Chapter 391: Good Writing

The NBA's star cards have been around for more than 60 years, and they've been around for almost as long as the NBA league was founded. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info especially before the 21st century, when the Internet was not developed, a low-end set of star cards can have hundreds, which lists the basic information of the players and the data of the past years, although this set of cards is cheap, but it has played a role in promoting the NBA knowledge from enlightenment to advancement for the children at that time. High-end cards have always been regarded as a luxury collectible, especially those limited edition advanced cards, which can often fetch tens of thousands of dollars each.

Wu Huang has issued a lot of star cards in the Panini company, which has been authorized by the NBA, in the past three years, the most are of course the low-end Puka and Teka, a bit like a popular card in a small raccoon with three or two packs, these ordinary star cards don't even know how many he has, anyway, they are not worth much.

But some high-end star cards, such as signature cards, jersey cards, gold cards, refraction cards, etc., these cards will have Wu Huang's signature on the high-end ones, such as the jersey card, which will also chop the jersey worn by Wu Huang and seal it on the card, and even the more precious ones even have his signature on the jersey fragments. Generally, this kind of card is worth a fortune, and the final price will be comprehensively evaluated according to the issuance, condition, type, etc., and each one will be auctioned for hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars.

The most precious of this kind of high-end star cards is the set of Wu Huang after winning the championship, the set of limited jersey cards is shredded is the jersey he passed when he won the championship, and the NBA logo on the jersey is used, and each fragment also has Wu Huang's unique autograph, so each of the limited championship cards in this set can be auctioned for tens of thousands of dollars alone.

Of course, there are many types of star cards, in addition to jersey cards and signature cards, there are also photo frame cards, film cards, iron plate cards, gold film cards (pure gold), refraction cards, diamond cards, etc., their value cannot be generalized, it is difficult to say the price of each of their sets and each card at once.

On major auction websites, player quality + card material + card uniqueness + version can be said to be the most basic four elements to measure the value of the star card, followed by many small elements, such as which game jersey is shredded on the jersey card, or which part of the jersey is shredded, whether it is a paper signature or a handwritten signature, whether it is an English signature or other text signature, these elements are also very important, each of which can affect the value of the card.

If that shredded jersey is the one that the players wear when they win the championship, it's worth a fortune. It is said that this year, Panini will also launch a limited edition set of "masonry jersey cards" made from pieces of the jersey worn by Wu Huang when he won the NCAA championship, and the price of this limited edition card will be quite amazing, because this kind of card is so collectible, each one is at least 350,000 US dollars.

But generally speaking, eighty percent of each player's most precious set of star cards in the future is his initial rookie card. Almost every star's rookie card can be sold for a high price, even sky-high. Not to mention Wu Huang, the real value of his cards will not be preliminarily determined until he retires, and the higher the historical status of the star, the greater the room for his cards to appreciate in the future. As for ordinary players, their star cards are naturally far behind, and after ten or twenty years, who knows who they are?

It is worth mentioning here that all of Wu Huang's autograph cards are more expensive than other superstars of the same level, not because he is more popular or handsome than Jordan and others, but because his handwriting is too ugly! That's right, especially some of the man's signature cards signed by Emperor Wu, the kind of chicken chop-like recognition instantly made him stand out among all the superstars, and by the way, these signature cards made his signature cards invaluable.

Many people have been slandered before, they think that Wu Huang must have deliberately written the words so ugly, others are trying to write better when signing, but he is good, sometimes on the bus to take out a pen and irresponsibly sign two pieces of paper, and often ignore the warnings of Panini Company, always after a whim to scribble around the signature, such as writing the date, the weather, whether you are happy today, or even draw a funny face or something, and it is called "art".

But now some people have discovered through the test papers, textbooks and other cultural relics of Emperor Wu when he was a student that he didn't know where to dig up, it turns out that the handwriting of the Holy Sect Master is really not deliberately written so ugly, and he was so hard to see the violent characters in his high school and college years.

