The Knicks have a total of three players participating in All-Star Weekend this year, namely Wu Huang, who will participate in a total of three events, David Lee, who is lucky to enter the All-Star Game as an alternate, and Gallinari, who will participate in the rookie game and three-point contest.

"I personally think it's a shame that DeMar didn't make the final nine-man roster for the Rookie Challenge, but I know what kind of energy he has, he's an athletic, talented scorer." Wu Huang faced the reporter's question, and finally remembered the little he had almost forgotten.

After Wu Huang entered the NBA, he rarely contacted his teammates in college anymore, he is not the kind of person who takes the initiative to call friends who are not familiar with him, except for frequent contact with Bart of the Nets, Wu Huang has long forgotten DeRozan.

Strictly speaking, Wu Huang also has some contact with Ty Gibson, and the captain of the University of Southern California is not much better than DeRozan after entering the NBA, but he is better than the little in terms of performance, and he is often the one who takes the initiative to send text messages to Wu Huang.

Although Wu Huang doesn't like to take the initiative to contact others, as long as people give face first, he will definitely return it, so his relationship with Ty Gibson has always been good.

Speaking of which, Ty Gibson's luck is also good, Chicago at this time just lacks a qualified No. 4 position, Ty Gibson's first season is actually as a starter for the team to develop, averaging 26 minutes of playing time per game, contributing 9 points, 7 rebounds and 1 block to the team, as a rookie, this efficiency is already very high.

On this all-star trip, Wu Huang didn't bring any girls, otherwise there would be a few more tooth marks on his shoulders. Fortunately, most of the stars who participated in All-Star Weekend didn't bring their girlfriends or wives with them. Emperor Wu had ample excuses to do so. The high profile of the province makes these guys who already look at him unpleasant even more jealous.

February 13 is the first day of All-Star Weekend. It's also the busiest day for the media. The morning was for the two teams to practice and media interviews for the Rookie Challenge, the afternoon was for the East and West All-Stars, the afternoon was for the NBA Cares community service event, and the evening was the highlight of the day, the Rookie Challenge.

Mavericks assistant coach Terry Stotts and Magic assistant coach Patrick Ewing will serve as first- and second-year coaches, respectively. Durant and Bosh will oversee this year's All-Star Rookie Challenge as assistant coaches for the first-year and second-year teams, respectively.

Wu Huang was lucky, and the Knicks finished all the games before the All-Star Games on the 11th, so he could rest for a day in New York before leaving for Dallas.

"Gorilla" Ewing was unlucky, and on the night of the 12th, he also followed the Magic team to challenge the Cavaliers on the road, after the game. Ewing flew from Cleveland to Dallas on a charter flight from Cleveland to Dallas along with Magic center Dwight Howard and others, and got off the plane before he had time to rest for All-Star Weekend.

The same can be said for the Bulls' Derrick Rose, who also finished the game on the 12th night and had to travel to Dallas overnight for practice and interviews with only a few hours of rest in between, which was harder than playing a back-to-back away game.

Because of this, Rose originally planned to apply to forgo the Rookie Challenge on the first day of All-Star Weekend. But then the matter was abandoned because the team behind Rose took the Wu Huang vs Rose gimmick very seriously, and they thought that as long as Rose could continue to lead the second-grade team to defeat the first-grade team led by Wu Huang. His personal popularity will be greatly enhanced after the victory.

Now the best way for young players in the NBA to increase their value is no longer to run to challenge veteran superstars such as Kobe Bryant and James. Instead, find a way to defeat Emperor Wu head-on, which will have a better effect than the former and be less difficult.

Wu Huang and his teammates arrived in Dallas a day early, and he could already see countless advertisements for football stars in the streets near the hotel, many of which were his billboards.

At this point, I'm afraid that all the first- and second-year players who participated in the Rookie Challenge combined did not have as many billboards as him, and Wu Huang was also the only rookie player with a huge billboard, which is the embodiment of fame and status, and the two complement each other.

The whole city of Dallas is covered with billboards of NBA stars during All-Star Weekend, but the small advertisements on the streets do not reflect the value of the players, and what really reflects the status and fame of the players is the huge billboards on the buildings on both sides of the street, which is the treatment that only real stars can have.

