Chapter 665: Big Event
On February 19, 2006, the day after the All-Star Rookie Challenge, the All-Star Weekend also entered its second day, and compared to yesterday's less popular All-Star Rookie Challenge, today's All-Star has received much more attention, because today is the most popular All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, in addition to the All-Star Three-Point Contest, as well as the All-Star Skills Contest and the All-Star Mixed Shooting Contest that have only been added in recent seasons.
The first is the All-Star Three-Point Contest, after Meng Xu won the championship three times, the All-Star Three-Point Contest has returned to the previous situation of taking turns to sit in the bank, Peja Stojakovic, Woshan-Leonard, Quentin Richardson, has been crowned the All-Star Three-Point Champion, and finally in this year's All-Star Three-Point Contest, Dirk Nowitzki, who has been with him for many seasons, finally got his wish, defeated Ray Allen in the final, and Gilbert Arenas, and lifted the trophy symbolizing the All-Star Three-Point Contest champion.
The three-point contest was followed by the All-Star Trick Event, which this year's All-Star Trick Contest featured a strong line-up of defending champion Steve Nash, including LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Paul. Originally, in the pre-game prediction, there were Steve Nash and Chris Paul, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade must have played the role of accompanying the prince to study, but in the first round of preliminaries, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade delivered excellent results of 40.5 seconds and 39 seconds respectively, eliminating defending champions Steve Nash and Chris Paul to advance to the finals, and in the final final, Dwyane Wade won this year's All-Star Skills Competition with a record 26.1 seconds.
After the skills contest is the All-Star Mixed Shooting Competition, in order to create more gimmicks and attract more attention, the NBA league started with the All-Star Game in 04, and added an All-Star Mixed Shooting Contest on the second day of the All-Star Weekend, each participating team will send an active player, and a team history celebrity, as well as a special guest of the NBA, it can be said that in order to increase ratings and attract attention, the NBA league can be said to do everything, and in this year's Star Shooting Tournament, The San Antonio Spurs, consisting of Tony Parker, Steve Kerr, and NBA Silver Star forward Kendra Vic, defeated the Rockets, Suns, and Lakers to claim the final championship.
After the end of the hors d'oeuvres, the dinner on the second day of the All-Star Weekend slowly appeared, although after Vince Carter, Meng Xu and others withdrew from the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest one after another, the excitement of the dunk contest was not as good as a year, but the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest was still like a magnet full of magnets, tightly attracting the attention of almost all fans.
"Where's Aaron?" In the enthusiastic cheers of the fans, all four players who participated in the slam dunk contest appeared one after another, but in addition to the applause, Meng Xu found that Allen Iverson, who was sitting behind him, had disappeared.
"Aaron just answered the phone and quietly left." Maddie, who was sitting next to Meng Xu, said while applauding.
"I think I want to cooperate with Andre in the game for a while! But looking at Aaron's expression, he was a little flustered, maybe because of something else. After Maddie finished speaking, Kobe Bryant also interjected.
"Is it really like Rick said, something big is going to happen?" After listening to Maddie and Kobe's words, Meng Xu recalled what Rick Carlisle had said to him last night.
All-Star Weekend is a great event for all basketball fans and journalists, and it is also an excellent time for the management of the league's teams to get together, taking advantage of the opportunity for everyone to get together, everyone sits together and talks about trades, and it is so appropriate to take advantage of the fire to rob or something, almost every season after the All-Star Weekend there will be big trades, and this season's All-Star Weekend will certainly be no exception. Rick Carlisle, who is the head coach of the Pacers, must have heard something, and Pacers general manager Kevin Pritchard is also said to have arrived in Houston early this morning.
"Could it be related to Aaron?" Thinking back to what Rick Carlisle said to himself, looking at Allen Iverson, who had already appeared next to Andre Iguodala, but was obviously a little uneasy, Meng Xu had to wonder if the 76ers were going to make any big moves, trading Allen Iverson? As soon as this idea arose, Meng Xu shook his head and vetoed it, the management of the 76ers is definitely not as NC as the management of the Magic and the Raptors, although Allen Iverson's performance in recent seasons is not very good, but Allen Iverson's appeal is still very strong, even from the perspective of selling tickets, the 76ers will not easily trade Allen Iverson.
With all kinds of speculation, Meng Xu didn't even have the heart to watch the wonderful All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, compared with last year's slightly dull dunk contest, the level of this year's dunk contest has obviously improved a lot, and the two players who reached the finals, whether it is Andre Iguodala or Nate Robinson, both contributed two perfect dunks.
Nate Robinson's grounding rebound in the preliminaries, the 180-degree dunk in the air, and the dunk after the leaping little potato Sibert Webb in the finals, as well as Andre Iguodala's back-to-back dunk jumping from behind the rebound, and the air catch crotch change dunk are all extremely exciting, perhaps Andre Iguodala and Nate Robinson's dunk is too exciting, after the two rounds of dunks in the finals, the two were evenly divided, and finally after a round of overtime, Nate Robinson beat Andre Iguodala to win this year's All-Star dunk king, and Nate Robinson, who is only 1.75 meters tall, is called another short slam dunk king after little potato Sbert Webb.
"Meng, Chris Webb is going to the 76ers." After the slam dunk contest ended, Meng Xu received a call from Rick Carlisle, Rick Carlisle said that the big thing is close to the dust has settled, because the king's record in this season has always been unsatisfactory, so the Sacramento Kings, who can't see the hope of the playoffs, are ready to rebuild in advance, following Peja Stojakovic, Chris Webb, who has been fighting for the king for 8 seasons, will also be sent away by the team, and the NBA is business field is vividly reflected at this moment, For the Kings, who have decided to rebuild, Chris Webb's remaining 3 years and nearly $60 million in contract is undoubtedly a huge burden.