Returning to the All-Star Game, Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley were the head coaches of the two teams today, and O'Neal was obviously well-groomed, wearing a straight suit, a pink shirt, and a black tie, full of anger.

First of all, in terms of the appearance of the managers of the two teams, Barkley lost to O'Neill first.

In an interview with the host before the game, O'Neal shouted to the fans at the scene, "Orlando, I'm back." Fans at the Amway Center Arena responded with cheers and applause to welcome back the former Orlando Magic star.

Wu Huang greeted O'Neal before the game and asked him to take care of his teammates, these people are actually O'Neal's former teammates, and the dead fat man should know how to do it.

Monroe was on O'Neal's team today, but it was a pity that Thomas was drafted by Barkley.

But it doesn't matter, Wu Huang said that he is also very familiar with Barkley, and he has also said hello here, he believes that these two old bastards will definitely give him this little bastard a little thin face, and it seems that they have a better relationship with the Holy Sect Master, and they are all bastard stars with more distinctive personalities.

A pre-game clip was also released on the big screen at the scene, in which their president David Stern went to the players' locker room to shake hands with the rookie players, especially when shaking hands with Jeremy Lin, he said a few more words, which made many people forget that the president had previously opposed Jeremy Lin's entry into the rookie game.

Before the start of the game, Jeremy Lin, Rubio, Wall and Irving, the four most talked-about point guards, were all interviewed by reporters. Although it was a big scene, Jeremy Lin didn't seem to have stage fright at all, and even humored first, facing the audience, he said into the microphone: "Shaq didn't come to training today, should he be fined?" Then the camera immediately showed O'Neill's face, and in the face of the disciple's revelation, Shaq also had an innocent expression, which looked very cute.

Wu Huang and a few teammates just sat on the sidelines and watched the game quietly today, and he can't do anything to steal the limelight from these rookies now. But in fact, he didn't have to rob it, just with his dominance here in the previous two years, just going to that stop was already the biggest focus of the audience, and today's protagonists such as Owen and Griffin were instantly robbed of the show by him, a cameo guy.

A month ago, there were rumors within the league that the MVP trophy of the Rookie Challenge would be changed to Wu Huang's name, because the MVP of the Rookie Game is not like the Finals MVP and has a full name like "Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award".

As for why there was no further news later, Wu Huang himself felt that it was because of his lack of qualifications and history, Bill Russell proved that he was the most dominant player in the playoffs and even the finals since the establishment of the NBA, so the league named this trophy after him, whether Abdul-Jabbar, Bird, Magic or Jordan are not qualified to object, and they are not opponents of the Lord of the Rings when they reach out.

Now someone is proposing this is already an affirmation of Wu Huang, and whether it is changed in the end or not, at least those active and retired players have no excuse to object, Wu Huang is now the rookie game scoring and assists double record, a single three-point record and two consecutive years in the rookie game to get a triple-double are also set by him, these four records make him eligible to endorse this trophy, and a trophy named after the yellow race will immediately make the NBA's pressure rise again.

However, many people don't know that Wu Huang himself is not too rare for this title, because what he really wants to endorse in his heart is the regular season MVP, which is much more awesome than endorsing the rookie game MVP!

The NBA has produced countless heroes over the years, but few people dare to think about what he is thinking about now, the weight of the NBA regular season MVP is no worse than the finals MVP, the weight of these two trophies is almost the same, and this is Wu Huang's real ambition.

But in order to achieve his goal of floating in the sky, Wu Huang must first win more MVP trophies than all legendary superstars in his career to have any hope, and only then can he be eligible to permanently engrave his name on this trophy.

O'Neal, who has been playing on the court today, is a genius who likes to be funny and can be funny, and as the general manager of the "O'Neal" rookie team, he will not let his players abandon this tradition worthy of funny, and he tells the players to try to make the game as good as possible in the game. However, this is not the case with the opposite "Barkley" team, ****** very seriously instructed the team to play steadily, and their goal is to achieve victory and make something good.

