Chapter 403: Embiid admits defeat

After Zhang Feng jumped over Ball's head for a dunk, the game between the World Team and the United States team completely lost suspense, and neither side did any defense, and the fourth quarter ended in a blink of an eye as the two sides attacked back and forth.

In the end, the world team defeated the United States team 132-106, and Zhang Feng was also elected MVP of the Rookie Challenge without any suspense with 35 points and 8 assists.

It is worth mentioning that there was a small accident when arranging the guests for the awards. According to the NBA's original meaning, Chris Webber should present the award, after all, Webber is a famous king, so the arrangement is reasonable.

But O'Neill found the official and hoped to present the award to Zhang Feng with Weber, and the reason he gave was very funny, but he didn't want to miss the first honor of Zhang Feng's career.

The official staff had no choice but to promise O'Neal, but they asked O'Neal to guarantee that future All-Stars would not be able to make such unreasonable demands.

After O'Neal agreed, fans saw a strange scene at the award ceremony, first Chris Webb read out the award comments, and then O'Neal walked to Zhang Feng with the trophy, and when Zhang Feng finished speaking, O'Neal pulled Zhang Feng and Webb to take a group photo, as if O'Neal was the one who won the award.

After receiving the award, Zhang Feng was interviewed by domestic reporters and TNT before leaving Staples.

After leaving the arena, Zhang Feng got on a special car and set off for the Beverly Hills 'The Players Tribune' clubhouse, where LeBron held a PARTY to entertain friends.

At 6 p.m. the next day, Zhang Feng came to the Staples Center again, and he will participate in the Skills Challenge, Three-Point Contest, and Slam Dunk Contest in a row, which is a great test of his physical strength.

According to the process, the first event was the Skills Challenge, and this year's Skills Challenge continued the previous format, with the big man and the small man competing separately first, and the big man and the little man meeting each other until the final round.

In terms of the form of the game, the distance around the pile is also reduced, the number of passes is reduced, and the impact of 3 points on the victory is increased, and the competition time is no longer pure.

This arrangement not only avoids the embarrassment of only defenders participating in the competition every year, but also successfully increases the attraction of the game, and at the same time allows some big players to show their excellent skills.

At 6:30, the skills challenge officially began, and according to the live draw, the first group Drummond vs. Markkanen, the second group Embiid vs. Horford, the third group Zhang Feng vs. Dinwiddie, and the fourth group Luis vs. Jamal Morrie.

"Who do you fancy in the first group?" Embiid sat next to Zhang Feng, "Do you want to make a bet?" ”。

"I'm optimistic about Markkanen, whatever you want to bet, I'll accept it," Zhang Feng replied with a smile.

"No, I want to choose Markkanen too, don't bet, don't bet" Embiid shook his head repeatedly.

To be reasonable, everyone can see that Markkanen is a new era forward, and his dribbling skills are definitely much better than that of traditional center Drummond, not to mention his passing skills, even if it is a 3-point shot with the biggest luck component, Markkanen has already shown his 3-point strength in the Rookie Challenge.

Sure enough, as Zhang Feng and Embiid thought, Markkanen defeated Drummond by an absolute margin, and the latter didn't even complete the pass before Markkanen hit a 3-pointer.

"It's your turn, come on" Zhang Feng stretched out his hand.

"No problem, we'll see you in the final," Embiid smiled and high-fived, confidently walking onto the court.

Once the challenge began, Embiid took the lead and completed the pile circle very smoothly, and the subsequent passing level, he also completed easily after only 2 attempts.

Horford had trouble with the pass, making four attempts, and by the time he raced to the three-point line, Embiid had already made two shots.

Seeing Horford catching up, Embiid sped up his speed, but unexpectedly, he shot for the third time and hit it directly.

Embiid, who won the challenge, raised his hands in a cheer, then he turned to Zhang Feng and pointed his finger and said, "It's up to you next, we'll see you in the finals!" ”。

In the third round of the game, Zhang Feng came on the court, and he high-fived Dinwiddie before the start, and he knew that Dinwiddie's deeds were very inspiring.

Dinwiddie entered the NBA in 2014 as a second-round pick and was the 38th pick, and in the years that followed, he moved to the Pistons, the Bulls, and this year to the Nets.

It stands to reason that with Dinwiddie's strength, with the Nets having Jeremy Lin and Russell, they will definitely not have the opportunity to play the main team, but Jeremy Lin was seriously injured in the first game of the season, and Russell also rested for a long time due to injury in the subsequent game.

The Nets had no one available and had to start Dinwiddie, but his subsequent performance proved his quality, earning not only the trust of his coaches, but also the support of his teammates.

Therefore, even if Russell later returned from injury, Dinwiddie still sat in the starting position.

Today, Dinwiddie came to participate in the challenge, definitely wanting to get the honor and fight for the next contract, although Zhang Feng has the heart to do it, but he can't let go of the water.

The reason why he can't let go is very simple, firstly, he has a contract with NIKE, as long as he wins the Skills Challenge, he will have a reward of $500,000, and secondly, if he releases water, it is also the biggest insult to Dinwiddie.

With the end of the countdown 321 of the live broadcast, Zhang Feng rushed out like an arrow from the bow, after arriving at the first pile, he first dribbled the ball to the second pile, and then stepped out, and when he reached the second pile, he immediately turned around and took the ball to the third pile, and after a set of actions in a row, he completed all the piles in an instant, and Dinwiddie was still in the penultimate pile.

The comparison of guards in the skills challenge was originally a race against time, and now Zhang Feng is one or two positions faster than Dinwiddie, which is simply a step ahead.

When Zhang Feng came to the passing level, everyone began to guess how many times Zhang Feng would try, but they never expected that Zhang Feng didn't even look at it, and directly passed the ball into the ground, and Dinwiddie had just completed the rotation at this time.

After passing the ball, Zhang Feng picked up the basketball on the ball rack, then threw it forward violently, and took a big stride, he only took 3 steps to cross the middle line.

According to the rules of the skills challenge, the last prescribed action is to shoot 3 points, and as for where to shoot, there is no limit at all, so after Zhang Feng crossed the middle line, he only continued to walk 2 steps, and then pulled up the jump shot.

"I'll go, won't I?" Embiid on the sidelines stood up, Zhang Feng's complete set of operations made him stunned, he shouted to see you in the final just now, and now there is only embarrassment left.

At this time, it was even more embarrassing for Dinwiddie, who had just finished passing to the 3-point line, but Zhang Feng ended the game.

"Forget it, forget it, I'm not his match" Embiid folded his hands to his chest and lay on his back in his chair, as if giving up.