Chapter 299: There are many people and loud voices
The Los Angeles All-Star Weekend officially begins on February 18, with the first afternoon of the "Celebrity Game" and "Fan Carnival" and the evening of the "Rookie Challenge". On the evening of February 19, the "Shooting Star Competition", "Skills Challenge", "Three-Point Shooting Competition" and "Slam Dunk Competition" were held. Finally, on the evening of February 20, the final "All-Star Game" will be held.
Wu Huang didn't bring any girls this time, he was worried that he would be hammered to death by the other three, so he took out his parents as a shield, and gave all his front row tickets to his parents.
But as soon as he returned to Los Angeles, he was entangled by Chloe Moretz, looking at the brainless fans who came forward to ask for autographs, and he wondered why the increasingly fat little girl had such popularity?
But it's not just the pestering little Koloe that makes him hurt, he has always been cold and capable, and Colin Moretz, the third child who beat people for him when he disagreed with him when he was in school, is now about to graduate from college, as an athlete who was expelled from the college football team, this guy's playing level is average, but the level of beating is very unusual, and he actually plans to apply for his bodyguard after graduation.
Colin said that he was very skilled in this work, and when Emperor Wu carried out business activities in the future, he would definitely be very safe, and no one would be able to get close to him.
Where can Wu Huang refuse this kind of application, Colin did help him beat up a lot of guys that he hated, this guy has really been his bodyguard since he was a child, and his business is indeed very skilled, I just hope he doesn't beat his own fans by the way, he always feels that this guy is going to beat up the fans.
The "Rookie Challenge" on the first day of the All-Star Weekend caught the attention of many fans, and the sophomore team had Wu Huang, Curry, DeRozan, Harden, ...... Fans believe that they have a certain advantage in strength, and these players in the first-year team have generally not played yet, even if there is a repeater Griffin, as well as Wall and Monroe, who are doing well, but one Wu Huang is enough to teach these three a lesson.
Many media looked at the second-year list for a long time, and finally found that there seemed to be one missing person, and the rookie Tyrek Evans, who was second only to Wu Huang last season, was not selected for the second-year team?
Evans has been plagued by plantar fasciitis this season, and his games for the Kings have been on and off this season. Evans has missed the last two games against the Thunder and Mavericks due to injury. As a rookie second only to Wu Huang last season, Evans has slipped in all of his technical statistics this season, and is even considered by the media to be like Jennings, both of whom are short-lived meteors that are difficult to shine for a long time.
Both Evans and Jennings' second season stumbled, with the former being easily studied by other teams and then targeted to death because of his singular skills; Jennings is a typical representative of all-around mediocrity, his skills are very comprehensive, but in addition to controlling the ball very well, he does not have any reliable skills in the offensive end, and his second season is basically the same as the first season, I don't see any obvious improvement, I don't know if the talent is exhausted, or he hasn't honed his skills well?
When Jennings grabbed the youngest 50+ record of Emperor Wu, he wrote very sourly in Chinese on his Facebook page, "First fat is not fat, then fat collapses Kang; The first to win is paper, and the second to win is money", this Chinese was later translated by the media, causing many people to complain that he was too narrow-minded, but now it seems to prove that he is right, but he forgot that he is the one who belongs to the fat first and the first to win.
Year 1 lineup:
Centers: DeMarcus Cousins (Kings), Greg Monroe (Knicks)
Power forwards: Blake Griffin (Clippers), Derrick Favors (Nets)
Small forwards: Wesley Johnson (Timberwolves), Evan Turner (76ers)
Shooting Guard: Gary Neal (Spurs)
Point Guard: John Wall (Wizards)
Year 2 Lineup:
Center: Serge Ibaka (Thunder)
Power forwards: Ty Gibson (Bulls), Tyler Hanspur (Pacers)
Small forward: Wesley Matthews (Trail Blazers)
Shooting guards: DeMar DeRozan (Raptors), James Harden (Thunder), Blanton Jennings (Bucks)
Point guards: Wu Huang (Knicks), Stephen Curry (Warriors).
The fans unanimously believe that the sophomore team will win, and the reason is simple, because there is Wu Huang in this team.