These two styles actually decided everything, after the start of the game, the "Barkley" team firmly controlled the situation on the court, Irving kicked off the show with a dunk, followed by two assists to Cousins, and his own backhand layup, Barkley team played an 8-0 climax as soon as they came up.

Today, Owen's desire to win is very strong, he wants to defeat all opponents in front of his idols, and at the same time, it is for himself.

Come to think of it, how many of those backcourt players who can become superstars haven't won the MVP of the rookie game? So don't look like it's a more showy game, but for a rookie like him who wants to become a superstar, it's actually a must-win game.

Compared with the seriousness of the "Barkley" team, the "O'Neal" team is very interesting in the opening lineup first, in addition to Griffin and center Monroe, Rubio, Jeremy Lin and John Wall are three point guard players actually appear at the same time, which is O'Neal's highlight of the "point guard battle"? But it was Rubio who really controlled the ball on the court, Wall played the role of a forward, and Jeremy Lin played a shooting guard he didn't know anything about, which made him very uncomfortable. At the same time, the lack of athleticism compared to others also made him unable to fly up and perform wonderful dunks like Wall.

O'Neal's nonsense caused his team to quickly lose their ability to resist, and the regular No. 2 and No. 3 players on the bench, Klay Thompson and Paul George, did not get a start, which made the two unhappy and O'Neal's tricks clearly ignored the psychology of these rookie players who were eager to play.

The ensuing game began to show a one-sided trend, O'Neal's most popular star Jeremy Lin played sluggishly, Rubio and Wall met the incomprehensible Cousins, the second fan of Wu Huang also secretly made up his mind on the court, he is also one of the people who are going to compete for the MVP today, less than five minutes into the game, he gave the Spanish golden boy a block, which immediately made the European genius's face very ugly.

Rubio was drafted in the same year as Emperor Wu, but he only officially landed in the NBA this year. Many people should still have the impression that he was once considered a favorite for the champion before the draft, and even his fame was above Wu Huang for a long time, until Wu Huang was out of control in the national championships, winning consecutive battles, and after looking at him, he was considered to have overpowered the European golden boy.

But now three years have passed, and many fans of Wu Huang have long forgotten Rubio, and many fans who have only joined the religion in the last year or two do not know who this genius who was as famous as Wu Huang back then? Only Timberwolves fans had a lot to expect from Rubio early in the season, and some of the earliest Wu fans paid an eye to the golden boy once in a while.

But after Rubio didn't play a star-level performance in the new season, at least most of Wu Huang fans didn't bother to pay attention to him anymore, leaving only some guys who like to stir up trouble to taunt him every once in a while. But even in the eyes of the American media, this European golden boy is obviously just in name, he can't even compare with Wu Huang's younger brother Owen this season, where is he qualified to compare with the Holy Sect Master, in fact, his opponent should be Jeremy Lin.

Rubio is also under a lot of pressure, since he entered the NBA, he can often see Wu Huang's fans running to him to show his presence, and will always turn out the reports of the year to mock him, which makes Rubio, who is already under great pressure, even more depressed, and he feels malicious from all over the world.

The European side is supposed to be his home base, but the attitude of these media towards him is not much different from that of the Chinese media towards space, and the European media and fans all think that he should play at an all-star level, and once he fails to meet their requirements, all kinds of vicious words will run out, and the European fans and media are not much better than the Chinese side.

Wu Huang thinks that the real reason why the "O'Neal" team is powerless off the field is that Griffin did not play seriously, this repeater does not want to play this kind of game at all, he obviously wants to save his strength for the main game the day after tomorrow, it is estimated that Griffin does not think that these little guys are players of the same level as himself, and it is completely the fault of the time that he appears here.

However, this is not the case with Irving and Cousins of the "Barkley" team, the former ruthlessly ravaged the "O'Neal" team with a three-point shot in the first half, and in the last five minutes of the first half, Irving hit four three-pointers and a layup, and the score soared from 6 points to 20 points, and 8 assists, which was very impressive. Combined with Cousins, who had 15 points and 10 rebounds, Barkley led by 15 points at 77-62 heading into halftime.

