Chapter 297: Promoted to Second Grade

D'Antoni was ready to take four players to Los Angeles, and after the Knicks' big win over the Philadelphia 76ers on the road, D'Antoni revealed his choice of Eastern Conference Stars bench lineup, with Andre Iguodala and O'Neal coming off Horford and Ray Allen.

The substitute lineup of the East and West Stars -

East: Kevin Garnett (Celtics), Paul Pearce (Celtics), Rajon Rondo (Celtics), Andre Iguodala (Knicks), Shaquille O'Neal (Knicks), Chris Bosh (Heat), Joe Johnson (Hawks).

West: Tim Duncan (Spurs), Manu Ginobili (Spurs), Pau Gasol (Lakers), Dirk Nowitzki (Mavericks), Russell Westbrook (Thunder), Deron Williams (Jazz), Blake Griffin (Clippers).

The Knicks' victory over the 76ers was not news, but Anthony's selection of four of his players as All-Stars drew the ire of many fans and the media as shameless cronyism.

The New York Times naturally takes the opposite view, and New York fans want more Knicks players to be All-Stars, the better.

Da Sabi wrote: Please stop chirping about Andre and O'Neal being selected as All-Stars, at least Andre led the team to overturn many giants when he was in the 76ers, O'Neal's greatness does not need to be mentioned, in fact, there are many All-Stars in NBA history who have led the team and personal strength much worse.

There are a total of nine players in NBA history who have been selected as All-Stars without winning 10 games that season, the most outrageous of which is John Bullock in 1973, who has 17.9 points and 9.2 rebounds, yes, it looks good, the problem is that his Philadelphia 76ers only won 4 games at the time, which is the worst All-Star in history.

The original Pistons were stunned to get all four of their own players, including Big Ben, who could only defend, mixed with All-Stars. At that time, the media also lashed out at Brown Sr. for cronyism, but no matter how much he cursed, it was useless, this is the rule, who called the Pistons a good record at that time?

The current Knicks are the same, if anyone is not satisfied, he will get the title of No. 1 in the East, and he can also get his own four players at that time.

On February 5th, the NBA announced the Player of the Month for January, and the winner of the East became Derrick Rose, and the core of the Bulls got an All-Star performance of 26.5 points, 5.2 rebounds and 6.4 assists per game in January.

After Wu Huang got the news, he could only sigh, he had long known that his Player of the Month was probably going to be cut off for a month, and the league didn't want anyone to win the "Player of the Month" award for three consecutive months, and his suspension just gave the league an excuse not to give him the award.

This is also a disguised punishment, otherwise even if the league is unwilling to have someone win the best of the month, as long as Wu Huang's personal data and team record are superior to other players, the league will not be able to deliberately not give him an award, otherwise the award will lose its fairness and authority, and it will immediately become worthless.

On Feb. 6, the Knicks returned to their home court to beat the Philadelphia 76ers again.

Wu Huang scored 38 points in the third quarter, and after returning from suspension, he became stronger and stronger in scoring, and since then he has also continued to expand his lead in the "scoring champion". Durant, however, has begun to decline in points per game because of the team's many firepower points, and perhaps he has given up competing with Wu Huang for this year's scoring title, and instead focused on improving the team's record.

The NBA today officially announced the rookie All-Star roster for the 2010-2011 season, as well as the fan-selected three-point contest, slam dunk contest, skill challenge and other events.

In addition to participating in the Rookie Challenge and the All-Star Game this year, Wu Huang only participated in the three-point contest, a branch of the competition, and even the skill challenge that he won last season was rejected by him, not to mention the slam dunk contest, he even released the words through Gallinari's mouth, "James participated in the slam dunk contest, he participated", although this passage was not confirmed by himself, but he did not deny it, obviously disgusting James, and by the way, he copied himself.

This year's rookie roster -

First-year lineup: Coach Starmeier, Assistant Coach: Eric Bledsoe (Clippers)

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:

Coaches: Carmelo Anthony (Nuggets), Juan Blair (Spurs)

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).

In this year's rookie challenge, in terms of lineup comparison, one is strong on the outside and the other is strong on the inside, but this time the outside line is strong in the second grade, and the inside line is strong in the first grade.

The sophomore team led by Wu Huang has gathered many outstanding guards who have established themselves in the NBA, and Curry, Jennings, and DeRozan are the core of the teams that their respective teams are developing. Not to mention Wu Huang, as long as he is there, everyone will not be optimistic that the first-grade team can make the next offense, even if this first-grade team has a strong repeater, but the media and fans are still more optimistic about the second-grade team beating the first-grade team.

Entrants to the Skill Challenge – Chris Paul (Hornets), Stephen Curry (Warriors), Derrick Rose (Bulls), John Wall (Wizards), Russell Westbrook (Thunder).

In fact, the most star-studded part of the game has always been the skill challenge, but this game is not as exciting as the three-point contest and the dunk contest, even if there are many stars participating, it can only be used as an appetizer for the All-Star Game, so Wu Huang has no interest in this game after winning the championship once.

This year's slam dunk contest roster: DeMar DeRozan (Raptors), Sergi Ibaka (Thunder), Blake Griffin (Clippers), Javier McGee (Wizards).

Wu Huang also has little interest in watching this year's slam dunk contest, in his opinion, can a group of big men dunk any beautiful dunks? The only guard is still his college teammate, what is the level of that slam dunk, he knows best, although he jumps a little higher than him, but in terms of the stretch and ability to complete the action, this guy is not his opponent at all, so Wu Huang is sure that DeRozan's dunk will not have any unexpected performance, and he can at most dunk one or two 45-48 points when he is tired, and it is impossible for him to score 50 points.