But in the opinion of experts, the inside line of the first-grade team is too much stronger than the second-grade team, if the two sides play seriously in this game, then the second-grade team's hope of winning should not be too big, and the basketball game is by no means a one-person decision.
However, no matter how many fans don't care about it, in their opinion, there is basically no suspense about the outcome of this game, so all the odds of spinach.com before the game are that the second-grade team overwhelms the opponent, and once the first-year team wins, many people should go to the rooftop to line up.
There is still a big suspense in this year's rookie game, and Wu Huang announced in a high-profile manner before the game that the MVP of this year's rookie game is in his bag. This made the media and fans very excited, and everyone could see the miracle of winning the MVP of the rookie game for the first time. Since All-Star Weekend in 1994, no one has won the Rookie Game MVP in a row.
The day before All-Star Weekend begins, the NBA hosts a dinner party that is attended by all the players who attend the All-Star Weekend.
On this occasion, players with bad popularity are embarrassed, and it is easy to be snubbed collectively, Wu Huang knows that he will definitely be squeezed out by a bunch of black players, so he will bring six teammates to show military prestige, plus Yao Ming's Rocket Gang, they can make a table by themselves.
This kind of dinner party was boring in the eyes of Emperor Wu, and Emperor Wu, who returned to his hotel room early when he was full, finally resisted the seduction of the underage girl Chloe Moretz with great perseverance, and resolutely did not use his lower body to commit crimes. Moreover, he still has to recharge for tomorrow's MVP re-election, unlike blindly optimistic fans, the opponent's strong interior line has made Wu Huang feel a lot of pressure, and he can feel that Ibaka's confidence is also low tonight, the Spaniard has already played against Griffin, Monroe and others, and knows the difficulty of this game.
Wu Huang has also played against Ibaka, and knows that he is not very good at dealing with the inside line with excellent athleticism and weight, but now there are a bunch of such inside lines opposite, and the pressure on the Spaniard is much higher than him.
On February 18th, the first day of All-Star Weekend, there were no games or activities for these stars in the morning, and the annual collective volunteer labor session arrived.
Yao Ming has always been the first to arrive at the scene in the voluntary labor link, this kind of activity of the little giant is very hard, in front of a pile of wooden whiskers as high as a small hillside, Yao Ming took out the spirit of "Yugong moves mountains", together with some primary school students with plastic sheeting, carrying heavy wooden whiskers, back and forth between the playground and the open space, back and forth more than 10 times, working for more than 20 minutes, non-stop.
Twenty minutes later, Yao Ming went inside the house and drank a few sips of water, then came out again, muttering, "Do as much as you can." ”
The American media can only sigh that they are worthy of being people from the socialist red country, and their work is serious, and they are ashamed!
Emperor Wu arrived later, half an hour later than Yao Ming, but compared to Yao Ming, Emperor Wu, the scum of capitalism, was much more "lazy", and he did "movement in place" - taking a shovel, shoveling the wooden whiskers onto the plastic sheet in front of the "hill", and then finding a place to move the bricks around in place.
But I have to say that Wu Huang's popularity is really unbeatable, and fans keep coming up to take photos and chat with him. So, Emperor Wu didn't even bother to do the in-situ exercise, so he took the opportunity to steal a little lazy, moved two bricks, straightened up, took a photo, put the bricks down again, and said a few more words......
In this way, after moving those bricks in situ countless times and taking photos of a carload of hard work, Wu Huang saw that as soon as the half-hour media interview time that had been discussed in advance arrived, he directly turned his poor head and threw it on the ground casually, and returned to the bus with Xiao Si and others to enjoy the coolness.
Soon, the bus full of Eastern Star team players was full of people, obviously all of them were as perfunctory as Wu Huang, because these guys didn't sweat at all, like Yao Ming, they were all soaked.
The stars took advantage of this time to have a roundtable to discuss the playing time of the All-Star Game and the distribution of the cake.
At this time, some veteran players will spontaneously tell others that they want to rest and don't want to play for too long. Some of the younger players can take the opportunity to express their desire to play a little longer, and then everyone will discuss their playing time.
In fact, this kind of game really has little to do with the coach, and even the coach's time is not the coach's turn, D'Antoni has been an All-Star head coach once, and knows very well that these stars never take the coach seriously, unless you call Phil Jackson and Popovich.