On the way from the airport to the hotel, Wu Huang saw no less than three huge advertisements of himself, of which UA alone contributed two. All of the players who participated in the All-Star Weekend were staying in pre-booked hotels and were picked up by league staff.

Wu Huang, Gallinari, and David Lee each received a Nokia-era feature phone, which was a tool used by the alliance to communicate with them, and when to participate in what activities, and even to say something, all of which had to be achieved through this phone.

On the morning of February 13, the first-grade and second-grade teams will have a two-hour adaptation training in the training hall, followed by media interviews.

The nine first-year players are supposed to be on the court, but today with Wu Huang only showed up, the remaining four are the same as Rose, they all just played a game yesterday, which will be allowed by the league, and they are catching up on sleep in the hotel, and they will not participate in the All-Star event until at least in the afternoon.

Mavericks assistant coach Terry Stotz will serve as first-year team head coach tonight, with Kevin Durant serving as assistant coach.

After Wu Huang arrived, he first said hello to his teammates and coaches tonight, in fact, everyone knew each other, but it was just a matter of whether they were familiar with each other.

It's a pity that Emperor Wu has no personal relationship with anyone else, except for being more familiar with Ty Gibson, who was not present.

But it doesn't matter, don't they all say that a Chinese is a dragon?

Wu Huang quickly chatted with Spurs center DeJuan Blair, and then had a good conversation with Cosby and Jerebko.

At this time, no one found out that the objects that Wu Huang went to woo were all inside players, which was a very smart approach.

Of course, these three people would not look at Emperor Wu coldly. Emperor Wu took the initiative to communicate with them. They can't even shoot a sycophant!

Fools know. If an interior player wants to play in the All-Star, he must rely on the help of the point guard, and Wu Huang is precisely the core ace of the first-year team, as long as he is willing to feed them the ball, these three can brush up on beautiful scores, otherwise they can't get the ball at all.

Wu Huang will not do a loss-making business, whether it is a rookie game or a regular game, the consistent rhythm of the All-Star is that it is difficult for interior players to touch the ball. I can only watch these outside stars flying around. But this year's Wu Huang is going to do the opposite, he only plans to feed the ball to the inside line tonight, cooperate with his teammates on the inside, and do not plan to feed the ball to other outside lines.

There are several advantages to him doing this, first of all, the inside line is open, which can make up for the difference in strength between the two teams. Secondly, the game in the All-Star Game is extremely fast-paced, and there will be a lot of rebounds, as long as the inside line re-passes a small half of the rebounding ball to him, it will be enough for Wu Huang to get back the ball he passed to the inside. At last. As long as he pulls the team's interior line, he can continue to play the most suitable pick-and-roll for exhibition games. At that time, no matter the score and assist, there will be more hand cramps, but other outside players will not get much ball in comparison, so naturally they will not get good statistics.

In this way, as long as the first-year team can win in the end, it will be difficult for the MVP of the rookie game not to fall into Wu Huang's pocket.

At noon, the whole first-year team arrived, and everyone was customary to take a family photo, which will go down in NBA history.

However, this photo took more than ten minutes to get done, the so-called where there are people, there is competition, even taking a family photo, in fact, there is a lot of attention, from the player's position can be seen the status of each player.

Nine players plus two coaches, starting from the first row, and the final positions from left to right: assistant coaches Kevin Durant, Brandon Jennings, Wu Huang, Tyrek Evans, Stephen Curry, James Harden, Ty Gibson, Jonas Jerebko, Omi Casby, DeJuan Blair, and head coach Terry Stotts.

Wu Huang and Evans stood in the middle of the first row, with Curry and Harden next to them, and the two coaches on either side. In this position, the status distinction between the four people has been very obvious, Wu Huang and Evans stood at the front and in the middle, which means that the status of the two is the highest two in the first-year team.

In the afternoon, the NBA will hold a caring community service activity at this time every year, that is, everyone can always see the NBA stars in front of the TV planting trees, painting walls, moving bricks, and finally giving some daily necessities to orphans......

Wu Huang and all the first-graders were dragged to a newly built elementary school, where they each planted a few small trees, moved bricks, and played basketball with the children.

Of course, in the end, the stars inevitably expressed in front of the media how noble and meaningful this kind of activity is......

