Meng Xu's promise to complete Brand, now Brand's biggest competitor is only Odom, and Odom's performance this season is also very good, the team in order to fully cultivate Odom, this season gave up Derrick Anderson, a fierce general, and also sent the team's boss Morris Taylor to the Rockets almost for free. After failing to compete for MVP last season, Odom still has a little bit of thought about MVP this season, because the small group of Brand and Meng Xu is too strong, in order to be on the safe side, Odom also contacted in advance before this game, Marion and Terry, the two players who have been added to the sophomore rookie All-Star this year.

Although the current Meng Xu is much more beautiful than Brand, Odom, Francis, these rookies of the same year, but Meng Xu still has a little envy of them in his heart, although these players are far inferior to themselves in popularity and honor, but they now have a team of their own. In Anna's words, they are the lion kings who have their own independent kingdom, and they are now slightly stronger than the wandering lions at best. Especially Francis, when he learned that the Rockets directly sent away the team's flag Olajuwon in order to let Francis take the position, Meng Xu's heart was sorry for Olajuwon, and at the same time, he was very envious of Francis's treatment in the Rockets. During this time, Meng Xu could also feel that both Anna and He Hui would inadvertently reveal a hint of letting themselves leave the Spurs in the process of chatting with him, and Meng Xu is also very entangled now, Meng Xu is grateful to his seniors and Duncan, who has always taken great care of him, and Popovich who brought him into this alliance. But in Meng Xu's heart, he also very much expects that he and Brand will have a team of their own and a kingdom of their own.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the much-anticipated All-Star Rookie Challenge officially kicked off, and the starting lineup on the sophomore side was center Elton Brand, power forward Ramal Odom, small forward Meng Xu, scoring guard Szzebiak, and organization guard Andre Miller.

The starters of the first-year rookies were center Kenyon Martin, power forward Darius Myers, and small forward Stephen? Jackson, scoring guard Maurice Peterson, playmaking guard Khalid Al Amin.

"This year's All-Star Rookie Game may be the biggest gap in years." When the starting lineups of the two teams played, Kenny Smith, the commentator on the court, shook his head with a smile, and said with a little helplessness that the more disparity in the game, the worse the ratings, so this situation, whether it is the NBA league or major TV stations, is unwilling to see. The sophomore rookie overwhelms the first-year rookie in every position, and there are few first-year rookie players who can make a big difference, let alone those who can decide the course of the game on their own.

"Kenny, I think you said the same thing last season." In today's game, Kenny Smith is partnered with former NBA superstar, known as Sir Charles Mr. Barkley, after announcing his retirement last season, Barkley joined TNT TV this year, and his old partner Kenny Smith commented on the NBA game together, and today's All-Star rookie game, Barkley and Smith also came directly to the scene to comment. In the rookie challenge throughout the year, as soon as the lineups of the two teams played, Kenny Smith thought that the difference in strength between the two sides was too big and that he would definitely lose in the first year, but the final result made Smith lose face.

"Charles, that's an exception." Hearing Barkley directly expose his shortcomings in front of so many audiences, Smith also blushed, but Smith's next sentence also made Barkley a little confused: "Charles, what do you mean, you are very optimistic about this year's first-year rookies, and once again perform the kind of miracle last year?" ”

"Uh。。。。。 Let's watch the game, the two sides have started to jump the ball. ”