In this meeting, four Knicks players participated, and O'Neal took out the appearance of an old driver, pretending to be stupid and stunned to divide the cake, which means nothing more than that: they will do their best to help Wu Huang win the MVP.
The Big Three of the Heat and the Big Three of the Celtics all stood on the sidelines, and they didn't bother to express their opinions.
The Knicks have four players in the main game this year, which can be described as a large number of people, and even the coach is their man. In fact, there is no need to hold this year's roundtable, the Knicks' ****** will not listen to other people's opinions, they will only do things according to their own ideas, so this is an authoritarian All-Star, and they know that they can't fight, so they don't bother to pay attention to it.
The All-Star Game is two days later, and tonight is about to be a rookie challenge, and there is no need for any roundtable meetings in this game, Wu Huang has already released his words before, and he plans to win the MVP for a second time, so these teammates naturally have to cooperate with him, who dares to say half a word?
Curry and DeRozan and others are naturally unhappy in their hearts, but they don't have the right to speak, and whether their voices are big or not is determined by performance and performance, so Wu Huang dares to speak out loud even in the All-Star Game, because he has the confidence to speak out.
Before the game started that night, the two assistant coaches came to a fashion show, Xiao Si is the head coach of the first-year team today, this guy is wearing a black suit, a white striped shirt and a red tie are very eye-catching; Compared with Xiao Si, the head coach of the sophomore team, Anthony, is more fashionable, and he is also in a suit, but the slightly obese body on the melon field actually has the potential of a man, and the broad body is very conspicuous in a suit, and with the shirt collar and the bag tie, in the competition between the two teams' head coaches, the sophomore won a game first.
In this rookie challenge, there is not much new in the player's appearance ceremony, and the biggest cheers of the fans are naturally Wu Huang and the host Griffin, today the stadium is full of fans wearing Kobe and Griffin jerseys, the white jerseys of the Clippers and the purple and gold jerseys of the Lakers can be seen everywhere, although there are many of Wu Huang's jerseys, but they are still a little less than the hosts.
The game was scheduled to start at 19:30 in the evening, and it is already 19:15, the players' entrance ceremony has been completed, and the players of both teams have entered and are communicating with each other, waiting for the game to start.
Although the Rookie Challenge is only a confrontation between first-year and second-year players, it still attracts a lot of big-name stars, and these young players who play are more or less related to them.
The Knicks all sat on the sidelines except for Smalls, and when the players came out, they began to cheer for their boss, although it sounded a little awkward; Durant, the boss of the Thunder team, also easily chatted and laughed with Wei Shao on the sidelines, and their two younger brothers were playing on the court; Yao Ming was on the sidelines as usual with popcorn in one hand and soda in the other, and the little giant cheered for his compatriots; At the same time, there were a number of other big stars on the scene, and their arrivals brought a lot of stars to the relatively uneventful rookie game.
Melon did not surprise the starting lineup scheduled today: Wu Huang, Curry, DeRozan, Gibson, Ibaka.
The starting lineup arranged by Xiao Si was also expected: Wall, Neal, Turner, Griffin, Monroe.
In the past rookie matchup, the sophomore team defeated the first-year team by a large score most of the time, and the sophomore team had a certain advantage in terms of game experience, so the sophomore team would take advantage of it in the rookie match, which was also an important reason why the sophomore team was able to win.
Last year, however, was an exception, with Wu Huang's first-year team successfully challenged, which was also a rare example of a first-year team winning in the Rookie Challenge.
"Guys, we've got one less person this year, poor Evans is temporarily out, so you'll have more opportunities to play, take advantage of this much-anticipated opportunity and show your real skills to those first-year kids." Anthony's words made Wu Huang sound uncomfortable, Evans withdrew due to injury, but according to what he said, how did Wu Huang feel as if Evans was more important than him?
Wu Huang is a little dissatisfied with the league's choice of coach this time, Xiao Si should be the coach of the sophomore team, why should he get an Anthony to be his coach? Although the two of them have no grudges, but the rumors of this transaction make both of them look at each other unpleasantly, and he has a bad impression of Anthony in his heart, but it is conceivable that the other party will not have a good impression of him, isn't this arrangement awkward? (To be continued.) )