Among these four people, the only one Wu Huang thinks can perform a wonderful dunk is Griffin, and this year's champion Jiucheng is this repeater, so Wu Huang feels that it is really nothing to look at, it is better to see if he can win two consecutive championships in the three-point competition.

The six-man roster for this year's three-point contest: Wu Huang (Knicks, defending champions), Danilo Gallinari (Knicks), Ray Allen (Celtics), Kevin Durant (Thunder), Dorrell Wright (Warriors), James Jones (Heat).

This year, Wu Huang's teammate Gallinari also received an invitation from the league because of his exposure, and then was selected by the fans and Wu Huang to participate in the three-point contest. Many felt that if the league had sent an invitation to Danny Green, the Knicks shooter would have been drafted.

Gallinari smiled wryly after learning that he had been selected: "I think the championship is still his, and I can only beat him once or twice out of ten times in the team's three-point training, so I can only pray that I have good luck on the day of the game." The Italian's answer made Wu Huang's fans very satisfied, the little brother should be so right, if he dares to steal the limelight with the big brother, then he should be pulled out and killed!

After the All-Star list of various projects was released, some people were happy and some were worried, many people received an invitation from the league early in the morning, but refused to participate, and some people wanted to participate, but they were ignored by the NBA officials.

When Wu Huang said that he would not participate in this year's slam dunk contest, he also enthusiastically recommended his teammates Gallinari and Tony Allen to the fans, saying: "They have some tricks, very incredible, and they will definitely dazzle you!" "Everyone just listens to this, no one will take it seriously, and even if it is, they are not interested in watching these little people dunk.

In addition to some players who want to participate in the slam dunk contest who can't receive the invitation, and those who don't want to participate, such as James, Wu Huang and others who receive the invitation but refuse, there are actually many such players in the three-point contest.

Every year since 2007, Terry has submitted an application to the league to participate in the three-point shootout, but the league has not approved it once, and this year was no different. And last year, when All-Star Weekend was held in Dallas, poor Terry didn't get a chance to perform in front of the home fans.

"There's no problem at all, if they let me go, I'll definitely win the championship." Terry was unconvinced last year that even players like Dorrell Wright and Jones, who are far less famous than him, were approved this year, but Terry just couldn't pass the league's application.

Of course, the league has a reason to do so, and Terry played in the three-point contest twice in 2006 and 2007, both times in the first round, so it was only natural not to give him a third chance. But Terry is convinced that "3" is a lucky number for him, and if he gets the chance to compete in the All-Star Three-Point Contest for the third time, he will definitely win the championship.

"My third time is always magical, and this year I feel like I'm in really good shape, and I'm going to win it." Terry said brazenly.

This year's All-Star Game in Los Angeles begins on Feb. 18 and runs through the 20th, and the Knicks have three more games to play before the All-Star breaks.

On February 9th, the Knicks defeated the Clippers at home, and Wu Huang had a head-to-head confrontation with Griffin, a repeater, before the rookie challenge began, and the isolated Griffin was bloodied by the Knicks led by Wu Huang.

On February 11, the Knicks sat at home to face the Denver Nuggets, who had a recent scandal with the Knicks.

Emperor Wu laughed secretly in his heart, the rebellion he started not long ago had reached James Dolan through D'Antoni.

Naturally, he didn't come out of the way, but after learning that the whole team was extremely unhappy with general manager Donnie Walsh, James Dolan immediately stopped a series of tasks that the former was working on.

At this moment, Donnie has been temporarily suspended from all work by the team, although he has not been directly fired, but he is no longer able to carry out the work of general manager, including all the team trade proposals, and now D'Antoni is temporarily in charge.

Wu Huang felt that he was quite bad, and at the same time felt that this feeling of controlling everything was so cool, thinking that this is the temptation of power, no wonder so many people can't let go.

The Nuggets knew early on that they couldn't keep Anthony, and the trade plan with the Knicks was the one they were most satisfied with, but now that Downey, who led the deal, was hollowed out, there was little hope for a trade with the Knicks.

The mustache doesn't mind trading Anthony, but the previous trade plan has to be revised.

The Knicks' current trade plan is - Gallinari + Danny Green + Radmanovic + Ronnie Turyav to trade Anthony. If the Nuggets are not satisfied, they can also bring in a third-party team and make a three-way trade or something, but the chips paid by the Knicks will not change much.

The main change in this deal is that Monroe will not be traded, and at the same time, there is an additional garbage contract, and as for Gallinari and Green, although they are very good role players, with Anthony they are not needed at all, so this deal is something that the Knicks can afford.

But the problem is that the Nuggets aren't that stupid, they don't want the garbage contracts of Radmanovic and Turiaf, they want a lot of young players right now, preferably young players like Gallinari who have been cultivated in a similar way.

D'Antoni's attitude was: If you're willing to trade, we'll give so much, plus one or two drafts at most to compensate. It doesn't matter if you don't want to trade, anyway, we have a good roster right now, and when these garbage contracts are vacated next year, the Knicks can directly chase Anthony who becomes a free agent, and there is no need to pay such a big price to trade with you.

The embarrassment of the Nuggets now is that although the Knicks have lowered their trade chips a lot, now the big guys want to take advantage of them, and the New Yorkers' trade plan is still in front, and there are almost no teams with better chips than them. (To be continued.) )