O'Neal saw the smugness of his old rival at half-time and finally decided to let his players play seriously in the second half, so he lectured Griffin in the hope that he could step up and save the team. However, Griffin didn't care about winning or losing at all, he didn't give face to the big sharks in the later games, and the Sharks were always suppressed by the Barkley team on the court, and the whole game ended in this atmosphere without suspense.

Wu Huang was relieved after watching the first half, he really didn't want his record to be broken. But he was a little too nervous, and it would take a lot of luck and drugged play for Irving to break any of his four records, plus the support of the whole team.

Although Champion Lang Owen broke out today, it is obviously still a little far from Emperor Wu's record.

Irving shot 13-of-16 from the field, including 9-of-11 from three-point range, and scored 34 points and 11 assists to lead Barkley to a 149-133 victory over O'Neal, winning MVP for his outstanding performance, but neither scoring nor assists were close to Wu Huang's record.

Cousins, the core of the Kings, is difficult to compete with Irving for MVP as an insider, and although he also scored 25 points and 16 rebounds, he is still a little short of competing with Irving for MVP.

However, Irving made some breakthroughs in three-point shooting this game, and he made a total of nine three-pointers in the game, surpassing Kyle Korver and ranking third on the list of three-pointers made in a single game in the rookie game.

If you don't compare with Wu Huang, Irving can be regarded as a god in this game, he only conceded 3 shots in 16 shots in 27 minutes of playing time, and his three-point shot was almost missed, and he made 9 of 11 shots, which was very amazing. At the same time, Irving also made the all-time three-point list in the rookie game, and he made nine three-pointers today, surpassing Kyle Korver and ranking third on the three-point shooting list in a single game in the rookie game.

Prior to today's game, both Korver and first-year Wu Huang were third and fourth on the all-time rookie three-point list with seven three-pointers per game, which Korver wrote in the 2005 Rookie Game and Wu Huang completed in his first rookie game. Irving completed the overtaking of Korver and Wu Huang in his first season today, occupying the third place on the all-time three-point list of the rookie game with nine three-pointers in a single game.

The leader of the all-time three-point list of the rookie game is naturally Wu Huang, the Holy Sect leader of New York, who hit 13 of 21 three-point shots in the 2011 rookie game, ranking first in the history of the rookie game in terms of three-point shooting and hitting, and finally he also broke the single-game scoring record and single-game three-point shooting in the rookie game with 60 points, 10 rebounds, 15 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks.

As of today, the top five all-time three-point lists in the NBA Rookie Game are: Wu Huang (13), Gibson (11), Irving (9), Korver (7), and Wu Huang (7).

Irving's performance has been outstanding, but it is still inferior to Wu Huang's rookie season, when the immature Saint Master cut a big triple-double of 35 points, 13 rebounds, 23 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks in the first rookie game, not only led the first-year team to break the record of 7 consecutive years of winlessness, but also broke the all-time assist record in the rookie game.

After the game, Owen also thought that he was not good enough, at that time, the rookie game was not a fairer way to mix the first and second grades, at that time, the first grade team played the second grade team, and the first grade team led by Wu Huang was undoubtedly weaker than the second grade in terms of strength, so his results were more golden.

This restructured rookie game went from the selection of players before the game to a series of advertising gimmicks by the two legends, which greatly aroused the appetite of fans, but O'Neal, who lost in the actual battle, did not give too many scenes to Jeremy Lin, which made some Chinese fans, especially those in Taiwan Province, very dissatisfied. Jeremy Lin played 8 minutes and 55 seconds today, and was the only player on O'Neal's team who played less than double digits, and Jeremy Lin, who scored only 2 points, was also the only one on O'Neal's team who did not score in a double-double.