"I thought that a democratic society would not engage in this kind of formalism and face-saving projects, but I didn't expect the world to be as black as a crow." Emperor Wu scoffed at this kind of voluntary labor from the bottom of his heart, so he did "in-situ movement" throughout the labor process in the afternoon—constantly moving bricks from the pile of bricks to a small cart next to him, and when the bricks on the cart were almost full, he moved them back while people were not paying attention.

But I have to say that Wu Huang's popularity is really unrivaled among these rookies, and fans keep coming up to take photos and chat with him. So, Emperor Wu soon didn't even bother to do the same exercise, took the opportunity to steal a little lazy, moved twice, straightened up, took a photo, moved two more pieces, and said a few words......

The All-Star Labor during the day is just one thing to entertain the public, and the Rookie Challenge in the evening is the highlight of the first day of the All-Star Weekend.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, among the dense crowd outside the stadium, there were two types of people, one was who wanted to watch the game, but there were no tickets, so everyone asked: Do you sell tickets? There is also a kind of scalpers in the traditional sense, who ask: Do you want to buy a ticket? But of course, the price has risen several times.

Fortunately, this year's All-Star will be held at the NFL Dallas Cowboys' arena, which can accommodate more than 100,000 spectators, far more than the average basketball arena, so tickets are not as scarce as they used to be.

According to the final statistics on the spot, the number of spectators at the Cowboy Stadium tonight will reach about 70,000, and the attendance rate is expected to be even further tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

To be honest, the All-Star Weekend has been held for so many years, and the whole process has long been familiar to the majority of fans, and everyone is familiar with all the links.

Whether the All-Star Weekend is exciting depends on whether there is such a living treasure as O'Neal in this group of popular players? As long as there is a superstar like O'Neal who can play treasure and liven up the atmosphere, then the All-Star Weekend will not be boring. On the other hand, if the participating players are all stuffy cans like Duncan and Yao Ming, it is destined to lose a lot of color.

At the Rookie Challenge, it's often hard for young players to let go.

So tonight's game hasn't started yet, and the two assistant coaches have a fashion show that they can't help themselves.

Bosh is dressed in a gray suit, but with a white striped shirt and a red tie, and a pair of nondescript sunglasses, this makes a donkey lip not the horse's mouth. Of course, the most disgraced thing is the long neck of the Dragon King, who is destined to look bad in whatever clothes he wears, and standing with a man like Emperor Wu is also destined that he will not even be able to steal the limelight.

The assistant coach of the one-year team, Durant's fashion sense is inferior to that of the Dragon King, he is also in a suit, but the Thunder Ershao's dress taste is really not flattering, they are also a congenital disadvantage in size, Durant's tall and thin body type can't support his large suit at all, and it looks awkward and awkward.

It is clear that this premeditated fashion show failed, and the two assistant coaches overestimated the fashion factor in themselves, they are simply a fashion disaster, and not everyone can be a man.

Compared with the two unattractive assistant coaches, Wu Huang has a full sense of fashion, he is also in a suit, but a yellow jacket with Chinese colors in the jacket really adds a lot of color to him, coupled with a pair of gold glasses and the bow on the collar of the shirt, the gentlemanly charm of the whole person is fully revealed, and all the players present were compared to the dress of this Chinese for a while.

The live TV broadcast has already announced the high and low of everyone's image, and the other players only have one or two brief shots, but it is Wu Huang's turn to add endless shots and shots, close-ups and close-ups......

Brandon was sitting at Wu Huang's house at this time, watching the live broadcast with Chloe Moretz, only to see the agent's eyes staring directly at Wu Huang on the TV screen, and said with a serious face: "Hugo's endorsement fee has to be added!" ”

"This guy dresses up carefully, he's really handsome!" Chloe Moretz nodded again and again beside him, with a look of brainless powder that is not a pity.

There is more than one brain-dead fan with the same expression as Chloe Moretz in front of the TV, and all of Wu Huang's female fans look like they don't regret dying.

Christine obviously didn't notice that Emma Watson, who was sitting next to her, actually licked her bright lips secretly when she saw Wu Huang on TV, and the desire in her eyes was not lower than hers.

Taylor Swift was much more attentive, and quickly turned her head to look at Emma Roberts to the side, whose typical brain-dead appearance was unobstructed by her. (To be continued.) )