The next day, the media in Taiwan said one after another: O'Neill's ability at the peak of his career was amazing, and his personality was even more extraordinary.

However, as soon as the conversation changed, these media said that although there is no substantial evidence, David Stern's initial refusal to add Jeremy Lin to the rookie game to the final compromise is likely to be related to O'Neal's attitude. The big shark not only spoke highly of Jeremy Lin, but in the live broadcast of his selection of players with Barkley, O'Neal directly used the name "Lin Crazy" when picking Jeremy Lin, which fully catered to the atmosphere of public opinion.

But the problem is that O'Neal also only allowed Jeremy Lin to play for less than 5 minutes in the first half; Three minutes into the second half, after seeing Jeremy Lin score a layup, O'Neal replaced him again and did not play again after that. Except for Jeremy Lin, the spectacle of the whole team scoring double-doubles was directed in the hands of O'Neal's extremely dramatic character.

In the end, the media defined the incident: it may be related to Jeremy Lin's pre-game "offense" - Jeremy Lin said in a pre-game interview: "When the team trained, O'Neal didn't come, should the league fine him?" The media and fans laughed, but O'Neill kept a straight face as if he hadn't heard it at the time (the interpretation of the mainland media was a look of grievance).

Of course, it's all a joke, and Jeremy Lin's personality and style of play make it difficult for him to be the center of attention on a stage like All-Star Weekend. And, entertainment is a drama after all, just like O'Neal and Barkley are now laughing side by side as ball commentators, and each leading a team in this game, but it was extremely hot when the two fought on the court.

Remember? Barkley smashed the ball into O'Neal's head, O'Neal pulled away and moved roughly, and Barkley took a hard throw......

The Taiwanese media don't care about what they say, but not only has they been entangled in Jeremy Lin's playing time, but they also very maliciously rehashed O'Neal's troubles back then, obviously still caring about O'Neal's reuse of Jeremy Lin.

Wu Huang left with his teammates after watching the rookie game yesterday, and Monroe did well in the "O'Neal" team, but the data of 18 points and 10 rebounds is unlikely to help the team win the game. Isaiah Thomas of the "Barkley" team was similarly embarrassed by Jeremy Lin, both of whom were too low-profile, and he ended up playing only 12 minutes. But it's okay to look at it this way, Barkley gave Wu Huang some face, and Thomas also brushed up on 10 points and 2 assists in a limited time.

On February 26th, the second day of the 2012 Orlando All-Star Weekend entered the second day, and today is also the competition day for all individual events.

In an interview at the scene, Wu Huang said: "Of course I have a little secret to winning, when I participated in the competition in 10 years, I didn't do any practice before the competition, and the result was very easy to win the competition. And last year I did a lot of preparation and I almost lost the game. So this time, I didn't prepare for the three-point contest at all, and I was going to throw the ball out of the game when I got there. ”

The reporters were speechless, but the problem is that Wu Huang, who is so unserious, is the biggest favorite to win the championship today, which is somewhat ironic. And most people also think that Wu Huang will successfully win three consecutive championships, this kind of unreasonable confidence makes many experts disdainful, but in the end, these experts actually think that Wu Huang will defend the title successfully, and Nima's is still disdainful!

There were no rule changes to this year's three-point contest, and the six players participating in the contest, in addition to last year's three-point contest champion Wu Huang, were selected by the Atlanta Hawks' Joe Johnson, Minnesota Timberwolves' Kevin Love, Orlando Magic's Ryan Anderson, New Jersey Nets' Anthony Morrow, and Miami Heat's Mario Chalmers.

In last year's three-point contest, Wu Huang defeated a large number of star players with a standard lying win. As a result, these guys are obviously sad, this year's contestants have a lot less stars, and in addition to Wu Huang, the only ones who can be called stars are Lefu and Joe Johnson.

Before the three-point contest began, there was also a shooting star exhibition match and a skills challenge match, and Wu Huang temporarily watched his teammates play on the court from the sidelines.

This year's Shooting Stars exhibition tournament features four teams competing in New York, Atlanta, Texas and host Orlando. Each team has three participants, including one active NBA player, one WNBA player, and a retired player.

The Knicks participated in the tournament, but Wu Huang did not, and they fielded active players Gasol, Alan Houston, and WNBA All-Star Kapi Poundster.

The game is divided into two rounds, players shoot at 6 points at different distances on the court, and are scored according to the time they complete the shot, and the fastest shot is the champion, and the rules are quite simple.

In the first round of shooting, the New York team went well, and Alan Houston hit the final ultra-long shot in a single shot, which took only 38 seconds.

The hosts, Oran, were the most unlucky, with three shots from close range in the first and the last ultra-long-range shot in the center circle that took a lot of time and 104 seconds to complete. Maria, the female player, scored a far-range goal, but the result was clearly not satisfactory.

Atalanta also had a long-range shot from women's Lindsay Hadlin, who finished in 55.3 seconds and missed the final.

Texas were finished by Kenny Smith in 50.5 seconds to finish second and reach the final with New York.

In the final, the Texas team took the lead and Kenny Smith successfully hit the ultra-long shot, this time in just 47.6 seconds, putting a lot of pressure on the New York team.

However, New York, who had a lavish line-up, went more smoothly in the game, and luck was on their side, taking only 18 seconds to shoot the first five balls. They then took turns shooting from beyond the clock, and it was Alan Houston who delivered the final blow, taking just 37.3 seconds to complete the task and win the championship comfortably.

Wu Huang didn't expect his team to win the championship so easily, which was also the first honor Gasol won for the team, and the Spaniard, who won the competition for the first time, was also very happy and grinned all the time on the field.

But actually, the Knicks originally wanted David West to come so he could participate in the All-Star Weekend, and the Knicks would have six players for the All-Star Weekend. What I didn't expect was that they, a black outlier who likes honor more than money, actually said that they wanted to rest more, and this kind of behavior of not wanting to participate in the All-Star is also different.

After the Shooting Stars competition, the "Skills Challenge" will be followed by the "Skills Challenge", which has expanded the number of players to six players, including Tony Parker, Deron Williams and Westbrook for the third time in the Skills Challenge, John Wall for the second time, and Rajon Rondo and Kyrie Irving as new faces in the Skills Challenge.

It has to be said that the Skills Challenge has been the most star-studded event of All-Star Weekend over the years, and all six players are star-caliber players, with DeLong having the most impressive record, winning in a record time of 25.5 seconds in 2008 and reaching the final in 2010.

In the preliminaries, Rondo, who ranked first in assists, came on first, finishing the match in 32.8 seconds. Then came Irving, who shot 9 of 11 from three-point range in his rookie game yesterday, but today took a lot of time to shoot, and it took 42.2 seconds to clear the game. Next up was Delon, the little fat man's performance was impeccable, with a pass time of 28.3 seconds, which set the best time of the year as soon as he came up.

Fourth in the field was Westbrook, and the less delicate Thunder star took 33.8 seconds to pass. This was followed by Parker, a French sports car that played well, finishing all events in 29.2 seconds. Wall took the court in the finale of the preliminaries and needed 32.8 seconds to complete the task.

After all six players finished the game, there was an extremely rare tie, and Rondo and Wall then played an extra game, with the former taking 27.5 seconds to take the lead and Wall taking 45.4 seconds to shoot before the Wizards core was eliminated.

After the preliminaries, Delung, Parker and Rondo joined forces to reach the finals, and three young point guards, Irving, Westbrook and Wall, were declared out.

At the start of the final, Rondo took the lead, finishing in 34.6 seconds. Parker came in second with a time of 32.8 seconds. DeLong, who had a good performance in the preliminaries, was the last to play, but ran into trouble shooting and finished with 41.4 seconds.

Frenchman Tony Parker won the Skills Challenge, becoming the first European player in NBA history to win the event! (To be continued.) )